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VIFF 2011: The Wrap Up Post, Audience Award Winners & More

2011 Vancouver International Film Festival, Audience winners

With the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival fading into memory, today’s post constitutes VanRamblings’ final entry covering the 30th annual VIFF, the focus on the films which garnered an overall audience appreciation, based on the many thousands of ballots cast, according to meticulous VIFF calculation the top 10% of films screened at VIFF, receiving an audience score of between 4.4 and 5.0, for 28 films in total.

That many of VanRamblings’ favourites — including Corpo Celeste, My Little Princess, Wish Me Away, Michael, Mitsuko Delivers, Tyrannosaur, Without, The Singing City, The Jewel, Like Crazy, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Restoration, among many, many others, did not make the final ‘audience favourites’ list just goes to show how subjective is the experience of filmgoers seeking a window on the world through their attendance at VIFF.

Here, then, are the top VIFF 2011 vote-getters, in alphabetical order …

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Cinema: A Potpurri of Film Items To (sort of) End The Week


TOP 10 FILMING LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE

Did you notice the swell looking graphic at the top of today’s post?
Intrigued?
In a story published on Anne Thompson’s IndieWire blog, Vancouver emerged in fourth place worldwide as the place where filmmakers might choose to shoot their film. Locations one through ten? Here they are …

1. Los Angeles, California
2. New York, New York
3. New Jersey
4. Vancouver, B.C.
5. Toronto
6. Montréal
7. Texas
8. Chicago, Illinois
9. New Mexico
10. Australia

Want to see the same thing graphically, and with much more detail? All you have to do is click here. Thrilling, huh? (ok, maybe not quite so much).

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Oscar Watch: Early Contenders in the Major Categories

OSCAR CONTENDERS, as of Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Having had a look at Jeffrey Wells’ Hollywood Elsewhere Oscar Balloon, peeked at Sasha Stone’s Contender Tracker take on the Oscar race (scroll down, right side of the page), and Kris Tapley’s In Contention 2011-2012 Oscar Predictions, VanRamblings is confident that should you read what follows you’ll have a handle on the probable contenders in the coming Oscar race, all of which serves to point in you in the direction of a handful of quite decent films already in your local multiplex or soon to arrive.

The Oscars


BEST PICTURE

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
Tree of Life
War Horse

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Oscar Watch: More Trailers of Upcoming Oscar Contenders

The Oscars, more movie trailers

In the early going, the sight unseen favourite, the numero uno pick for the Best Picture Oscar has to be, going away, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, adapted from the play (and the book with the same name) by acclaimed children’s writer Michael Morpurgo. Set for release Christmas Day, even the most cynical film critic will not discount the prospect of Spielberg’s War Horse walking off with all the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Oscar hardware late in the evening of Sunday, February 26, 2012.

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