79th Academy Awards® : Foreign Language Film Award Symposium
 
Podcast features the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presentation of the 79th Academy Awards® FLFA Symposium held Saturday February 24th, 2007 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. This lively audio Podcast features a highly entertaining and laugh out loud Q and A session with the directors of 4 of the 5 nominated films. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Oscar® Winner, Best Foreign Language Film Award,"The Lives of Others". Guillermo Del Toro of "Pan's Labyrinth". Deepah Mehta of "Water". Director Susanne Bier of "After The Wedding". (Missing from the panel was "Day of Glory" nominated director Rachid Bouchareb) An exerpt from the panel...Guillermo Del Toro’s views on subtitles and dubbing “I feel that I'll do Spanish language films again and again, and, sometimes they'll show up (audience) and sometimes they won't, and that's their responsibility. You know what I'm saying? I think the audience, our first duty is to the film, and to have the film altered in any way, I think, is a crime, in any way (applause) because that is to me the equivalent to me of saying, ... You know, the Mona Lisa is pretty fucking cool but let's make it, uh, postcard size (laughter). They can carry it in their pocket (laughter). I think sometimes we measure the success of our work because we are in an industry, we measure the success of our work in terms of admissions or money and things like that but for me its about depth of connection (applause). Its about how deep did I touch the soul (applause) of the 20 people that showed up or the 2 million people that showed up. You know, I did "Kronos" which made a million dollars in the US and I did a giant cockaroach movie for Miramax called "Mimic" which did 30 million in the US. I will tell you which one I like better (laughter) and to me the measure of success is purity of the art in that sense because as an industry it is so easy for us to get tangled in the industry side of it and I really believe if we had a fight, its a fight to make people understand subtitles not the other way around (applause)”. ©A.M.P.A.S.® H H H
 
Saturday, February 24, 2007
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