Chicago Film Festival winners announced
All the winners of the 2008 Chicago Film Festival have been announced. Steve McQueen’s Hunger won the Gold Hugo for Best Film “for its outstanding visual and dramatic strength, telling an uncompromisingly disturbing story of the courage to fight for one’s belief.” The Silver Hugo and the Grand Jury Prize went to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata which, in the jury’s words, “uses a story of humble family life as a metaphor of global anxieties in an era of economic and moral collapse.” The [Read more...]