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Lists of Georgian films. This is a list of the most notable films produced by the cinema of Georgia, ordered according to decade of release.
GEL 626,000 (50.1%) Former Rustaveli Cinema, Tbilisi. Rustaveli cinema in Rustavi. The cinema of Georgia has been noted for its cinematography in Europe. Italian film director Federico Fellini was an admirer of the Georgian film: "Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike.
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Georgia Flood is a successful folk music singer who is happily married and a mother of two. Her younger, unstable sister Sadie also sings but is less successful as a punk rock vocalist. After a touring gig with a blues singer goes awry, Sadie arrives at her sister’s Seattle-area farm, which happens to be their childhood home, and says she’s going t...
The film was a highly personal project for Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. Leigh's mother, Barbara Turner, wrote the screenplay; Leigh and Turner co-produced it along with director Ulu Grosbard; and Winningham, a longtime friend who had been Leigh's camp counselor during their teen years, co-starred. The music in the film consists of 13 s...
Release
Georgia premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Georgia was released in the U.S. on December 8, 1995and grossed $1,110,104.
Home media
On February 15, 2000, the film was released by Miramax Classics on DVD. It was re-released on DVD on May 17, 2011.On April 7, 2023, it was released on Blu-ray in Australia.
Critical reception
On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, Georgiahas an approval rating of 81% based on 26 reviews. Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today described the film as "a painful though sadly humorous portrait of sisterhood". Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "With an exploratory style in the spirit of John Cassavetes, 'Georgia' turns Sadie inside out without giving a neatly dramatic structure to her story. The result is a film as maddening and unpredictable as the character herself, held together...
Jennifer Jason Leigh was voted the year's Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and at the Montreal World Film Festival, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and was widely predicted to receive her first Oscar nomination for the role. However, it was Mare Winningham who received an Oscar nomination (as well as an Independent Spirit...
Georgia at IMDbGeorgia at Box Office MojoGeorgia at Rotten TomatoesGeorgia at AllMovie- Once Upon a Time There was a Singing Blackbird (1970), Otar Iosseliani. Controlled disarray and the mathematical accuracy of montage are the principal motifs of Otar Iosseliani’s cinematic world.
- My Grandmother (1929), Kote Mikaberidze. One of the notable pictures of avant-garde cinema “My Grandmother” possesses a huge history of Soviet censorship.
- What Do We See When We Look At The Sky (2021), Alexandre Koberidze. An emerging Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze sets a lulling fairy tale in the 21st century.
- The Plea (1967), Tengiz Abuladze. Adapted from a Georgian pen-master Vazha Pshavela’s notable narrative poems, “The Plea” is presumably the most tenebrous picture in the history of Georgian film.
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. Films by directors from Georgia (country) (18 C) Films from Georgia (country) by genre (11 C) Films from Georgia (country) by language (3 C)
A list of the films produced in the cinema of Georgia in the 1940s, ordered by year of release: Title. Director. Cast. Genre. Studio/notes. 1940. The Friendship.
The Sun of the Sleepless. The film is about a doctor named Gela Bendeliani (Elgudzha Burduli) and his wealthless family in Tbilisi in Soviet Georgia. In the film Gela Bendeliani has an unlimited capacity for generosity and forgiveness. Director: Temur Babluani | Stars: Elguja Burduli, David Kazishvili, Lia Babluani, Eka Saatashvili. Votes: 1,627
