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The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
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"You know, I’m gonna put this one in because it is actually one of my favorite films of all time, although technically it’s probably not a con man movie. The Man Who Would Be King. I did a Festival of Fakery. I did a little mini film festival which I kind of curated at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, and this was one of the movies that I showed. It’s about these two characters who do kind of go to pull off this con of pretending to be, you know, one of them pretends to be a god so that they can rule this small territory, basically. But as I watched it, it does actually, I don’t know, to me it does kind of play like a con man movie and also has the essential buddy relationship. The two rascals, I guess, standing back to back and fooling the world, which is reflected also in another one of the films in my list. This particular dynamic is probably my favorite."

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Entertainment Weekly has put together the complete list of incredible foreign feature films gunning for an Oscar.

Among the competing titles are Angelina Jolie’s festival favourite First They Killed My Father, which has been submitted by Cambodia, along with other staples on the pre-season circuit, including Sebastian Lélio’s A Fantastic Woman (Chile), Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) (France), Israel’s Samuel Maoz-directed Foxtrot, and Ruben Östlund’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Square, which will compete on behalf of Sweden.

The Academy has announced the 92 features that have been submitted for Oscar consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category:


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