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The Invention of Hugo Cabret is now to be called simply Hugo. Because god forbid anyone should be challenged with a vaguely socialist silent T or anything the least bit linguistically frou-frou or suspiciously out-of-the-ordinary in these uncertain times of jingoistic distress.
20 Feb 2012
The Artist, like the King’s Speech last year, has the majority consensus vote right now. Anyone not inclined to pick The Artist will split up between The Descendants, Hugo and The Help. A case could be made for any of them. The Descendants won the Eddie, the WGA and the …
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17 Feb 2012
“Hello darkness my old friend.” The year started off 9 months ago with The Artist taking the early lead in Cannes. It had the early advantage in Cannes of being one of the few wholly uplifting films to screen there. A tiny tasty bonbon that melts on our tongue in …
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16 Feb 2012
[details at the bottom of the post] “They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision! Fiendishly laughing, they had insisted on the low squalor, the nauseous ugliness of the nightmare. Now, suddenly, they trumpeted a call to arms. ‘O …
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15 Feb 2012
Kris Tapley posted Part 2 of his Top Ten Shots of the Year. It’s a great read, so check it out. My only beef with him is the number one shot of the year but the less I say about that the better. My other beef that, of all of …
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15 Feb 2012
This year, the expected Best Picture winner is again an original screenplay. While adapted screenplays seem to almost always have all of the Best picture heat, in recent years, the original script has taken over. It is one of the weirdest ironies that when the Coen brothers, writers/directors/editors that they …
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13 Feb 2012
The trick is not minding. When it was announced that the Academy was just going to toy with its fans by shaking the fuck out of the Best Picture race it was met with equal amounts of excitement and dread. Dread, because what fresh hell is this? And excitement because …
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12 Feb 2012
“They say the day you die, your name is written on a cloud.” “Who says?” “They.” “Never heard of them.” “Nothing in that one but rain.” “Think we ought to go home?” “Yes.” “Do you want to?” “No.” “Every time I look at the sky, I think of all the …
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9 Feb 2012
Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited on NPR to talk about the adapted screenplay race. It surprised host Rachel Martin that the screenplay race, it turned out, wasn’t so much about the individual screenplays as it was about the Best Picture category. This is probably the hardest thing …
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8 Feb 2012
Art and entertainment hover conspicuously like twins at a barn dance: which one do you pick? Can you even tell the difference between them? Do you pick the prettier of the two, or the one that’s more interesting to talk to? As films become more and more about the target …
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3 Feb 2012
The last time a film won the Best Picture Musical Comedy at the Golden Globes then went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director was in 1968. The film was Oliver! Despite it being 1968, one of the most tumultuous periods of history for the US, …
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