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Those Pesky Sound Categories
21 Feb 2012
When it comes to choosing the awards won for Sound, it is never easy. Will one movie win both? Will they split? For me, I have a hard time deciding but I find it easier, slightly, to look at them as individual categories rather than a unit. It’s never fun …
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If There Were Two More Weeks instead of One More Day…
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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Oscars 2012 – Best Picture: The Sounds of Silence
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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The State of the Race: In Gods we Trust (and Giveaway)
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[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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Taking on Shots of the Year
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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Oscars 2012: Original Screenplay
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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The State of the Race: Go Back to Five or Go Back to Ten
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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The State of the Race: Out of the Past
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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Oscars 2012: The Adapted Screenplays
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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Oscars 2012: Best Director – the Newbie Faces the Master Class
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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Those Pesky Sound Categories
Soon, nothing we see on the screen will be tangible. Every movie will just be shot on a stage with a green screen……and I hate it.
Reminds me of the similar Zodiac featurette. This is very revealing, and shows Tomas Alfredson’s clear and brilliant attention to the smallest details. It’s that approach which makes him the perfect director for this film.
The final shot makes me giggle a little though. Every time there was a gory image, the woman I was next to in the theatre would look at it for a second, then turn away abruptly when she realised what it was. I’d have to nudge her once the image had changed. I was tempted to fool her every time.
I know, what a rebel.
Great piece. Techs don’t always have to be eye dropping to be vital to the production.
Imagine Midnight in Paris without the warm production design of the Quartier Latin boulevards and late night salons. Or the intricate yet nuanced photography of the campaign rooms in the Ides of March. The little things that take films to another level. Don’t disappoint me, Academy!
Marvelous. What TTSS truly amazes me is it’s such a holistic piece of art, offering a unifying sensory experience with maze- and grid-like images like these bookshelves, desk arrangements, and spiral saircases, hazy cinematography, gray and sepia toned set desisgn etc. etc. all used to represent the ambiguous characters and convey themes like duplicity. It’s ridiculously well-made.
Really good, but hardly nothing we haven’t seen before, to be frank. Shouldn’t be nominated in front of Thor’s Asgard, Chris Evans’ morphing in Captain America, the multiple awe-inspiring shots of Harry Potter, the Apes…
I am more impressed by “Monsters”, last year, made with zero budget. Not even nominating Gareth Edwards last year was one of the most embarrassing mistakes by the AMPAS in ages. He – creatively – did so much with so little.
When a great filmmaker like Fincher or Alfredson knows how to use computer graphics intelligently, they really work.
I really love this film and I think it’s a shame that it’s going to be so overlooked at the Oscars. Gary Oldman is all I ask, not only because it’s the best performance he has ever given but also because it’s a crime against cinema that he’s never been nominated. Jean Dujardin was perfectly fine and charming but come on!
Actually, the more I think about it, could this be the Zodiac of 2011? It’s my favorite Fincher by miles and I think the parallels are strong: Cerebral period drama with great reviews all around that just didn’t manage to get on the inside track.
What’s the music? That’s all I care about.
“Mindblowing. The best special effects are those you’d never guess are effects.”
Those are always the best effects.
Oh, and you often type ‘soldier’ as ‘solider’. Has happened many times.
solid, solider, solidest — what’s the plomrem?
Thanks Tero.
Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy is the best movie of 2011.
@Augustine
That’s me on garage band – you like my composition?
@Noah R: Zodiac was my first Fincher film and I was completely blown away by it. But it is also kind of why TSN and Girl with Dragon Tattoo were pretty meh to me; they just don’t match up to what he created in Zodiac.
It’s the same for TTSS although with different effect; the viewing experience that Alfredson created was fantastic. My heart just ached for all the characters throughout the film right to the end. I just hope they get some recognition from the Academy. Still can’t believe that cast was not awarded with at least a SAG nomination.
@lynne
Don’t worry too much about it. TTSP is a grower, not a shower. It took me two trips to the cinema to fully realize what it had to offer. Love it to death now. It will be revered and talked about by the same group that snubbed it at the DGA for years to come. Like Zodiac, it is a technical masterclass and then throw in powerhouse performances and then a screenplay you would kill for…
Still need to watch it again.
Agree with all the Zodiac and Tinker Tailor love.
I haven’t seen Dragon Tattoo but I agree on The Social Network. It’s excellent but it’s certainly no Zodiac. And I agree that Tinker Tailor will grow on people. Hell, Zodiac grew on me, if I’m being honest. All great art takes time.