This award was presented to Eastwood a few months before the Cannes Film Fest launches. The statement about Eastwood said was “the talent of a grand master at the summit of his craft.” Jacob said it also was a “testimony of my admiration and a quarter-century of complicity.” Eastwood will next bring the Nelson Mandela story to the big screen with...
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Thanks to reader Fer for pointing us to this slamdunk response and perspective from Nick Hornby on Slumdog Millionaire, the intent of its filmmakers, and its odd position of now being on top: There’s a lot packed in here: the snobbery, the smug and unexamined assumptions, the writer’s apparent pride in his utter ignorance of the independent film-making process,...
Alden Michaels sent this in from his site, Iconoclast Entertainment, Can you do it without googling? I know at least one of the first one. Best Picture SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE… is the first best picture winner to be set exclusively in Asia since the 1980s when there were THREE such films. Name the films Best Director DANNY BOYLE…. is the first director winner from...
There are only two I can think of off the bat — The first is in wide release – Coraline for Animated Feature. The other was An Education, which spring-boarded out of Sundance thanks to the raves for its star, Carey Mulligan. In many ways, you have to appreciate the Oscar race for landing one good film in the top ten at the box office: 1. Tyler Perry’s...
9-13-2008, 3:00pm, ladylurks calls it for Slumdog Millionaire Can I take a minute to reflect on the past year and the truly amazing predictive powers of our readers? One of the things Sasha does that nobody really knows about or appreciates but me is keep our vast archives active. At great effort and in spite of huge tech headaches, Sasha listens to me beg to preserve...
Jon Pace writes in the comments section that we should start to look at those actors who could use a comeback a la Mickey Rourke about now. He suggests: 3. Ally Sheedy – She got nice reviews in High Art, 10+ years ago. Was never a bad actress, still looks great, and think if she got a decent supporting role directed by a talented Aronofsky-type director she would...
I’m trying to drop it but others keep bringing it up and if they’re going to bring it up, well, what can do but go back on the offense. Sorry, readers, guilty. David Poland writes this: One of the blog commenters can’t seem to separate why Slumdog won from why The Dark Knight was not nominated. In response, I found myself explaining my TDK issues ‚Äì...