It’s one thing to award the Gore doc the big prize during the Bush administration; it’s something else entirely to award the Obama doc during the Obama administration. Nonetheless, the new doc about the Obama campaign is getting a qualifying run, according to AJ Schnack over at ATWT. The trick appears to be to get the qualifying run but also not dampen any...
Monthly Archives: August 2009
All These Wonderful Things reports that The Cove’s debut ” averaged just under $14K in each of 4 theatres that launched the film this weekend. It’s a strong number, if not a runaway blockbuster. On Friday, the acclaimed film adds another 40+ theaters.” And Indiewire is reporting that Adam leads the box office for films in limited release. Food,...
Apparently there is some dramatic disconnect between young people and the seeking out of good films. Says Ebert: The obvious implication is, younger moviegoers don’t care about reviews and have missed the news that “The Hurt Locker” is the best American film of the summer. There is a more disturbing implication: word of mouth is not helping the film...
I was planning to do a Top Ten Meryl Streep performances but I could anticipate the collective groan by you fine people. We don’t really even need to go there — there have been so many. I’d probably go: 1. Sophie’s Choice, 2. The Devil Wears Prada, 3. Postcards from the Edge, 4. Silkwood, 5. Doubt, 6. Kramer Vs. Kramer, 7. Manhattan, 8. Out of Africa,...
(Tree of Life, 1905, Frank Lloyd Wright) This tantalizing news was buried deep in a Variety piece with details that Bright Star and The Tree of Life have been picked up for distribution by newly formed company Apparition. THR quotes a press release describing Apparition as a “fiercely independent, artist friendly distributor” with “a sensitivity and...
From Slate vie Rope of Silicon, a collection of accents perfectly nailed by Meryl Streep over the past few decades. Salon’s Stephanie Zacharek writes one of the week’s best reviews for Julie & Julia: When an actor plays a real-life character we know and love, we always hope for verisimilitude, for body movements that capture the physical essence of a...
Thanks to Craig at Living in Cinema for sending us the official one-sheet for A Serious Man. As we said several days ago, there’s something inherently hilarious in this pose. Simultaneously heroic, boldly off-kilter and precariously defiant — a suburban Don Quixote tilting at TV antennas instead of windmills. Master of his own domain, in pleated pants and...
While Americans are obsessed with “updating” our own movie classics, the British can turn to their rich literary tradition for adaptation. Maybe if America had a Shakespeare or Austen we could leave Dr Seuss the fuck alone. Oliver Parker is making a career of directing sparkly new interpretations of Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being...
The giveaway has ended – thanks for playing! Friends of Awards Daily who live in the New York area can win two free tickets to a special screening of Five Minutes of Heaven Tuesday the 11th, 7:00PM at the Tribeca Grand in NYC. The film stars Liam Neeson and is directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (DOWNFALL). Both will be in attendance. To win this giveaway, simply write...