“The first mandatory stop in the awards season,” says The New York Times, with deadpan lack of sarcasm. Gathering a list too pretty to resist borrowing, Kris Tapley at In Contention, reminds us what this honor best represents: “diligent publicists doing their jobs.” Hollywood Actor Award: Robert De Niro, ‚ÄúEverybody‚Äôs Fine‚Äù Hollywood...
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Cracked.com has put together a list of what they think are the worst accents ever. The ones that come immediately to mind for me are: Holly Hunter in Once Around Angelina Jolie in Alexander Don Cheadle, Oceans 11 Michael Caine, The Cider House Rules Al Pacino in Scarface (even though it’s totally great) Kate Winslet’s American dialect in Titanic (it just fell...
This is how the story unfolded to me. The first thing that caught my attention was several movie bloggers were being flown to London for the premiere of the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Disclosed completely here, but bits of it were gleaned from Twitter and various other modes of communication. I wondered why the studio would foot the bill to send so many out there at once –...
“I believe that children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way..” ~ Whitney Houston Stop reading right now if you’d rather work out the underlying meanings of Michael Haneke’s WWI-era morality tale, The White Ribbon on your own. …ees eet safe? Safe to proceed for those who already know and anyone else who doesn’t...
I first read The Road two weeks after it was published, in 2006. Just finished re-reading it tonight and this time was able to hear the austere dialogue spoken in my ear by Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Garret Dillahunt and the other perfectly cast actors. Checking to see if there were any new clips online besides the ones we featured a month ago,...
Announced a couple of days ago as one the 8 documentary shorts shortlisted for Oscar consideration. Premieres Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm, on HBO. Filmmakers Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze present an intimate look at the life of noted children’s book writer and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent at times conflicted with his success and whose lifelong obsession...
It was two enthusiastic thumbs up for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are on At the Movies. Okay, fine, it wasn’t exactly thumbs but you get the idea – early review, positive response. AO Scott said: “This is one of the most unusual and audacious big budget children’s movies ever made. And also one of the saddest. And I think kids will...
Director Mike Nichols has been chosen to receive the 38th American Film Institute’s life-achievement award. Nichols, whose films include “The Graduate,” “Working Girl,” “Silkwood” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, will receive the AFI honor at a ceremony next summer. The 77-year-old Nichols joins past AFI...