Jason Reitman took to the Oprah Winfrey show on Friday and brought with him some of the folks who had been fired in real life and whom appeared in his film. The Oprah.com site has more in depth writing on it than it used to have, making it a little more like a blog (which makes me wonder if Oprah may be gone but not forgotten next year when her show ends; could she end...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Recently, I had the occasion to speak with Quentin Tarantino (will be posting the interview soon) and I told him that my three favorite scenes in Inglourious Basterds both involved Landa and the way he toys with people.¬†¬† In all three scenes, he starts off charming but by the end becomes sinister. To me, this is a running theme in Tarantino’s work: personality...
I told David Poland I didn’t want to participate in the Gurus of Gold this week because he was doing percentages. My experience awards watching has taught me that even when something is a sure bet, there are large groups of people who have a different contender in mind. I know this by the pre-Oscar interviews. And anyway, it’s just the nature of human beings:...
Kris Tapley says that Jim Cameron will take the Directors Guild top prize. He gives his reasons here: The answer is in the populist leanings of the guild, a vast, diluted membership that is TV-heavy, rules against sending screeners (which is a definite thorn for Kathryn Bigelow, whose film pulled down minuscule box office), etc. So the race will be back and forth one...
This is a pretty handy chart they’ve created over at Entertainment Weekly. There are tabs for each contender. The hardest one to grasp is Best Actress, which is all over the place. Picture and Director after the cut. It’s nice of them to include Boston and Chicago — I generally include LA and NY and leave the rest because how do you decide between Boston...