Part of the publicity for Scorsese’s upcoming Shutter Island is a Twitter campaign as outlined in this fearnet post: We just learned that with the upcoming release of Martin Scorsese’s¬†Shutter Island, fans of the great filmmaker — and his¬†frequent collaborator¬†Leonardo DiCaprio — will have a chance to ask questions about the pair’s...
Monthly Archives: January 2010
By overwhelming majority, the decision was made to randomly select a winner. And thus, I went to random.org, put in the total number of winners (147) and let it decide. So, the prize goes to: Anne-Sophie! Please email me for instructions. We might run a Predict the DGA contest with a tie-breaker question this time. ...
Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker James Cameron Avatar Lee Daniels Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Jason Reitman Up In The Air Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds The Directors Guild awards are being held this Saturday night. The race feels less certain than it did before the Producers Guild’s stunner that...
Thanks to N8 Fantasy Avatar (Mayes C. Rubeo, Deborah Lynn Scott) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme) Star Trek (Michael Kaplan) Contemporary (500) Days of Summer (Hope Hanafin) Bruno (Jason Alper) Crazy Heart (Doug Hall) Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (Marina Draghici) Up in the Air (Danny Glicker) Period Coco...
AMPAS just announced….are we ready for this yet? It’s been a long year. Thank you for hanging in there with us. Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards¬Æ will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-nominated actress and Academy member Anne Hathaway. Sherak and Hathaway will unveil...
Andrew O’Hehir, Salon: Debra Granik’s blend of low-budget regional realism and crime thriller (adapted from the novel by Daniel Woodrell) is an absolute knockout, for me the narrative film of the festival so far. Young Jennifer Lawrence is sensational as Ree, fierce teenage scion of an Ozark family of bootleggers, outlaws and meth-cookers… Granik captures...
Put down the pitchforks, and slowly back away from the ballots. Maybe now’s a good time to take a deep breath, look around, and see what’s been happening at Sundance this week. THR: “Howl” proved the perfect film to kick off Sundance 2010, a festival that means to rededicate itself to “cinematic rebellion” and indie experimentation....