First up, Tom O’Neil at Gold Derby invited me for a chat this afternoon – here is the link. And we’re proud to announce that we’re doing a new weekly podcast with Craig Kennedy of Living in Cinema, Ryan Adams and me called Oscar Podcast. We recorded our first episode today – we’re talking about the Best Picture race, Looper and Frankenweenie....
Monthly Archives: September 2012
David Denby talks about the dying breed of originality in art — I assume he’s talking about mainstream Hollywood films, which lose their local flavor because they have to be generic enough to appeal to an international audience. I don’t know that I agree with his premise but I think he’s a great writer – and I am looking forward to reading...
It’s a good time of the year to remind ourselves of what I consider to be the Ten Commandments of Oscar Watching. It’s important to remember them because they are always forgotten. The truth is, there is no there there right now. There is a lot of hot air, a lot of people making sweeping assumptions and generalizations based on their own impressions of a...
Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee and author Yann Martel will sit down with Film Society of Lincoln Center Program Director Richard Peña for a discussion of the film adaptation of Martell’s Man Booker Prize-winning book LIFE OF PI on Friday, September 28 at 12:00pm (ET). Watch live video of the press conference right here! LIFE OF PI is the Opening Night film...
Nicole and Mia are the in the headline for eye-grabs. I was going to begin this intro by joking” “with Matthew Goode as Uncle Charlie” — but then I see that’s no joke. The nod to Shadow of a Doubt is none too subtle. I tingle to think what Hitchcock would have been to do if he never had to worry about mid-century American Codes of Morality. After...