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"Oscar nominations"

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Anonymous CJ said...

Michael Fassbender, who was good in this as Mr. Rothschild...


Emergency typo siren on this one Steve - like Jack Benny's employee and the city formerly home to Kodak, it's Mr. Rochester.

1/24/12, 9:27 PM

Anonymous hbd chick said...

In other news, the great Gary Oldman finally got himself an Oscar nomination.

oldman was terrific as george smiley, but "tinker, tailor" was too short to tell the whole story properly. i spent 15 minutes explaining what happened to some lady in the movie theater bathroom after the movie, and then another half an hour for my mother over dinner afterwards -- and i only understood it 'cause i read the book/saw the alec guinness version. that was a seven part (seven hour?) series, and that's about what was needed to tell the story right. (^_^)

1/24/12, 9:28 PM

Blogger Lucius said...

A lot of times though, the 'placeholder' really is pretty sad fair.

Moreover, in some cases the Academy is determined *not* to reward the 'important' film.

"Apocalypse Now" may have a hard-to-figure message where Kurtz is concerned, but few today would deny that ending movement is fascinating, as is the rest of the film. "Kramer vs. Kramer" is a ridiculous champion, but Oscar felt Coppola had been given enough (even if he was robbed for Director on GF Part I.).

Barry Lyndon and Nashville are both surely better than One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Barry Lyndon in particular would've made a fine point to award Kubrick. But *then* what if fanboys who fall asleep because not enough ultra-violence decided it's soporific instead of the blazing art film epic it really is? So perhaps it's just as well . . . .

Otoh, Milos Forman's glorious Amadeus, a humanized take on the stageplay that becomes a Rococo fantasia on "Othello" was the right pic in '84; but secondguessers often want Joffe's moralistic The Killing Fields in its place. And Menges stole Ondricek's cinematography Oscar too. Rearview respectability's troublesome, and some films are too good to be considered anyway.

1/24/12, 9:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw "The Descendants" with my brother, who loathed it. His observations seriously degraded my generally positive initial reaction to the film, especially as I thought about them over the following days.

I loved the director's "About Schmidt" (not that I can really say why), but there was something wrong with the acting in this movie. It seemed fake from beginning to end.

And then I found this:

"If You Liked the Descendants, You are a Terrible Person"(http://tiny.cc/aaicp)
...which brought up a number of other points that hadn't occurred to me.

In any case, I would not call it "a very nice movie."

1/24/12, 9:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nick Nolte was nominated for "Warrior." I thought the film was fantastic.

1/24/12, 10:51 PM

Blogger Ray Sawhill said...

Smart and funny list. (Not that I saw any new movies in 2011 ...) But, boy oh boy, do I respond differently than you do to Gary Oldman. He's always struck me as one of the most bogus actors of all time. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

1/24/12, 11:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Andy Serkis for a lifetime award? Pah. What about Deep Roy? He was a chimp when Serkis was playing Gibbons Monkeys.
Gilbert Pinfold.

1/25/12, 12:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm still not sure about "The Tree of Life," but it was a useful reminder to rewatch Malick's "The Thin Red Line" which, this time with a much better tv and sound system, was extraordinary.

1/25/12, 1:15 AM

Blogger Truth said...

"And the award for the latest halfway-likable actor that the Eastern Establishment Fanboys hype halfway to the moon goes to....

Michael Fassbinder!"

1/25/12, 2:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

this should have been shortlisted for docutmentaries::

http://battleforbrooklyn.com/
Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary film about the Atlantic Yards project, which attempted to parachute a new neighborhood, including a basketball arena, into downtown Brooklyn. The only problem? There was already a neighborhood there.
lots of isteve stuff here, race politics, corruption, scots irish power....

1/25/12, 6:44 AM

Anonymous CamelCaseRob said...

My favorite film of last year was "Win Win".

1/25/12, 7:25 AM

Anonymous Kylie said...

"oldman was terrific as george smiley, but "tinker, tailor" was too short to tell the whole story properly."

I've not seen the Oldman version for this reason. The novel, Tinker, Tailor, is Dickensian in the intricacy of its plot and the number of its characters.

But now that I'm remembering just how brilliant Oldman is--I believe he could play the Invisible Man without the aid of any special effects at all--I'll have to see this truncated version.

1/25/12, 7:46 AM

Blogger Marc B said...

"Maybe it will send Fincher the message not to waste his skills on junk like this."

That movie looks like it was custom made for aging 1990's alt types who hadn't already grown out of their edgy phase by the time "Fight Club" came out. It doesn't seem like a film the current generation would find the least bit compelling or interesting.

1/25/12, 9:06 AM

Anonymous Svigor said...

"Apocalypse Now" may have a hard-to-figure message where Kurtz is concerned, but few today would deny that ending movement is fascinating, as is the rest of the film.

Ever seen the "Director's Cut"? Apocalypse Now should've won "best editor."

1/25/12, 9:16 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What are the isteviest books of 2011?

1/25/12, 9:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Toy Story III probably should have won BP last year. Although it's obviously not the kind of film the Academy takes seriously, it succeeded on every level: visually, technically, comedically, and thematically.

1/25/12, 10:14 AM

Anonymous Matko said...

People still care about the Oscar? Now I am awaiting eagerly the real relevant movie award - The Golden Raspberry.

1/25/12, 10:53 AM

Blogger The Anti-Gnostic said...

Ever seen the "Director's Cut"? Apocalypse Now should've won "best editor."

Indeed.

BTW, 1994's Oscar winner "Forrest Gump" was an insidiously awful film. A well-acted, well-directed but insidiously awful, horrible film.

1/25/12, 12:00 PM

Anonymous Richard Channing said...

Re: Toy Story 3, I thought Inception was hands down the best picture of last year.

Two years ago I argued that the animated Up was far better than it's fellow nominees.

1/25/12, 12:20 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

BTW, 1994's Oscar winner "Forrest Gump" was an insidiously awful film. A well-acted, well-directed but insidiously awful, horrible film.

As are most movies by the overrated Bob Zemeckis.

1/25/12, 1:23 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ray Sawhill - Got to disagree with you about Gary Oldman.

But never mind that...

I looked at your site and was reading about you and suddenly realized who you were, feeling very pleased with myself, until the end of the page where you outed yourself.

So I can't claim any bragging points!

1/25/12, 4:57 PM

Blogger Lucius said...

Coppola did wield cut on both "Apocalypses", obviously.

Granted, Coppola's been revisiting alot of his films in the editing room. Like most who do so, he's usually adding in. But then, the people who are going to watch are completists.

I find "Apocalypse Now Redux" a bit hard to digest on account of the changes in Willard's characterization-- some moments of frivolity, some lapses in judgment-- but on the whole, I approve the longer version heartily.

1/25/12, 6:37 PM

Anonymous travis said...

There's a beautiful 90 minute movie about growing up in Waco surrounded by a dull 45 IMAX film about the Big Bang. In my view, the Tree of Life glass is 90/135ths full, but others have been known to differ.

That's funny. You're right about both parts. The coming-of-age content is outstanding. It's clear that Malick loves 1950's America, especially the highly differentiatied gender roles. I have no idea where some of the commentators on your original review got the notion the movie's theme is "the white man is evil."

1/25/12, 6:39 PM

Anonymous No name said...

Glad someone cares about the Oscars, so we don't have to.

Thanks Steve!

1/25/12, 7:14 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes. Give the astute Svigor a cigar. The D.C. Is horrible. I would watch Oldman act all the speaking roles in Apocalypse Now rather than watch the directors cut again. And I think Oldman strikes me the same as you, Sawhill...

1/25/12, 8:00 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re: Drive, the reason why the male audience disapproves of femmes fatales is because they're so SWPL-ized and feminist-oriented.

1/25/12, 10:36 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think males would approve of genuine femme fatales, since they reflect an aspect of women which is seldom acknowledged in today's feminist culture - female manipulativeness, egotism and evil.

1/26/12, 1:39 AM

Anonymous Worked in PR and Highly Amused said...

It's a weird year when there are more deserving Best Actress nominees than Best Actor. Swinton should have been nominated rather than Michelle Williams, who is becoming a total pain, and she was ridiculous as Marilyn Monroe.

Brad Pitt getting a nomination for MONEYBALL is an outrage, if I could work up the emotion. His performance was OK but the film was sub-par and wrongheaded.

Shailene Woodley was the best thing in DESCENDENTS and didn't get nominated, which also sucked.

1/26/12, 6:30 PM

Blogger WMarkW said...

Rooney Mara could become the first person to win an Oscar and a Super Bowl in the same year.

1/27/12, 4:54 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I sense that (non-SWPL/PC) males definitely approve of femmes fatales. It's feminist power in the film industry which has stopped the depiction of femmes fatales on screen.

1/29/12, 7:10 PM

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