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100
Reasons To Watch The Oscars
The Predictors
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Feinberg | The
Carpetbagger
Gray
Lady Dismissive Of Gaiety
"An overriding
theme is this: The movie prize cycle had better become shorter,
brighter and more popular in its bent or some major players are
pulling back."
Big
Cieper, Riffing The Faux-Populist Tip, Reports Rumbles Of Grumbling
On Oscar Outlay
"The Oscars have
always been trivial, and are best appreciated when they are allowed
to be. They have over the years provided a few hours of the inimitable
combination of vulgarity and high-mindedness that defines the image
of Hollywood."
Scott
Sez Meh To Oscar
$1,001,082,160
The
Dark Knight Sez "Nyah-Nyah" To Oscar
Is
It A Compliment To Call Hugh Jackman An Australian Billy Crystal?
"Even
though Slumdog turned out to be a major success
that doesn't mean that every studio can simply start making small,
torture-meets-dance, director-oriented movies based in foreign capitals
in order to turn a profit. This kind of movie's success is just
too hard to predict."
Lynda
Obst Sees A "Diminished" Oscar Season
The
Real Roots Of Slumdog Protests?
"Mr
Lewis has never been one to let bad taste stand in the way of his
art. He embodied a certain kind of American exuberance bordering
on the grotesque. He was likable and a bit pathetic, but he was
also a little scary: you never knew when he might go off. He helped
make comedy dangerous."
The
Man On Jerry Lewis
And -
Peter
Bogdanovich In Conversation With The Nutty Director
Women
On Film Shakes, Stirs Their Awards-Season Cinetinis
"The title
of Milk, about homosexuals’ fight for civil
rights, is almost 'M.L.K.'"
The
Day's Tersest Film Blog Debut In Yes, The New Yorker
Hugh
Jackman's Peeps Give You A Look At Him At Rehearsal
Weinstein
Shows Unusual Restraint By Attacking Those Offended By The
Reader's Moral Ambivalence (With Heavyweight Back-Up In
Wiesel & Foxman) After Voting Closes
Anil
Kapoor's Journal Of First Journey To The Oscars
Actor
Who Played The
Wrestler's
Dealer Charged With Dealing Steroids
A
Nosegay Of Oscar Quotes
"I'll
be posted somewhere on the Red Carpet on Sunday afternoon in my
black Oscar suit. (There's no wifi and I am resisting tweeting.)
I'll go home, catch the start of the show on TiVo, write up the
red carpet (I'm tempted to do the Flipcam but it actually requires
uploading.)"
Anne-T
Checks Oscar List, Checks It Twice
Oscar's
11
The
Bagger Ventures To Predict Oscar
If
An Unannounced Oscar Presenter Backs Out, Were They Ever A Presenter
At All?
And
The Blackface Oscar Goes To...
Gourmet
Mag's Oscar-Themed Cocktails
And
-
Five
Best Menus
Mark
Harris Cover-Stories Kate: "Best Actress"
Harvey
Milk Returns To The Oscars
The
Top 10 Oscar-Winning Actresses
The
FT Analyzes "The Loser Is..."
H'wd
Party Planner, Author Of "Party Confidential," Has Oscar
Party Tips
But - Manages
To Overlook McNuggetini
The
Art Of The Effective Acceptance Speech
Plus -
Oscar's Best-Dressed Friends
And -
Who
Are The Queen And King Of The Red Carpet? (D'oh!)
 Oscar
Talk: Between The Walls With The Class' Laurent
Cantet
Oscar
Talk: Waltz With Bashir's Ari Folman Is A "South
Park" Man
H'wd
& Fine Is Pleased To See Peter Gabriel Go Away
The
Cinematographers Go For Slumdog
Man
On Wire Balances
Eddie For Doc Editing
Times
Comes Out For Oscar's "Gay Forays"
The
Woz Sez It's The Year Of The Actor At The Oscars
"This
much is clear: this year’s Oscars will have a story line related
to making movies and will lean heavily toward live theater instead
of endless film clips, with the award presentations almost Shakespearean
plays within a play."
Ellen
Kuras On The Two Decades Of Tech Shifts Behind Oscar-Nommed Betrayal
Reading
The Reader As A Metaphor For American Health Care
(!)
The
Oscars Trailer From The Director Of Shaft
Slumdog
May Bring "Millionaire" Back To ABC
"Despite
its flaws, The Reader has at least resurrected
the debate about personal responsibility in a tyranny."
"I
have had 3 films nominated out of the last 5 I've made. I just make
the film the best I can. The rest is political stuff and posturing.
I'm not terribly good at that. I think our message was as good as
any message out there this year. There we are."
Eastwood
Moves On To Mandela
The
Bagger Praises Oscar Long Shots
Post-Oscars,
Whither Britfilm?
"After
my best friend took some time to think about The Reader
he reminded me that the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once said
that the victims of the Nazis, exterminated in the SS camps did
not vanish forever in the smoke of the ovens. They have a grave
and a fragile one: our memory."
Rod
Lurie, Writer Not Reader
The
Secret Life Of Bees Wins With NAACP
Peter
Gabriel And Oscar: Unplugged
Ridiculous
Revisionism: Tom O'WhyInHeckDidTheLATimesEver-
HookUpWithThisMoron Hates On Godfather II's Best
Picture Oscar
First
Oscarcast Ad For A Movie: The Soloist
"This
is a film whose essential metaphorical thrust is to exculpate Nazi-era
Germans from knowing complicity in the Final Solution."
Ron
Rosenbaum Sez Oscar Ought Not Peruse The Reader
Remembering
Johnny Carson As Oscar Host
Indian
Gamblers Stake A Billion Rupees On Millionaire
Complete BAFTA
Winners List Here
The
Sunday NY Times
Chip
Kidd On Redesigning Downey
And - Tom
Perrotta On Winslet
Plus -
Hirschberg
On Standout Talents
With -
Hustvedt
On Pitt
And -
Jane
Smiley On Penn
With - Almodóvar
On Penélope
And
- Barry
Levinson On Rourke
Plus -
Chris
Buckley On Langella
And -
Keener On Kat Dennings
Readering
The Case For A Stephen Daldry Oscar Upset
For 3... It
Is Written
WGA Writers Inscribe Slumdog,
Milk, Bashir
"Truly
perverse and antithetical to the idea of democracy."
Journal
Gets Academics To Critique Oscar Voting Set-Up; Bonus Ishtar
Joke!
While -
Oscar
Offers Party Tips, Including Wolfgang Puck Recipes
And - Vote
A Student Journo Onto The Red Carpet
The
London Critics Heart The Wrestler, And Slumdog And
Kate And Ben Button, Too
"Perhaps
Slumdog will be the catalyst for a transformation,
one that will make India shine for more of its people. It is certainly
possible. Perhaps, even, it is written. But that depends on what
we, the viewers and the world, choose to do next."
A
Loving Defense Of Revolutionary Road's Terrors
Chicagoans
Invited To Fondle Oscar
"Look
at Wizard of Oz, that tanked when it opened and
it's worth a billion dollars. Citizen Kane almost
didn't open. I'm not saying my movies are on that classic level,
but hopefully that's what you're trying to do."
Fincher
Unbuttons
The
Big Cieper Sez There's All Sorts Of Suspense Over The Oscar
Show
Bordwell-Wallah's
Epic Celebration Of Slumdog Millionaire Is A Doozie
SHOCKER!
Danny
Boyle Wins DGA... Ari Folman Waltzes To Doc Win
Where's
Wall-E?
Kung
Fu Panda
Fills An Annie Hall
"We
want to set it up as soon as possible. What absolutely mustn't happen
is that the money disappears, or people think this is a PR stunt."
Slumdog
Millionaire
Investors To Meet In London Next Week To Discuss Some Profits Going
To Mumbai 'Hoods, Sez Danny Boyle
Button
On An Italian Suit
Carr
On Oscar's "Riveting Tales For Dark Days"
AMC
Goes For Third Year Of Best-Picture Saturday; $30 Quintuple
Feature
Making
The Case For A Milk-Slumdog Throwdown
Final
Oscar Ballots Are In The Postman's Paw
On The Way
To - 5,810
Voters
The
Slumdog Millionaire Statements
Van
Sant On Milk's Out-And-Out Success
Is
Part Of Harvey Missing From Milk?
Boyle
& Co. Describe "Painstaking And Considered Attention"
To The Needs Of Slumdog's Kid Actors
Sampling
Waltz With Bashir, The Graphic Novel
"I
had never been to a cinema hall before I watched Slumdog
Crorepati. I really liked the film."
Scoring
The Oscar Scores
Q: Who
Keeps Leaking Details To Gossip Columns, Claiming Hugh's In Control?
A: No One At The Academy... Not Even After Today's Board of Governors
Meeting
Another
Oscar Leak Accurately Has Baz Luhrmann Directing A Number For Hugh
Jackman On The Show
Lim
Brings The Grim To Slumdog
Acad
Makes Exception On Three-Producer Rule For The Reader,
Listing Minghella And Pollack
The
Curious Case Of Gran Torino
How
Slumdog Millionaire's Success May Have Led To More
Variety Layoffs
"Ah,
look! Look! That's the pipeline where we always play, wow."
From
Mumbai's Dharavi, Home To A Million Where Slumdog
Was Shot, Praise For The Pic
"I
don't believe that race doesn't matter. I believe that it matters
enormously. But I wish people would say, 'It matters enormously.
Now let's get dessert.'"
Rachel
Gets Married's
Jenny Lumet Is Cool To "Post-Racial" Gab
Caro
Adds To Chorus Of Voices That Sings Failure For ABC's Oscarcast
Sans Dark Knight Noms
And -
Jonah
Nolan Thanks Website That Tub-Thumped For Bat Bid
The
SAG Awards
PGA
Treads Where All Else Dare... Slumdog; Wall-E;
Man On Wire
"The reality
is I got up at 5:55 here in Utah and looked at the clock and figured
the nominations were announced and it didn't happen. I said to myself,
'That's OK, I can deal with it.' Then I realized there's a one-hour
time difference."
Nominee
Reactions
John
Serba Anticipates Nomination Irritation
Predicting
The Nominations
Freeman
Montague | Film
Experience | Seattle
Times | Brad
Brevet | Peter
Keough | Edward
Douglas | Shea
Conner | Phil
Villarreal | Kris
Tapley | Alan
Boyle | Bob
Thompson | Tom
O'Neil | Fox
News | Stephen
Schaefer | Christopher
Rosen | Andrew
Payne | Erik
Childress
Dave
Karger Ponders
Tomorrow's Oscar Surprises
"Hosted
by Hugh Jackman, the "Super Bowl for Women" is still expected
to be the self-congratulatory, inside-joke heavy spectacle it always
is, so what will change to keep viewers engaged this time around?"
Sending
Up The Bat Signal For Oscar
Some
Inauguration Day Fun At Film Experience
The
Online Film Critics Love Wall-E .. A Lot
Erik
Childress Predicts The Nominations
Along
With Taking Ads For Movies, Oscar's Cutting Cost Of Commercials
Oscar
Presenters Are A Secret
BAFTA
Nods... Winslet Nods Back As Double Best Actress Nominee
India
Awaits D. Boyle's Mumbai Meller
And
- A.
R. Rahman Wants Oscar For "Jaiho" From Slumdog
While -
The
Hindu's Writer Thinks Slumdog's One Shot Away
Aronofsky
On Fight Pics Pinned By Wrestler
Foundas
Flies To Forefront Of Gomorrah Failure Fury
Costume
Guild Dresses 13, Including Revolutionary, Milk,
Button, Slumdog, Sex,
Wrestler
The
Vancouver Critics Love Milk
Slumdog
Drumroll, Please...
"The
first emblematic film of the Barack Obama era. It is such a radical
contender for Oscars, and in ways that correspond to what appears
to be Obama's world view."
"The
awards are very flattering, obviously, and great for what I like
to call my bathroom ego, which is the ego no one sees but me, when
I look into the mirror. What's really important is the platform
they give the film."
Danny
Boyle Sez Awards Are A Bottom-Line Necessity For Pics Like Slumdog
The
History Of "Miss Double G," The Woman With The Golden
Globes In Her Hands
Profiling
"The Mozart Of Madras," Slumdog's Millions-Selling
A. R. Rahman
John
Patrick Shanley On The Difference Between Doubt
And "The Flying Nun"
The
Globes After Parties With FilmMagic
The
Cinema Editors Make Their Nominations
Karina
Longworth Really, Truly, Hits The Gongs That Mattered At The
Globes
"I
would like to grow up to be like Clint Eastwood. Eastwood the director,
Eastwood the actor, Eastwood the invincible, Eastwood the old man.
What other figure in the history of the cinema has been an actor
for 53 years, a director for 37, won two Oscars for direction, two
more for best picture, plus the Thalberg Award, and at 78 can direct
himself in his own film and look meaner than hell? None, that's
how many."
Globes
Results Are In!
The
Updated Critics Scoreboard
The
Iowa Film Critics Love Slumdog
Bashir's
Ari Folman On His Future Past
The
Bagger On Why The DGA Awards Are A Bellwether, But Not The
Globes
Art
Directors Guild Nominations
McCarthy
Confesses A Love For 1950s Melodrama Muddies His Take On
Revolutionary Road
BFCA
Critics Choice Nods Include Slumdogx5; Penn; Tied
Hathaway, Streep; Ledger; Winslet; Foreign For Bashir
Hans
Zimmer And James Newton Howard Tune Up Dark Knight
On KCRW
While -
Batmaniac
Chip Kidd Unmasks More Bat-abilia, The Secret Trove Of Japanese
Batmanga
DGA
Nominees
Milk
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire
The
Cinema Audio Society Nominations
The
People's Choice Awards - Full List
They Should
Call The Character "Payday"
Will
Mickey Rourke Follow In T-Ho's Footsteps From Oscar Nominee To Iron
Man Support Staff?
On
Thursday Afternoon, Doubt-Blogging WIth The Sisters
Of Charity Of New York
The
WGA Nominees Are Here! The WGA Nominees Are Here!!
ASC
Nominates
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
The
BAFTA Long List of Nominations
The
Updated Top Ten Scoreboard
285 Lists; 265 films; 106 films with a single vote -- proving there's
some love out there for almost everything
"I
have to stop myself from being glib about it. The notion of pedophilia
is incorrect on every level. And ... insane. Is it appropriate for
a 15-year-old boy to have a sexual relationship with a 36-year-old
woman? I don't know. Love comes at you in many different ways, at
many different ages."
The
Director On The Reader
Chris
Jones Sez Doubt And Frost/Nixon Work
Better As Plays
Wall-E's
Andrew Stanton Shrugs At Being Ineligible For DGA Awards, Since
He's Not Part Of The Union
"There's
a scene in the film where the Joker confronts Batman and says, 'Y'know,
we’re the same, and we need each other.' That’s a profound
moment. These extreme characters can only exist in each other’s
company."
But
Salman Rushdie Thinks Slumdog Partakes Of Too Much
Magical Realism
"It’s
gotten much more elitist, much more boring, much less fun, because
everything else is changing I suppose. I suppose that makes sense
but there's no feeling of glamour or excitement anymore."
Cornering
Cranky Rex Reed At The New York Film Critics Awards
PGA
Nominates
And
-
What
Does It Mean?
The
Vancouver Film Critics Nominate, Too
Hal
Holbrook Tonight: Looking Back At Mark Twain, Into The Wild
And Oscar
"This
subject would never have attracted the New York Film Festival or
Sony Classics to buy it. The format made people go for the film."
Getting
Animated With Waltz With Bashir's Ari Folman
Oscar
Gets Oscar.Org(anized)
"An astonishing
comprehension that is sometimes a little close to cruelty."
James
Wood On Revolutionary Road And Richard Yates
Making
A Case For What Skills Each Of Danny Boyle's Movies Contributed
To Slumdog Success
Viola
Davis, Doubtless
Kansas
City Film Critics Like Slumdog, Micky Rourke and Meryl Streep
National
Society Of Film Critics Go Hyper-Topical, Naming Waltz With
Bashir Year's Best; Nods To Penn, Hawkins; Marsan,
Schygulla; Man On Wire; Two For Mike Leigh
The
Updated Critics Scoreboard
The
Sunday Times Shoulders The Little Gold Man
Checking
In With Oscarcast Producers Condon And Mark
Plus -
The
Bagger Loves Anne Hathaway's Smile But Likes Her Baring Fangs, Too
And -
Lim
Talks Script With Writers Of Che, W.,
Milk
Plus -
Times
Crickets Chirp Their Oscar Faves
And - Kehr-Bear
Considers Past Best Picture Lummoxes
With
- Langella
On Nixon's "Immortal Longings"
And -
Dargis
Considers That Synecdoche, New York May Take Place,
Not Only In A Single Lifetime, But In A Single Minute
"Being
nude was weird. And now I'm seeming like the actress who does that,
which wasn't my intention."
Marisa
Tomei Talks Hula-Hoop
"This
year's movie awards season has played out like Oscar night at Minsky's.
At least a dozen of the supposedly hottest contenders are being
teased out to the public in peekaboo release patterns."
The
Big Cieper
Comes Down With A Touch Of The Bagger (Why Not "Oscar Night
At The Spearmint Rhino"?)
Considering
The Non-Critics Who Want Clint On Deck For Oscar Batting
A
Demand For A Different Sort Of Button Baby
(Spoilers)
Gameshow-Wallah
Anil Kapoor Talks Slumdog With Times Of India
A.
R. Rahman On Scoring Slumdog
Oscar
Invites 281 Features To The 2009 Foodfight
How
Therapeutic Was Waltz With Bashir For Director
Ari Folman?
The
Bagger Sez Globes Will Party Like It's 2007
And - Oscar-Pitching
To Vacationing Members
Chris
McQuarrie Goes Long On The Construction Of Valkyrie
Ann
Savage, Fatale-est Of Femmes In Detour, Most Fearsome
Of Moms In My Winnipeg, Was 87
A Revolutionary
Road Brunch
"Yates'
novel, cherished by literary intellectuals and Paris Review interns
to this day, expresses American suburban-phobia with crude explicitness.
No literary critic that I know of has ever challenged Yates's puerile
social perceptions."
The
Journal Pulls Out A Richard Yates-Hater (Who Coined Phrase "Blogofascism")
To Defend The Suburbs Against "Absurd" Critique
Plus - A
Writers Colony Sort Of Writer Takes Up Cudgels For "Revolutionary
Road"
And -
Michael
Shannon On The Classical Side Of His Character
With -
Zoe
Kazan On Fitting Into Family Tradition
Sasha
Sez Ebert's All About The Four Stars, Sad He's Not Fond Of Button
And -
"A splendidly
made film based on a profoundly mistaken premise."
Roger's
Notice
Oscar
Ballots Are Up, Up, Up In The Air
Is
Slumdog's A. R. Rahman The "Mozart Of India"?
Alexandre
Desplat On The Sources Of His Button Score
The
Dark Knight As Myth
Detroit
Film Critics Are All For Slumdog
Frank
Rich Prefers Slumdog Millionaire To Manhattan
Madoff
A
Hesitant Stephen Daldry Talks About The Reader's
Reception
Three-Time
Wrestling Champ Mick Foley Explains What Darren Aronofsky Got Right
Earlier
-
Foley Gets Down To Thumbtacks About The Wrestler
Fincher
On Building Button Entirely From Data
A
Pretty Solid Look At Oscar Publicity... Though Watch Out For A Bit
Of Overly Generous Credit Giving
The
Utah Critics Like The Dark Knight
The
Toronto Film Critics Love Wendy & Lucy
This
Year, Fear Of Screeners For Yet-To-Open Films Seems To Have Gone
Away
On
The 180 Degrees Between Ebert And Scott On Seven Pounds
Earlier -
"I
don't see how any review could really spoil what may be among the
most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time
crazily awful motion pictures ever made. Did I really see what I
thought I saw?"
Tony
Scott Goes Ring-A-Ding-Ding On Seven Pounds
And - "I am
reminded of Melville's Le Samourai, about a man
who lies on a bed in a dark hotel room and smokes, and gets up,
and pays meticulous attention to his appearance, and goes out into
the night, and we have no idea who this man is. I find this more
interesting than a movie about a man whose nature and objectives
are made clear in the first five minutes."
But -
Ebert
Doesn't Mind Some Emotional Manipulation
More Awards
Las Vegas Film Critics
Florida FIlm Critics
The
London Film Critics Announce Nominations
Chicago
Critics Love Wall-E ... A Lot
SAG
Award Nominations Land... To A Total Of Zero Surprises, But Very
Nice Mornings For One Leo (Melissa) & Richard Jenkins
Slumdog
Sits On Top Of The Critics Scoreboard
Aronofsky
On Why It's Good To Have A Small Music Budget
"Various
critics or critic-like people are absolutely free to gather in covens,
gossip and argue about movies, and dutifully report out the results.
That pretty much mirrors the Bagger's life these days, and he is
not self-hating enough to actually be against such a pastime."
The
Bagger Yawns, Scratches, Mocks
And - Suggests
Mickey Rourke May Be Out There
Elizabeth
Drew Interrogates Frost/Nixon On Fact/Fiction
The
Texas Critics
Dallas
Ft Worth Like Slumdog
And
- The
Houston Film Critics Go For Ben Button
And
-
Austin
Film Critics Embrace The Dark Knight
The
Phoenix Film Critics Declare For Slumdog And Remember In
Bruges
"Eight
years ago when we were doing Traffic, I was approached
about getting involved with Che, I said yes, sensing
that it would be difficult or ugly. But that was, y'know, not a
reason to say no."
Pickford
Oscars Belong To Academy, Judge Sez
TIFF
Picks Canada's Top 10 Films
Scripter
Peter Morgan Set To Complete Blair Trilogy With Directorial Debut
On Clinton Years; Michael Sheen's Still Tony
Michael
Musto Considers The "Got Gay?" Question About Milk
Soderbergh's
Work Ethic Comes From Being Unable To Direct After He's Dead
Germaine
Greer Would Like You To Know Australia Is A Fairytale
NY
Observer Cover-Stories Revolutionary Road
The
Chicago Critics Nominate
Slumdog
Millionaire
And The "Real India"
Baz
On Gambling On Amateurism
Cleve
Jones On The Real Milk
The
Top Ten Scoreboard (With 22 Lists In)
Awards,
Awards, Awards
SouthEastern
Film Critics Love Milk
And
- St.
Louis Film Critics Love Ben Button
And
- Golden
Satellite Awards
And
- Boston
Film Critics
And
- New
York Film Critics Online
And - The
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
And - The
Women's Film Critics Circle
5
Reasons To Be Thrilled The Che Roadshow Is A Hit
Will
Smith's Seven-Second Charm
Button
Pushes Oscar's Digi-Debate
The
Sunday NY Times
"Two
Christmases ago Bryan Singer was looking for a modestly scaled movie
to make, something he could slide in quickly between behemoths."
With -
A
Waltz With Ari
Plus -
Chip
McGrath On The Boom In Gloom When Leo Meets Kate
And -
Clint
Owns The Place, OK?
Iran
Forces Take Insult From The Wrestler
"No one
at that point could have foreseen the extraordinary series of misfortunes
that soon overtook us."
David
Hare's 1,800 Word Account On Adapting The Reader,
"Not A Book About Forgiveness"
The
Seed Of Seven Pounds
Music
Man Hugh Jackman To Host Oscars Produced By Musical-Makers
Golden
Globes Nods-Land; Five Noms Each For Button,
Doubt, F/N
And
-
"The
town drunks are at it again."
Danny
Boyle Asks The Bagger If It's A Good Time To Come To The
Globes
Jerry
Lewis Biographer Shawn Levy Salutes The Academy
Earlier
-
Lewis To Receive Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 81st Oscars
Pitting
Wendy & Lucy's Neo-Neorealism Against The
Exiles
The
New York Film Critics Like Milk
The Big
List of 2008 Films
LA
Critics Go For Wall*E; Boyle; Penn; Hawkins; Ledger;
Cruz; Leigh; Man On Wire; Waltz With Bashir
Poland
Mulls And
Muses The Critics' Choice Awards Roster
The
BFCA Critics' Choice Awards Noms
Dark
Knight
Can Again Tune Up For Oscar Hopes
"Hollywood
and Indiewood can do romantic pathology and entropy, but the kind
of love for the ages, a big-movie kind of love? Not so much."
Bagger
Line O' The Day
Milk
Gets A Stanley Kramer
And - A
Nod To Randy Shilts, The Scribe Who Was The Conscience Of Castro
Street
The
D.C. Film Critics Show A Lot Of Love For Slumdog Millionaire
Benicio
Marches Che Into Habana
The Daily Beast
On Its Nixon/Frost Beat
Nixon's
Book Editor Michael Korda Sez Langella's Got The Physicality Right
And
- The
Making Of David Frost
Earlier
- Sir
David's On-Screen GF On Fact/Fiction in Frost/Nixon
And - Nixon
Aide Diane Sawyer Won't See The Movie
Plus - Michael
Sheen Gets Sir On The Horn
Gomorrah
Sweeps European Film Awards; Nods To Hunger, Scott-Thomas
For Loved You
And - Warlords
Victorious At Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, "The Chinese Oscars"
The
Bagger Jabbers With John Patrick Shanley
Plus - The
Reader Has
All Kinds Of Vergangenheitsbewaltigung
And - Riff-Rafferty
On Revolution Dude Che
Man
On Wire, Waltz With Bashir Tie At IDA
Awards
Deciphering
Changes In Foreign Language Oscar Rules
How
Can Warner Campaign For Heath Ledger's Oscar Nom?
China's
Self-Defeating Oscar Battles
On
The Set Of The Reader With Kate Winslet
Heath
Ledger Gets Australian Film Institute's International Award For
Best Actor
Foreign-Language
Newcomers Stumble Into Oscar Spotlight
"I've
always found that big hits stem from corporate inadvertencies, not
from careful planning."
Pete
Pious V On "Nobody Knows Nothing" In: Re: Slumdog
Soderbergh's
"Guerilla" Financing
Plus -
Soderbergh
On The Lightweight Aspect Of Che
John
Patrick Shanley On Why Joe Vs. The Volcano Left
Him With Doubt
The
Best Of Nixons, The Worst Of Nixons
Dark
Knight Returns
To Big Screen Day After Oscar Noms Announced In January; Hopes
To Hit Int'l Tally Of One Billion Dollars
"I
loved playing Skeletor, and people sometimes say, 'Aren't you embarrassed?'
Not in the least! I loved my performance in that. I worked very
hard to make him as exciting as I could. It was a great paycheck.
But it was also delicious."
Nixon
Not Only Master Of Universe That Amuses Frank Langella
Why
Doesn't Every Awards-Giving Bunch Broadcast Their Events?
Trailering
Che Part 2
And - The
Big Theatrical Trailer
Adams
On Readering Between The Lines: When Is Abuse Not
Abuse?
Clint
Sez "This One Is Weird" But He's Started On Mandela Bio
Already
Frozen
River Cracks Gothams
"Is
there anyone more American than Ron Howard?"
The
Importance of Being Earnest Ron
Early
Gothams Go To Ballast, Synedoche And Distrib-Less
Sita Sings The Blues
Clint
Sings Grand Torino
(streaming)
Globes
Qualify 53 For Foreign Lingo Gold, Including 14 French, 4 Italian
117
Nonfiction Features Eligible For 2009 Cinema Eye Honors
Sir
David Interrogates Frost/Nixon
At
Least Baz Gets A Standing Euro-vation
Frozen
River
Syndrome In Stockholm
Counting
All The Portrayals In Che's Lounge
Mary
Pickford's Oscar In Court's Hands
Slumdog
Gets 3 British Independent Film Awards; Hunger,
Too
Waltz
With Bashir Takes
Top Nod At Tokyo Filmex
Behind
The Sleek Graphics Of Oscar Doc Shortlistee I.O.U.S.A.
The
Bagger Launches His Oscar Season, With A Salvo About The Bull
Market In Ego
And - How
An Onion Ex-Editor-In-Chief Grappled With The Wrestler
Plus - The
Obstinacy Of The Draw-By-Hand Animator
And - Mickey
Rourke's Fists Are Up But His Guard Is Down
Streep
And Shanley Do A Doubt Double-Act
Visiting
Harvey Milk's Family Back On Long Island
The
Curious Friendship Of Pitt And Fincher
The
Literary Times
The
Man, Sensitive To Sensations Of Australia,
Finds A Line From Kundera To Authenticate Its Kitsch
And
- Tony
Scott Invokes "Angel-Headed Hipsters" Re: Milk
"He was
a man of politics, but he was also only a politician in order to
have the chance to be a human.."
Andrew
Sullivan On Milk
Vanity
Fair Scales Back Oscar Bash
James
Franco Tickle-Tangles With David Letterman
(video)
M.I.A.
On Slumdog Sound
"There's
huge demand from people for someone who looks homeless in his messy
basement talking about the most glamorous event in the world. There
may or may not be puppets."
Anne-T
Previews Oscar Season Return Of The Bagger
Harvey
Milk Marched To A Disco Beat
For
Awards Consideration, Disney's Got The WALL-E Script
(pdf download)
The
Sunday L.A. Times
How
Stephen Daldry Danced Through The Reader And Billy
Elliot's B'way Incarnation
And -
Why
Van Sant Got This Incarnation Of Milk Made
"It's
a complete and total g--damn travesty, is what it is."
O'Hehir's
Hair Stands On End Over Oscar Doc Shortlist
Michael
Giacchino Is Oscar's New Baton Guy
Thinking
On Milk, Jonnie Rosenbaum Revisits His
Loathe Letter To Van Sant's "Worthless" Psycho
Remake
indieWIRE
Lists the 15 Docs on the Oscars' Shortlist
"We're
old friends and we know where we can go with each other. She will
let me strangle her until she literally passes out in the scene."
Another
Reason DiCaprio And Winslet Get Along
And - Leo's
On A Mission As A Man Of The World
7
Outrageous Oscar Disqualifications
Annual
Hype For Box Office Oscars Starts With NYT Selling, Selling, Selling
Cartoons
"It’s
funny, I’ve been asked a lot about the politics of the film.
I dismiss all such analogies."
Boucher
Goes Long With C. Knight Nolan As Dark Knight Campaign
Takes Flight
And so it begins
...
The Gotham Awards
Nominations
Frost/Nixon's
Researcher Talks
The
Oscar Dark Horses
Variety
Realizes, Months After Everyone Else, That Oscar 2008 Is Going To
Start Late
The
Oscar Doc Short Shortlist Described At Length
The
Doc Shorts Oscar Shortlist
"The members
of the Academy would like to thank the members of the Academy..."
Oscar
Broadcast Will Accept Movie Ads, But With Lotsa Conditions, As You
Might Expect
Behind
Latest Snag In Annual Oscar Doc Rules & Regs Re-Do That Left
Waltz With Bashir In The Desert
The
Legacy Of Canadian Animator Ryan Larkin, Lead Of Oscar-Winning Animation
Ryan
Slovakia
Snubs Its Popular Epic Oscar Contender For Insufficient Slovakianness
Mexico
Sez Tear Up My Life To Oscar
Warner
Offering Acad Viewers Choice Of Blu-Ray Screener For The
Dark Knight
Kenn
Glenny On The Cinematic Moment (Pre-Oscar Ceremony)
That Makes Him Cherish Bill Condon
Bulgaria
Sez Dzift, Their Oscar Nom, Best Local Film Since
1989
Czechs
Sign Karamazovs For Oscar
Jack
Green, Longtime Keeper Of Dark For Eastwood, Gets Lifetime Nod
Russia
Wants Oscar To Swim With Mermaid
China's
Dream Weavers Loom For Oscar
"One
night only... one night only... you'll be the only one..."
Bill
Condon, Larry Mark To Produce Academy Awards
While -
EW
Rumours Ricky Gervais To Host
Italy
Go-Gos Gomorra For Oscar
Hong
Kong's Painted Skin For Oscar
Croatia
Honors No One's Son For Oscar
Norway's
O'Horten O'Hearing An Oscar
While
- France
Has Class
Getting
Familiar With Foreign Language Oscar Noms Before Oct 1 Cut-Off
Finland
Home Of Dark Butterflies For Oscar
Ed
Zwick Oscar Hopeful Defiance Bows At Close Of AFI
Fest LA '08
Japan's
Oscar Pic A Departures
Romania
Picks Epic Film-Within-Film About Birth Of Cinema For Foreign Language
Oscar
NY
Observer's Very, Very, Early, Early Oscar Forecast
Fox
Putting Out Restored 12-Disk Set Of Ten Borzages And Two Murnaus,
Including Long-Craved First Oscar Winners 7th Heaven,
Sunrise In Time For Holiday Giving At A Mere $240
Oscar-Handicapping
Telluride
Oscar-Nommed
Iraq War Dissection
No End In Sight Uninterrupted
On YouTube From Labor Day Until The Election
Myopically
Paging The Dark Knight To Save The Oscars, Titanic-Style
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