January 2012
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“The question the kids of the future will be trying to answer is: “What...”
– Peep Show star David Mitchell on the financial crisis.
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Oscar the Slouch: A Pundit Reacts
Oscar is a bird with wings that always finds a way to crap on your head.
You think you’ve put Oscar in a box where you can understand him, accept him, deal with him. You say, okay…I understand it’s not about celebrating what’s actually the best film and film work of the year, but about celebrating a certain upper middle brow range of filmmaking, so that within those...
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Chronicle of An Oscar Foretold
Complaining about the bad films that get nominated for the Academy Awards is like griping that if we lived in a country with a soul, Jack Kerouac would be elected President. But all the same, tomorrow’s nominations should be a historic low, taking the Academy back to the depths of the Ghandi era. But in the end, what matters most is not whether the Academy honors good films or bad films,...
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Still The King of Comedy
Had the good fortune to see again The King of Comedy at the First Annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival, and was in awe of how well it stood up. This was the first time I have seen it on the big screen since it came out in 1983 when I was in ninth grade. At the time, thanks to the tutelage of our high school teacher, America’s premiere film scholar Jim Hosney, I was an annoying...
My Reaction to these Globes at The Daily Beast →
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In this week's NYT Magazine, I map out for you the... →
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Here is Why You Can't Believe a Word That Comes...
Right at the #1 slot of his best of 2011 list.
It is not possible that he actually thinks Midnight in Paris is the best film of the year. That is not physically possible. He is either kissing up to Woody or stirring up trouble, or doing some kind of performance art, or kissing up to someone else. All of the above I suspect.
Remember he was also the foreman of the Venice Jury that gave...
“The scandal is not that the Golden Globes are handed out by a bunch of...”
– The essential Tom Shone on the Golden Globes
My Grantland Report on the Opening Ceremonies of... →
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My chat with Actor On The Edge Woody Harrelson is... →
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Sundance Sour Grapes
Was going to go to a screening tonight but checked with a friend who was at Sundance last year when it was shown and he said the buzz on it there was “so-so.” Sundance buzz operates with heavy grade inflation. A movie that has everyone in a frenzy at Sundance, that’s being called revolutionary up there, generally ends up being so-so in the real world. (Like Crazy comes to...
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And Now the Director's Turn to Be Idiots
Last week, Hollywood’s writers convened to display for all the world to see how little the planet’s highest paid writers know about writing. Today it was the Directors turn to showcase their collective idiocy, with the prestigious Directors Guild Award nominations. Putting their heads to honor the apex of achievement in film directing over the past year, the DGA bestowed their laurels...
