― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, I can't.
21 Grams was such a terribly executed film of a terrible idea to begin with that I doubt Brad Pitt's 256th shot of proving he's got "real" acting chops is enough to entice me.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't mind 21 Grams all that much, but I've had quite enough of Innaritu's template.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
O'Toole is 74 I think, so it depends how many interviews and lunches he feels like doing in LA.
(oh pls don't compare that one-note ham McKellen to PO'T)
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought about that too. Expect O'Toole to fake graciousness a lot better than Betty Bacall (and he'll probably drink Leo or Forest under the table in the post-ceremony gropefest).
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
ie, Pretty Leo will win?
No, Penelope Cruz will. :-)
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Actually that works much better for Cruz-Mirren (ever since Binoche, the Oscar geezers have been voting frequently for babes).
I've read some good stories involving "Bacall" and "go down."
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo (milo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 December 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/commentary/0,6115,1569937_1472578_0_,00.html
Oscar shortlist, visual effects (3 nominees):
"Casino Royale," "Eragon," "Night at the Museum," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," "Poseidon," "Superman Returns" and "X-Men: The Last Stand."
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1972299,00.html
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
'i've never seen so many men wasted so badly.'
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Rex Reed's best and worst:
The 10 Best Films of 2006
1. Babel 2. Notes on a Scandal 3. The History Boys 4. The Painted Veil 5. The Queen 6. Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima 7. The Illusionist 8. Infamous 9. Dreamgirls 10. Volver
Honorable Mentions: Water, Scoop, Find Me Guilty, Deliver Us from Evil, The Last King of Scotland, Kinky Boots, Our Daily Bread
THE 10 WORST FILMS OF 2006
1. Borat 2. The Fountain 3. Apocalypto 4. Lucky Number Slevin 5. The Black Dahlia 6 All the King’s Men 7. Lady in the Water 8. Brick 9. Inland Empire 10. Fur
Extra hisses and boos to: The Da Vinci Code, A Prairie Home Companion, Déjà Vu, The Prestige, Rumor Has It, Freedomland, For Your Consideration, Perfume
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Yup. He sez:
I am SO happy with these nominees. I don't agree with all of them, I can't imagine anybody does, that's the nature of democracy, but I think we made some great choices, ignoring several recent disturbing trends like Dreamgirls for pic and Blood Diamond for anything. Babel had a much stronger showing than I thought it would and that makes me happy too. Seeing Brick, Children of Men, and The Fountain score their nominations is great too - they've been underepresented in critics awards so far. They deserve each and every one of them. I love the tech nods for The Fountain. A few categories, including our great choices for breakthrough performer, score, and cinematography include five of my ten (in the first round we voted ten in each category). That's cool.
And here are the Chicago Film Critics nominees (winners to be announced on Dec. 28):
BEST PICTURE Babel The Departed Little Miss Sunshine The Queen United 93
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Apocalypto Letters From Iwo Jima Pan's Labyrinth Tsotsi Volver
BEST DIRECTOR Clint Eastwood: Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears: The Queen Paul Greengrass: United 93 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: Babel Martin Scorsese: The Departed
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Babel: Guillermo Arriaga Letters From Iwo Jima: Iris Yamashita Little Miss Sunshine: Michael Arndt The Queen: Peter Morgan United 93: Paul Greengrass
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY The Departed: William Monahan Little Children: Todd Field & Tom Perrotta Notes On A Scandal: Patrick Marber A Prairie Home Companion: Garrison Keillor Thank You For Smoking: Jason Reitman
BEST ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio-The Departed Ryan Gosling-Half-Nelson Peter O'Toole-Venus Will Smith-The Pursuit of Happyness Forest Whitaker-The Last King of Scotland
BEST ACTRESS Penelope Cruz-Volver Judi Dench-Notes on a Scandal Maggie Gyllenhaal-Sherrybaby Helen Mirren-The Queen Meryl Streep-The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet-Little Children
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Ben Affleck-Hollywoodland Jackie Earle Haley-Little Children Eddie Murphy-Dreamgirls Jack Nicholson-The Departed Brad Pitt-Babel Michael Sheen-The Queen
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Adriana Barraza-Babel Cate Blanchett-Notes On A Scandal Abigail Breslin-Little Miss Sunshine Toni Collette-Little Miss Sunshine Jennifer Hudson-Dreamgirls Rinko Kikuchi-Babel
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Babel: Gustavo Santaolalla The Fountain: Clint Mansell Letters From Iwo Jima: Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens Notes On A Scandal: Philip Glass The Queen: Alexandre Desplat
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Babel: Rodrigo Prieto Children of Men: Emmanuel Lubezki The Departed: Michael Ballhaus The Fountain: Matthew Libatique Letters From Iwo Jima: Tom Stern
BEST DOCUMENTARY Deliver Us From Evil An Inconvenient Truth Jesus Camp Shut Up and Sing Wordplay
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER Ivana Baquero-Pan's Labyrinth Sacha Baron Cohen-Borat & Talladega Nights Shareeka Epps-Half-Nelson Rinko Kikuchi-Babel Keke Palmer-Akeelah and the Bee
MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR Rian Johnson-Brick Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris-Little Miss Sunshine Gil Kenan-Monster House Jason Reitman-Thank You For Smoking James McTeigue-V For Vendetta
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Gee, maybe All the King’s Men is worth a look after all.
The Painted Veil and Children of Men are getting more praise than I would've expected, but given Curran and Lubezki (resp) I guess I'm seeing both.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://filmlinc.com/fcm/poll/2006pollcritics.html
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
That top 10 isn't THAT much more middbrow than Rex Reed's! Half Nelsom, The Queen andeven Borat -- this is the magazine in which Schrader's canon was too safe for the room?
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― sean gramophone (sean gramophone), Thursday, 21 December 2006 10:42 (seventeen years ago) link
And some won't. I don't have a handle on the state of foreign-film distrib in the UK, but many of their choices on that list in past years have still never, ever been released in the US. So they most certainly are being kept from the ever more miniscule number of punters who are interested in world cinema that doesn't have an easy genre hook.
Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers (two years old) is opening in NYC next week -- he's been making features since the '60s, and I'm pretty sure this is his first commercial release in America.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link
14. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, Germany/U.S.)* 53
UH
i mean that so has a distribution deal right?
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, directors of cult movies starring Jake Gyllenhaal are much higher on the arthouse foodchain than, say, Raul Ruiz or Tsai ming-Liang.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
kelly's film will see the light of day in 1x form or another -- trimmed maybe but that's not unusual. cannes is like a test audience of rich media folk.
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Bounces back from being "only" nineteenth on the FC poll to slam into ninth-place on the IndieWire nee VV poll.
http://indiewire.com/critics2006/
Neither Departed nor Inland Empire at #1 (though the latter feel within a 10-point margin of the former, good enough for #3 and #4 respectively). The blue ribbon goes to Lazarescu ... presuming that the voting body is more or less the same as it was in the VV poll days, that has to count as the most surprising winner in the poll's history, in my opinion.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I didn't think charges of obscurity/annoyance vs Lynch would disturb the VV poll's core given their past love for the likes of Safe.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
http://ballot.indiewire.com/ballots/display_ballot/127
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Wish I had caught up with Broken Sky, I feel in my gut the DVD may not appear til summer.
I'm pleased with the high finish of Nolte in Supporting Perf, who would be my runaway choice at the moment.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/criticspicks06/movies/
I've never been a big Melville fan, but I don't remotely get the Army of Shadows mania. I recall maybe two scenes from it.
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Eric or Morbs -- seen The Painted Veil yet? It hasn't opened here yet. At present I'm deciding whether to catch The History Boys or re-screen Withnail & I; doesn't Richard Griffiths give the same perf?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
enrique might want to glance at all 200 of these:
http://ballot.indiewire.com/ballots/scores#best_undist
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo (milo), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
(ie libs are exulting that the Dems are now the party in Congress who will do nothing about Iraq)
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 22 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link