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Oscar Thread: Return to the Middlebrow

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On January 22, 2009
By request, a thread to discuss the nominations. I will have a couple of movie roundup posts in the near future, but I would say that after a couple years of better-than-usual Best Picture nominations, all 5 this year are all again definitively middlebrow Oscar-type...

Art and History

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On January 4, 2009

Becks asks:Can a movie present itself as historical, grossly distort the facts, and still be considered good art?Yes. Actually, I would take a position diametrically opposed to Becks's; basically, if.

Charlton Heston? Really?

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On December 27, 2008

I have never pictured Jack Aubrey as looking even vaguely like Charlton Heston, but apparently Patrick O'Brian did. I suppose that I might be more open minded about that possibility.

Such Ingratitude…

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On December 16, 2008
Dear Dave,I appreciate that Iraqi ingratitude must be grating to those who have seen friends fight and die in Iraq. I really do. The point, though, is that the Iraqis, by and large, would rather not have had 4300 Americans die on their behalf, or...

The Death of the Action Scene

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On July 29, 2008
Again, I can't say whether this is applicable to The Dark Knight, but I strongly applaud the arguments about how Bay and Tony Scott seemed to have killed the competent, intelligible action sequence. The idea that commercial-style quick cutting represents a technically competent way of...

Random Film Links

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On July 28, 2008

Self-Styled Siren on Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (and the number of great movies still unavailable on Region 1 DVD).Michael Wood on David Lean. Glen Kenney on Bresson. David Edelstein.

Pollack

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On May 27, 2008
Rest in peace. Strangely enough, I kind of preferred his acting to his direction.UPDATE (BY SL): As I think I've said before, I agree with the above (TS joins the consensus.) I especially liked his turns in Eyes Wide Shut and Husbands and Wives, with...
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