Didn't see the ceremony. Glad to see No Country win Best Picture; it wasn't my very favorite picture of the year, but as I said last year it's again the best movie to win Best Picture since Annie Hall, and the class this year was...
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Maybe we're tired of the picking apart of Knocked Up, 4 Months, and Juno, and the search for messages about abortion in the films.But, just in case, Howard Wasserman at.
Like a moth to the flame, I followed Scott's Paglia link, finding this:A quite different film that I've recently enjoyed re-seeing and studying is "Revenge of the Sith" (2005) from.
Noted without comment:When asked if there are any movies she's seen and thought she could have done, Paris [Hilton] pauses for a long while and says, "I love the movie Juno." Wow. Can you even imagine?
To echo what Manohla Dargis, Glenn Kenney, Noy Thrupkaew and countless others have said, I really can't recommend the extraordinary Romanian picture 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days strongly.
One commenter was upset about the exclusion of Lust, Caution from the Oscars. Depite being an Ang Lee fan, I'm not really too upset. It's a very good picture, but.
Maybe I'm forgetting something, but relative to the quality of the year I would be surprised if this isn't the best selection of best picture nominees of my lifetime. Granted, it's marred by Schnabel relegated to a Best Director nomination while Atonement takes Diving Bell's...
Clicking through Orr's top-10 list I saw his review of Guy Ritchie's Revolver. I didn't really investigate it other than skimming what seems to be the charitably lukewarm NYT review;.
The first two hours of There Will Be Blood are unassailably outstanding; if you don't think it's one of the best American pictures of recent years I don't know what.
So, unlike my compatriots, I'm keeping my political endorsements mum for now (though it's safe to say that I won't be supporting Hillary). But I do have a film endorsement. Tonight, I skipped out on Iowa caucus coverage and went to see There Will be...
I see in this excellent Meghan O'Rourke article [via MY] that Katherine Heigl had (correctly) called Knocked Up "a little sexist." The film makes an interesting contrast with Juno. The.
It's not at all unusual for me to change my opinions of Coen brothers' films on repeated viewings; I like The Big Lebowski and Intolerable Cruelty more each time I.