January 2012
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“Best Supporting Actor nominee Kenneth Branagh now has five nominations in five...”
– plenty more useful/less oscar 2012 factoids where that came from
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Watch‘Finding His Voice’, a short film from 1929 on the introduction of sound in movies.
(via @TheAtlantic)
dykefm:
yep.
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'Tinker Tailor: A Guide for the Perplexed' →
I often find the most interesting kind of film writing is that which examines films I don’t particularly like. David Bordwell’s masterful analysis of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’s extremely subtle narrative hints is one such example. Well worth a read.
Newsweek: somerset: so-treu: larepublicadedet:... →
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Amen, Charlize.
If folk watch the video - Viola Davis’ point was not about being hot or not, was not about comparing her looks to Halle Berry. It was about (as she said if Theron hadn’t have interrupted her and…
An important discussion here on Hollywood and race/beauty standards.
Miranda July Called Before Congress To Explain... →
“Please, Ms. July, we’re just trying to understand!” an exasperated Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said at one point during the hearing when July dumped out a large shoe box full of buttons of various sizes and colors onto the Senate floor and began sorting them.
And Now, Our Andy Serkis GIF Works!
vanityfair:
Ok, phew, so:
Studios mail us a lot of stuff to consider their movies during pre-nominations Oscar campaigns—not to mention all the ads they take out in the trades, like this hologram, for the consideration of Andy Serkis’s performance in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. And so, to truly consider, we ploughed through a pile junk—ferreting out the good, the bad, and the downright...
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Tarantino's Top 11 of 2011. →
What a beige list.
Beyond the Frame: Jim Jarmusch's Golden Rlues →
directingfilm:
Rule #1: There are no rules. There are as many ways to make a film as there are potential filmmakers. It’s an open form. Anyway, I would personally never presume to tell anyone else what to do or how to do anything. To me that’s like telling someone else what their religious beliefs should be. Fuck that. That’s against my personal philosophy—more of a code than a set of “rules.”...
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“Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is the famed site where silver-screen stars such...”
– Hollywood today, folks.
