Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" has some interesting and even original moments, but it seems all so pointless. But to each his own. Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener are good.[/b]

That's the one. Apparently Amazon doesn't know about it.

That doesn't surprise me.

Relayed Deaction Dept.:



Bravo, Rod, faboo review. Thanks for linking it, Marilyn.

Amended because it hit me that if people haven't read the novel or seen the film, the notice does contain spoilers.

but it’s hard to deny McEwan’s ultimate points: that fiction often overtakes truth, and for good reason, the truth being unbearable sometimes, and fiction, a godlike art, is a tool, and sometimes the only tool, to make sense of life

"The Counterfeiters" (Austria), "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" (Brazil), "Days of Darkness" (Canada), "Beaufort" (Israel), "The Unknown" (Italy), "Mongol" (Kazakhstan), "Katyn" (Poland), "12" (Russia) and "The Trap" (Serbia)

Edited out previous tragic news, didn't seem to belong here.

What does belong perhaps is that neither 4 Months nor Persepolis , nor Edge of Heaven nor The Orphanage, made the cut for Foreign Language film:

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/01/oscars-unveil-9.html

Rob Harvilla of the Village Voice on Juno:

If you've not yet had the pleasure of Juno, the atrociously fey teen-pregnancy comedy currently barnstorming multiplexes and whooping up Oscar talk, by all means, have at it. It is sweet and heartwarming and winsome in its utter preposterousness. Just the fakest dialogue imaginable. Pop-culture-savvy sarcasm as suburban religion. Teenagers who talk like thirtysomething screenwriters. "Cool" parents who talk like teenage screenwriters. A 16-year-old heroine who actually says things like "Just looking to secure a hasty abortion!" and "Just dealing with things way outside my maturity level!" and (grits teeth) "Swear to blog!" Just appallingly cute cute cute CUTE CUTE.

Rob Harvilla of the Village Voice on Juno:

If you've not yet had the pleasure of Juno, the atrociously fey teen-pregnancy comedy currently barnstorming multiplexes and whooping up Oscar talk, by all means, have at it. It is sweet and heartwarming and winsome in its utter preposterousness. Just the fakest dialogue imaginable. Pop-culture-savvy sarcasm as suburban religion. Teenagers who talk like thirtysomething screenwriters. "Cool" parents who talk like teenage screenwriters. A 16-year-old heroine who actually says things like "Just looking to secure a hasty abortion!" and "Just dealing with things way outside my maturity level!" and (grits teeth) "Swear to blog!" Just appallingly cute cute cute CUTE CUTE.

Edited out previous tragic news, didn't seem to belong here.

What does belong perhaps is that neither 4 Months nor Persepolis , nor Edge of Heaven nor The Orphanage, made the cut for Foreign Language film:

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2008/01/oscars-unveil-9.html

Rob Harvilla of the Village Voice on Juno:

If you've not yet had the pleasure of Juno, the atrociously fey teen-pregnancy comedy currently barnstorming multiplexes and whooping up Oscar talk, by all means, have at it. It is sweet and heartwarming and winsome in its utter preposterousness. Just the fakest dialogue imaginable. Pop-culture-savvy sarcasm as suburban religion. Teenagers who talk like thirtysomething screenwriters. "Cool" parents who talk like teenage screenwriters. A 16-year-old heroine who actually says things like "Just looking to secure a hasty abortion!" and "Just dealing with things way outside my maturity level!" and (grits teeth) "Swear to blog!" Just appallingly cute cute cute CUTE CUTE.