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inlareviewer
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:36 pm Reply with quote
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Inla..........So glad to hear you rave about The Messenger.
I found it hugely rave-able -- it ought to be issued on a double-bill with The Hurt Locker, bookends on either side of a central topic. Indeed, if Up and Locker are still tied for polar-opposites-that-attracted-and-impacted-in-like-measure-of-inla-centricity favoritest 2009 fillums, The Messenger is now locked with J&J for the next slot. A powerful, honest, beautifully realized achievement.

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And love the film photos you post.........Would it be too much to ask for a shot of Morton and Foster in the kitchen scene?



Couldn't find it larger, so here's the dining room scene as a sop:


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By the way, Morton should be seen in Longford. She transitions into 4 different personalities of the same woman in that one.

Okay, another missed film to add to the Divid List. Ms. Morton, who usually sends me, utterly floored me in Messenger. Really, a Falconetti biopic beckons.




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I've decided Avatar will win Best Picture. It's just too impressive and extraordinary a film. I predict it will still be in theatres in a year.....and that people will go back again and again to see it. (I'm ready for a second viewing.)
It's certainly a front-runner, and a win wouldn't surprise me, It tied with Up in the Air from the experts on the LAT film forums as to what will win Best Picture (Crazy Bridges and Julia Streep were all-but-unanimous predix for Best Actor/Actress). Of course, it's still moot until Dawn of the Dead on Feb. 2, and thereafter. Conversely, there is a steady under-Buzz in Howleyward that, for all the massive grosses and not-like-anything-else-ness, there may be a backlash in the total membership reax, and not only because of AMPAS' historic allergy to sci-fi, or that not everyone in Industryland cottons to its length and scripting. The wild-card aspect is that, with 10 films, an 11 per cent voting plurality can swing the top prize in any direction. That puts fellow certain-to-be nominees Hurt Locker and Up, and Basterds, and Precious, and most probably nominees Star Trek , Invictus, and An Education, in real contention with 3D Goes Allegorically Visionary and Clooney Flies And Fires. Really, it's Anything Can Happen Year.


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Marc
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:22 pm Reply with quote
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Saw Crazy Heart tonight. If Jeff Bridges doesn't win a best actor Oscar for his performance, I'll eat my guitar.
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inlareviewer
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:27 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
Saw Crazy Heart tonight. If Jeff Bridges doesn't win a best actor Oscar for his performance, I'll eat my guitar.
I'd pay to see that. And if you film it, then you can win a Racso. The screener is arriving soon, am crazily heartened to see it.

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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:51 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
Saw Crazy Heart tonight. If Jeff Bridges doesn't win a best actor Oscar for his performance, I'll eat my guitar.


Don't make promises you can't keep. He may win but he has huge competition from Clooney.
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inlareviewer
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:54 pm Reply with quote
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billyweeds wrote:
Marc wrote:
Saw Crazy Heart tonight. If Jeff Bridges doesn't win a best actor Oscar for his performance, I'll eat my guitar.


Don't make promises you can't keep. He may win but he has huge competition from Clooney.
Who received the sole dissenting #1 vote in the LAT poll, Ms. Mulligan the sole non-Streep vote, and you'll be happy to know that one person put Michael S. from A Serious Man in their roster.

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Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:55 pm Reply with quote
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Don't make promises you can't keep. He may win but he has huge competition from Clooney.


Clooney has gotten his Oscar. After 4 nominations and no wins, Bridges time has come. My guitar is safe.
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billyweeds
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:05 am Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
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Don't make promises you can't keep. He may win but he has huge competition from Clooney.


Clooney has gotten his Oscar. After 4 nominations and no wins, Bridges time has come. My guitar is safe.


Clooney's Oscar was for supporting actor. I give you Jack Lemmon (Mister Roberts, Save the Tiger), Gene Hackman (The French Connection, Unforgiven) and Jack Nicholson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment) as evidence that crossover two-time winners can happen, and Clooney is a superstar.

That said, I would certainly vote for Bridges over Clooney, but for Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) over both of them.
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Marc
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:07 am Reply with quote
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Billy,

If Bridges doesn't win the best actor Oscar, I will not only eat my guitar, I will shit it out and eat it again.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:15 am Reply with quote
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If Bridges doesn't win the best actor Oscar, I will not only eat my guitar, I will shit it out and eat it again.


Paging John Waters.

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Marc
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:57 am Reply with quote
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Inla, just call me Divine.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 6:28 am Reply with quote
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i've always loved jeff bridgess don't know how to spell it but i would leave my man for him, LOL
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Befade
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:53 pm Reply with quote
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Wade........you obviously haven't seen Crazy Heart yet.......where Bridges bares his chest....

I really liked seeing Colin Farrell playing back-up as the younger singer Bridges had mentored......and gone on to fame. Maggie G. bothered me. I wanted her to wipe that ever-present smile off her face. Her attraction to Bridges' character seemed unlikely to me. And she has a quippy doll face on a worm's body. (how do you spell quippy) koopy Crying or Very sad

Thanks, Inla.........who is Falconetti?

Best Actor will be interesting. I really liked Michael Stuhlbarg.......I can't see him winning though.

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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:08 pm Reply with quote
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Michael Stuhlbarg has zero chance of winning and very little chance of a nomination. But his performance is beyond exemplary.

Maggie Gyllenhaal seems to push people's buttons, always the mark of a true star. I think she's amazing, but you're not the first person I know to react negatively to her overall vibe. What it is that galls folks about her is a complete mystery to me. In movie after movie from Secretary to Happy Endings to The Great New Wonderful to Crazy Heart, she has given superb performances that either thrill or annoy people depending on their emotional makeup. Again, to me this means she's a star.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:11 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:
Inla, just call me Divine.
I smell deep, dark trouble.

ehle64 wrote:
i've always loved jeff bridgess don't know how to spell it but i would leave my man for him, LOL
LOL. At least you have one to leave. See below.

Befade wrote:
Wade........you obviously haven't seen Crazy Heart yet.......where Bridges bares his chest....

I really liked seeing Colin Farrell playing back-up as the younger singer Bridges had mentored......and gone on to fame. Maggie G. bothered me. I wanted her to wipe that ever-present smile off her face. Her attraction to Bridges' character seemed unlikely to me. And she has a quippy doll face on a worm's body. (how do you spell quippy) koopy Crying or Very sad
Kewpie. As for Jake's Sister, see below.

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Thanks, Inla.........who is Falconetti?
Renee Maria Falconetti, who inhabited the title role in Carl Dreyer's immortal The Passion of Joan of Arc, and never recovered, to put it mildly. Her story is prime biopic fodder on a par with Piaf/La Vie en Rose. and Ms. Morton eerily suggests her visage and emotional depth.

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Best Actor will be interesting. I really liked Michael Stuhlbarg.......I can't see him winning though.
Not having seen it yet, cannot comment on the quality of performance, but, having way too much in-house input from colleagues, AMPASites, Industry sources and my own uncanny ability to give more credence to Hollywood's Super Bowl than anybody ought, he's beyond Long Shot for even a nod. It would require extraterrestrial intervention.

billyweeds wrote:
Michael Stuhlbarg has zero chance of winning and very little chance of a nomination. But his performance is beyond exemplary.

Maggie Gyllenhaal seems to push people's buttons, always the mark of a true star. I think she's amazing, but you're not the first person I know to react negatively to her overall vibe. What it is that galls folks about her is a complete mystery to me. In movie after movie from Secretary to Happy Endings to The Great New Wonderful to Crazy Heart, she has given superb performances that either thrill or annoy people depending on their emotional makeup. Again, to me this means she's a star.
She's certainly a Player. Were this the 30s or 40s, she'd be Sylvia Sidney or Teresa Wright or sump'n. As much as her character in Away We Go made me want to hurl, my reaction seemed testament to how thoroughly committed to the idiocy she was. Her on-stage work as The Homebody's daughter out here only got richer and more complex, from a shaky but determined opening night to a breathtaking closing matinee (at which her final curtain call response almost rivaled the cacophony for La Emond's title character, no mean feat). My guess is the chirpy voice and baby face puts a lot of people off, and she hasn't yet had a Star Role (as opposed to Oscar Bait Role) to top Secretary as far as I have seen. Am quite fond of her all the same.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal was totally wonderful in Crazy Heart. She's an actress that can look plain one minute and beautiful the next. I can't think of a single
Gyllenhaal performance that fell flat.
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