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| billyweeds |
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Speaking of nominees, I was wondering whether...
...since the Oscar list has doubled...
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:04 pm |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:12 pm |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 5:24 pm |
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Thought Avatar utterly astounding of execution, patently sincere of message-mongering, relatively tolerable of hackney and roughly 20 minutes longer than my posterior felt necessary.
Am down with extending the Blanche Best Picture nomination slate, if a quorum of Third Eyesters find it advisable.
At last saw A Serious Man (finally realized why I missed it in cinema -- it opened on the golden natal annum, ensuing depression distracted me). Appreciated it, albeit in the context of its own Judaically particularized, quantum-mechanical, whoopsie-doopsy terms. It's certainly the Bros. Coen's most personally informed, intellectually layered film to date, easily the least bloody/twisted in its dark humor, the Yiddische deadpan of the dybbuk-ridden prologue and outright wink of the final embedded credit line notwithstanding. Michael Stuhlbarg gives a beautifully sustained, unshowily internalized performance as Job surrogate Larry, and joins the stuffed queue presently jockeying for Master Thespian as Blanche approaches. Was duly fascinated by the Woody Allen-goes-Philip Roth-in-Schrödinger’s Catbox thrust of the screenplay -- the Columbia Records Club business was, alas, all too recognizable -- and the many sly visual parallels, keenly assisted by pseudonymic editor Roderick Jaynes. Estimable work by the largely uncelebrated cast: Richard Kind can do enervated eccentric in his sleep, yet he seemed convincingly febrile here; Fred Melamed made me chuckle aloud at his het-Ginsbergly pomposity as Sy Abelman; and so forth -- a special treat to see local fave Alan Mandell in his climactic cameo as fabled Rabbi Marshak, while Aaron Wolf as pot-smoking, bully-stalked, bar mitzvah-bound Danny nearly outstripped Seth Green's mini-Woody personification in Radio Days. Quietly impressive technical elements all around, seamless period evocation, Roger Deakins continues one of the best cinematographers on the planet. However, and perhaps it's my current surfeit of quirkiness, I didn't embrace it so much as admire it, intrigued but only sporadically affected, even if the deceptively abrupt ending had a full-circle ironic tug. Withal, as a piece of mature cinematic craftmanship, it's a kind of milestone for the Bros. Coen. If not now, then when? Won't you find somebody to love?
Next up: Crazy Heart, Last Station and Broken Embraces (if the screeners arrive), Mr. Fox and A Single Man (if newly arisen existential issues-swamped schedule permits), and the Documentary Filmmaker insists that I see Dr. Parnassus in a theeyaytur, so who knows? It's always like this.
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:21 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Speaking of nominees, I was wondering whether...
...since the Oscar list has doubled...
...we could increase our initial listing (before the final nominee list) to five or six. Discuss.
Just for Best Picture, though. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:52 pm |
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| I was totally immersed in Colin Firth today. What a view into the emotions of a man going through grief! More later. A Simple Man |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:55 pm |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:46 am |
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| Joe Vitus |
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Befade wrote: I was totally immersed in Colin Firth today. What a view into the emotions of a man going through grief! More later. A Simple Man
Is that a biopic on W.? |
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| Joe Vitus |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:39 pm |
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It was A Simple Poster
Someday I'll return and with full alertness give Colin Firth all the props he is due.
Quote: the golden natal annum, ensuing depression
Inla...........if you mean what I think you mean.......Listen: 50 is young! |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:49 pm |
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Befade wrote: It was A Simple Poster
Someday I'll return and with full alertness give Colin Firth all the props he is due.
Befade wrote: Quote: the golden natal annum, ensuing depression
Inla...........if you mean what I think you mean.......Listen: 50 is young! |
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| carrobin |
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