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| marantzo |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:01 pm |
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Best Actress
Annette Benning - The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
Hilda Péter - Katalin Varga |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:14 pm |
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Documentary:
Restrepo
Sweetgrass Assuming it's eligible
Exit through the Gift Shop
Actress:
Chloe Moritz, Let Me In
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [and its sequels]
Actor:
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Jeff Bridges, True Grit |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:31 pm |
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Marc wrote: Hannah is 2/3rds of a great movie.
It sags in the middle, but Saoirse Ronan is quite good in the title role. She has a distinctive look that works for Hanna. Oddly, she looks more like Cate Blanchett than she looks like Hanna's mother. There are too many scenes of Hanna running.
Her wikipedia page has her rumored to be playing a role in The Hobbit (Elrond's grandmother, believe it or not), and playing Effie Gray, the woman with the famous unconsummated marriage to John Ruskin. She later married the artist John Everett Millais. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:37 pm |
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| Saw Hanna and quite enjoyed it without loving it. Blanchett is pretty awful in the villain role, going very cartoonish and almost robotic. Maybe this was what Joe Wright wanted, but it's very silly stuff. Ronan and Bana are fine. It's well directed but fails to make the viewer care enough about the characters. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:37 pm |
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| I saw the play "The Countess" off-Broadway about the romance between Effie Gray and Millais, which was rather good. I'm surprised a film is being made, but I'd like to see it. |
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| inlareviewer |
| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:04 pm |
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| Are Cinematography and Editing up for nominations yet? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:29 am |
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The Conspirator was a huge surprise for me. I saw it as part of the Screen Actors Guild screening series. It's not a movie I would have made time to go see otherwise, because it's directed by Robert Redford, who hasn't directed a movie I've liked at all since Ordinary People in 1980, and the star is Robin Wright (Penn), whose acting habitually puts me into a deep snooze.
What an eye-opener. This is a seriously underrated movie, a real beauty, with great direction, cinematography, and acting--particularly by Wright, who has finally dumped the jerk and his last name and come through with her best performance since The Princess Bride.
The Conspirator tells the story of Mary Surratt, the boarding house owner who was tried as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Her defense attorney is insightfully played by James McAvoy, who has the real lead in the movie, and supporting roles are handled well by Evan Rachel Wood, Danny Huston, Alexis Bledel, Colm Meaney, and--in award-worthy turns--by Tom Wilkinson and Kevin Kline.
If I was to be picky, I could say that certain scenes are overly talky. Big whoop. This is a must-see. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:16 pm |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:21 pm |
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Not a big deal, but I was trying to keep Current clear for Blanche Noms, and move Current into Couch for now, since there isn't that much Couch talk anyway.
If we ever get a Blanche forum it will be easier to copy posts over there if they are (mostly) uninterrupted by Current. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 12:39 pm |
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gromit wrote: Not a big deal, but I was trying to keep Current clear for Blanche Noms, and move Current into Couch for now, since there isn't that much Couch talk anyway.
If we ever get a Blanche forum it will be easier to copy posts over there if they are (mostly) uninterrupted by Current.
Forgot about that. Will watch my p's and q's from now on. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:46 am |
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| What is the schedule for Blanche nominations? Can someone post it? Thanks. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:06 am |
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inlareviewer wrote: Kate: Here's the last known schedule
gromit wrote: a slightly edited whiskeypriest wrote:
If there is no real interest, we can dispense with the five remaining categories, though certainly editing and cinematography deserve consideration.
Best Supporting Actor syd
Best Supporting Actress migrun
Best Actor inla
Best Actress inla
Best Director Marc
Best Picture billy
Best Adapted Screenplay moi
Best Original Screenplay moi
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Song
Best Score
Best Animation
Best Documentary gromit
Best Foreign Film ghulam
Screenplays from 4/2 - 4/5
Supportings from 4/6 - 4/9
Docs and Foreigns from 4/10 - 4/13
Leads from 4/13 - 4/17
Movie and director from 4/18 - 4/21
That should give us time to get everything in order. Provided lorne is responsive.
Tabulators to PM me
As far as I can discern from past posts, marantzo is doing Cinematography ( Syd offered to pick that up if nobody else did), there's no Editing tabulator, neither category on the schedule yet. Score, Song and the proposed add of Animation are presumably up in the air/out of the pipeline. And now I'm going to dive into my supphose, which is de rigeur before nominating Supphose Actor and Actress. Ah, the exquisite torture of Blanche-in-process, tee-hee.
Billy, I thought this was it. No dates for Cinematography, Editing, Song or Score. I don't think we have done Editing in previous years.
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:35 am |
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Cinematography:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
The Social Network
Sweetgrass
Director:
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Sweetgrass
David Fincher, The Social Network
Joel Coen, True Grit
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The King's Speech
The Social Network
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:47 am |
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In that case:
Best Actor
Michael Douglas, Solitary Man
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Best Actress
Cecile De France, Hereafter
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Lesley Manville, Another Year
Best Director
Clint Eastwood, Hereafter
Nicole Holofcener, Please Give
Mike Leigh, Another Year
Best Picture
Another Year
The Fighter
Toy Story 3 |
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