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Syd wrote: Befade wrote: I liked A Separation. Did not like Salesman. And was disappointed by A Hero. But there are other Iranian film makers I like: Abbas Kiarostami for Taste of Cherry, Certified Copy, and especially Like Someone in Love. Also, Jafar Panahi for This is not a Film, Taxi, and 3 Faces.
But I really love "The Past" (and "A Separation" which is my choice for the best movie of the last fifteen years). I was disappointed by "The Salesman" too.
I was heavily into Iranian films ten or fifteen years ago, and should probably go back. They're one of the great national cinemas, not least because of the courage of their filmmakers.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:22 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:22 pm |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:30 pm |
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| LMFAO. And I'm oddly disappointed that Ethan did not actually write this himself. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2022 3:05 am |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:26 am |
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Confession: I am facing my truth. I don’t like Shakespeare. I don’t get Shakespeare. I don’t like Shakespeare movies. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I guess I don’t care. Funny thing. I saw MacBeth today. I was bored, impatient for it to end. The movie I saw right before was Sundown. The few people who left after were saying “What a waste of time and money. What was that about?” That’s what I would have said after MacBeth. But Sundown was my kind of movie. Very little talking. A focus on one character, Tim Roth, who is an enigma.
The 2 movies had some of the same ingredients: death and violence and family upheavals. But Sundown had a message that you had to work to uncover. And that’s the kind of work I like. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:34 pm |
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,
as many of your players do, I had as lief the
town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air
too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;
for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget
a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who
for the most part are capable of nothing but
inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such
a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it
out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it... |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 11:29 pm |
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| Yikes😮 Was that Bart criticizing me…..or Shakespeare? |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 8:47 am |
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| Clearly it was Shakespearean possession. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 8:50 am |
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Best Picture
“Belfast” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers
“CODA” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers
“Don’t Look Up” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers
“Drive My Car” Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer
“Dune” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers
“King Richard” Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers
“Licorice Pizza” Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
“Nightmare Alley” Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers
“The Power of the Dog” Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers
“West Side Story” Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers
Best Director
“Belfast” Kenneth Branagh
“Drive My Car” Ryusuke Hamaguchi
“Licorice Pizza” Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Power of the Dog” Jane Campion
“West Side Story” Steven Spielberg
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”
Olivia Colman in “The Lost Daughter”
Penélope Cruz in “Parallel Mothers”
Nicole Kidman in “Being the Ricardos”
Kristen Stewart in “Spencer”
Best Actor
Javier Bardem in “Being the Ricardos”
Benedict Cumberbatch in “The Power of the Dog”
Andrew Garfield in “tick, tick…BOOM!”
Will Smith in “King Richard”
Denzel Washington in “The Tragedy of Macbeth”
Best Supporting Actress
Jessie Buckley in “The Lost Daughter”
Ariana DeBose in “West Side Story”
Judi Dench in “Belfast”
Kirsten Dunst in “The Power of the Dog”
Aunjanue Ellis in “King Richard”
Best Supporting Actor
Ciarán Hinds in “Belfast”
Troy Kotsur in “CODA”
Jesse Plemons in “The Power of the Dog”
J.K. Simmons in “Being the Ricardos”
Kodi Smit-McPhee in “The Power of the Dog”
Best Adapted Screenplay
“CODA” Screenplay by Siân Heder
“Drive My Car” Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
“Dune” Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
“The Lost Daughter” Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
“The Power of the Dog” Written by Jane Campion
Best Original Screenplay
“Belfast” Written by Kenneth Branagh
“Don’t Look Up” Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
“King Richard” Written by Zach Baylin
“Licorice Pizza” Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Worst Person in the World” Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Best Cinematography
“Dune” Greig Fraser
“Nightmare Alley” Dan Laustsen
“The Power of the Dog” Ari Wegner
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” Bruno Delbonnel
“West Side Story” Janusz Kaminski
Best Costume Design
“Cruella” Jenny Beavan
“Cyrano” Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran
“Dune” Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan
“Nightmare Alley” Luis Sequeira
“West Side Story” Paul Tazewell
Best Film Editing
“Don’t Look Up” Hank Corwin
“Dune” Joe Walker
“King Richard” Pamela Martin
“The Power of the Dog” Peter Sciberras
“tick, tick…BOOM!” Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Coming 2 America” Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer
“Cruella” Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon
“Dune” Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh
“House of Gucci” Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras
Best Original Score
“Don’t Look Up” Nicholas Britell
“Dune” Hans Zimmer
“Encanto” Germaine Franco
“Parallel Mothers” Alberto Iglesias
“The Power of the Dog” Jonny Greenwood
Best Original Song
“Be Alive” from “King Richard”
Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”
Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down To Joy” from “Belfast”
Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
“No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell
“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days”
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Best Production Design
“Dune” Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
“Nightmare Alley” Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
“The Power of the Dog” Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
“West Side Story” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo
Best Sound
“Belfast” Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri
“Dune” Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett
“No Time to Die” Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor
“The Power of the Dog” Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb
“West Side Story” Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy
Best Visual Effects
“Dune” Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer
“Free Guy” Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick
“No Time to Die” Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick
Best International Feature
“Drive My Car” Japan
“Flee” Denmark
“The Hand of God” Italy
“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” Bhutan
“The Worst Person in the World” Norway
Best Animated Feature
“Encanto” Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer
“Flee” Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
“Luca” Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren
“The Mitchells vs. the Machines” Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht
“Raya and the Last Dragon” Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho
Best Animated Short
“Affairs of the Art” Joanna Quinn and Les Mills
“Bestia” Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz
“Boxballet” Anton Dyakov
“Robin Robin” Dan Ojari and Mikey Please
“The Windshield Wiper” Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez
Best Documentary Feature
“Ascension” Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell
“Attica” Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry
“Flee” Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie
“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein
“Writing with Fire” Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh
Best Documentary Short
“Audible” Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean
“Lead Me Home” Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk
“The Queen of Basketball” Ben Proudfoot
“Three Songs for Benazir” Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei
“When We Were Bullies” Jay Rosenblatt
Best Live Action Short
“Ala Kachuu – Take and Run” Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger
“The Dress” Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki
“The Long Goodbye” Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed
“On My Mind” Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson
“Please Hold” K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:12 am |
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The most important news day of the year is here! The Oscar nominations have been announced!
Kidding aside, the nominations are just as pitiful as usual, with worthy people being snubbed and unworthy ones being honored. My choice for most unworthy is Nicole Kidman, who was nominated for her embarrassingly bad imitation of "Lucy Ricardo" in "Being the Ricardos." Kidman was marginally better at acting the role of "Lucille Ball" offscreen, but her attempts at doing the Ball sitcom persona were cringeworthy, not award-worthy.
Slightly better but still not worthy of nomination was her co-star Javier Bardem. A fine actor in roles commensurate with his talent, Bardem was stuck with a more or less thankless job as
Desi Arnaz. His imitation of "Ricky" was certainly far better than Kidman's "Lucy," but Oscar time? No way.
The Best Picture list did include my three favorite films of the year: "West Side Story," "The Power of the Dog," and "Don't Look Up." So that's something. Unfortunately "House of Gucci," a wildly entertaining epic, was left off.
Meanwhile, Lady Gaga was shut out for her bravura turn in "House of Gucci."
Nicolas Cage got no love for what is arguably his career peak in "Pig." Nor did Adam Driver for either of his great performances in "Gucci" and "Annette."
There were plusses. Kristen Stewart did get a nod for "Spencer," almost a surprise after she was dismissed by the dumbass SAG nominators and the BAFTA jerks. Jesse Plemons got a nom for supporting actor in "The Power of the Dog," meaning all four lead performers were recognized. Good!
The Oscars are idiotic but I keep watching. It 's an addiction for which there seems to be no cure. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 10:15 am |
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Finally saw the vaunted Kenneth Branagh "Belfast." It's been raved about at length by most and sundry. A nice movie that doesn't pull manipulatively at one's heartstrings, but I wish it had just a little bit more. Beautifully shot, well directed, well acted, it's just not all that. And the Van Morrison songs don't fit well at all IMO. Not the masterpiece people are proclaiming, not by a long shot. But, as I said, a nice movie.
Oh, and Jude Hill, the eleven-year-old lad who plays the leading role, is amazing. |
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Befade wrote: Yikes😮 Was that Bart criticizing me…..or Shakespeare?
Methinks the Bard was humorously criticizing his own business. I thought Hamlet's remarks dovetailed well with your reaction to Macbeth (which hasn't reached Stixville yet), and posted on that basis. Will report back when I've seen brother Joel's solo project. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:37 am |
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What Weeds said about Belfast. Nice but no cigar.
No idea what Licorice Pizza or Nightmare Alley are doing on a best pic list, they both looked skippable to me, so I did. Was I wrong to do so? Did anyone think these were standouts?
Though I didn't like Gucci as much as some, I agree some great perfs from Driver and Gaga, and it was great fun as an OTT trash-tacular where the facts are of little importance. But Leto's "Super Mario" rendition would keep it off a best list, for me. |
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bartist wrote: What Weeds said about Belfast. Nice but no cigar.
No idea what Licorice Pizza or Nightmare Alley are doing on a best pic list, they both looked skippable to me, so I did. Was I wrong to do so? Did anyone think these were standouts?
Though I didn't like Gucci as much as some, I agree some great perfs from Driver and Gaga, and it was great fun as an OTT trash-tacular where the facts are of little importance. But Leto's "Super Mario" rendition would keep it off a best list, for me.
Agree that Leto's performance was almost unwatchable, but everything else was so enjoyable that in the long run it didn't matter to me.
And my good friend Roberto Bentivegna's screenplay was terrific. I didn't post my opinion of Leto on Facebook bc I didn't want to rain on Bentivegna's parade at all. But Jared was horrific. |
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