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Monday, January 10, 2011 at 8:23AM 
Link Almighty?
How the Link Stole Christmas?
Ace Ventura: Link Detective?
- Towleroad Jim Carrey Black Swans himself for Saturday Night Live
- In Contention is Jim Carrey on the rise again? It's a good question.
- My Life as a Blog interesting piece on great acting and how we (generally) define it. Plus more praise for Jeon Do-yeon in Secret Sunshine (2007) and that's always worth rubber-stamping.
- Cinema Blend Trent Reznor to score The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The Fincher collaboration continues.
- EW the Coen Bros pick their favorite westerns on such criteria as "good hat brims"
- Scanners best shots, opening and ending of the year
- /Film Wicked film in the works. But not the one we were waiting for, damnit.
- Brown Okinawa Assault Incident has a list of indelible fashion moments in 2010 films from The Runaways to I Am Love to Never Let Me Go. Fun/interesting.
- Roger Ebert a little more detail on the NSFC awards as well as an official statement about the MPAA and the Blue Valentine controversy and such.
- In Contention BAFTA's rising star list. Go Tom Hardy (though I wonder why he wasn't nominated last year? That's when we honored him.
Finally, you should check out StinkyLulu's 5th annual Supporting Actress Blog-a-thon if you haven't yet. Each year, Stinky's enthusiams for "actressing at the edges" provides an interesting eclectic look at a broad swath of performances from their passionate fans. The blog-a-thon often feels quite personal so I respond to it that way in turn. Thus, it was most interesting to read about roles and performances that I...
a) didn't personally care for (Patricia Clarkson in Shutter Island)
b) didn't see but am now curious about (Anne Hathaway in Valentine's Day)
c) hadn't thought twice about until the interesting write-up (Tammy Blanchard in Rabbit Hole) or
d) obsess over on account of the film.
Regarding the latter, you know I'm talking about Black Swan which as you can imagine hogs quite a bit of the blog-a-thon being an actressy effort. Mila Kunis gets more writeups than I've ever seen anyone get in these parties and Julian at Movies and Other Things made me giggle with this bit on Barbara Hershey.
She refrains from extremes, ...never dipping into Mommie Dearest-like histrionics. I don’t think she cares if Nina uses wire hangers for her clothes...
Hee. True enough, Julian. But she sure does care if Nina eats cake. "WELL, IT'S GARBAGE NOW!"
BAFTA, Black Swan, Costume Design, Jeon Do-yeon, Jim Carrey, Wicked
Reader Comments (17)
I'm so glad we're going to have THE CLASS OF 2010 SUPPORTING ACTRESS...I was so sorry because I had understood that StinkyLulu was eager to give up. I'm so glad I was wrong...
Mirko, from my understanding it's just a one shot. I don't think StinkyLulu is back.
Jeon Do-yeon is so good in Secret Sunshine. Always glad to see her name. Especially when family name comes first. That's thoughtful.
Off-Topic:
Nathaniel, I just want to say: I ADORE the new design of your website! "Biutiful!" Love it!
Eternal Sunshine of the Linkless Mind?
I'm glad you noted the pleasure of reading impassioned essays on performances you don't really care for (and not just because I wrote the Clarkson piece you linked to). That's one of the things that provides me the most enjoyment in StinkyLulu's annual endeavor too. They may not change my mind, but I love getting that completely different perspective.
hi nat
saw black swan last night.
portman is os winning the oscar though i prefer annette,wasn't blown away by kunis or hershey but felf hershey had more of an arc,she was protecting nina i though not hindering and smothering her,i loved cassell and his final scene with portman,ryder ha dnothing to do although the last scene i had to look away.
my fave supporting performance this yea so far is anne marie duff in nowhere boy.
great new look by the way.
anthony dc -- yay. I was wondering if anyone would play.
mark -- thanks. I like the whole cast but if any movie this year is focused on ONE character, isn't it this one? that's why that SAG nom is so weird though not totally unwarranted.
dan -- right. that's exactly it. and this is why i deplore the recent all-or-nothing fascism of online movie culture. It's totally interested to read differeing opinions. It doesn't hurt the movie or performance you love if someone doesn't love it as much as you.
despite reading *five* (thought provoking and well written) Mila Kunis defenses, I still can't get on that bandwagon
Nate, will you be importing pre-2008 FB Awards onto the site? Looking at the Blogathon, I saw a piece on Margo Martindale from Paris Je T'aime (one of my favorite scenes ever and the only thing I remember from that movie) and got to wondering how she did in the limited or cameo category back in 2007.
ryan -- i'm with you there. i think she's plenty "good" in the film and if i were a director i'd definitely want to cast her in something and see how much better she's going to get. But that's not the same thing as deserving a nomination. (see also: Hailee Steinfeld only far less so)
evan -- i'm speaking to squarespace (the site host) about it. Currently they only allow a certain number of pulldowns within pulldowns (complicated web stuff) so for now I am just planning a commemorative book compiling it all. I need to earn some money anyway to keep going so that might be my best option and yours to have the back catalogue.
Although I championed a BSA performance this year that will likely go unnoticed by Academy voters – Maria Tomei in Cyrus; I actually haven’t seen the movie. I just love her and read all the glowing reviews of her work. The actor playing her son in the film (Jonah Hill) is the most repulsive looking actor working today. I think John C. Reilly deserves an apology. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill and that Harry Potter kid are vomit-inducing.
Kunis better not get in over jacki weaver,4 months on she is still my supporting female of the year despite my love for the not a chance in hell marisa berenson in i am love!
i love the blog/home base all in 1 place,good call nat.
Jim Carry as the Black Swan...is that a skit form In Living Color?
/3rtfu11: Jeez. The movies need fat actors too. You sound like a "physical beauty" nut. I'm an "every other part of the visual construction of a movie" nut. The awful, awful blue hues of Traffic's Michael Douglas scenes helped me along to giving it a C-. I don't care what an actor looks like, but if the film's badly lit (see: the semi-nauseating oranges of Traffic's Mexico) or performed (see: Topher Grace's awful Traffic performance that should have been Razzie nominated over Stephen Baldwin in a Flintstones movie, mostly because you don't expect a performance that bad in a so-called serious movie), or edited (see: the choppily edited and painfully obvious "you see this guy? Yeah, he's going to die" scene) I don't care how the actor's look. If there were Razzie Awards for Worst Cinematography and Editing and they went to a film other than Traffic that year, I'd be flabbergasted.
Thanks for the linkage!
And Still Team Mila all the way. I've already talked about her comic timing but she also adds her character's ambiguity to the table *ahem much more so than Nina or the latter's mother's character.
The Wicked adaptation IS the one I've been waiting for! I enjoy the musical but the book is miles ahead of it in terms of story quality... and it suits the mini-series format much better than film. Hopefully it brings the same kind of quality and production values as Red Riding.