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Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 9:13PM 
Fandor Sheila O'Malley on Melissa Leo's career and her ship coming in.
Movie|Line 5 Ways The Social Network can reclaim its Oscar mojo.
Observations on Film Art Facial acting "less with the eyebrows" in The Social Network.
Playbill Actress Jane Lynch releasing a memoir in the fall. Fun.Vulture Harvey Weinstein's canny talking points to win The King's Speech votes. Not to be an ass but should anyone really hold up John Travolta as a taste-maker with a straight face? Yes, that filmography sure shows hisimpeccable taste in movies!
Movie | Line Sundance 11's Most Likely to Succeed
Self-Styled Siren "For the Love of Film Noir" blog-a-thon and restoration fundraiser in mid February
AV Club asks if they'd ever really give Banksy the doc Oscar for a heavily fictional oddity like Exit Through the Gift Shop
Pop Matters - Interesting piece on the fallible businees of naming "bests" and awardage in general.
We don’t sort art, it sorts us. Which piece of art tops the list says less about the quality of the art than who made the list. The shiny statuettes are shaped like human beings, because they signify the very human process by which they are awarded.
Finally, JA at MY NEW PLAID PANTS has begun to announce his annual Golden Trousers honors which includes "moments of awesomeness" like this one from Sofia Coppola's Somewhere...
My favorite part of SOMEWHERE
They're always good wacky fun to be had peering into JA's inimitable fever-addled brain.
Reader Comments (5)
The Movieline article gave me hope that all is not yet lost for The Social Network. If the switch from The Social Network to The King's Speech can happen so fast, can it not happen again between now and when voting is done (despite the fact that there are really no more major precursor awards left)? I really hope so. Not that I didn't enjoy The King's Speech but I think that Fincher, Aronofsky and Russell (to a lesser extent) made the films they'll be remembered for this year and it's a shame they'll all get passed over for the well done, but forgettable crowd pleaser.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/oscar-harvey-weinstein-qa-on-the-race/
It's funny when Harvey Weinstein talks wonders of "How Green Was My Valley" and compares the movie with TKS, isn't that the movie that won over The Maltese Falcon, Suspicion AND Citizen Kane? Is he trying to say that he knows that TKS will be an undeserving winner ??
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Just don't look too closely when staring into my brain. It burrrrrrrrns. ;) Thank you kindly for the linkage. I can't tell you how much I loved the strippers in Somewhere. I sat up whenever they were on-screen (and since I think we know how gay I am it wasn't for prurient reasons). Their scenes were really really funny, but I thought Sofia managed to not just point and laugh at the girls but humanize them some too at the same time. When they're on the floor packing up their stirpper poles! Gah. Somewhere didn't entirely gel together the way I'd hoped but it has a lot of individual things that I loved - I've got a big one I'm writing about tomorrow. Anyway thanks again, Nat!
Changing the conversation: while watching Somewhere I thought to myself 'Sofia Coppola listens to Amerie?'
Thanks for the Melissa Leo appreciation - I confess to being one of those people who had never heard of her before "Frozen River" last year.