Reader Spotlight: Sergio
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 4:49PM 
Oopsie. We missed a week of our series of mini reader profiles. We're getting to know other members of The Film Experience community.
Today we're talking to Sergio from Guatemala who has been a very welcome consistent contributor to our HMWYBS party on his tumblr "Awww, The Movies ♥". Check that out.
Nathaniel: Do you remember your first movie or first movie obsession?
SERGIO: The first time I went to the movies, it was with my father and sister. It was a strange/random act from my father, because we were going somewhere else, I was 10 years old and I had never been to the movies! The movie? Nothing relevant, but I was captivated by the experience. Two years later I started to skip events at school to go to the movies by myself.
Uh-oh. Okay, when did you start reading the film experience?
It was around 2004/2005. I even have an e-mail that I sent to myself (lame, I know!) in which I copied the site's address, like a prehistoric bookmark, although in those years I just read the Oscar Predictions. Later, I discovered the blog and I blame Nicole Kidman and my Moulin Rouge's obsession, they were the reason why I came back and found myself immersed.
First question Part 2: Yes, Moulin Rouge! was my first movie obsession.
Nicole & Baz are Moulin Rouge! WinnersWhat is your favorite film genre and why?
I know technically it’s not a genre, but my favorite movies are from Auteur, some people consider the Auteurism like the anti-genre, but that is irrelevant in this question. I just want to say I love to watch a true original director making magic, knowing what he is doing, trusting more in his instincts than in a studio or external influences. The artists, the pioneers, the virtuosos, they are the ones who make me buy the ticket.
Your 3 favorite actresses. Go.
To make my answer easy and shorter, I'm limiting it to modern actresses. This is going to sound like a complete cliché, but I can answer the question with two words: The Hours. The cast is so amazing, a total turn-on for me. If only these three could be in the same scene. La Streep + Nicole Kidman + Julianne Moore = Heaven! They are my trinity, if they demand, I obey.
Take away one oscar and give it to someone else. Who when why?
Can I do this every year? I could easily take Forest Whitaker’s Oscar and give it to Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson; take Jim Broadbent’s for Iris and then give it to him back again for Moulin Rouge! Brokeback Mountain over Crash, duh! That was a no brainer. In my perfect dreamy world Julianne Moore would have won for “Far from Heaven” and I would agree with Nicole’s loss, because Nicole Kidman would have won the year before for MR! Meryl would have won her third Oscar for ‘Doubt’, but Kate Winslet would have won for ‘Eternal Sunshine…’ and my re-history also has a happy ending, no second Oscar to Hillary Swank.
Umm, I can't believe Glenn Close doesn’t have an Oscar yet, so I would take Jodie Foster's first Oscar and I would give it to her for Dangerous Liaisons (1988).
One does not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat.
Close wasn't only clearing her throat, she was singing opera.
Previous Reader Spotlights
the lovely ladies: Ester, Leehee, Jamie and Dominique and the gents Borja, John, Chris, Peter, Ziyad, Andrew, Yonatan, Keir, Kyle, Vinci, Victor, Bill, Hayden, Murtada, Cory, Walter, Paolo, and BBats
Reader Comments (10)
Moulin Rouge! enthusiasms warm my heart. Still. Ten years later.
How glorious was Glenn Close's one-two punch of Fatal Attraction and then Dangerous Liaisons—two fierce, iconic, and vastly different films and performances. So few actresses have Close's seamless understanding of stagecraft AND working for the camera. Just when you think she's about to go over the top, she reins it in with private, vulnerable, intimate facial work. Vanessa Redgrave and Maggie Smith come to mind.
Hayden -- that's so true of her work... at least in the 80s. i think she kind of just went over the top in the 90s but in her heyday damn she was on fire (and those two performances or so incredibly different...) Momentum means so much with Oscar so that 1988 loss still hurts. Shoulda been hers by a country mile.
especially since Susan Sarandon wasn't nominated.
Weirdly, no mention about Gwyneth Paltrow's statue. You have Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Emily Watson and Fernanda Montenegro. It's just impossible they've watched Elizabeth or Central Station and gave GOOP the Oscar...
i spy a business opportunity, nathaniel - a 2012 film experience calendar featuring your 20-something readers, 'cause damn...
I wonder who would win if we have a poll here between Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman.
Finally, someone speaks out for Ryan Gosling’s Half Nelson. I can sleep tight now.
maybe i should watch Brokeback Mountain again, because i seriously think Crash was better...
Nic - I thought was alone in this. I too think Crash was better than Brokeback Mountain. It was such a beautiful, touching, multilayered story. I know many people hated it, but I loved it, can't help it.
careful now ... perhaps we need to rebuild the Film Experience virtual Brokeback shrine, ;)
Am I being too selfish if I like this? Yes, but I really like being part of TFE community. Thanks Nat! just for the record, I didn't hate Crash, just isn't that great.