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Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 12:37AM Self Styled Siren on Margaret. She has no affinity for mess.
24 Frames talks to Anna Paquin about the resurrected movie.
Roger Ebert's Journal on the Oscar lalapalooza. Very strange piece. What's going on here? Ebert seems suddenly willfully ignorant of various Oscar rules claiming, among other things, that The Artist would be ineligible for Oscars if it were in French. Uh, not so, Ebert, not so.
Towleroad new photos from Magic Mike, Soderbergh's stripper movie.
IndieWire ten shooting stars of European film, Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live in) and Alexander's little brother Bill Skarsgård.
Boy Culture Joan Crawford is not one of Rick's (Santorum) Fans! I love it.
Deja View pencil tests and the challenge of designing Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
Stale Popcorn on rejected movie posters. I'd never seen some of these. Love a rejected poster from Bugsy that prominently features Annette Bening.
We Need To Talk About Kevin McAllister...
The crazy thing is that if they wanted to go blonde for Kevin, couldn't Macaulay have worked?
Reader Comments (16)
God bless you Joan.
Yeah, Roger Ebert...when it comes to the Oscars, I just don't know anymore. His Oscar picks last year were for shit (e.g., Best Director: The Coen Brothers), and then there was another time where he quite insistently reversed the definitions of the Best Sound and the Best Sound Editing categories.
On the other hand, his essay last November, "The Sudden Death of Film"—as in actual celluloid projections in theaters—was pretty spot-on.
I love Roger Ebert, but more and more these days I wish he would let someone read over his work before he hits publish.
I think the campiness of True Blood and Paquin's reputation as a "young" Oscar winner are effecting people's opinions about her. She's a legitimate, smart actress, in my opinion, and I'm looking forward to seeing her post-True Blood career.
Elena Anaya was a shooting star back many years ago so there's something wrong with that info.
We need a lot of sense of humor to cope with people like Santorum. Thanks!
Oops! Something happened. Meant 'back in 2004'
Funny video especially if you realize that, indeed, the two Kevins are similar in a way. Boy, were those Home Alone movies violent or what?
You go through so much trouble making that trailer, and then you misspell Macaulay. Nice.
Love that trailer!
Well, Culkin in The Good Son is every bit as menacing as Kevin Khatchadourian (?)...
Besides Almodovar, I've only seen Elena Anaya in Cairo Time, and while her small role didn't "steal the show" (no one was stealing anything from Patty), she's still rather memorable.
Yeah, Macaulay basically played Kevin in The Good Son, even right down to terrorizing the little sister.
Nat: He's confused heartily. Foreign language films nominated for Best Picture: 2 French, 2 Italian, 2 Swedish, 1 Chinese, 1 Japanese. I'd say a film in a language other than English is METAPHORICALLY ineligible until shown otherwise.
I agree with Volvagia, he's saying they wouldn't have voted for it if it was in french (French cue cards with subtitles?!), but it's a bad way to get that point across.
Re: the Ebert article. Maybe I read it wrong, but I took the bit about The Artist's "ineligibility" as a quip about Oscar's general tendency to ignore foreign films (he mentions xenophobia). Might have to give it another look, though.
Well, not even that. What I meant by that was that all films primarily in a specific language is metaphorically ineligible for Best Picture until the first film in that language is nominated. Even after that point, it only upgrades to "Unfairly Unlikely." So, Russian, Romanian, Polish, Danish, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Indian, German and Japanese talent directed Japanese films (Letters from Iwo Jima was still a freaking Clint Eastwood) are at this moment metaphorically ineligible for Best Picture. Flash back fifteen years and Chinese is operating under this metaphor and Japan is being completely smothered instead of mostly as far as odds are concerned.
volvagia -- i think you mean Taiwan though. I assume you're referring to Crouching Tiger.
Steve -- he may well have meant that, you're right, but it comes across like a major error.