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Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 10:35AM We have to start with this exchange since Chris' love of mother! is well known.
Where the hell am I going to fit 100 sinks, Matt?
— Chris Feil (@chrisvfeil) December 5, 2017
After the jump our tweet roundup of amusements, provocations, and random movie-loving featuring Moonstruck, I Tonya, P.T. Anderson, Big Little Lies, Meryl Streep's forehead, and more...
Friday, December 8, 2017 at 6:00PM by Nathaniel R
TEN METER TOWER
This week the Academy announced the ten finalists for documentary short and the ten finalists for animated short. The Oscar charts are updated. At least 5 of those 20 are available to watch online. You've probably already seen the wonderful animated coming-out short "In a Heartbeat" that was so popular online earlier this year but it won't be the only tiny Oscar-seeker with big value. That's why the short categories are wonderful, quite often you get much artistic bang for little buck.
Will get to the animated docs later but of the ten doc short Oscar options there are four you can watch online...
Friday, December 8, 2017 at 2:30PM by Tim Brayton
Of the 26 animated features submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science for Oscar consideration last month, a respectable five – just the thinnest hair under 20% - came from Japan. Ignoring Oscar eligibility, and throwing Your Name. on the pile (it was a 2016 Oscar hopeful but its commercial U.S. release came this spring), and 2017 has been a pretty fine year for anime in the United States.
Out of all those films, I humbly submit that the best one is In This Corner of the World, director Sunao Katabuchi's adaptation of a 2007-'09 manga series by Fumiyo Kōno. It's actually the story's second cinematic incarnation: in 2011, it was adapted in live-action. I haven't seen that film, but even so, I cannot fathom how it could be anything but a pale echo of the Katabuchi film: In This Corner of the World is an extraordinary triumph of animation as a storytelling vehicle. And this is no less true just because it's telling a mostly realistic story that doesn't "need" to be animated...
Friday, December 8, 2017 at 12:00PM In this weekly feature from Murtada we follow Oscar contender appearances and interviews and examine how they impact their chances.
Much has been made in the media that the three leading contenders in Supporting Actress, Laurie Metcalf, Holly Hunter and Allison Janney, are playing mothers. So it seemed natural for them to sit down together for an interview and photoshoot...
Friday, December 8, 2017 at 10:50AM by Nathaniel R
Saoirse Ronan as Mary Stuart in "Mary Queen of Scots"
Remember when Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett were locked in battle for Best Actress 1998 with Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth? Before that famous Oscar battle was even over Gwynnie & Cate were co-stars on the set of their follow-up The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) one of those rare Oscar intendees that actually won far more fans AFTER its underperformance at the Oscars. (Usually when intended Oscar giants underperform in awards season it's because people they aren't very good and/or people just don't like them.)
19 years later we have a vaguely similar situation happening...
