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Part 1 -best films, moldy releases, nervous mormons, and summer crushes
For the second half of this Summer Jamboree Joe Reid, Nick Davis, and Nathaniel R (c'est moi) wrap up our summers at the movies and dream of the fall ~ Forward not back!
Topics include but are not limited to:
Alex Pettyfer in Magic Mike
Princess Merida, Hawkeye or Katniss? Choose your favorite archer of 2012
Jeremy Renner in The Avengers
Movies We Hated
Sleeping through Snow White and the Huntsman despite Charlize Theron!
Adapting Cosmopolis
Did The Dark Knight Rises get away from Chris Nolan?
Movie Characters We'd Like To Introduce
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Nick's newfound love of comedy: Ted, Wanderlust, 21 Jump Street
Retro Screenings This Summer: Sorcerer, Dog Day Afternoon, and Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte
Fall Film Madness: Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Zero Dark Thirty, Zero Dark Thirty, Skyfall, The Hobbit, Flight, Amour and More...
You can download the podcast on iTunes or listen right here. Join the conversation in the comments. What's the best old movie you screened this summer? Which fall film are you most looking forward to and which two movie characters would you like to introduce?
The podcast returns for another Oscar season! I'm your host Nathaniel R and my ol' podcast mates Joe Reid & Nick Davis are joining me to discuss Summer Movie Season 2012. That's a wrap on summer so we're tying it off with our idiosyncratic messy multi-colored bows...
Amir here. The first couple of days at the festival have been so fantastic, surreal even, that I fear there’s no way to go from here but down. There’s been quite a lot of star gazing: Ryan Gosling, Snoop Dogg Lion, Selena Gomez, Abbie Cornish and the impossibly gorgeous Greta Gerwig. I also happened to run into the super lovely Ben Whishaw and most significant of all, had a one on one interview with William H. Macy for The Sessions. It was an amazing experience as Macy’s long been one of my favourite actors and to get to meet him in person was more than I could ask for. (The interview is forthcoming.)
The most unexpected of my encounters with the celebrities, however, happened at the screening of Noah Baumbach’s exquisite Frances Ha. Those of you following me on twitter have already seen my picture with the man in question but the story went as such: prior to the film, my friends and I were discussing which celebrities we most wanted to see and my pick was Ewan McGregor, who’s in town for the premiere of The Impossible; he's probably my favourite actor working today. Then, as we settle in our seats in the theatre, I look to a few rows ahead and lo and behold, McGregor – who is in no way involved with the film and is only there to see it – is sitting there, just chatting with a friend.
The Venice film festival has wrapped and with it come those winged lions and other elaborately shaped awards. The jury led by director Michael Mann named Kim Ki Duk'sPietathe best film in competition. It's a violent mother/son drama, the son being a loan shark. Kim Ki-Duk, best known stateside for spring, summer, fall, winter and spring (2003) is no stranger to the Venice Festival having won multiple prizes for 3-Iron (2004) eight years ago.
The winners...
Golden Lion (Picture)Pieta Silver Lion (Director) & Special Jury Prize (Director)there seems to be some confusion about this as Ulrich Seidl for Paradise: Faith andPaul Thomas Anderson for The Master alternate who won what in various reports Best Actress Hadass Yaron for Fill the Void Best Actor (Shared) Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master Screenplay Olivier Assasyas for Apres Mai (English Title: Something in the Air) Cinematography Daniele Cipri for E Stato Il Figlio
Best Young Actor & Best Actress
Mastroianni Award (Young Actor) Fabrizio Falco for Dormant Beauty and It Was the Son FIPRESCI Award (Competition) The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) FIPRESCI Award (Orizzonti) The Interval (Leonardo Di Contanzo)
Orizzonti Jury PrizeTango Libre (Frédéric Fonteyne) Luigi De Laurentiis Award (Best First Feature)Kuf: Mold (Ali Aydin) Orrizonti: Best FeatureThree Sisters (Wang Bing) Orizzonti Jury PrizeTango Libre (Frédéric Fonteyne) Queer LionWeight Jeon Kyu-Hwan
a few notes...
The Weight, the winner of the Queer Lion, is about a hunchback mortician and the people in his life. Here is the NSFW trailer
IndieWire has a full lengthy list of winners since there are dozens of special awards outside the jurisduction of the main jury (including some of those prizes above). Several of these films picked up additional prizes.
Nice to hear the name "Frédéric Fonteyne" again, since he hasn't been on my radar since directing the wonderful romantic drama Une Liaison Pornographique. His new film is about a woman in a tangled relationship with three men. Must See!
PSH and the great Olivier Assayas accepting their prizes
Amusingly, news reports say that Philip Seymour Hoffman flying in at the last minute, barely arrived in time to pick up the prizes on behalf of The Master and apologized for his dishevelled appearance. You mean he's been aware of it all this time?!? The double actor win reopens the whole question of Oscar campaigns again. Will they actually let both stars compete in the leading category as they should? Can The Master leap the hurdle of critical darling Oscar problems like being more "challenging" and respected than actually warmly loved? Did There Will Be Blood set the stage for another Oscar run?
I'm kind of annoyed by The Envelope's suggestion that the jury wanted to give the Golden and Silver lion and Actor honors to The Master (sweeps not being allowed at most A grade festivals, thank god). If they really thought it was the best in every category, wouldn't they have handed it the Golden Lion? Instead let's congratulate Pieta and The Master and Paradise: Faith, all three of them winners to this jury.
Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 9:00AM 
