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Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 07:51:37

Independent Spirit Award Nominations

Apologies.  I was away yesterday.

2007 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS

(BY CATEGORY)
BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
American Gun
The Dead Girl
Half Nelson
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
Day Night Day Night
Man Push Cart
The Motel
Sweet Land
Wristcutters: A Love Story

BEST DIRECTOR
Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson
Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl
Steven Soderbergh, Bubble

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
(Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)
Chalk
Four Eyed Monsters
Old Joy
Quinceañera
Twelve and Holding

BEST SCREENPLAY
Neil Burger, The Illusionist
Nicole Holofcener, Friends with Money
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking
Jeff Stanzler, Sorry, Haters

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson
Goran Dukic, Wristcutters: A Love Story
Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Gabrielle Zevin, Conversations with Other Women

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration
Elizabeth Reaser, Sweet Land
Michelle Williams, Land of Plenty
Robin Wright Penn, Sorry, Haters

BEST MALE LEAD
Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Edward Norton, The Painted Veil
Ahmad Razvi, Man Push Cart
Forest Whitaker, American Gun

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Melonie Diaz, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Marcia Gay Harden, American Gun
Mary Beth Hurt, The Dead Girl
Frances McDormand, Friends with Money
Amber Tamblyn, Stephanie Daley

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Raymond J. Barry, Steel City
Daniel Craig, Infamous
Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
Channing Tatum, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Four Eyed Monsters
Brothers of the Head
Pan's Labyrinth
Wild Tigers I Have Known
Man Push Cart

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
A Lion in the House
My Country, My Country
The Road to Guantanamo
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
You're Gonna Miss Me

BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
12:08 East of Bucharest
(Romania)

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
(Philippines)

Chronicle of an Escape
(Argentina)

Days of Glory
(France/Morocco/Algeria/Belgium)

The Lives of Others
(Germany)

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Monday, November 27, 2006 - 13:54:15

   December 15th at Market Street Cinema according to the main blog.. 

This film is really doing well with the critics.  It has a 94% Cream of the Crop rating from rottentomatoes.com.  There are very positive reviews from Stephen Holden of The New York Times, Lael Lowenstein of the LA Times, Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times,  Richard Roeper, Joe Morganstern of the Wall Street Journal and Lou Leminick of The New York Post among others.

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 17:25:37

More and more

I saw For Your Consideration this weekend as well as Deja Vu.  While I enjoyed the latest from Christopher Guest, I didn't find the film nearly as funny or nearly as interesting as much of his previous work (A Mighty Wind excluded, perhaps).  I don't know what it was, because I expected the film to be very funny.  Maybe that was the problem.  Guest, himself playing a director of a very bad film with Oscar buzz is good and so is Catherine O'Hara, but the rest of the troupe doesn't seem to find it.  Too much time is spent acting out this terrible movie (first titled Home for Purim and later re-written as Home for Thanksgiving so as to appeal to mainstream Oscar voters) and not enough time is spent in the doucmentary-styled testimonials which have made Guest's films so funny in the past.  Don't count out O'Hara for a best supporting nod, but don't necessarily count her in either.

Deja Vu was a two hour joy ride with Denzel Washington.  The film is fun and it makes you think.  It's out there, but the concept is purely original.  Washington re-teams with Tony Scott.  The two previously made Man on Fire.  If you enjoyed that film, I think you will enjoy this one.

Oh, and I still think David Denby's commentary on Bobby in the New Yorker is way off base. 

. . . Robert Kennedy was fascinating, yet there’s something peculiarly naïve and even desperate about clinging to the tentative possibilities that he held out as the quality of hope that has eluded us for almost forty years.

The guy just doesn't get it. 

 

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Garrison Keillor on Robert Altman

This is a must read for Altman fans. 

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Saturday, November 25, 2006 - 11:13:20

'Marie Antionette'

Daniel Mendelsohn writes about this film in The New York Review of Books. 

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USA Today's Oscar 8 Ball

Check out this story in USA Today about the Oscar race. 

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Catching up

After an eventful three days of Thanksgiving, I am slowly recovering from too much food and a tough Razorback loss.  I saw Bobby on Thursday and I thought it was a very good film.  I'm off to see For Your Consideration today at noon and then I'll wind down with the Notre Dame - USC football game tonight.

I caught up with some friends over the holidays.  They offered their thoughts on Little Children (very good), Copying Beethoven (just ok), and Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (not good). 

 

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Robert Altman

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Sadness

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What's in your queue?

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'Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix'

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NY Times, LA Times applaud 'The History Boys'

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Another good review for 'Come Early Morning'

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Memo to David Denby: A.O. Scott gets it

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'The History Boys'

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'Bobby'

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Interview with Alfonso Cuaron

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Chat with Maggie Gyllenhaal

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'Dreamgirls' on Oprah

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'The Queen'

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Wong Kar-Wai

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Catching up

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Lots of 007 on NPR

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Will prejudice strike twice?

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Responding to comments

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P. Martin likes 'Casino Royale,' 'The Queen'

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'Fast Food Nation' reviewed

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'The Queen' reviewed

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'Casino Royale' reviewed

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'Shortbus' is also here

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Opening this weekend

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'Dreamgirls' opens

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'Letters from Iwo Jima' eligible

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Finalists for Best Documentary

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'Bobby': A labor or love

Posted by BSR at 06:55 AM 11/14/06 | Permalink | comments

Tom O'Neil speculates on 'Globe' frontrunners

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On 'Marie Antionette'

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Christian Bale

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More on 'Casino Royale'

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Catching up with P. Martin and others

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'Casino Royale' hits theatres Friday

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Entertainment Weekly's Holiday Movie Preview

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Philip Noyce on "The Treatment"

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Penelope Cruz on NPR

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Jack Palance died

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New York Times Magazine: The Movie Issue

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Steven Soderberg's 'The Good German'

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More on Joey Lauren Adams

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The boys from 'Borat'

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Oscarwatch.com predictions forum

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LA Times "Buzzmeter"

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'Come Early Morning' reviewed

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First Haggard, now this

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'A Good Year' reviewed

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'Babel' reviewed

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'Stranger than Fiction' reviewed

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Q & A with Harvey Weinstein

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Friday

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'Borat' seriously?

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Writers on film

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More screeners

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Sleepers?

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Richard Ford, Miller Williams

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I missed

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Carpetbagger is back

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Worldplay

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What's in your queue?

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It's fitting

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'The Queen'

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Didn't want you to miss it

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Emma Thompson talks

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Come Early Morning

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Brief Q & A with Ashley Judd

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Cate Blanchett

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Box Office

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Holiday movies

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Responding to comments

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Election Day is Tuesday

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More Kate Winslet

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Tom O'Neil outlines Top 10 for Best Picture

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Movies unseen

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'Catch a Fire'

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Opening today

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Slate has more on 'Borat'

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Political Play of the Week

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William Styron

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Check out P. Martin's "On Film" column

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Borat: Today

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More 'Bobby'

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Scorsese's Stones doumentary finds home

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Kate Winslet

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