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- Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:44 am
- Forum: 91st Academy Awards
- Topic: Details of the February 24th Presentation
- Replies: 112
- Views: 2401
Re: Details of the February 24th Presentation
I've been snooping around. It turns out the cable channel that carried the Oscars here for the past few years, HBO Asia, did NOT renew the rights to broadcast it live here because it was too expensive. I'm looking and looking and it seems none of the other cable channels seemed have picked it up (i...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:30 pm
- Forum: Other Film Discussions
- Topic: Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
- Replies: 6189
- Views: 255920
Re: Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
Destroyer (Karyn Kasuma, 2018) 6/10 Nicole Kidman gives a harrowing performance in this neo-noir thriller looking like death on two legs. I couldn't make out if it was Hollywood makeup magic that created her washed up, angst ridden freckled face or was it the other way round with Kidman's actual fac...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:29 pm
- Forum: Other Film Discussions
- Topic: Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
- Replies: 6189
- Views: 255920
Re: Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
The Front Runner (Jason Reitman, 2018) 4/10 I've often wondered why the media in our country only concentrates on the corruption of politicians and avoid the subject of their sexual proclivities. Apparently the private sex lives of politicians was off limits in the United States too until suddenly i...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: Other Film Discussions
- Topic: Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
- Replies: 6189
- Views: 255920
Re: Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1969) 9/10 Mario Bava's cult film is based on a popular European comic strip. Exploiting every cliché Bava's film, not unlike a number of the Bond films, puts across a campy violent thriller with incredibly over-the-top sets, action set pieces, trendy E-type Jaguars, lo...
- Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:58 pm
- Forum: 91st Academy Awards
- Topic: Oscar Predictions Contest
- Replies: 15
- Views: 385
Re: Oscar Predictions Contest
Big Magilla wrote:Precious Doll wrote:Best Sup. Actor: Mahershala Ali
Point breakers:
2. Green Book
Ali wins supporting actor, but Green Book goes home empty-handed?
Maybe Precious is secretly hoping for a win by Richard E. Grant.
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 2:32 pm
- Forum: The 10th Decade
- Topic: Anonymous Academy Members Ballots
- Replies: 26
- Views: 778
Re: Anonymous Academy Members Ballots
I guess Jessica Lange (in Sweet Dreams) gets brownie points because Karel Reisz, the director of her film, was not a sexual abuser. Rather a tedious bore having to constantly read folks relating someone's sexual kinks impacting another person's "performance". There is no co-relation whats...
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 11:13 am
- Forum: The 10th Decade
- Topic: Anonymous Academy Members Ballots
- Replies: 26
- Views: 778
Re: Anonymous Academy Members Ballots
nightwingnova wrote:There isn't. Artistic awards should be an artist's talent and product
Exactly and it's very possible that an artist can shine within a "product" that may not be received with overall critical acclaim.
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 10:57 am
- Forum: The 10th Decade
- Topic: Anonymous Academy Members Ballots
- Replies: 26
- Views: 778
Re: Anonymous Academy Members Ballots
One lip-synchs* in a badly reviewed movie made by a sexual abuser. I guess Jessica Lange (in Sweet Dreams) gets brownie points because Karel Reisz, the director of her film, was not a sexual abuser. Rather a tedious bore having to constantly read folks relating someone's sexual kinks impacting anot...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:38 am
- Forum: 91st Academy Awards
- Topic: Details of the February 24th Presentation
- Replies: 112
- Views: 2401
Re: Details of the February 24th Presentation
Some of the names added today have had impressive careers, but most of them are primarily either TV or action movie stars. How in Hell are they "Hollywood luminaries"? Hopefully 10 years from now most of these names will count as "Hollywood luminaries". Once upon a time we had t...
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 5:47 am
- Forum: The 10th Decade
- Topic: On to BAFTA
- Replies: 17
- Views: 639
Re: On to BAFTA
There was a sweet, affectionate moment between Cuaron and his presenter, Salma Hayek -- which somehow brought to my mind the fact he'd had his young actors masturbating to her in Y Tu Mama Tambien. Hilarious. I noticed that affectionate moment and wondered what connection she had to him. Googled th...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:42 pm
- Forum: The 10th Decade
- Topic: On to BAFTA
- Replies: 17
- Views: 639
Re: On to BAFTA
Both your home grown gals - Glenn Close & Regina King - will win Oscars.
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:42 am
- Forum: The 10th Decade
- Topic: ASC Nominations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 352
Re: ASC Nominations
Yes an excellent choice.
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:44 am
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Albert Finney
- Replies: 15
- Views: 333
Re: R.I.P. Albert Finney
Apparently Finney told the Academy that he would not bother coming over to collect an honorary Oscar. Since the Academy does not present in absentia that was their last attempt at giving Finney one. Janet Gaynor and Myrna Loy were both awarded Oscars and their acceptance speech was filmed at their h...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 7:50 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Albert Finney
- Replies: 15
- Views: 333
Re: R.I.P. Albert Finney
Mister Tee wrote:Was he the last survivor of the Angry Young Man cohort, or do we count Tom Courtenay?
Maybe not quite from the "angry young man" school of cinema but I think his only surviving contemporaries from the 1960s are Tom Courtenay, Terence Stamp and Michael Caine.
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 7:45 pm
- Forum: The People
- Topic: R.I.P. Albert Finney
- Replies: 15
- Views: 333
Re: R.I.P. Albert Finney
Mister Tee wrote:Given his disdain for honors like a knighthood, it's entirely possible he was offered a lifetime achievement award and said no. He's certainly earned one in most people's estimation.
In 2001 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship, their version of the honorary Oscar, which he very proudly accepted.