Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

A problem with the "historical context" thing is, even in such contexts, there would be dissenters (as in 1941, and, here, 1999). How much deference we give to the predominant view can by governed by whether we were there at the time to be part of the dissent. I'd say, for instance, Forre...

Unfortunately, this list mostly matches my own "can't find 'em" roster, with a few exceptions (I'm noting where I saw these few, so you know where to look for them to turn up again): Street Angel (CUNY -- strictly a NY channel) Madame X (TCM -- actually TNT, in the old days) The Green God...

Mister Tee, what are those "kiddie web-sites" that have made their Oscar predictions for next year? i'd like to know their URLs... thanks in advance! I guess he means the forums of OscarWatch and what was formerly known as Goldderby . He calls them "kiddie sites" because most pe...

You'd think that, having seen 2005's "clear front-runner" Munich reduced to a barely-made-it/no-chance nominee -- to say nothing of watching two films (Crash and Capote) get on the best picture list that passed by with barely a ripple upon release -- people would stop trying to categorize...

Then again, maybe criddic's writer should have waited until all the facts were in, as the whole thing seemsto have started right up again. Civil War Looms With 66 Killed in Baghdad By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A series of suicide attacks, car bombs and mortar barrages...

Let me get this straight -- the crowd that told us "Complete Victory Is Assured in Iraq" on the Occasions of Toppling the Statue/Mission Accomplished/Killing Uday and Qusay/Capturing Saddam/Voting with Purple Fingers/Bremer Turning Over Power/Parliamentary Voting...these people are now ac...

No, I thought the final reel was the LEAST successful, because... Woody reverts back to the commentary that he uses so often in his other films - this time in the form of two unbelievable if amusing conversations between the policemen - rather than cinematically dramatizing the events that transpir...

I finally got to Match Point myself this weekend, and I'm more in line with Sonic's view of the film. I wouldn't call this so much a return to form for Woody as I'd call it a pleasing new direction. I'm a huge fan of his 70s classics (loved Annie Hall; thought Manhattan one of the most perfect film...

Clayburgh is having a comeback on Broadway this year. She was in an unsuccessful Richard Greenberg play with Richard Thomas in the fall (the tiitle escapes me). And she's now in previews with a revival of Barefoot In The Park playing -- brace yourselves -- the Mildred Natwick role. Even worse -- To...

I just saw this post for the first time, Sonic, and I want to heartily second what you say. The whole idea behind the Official Review thread was to leave space for comment on films that obviously didn't rate threads of their own, but that maybe rated a few words in passing. (My possibly-faulty memo...

I just had to post this, re: Bush's State of the Union address. Flipping through news channel and some Aryan Fox F ucker had this to say: "Bill Clinton famously rewrote chunks of his State of the Union address on the way in his limousine. We are being told that this will not be the case tonigh...

I can't say I hated it, but I thought it was mediocre at best (and dismally shot -- my recollection from the one time I saw it, in January '77, was that some cuts were extremely jarring and seemingly mismatched). Rocky was heavily pushed as "antidote" to the feel-bad movies that dominated...

Magilla, I think you leave out that A Man For All Seasons was the lifeline for all those older Academy-ites who weren't happy about a "dirty" movie winning. Woolf was the leader all year, until Seasons opened, and some people (including critics) leaped on it with unabashed relief (recall ...