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Okri wrote:1964: Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Peter Ustinov and Lila Kedrova. The first three were Brits, the last was Greek.

Kedrova was actually a Russian living in France. The character was Greek.

Well, every cloud has a silver lining. My little game triumphed. Julie/Dianne lost to the one who was portraying a real life character who was a prostitute and died relatively young, a performance that relied heavily on make up. Arletty, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Signoret, Emmanuelle Riva, Jeanne M...

P.S. Don't know who mention this, but of course he's right. The green dress of course is amazing to look at! With all due respect to this green dress, all I could do during that scene was counting each and every bone on Keira Knightley's back. I guess that once she knew she was going to do Atonemen...

And I think as a rule, non English speaking films shouldn't be eligible for the Oscars anyway. Would you mind elaborating on this opinion? I don't think I've ever heard this before. Ah, this good old debate. Here's something I wrote almost a decade ago. It's still relevant, I think. Quite a few yea...

3. Ratatouille - D. A cold, artificial sentimental, highly calculated piece of plastic. I didn't like it. Et tu, Uri? Darling, if so many good people around you feel this way, maybe, just maybe, it's a wake up call. Anyway, unlike some other people, I wasn't hustle into watching it. I actually paid...

As always, it's very frustrating for me not being able to be part of many discussions, since we don't get to see here many of the movies in question in real time (meaning when released in North America). But I finely caught up with all the nominated movies available here (only The Savages, The Assa...

I watched Gone Baby Gone again last night on DVD. The more I see of Amy Ryan's performance the more I love it. It's a throwback to all those bad girls of film noir. She's so deliciously wicked, so intrinsically evil, one of those characters that as they used to say, you love to hate. She gets my vo...

It's not that I have anything against Dee. From the little I saw of her, she's indeed a very impressive actress, although I don't find her performance in AG to be a good indication of that. It's just that the way people seem to look at her nomination is such a textbook case of politically correct n...

However, there is significantly more fault to be had over the issue. I deleted the topic to avoid hurt feelings and protect those who had provided honest feedback. One individual decided to inform the debated individuals that a discussion had taken place. Doing so is far more unconscionable than an...

Penelope, do you consider commercials and propaganda as works of Art?



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"Vote splitting" is a code for: with another system, say similar to the one used by critics groups, when you vote for three contenders, and the favorite gets 3 points and the other two get 2 and 1, there is no way Holliday would have won, which makes sense. Maybe it's a more accurate way ...