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This is perhaps the ultimate for true Oscar-completists: at 3:30 AM overnight tonight, TCM will be showing two Lon Chaney silents. The first -- 1928's Laugh, Clown, Laugh -- is one of the only five films ever nominated for the instantly obsolete Title Writing category. Maddeningly, at least in NY, ...

Yeah, Penelope -- you might not (based on your comment) like Bloody Sunday any more than you did Bourne Supremacy, but you'd at least have a better idea of what to expect from United 93. Bloody Sunday is a faux cinema verite recounting of the 1971 Irish uprising/bloodbath. It's done utterly without...

Jesus Christ, criddic. You expect slop like that to persuade people? The quote Saunders hails so highly ("Bush nails it!") is a complete distortion of anything anyone is saying. No one says don't try to uncover terrorists; they're saying, do it through the long-established means of gettin...

I've finally got around to working on this and found, like many have, it's a complex process. Some all-time-horrible choices I find hard to include because there's no decent winner among the other nominees (unless I say "as opposed to ANYTHING"); and some of the most egregious omissions I...

Reds was seen as the favorite in '81 because of its generally decent precursor run (DGA, WGA -- though not Globe best picture), but, as Dennis says, it was a serious box office letdown, and I thought it vulnerable all the way (though I'd thought On Golden Pond was the threat). I haven't seen Chario...

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...