fourfour hates on
Dreamgirls, nominates JHud for canonization
NY Times on the Oscar Documentary race.
Hollywood Bitchslap names
Superman Returns #1 on a top ten. Cajones.
GreenCine Daily points to a few interesting roundtables around the web.
Reuters French critics boo at Russel Crowe and Ridley Scott's
A Good Year.
crumb by crumb Leo SAG confusion for
The Departed. Uh oh.
film ick Todd Haynes Dylan pic goes to The Weinsteins. This is not good news folks. The Weinsteins only understand one type of release pattern: platform with qualifier for Oscar and this is not the kind of movie that Oscar will love no matter how great it is. I now fear that I won't see this movie until December 30th. Ugh.
And finally, regarding the
Producers Guild Nominations for Best Picture. They chose
- Babel
- The Departed
- Dreamgirls
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Queen
Maybe Clint Eastwood fever will die out prior to the Oscar nominations? (he said, with desperate hope catching in his throat). But speaking of relating things to closely to Oscar, I read a really annoying thing over at EW's popwatch (which I shan't link to) which is a perfect embodiment of why awards season is so miserable and sycophantic these past few years. After a brief history of recent PG winners (which did not go on to win the BP Oscar) Whitney Pastorek asks "have they lost their mojo?"
argh. Can we PLEASE stop viewing the worth of all awards giving bodies as how they do or do not predict Oscars? How about whether or not they make good choices? The last two PGA winners are better than the last two Oscar winners so why does this signify "losing their mojo?" I blame the BFCA for this new awards bodies as prediction bodies problem. I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it: If the only thing that matters is an awards' Oscar predictive power than there should be no awards. None. Either abolish all awards giving entities outside of the Oscars or accept that they should be judged by the quality of their own choices.
