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I've just realised that aside from a paragraph on The White Ribbon I haven't really discussed anything current for a while, such is the never-ending quest through film heritage. My eighties and early-nineties viewing is pretty sparse so I've been trying to remedy that, trawling through dreck ...
Animation
Up
Kathleen Turner
An Education
Paranormal Activity
Harry Dean Stanton
When I caught Otto Preminger's The Moon is Blue l ast month on Youtube it was mainly for Maggie McNamara , who managed a Best Actress nomination in 1953 and who I really didn't know much about, having not seen her in anything else. She actually only did four films after The Moon is Blue ...
Sci-Fi
Moon
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Academy Awards
Sixty years since Adam's Rib, wouldn't you know? Sixty years since Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn went to battle in the ultimate battle-of-the sexes. I slate Tracy a fair bit on this blog but I'll give him his due here, he's wonderful, and I've yet to see a better performance from 1949.
Other
I didn't get around to reviewing Anvil! The Story of Anvil! after I caught it on DVD a couple of months ago. I knew very little about either Anvil themselves or the film, a story of a band's attempts to revive the limited success of their early career. The movie is very low-budget but ...
Other
As the shamelessly commercial Twilight: New Moon hogs up to a third of cinema screens this weekend (and surely a lot more of the box-office) I find myself unable to see even the most mediocre, middle-of-the-road Oscar vehicles. Amelia has made a paltry amount this week (less than The White ...
Drama
New Moon
Amelia
The White Ribbon
Jason London
Michael Haneke
Good news for thesp equality -- the BBC have cast a deaf Actress to star in its latest thriller, The Silence , which looks rather like Wait Until Dark with an aural handicap rather than a visual one posing problems for its leading lady. Genevieve Barr is the woman in question, and the series ...
Other
Marlee Matlin
Audrey Hepburn
I was reading The Guardian today and spotted this article on a guy who bought a random film reel on ebay for £3.20 which turned out to be an unseen short film by Charlie Chaplin. Surely something to put on the IMDB trivia page, when it eventually gets one. I guess one of the most famous ...
Other
Charlie Kaufman
Joan Cusack
The Nominees Were: Charles Boyer in Algiers James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces Robert Donat in The Citadel Leslie Howard in Pygmalion Spencer Tracy in Boys Town And the Winner Was: Spencer Tracy in Boys Town (Spoiler Alert!) I find this the most baffling decision of the decade. ...
Drama
Hugh Grant
Henry Cavill
'night Mother Directed by Tom Moore Starring: Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek Grade: C - Nine years after Anne Bancroft could still get away with wearing a cocktail dress in Herbert Ross's The Turning Point she was into pernickety old woman territory in 'night Mother , a film adapted by Marsha ...
