• David Poland takes stock 22 weeks out, and somehow thinks early buzz on Sean Penn’s “Milk” performance is “soft.” [Movie City News]
• Warner Bros. sends out a mailer offering Academy members the choice of a Blu-ray “Dark Knight” awards screener. Wally Pfister’s nomination moves further into place. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• In a nutshell, “Little Children” author Tom Perrotta wonders whether John Hughes was full of shit. [The Guardian]
• An A.O. Scott overview of the New York Film Festival. [New York Times]
• Susan King digs into the legacy of John Wayne. [Los Angeles Times]
• Alright, this is getting out of hand — and just stupid. Reporting on an alleged bet on the test screening score of “The Reader” for its release prospects? [The Big Picture]
• Top 10 tear-jerkers. [Premiere]
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5 responses to “9/26 Oscarweb Round-up”
Well…most unseen films generally don’t have very “hard” buzz yet. What a ridiculous thing to say, they JUST locked the thing!
Yeah, Poland’s article is a bit slapdash — and lumping “Revolutionary Road,” “Benjamin Button” and “Defiance” together as “period epics” is bizarre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTkfX5WxQFY New Benjamin Button TV Spot. Awesome stuff.
Every time Poland starts up again I remember this:
http://www.thehotbutton.com/today/hot.button/2000_thb/20001120c_mon.html
Wow. Well, there are about a million of those kinds of Oscar proclamations from Poland all over the net. That’s the risk of being in print and staying that way in the online environment, I guess.
Interestingly enough, that passage reads a lot less irritatingly than Poland’s work has in recent memory. That chip isn’t on his shoulder yet, even though the stuff from his past that would put it there is still, at that time, in his past. But he’s got a boy-ishness about him there that, sadly, has fallen away with time. Nothing too jaded, even if the piece is a bit much on the gushing side.