• Gregory Ellwood slams “Everybody’s Fine,” calls last night’s AFI festivities a Miramax wake. I’m having trouble disagreeing with him. [Awards Campaign]
• Rebecca Milzoff gets some face time with “An Education” director Lone Scherfig. [Vulture]
• Jim Carrey’s Scrooge rings in the holiday spirit. [Associated Press]
• The “Slumdog” kids are getting greedy. [The Guardian]
• Jeffrey Wells stumps for “A Serious Man,” says there should be more ardent supporters of the film’s Best Picture cause. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• Not Oscar related, but check out H.R. Giger’s bizarre, unused Batmobile design from “Batman Forever.” [io9]
• More on the supposedly “sparse” Best Actress category. One guy said it, now it’s considered fact. Sigh… [Oscar Watch]
• Michael Mann is interested in 3D. [Screen Week]
• The women of “Precious” take on transformative roles. [USA Today]
4 responses so far
1 11-04-2009 at 9:25 am
Liz said...
Resist, Michael Mann! Don’t let them suck you in!
2 11-04-2009 at 9:41 am
daveylow said...
Too bad about Everybody’s Fine but I liked The Boys Are Back, particularly Clive Owen’s performance. And Adventureland was one of the underrated gems of the year.
3 11-04-2009 at 12:17 pm
AmericanRequiem said...
so is that your way of saying goodbye to robert deniro?
4 11-04-2009 at 2:16 pm
The Other James D. said...
Duh.