• Colin Firth and Robert Zemeckis on making a surreal, stylized “A Christmas Carol.” [The Guardian]
• A.O. Scott on darker thematic rhythms in recent children’s films. [New York Times]
• Roger Ebert revisits “Hoop Dreams,” considers it “the great American documentary.” [Chicago Sun-Times]
• Gregory Ellwood wonders if we have three Best Picture nominees locked up. [Awards Campaign]
• Kyle Buchanan talks to “Inglourious Basterds” editor Sally Menke. [Movieline]
• Dave Karger chimes in on the impressive weekend box office numbers for “Precious.” [Oscar Watch]
• Dana Stevens, stretching for a sensational point of view, dismisses the film as “poverty porn.” [Slate]
• “Avatar”: how they did it. [The Times]
• Peter Bart seems to think the collapse of studio dependents has meant the collapse of independent filmmaking, when in fact the dependents haven’t concerned themselves with true “indie” in a long time. [BF Deal Memo]
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1 11-09-2009 at 9:25 am
geha714 said...
Amazing how the word “porn” can now be used to categorize anything.
2012 is no more than apocalypse porn, for example.