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Halloween is upon us: cue hastily cobbled-together costumes and drunkenly ironic apple-bobbing at friends’ parties, the frenzied whoops of sugar-saturated children and an online avalanche of “best horror films ever” lists. It’s a beautiful time of year. We’ve already contributed our share to said avalanche, so allow me simply to highlight my viewing for the […]
Entries from October 2010
“Do THEY ever return to possess the living?”
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:59 am · October 31st, 2010
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WEEKLY WRAP: Leading men, Halloween horror, comic contenders
Posted by In Contention Staff · 8:02 am · October 31st, 2010
• This week’s Off the Carpet column took a roll call of this year’s Best Actor contenders. • Meanwhile, we interviewed one of the strongest of those contenders, “127 Hours” star James Franco. • With “The King’s Speech,” “Another Year” and “Made in Dagenham” all in the hunt, The Long Shot mused on Britain’s back-and-forth […]
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R.I.P. George Hickenlooper
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:06 pm · October 30th, 2010
I was at dinner tonight when I saw the news of George Hickenlooper’s untimely passing via Twitter, and my jaw dropped. “Natural causes” at 47 is just difficult to process. He was in Denver campaigning for his brother, John, the city’s mayor and candidate for Governor. He was just in Austin promoting his latest film, […]
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CINEJABBER: Devil’s Night in Motown
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:00 pm · October 30th, 2010
Catch up with the idea behind these weekend posts here. I’m in Detroit for the game tomorrow, so movies are somewhat out of sight, out of mind. Somewhat. As I drive around town, I’m reminded of some singular opportunities here for the film industry. I don’t really know the particulars of filming in Detroit or […]
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‘London Boulevard’ UK trailer
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:38 pm · October 29th, 2010
We waited all year for a US distributor to bite on William Monahan’s “London Boulevard,” but it never happened. FormDistrict was formed by the film’s producer, Graham King, last month and will be handling a release Stateside next year. Today a UK trailer hit as the film is opening there next month. It looks like […]
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OSCAR TALK: Ep. 38 — ‘Love & Other Drugs,’ lead and supporting actor races, the circuit revs up, favorite horror films
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:58 am · October 29th, 2010
Welcome to Oscar Talk. In case you’re new to the site and/or the podcast, Oscar Talk is a weekly kudocast, your one-stop awards chat shop between yours truly and Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood. The podcast is weekly, every Friday throughout the season, charting the ups and downs of contenders along the way. Plenty […]
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10/29 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: O’Barry biopic on the way, stumping for Bell in ‘Exorcism,’ Reznor talks ‘Network’ synth
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:51 am · October 29th, 2010
• Across the pond, Deborah Orr on a 15 rating due to harmless swearing weighing down an uplifting film like “Made in Dagenham.” [The Guardian] • A feature biopic is in the works about “The Cove” activist Ric O’Barry. [Deadline] • The deadline for animated feature submission nears. [Oscars.org]
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‘Illusionist’ vs. ‘Illusionist’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:03 am · October 29th, 2010
I stumbled upon this days-old THR story via Anne Thompson, and while I’m glad to see it hasn’t caught on in the blogosphere, I feel compelled to point out just what bullshit it is. (My bad: Kris alluded to the news before THR did.) It would appear that Sylvain Chomet’s probable animated Oscar contender “The […]
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THE LONG SHOT: British reserve
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:07 pm · October 28th, 2010
“The British are coming!” crowed screenwriter Colin Welland from the Oscar stage in 1982, hoisting aloft his just-awarded awarded statuette for “Chariots of Fire” – and anticipating one of the bigger upsets in the history of the Best Picture race, as the modest British sports drama upended Warren Beatty’s grand political epic “Reds.” His rallying […]
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Taking questions for Oscar Talk
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:14 pm · October 28th, 2010
I keep forgetting to post this on Wednesdays. Sorry about that. We’re recording in a matter of hours so if you have any questions you’d like us to address, fire them off here. PLEASE STICK TO ONE QUESTION. We do this every week, after all.
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‘Alice in Wonderland’ officially kicks off FYC season
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:47 pm · October 28th, 2010
Back in early September DreamWorks sent out a mailer that was, in my book, the first “For Your Consideration” stab of the season, offering up “How to Train Your Dragon” as a contender in pretty much every category. But the mailer wasn’t an advertisement place at any outlet, so the first “official” FYC ad of […]
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Way Back’ poster
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:52 pm · October 28th, 2010
I’ve written plenty about “The Way Back,” Peter Weir’s first film in seven years, here, here and here. And I talked to Weir at length about the project here. So I’m tapped out for now, though I’m eager to hear what others will have to say. The UK trailer dropped a few weeks back giving […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Film Editing — Volume II
Posted by gerardkennedy · 11:33 am · October 28th, 2010
So important but so hard to notice. That’s how I would describe the work of our best film editors – those cutting artists who blend and juxtapose frames together to make films coherent, establish a flow and also set the mood in a manner that suits the screenwriter’s words and the director’s vision. The Academy […]
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Listen to Randy Newman’s ‘We Belong Together’ from ‘Toy Story 3’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:16 am · October 28th, 2010
Randy Newman has been a fixture of the Pixar brand since day one. He composed the score for 1995’s “Toy Story” and supplied the original songs, “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” becoming the theme of the franchise. After receiving 15 nominations without a win, he finally took home his Oscar in 2002 for the […]
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But now I see
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:44 am · October 28th, 2010
I never really noticed how beautiful the trailer for last year’s “The Messenger” was until I saw it last night promoting the film’s HBO premiere. It might be one of my favorite trailers of the last few years. Plenty owed to Mr. Nelson, of course.
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10/28 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: Youngest Best Actresses, seeking Oscar journos, Cameron readies ‘Avatar’ sequels
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:37 am · October 28th, 2010
• AMPAS and mtvU launch the third annual “Oscars Correspondent Contest” for college journalists. [Oscars.org] • Across the pond, Stuart Heritage counts down the ways “Rabbit Hole” could be an Oscar bet for Nicole Kidman. [The Guardian] • The Durst family predictably threatens to sue over “All Good Things.” [Deadline]
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Cut straight to the predix
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:43 pm · October 27th, 2010
I spent some time this morning weeding and updating my current nomination predictions, and had planned to introduce them with today’s Long Shot column. As it turns out, LFF wrap-up business, a pair of catch-up screenings (one of them with a Supporting Actress contender who you may have heard sets the screen ablaze) and a […]
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‘How I Ended This Summer’ takes top prize at London fest
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:39 pm · October 27th, 2010
“We chose our winner last night,” London Film Festival jury president Patricia Clarkson told me yesterday, an evasive smile on our face, as we eased into our lunchtime interview. (More on that in a few days.) “I’m very pleased with it — it’s a wonderful film.” Naturally, my fellow lunch guest, Daily Telegraph critic Tim […]
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