• The French lose their marbles not just over the exclusion of “Of Gods and Men” from this year’s foreign film shortlist, but the INCLUSION of Algeria’s “Outside the Law.” [The Carpetbagger]
• Elizabeth Snead talks to a number of costumers on this year’s awards circuit [Deadline]
• Is this Banksy? [Cinematical]
• Yours truly tries to sound what he’s talking about with a bunch of net movie peeps re: the recent casting news for “The Dark Knight Rises.” [Script to Screen]
• Patrick McDonald talks to “Barney’s Version” director Richard J. Lewis. [Hollywood Chicago]
• Clint Mansell discusses his work in “Black Swan,” and being overshadowed by Tchaikovsky, across the pond. [Daily Telegraph]
• For no reason whatsoever: turning Natalie Portman’s Golden Globes laugh into an internet meme. [Movieline]
[Photo: Sony Pictures Classics]
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3 responses to “1/21 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: French indignation, talking threads with costumers, Portman’s extended laugh”
That Natalie Portman thing is hilarious. Especially ending with that demented Brendan Fraser reaction from last year’s ceremony.
Jeez, the French have been shortlisted in five of the past six years — you’d think they could graciously sit out for once.
I vastly prefer Outside the Law to Of Gods and Men. And the fuss about the nationality is no different to Austria’s being miffed last year when Germany submitted The White Ribbon. It’s a global industry. Films have hybrid identities. It’s just the Academy’s system doesn’t really allow for that.
I admit to knowing little about what really happened in Algeria and I haven’t seen the film in question but I just, I don’t know, find the notion of arguing that colonizers may appear greedy and, you know, violent/bad, to be sort of laughable.