• “Why, in troubled times, does America turn to a hard-drinking, half-blind US marshal?” [The Guardian]
• Bob Verini takes the pro/con route on each Best Picture hopeful. [Variety]
• Larry Rohter chats with “Dogtooth” director (and unlikely Oscar nominee) Yorgos Lanthimos. [The Carpetbagger]
• David Poland talks “Black Swan” with cinematographer Matthew Libatique, film editor Andrew Weisblum and director Darren Aronofsky. [The Hot Blog]
• Pete Hammond reports from Saturday night’s WGA Awards. [Deadline]
• John Lopez talks to Best Supporting Actress hopeful (and craven self-campaigner) Melissa Leo. [Little Gold Men]
• Scott Feinberg sits down with “Winter’s Bone” star John Hawkes in Santa Barbara. [ScottFeinberg.com]
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6 responses to “2/7 OSCARWEB ROUND-UP: The country turns to a flawed ‘Grit’ hero, will win/won’t win, Lanthimos talks ‘Dogtooth’”
The educated tend to over analyse, looking for patterns in places patterns don’t exist.
I don’t think Americans made a conscious decision to turn to a hard-drinking, half-blind US marshall because of tough economic times.
Could people be flocking to the cinema because True grit is a well-acted western ? call me me crazy.
Call me crazy but I think Afrika is on to something. I think that article is latest in miriad of articles by Guardian that demonstrates that they simply don’t have a grasp and understanding of the topic they are talking about.
They cite numbers and “evidence” in a way that’s strictly paints them as outisders peering in. They don’t get it. Not really.
For the record: I agree with you both.
I can’t remember the last acclaimed, financially successful movie that WASN’T somehow spun as reflective of These Troubled Times ™. Hell, gimme five minutes and I can probably find someone going on about how people liked “Inception” because it reminded them of how hard it is to find work nowadays.
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