How did Pan manage to lose foreign film? Nothing against Lives of Others, which I haven't seen, but it was a little bizarre to see Pan lose this one after getting a bunch of Oscars.
Alan Arkin winning is what we call in the business an upset. Not too happy about it.
Besides those two, not […]

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That's right, the David Cronenberg classic is gonna get a new shiny version. And the film already has a director and a writer:
The remake is to be directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, who had the reigns on Saw II and III, and is busy gearing up on Saw IV. David Goyer (yes, he who […]

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Funniest moment of the night.
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Finally!
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Babel
The most international. The most overt political message. The one with the most complex storytelling. And yet, the film falls a little short of reaching all it’s lofty aspirations.
The Departed
The remake that blows the original out of the water. And Infernal Affairs was really good.
Letters from Iwo Jima
Clint Eastwood brings his perspective to a new […]

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Alejandro González Iñárritu
Nominated for: His work with multiple, loosely inter winded stories in Babel.
Previous nominations: First nominations. But Amores perros, also directed by him, was nominated for best foreign language film back in 2001.
Other notable previous work: Besides Amores perros Iñárritu also directed 21 Grams . All three films […]

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Babel
The most international. The most overt political message. The one with the most complex storytelling. And yet, the film falls a little short of reaching all it's lofty aspirations.
The Departed
The remake that blows the original out of the water. And Infernal Affairs was really good.
Letters from Iwo Jima
Clint Eastwood brings his perspective […]

[Read more →]

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Nominated for: His work with multiple, loosely inter winded stories in Babel.
Previous nominations: First nominations. But Amores perros, also directed by him, was nominated for best foreign language film back in 2001.
Other notable previous work: Besides Amores perros Iñárritu also directed  21 Grams .  All three films (Amores […]

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With the Oscars approaching I decided to take a look at the past 40 years of best picture winners to see which decisions I agreed with and with which I disagreed. Unsurprisingly I disagreed with most of the choices, although there only a few I found truly atrocious. Below is the results of my “research”. […]

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As you probably know, Letters from Iwo Jima tells the story of the battle for the Japanese island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective. It’s the other movie in the Clint Eastwood directed Iwo Jima bilogy, the first one being Flag of our Fathers.
The film has many important characters but focuses most of […]

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