Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

I tend to only put in a Top Ten at the end of the year. However seeing as the local festival has just wrapped here is that list. Vancouver International Film Festival 2008: ***** Heaven On Earth (Canada) - Deepa Mehta (Water) continues to impress me 17 years after I saw her first film. Sell Out! (M...

And no one mentions Barney Miller? I was just thinking about that show yesterday. I was at the right age for the great 70's sitcoms - and I remember watching the first episodes of M.A.S.H. and Mary Tyler Moore, etc., and watching them until their final episodes. I liked almost everything and these ...

A Beautiful Mind was one of those movies which people didn't just like, they went on about how it affected them; blah blah blah. And I had to listen to it as everyone I know or work with knows how focused I am on film. It was painful! And so was the movie. I heard the same about The Cider House Rul...

Favorite Albums: Spirit Of Eden - Talk Talk Lady In Satin - Billie Holiday The White Album - The Beatles Favorite Songs: Miserere Mei, Deus - Alegri (King's College Choir) Ave Maria - Schubert (Fantasia Soundtrack) Pale Shelter - Tears For Fears Groups (alphabetical and mostly current): ABBA The Be...

Saw My Blueberry Nights yesterday and it is a true and worthy Wong Kar Wai film. I am a huge fan of his work while not actually loving every movie he makes. MBN contains every one of the elements which make a Wong Kar Wai film what it is - colour, varied film speeds, repetitive use of music, the en...

inky wrote:GETTING HOME [Mainland China] - 1 (Audience Award)

I can understand Getting Home winning this. It is a lot of fun. I was hoping that it would have been China's official entry for the AMPAS Foreign Language category this year.

The first half hour or so bored the crap out of me and I would have walked out except for the fact that I was in a packed festival screening. I would have been too embarrassed to crawl over 7 or 8 people to get out. So I stayed and I am glad. About half way through that dreary dinner scene I realiz...

Is anybody else a member of Goodreads? It's a website where people can list the books they've read, are reading, and are on their bookshelf to read. I just joined up, here's a link: Goodreads This sounds like a completely pointless ridiculous waste of time and for sure is right up my alley! I love ...

For films like Eastern Promises or Water, which were filmed mostly outside Canada, I think it may have depended on cast and crew being primarily Canadian. Perhaps financing factors in as well. I agree that it is nice to see Pinsent and Mueller-Stahl get some recognition. Danny Glover is also good i...