Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Sigh...moving...broke up with my girlfriend...parents in town...C- in Production II (too many projects at the same time)...how's about a little laughter for Sabin? I was astonished by how much I enjoyed Wedding Crashers. It's overlong and tries too hard to convince us that Rachel McAdams' fiance do...

Well, Sonic has a new no.1 and so do I (NOTE: the snake subplot is a little too mechnical for me, so actually I lied; I have a new no.2. That is all.). And I didn't see it coming at all. I thought her first film worked within the limitations of its triple short story-structure but was uneven and at...

F uck this board! AARGH! I wrote my first long post in months and it deleted it. Admittedly, I had to talk to my girlfriend for thirty minutes in the midsts of posting about leaving her $50 plastic Christmas tree behind in a move and how the tree is not our relationship and that I do make time for ...

Primer --**** ...this is likely to fall maybe half a star once the initial kick wears off. I'm just coming off working on a student film budgeted at some $75 thousand that is capital R-tarded. And it's only going to be seven minutes long! It's everything I pretty much hate about film: wasteful, vis...

I saw Mysterious Skin and Me and You and Everybody We Know. They're both "soft" ***1/2 films IMHO, but strongly affecting and sweetly uplifting experiences respectively. Not much to say on Me and You right now. Maybe I'll see it again and post something. Part of me wants to see The Doom G...

God, Fantastic Four is a turd-burger. Say what you will about the splintered spectacles that are War of the Worlds and Batman Begins; there will be no more paint-by-numbers committee-written ####-thing available to audiences than this grueling paper-thin experience. This is every comic book movie y...

I really need to see Mysterious Skin. Along with that, Me You and Everybody We Know, My Summer of Love, Fear and Trembling, and a James Dean retrospective are playing in the city. Finally! Movies I want to see and no time to see them in. I've never seen a Greg Araki film. Is this representative of ...

Technically, the year is half over so I should probably post what I've got which is not much. My sole four star film is starting to seem ever so slightly flawed upon further recollection but it beats the pants off anything I've seen this year by far. **** 1. The Best of Youth ***1/2 2. Look at Me *...

I missed Not On the Lips when it played at the Siskel Center a couple of months ago. Resnais fascinates me. I just got je t'aime, je t'aime off of amazon and will be viewing that soon. In addition to Taste of Others (which is high up on my to see list), I'll also be checking out Un Air de Famille, ...

Look at Me -- ***1/2 ...This is my first Agnes Jaoui film and I'm very, very eager to see what else she has written, directed, and acted in. The only thing holding me back from a ***1/2 rating is that a few months from now, I doubt I'll be terribly enthusiastic about what is just a very pleasant mo...

Went on a spree: Badlands by Terrence Malick The Conversation by Francis Coppola The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky Vagabond by Agnes Varda Visions of Light by Richard Schickel ...and the first season of Scrubs , the one season I had yet to see. Lovin' it...