Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Yes, this list is ‘naff’…but I’ve read 83! I was expecting to be around 20...I rarely read fiction anymore, and little of it from recent times - other than J.K. Rowling or Sue Townsend. There seem to be a lot of authors mentioned again and again. That is kind of overkill when it takes the spot of s...

After too many years I have just watched Silent Running again. I have always loved this film and I still do. On the DVD bonus section Douglas Trumbull explains how he got the green light to make the project. The story goes that after the huge success of Easy Rider Universal Pictures decided to fund...

Still missing is the 1937 film, A Damsel in Distress... Wow! A Damsel In Distress! I haven't thought about that movie in over a decade! It really should be on DVD. It is one of the best Astaire without Rogers films, while Vivacious Lady is one of the best Rogers without Astaire films. Both are by G...

Uta Hagen in The Other. Ahhh! I had forgotten all about that creepy movie! I have always refused to buy movies, with exceptions. But recently I have been on a binge. Not a Reza-like binge, but a binge none the less. If I lived in the US I would be broke - Amazon is so inexpensive! But in Canada it ...

Sorry to hear about the leg F.F. Nothing too exciting music-wise for me. - Ulrich Schnauss' first CD Far Away Trains Passings By. It doesn't compare to his amazing 2nd album, A Strangely Isolated Place so I've banished it to the car. - the new CD from The Church, Uninvited, Like The Clouds. Basical...

I recently rented Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo And Juliet, after not having seen it for a decade or so. It is such an beautiful film. I looked up in my Oscar book and was surprised to see that neither Nina Rota's score nor the ballad, 'What Is A Youth', was nominated. Is there any specific reason for ...

I was a huge Peter Weir fan in the 80's. I saw his films over and over. 'Picnic' (available in book form, by Joan Lindsay), Gallipoli, and The Year Of Living Dangerously were some of my all-time favorite films. I have seen them again recently - Gallipoli just this week - and they do stand up - for ...

I will concur on Erik Larson's The Devil In The White City. Fantastic book. So was his earlier book, Isaac's Storm. I read so little fiction now. After reading Steinbeck, E.M. Forster, Dickens, James Baldwin, Orwell the contemporary fiction that I read just seems to be poorly written. Though I am m...

If I could compare the Italo Svevo book to anything else I would have to say it reminds me of Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. I love E.M. Forsters novels and I liked As A Man Grows Older in the same way. Good luck finding it. The only book of his that I ever see is Confessions Of Zeno, which I have n...

Favourite movies of 2005. Note: this list contains 2004 movies that didn't surface here until 2005, so I will extend it to include 10 from 2005. And they are my faves not what I consider to be the best - although they are close. 1. A History Of Violence 2. Good Night And Good Luck 3. Capote 4. Clos...

Just came back from seeing Capote, which I'm right now giving ***1/2, though upon further consideration I may drop to *** Penelope...saw Capote yesterday and I also am removing Keener from my list. What I want to ask is, what did you think about the camera focus in the later prison scenes? Perry be...

Usually when you catch sight of a boom mic in the frame it's the fault of the projectionist and not the filmmakers. Okay, this is something I've never heard before. I have just been assuming that the full frame is being shown - under perfect conditions. All that aspect ratio stuff. I tend to enjoy ...

The Soup, One Morning (Takahashi Izumi, 03) Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach, 04) Okay, I've been waiting for someone to see Dear Frankie. I saw it last fall at the local film fest. While I disagree with your one star rating - I give it a 3 and a half. While it is a bit of a generic storyline I think i...