Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

There's also UbuWeb , which has mostly avant-garde films and ephemera, some probably not even worth watching in this format (like the Ernie Gehr stuff), but some quite worth it; as well as a majority of non-cinematic material (MP3s, transcripts, etc.). What else? Well, for starters, there is Africa...

But this is my point about Mister Tee and the other Damienites (and, I guess, about a certain kind of Americans). Either they are all diplomacy and self repression or, if they explode, they do it this way - mindlessly, and (if I were sensitive, which thank god I'm not) offensively. They can't handl...

Sonic, good job at least trying to inject some levity. I thought that was funny. This debate has just seemed like a black hole. And since I'm so sporadic on the UAADB maybe I shouldn't even say anything. But... (Damien, the next time we meet up, let's get something we agree on--like scotch--and the...

I'm checking in here with a rant on an injustice in film culture--James Gray's We Own the Night , which is an excellent film, has made the writer-director 3-for-3 in terms of perfectly mainstream films with good ensemble casts that deserve attention and critical acclaim ... and yet languish at the ...

It's true. Iraq is, in reality of course, like a Toby Keith video. Soldiers don't commit horrific wrongs. Women who are raped by soldiers, or forced into prostitution with them as their clients, are obviously lying whores. Soldiers never rape, they just give candy. Families of civilians who are sho...

Damien, I always interpreted Reiner's cinema as a fearless, selfless foray into the realm of convention. Whereas Bresson, simpleminded slave to high fashion, tried to make his actors "models" and remove narrative consequence from his films (which made 'em boring), l'auteur de When Harry M...

So obviously the list is pretty bad. But, given all of the (necessarily very low) expectations for this kind of pointless exercise, there is at least one good and unusual thing about the list: the presence of Abel Ferrara, who is a truly great and underappreciated filmmaker. (And the fact that he c...

After all these years of me being accused of lying and then backing up what I say with articles to show I wasn't ??? I think there is a knee-jerk reaction and a deep-rooted need and desire in some people for there to only be a negative reality in this world. To me, that is just sad. Instead of tryi...

Penelope, "you forgot Poland." It could have been an editing error, since Bergman and Antonioni were clearly not compatriots, but I suspect Gleiberman was trying to be figurative (even "poetic")--Bergman and Antonioni were both 'citizens of the nation of art cinema.' It doesn't ...

Well, sure. I don't disagree. Rosenbaum accepted the commission when he could have turned it down (though I've no idea how financially secure he is to decline that kind of a paying gig), although it was the NYTimes that specifically asked him to write an anti-Bergman piece because they knew he was ...

Italiano wrote: I don't know who this Mr Rosenbaum is He's one of the most important American film critics of the past several decades. Probably for the 1990s he was the most important. (Which is not to say he was the most popular.) He's in his 60s, writes for the Chicago Reader and a number of oth...

Flipp, clearly you are not understanding the simple logic. I bet if we bomb & occupy Iran and North Korea too, there will be problems and innocent deaths for a while, yes, but slowly these people will thank us for ridding them of evil and will become our bestest friends. Because they like freed...