Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Well. I just got off the phone with God, Who told me that De Palma is definitely His favorite of the Movie Brats, which should settle the matter. For the record, I agree with God. On this one. I'm not even really a Scorsese fan but I was psyched to see him win. (In fact after I got home I watched t...

That Super Bowl was awful. My girlfriend is from Chicago so "my" team didn't win. The commercials were horrible. Aside from the opening kickoff return, Prince was the only good thing about the whole four hours. And now he's in trouble because the merest suggestion of a phallus completely ...

Magilla, I saw Porgy and Bess in 35mm last year. I believe a DVD is "in the works." And as these AFI lists are made up in large part to promote DVD sales and the like, I wouldn't be shocked if that was a major reason for the film's inclusion on the original checklist ... We'll see how muc...

Italiano--regarding Berlusconi, I believe Debord (in Comments on the Society of the Spectacle , 1988) located the first instances of the "integrated spectacle" in, well, France & Italy ... There is discussion, in universities and in towns & cities, of serious ideas, through altern...

Akash, we agree. And thanks for you very kind words (you as well, Magilla, though I'd hardly call my rantings "essays"). Italiano, Christopher Hitchens is a British "left-wing" journalist, relatively famous here and in the UK as such (which is to say, he's not as famous as a mai...

Hustler - but again, what "control" does Italiano have? I'll bet you an ice cream sundae that if he tells you to do, write, or think something, you will not at all be compelled to do it. This is unlike OscarGuy, who if he decided he wanted to ban people left and right because (hypothetica...

DWS, I don't know what else Italiano has said. Maybe it wasn't nice, maybe it wasn't correct--I can certainly believe either. I was just responding to this, here. I also don't want to get involved with flame wars or anything, especially since I'm so rare a visitor to the UAADB these days. Damien, I...

I know I don't really count as a member of this board anymore, but I do drop in and read the political threads, especially, from time to time. And as someone who has had a great number of debates and arguments with Italiano over the years, he's not my personal friend or ally, and I would still disa...

2. Sometimes in April (Raoul Peck) I didn't know he had a new film! His 1993 Man by the Shore is an extraordinary work, and his 1988 Haitian Corner is good too. They're both officially unavailable on video I think, but if one looks hard enough dubs can probably be found from online sources. I have ...