Oscars 2017

Arguably the best doc feature lineup ever, no?

Oops, forgot Life Animated got a nod.

it sure is

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missed this

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-warren-beatty-faye-dunaway-planning-bonnie-clyde-reunion-972762

"I do, though, take pleasure in Huppert having won the Golden Globe, because if she hadn't, then I would have had to spend the entirety of this article contemplating the prospect of Stone losing this award to Natalie Portman's performance in Pablo Larraín's A Muppet Leaves the White House."

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/oscar-2017-winner-predictions-actress

"First there's Taylor Sheridan's screenplay for Hell or High Water, which is jaundiced and perhaps overstated but otherwise resembles the cinematic equivalent to those hand-wringing op-eds in the wake of the 2016 election that shamed the left for not reaching across the aisle."

not even gonna start, Eric.

loooool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFim0IPtmrM

^year's best 2-minute performance?

Is there a current gay thread anymore? I got a breakup go get over.

What don't you want?

Eric, there is/was but it has an inclusive title and good luck finding it with Search broken.

You started dating again?!

I like the idea of the Oscars thread subbing for the gay thread. I seem to recall the last few attempts never getting off the ground.

I wouldn't call it dating. It was a relationship, and the background/scope of this relationship is so immense that I'm actually crumbling right now. (I have an appointment with my therapist tonight, thankfully; one I'd scheduled before I pulled the plug over the weekend.)

hugs, Eric.

It's still really hitting me hard -- a nine-year story line in my life coming to a crashing close ... This is so not the thread for this.

Awww, Eric. Sorry to hear.

(To reign in the dramatics just a bit, it wasn't a nine-year relationship. Just someone I had a major crush on since I first saw him nine years ago and finally formed a relationship last spring long after settling for friendship.)

sorry to hear, dear.

may Oscar be your salve... no, that's not even funny

Life lesson #1: TELL SOMEONE YOU'RE ATTRACTED TO THAT YOU'RE ATTRACTED TO THEM RIGHT OFF THE BAT!

it's easier when you're older and don't gaf

LOL, after nine years ... I am older!!

someone I had a major crush on since I first saw him nine years ago

it wasn't Obama, right?

Oof, no but I did meet Obama while standing next to him.

Suddenly I feel like Rebecca in that last episode of Cheers, trying to hold it together on a fake double date at the restaurant upstairs and everything triggers her into tearful spasms. What a feeling!

:(

this is yr chance to transform into a mackdaddy like R Gosling (smooth segue)

Eric as someone who also recently cut/lost ties with someone I first developed a thing for about 9 years ago I feel yr pain

xp Yeah, my long-deferred slut stage has to kick in now (or never).

OK, seriously, sorry for the thread derail. Carry on.

In looking up some August Wilson-related stage credits, I discovered I saw Viola Davis in the Broadway production of his Seven Guitars in 1996, just as her film career was starting.

Time for the Hollywood Reporter's anonymous Oscar voter.

* "I hated the German movie [Toni Erdmann] so much because it was so shticky — Germans are not funny! The only part of the whole movie where I laughed was when she couldn't get out of her tight dress and just ripped it off and went around naked. I hear Jack Nicholson is going to be in a remake, and he might make it funny."

* "[Elle's] Isabelle Huppert is an ice-cold actress, and I eliminated her because when you get attacked, beaten and raped, you're not the same person afterward, but she was, and I wanted to slap her to try to get a reaction out of her."

* "I hated Arrival — it just sucked. I didn't like Fences because they just filmed the play — I wanted to see the guy go into the jazz club and play his music, the girl who's having his baby, his kid on the football field. But I think Denzel [Washington, its producer/director/star] decided that every word of the script [by the late August Wilson] was so precious that he wasn't going to "mess" with it, and the movie suffered as a result."

* "I'm ruling out O.J. [Made in America] even though I still have an hour of it left to watch — maybe for younger people this is new stuff, but for me it's just reliving a part of the past I don't need to relive. I was disappointed with I Am Not Your Negro — I was really looking forward to learning more about James Baldwin's life, rather than his ideas (which I already knew), because when I first came to New York as a young actress, he was such an avant-garde playwright and fascinating guy."

how sweet, to be an idiot

I laughed at the Elle remark.

James Baldwin was such a fascinating guy!

The only way I can reconcile her correct opinion about Baldwin with the rest of that dur-de-durrr is to assume that she finds him fascinating for different reasons than I do.

"He's sexy -- and dead!"

i'm sympathetic to her stance on the OJ doc (unseen by me), but since i ignored the trial as much as possible i'm willing to give it a shot.

Not knowing shit about the trial other than a few names helped.

OJ doc is well researched, they provide a lot of detail beyond the basic story, (ie the coverage of his childhood and college years is really interesting) and you get a lot more context when they get to the stuff most people know. And they talked to a LOT of people, so it's not just weirdo outsiders or professional commentators

The college chapter and early football career were fascinating and fully absorbing.

If Affleck is winning, I'm a little skeptical that Lonergan will lose to LLL for script, but whatta I know.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/oscar-2017-winner-predictions

halfway through the OJ doc with my jaw on the floor. the backstory isn't that well known over here despite the doc portraying him as the best known/loved guy in the States or whatever. until the live-on-tv chase i swear i'd barely heard of the guy (The Towering Inferno was about all i'd seen of him). but yeah grim and sad and fascinating and shocking for all kinds of reasons. never really seen a doc like this one before.

is it better than the people vs OJ Simpson? because that (despite being a docudrama) was the shit

its way better than that

yeah I agree that it's way better but I also couldn't get through PvOJ so I'm biased

TBF, even as an American, I really only knew OJ as the goofball from The Naked Gun before all that other shit went down.

born too late

let's steer back to betting and whether Beatty-Dunaway will really happen

TFE going w/ 9 Oscars for LLL, Dev Patel for supporting actor

http://thefilmexperience.net/prediction-index/

http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2017/2/25/final-oscar-predictions.html