• Pete Hammond joins the speculation that yesterday’s Oscarcast producer announcement bodes well for a Jackman repeat. [Notes on a Season]

• Nathaniel Rogers is awed in the presence of Tilda Swinton at the New Yorker Festival. (Where, apparently, “Michael Clayton” was never mentioned. Huh.) [Tribeca Film]

• David Poland brands the Gotham Awards “meaningless” for not trying to predict the Oscars. I despair. [The Hot Blog]

• Anne Thompson digs into the “cannily constructed façade” that is the Hollywood Film Festival. [Thompson on Hollywood]

• Lee Daniels’s follow-up to “Precious”: the long-gestating filmization of Broadway’s “Miss Saigon.” Didn’t see that one coming. [Variety]

• Speaking of which, Nick Davis has the most thorough (and measured) review of “Precious” around, though beware of spoilers. [Nick's Flick Picks]

• Ebert talks “Antichrist” with Willem Dafoe, declaring his performance the year’s most courageous. [Roger Ebert]

• Ahead of the DVD release of “Luck, Trust and Ketchup,” a behind-the-scenes study of Altman’s “Short Cuts,” a look at cinema’s finest making-of movies. [Daily Telegraph]

• Glenn Kenny rewatches “Where the Wild Things Are,” and is even more underwhelmed than he was previously. [The Auteurs Notebook]

• Peter Bradshaw celebrates the heavy French contribution to this year’s London Film Festival. Word. [The Guardian]

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