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In Alexander Payne’s “Sideways,” Paul Giamatti gave the best performance by an actor in 2004, so said the New York Film Critics Circle, and how right they were. So why, why, why was the actor denied an Oscar nomination? Granted, it was a strong year, but his work was at the top of that heap [...]
The Great Performances: 2004
Posted by John Foote · 6:35 pm · December 11th, 2009
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12/8 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:59 am · December 8th, 2009
• Reed Johnson sits down with “Invictus” director Clint Eastwood and star Morgan Freeman. [Los Angeles Times]
• Eric D. Snider digs into the different perspectives on what makes a decade’s end. [Eric D. Snider]
• Noah Forrest stumps for some low-lying contenders that need the help. [Movie City News]
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The Great Performances: 1999
Posted by John Foote · 9:18 pm · November 7th, 2009
1999 was a strange year. And it’s hard to believe a full decade has slipped past since. There were some great award-winning performances, to be sure, but there seemed to be just as many not nominated that certainly should have been.
Ten years later, I remain stunned that Reese Witherspoon was not nominated for her brilliant [...]
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REVIEW: “A Christmas Carol” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:01 pm · November 5th, 2009
Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis’s allegiance to performance-capture technology these last few years has begun to wear thin for some. But the fascinating thing to note is an artist improving his craft before our very eyes over the course of three separate productions.
“The Polar Express” in 2004 didn’t hit the mark for a great many, the “uncanny [...]
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Kinda awesome, kinda weird official Jim Carrey site
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:23 pm · November 4th, 2009
Thanks to Cinematical for the tip here. Click the image below to enter the world of JimCarrey.com. Very…strange. Tons of Flash:
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On acting
Posted by John Foote · 10:11 am · October 2nd, 2009
What constitutes a great performance? What makes it something that puts it head and shoulders above the rest? What does an artist do to go to that level of art and achieve something that is both extraordinary and rare?
Does the Academy, or rather the branch that nominates the actors, look as closely at performance as [...]
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COMIC-CON: Disney showcases ‘Carol,’ ‘Alice,’ ‘Tron’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:10 pm · July 23rd, 2009
The first opening day studio panel has just concluded as Walt Disney Pictures brought Robert Zemeckis (“A Christmas Carol”), Tim Burton (“Alice in Wonderland”) and the “Tron: Legacy” principals to Hall H for a hefty three-dimensional dose.
The “Christmas Carol” footage, which was an extended version of the Marley’s ghost sequence Disney has been showing for [...]
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Remembering 1999, the movie year that was
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:59 am · July 21st, 2009
Last year I dedicated one of the first formal installments of The Lists to the films of 1999, one of the most electrifying slate of films to come along since Hollywood’s epic 1939 peak 60 years prior. There was an embarrassment of riches, truly, great work from the classic masters, eye-opening new work from future [...]
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Yes, but you didn’t actually WIN
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:31 pm · July 9th, 2009
There are several reasons I’m bothered by this one-sheet for gay rom-com “I Love You Phillip Morris,” which has built up a fair amount of goodwill from its appearances at Sundance and Cannes this year.
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Disney sneaks a little ‘Christmas’ into June
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:18 pm · June 22nd, 2009
Every hour on the hour until 7:00pm today, Walt Disney Pictures is screening a pair of scenes from Robert Zemeckis’s upcoming “A Christmas Carol” over at the Universal City IMAX theater as part of the excited, long-winded publicity build-up for the film. Currently a cross-country train tour is parked in Sacramento, offering a behind-the-scenes look [...]
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‘Christmas Carol’ promo
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 2:44 pm · May 18th, 2009
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‘A Christmas Carol’ poster
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:00 am · May 14th, 2009
I was a big fan of Robert Zemeckis’s “The Polar Express” in 2004, but “2007’s “Beowulf” didn’t work for me very much. I had some major issues with the way 3D was used in the film. But I’ve been very excited for “A Christmas Carol” ever since the project was announced.
I’ve stood on the sidelines [...]
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Troubling details of Nolan’s ‘Shadow of the Bat’ revealed
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:34 am · April 1st, 2009
I really don’t know what to say about this. I understand Christopher Nolan is a progressive artist, a guy who understands both the necessity of shunning convention and the idea that what one may expect isn’t always the best solution. He’s proven it time and again with the films in his re-booted Batman franchise, starting [...]
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The Stooges are set
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:15 pm · March 25th, 2009
Why does this project look like an absolute failure waiting to happen? And strangely, only Penn seems to fit here. Del Toro really doesn’t work for me in the role of Moe and there’s something, I don’t know…off about Carrey as Curly, but we’ll see what they come up with.
Variety reports the casting news here. [...]
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1/26 Oscarweb Round-up
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:07 am · January 26th, 2009
• Mark Magnier quotes a few Indians and feels it okay to say a nation disapproves of “Slumdog Millionaire.” [Los Angeles Times]
• Jeffrey Wells wonders if category confusion could keep Kate Winslet form a lead actress win, especially in the wake of Meryl Streep’s victory last night. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• Tom O’Neil gives poor Anil Kapoor [...]
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