Category: The Arts
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I’ll be brief. Best Picture: Argo I originally thought Lincoln, but I’m coming around that the whole Argo thing is really going to happen, even though Ben Affleck didn’t get a director nomination. Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis Book it. A lock. Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence I think this is one way Silver Linings Playbook gets some love…
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I saw Django Unchained and that leaves only Life of Pi among movies that I expect to impact my Oscar selections that I haven’t seen. Let me go all Nate Silver and list my faves in order that I liked them, and my completely unscientific probabilities that they’ll win, with a little explanation. Beasts of…
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Caught the movie on Friday night with friends at the pretty swanky Ambler Theater. It’s very good, obviously. That said … The movie was too long (but I always say that). If you could meld several characters into Maya, then you could have telescoped some of the early stuff into a more compact version of…
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I am not a big film watcher, but I like them when I see them, so the nominations this morning were interesting. You can see the full list here, and there are plenty more engaged fans than me (see @johngilpatrick, among others) , but here are my initial thoughts. Best Film With 12 nominations, I…
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There are better places to read reviews of Hyde Park on the Hudson, about the first-ever visit by England’s king and queen, to America, in 1939, to ask Franklin Delano Roosevelt for America’s assistance in the impending war with Germany. It is as weird a movie as I’ve seen in a long time. Bill Murray…
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It’s that time of the year, when everybody lists out their favorite movies. Here’s what I’ve seen this year, in order of how much I enjoyed them, and a list of films I’d like to see at some time. Moonrise Kingdom. This film set off a Wes Anderson filmfest in my house for the weeks after…
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Lincoln was ungodly long and not a whole hell of a lot happened through the middle portion, but, gosh, Daniel Day-Lewis sure was good and, honestly, who besides a Stephen Spielberg makes a movie about passing a Constitutional amendment anyways. Put DD-L in the best actor mix for his portrait of the 16th president, which he…
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Ben Affleck can be pretty unbearable, but he can also dial up a decent movie. And Argo is just that—interesting, taut, and fun, as you know walking in to the theater that it all ends up alright. Honestly, though, he should never play a guy named Tony Mendez again. Affleck’s about as ethnic as Pat’s…
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I’ve been listening to the book Columbine, by Dave Cullen. It’s disturbing and chilling—and, as the dad of two teens, familiar. Because there is a curtain that adolescents draw down to obscure your view of them. They are trying on new identities and thinking new thoughts and feeling new things—things they don’t often want to share. They…
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