I just wanted to point out a really cool new feature on the blog.
Over at Jforsythe.com you can create a neat little widget which displays which movies you have at home from Netflix. You can see mine in the sidebar to the right.
Where it would have previously been Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Alias, and Criterion DVDs, I'm betting it's going to be a lot of Baby Einstein and Disney DVDs from here on out.
Have you guys seen the new trailer for The Dark Knight? It looks really great. I liked Batman Begins but I didn't love it the way most people did. I need to re-watch it. I haven't seen it since it hit theaters.
In any event, The Dark Knight looks WAY better. I can't wait.
Check it out in hi-res here:
A Taste For The Theatrical
...Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
We watched it tonight with a few friends and it was great.
Have you guys seen the trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie The Darjeeling Limited? It looks really cool. Check the trailer in High Def here.
Meanwhile, after the jump check out the short film version of Bottle Rocket that impressed Columbia Pictures enough to give Anderson the budget for a feature length.
The Arizona Star's Phil Villarreal takes bold overstated metaphor to an all new level in his review of "300". Here are a few of my favorite quips:
"The movie "300" is rated R for "RAAAAAR!" and is about as inspirational as "Field of Dreams" multiplied by "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," plus infinity."
"High school football coaches who show this to their players before games are guaranteed to win 55-0. Should opposing coaches show the DVD to each of their teams before the matchup, a rupture in the space-time continuum will occur and the game will be declared a tie."
"The heroes fight for pride, honor, democracy and the right to leave the toilet seat up."
"The film has a stylized look that matches what would happen if "The Matrix" had hot, dirty sex with "Clash of the Titans.""
"The Spartans are a super-human elite squad of lumberjack pirates who were trained by the the great-great-grandpa of Chuck Norris' paternal ancestor."
Lumberjack pirates....that's just classic.
Uwe Boll is widely considered in the movie industry as the worst director currently working. His films are always trashed by critics, and usually do poorly at the box office. I can't verify or deny this because I've never seen his movies.
Here is a list of his work: Uwe Boll IMDB
Well, last year he challenged his critics to a boxing match. He said that anyone who had written at least two bad reviews of his movies was invited to go to Vancouver to go 10 rounds with him.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/oddities/story.html?id=887ba393-0372-4456-a081-ba1cfa01a723&k=45578
The crappy part was that he turned down any challengers that seemed to be actual contenders. He ended up fighting four online critics. That’s right. The big German fought four nerdy internet film critics. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Pr31zfKcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjM2w5FOPQw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbVb-W7GqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyT8_W8LLpE
Think you could have taken him?
The 79th Annual Academy Award nominations were announced today, and boy am I embarrassed.
Of all the nominees, I have seen only one movie. That one movie was "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan". Shame Luke. Shame.
I think in 2007 my only two resolutions need to be to pass the CPA exam and to get back to watching movies again. I kicked ass at watching movies in 2004, then had a rapid decline in 2005. 2006 was abominable. Here's hoping 2007 will be better.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Council)
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Achievement in directing
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass
Adapted screenplay
“Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox)
“Children of Men” (Universal)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“Little Children” (New Line)
“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Original screenplay
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Best foreign language film of the year
“After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production
Denmark
“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production
Algeria
“The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production
Germany
“Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production
Mexico
“Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production
Canada
Best motion picture of the year
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Full list after the jump or click here.
Best animated feature film of the year
“Cars” (Buena Vista) John Lasseter
“Happy Feet” (Warner Bros.) George Miller
“Monster House” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Gil Kenan
Achievement in art direction
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
“The Good Shepherd” (Universal)
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista)
Achievement in cinematography
“The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
“Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister
Achievement in costume design
“Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
“The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
“Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle
Best documentary feature
“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate)
“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing)
“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures)
“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)
Best documentary short subject
“The Blood of Yingzhou District”
“Recycled Life”
“Rehearsing a Dream”
“Two Hands”
Achievement in film editing
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
“Children of Men” (Universal)
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal)
Achievement in makeup
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
“Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Marti and Montse Ribe
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
“The Good German” (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth”
Music and Lyric by Melissa Etheridge
“Listen” from “Dreamgirls”
Music by Henry Krieger and Scott Cutler
Lyric by Anne Preven
“Love You I Do” from “Dreamgirls”
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Siedah Garrett
“Our Town” from “Cars”
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Patience” from “Dreamgirls”
Music by Henry Krieger
Lyric by Willie Reale
Best animated short film
“The Danish Poet” (National Film Board of Canada)
“Lifted” (Buena Vista)
“The Little Matchgirl” (Buena Vista)
“Maestro” (Szimplafilm)
“No Time for Nuts” (20th Century Fox)
Best live action short film
“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak)
“Helmer & Son”
“The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School)
“West Bank Story”
Achievement in sound editing
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
Achievement in sound mixing
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista)
“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
“Flags of Our Fathers” (DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by Paramount)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
Achievement in visual effects
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
“Poseidon” (Warner Bros.)
Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chaz Jarrett and John Frazier
“Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)
Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum
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It seems I'm constantly searching the internet for specific movie quotes. What I usually do is run a Google search for the script for that movie. This produces mixed results. Most of the time I can find what I need, but sometimes not.
As I was writing that last post, I wanted to use the quote I used and couldn't recall the precise wording (anyone recognize the quote?). In my search for it I came across The Internet Movie Script Database (new link added to right sidebar).
This is a very cool resource if you're into quotes.
Trailer for new David Lynch movie Inland Empire is now available.
Can anybody tell what Grace Zabriskie is saying in the beginning?
I'm pretty sure David Lynch is going to go down in history as one of the top five (probably top two) strangest people to ever work in Hollywood.
This is Lynch's way of promoting his new film Inland Empire and actress Laura Dern for Oscar consideration. Lynch, a poster, and a cow. WTF!
ETA: I am so intrigued by this movie. Every. Single. Review. I have read has used the word horrifying or some variation of same.
