All Posts Tagged With: "oscars"
LOL
Ted Zee’s post about the low Oscar ratings is cracking me up!
“At this rate, we’re not going to know what the stars wore on the red carpet, because they’re going to roll that carpet up and scuttle the Academy Awards for good. It ain’t right. The Oscars are of paramount importance - time to cut the crap and re-prioritize… Here’s your inconvenient truth: the studios have to bite the bullet and stop making ‘good’ films.”
Doc Oscars Go To…
Cynthia Wade for Freeheld and Alex Gibney for Taxi to the Dark Side - Congrats!
GreenCine Liveblogging Oscars
Hey cool! Wait, my name is in this press release! WTF? Oh right, I said I would…
Jus’ joshin’ with ya. I’m super-psyched to watch the Independent Spirit Awards over at Austin Film Society on Saturday and then participate in this rad Oscar blog event over at GreenCine, one of the best movie blogs, on Sunday. Join us, won’t you please? Here’s the skinny, wholesale:
GreenCine will host an online commentary throughout the Academy Awards ceremony, moderated by GC editor Craig Phillips and an army of film bloggers including Erin Donovan (Steady Diet of Film blog), Agnes Varnum (Doc It Out), and numerous other witty film bloggers. Special guests include… you! And a host of other cinephile goofballs from all over the world along for the ride. If you would like to be a featured guest commentator, please drop me a line at craig@greencine.com.
Where: Online at http://www.greencine.com/static/oscarliveblog.jsp (you can register there for an e-mail reminder)
When: Sunday, February 24. Virtual seating begins at 4:45pm PST/7:45pm EST
We take film seriously so we’ll be taking the awards seriously - but only up to a point; if you can’t make snarky comments at the Oscars, when can you?
Lake of Fire
I saw Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire at SILVERDOCS this year. The film had actually premiered at Toronto 2006 and I was surprised that it hadn’t had a better festival run (between September and June), as there were sporadic comments from those who attended Toronto that it was a must-see. I presumed that tackling abortion was a topic that American festivals just didn’t want on their program, having to consider sponsors and legislators, etc.
