Thanks to Zak at Awards Breach for posting a link to MattAwards.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY TRAILER

Gary Oldman is well on his way to an Oscar nomination for TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY. It does have a slight chance at a Best Picture, but Oldman is getting a lot of praise for his performance.

Here is the link to the just released trailer:

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY TRAILER

THE FESTIVAL EFFECT?



Clooney in Venice

We are in the heart of festival season and many of the critics are loving everything they see. This is when all the hype starts and hear things like "best movie ever made" or "guaranteed to win Best Picture". The thing you have to remember though is that these people are at a film festival getting wined and dined and hanging out with George Clooney. They are getting to see most of these movies for free, in a party atmosphere. I would think that most people in this situation will tend to love the movie regardless of how the movie REALLY is. Obviously there are exceptions and there are critics who keep an open mind and review the movie and not their experience. Everyone who has seen it loves THE DESCENDANTS and George Clooney. I am reading that it is the best of the year and will no doubt be nominated as Best Picture and Clooney will Best Actor. Then again Clooney attended the parties and mingled freely with many of the critics and bloggers. These festivals are the only thing we have to predict right now because most of the public has not seen them. Just something to keep in mind this early in the race.

NEVER FORGET!

Here is a good montage of movies that featured the World Trade Center towers in them. Take a moment today to think about the bravery of 9/11.


LINK TO TWIN TOWERS MOVIE MONTAGE

SHAME

One of the best movies to play at Telluride just got distribution rights bought by Fox Searchlight .  Some have said that SHAME is the best film of 2011. As I wrote earlier this week SHAME is directed by Steve McQueen and is the story of an man with a sexual addiction. Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender could be on the "Fassbender" to acting nominations. The potential problem is the nudity and sex scenes may make it  NC-17.  The conservative Academy voters are usually not a fan of "porn". To his credit Steve Mcqueen says that he has no intention of editing the movie to an R rating. We will have to wait and see what rating the MPAA with give it. BLUE VALENTINE last year had the same problem. It was given an NC-17 rating and the Weinstein Company was able to get that overturned without editing the movie. I saw BLUE VALENTINE and do not understand how it was ever considered NC-17 material. SHAME might be a different story. Obviously I have not seen it yet, but hopefully if given an NC-17 McQueen will stick to his guns and edit the movie. I am a firm believer in movies being seen as they were originally intended and not watered down to be "politically correct" There is no reason and NC-17 movie can win an Academy Award.