Film
‘Best Pictures’ on BluRay: The Stats
On the near film-quality BluRay format, only the past three years’ worth of Oscar nominees can be found, and every winner back to only 2002. From 2005 and before at least one or more of the nominees are not yet available on BluRay—and of those that are, ironically nine (including three Best Picture winners) can only be purchased outside the United States.
Ma Vie En Mole
In between viewing films, attending one pre-party and interviewing a few directors, it is safe to say that I have enough material to fill a decent amount of the spaces in my journal.
Observations on the 10th Annual Fargo Film Festival
The Fargo Film Festival celebrated its first decade last week with an intriguing variety of movies from across the country and around the world
Write a Winning Script, Get a Free Location
The first “Cold War Film Contest” will grant the producers of selected screenplays access to shoot for up to three seven-hour days at the “Oscar-Zero” Minuteman Missile site, just north of Cooperstown, ND
Interview: Best Animation Winner Angela Steffen
“I am too idealistic and naive, and sometimes I wish I could be different, because going against the flow was kind of hard.”
Only Oscar-winner for “Artistic” film on BluRay
The stylization may seem quaint at first to viewers unfamiliar with silent film conventions, but despite occasional excesses, the film rewards the time it may take to see it for what it is.
War and Peace in Tolstoy’s Kingdom
An uneven tale that never decides whether it wants to be an earnest meditation on the life of the mind or a marital melodrama.
Firth Strong in Ford’s Debut
The slick perfection of the film’s aesthetic threatens to overwhelm the senses. The supporting cast members seem to have been selected from the pages of “Vogue Hommes International” and the movie occasionally takes on the atmosphere of a cologne or wristwatch advertisement.
Oscars: An Education is Precious
Several of the smaller and limited-run pictures up for Academy Awards finally showed up in smaller markets, if they weren’t already out on video.
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