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With the writer's strike now officially over, as we all breathed a big sigh of relief and joy, we also celebrate the fact that the 80th Academy Awards® ceremony will go on in its usual splashy fashion. And GreenCine will be there (virtually) next Sunday, February 24th, to cover it in a cheeky Live Blogging event. Thanks to the folks at Cover It Live, 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), Agnes Varnum (Doc It Out), and numerous other cinephile goofballs from all over the world along for the ride. Special guests include... you!
Where: Online on GreenCine.com (Register here for an e-mail reminder). When: Sunday, February 24. Virtual seating begins at 4:45pm PST/7:45pm EST. Go here to register >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Valley of Elah, Lust, Caution, and much more.
- What We're Watching: Tekkonkinkreet, Quiet Man and Fox Horror Classics.
- Explore: Year My Parents Went on Vacation, and David & Layla.
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Tommy Lee Jones' beautifully nuanced (and Oscar-nominated) portrayal of a father trying to get to the bottom of the disappearance of his son - a soldier home from Iraq - is the heart of Paul Haggis' absorbing drama. "It's the first Hollywood Iraq movie to remind me of a Vietnam film like Coming Home," wrote EW's Owen Glieberman, "and it does more than disturb. It scalds, moves, and heals." Adds Film Threat: "One of the best films of 2007...Haggis has constructed a very bitter pill that needs to be swallowed." And this would certainly make an interesting double-bill with Redacted, also out today. Read an interview with Tommy Lee Jones on GreenCine. |
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Ang Lee's beautiful (and spicy) romance set in WWII-era Shanghai got most critics hot, and a few bothered. "Both a cannily constructed spy thriller and a grim kind of love story, but it harbors no illusions about the transformative potential of either revolutionary violence or sexual passion," wrote Slate's Dana Stevens. "Lee is a true master," adds Rolling Stone's Peter Travers, "and his potently erotic and suspenseful Lust, Caution casts a spell you won't want to break." Read our interview with Lee here. More reviews here. |
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With its realistic, busy, and rigorous background, its weird camera angles, and its masterfully dark and magnificently innocent inner-state and dream sequences respectively, Tekkonkinkreet comments not only upon economic interests devouring the humanity of the world, but also on big city isolation, life on the margins of society, and most of all on the choice one has to make between immersing oneself in unhealthy consuming feelings, or adopting a sunnier attitude towards life.... read review here >> |
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Christian Slater has always been a likable actor, ever so slightly nutty and cool and the star of several bona-fide cult classics, but unfairly relegated to a career just below the "A"-list. Lately, it has been painful to see him suffer through so much junk ( Who Is Cletis Tout?, Hard Cash, etc.). So watching this "comeback" performance was a real pleasure. Sadly, 2007's He Was a Quiet Man -- great title, that -- went straight to DVD following a few film festival dates; it deserves a lot more... read review here >>
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It's a real shame that John Brahm is such a little-known name in film history that even when three of his finest films are given the super deluxe DVD treatment, the box set has to be generically named as " The Fox Horror Classics Collection". But film lovers have been long told to take it where they can get it so that will be the last complaint registered about this wonderful collection of once-lost gems. Brahm's films were typically with B-level budgets and scripts brought to an A-level with strong actors, haunting cinematography and dry wit.... read review here >> |
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Foreign Film Oscar
Winners of Yore
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