Archive for the ‘awards’ Tag

• February 26, 2012 2012 Oscars posted in Criticism tagged 2012, a separation, academy, academy awards, academy awards 2012, actor, actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, actress, actress in a leading role, actress in a supporting role, adapted, albert nobbs, alberto iglesias, alexander payne, animated, animated feature film, anne-sophie bion, anonymous, art direction, Asghar Farhadi, ashley, award, awards, Bérénice Bejo, beginners, best, best actor, best actress, best director, best foreign feature, best original screenplay, best picture, blog, blogging, brad pitt, bridesmaids, Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan, bullhead, by, chicago, chico & rita, christopher plummer, christopher tellefsen, cinematography, costume design, critic, david, Demián Bichir, directing, director, documentary, drive, extremely loud & incredibly close, fassbender, feature, film, film editing, filmmaker, films, footnote, gary oldman, george clooney, glenn close, howard shore, hugo, in darkness, j.c. chandor, jane eyre, jean dujardin, jessica chastain, joe berlinger, John Logan, John Williams, leading role, live, live action, live-blogging, liveblogging, makeup, margin call, martin scorsese, meryl streep, michael, michael fassbender, midnight in paris, moneyball, movie, movies, my week with marilyn, nick nolte, Octavia Spencer, original, original score, original song, oscar, oscars, picture, rango, real in rio, real steel, reporting, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, saving face, score, screenplay, short, short film, song, sound editing, sound mixing, Steven Zaillian, supporting, supporting actor, supporting actress, supporting role, swinton, terrence malick, the artist, the descendants, the descendents, the help, the tree of life, undefeated, w.e., woody allen, writer, writing
• February 1, 2012 Daily notes 2012-02 posted in Daily notes tagged 1994, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2012, a study in pink, academy, academy awards, andrew scott, ashley, awards, barton fink, bbc, benedict, benedict cumberbatch, blanc, blog, britian, british, brothers, bruce robinson, cannes, critic, cumberbatch, currently, currently watching, daily notes, dardenne, david, david ashley, docu, documentary, earth liberation front, eco, eco terrorism, eco terrorists, ELF, film, giovanni ribisi, holmes, horse, hunter s. thompson, if a tree falls, jacob wysocki, jean-pierre, jim, jim moriarty, john c. reilly, julie delpy, just finished, kieslowski, krzysztof kieslowski, luc, Mark Gatiss, marshall curry, Martin Freeman, monte hellman, moriarty, movie, mycroft, oscar, oscar investigations, oscar nominated, oscars, racing dreams, review, richard jenkins, road to nowhere, roman polanski, sentimental, serial, series, sherlock, sherlock holmes, show, spielberg, Steven Moffat, television, terri, the blind banker, the kid with a bike, the pianist, the rum diary, three colors, trilogy, Trois Couleurs, tv, uk, united kingdom, war, war horse, watching, white, WWI
• January 27, 2012 Film review: Albert Nobbs posted in Film reviews tagged 1800s, 1890s, 2011, 2012, Aaron Johnson, acting, actress, actress in a leading role, adaptation, adapted, Alan Moloney, albert, albert nobbs, as, as a man, as man, ashley, award, awards, baby, based on, based on George Moore's novella, best actress, blog, Bonnie Curtis, Brendan Gleeson Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brian Byrne, butler, butlers, child, close, critic, david, david ashley, dress, dressed, dublin, dyke, faking, fooling, Gabriella Prekop, gay, gays, george moore, glenn, glenn close, hotel, ireland, irish, Istvan Szabo (story), Janet McTeer, John Banville, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Julie Lynn, leading role, lesbian, lesbians, love, lovers, lynn johnston, maid, makeup, martial corneville, matthew w. mungle, mia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael McDonough, Mockingbird Pictures, nobbs, nom, nominated, nomination, nominee, novella, oscar, oscars, Parallel Films Productions, pregnant, pretending, review, reviewed, reviewer, Roadside Attractions, rodrigo garcia, screened, screening, servant, servants, short story, Steven Weisberg, supporting, supporting actress, Trillium, valet, valets, woman dressed as man
• January 26, 2012 Daily notes 2012-01 posted in Daily notes tagged 1983, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2012, academy awards, Adriano Goldman, afghanistan, alice, alice harford, anger, annabel lee, ashley, awards, bill harford, brendan gleeson, bridesmaids, childish, currently, currently watching, daily noters, daily notes, david, david ashley, doctor, docu, documentary, don cheadle, dostoevsky, eddie marsan, eyes wide shut, fassbender, film, goncharov, guard, hell and back again, hipster, ireland, irish, jane eyre, january, joe berlinger, kubrick, literary, Mia Wasikowska, michael mann, milwaukee, miranda july, mirror, movie, nicole kidman, nietzsche, oblomov, oscar, oscars, paddy considine, paradise lost, paradise lost 3: purgatory, peter mullan, poe, precious, purgatory, references, sandor szavost, schopenhauer, soldier, spielberg, stanley kubrick, the future, the guard, the keep, Tom Cruise, tom hardy, twee, tyrannosaur, violence, war horse, warrior, watching, west memphis 3, west memphis three, wm3, wounded, ziegler
• October 1, 2011 Film review: Mysteries of Lisbon (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, 272 minutes, Adriano Luz, Albano Jeronimo, american, André Szankowski, ashley, awards, blog, brazil, Carlos Madaleno, Carlos Saboga, Carloto Cotta, clap filmes, Clotilde Hesme, critic, david, david ashley, dead, death, director, drama, festival, Filipe Vargas, film, film festival, final, foreign, france, golden globes, italy, Joao Baptista, Jorge Arriagada, Jose Afonso Pimentel, last film, late, Lea Seydoux, life, lisbon, long, Luís Freitas Branco, Maria João Bastos, Melvil Poupaud, mff, mff 2011, Miguel Monteiro, Milwaukee film festival, milwaukee film festival 2011, Mistérios de Lisboa, movie, music box films, mysteries of lisbon, mystery, Os Mistérios de Lisboa by Camilo Castelo Branco, over four hours, passed away, Paulo Branco, portugal, portuguese, proust, Raúl Ruiz, recently, review, reviewed, Ricardo Pereira, screening, time regained, Valeria Sarmiento, writer, written by
• September 30, 2011 Film review: Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged (Vie héroïque), a heroic life, adaptation, affair, Anna Mouglalis, awards, bambou, best actor, best debut, best sound, brigitte bardot, César awards, Césars, cesar, david ashley, didier lupfer, doug jones, eric elmosnino, film, focus features, focus features international, france, france 2 cinema, french, gainsbourg, gainsbourg a heroic life, graphic novel, guilliaume schiffman, jamaica, jane birkin, joann sfar, juliette greco, laetitia casta, lilou films, lover, lucy gordon, marc du pontavice, maryline monthieux, mff, mff 2011, movie, music, music box films, musician, olivier daviaud, one world films, optimum releasing, reggae, review, reviewed, Sacramento French Film Festival, Sara Forestier, screened, screening, serge, serge gainsborug, sex, studio 37, universal pictures, xilam films
• March 10, 2011 Film review: Of Gods and Men posted in Film reviews tagged 1991, 1996, 2010, 2011, 2nd, acceptance, algeria, algerian, algerian civil war, armada films, armed islamic group, ascetic, ascetics, award, awarded, awards, beheaded, beheading, best, best film, brotherhood, by, cannes, caroline champetier, Césars, cesar, chanting, church, cinematography, compassion, david ashley, des hommes et des dieux, etienne comar, film, film festival, FIS, foreign, france, fraternity, french, GIA, Goran Kostić, grand prix, hymn, hymns, islam, islamic, Islamic salvation front, islamist, Jacques Herlin, Jean-Marie Frin, killed, lambert wilson, Loïc Pichon, marie-julie mailee, mars distribution, michael lonsdale, monk, monks, movie, murdered, national liberation front, of gods and men, Olivier Rabourdin, Pascal Caucheteux, Philippe Laudenbach, picture, psalms, religious, review, Sabrina Ouazani, sacrificed, stay, subtitled, supporting actor, terror, terrorism, terrorist, tolerance, trappist, why not productions, won, written, xavier beauvois, Xavier Maly
• February 20, 2011 2011 Oscars posted in Criticism tagged 127 hours, 2010, 2011, aaron sorkin, academy, achievement, action, actor, actress, adapted, Alejandro González Iñárritu, amy adams, andrew stanton, animal kingdom, animated, anne hathaway, anne rosellini, annette bening, another year, art, art direction, award, awards, ballot, biutiful, black swan, blue valentine, ceremony, chris sanders, christian bale, christopher nolan, coen bros, coen brothers, colin firth, danny boyle, danny cohen, darren aronofsky, david ashley, david fincher, david o. russell, david seidler, dean deblois, debra granik, directing, directly, editing, effects, eric johnson, ethan coen, film, films, geoffrey rush, hailee steinfeld, helena bonham carter, hollywood, how to train your dragon, inception, jacki weaver, james franco, javier bardem, jeff bridges, jeff cronenweth, jennifer lawrence, jeremy renner, jesse eisenberg, joel coen, john hawkes, john lasseter, lee unkrich, lisa cholodenko, live, mark ruffalo, matthew liatique, melissa leo, michael arndt, michelle williams, mike leigh, movie, movies, natalie portman, nicole kidman, no country for old men, nominee, original, oscar, paul tamasy, performance, rabbit hole, roger deakins, scott silver, screenplay, short, simon beaufoy, song, stuart blumberg, supporting, sylvain chomet, technical, technicians, the fighter, the illusionist, the kids are all right, the king's speech, the social network, the town, tom hooper, toy story 3, true grit, visual, wally pfister, winter's bone, writing, written