No, she didn't win. She was nominated though (she and Amy Adams may have split the vote). Penelope Cruz was the winner for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Haven't seen Doubt yet.


Have recently seen:

Quarantine - A bad horror zombie movie. Angela Carpenter showed good natural ease in the early parts of the movie. But it quickly got down to formula and was boring.

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Both Nick and Norah are charismatic and likable (and Kat Dennings in my wheelhouse for fine people watching) but the movie is hampered by the fact that teenaged love strikes me as comicly silly and not romantically intense. Not the movies fault but I couldn't take them seriously.

The sequel was surprisingly good, in large part because the casting was terrific. And I love how 28 Days Later feels uniquely English, but 28 Weeks Later (which I believe was a domestic sequel), felt very, well, American. It was a neat contrast and made the film unique instead of just a rehash of the first movie.

Last week I watched I Love You So Long. I place Kristin Scott Thomas' performance on the shelf next to Maria Falconetti's in The Passion of Joan of Arc. Some of the finest acting I've witnessed on film or stage.

TCM-arama!!
 

Psycho - Rewatched this one for the umteenth time. Still love it. Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM and noted that the film's score was all strings. I guess I hadn't noticed that before. Pretty cool. I also chuckled at one line of dialogue Janet Leigh says at the beginning, "For this, we have to meet in secrecy to be secretive". Something like that. Funny.

Behave Yourself - Quirky slapstick comedy with Farley Granger and Shelly Winters. It was only okay. Kinda dull.

The Human Comedy - A tug at the heart strings movie about a family living in a small town. Mickey Rooney, Donna Reed are in it. It was okay, kinda sappy.

The Window - A Hitchcockian "boy who cried wolf" story. I liked this one although the ending was weak. Bobby Driscoll was in it, he was pretty good. Apparently won a special juvenile Oscar for his performance.

Breaker Morant - I love this movie. I can watch this one over and over. Something about it...

Hold Your Man - Jean Harlow, Clark Gable. Mild film with some pretty good moments in it.

Didn't know where else to post this but I found this Indiana Jones TOD animated gif on MC and it made me laugh:

It's filled with lines like that. "Mother -- what is the phrase? -- isn't quite herself today."

Herrmann's all-strings score is one of his masterpieces. Cue 17 -- "The Murder" -- is still used as a terror cue.

--t

New movie
 

I saw a new movie at a screening the other night. "I'm Good at Freaky."

It's a fictionalized imagining of what happened when Phil Spector and Lana Clarkson got together. Claustrophobic and intense. The actors are good and the story is fascinating -- when she holds a gun to HIS head you wonder if this time it's going to turn out different.

It was shot in three marathon days by B-movie guys, and it is probably going straight to video, so keep an eye out for it.

--t

Well, that's good to know about and I'll give it a chance. Kristin Scott Thomas in "The English Patient" and "The Horse Whisperer" made me want to bite the heads off kittens.

I just got back from seeing Departures. I loved this film. If you get a chance to see it, give it a shot. It's funny, it's sad, and it's terrific.

It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film this year. I think it's well deserved.

I think it's the best film I've seen in several months.

:)

FAME! - It was a good popcorn movie and thankfully we were the only ones in the theatre so we could seriously MST3K the film. Best part was when my Projectionist friend came dancing into the theatre during a dance number.

The SECRET OF JONATHAN SPERRY - Not to be confused with The Secret of Jennifer Sperrry's Body... (heheh) Saw mmost of this very Jesus/ bible thumping/ Christian films staring Capt. Stubing and Benson. A older man befriends 3 young boys and teaches them about Jesus. No, it's not a chapter from Michael Jackson's Bio-pic. This is a film that beats you over the head with Jesus this, Jesus that and wacks you in the crotch with the Bible. Horrible acting but like all "Christian" films, needs to be viewed while intoxicated and laughed at... LOUDLY..