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...movie has been safe from the cinema Snidelys: not a word of anti-Hobbit propaganda has been spread. Yet handicappers say this enthralling Tolkien epic still trails A Beautiful Mind in Oscar's war of attrition. To stir some last-minute sympathy, maybe New Line should start a whispering campaign...against itself. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...times. Sidney is orally assaulted by virtually every character in the film: J.J., his secretary, his sister, her boyfriend, her boyfriend's manager, another columnist, the columnist's wife, two of his clients, a cigarette girl and a fat cop. I can't think of another character in cinema history who gets harangued by so many or with such good reason. Yet Sidney is a resilient cuss; he can repackage any insult to suit the next guy in line. When a columnist in a night club spumes to Sidney that he and J.J. have "the scruples of a guinea...
It’s clear things have gone awry in Oscar land when In the Bedroom supporters at Universal-cohort Miramax Pictures are contacting Oscar voters and bashing Moulin Rouge for being “trite, ridiculous, simpleton cinema.” This is according to 20th Century Fox, of course. But regardless of the artistry one finds in a dancing Nicole Kidman or a plate-throwing Sissy Spacek, 2002 is proving to be the peak of the Oscar’s political shenanigans. As nominees are garnered primarily through ad campaigns or favors to filmmakers whose turn...
...critically debated and audience-panned A.I., was unsurprisingly ignored by the Academy (except for in the visual effects and score categories). The public’s (and the Academy’s) reaction to A.I. is indicative of a grander thought on the state of American cinema. A.I. was the only film last year that was in any way daring (except for perhaps the jarring L.I.E.), but not in the way traditionally, and quite annoyingly, associated with new stylings of cinema. It didn’t have violent deaths or envelope-pushing sex scenes which seem to be the staple...
...like The Rookie recently. In today’s hyper-niche-driven movie market, it is risky for a movie to put its faith in broad audience appeal. Rated G, this movie works beautifully for children, for their parents and for anyone else up for a gentle night of cinema. But if the film is aimed at no group in particular, there’s the chance that it might miss them...