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...often honored with Oscars. Italians won for Original Score (Dario Marianelli, Atonement) and Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, Sweeney Todd); two Frenchmen won for Makeup (Didier Lavergne, La Vie en Rose) and Live Action Short (Philippe Pollet-Villard, the director, writer and star of The Mozart of Pickpockets.) But one reason the Academy often gives Oscars to foreigners is that they seem really to want one. "Thank you, life, thank you, love," Cotillard exclaimed, as effusive as Sally Field or Halle Berry, but with a saving touch of emotional elegance when she added, "And it is true...
There were mild upsets in the categories of Best Films You'll Never See. The Animated Short went to the lamest of the five nominees, an endless (27-minute) rendition of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf; and The Mozart of Pickpockets, about two doofus criminals who adopt an immigrant waif, was outshone by a droll Dutch gem, Tanghi Argentini, and a Danish hospital weepie, At Night. In a year when the best foreign-language films weren't even nominated, the Oscar went to The Counterfeiters, an Austrian drama about (really?) the Holocaust. Points to it, though, for lacing...
...Varsity Blues”—because Opera should also be about delinquent teenagers and delectable costumes. Show stopping aria: “I don’t want you’re life”. Probably by Mozart because of the complicated love relationships...
...intransigence of the powerfulstudios reminds me of studio honcho Jack Warner's alleged declaration that his staff writers were "schmucks with Underwoods." Considering that dismissal, he probably thought of Mozart as a schmuck with a piano. It might also be fair to say that Mr. Warner was just a schmuck with a Rolodex, which is much easier to operate than a piano or even--land sake's alive!--an Underwood...
...critics may bemoan the "fakeness" of some reality or nature shows. But as viewers, we depend on that manipulation to provide the order, sense and purpose that the universe fails to. "Behind the desert's great beauty," as narrator Sean Astin says just before the camera pans to Mozart's body, "lies a frightening indifference for life...