Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees rising costs and falling attendance at the box office, while at home Americans watch more movies than ever. It finds the gap between world-wide hits and big-budget belly flops wider than a Whoopi Goldberg smile. As the industry awaits next week's announcement of the Oscar nominations, it has to wonder if, after almost a decade of mostly good times, its sources of popular inspiration have evaporated. Hollywood's Golden Age died in the '40s. Is this the end of the Golden...
...reading gives you the hives or makes important limbs fall off your body, the movie is still worth seeing. The acting is uniformly excellent, with Whoopi Goldberg a shoe-in for an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Goldberg has the perfect face for Celie, capable as she is of transforming the worried lines of meekness and suffering into a stiffled grin and a twinkle in the eye that belie convert amusement and joy. Also creating a reserve of depth is Adolph Caesar as Mister's father, the swaggering, comic fool who sires the story's principal tyrant. In fact, some...
...Gilliam has his answer. The film that had been declared "unreleasable" won prizes for best film, director and screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. This week Universal is playing it in Los Angeles and New York to qualify for Oscar consideration. It opens in ten cities next February...
...Director Peter Bogdanovich over the cutting and scoring of his film Mask, demanded in March that Gilliam reduce his 2-hr. 22-min. Brazil, already in distribution in Europe, to the contracted 2 hr. 5 min. (The average running time for the last 25 winners of the Best Picture Oscar is a leisurely 2 hr. 26 min.; Universal's only other Christmas release, Out of Africa, runs 2 hr. 34 min.) When Gilliam delivered a streamlined cut that was still six minutes over the limit, Sheinberg determined to withhold the film until Universal minions could prepare their own version: shorter...
...poised unseeing between life and death. His condition symbolizes for Kurosawa the human condition. The fusion of metaphorical weight and simple beauty in these shots also summarizes Ran's greatness. Outrage has already been voiced that partly because of industry politics in Japan, the movie has been denied an Oscar nomination as best foreign film. But in fact Ran is beyond such transitory concerns. It is a film that already belongs to the ages...