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...think, for a film of quite modest length to carry comfortably. It feels to me a little rushed and breathless, despite the fact that it is generally well-played and is beautifully photographed in a low-key burnished light by Robert Elswit, who just won an Oscar for There Will be Blood. This cram-it-all-in manner is particularly surprising given that the film is obviously a labor of love for Mamet, who tells us in a director's statement that he has spent something like five years learning jiu-jitsu and is passionately committed to the values...
...independent filmmaking influenced her work with the Cinematic. Founded in 2002, the magazine features movie reviews, interviews with directors and actors, critical essays, and other features on cinema. Its subject matter ranges from independent, art-house films—Whitaker’s personal preference—to Oscar contenders and other blockbusters.“The idea is to produce a scholarly account of film, to offer a platform where students, professors, and professionals can all contribute,” Whitaker says. During her tenure as president, Whitaker articulated that vision and used it to substantially strengthen the content...
...Except for the natural nine-month dramatic arc (which is what attracts writers to the pregnancy plot), this is prime-time sitcom fodder. Oscar and Felix; Kate and Angie. I?m not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format?s routine progressions - opposites not only attract, they learn from each other - only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling. Hitting familiar buttons isn?t a sin if the exercise is carried off expertly, as it is here. And the two stars, deprived of the opportunity for girlish giggling they took undue advantage of as SNL?...
Standard Operating Procedure, from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris (The Fog of War), is a creepily edifying study of the U.S. soldiers who took those horrifying photos at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Then there's the stoner comedy Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantnamo Bay, in which the two Asian-American dopesters, last seen searching for a White Castle burger, get into lots of zany scrapes, including being arrested as terrorists and sent away for sexually demeaning punishment from guards at Gitmo...
...documentary on a choir's travels across the U.S. earned director Alex Grasshoff an Oscar in 1969. Yet when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences discovered that The Young Americans was first shown in late 1967, making it ineligible for the awards presented in 1969, the Academy took back his golden statuette--the only revocation in the Academy Awards' 80-year history. Though Grasshoff went on to direct several TV shows and the 1973 documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, he never won another Oscar...