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Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn't know the Japanese actress could actually talk until Kikuchi spoke to her off-camera. Her country's first Oscar-nominated actress in 49 years, Kikuchi talked to TIME's Michiko Toyama...
During a conversation with his cousin, Theo Faron (Clive Owen) asks, “What keeps you going?” It’s a particularly candid moment in the Oscar-nominated “Children of Men,” which takes place in a dystopian world 20 years into the future. During a visit to a gallery he owns—and which is now, in 2027, home to Picasso’s “Guernica,” the artist’s 1937 protest against fascism and political violence—Owen?...
...Actress, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay. As good as Dench’s performance is, her odds of winning are anemic, given that Helen Mirren has scooped up the honors at every main awards show this season. It has a shot at the others, but regardless of Oscar success, Dame Judi earns a gold star in my book. —Staff writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...companion to Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers,” Oscar Best Picture nominee “Letters from Iwo Jima” depicts the eponymous battle from the Japanese perspective. Eastwood, up for Best Director, released the film months after “Flags,” which chronicles the infamous fight from the American point of view...
...Castellano lisp, I ended up reading the subtitles. The resultant experience felt more useful for my beloved English classes than for my Spanish, however, since it gave me an opportunity to revel in the beautiful imagery and not-so-subtle symbolism of this film, which is also an Oscar contender in six categories. Never lacking in creativity, writer/director Guillermo del Toro combines elements of fairy tales with a harsh narrative set in Civil War-era Spain. Del Toro skews reality, beauty, and monstrosity, allowing normally pretty objects to become eerie and grotesque—but no less enchanting. In this...