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...Judas gets his props in this TV movie written by Oscar-winning Edward Anhalt ("Becket") and "Greatest Story Ever Told" survivor James Lee Barrett, and directed by James Cellan Jones, specialist in Masterpiece Theatre-style minis ("The Forsyte Saga," "The Golden Bowl," "Jennie," "Oxbridge Blues," "Fortunes of War") and series ("Rumpole of the Old Bailey"). Barrie Houghton hasn't a winsome face, but his Judas is given every opportunity to seem plausible, contorted, remorseful, pleading with the religious elite to exculpate his crime of betrayal...
Brazilian Fernando Meirelles’ high-energy depiction of gang warfare in the titular Rio de Janeiro slum has been met with critical raves, four Oscar nominations, and comparisons to the mob pictures of Martin Scorsese. The protagonist, a young photographer named Rocket, succeeds in evading the gang lifestyle; his childhood friend fails to follow suit, instead succumbing to the temptations of crime and power. Dynamic, darkly funny and spitting electricity, City of God presents a strife-ridden world lurching towards destruction...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
...proclaimed in outraged Portuguese, “Feh! We get it. Enough already!” Instead, the film’s writers, editors, and director included so much stylized violence that its physical and emotional consequences completely sail past the numbed audience. All are nominated for an Oscar in their respective field...
...academy was at least smart enough to recognize Johnny Depp and Keisha Castle-Hughes for making deceptively difficult roles look easy. Depp has been around forever, contributing sensitive performances in challenging films like Edward Scissorhands, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? and Before Night Falls. That his first Oscar nomination is for work in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean isn’t the result of Hollywood politics. Coming later than it should, the nomination justifiably rewards a characteristically offbeat comic performance that turned an otherwise average family film into the summer’s must...