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...there are so many of them. I like the Coen Brothers. I like directors who work a lot, who are basically improving constantly. I thought it was a great year for women directors last year. Niki Caro did such an amazing thing with Whale Rider last year. I could sit here forever and name directors. I mean, all the Coppolas. I think Sofia did a spectacular, truly intimate comedy drama, which, I think, is incredibly hard to pull off. In its way, it feels like a real behavior version of a Billy Wilder movie, which is, I think, incredibly remarkable...
...pump: "The suicide." In a tribute to his ancestors, Geisel did one ad in semi-German: "Quick Heinrich, Das Flit" (Should it be "Raus"?) The campaign expanded to book form, with a collection of the published ads, and a promotional movie, produced by Warner Bros. It showed a whale being menacing by a mosquito; Orca snarls, "Quick Jonah! The Flit!" and a man in a polka-dot bathing suit emerges from the whale's mouth to repel the attacker...
...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-see hit for five-year-olds, college students and retirees. Castle-Hughes’ role in Whale Rider is far more understated, yet the youngest ever Best Actress nominee also deserves recognition for displaying an inner strength and patience that hold together what might have been the Maori version of Yentl...
They will go 1-3 down the stretch, losing at Vermont and Dartmouth, managing a victory at the Whale against Union, and dropping the season finale against...
...obscure Brazilian film released back in January 2003; a Screenplay nom for The Barbarian Invasions, a French-language movie from Canada; two Acting nominationss and a Screenplay nod for In America, a small film with no star wattage; and a freak Best Actress nomination for 13-year-old Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who became the youngest nominee in the category’s history...