It’s the morning of the Oscar nominations, and I’m not upset. This is weird. All the films I wanted to see nominated for Best Picture are. All the actors I hoped to see receive nominations for this year’s performances were. Compare and contrast to last year’s fatal omission of Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director, or […]
Read More The Not-Oscars 2013Hollywood is obsessed with money, I say. Duh, you think in response. But hear me out. In 2013, Hollywood was particularly obsessed with money. Not just with making money, but with telling stories about making — and losing — money. In my Top Ten list last year, I named Zero Dark Thirty my favorite film […]
Read More Top Ten Films: 2013Think of Rome. All sorts of images may flash into your mind. You might first think of religion, or of the glamor captured in cinema by Fellini in the sixties. Maybe you think of the history, the architecture, the art. Whatever it is, you’ll likely find it in La Grande Bellezza, the latest film from […]
Read More Italian ‘Beauty’: Death, Dancing & Debauchery In Rome
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