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The Deadly Syndrome



Eucalyptus



Wolves in the Garden



I Hope I Become A Ghost


Wintersleep



Weighty Ghost



Archaeologist



Oblivion

anchors away

MADDOW

OLBERMANN

WILLIAMS

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more than just talking heads.

the princess

generation

i am so not one for watching ads, but i really like this one!

noms!

The Nominations

Best Actor

Richard Jenkins - THE VISITOR

Frank Langella - FROST/NIXON

Sean Penn - MILK

Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

i'm rooting for either richard jenkins or sean penn

Best Actress

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Angelina Jolie - Changeling

Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Meryl Streep - Doubt

Kate Winslet - The Reader

no surprise, my vote is for anne hathaway!

Best Supporting Actor

Josh Brolin - Milk

Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder

Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

heath ledger of course! i do think it was quiite daring of them to nominate RDJ (one of my favorites) for tropic thunder.


Best Director

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Fincher

Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard

Milk - Gus Van Sant

The Reader - Stephen Daldry

Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle

i have a feeling danny boyle will nab this one.

Best Original Screenplay

Frozen River - Courtney Hunt

Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh

In Bruges - Martin McDonagh

Milk - Dustin Lance Black

WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

i'm rooting for in bruges, of course. however, it's possible wall-e may win, or milk.

ooh, and he's attractive. now i want him to win even more.Best Picture

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

Slumdog Millionaire

people are upset that the dark knight wasn't nominated. as am i. what a rip!

:: The Playlist ::: Why So Serious? 'The Dark Knight' Oscar Outrage Begins

The Dark Campaign



Ain't It Cool's opinion

show me

images evoke emotions,
thoughts,
words

[waning moon, karl young, 2003]

we are running / we are mad

island
city

one can
loose

oneself
in any

pattern
any tree

star
cloud

mountain
field

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there
are stars
in the
branches
of the
trees

all the
windows
of the

moon
open and
close

flower stars

Richard Denner

footnote to howl

(by allen ginsberg)

...Holy the groaning saxophone!
Holy the bop
apocalypse!

Holy the jazzbands marijuana
hipsters peace & junk & drums!
Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements!...

first love

jimmy stewart is without a doubt the first man i ever fell in love with. the first movie i saw him in was it's a wonderful life, of course. i watch it every year between thanksgiving and christmas. i was too young when i first saw it, however, to realize who jimmy stewart was and even that he was an actor. the next movie i saw with him in it was the man who knew too much, which also happened to be one of my first hitchcocks (after to catch a thief and north by northwest). then i saw vertigo, and i think that's when i fell in love for good. i didn't realize it at the time, but looking back i know it was that movie that did it. when i saw the philadelphia story for the first time all i wanted was for katharine hepburn and jimmy to get together. rear window and anatomy of a murder remain favorites as well.

once someone told me they didn't really like jimmy stewart all that much. i was at an age where i didn't argue with anyone, or present my opinion if it was contrary to another's. but i remember feeling defensive of jimmy stewart when i found out there were people who didn't like him, for whatever reason. i loved his voice, his slouch, his walk, his mischevious smile, his innocent smile, his gaze when he was in love...everything.
"He was the first movie star to enter the service for World War II, joining a year before Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was initially refused entry into the Air Force because he weighed 5 pounds less than the required 148 pounds, but he talked the recruitment officer into ignoring the test. He eventually became a Colonel, and earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Croix de Guerre and 7 battle stars. In 1959, he served in the Air Force Reserve, before retiring as a brigadier general." (imdb.com)
"I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients: it will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully."

feisty heisty

:: The Playlist ::: Spike Lee Talks 'Inside Man 2'; Says Plot Has Changed; Denzel, Clive Owen & Principal Cast To Return

i love this movie.
clever & twisty...
+ Denzel & Willem are in it!however, i wonder how the 2nd one will work out...
many sequels turn out to be a bust, but they keep making sequels of films just because they were successful. you can't expect another inside man to be good just because the original is.




other heisty films i love:
the italian job (of which they are making a sequel called the brazilian job to come out in 2011)ocean's eleven (of which, as we know, there are 2 sequels. i also like o13, but i did not see o12 because i was told by absolutely everyone that it was terrible)the maltese falcon
(okay, so not exactly a heist, but the same idea!)a fish called wanda