Written as a Film Note for Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Stanley Donen was never nominated for an Oscar, so in 1998, the Academy did what was right and awarded him an honorary Academy Award. Donen danced with his Oscar on stage before declaring the secret behind his directorial success. “You show up,” he said. “You show up- and you stay out of the way. But you gotta show up or else you can’t take the credit and win one of these.” Continue reading
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My movies and the movies I like.
Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
*Akeelah and the Bee* is one of the great sport movies of all time- except that it does not really a _sport_. The _sport_ is spelling, but the theme and plot are as old as rooting for the underdog. Continue reading
The Screenwriter’s Vow of Air Vent Chastity
Screenwriter “John August”:http://www.johnaugust.com, who I have been reading (on his blog and IMDb) for many years, and have been watching lazily since Charlie’s Angels and more closely since Big Fish has a “great post on his blog today”:http://johnaugust.com/archives/2006/air-vents-are-for-air about an overused film cliché (I copied and pasted that accented ‘é’ because I have no clue how to type it!). Continue reading
Tracking Down the Roots… Again!
Last week I “chronicled my search for a Hindi song that I had been tracking down for ages”:http://www.devanshanu.com/things/2006/03/30/tracking-down-the-roots-of-an-elusive-song/. This week, I found another one. This time, the search has been 11 years in the making. Continue reading
2006: Movies I am Looking Forward To
So far, 2006 has been a dull month. With not many Oscar hopefuls in the marketplace and January sluggishness now extending into March sluggishness, the only people who have had anything to cheer about this year have been Horror fans.
And I am not a horror fan.
So, here are the movies I am most looking forward to in 2006: Continue reading
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