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Jan. 11, 2007
Happy New Year, and to Margaret, thanks for the good catch of my typo_ yes, my last blog before Christmas vacation was meant to say ""Greetings!''
Now that we are all here and alert, let's survey what's worth seeing-reading-watching: David Denby's essay on moviegoing in the early part of the 21st century, in this week's New Yorker magazine. It's scary but must reading.
Also, check out Jan. 15's broadcast of the 64th annual Golden Globes, which should see Clint Eastwood winning best director for his Iwo Jima movies and ""The Departed'' winning actor and screenplay awards, probably).
Also, the Red Bank Arts theater is showing two movies worth your time and money: the Judi Dench potboiler, ""Notes on a Scandal'' (Rex Reed told me months ago it was sensational) and ""Curse of the Golden Flower,'' the latest glitzy Gong Li extravaganza from China.
And a very interesting bellwether for upcoming awards now exists: the Directors Guild of America's nominees for 2006's best exclude Mel Gibson ("Apocalypto'') and Eastwood, which qualifies as shocking. Why did they do that? Because it's time for Martin Scorsese ("The Departed'' ) to win; if he gets the Golden Globe on Jan. 15 _ unlikely but could happen _ and the DGA, he's in for the Oscar, his first.
Happy New Year, and to Margaret, thanks for the good catch of my typo_ yes, my last blog before Christmas vacation was meant to say ""Greetings!''
Now that we are all here and alert, let's survey what's worth seeing-reading-watching: David Denby's essay on moviegoing in the early part of the 21st century, in this week's New Yorker magazine. It's scary but must reading.
Also, check out Jan. 15's broadcast of the 64th annual Golden Globes, which should see Clint Eastwood winning best director for his Iwo Jima movies and ""The Departed'' winning actor and screenplay awards, probably).
Also, the Red Bank Arts theater is showing two movies worth your time and money: the Judi Dench potboiler, ""Notes on a Scandal'' (Rex Reed told me months ago it was sensational) and ""Curse of the Golden Flower,'' the latest glitzy Gong Li extravaganza from China.
And a very interesting bellwether for upcoming awards now exists: the Directors Guild of America's nominees for 2006's best exclude Mel Gibson ("Apocalypto'') and Eastwood, which qualifies as shocking. Why did they do that? Because it's time for Martin Scorsese ("The Departed'' ) to win; if he gets the Golden Globe on Jan. 15 _ unlikely but could happen _ and the DGA, he's in for the Oscar, his first.
posted by Eleanor's blog at 1:23 PM
1 Comments:
How can the Directors Guild do such a thing.Makes me sick.The garbage that is out there (movies)
APOCALYPTO was fantastic.
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