Ok, here are my own personal picks for what will win tonight. What I WANT to win, is a whole other story.
Best Picture-The Departed
Best Actor-Forest Whitaker
Best Actress-The Queen
Best Supp. Actor-Eddie Murphy
Best Supp. Actress-Jennifer Hudson
Best Director-Martin Scorsese
Orig. Screenplay-The Queen
Adapt. Screenplay-The Departed
Cinematography-Pan's Labyrinth
Editing-Children of Men
Art Direction-Dreamgirls
Costume Design-Dreamgirls
Original Score-The Queen
Song-"Patience"-Dreamgirls
Makeup-Pan's Labyrinth
Sound-Dreamgirls
Sound Editing-Letter From Iwo Jima
Visual Effects-Superman Returns
Animated Film-Monster House
Foreign Language Film-Pan's Labyrinth
Best Documentary-An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short-Two Hands
Animated Short Film-The Little Matchgirl
Live Action Short-Eramos Pocos
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
The 2007 Christian Film Festival is here!!!
OH MY GOSH I AM SOOOOO EXCITED!
They FINALLY posted the movie schedule for the Film Festival, and I am so psyched. They are showing such good movies this year, and they have such awesome guests! David White AND Kevin Downes! And David White is going to be performing LIVE his one man show, "Holy Man Undercover"! Those two have been my favorite Christian actor/director/producers since I first saw them in "The Crossing". I had the chance to meet Kevin a couple of years ago at the Festival, but I didn't get a picture with him. But this year, definitely. Oh, I am SO jazzed. This is gonna be great. Now I just have to find someone to work for me that day.
2/20/07 "Babel"
Ok, I was really on fire to see this movie, because it was nominated for Best Picture, and I really want to see all the movies nominated before the Oscars on Sunday. So I went this evening with my old college friend, Anne. We had a great time and went to see it at the Loring in downtown Hingham. And it was...well...REALLY DEPRESSING. BEWARE THE DEPRESSING SPOILERS.
2/20/07 "Babel"
NOTES FROM THE BOOK
trailer-"Letters From Iwo Jima" (GOOD movie)
yup, this IS an adult movie
wow, those are really tiny Japanese skirts
that guy looks like a girl
WOW...this REALLY is an adult movie.
Man, that poor kid is now traumatized for life.
Loud sounds to silence...good contrast
Wow, she's a lil sex fiend.
It's really too bad that all these good times are going straight to hell.
I wonder what the Japanese connection is...oh.
Geez, I hope neither Amelia or the kids die or something.
Man, this whole movie is just about a bad situation going worse.
Oh, she's gonna come back naked...BINGO.
Man...this movie is HORRIBLE.
"I peed my pants."
I wonder if she jumps.
This does have a good soundtrack, though...Japanese, Mexican, Morrocan.
RAN-DOM ending...
SO, Babel is kind of like "Crash", as in there are four different people's stories that all relate to each other. There's Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, two American tourists on vacation in Morocco, their kids, who are being cared for by a Mexican nanny living illegally in San Diego, and a Moroccan family of goatherds and a deaf Japanese girl and her father. It was a beautifully made movie, good cinematography and an excellent soundtrack. But on the whole I felt it was too long and plodding at points, I just wanted the story to get on with it. I also felt dissatisfied with some of the stories because I felt there was no resolution, just stories about horrible crap happening to decent people. Anne and I both left pretty bummed out, and now I'm watching Ladyhawke to snap out of it. Next time we'll go see something cheerful, like Schindler's List.
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "If you want to be depressed, listen to this movie."
2/20/07 "Babel"
NOTES FROM THE BOOK
trailer-"Letters From Iwo Jima" (GOOD movie)
yup, this IS an adult movie
wow, those are really tiny Japanese skirts
that guy looks like a girl
WOW...this REALLY is an adult movie.
Man, that poor kid is now traumatized for life.
Loud sounds to silence...good contrast
Wow, she's a lil sex fiend.
It's really too bad that all these good times are going straight to hell.
I wonder what the Japanese connection is...oh.
Geez, I hope neither Amelia or the kids die or something.
Man, this whole movie is just about a bad situation going worse.
Oh, she's gonna come back naked...BINGO.
Man...this movie is HORRIBLE.
"I peed my pants."
I wonder if she jumps.
This does have a good soundtrack, though...Japanese, Mexican, Morrocan.
RAN-DOM ending...
SO, Babel is kind of like "Crash", as in there are four different people's stories that all relate to each other. There's Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, two American tourists on vacation in Morocco, their kids, who are being cared for by a Mexican nanny living illegally in San Diego, and a Moroccan family of goatherds and a deaf Japanese girl and her father. It was a beautifully made movie, good cinematography and an excellent soundtrack. But on the whole I felt it was too long and plodding at points, I just wanted the story to get on with it. I also felt dissatisfied with some of the stories because I felt there was no resolution, just stories about horrible crap happening to decent people. Anne and I both left pretty bummed out, and now I'm watching Ladyhawke to snap out of it. Next time we'll go see something cheerful, like Schindler's List.
Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "If you want to be depressed, listen to this movie."
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
I have no boyfriend, but at last I have my Beast!
Valentine's Day comes early for me!
Yup, Season One is now mine. I was rather obsessed with this show in high school. HUGELY obsessed. Like, so obsessed that if the internet had existed at that point I probably would have had a LOTR-like activity level in fan stuff. But I taped almost all the episodes off the Family Channel when they used to air them, and one awesome thing I noticed right away was that apparently the Family Channel was trimming episodes to fit, and so it's extremely cool to see stuff I'd never seen before. And watching episodes with out fuzz and static and lines running through them is freakin' heavenly. Sigh...Happy Valentine's Day to ME!
Yup, Season One is now mine. I was rather obsessed with this show in high school. HUGELY obsessed. Like, so obsessed that if the internet had existed at that point I probably would have had a LOTR-like activity level in fan stuff. But I taped almost all the episodes off the Family Channel when they used to air them, and one awesome thing I noticed right away was that apparently the Family Channel was trimming episodes to fit, and so it's extremely cool to see stuff I'd never seen before. And watching episodes with out fuzz and static and lines running through them is freakin' heavenly. Sigh...Happy Valentine's Day to ME!
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