2001 Oscar nominations:
Best Picture
Best Director, Peter Jackson
Best ing Actor, Ian McKellen
Here are some assertions, maybe they’re controversial, maybe they’re not, but I do think they are all true:
1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the apex of modern blockbuster filmmaking, and the ultimate IP explosion. Some might say it’s Star Wars; Star Wars is a shiny object that falls apart under a stern gaze. Some might say it’s the MCU; there is not a single MCU…
2001 Oscar nominations:
Best Picture
Best Actor, Tom Wilkinson
Best Actress, Sissy Spacek
Best ing Actress, Marisa Tomei
When is it that every American movie about grief started having to end with a gun in someone’s hand? When did vengeance become such a widely accepted step in the pop cultural grieving process? I see these debates about the death penalty, and no matter what side of the argument you’re on, everyone seems to agree that the families of victims should…
2001 Oscar nominations:
Best Director, David Lynch
It’s so hard to explain why you like one surreal David Lynch movie and not another. Like, I like Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet because they don’t always make logical sense. That’s also why I don’t like Mulholland Drive as much. How do I communicate that there’s a quality of authenticity to the surreality of the former films that isn’t present in the latter? That sounds like horseshit. But I feel it.
It may…
2001 Oscar nominations:
Best Actor, Denzel Washington
Best ing Actor, Ethan Hawke
I reviewed this run and gun morality tale a while back. If you’re interested, you can read that take here. My opinion hasn’t changed much. I bounced it up to 3 1/2 because I always forget how fucking dominant Denzel is in this. I always find myself wondering if he actually deserved the Oscar this year, and then I watch it again and I’m like, “Oh wait, maybe…
