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So, Oscar nominations: What really thrills me is that The Lives of Others made it into the best non-English language film category. Mind you, I don't think it will win - even though I consider it to be the best movie in 2006 (of those I've seen) - because it's up against Pan's Labyrinth, which hasn't started here yet but which I've seen people rave about on lj, and let's face it, German movies which have nothing to do with the Third Reich whatsoever don't attract a lot of attention in the US. But what do I know? The Academy nominated it, after all. At the very least, this means it has a chance of actually getting shown in American (and British) cinemas.
Other than that, I'm also glad The Queen got the nominations it did, and ditto for Little Miss Sunshine. No opinion on Eastwood versus Scorsese: The Rematch, as Letters from Iwo Jima hasn't started here yet and while I liked The Departed, I didn't love it the way I did The Aviator, aka the one I really thought Scorsese should have gotten the Oscar for. And speaking of people who should have gotten Oscars a long time ago (and not just honorary ones), I'm glad Peter O'Toole got nominated, though I take it the popular favourite is Forest Whittaker.
Someone who never got an Oscar of his own, either, was O'Toole late pal Richard Burton. I just got the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf dvd which reminded me of the injustice of that one (didn't he loose to John Wayne, of all the people, in the Virginia Woolf year?). Said DVD, at least the Region 2 version, is highly recommendable: it has two audio commentaries, one by Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh, and one by Haskell Wexler (the cinematographer), which I haven't listened to yet, as well as several documentaries.
So, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, revisited.
( George and Martha, sad, sad, sad... )
Other than that, I'm also glad The Queen got the nominations it did, and ditto for Little Miss Sunshine. No opinion on Eastwood versus Scorsese: The Rematch, as Letters from Iwo Jima hasn't started here yet and while I liked The Departed, I didn't love it the way I did The Aviator, aka the one I really thought Scorsese should have gotten the Oscar for. And speaking of people who should have gotten Oscars a long time ago (and not just honorary ones), I'm glad Peter O'Toole got nominated, though I take it the popular favourite is Forest Whittaker.
Someone who never got an Oscar of his own, either, was O'Toole late pal Richard Burton. I just got the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf dvd which reminded me of the injustice of that one (didn't he loose to John Wayne, of all the people, in the Virginia Woolf year?). Said DVD, at least the Region 2 version, is highly recommendable: it has two audio commentaries, one by Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh, and one by Haskell Wexler (the cinematographer), which I haven't listened to yet, as well as several documentaries.
So, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, revisited.
( George and Martha, sad, sad, sad... )
