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listersgirl ([personal profile] listersgirl) wrote2006-01-30 06:46 pm
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It's gold, baby

This is the first year that I can remember where I have actually been interested in the majority of the Oscar frontrunners. I know, eh? I mean, not all of them, obviously, but still.

The actual nominations haven't been announced yet (I guess soon, right?), but EW had a list of 25 movies to watch before Oscar night*, so I've started working my way through them. I'd seen two already (Brokeback Mountain and The 40 Year-Old Virgin), and there are a few I have no interest in seeing (Cinderella Man, King Kong and Narnia), but that still leaves 20.

I saw Mrs. Henderson Presents while I was in Halifax (very fun and fluffy, and Judi Dench is wonderful, as I'm sure you can imagine), and I watched Crash last night, which was an exhausting, painful, powerful experience. I'm hoping that Junebug is coming next from Zip, but we'll see. The rest, well, a few of them are or will be out on DVD before Oscar night, and I might try to see a few of the others in the theatres, especially if I can catch them at cheap rep theatres. Especially I'd like to see Capote, Munich, Syriana, A History of Violence, Transamerica, Match Pointand The Squid and the Whale.

And I'll probably re-organize my list once the actual nominations come out.

*I don't really know how they picked these movies. Some of them I can't imagine are going to be winning anything. But I do love a good list.

[identity profile] marginalia.livejournal.com 2006-01-30 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
nominations are tomorrow. i have scheduled my morning for bitching about them ;)

and ... a lot of random stuff gets nominated in smaller awards, so maybe that's how they came up with it. i do not know. also, the most important one to see is capote. omg capote. i need a capote icon.

[identity profile] jeejeen.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm very behind on my movie-watching. BOOOO ON ME. I haven't even seen Brokeback yet. In any case, The Squid and the Whale was awesome, and Syriana, not so much. I'd be interested to hear your take on it, though.

[identity profile] alltheleaves.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
I expect the list of 25 probably comes from what members of the Academy have been asked to watch and consider for nominations. We have a Bafta member upstairs and he keeps being asked to watch specific films at the moment.
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[personal profile] eanja 2006-01-31 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I only just saw a preview for Mrs. Henderson Presents, but want to see it now when it comes round my little cheap local theater.

I have seen so few of the movies on the list- mostly because I see relatively few movies to begin with. But I keep seeing mention of this Squid and Whale thing that I've never heard of, so I think I need to see what that is. Otherwise, Brokeback Mountain and King Kong are the only 2 on your list that I've seen. (I don't know if our taste in movies overlaps at all, but King Kong was excellent. And not just because I think Brody is really pretty. Than again, I think you liked the 40-year old virgin, and I don't have the slightest interest in seeing that, so possibly we don't like too much of the same thing. Although I am curious- that one got reasonably good reviews, so perhaps the commercials made it look much more sophomoric than it really was?)