Live with Soderbergh
I was on HuffPostLive with Steven Soderbergh earlier today. I'm the bald one *without* the awesome filmography. Sadly I only got one question in -- ). I had a whole list.
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César Noms: "Amour" vs "Rust & Bone" vs "Holy Motors"
Editor's Note: You may have figured out over the years that The Film Experience is more than a little fond of France and French cinema. Sadly I've never been to France. This year I've asked my friend...
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Sundance: Campion Takes On The Miniseries
Michael C. here. Just as I was calming down over the too-good-to-be-true Before Midnight buzz, news of the Sundance premiere of Jane Campion's Top of the Lake hit me and now I run the risk of...
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One Night Only ♪
Have you heard that The Academy is going to honor the renaissance of the movie musical with tributes to Chicago, Dreamgirls and Les Miz during the ceremony on February 24th? I'm never been that big on...
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Seven Link Paths
Pop Matters excellent piece about the Oscar snubs - were they just "body blind" this year? Pajiba 30 brain bleaching moments from Movie 43 that you can't unsee -- i'm so glad I read a third of this...
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29 Days 'til Oscar: Best Make-Up & Hairstyling
The Academy recently changed the name of the Best Makeup category to Best Makeup & Hairstyling but in truth hairstyling, wigs and whatnots have long been part of the diverse criteria for which...
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SAG Award Seating. Any Requests?
Thanks to Sasha Stone for tweeting this. It's a SAG Awards seating chart (of sorts). I can't make out the faces as well as I'd like but Jessica Chastain and Denzel Washington are right up front with...
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Three Reasons Why "Argo" Became the One To Beat
You can't always know how the future will treat each year's awards recipients. Will their strengths will come into sharper focus as time erodes the particulars of the movie culture and conversation...
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Sundance Winners: Will "Fruitvale" and "Blood Brother" March On to Oscar Glory?
Here is Amanda Seyfried with some paparazzi at Sundance. Amanda is great at being a celebrity. So even if Lovelace didn't exactly light the world on fire, she still wins. But I suppose we should...
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Silver Live-Blogging SAG Playbook (Arrivals)
6:22 Shall we begin? 6: 27 In this year of Past Favorites as Current Favorites -- so many previous statue-hoarding players in the mix -- I think it's wothing noting a bit of SAG history. Two of this...
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Silver Live-Blogging SAG Playbook (The Show!)
Refresh your screen for updates as we go... Previously: THE ARRIVALS 8:00 The announcer just said Zero Dark Thirty Jessica Chastain is Zero Dark Flirty. Regret to inform that his was not even the worst...
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Film Bitch Awards Best Picture Prizes (2000-2012)
Appropros of nothing other than to whet your appetite for more Film Bitch Awards announcements, this site's long running awards (I agonize over my snail's pace as much as any of you!) I thought I'd...
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Linkhead
USA Today no, Jennifer Lawrence did not have a wardrobe malfunction despite all visual evidence to the contrary. That's just the dress!Filmdrunk uncovers the MTV promo that got JLaw her SAG card - she...
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Best Picture: What If There Were Only Five?
Life of Pi by Dean WaltonI was just looking as a series of graphic Best Picture prints designed by Dean Walton and my mind wandered into a geeky Oscaroborus that I couldn't break free of. The series of...
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Golden Questions
Which Oscar related questions are currently haunting you? Perhaps we can answer them? We'll answer at least one of them daily all week long.
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Luca's Body
JA from MNPP here. You know it's an excellent bit of movie news when you can fill in the BLANK in the sentence "I'd been desperately waiting to hear what BLANK was going to do next" with at least five...
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Misérables No More. Les Joking.
You know a depressing drama has achieved deep market penetration when no one can stop joking about it. Is this a communal embarrassment from making ugly cry faces in the movie theater (don't worry, no...
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SAG Carpet Pt 1: Silhouettes and Character Arcs
Red Carpet Line-Up Returns. I don't know if you've missed it but I have. This two-part SAG edition is less quickfire chat and more epistolary but we haven't talked to Kurt Osenlund in way too long...
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Win "Cabaret" on Blu-Ray
I have two copies of Cabaret, one of my personal top ten favorite films of all time, remastered on Blu-ray™ for its 40th anniversary, to give away to musical-lovin' readers! Flamboyant and eccentric...
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Link Wars Episode IV: A New Blog
MNPP on Keep the Lights On in 250 words or less. Good insights here - love the ending - though JA likes the film more than I do.Deadline Upcoming 3D conversions of all Star Wars movies cancelled. Thank...
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