Me too. Big Apatow fan.
Mal: Cut it out. Job's not done until we're back on Serenity. Zoe: Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.
'Ariel'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Scrappy - Dec 23, 2005 7:41:06 am PST #9310 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Sean K - Dec 23, 2005 8:08:55 am PST #9311 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Haven't seen 40YOV yet, but I love Steve Carrell. It looks funny as all get out.
She usually annoys me, but Stephanie Zacharach's review of The New World over at Salon (day pass required) is cracking me up.
And in classic movie news, I watched It Happened One Night, with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert (HUH. BUH.), last night. Very enjoyable. I say it well deserved to walk away with all five major Oscars that year (movie, director, screenplay, actor, actress), but I have no idea what it was up against, so that wouldn't be an honest assessment. Still, it's a very funny movie, with very pretty, and talented, people in it.
ChiKat - Dec 23, 2005 8:11:19 am PST #9312 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
It Happened One Night
I watched that about a month ago. I love it. Colbert and Gable play so well off each other. And talk about the snark? Wonderful!
Sean K - Dec 23, 2005 8:18:41 am PST #9313 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The scene where the detectives show up at their cabin and Colbert just dives right in to the fake conversation Gable whips up, with only a second's warning, is pure genius.
erikaj - Dec 23, 2005 8:21:47 am PST #9314 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
One of my favorites. Have not seen "Virgin" yet...kind of debating about it.
askye - Dec 23, 2005 8:27:32 am PST #9315 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I had to go check and see what It Happened One Night beat in the Oscars.
Leading Actor -- William Powell (The Thin Man) and Frank Morgan (The Affairs of Cellini)
Leading Actress --- Grace Moore (One Night of Love), Norma Shearer (The Barretts of Whimpole Streeet), and Bette Davis as a write in candidate for Of Human Bondage
Directing -- WS Van Dyke (The Thin Man) and Victor Shertzinger (One NIght of Love)
Outstanding Production -- The Barretts of Whimpole Street, Cleopatra, Flirtation Walk, The Gay Divorcee, Here Comes the Navy, The House of Rothschild, Imitation of Life, One Night of Love, The Thin Man, Viva Villa!, and The White Parade. The studios were listed by each movie title so I guess the award went to the studio.
Writing (adaptation)--- Farnces Goodrich and Albert Hackett (Thin Man), Ben Becht ( Viva Villa!)
Sean K - Dec 23, 2005 8:35:01 am PST #9316 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The nominations were clearly a bit of a different creature back then, but there's some stiff competition there, at least in the acting categories. I haven't seen enough of the other picture noms (and boy, were there a LOT) to judge that.
I think I'd be hard pressed to pick between William Powell in Thin Man and Gable in Happened One Night. I was thinking as I was watching how Gable's performance was as enoyable as one of Powell's, little did I know....
Fred Pete - Dec 23, 2005 9:00:18 am PST #9317 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
I haven't seen the other Best Actress noms, but Colbert could have been nominated 3 times -- her performances in Cleopatra and Imitation of Life are also excellent.
Kathy A - Dec 23, 2005 9:22:23 am PST #9318 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Did the Academy have two Best Picture (well, Best Picture and Best Film) awards only in 1927? At first, I thought the excessive number of nominees against IHON was due to two categories, but the more I think about it, the more I seem to recall that they only had that split in the first year of awards.
Sean K - Dec 23, 2005 9:37:14 am PST #9319 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Did the Academy have two Best Picture (well, Best Picture and Best Film) awards only in 1927?
It was an award for Outstanding Picture and one for Unique and Artistic Picture in 1927/28. I am not entirely certain of the distinction, and clearly, neither was the Academy, as the very next ceremony for 1928/29, they had dropped the Unique and Artistic Picture category. Both categories were given to the studio responsible for the movie in question, much as Best Picture is given to the producing team today. That's a relic of the old studio system, and in fact, by 1929/30, they had changed the name of the category to Oustanding Production, which (I believe) it remained until it got changed to Best Picture.