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Post by Kino on Feb 19, 2008 18:46:38 GMT
Er, get ur abbrevs right, man: TAOJJ BTCRF. No need to, man. That's the official short title in the U.S.
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Capo
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Post by Capo on Feb 19, 2008 19:09:12 GMT
The official short title? Films have official short titles?
I'm out of touch.
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Post by jrod on Feb 19, 2008 20:33:35 GMT
seeing a few that Im pretty interested in this week...Michael Clayton, American Gangster, and Lust Caution. Ive seen something like 50 movies after that, so I figure I should be good to go then
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Post by svsg on Feb 20, 2008 4:39:26 GMT
Best CinematographyNo Country For Old Men Zodiac Across The Universe There Will Be Blood? Try renting Assassination of Jesse James, too. (Sorry, if you already watched it; don't remember if you did.) I think TWBB's cinematography is good, though it didn't leap at me like NCFOM. I was in two minds, but I think it deserves to be nominated. I have two Antonioni movies from blockbuster unwatched for almost a month Once I return one of them in-store, I am planning to rent Jesse James. I want to watch most of the oscar nominated movies, but I don't think I'll manage to do that
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Post by Blib on Feb 20, 2008 9:44:57 GMT
How long do we have to get in our top fives? And, would you all object to my submissions even though I've seen maybe a fraction of the movies everyone else here has? I am definitely seeing There Will Be Blood this weekend and I plan on watching American Gangster and Assassination of Jesse James... as soon as possible. I also want to see Juno but time and financial difficulties make it difficult to see movies in the theater for me.
Also, does anyone know where I can find a list of all movies released in 2007? I may have seen quite a few more movies from this last year than I realize and I need to double check to be sure.
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Post by RNL on Feb 20, 2008 21:26:11 GMT
Also, does anyone know where I can find a list of all movies released in 2007? Here. You can filter the list by total and average votes, too.
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Post by Kino on Feb 20, 2008 22:28:53 GMT
There Will Be Blood? Try renting Assassination of Jesse James, too. (Sorry, if you already watched it; don't remember if you did.) I think TWBB's cinematography is good, though it didn't leap at me like NCFOM. I was in two minds, but I think it deserves to be nominated. Right, right. Were you just naming your top 2, or were was that your list of nominees for Best Cinematography? I'm the opposite. NCFOM is very functional and striking in a subtle way. TWBB is comparatively outright striking - the silhouetted figures against the burning derrick; the color pallette of interiors, etc. Maybe it's just that there's more low-key lighting in TWBB. AOJJ just oozes beauty. 10 times more apparent than both NCFOM and TWBB. Don't get me wrong. All great. I understand why Deakins (NCFOM) has topped Elswitt (TWBB) in many awards. Good luck. AOJJ is pretty tough to come by at video stores; it's always checked out. Well, at least where I'm at.
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Post by RNL on Feb 20, 2008 23:04:16 GMT
I'm recovering from a violent bout of something-or-other, so I couldn't make it in to Katyn tonight.
Chaotic Ana, Don't Touch the Axe and Flight of the Red Balloon are screening at the IFI next month, so I don't feel too bad about missing the latter two in November.
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Post by Capo on Feb 20, 2008 23:55:07 GMT
I HOPE THERE WILL BE OSCARS, if you get my drift...
When are we doing these awards, anyway? I have Michael Clayton, Control, Paranoid Park, In the Valley of Elah ready to watch; I see Be Kind Rewind tomorrow, La Vie en Rose next week, and Once on March 6th.
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Post by RNL on Feb 21, 2008 1:13:53 GMT
When are we doing these awards, anyway? Shall we try to have the winners announced before the end of March? Want to pick a day? How about Sunday 23rd?
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Post by Capo on Feb 21, 2008 1:21:21 GMT
Yay!
As is custom, then: the final nominations need to be in the Sunday before.
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Post by RNL on Feb 21, 2008 1:26:45 GMT
So three-and-a-half weeks to catch up, cuntfaces.
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Post by svsg on Feb 21, 2008 1:56:19 GMT
Right, right. Were you just naming your top 2, or were was that your list of nominees for Best Cinematography? I want to strike off what I said before. In fact I think the use of light in TWBB is really good. The fire scene and the evenings in general are memorable. TWBB is part of my best cinematography nominations now I wasn't naming top 2 or 3 in any category. I've named all that I think deserve to compete. I don't want to add names just to make up the list of 5 in each category. I didn't think that any actress made a significant impact on me this year, so I didn't include any. Of course I haven't seen many movies from which actresses could be nominated: Atonement, Juno, La vie en rose, I am not there, Eastern Promises....
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Post by Capo on Feb 22, 2008 1:34:18 GMT
Three questions...
1. Who else agrees with Kino in introducing rankings to our nominations? I, for one, do not: it's difficult enough to choose five, sometimes, never mind ranking them. If a film deserves to be nominated, it will be - I realise that not everyone may have seen a film (only me and wetdog, thus far, will be voting for You, the Living) - but once you introduce different scores for differently placed films, the whole voting process becomes political, and potentially riggable(?).
2. Should we introduce a "Best Non-Original Soundtrack" category? I'm thinking of I'm Not There and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
3. Should we make films eligible thatwerne't available for last year's votes? Such as Syndromes and a Century, for instance? This is deviating from the IMDb norm, of course, but if we agree on the films before nominations come in, it could be beneficial. Inland Empire was voted for in last year's awards for more than one category, so it wouldn't be eligible for this year.
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Post by Kino on Feb 22, 2008 1:58:29 GMT
Three questions... 1. Who else agrees with Kino in introducing rankings to our nominations? I, for one, do not: it's difficult enough to choose five, sometimes, never mind ranking them. If a film deserves to be nominated, it will be - I realise that not everyone may have seen a film (only me and wetdog, thus far, will be voting for You, the Living) - but once you introduce different scores for differently placed films, the whole voting process becomes political, and potentially riggable(?). My rationale w/ that is w/ the current system nominations are hinged on distribution/access - what highly thought of movie was seen by the most members. I don't think it matters this year b/c seems like all the regulars except Wetdog and Blibbleblabble have seen TWBB. However, in the future it could play a part...or there's probably some obvious thing that I'm missing that shows that ranking them w/ points isn't that beneficial. I'm down w/ that, but have no suggestions as to how to deem what's eligible. I'd love to give Carice van Houten and Thomas Turgoose props for their amazing work in Black Book and This Is England respectively. And, I'd love for people to check out Turgoose in the movie, as well as Stephen Graham and the rest of the solid cast.
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Post by Kino on Feb 25, 2008 0:58:39 GMT
Saw Gone Baby Gone again. Amy Ryan's peformance is still impressive, but less so this time around.
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Post by RNL on Feb 25, 2008 1:02:07 GMT
Should we make films eligible thatwerne't available for last year's votes? Such as Syndromes and a Century, for instance? This is deviating from the IMDb norm, of course, but if we agree on the films before nominations come in, it could be beneficial. Inland Empire was voted for in last year's awards for more than one category, so it wouldn't be eligible for this year. I'm in favour of this, so long as the films received no nominations from anyone last year, and also so long as they weren't on general release in 2006 - by which I mean, no one nominated Flags of Our Fathers last year for anything (I think), but that doesn't mean someone who only caught it on DVD last week can decide to nominate it. Also, so long as 2006 is the cut-off... no IMDb 2005s. This seriously alters my prospective nominees.
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Post by Kino on Feb 25, 2008 1:04:47 GMT
Do you guys have records of what films received nominations last year?
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Post by RNL on Feb 25, 2008 1:11:20 GMT
Shit... I don't think so.
Do we?
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Post by Capo on Feb 25, 2008 18:24:09 GMT
Sure we do. You mean these? What were everyone's thoughts on my other two questions? 1. Who else agrees with Kino in introducing rankings to our nominations? I, for one, do not: it's difficult enough to choose five, sometimes, never mind ranking them. If a film deserves to be nominated, it will be - I realise that not everyone may have seen a film (only me and wetdog, thus far, will be voting for You, the Living) - but once you introduce different scores for differently placed films, the whole voting process becomes political, and potentially riggable(?). 2. Should we introduce a "Best Non-Original Soundtrack" category? I'm thinking of I'm Not There and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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