Any major-race hopes that Focus Features may have had for the film were basically dashed this week.
Cosmopolis alternates between mannered repression and cold frenzy.
Understanding Screenwriting #88: Young Adult, A Dangerous Method, The Palm Beach Story, & More
Hollywood studio development executives always insist that characters have to be “likable” and usually ask for a scene early in the script that shows it.
It’s both unfair and too easy to shake out predictions for this category based on what is most likely to appeal to the Kindle Fire set.
Stoking one’s cynicism over this category is the very real probability that Jonah Hill will be an Oscar nominee.
The Artist seems likely to not only get nominated, but also win.
First take a look at the 15 feature films nominated by the Art Directors Guild.
Don’t let those pretty faces fool you.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2011, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
Every character’s gesture is paradoxically bombastic and consequential.
So as not to simply give the poster a snarky brush-off, it’s worth noting what it’s able to accomplish, however unwittingly.
A Dangerous Method unsettles with its lucid visions of release and repression.