There’s more to An Unexpected Journey than self-conscious nostalgia and fan pandering.
Each of these moments illustrates a slightly different shade of the films’ fluid realization of a complex visual, thematic, and emotional spectrum.
At the risk of milking a joke whose teets have been sore for weeks, The Artist’s musical score will do just fine without Kim Novak’s vote.
The Artist seems likely to not only get nominated, but also win.
This season presents two Oscar contenders, Hugo and The Artist, that both bask in the dreaminess of cinema’s early days.