Diagramming The Interior Space Of Amour

“The silver lining that has taken us by surprise has been the conversation this film has opened up about mental illness.”

“Because it had so many different elements to it, it wasn’t the easiest sell in the world, like a lot of big movies are.”
At $571 Million Worldwide, The Most Successful Best Picture Nominee Is Life Of Pi

“The idea was not to make an Israeli-Palestinian project. Money came from many different places.”
5 Broken Cameras Co-Directors Find Media Descriptions Of Their Documentary Misleading

Art Of The Title Credits ParaNorman

What If The Middle Of Life Of Pi Had Been Silent?

Lincoln On “60 Minutes” 11’31 vid; extras

Scripter Scripts Argo

Mark Boal And Black Hawk Down‘s Bowden Talk CIA And Zero Dark Thirty With Diane Sawyer

Illegal Copies Of Zero Dark Thirty Popular In Pakistan vid

“It’s about producers.”
Producers Guild Picks Argo, Sugar Man

O’Hehir And Haneke Make Sweet Amour

Mel Brooks Says Django May Shotgun Interest In Blazing Saddles Musical

“Not everyone accepts that overexposure is sufficient to destroy evil: some argue that “——” is too robust to be so easily disposed of.”
ThiNkiNg ON DjaNgo‘s LaNguage

FP On The Internal CIA Account Of How The Argo Rescue Went Down

“Quvenzhané utters an incredible scream in Beasts, a cry like an elemental force of nature, and if that cry echoes through the Dolby Theater on February 24, it will be a moment for history.”
Ebert Oscars

O’Hehir Stirs The Hummus Over Bigelow Oscar Rebuff

Kathryn Bigelow’s Fantastic Tribute To At Least 5 Other Women Behind Zero Dark Thirty In Her NBR Award Speech

“What hasn’t been said is that Maya’s the archetype of a government figure we know; the kind of driven, difficult person who pushed an organization. With skin that looks porcelain enough to shatter, Maya isn’t physically imposing. But she’s all intensity—screaming at her boss and essentially blackmailing him into giving her what she wants, living in the office, being a total pill. There’s scant backstory about her life because her life is getting bin Laden. She’s prescient and a pain in the ass, which makes her a perfect Washington character.”

How Zero Dark Thirty‘s TV Spots Show It Both As Movie And As Film

Argo, Les  Misérables, Life Of Pi, Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty
BAFTA Noms Tally Lincoln 10; Les Misérables, Life of Pi 9 Each; Skyfall, 8; Argo 7; Anna Karenina 6; Five Each For Django, Zero Dark Thirty

Lincoln Tops The Critics Awards Scoreboard

The International Dimension Of Life Of Pi‘s $400 Million Box Office

Vancouver Film Critics Go Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow, Chastain, Boal
And - A New Award Named For Local Film “Community Builder” Ian Caddell, Who Died In November

Alliance Of Women Film Journalists Play Take 5 For Zero Dark Thirty

“Haneke is to be praised and admired for filming—so beautifully and so truthfully—straight down into the abyss, and for inviting us to take a long hard look at what’s there.”
Francine Prose On Amour

Visual Effects Society’s 11th Annual Awards Nominees Led By Hobbit, Avengers, Life Of Pi

“The category is called best foreign language film, not best foreign language film as selected by an overly politicized committee in every nation of the world.”

“The backstory is that Bigelow has become a modern-day directorial heroine, which may be why this film is winning even more praise than The Hurt Locker.”
Ebert On Zero Dark Thirty

Thomson Sez Amour Is A Good Excuse For Him To Belittle Or Dismiss Every Other 2012 Film

Mike Kaplan On The Master And Kubrick

Nicholas Jarecki On His Toughest Scene To Write In Arbitrage

“I’ve had my own mild struggles with some of these bipolar issues and my son struggled with some of them. When you’ve been through that, you get it. And then on top of that I just found the family, the neighborhood and the community very enchanting.”
David O. Russell On How He Arrived At Silver Linings Playbook

“At 12, I swore I’d have my own film in the cinema,” Sez Tom Hooper

Judd Apatow 60 MINUTES Preview: Writing As Therapy

Scott, Dargis And Holden Chirp Their Best Picture Shouldas, Including Triple Play For Amour

Is The Accelerated Voting Deadline A Bigger Oscar Problem Than The Electronic Lockouts Of Voters?
And – The Atlantic Aggregates Some Stuff They Read

The Woz On Les Mis‘ Minx Manxman, Samantha Barks

Amour, War Witch, No, A Royal Affair, Intouchables, The Deep, Kon-Tiki, Beyond The Hills, Sister
Nine Films Make Oscar Foreign Language Shortlist

Baltasar Kormákur On The Shipwreck Of Iceland’s Oscar Submission, The Deep  

Top 10 Lists By Critic (Much More To Come)

Dustin Hoffman, “Sunset Cowboy”