October 2012 Updates
‘Tis October, three more months before we bid 2012 goodbye. Being the last quarter of the season, it’s the time of the year when we start getting flooded by the heavy-hitters aiming for Oscar glory. Better get ready to be pounded with “prestige” biopics (Lincoln, Hyde Park on Hudson, Hitchcock), sweeping “epics” (Les Miserables, Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi) and other “serious” dramas (Zero Dark Thirty, The Sessions). Oy vey.
Some new things this month:
1.) Why don’t we have a bit of genre-specific fun and have a …
Horror Movie Marathon: Scary Asian Shit Edition
A Tale of Two Sisters (Korea – 2003)
Audition (Japan – 1999)
4bia (Thailand – 2008)
2.) New Poll: To celebrate the start of the Oscar season, I ask the question: which of the past five best pictures winners was your favorite? Answer the poll at the sidebar, and if you say The Artist or The King’s Speech, be ashamed. Be very ashamed.
3.) Got some tickets to the London Film Festival, and hoping to write some of the films I get to see there (Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Sessions, etc.). Going to be a busy month because school just started, so will write whenever I can, which will hopefully be a lot.
That’s it, have a rockin’ month everyone.
Vinny
I actually loved all of the winners of the past five years so that’s a tough question. All so different! I’d have to say though that I was most excited and engaged during No Country For Old Men. Just so sure of itself..its got heart-pounding intensity at moments and comedic whims interspersed with sheer terror at the chilling indifferent expression of the sure to be remembered Anton Chigurh.