Slog - Comments on This Weekend at the Movies http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6 IN MOVIE NEWS: As Oscar nominations loom (the announcement is Jan 23), reporters are push-polling favorites by highlighting some contenders above others. People ask why I've been mentioning the locally produced Iraq in Fragments again and again? Because it's great, of course, but also because of articles like "Controversy Rules Oscar Contenders" in the New York Times, where misfires like My Country, My Country get special treatment largely because the filmmaker can be interviewed "seated in her comfortable TriBeCa office early last month." (And maybe—I'll try to give them benefit of the doubt—because she's one of the women being mentioned... Copyright 2008 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:10:28 -0800 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:33:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle January 22nd should be good, as that's when a really rocking movie comes out with lots of blood and guts and plot turns galore - and even the weapons are done right.

It's the one with all the name actors in it, including Jeremy Piven and Ben Affleck. Highly recommended!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c583849 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c583849 Arts Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:08:49 -0800 Comment by SeattleExile Which movie is the picture from? I only want to see the one with Judi Dench!

]]> SeattleExile http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c584032 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c584032 Arts Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:52:11 -0800 Comment by annie @2: Notes on a Scandal. That's what the
links to the reviews are for!

]]> annie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c584362 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c584362 Arts Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:07:58 -0800 Comment by Jamie Talk about your liberal wankstains. Check out this comment from the article.

Stanley Nelson, the director of another shortlisted film, “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” said that while Mr. Moore was “over the top,” his work occupied a significant position within the genre. Speaking at an Upper West Side coffee shop, Mr. Nelson said, “What’s fascinating about documentary today is the different ways to approach it.”

Referring to his own film about Jim Jones, who led the mass suicide in which more than 900 people died in Guyana in 1978, Mr. Nelson said: “It was essential for us not to say that this guy was only evil. Just by being somewhat objective, we were being revolutionary.

Wow, that's revolutionary, what's next Mr. Nelson? What about a revolutionary documentary on Hitler where you show that he wasn't just evil. He loved opera, built the autobahns, loved dogs and was a non-smoking vegetarian as well. Who the fuck needs to parody documentary film makers when you've got guys like Stanley Nelson saying things like that for you?

]]> Jamie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c584718 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/this_weekend_at_the_6#c584718 Arts Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:33:55 -0800