Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Friday, 28 February 2014
Academy Awards come to Hollywood (preview)
Ashley Wells, Seven, CC Liu, Amber Larson, Dev, Wisdom Quarterly; AirTalk's Mantle, Loewenstein, and guest film critics prerecorded at the Egyptian Theatre (KPCC FM, SCPR.org)
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| Golden Oscar overlooking Hollywood lights, L.A., viewed from Griffith Observatory (below); golden Buddha towering over Nan, Thailand (above) in a haze (abilityriddle/flickr.com). |
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| Oscar statue seen high atop space observatory in view of the stars, Hollywood, CA before 83rd Annual Academy Awards to be held Sunday, March 2, 2014 in rain-soaked LA (KAT/WQ). |
Oscar ballots at the ready! Academy Awards preview
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| Oscar statue (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images) |
KPCC film critics give the how and why on marking viewing-party ballots for awards-worthy films. For the 11th annual “FilmWeek on AirTalk” Academy Awards preview, Host Larry Mantle is joined by Wade Major of boxoffice.com, Tim Cogshell of Box Office Magazine, Alynda Wheat of People Magazine, Peter Rainer of the Christian Science Monitor, Henry Sheehan of dearhenrysheehan.com, Charles Solomon of amazon.com, regular KPCC Film Critic Lael Loewenstein, and Justin Chang of Variety.
COMMENTARY
The most important category this year is "Best Documentary," and we have our fingers crossed for Jeremy Scahill and Richard Rowley's "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" (Democracy Now!). But it is a tough category this year with other great choices such as The Act of Killing (about Indonesia, its military regime, and the million Indonesians they killed to stay in power and enrich themselves), The Square (about Egypt's Arab Spring centered in Tahrir Square), and 20 Feet from Stardom (about the best part of most pop music, the amazing and unsung back-up singers).
And then there's "Magnetism" in space between Sandy Bollocks and Ceorgie Glooney, which will probably sweep the whole show along with Jared Leto's "San Antonio Sellers Club" ably supported by Matt Mc Something or other. And we have our fingers crossed that this is finally Johnny Depp's year for his fantastic work as the pirate in "Saving Capt. Phillips." *Wink* See all of the nominees in all of the categories so as to memorize all of the fine minutiae for your Sunday viewing party: oscar.go.com/nominees
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| Give me an award for my art! |
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| Hollywood Oscar, Griffith Park (ocio.go) |
- LIVE: Full Oscar coverage, breaking news (Huff Post)
- "12 Years a Slave" sweeps Spirit Awards! (LN/LA Times)
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| OSCARS 2014: Complete LIST of nominees and WINNERS |
"White Rabbit" Arabic version by Mayssa Karaa for "American Hustle"
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| Los Angeles skyline in window as viewed from Tinsel Town/Hollywood |
Sunday, 26 January 2014
"The Internet's Own Boy"/"The Rocket" (film)
Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Amy Goodman at Sundance (DemocracyNow.org)
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| Amy Goodman |
The film, titled “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” directed by Brian Knappenberger, follows the sadly short arc of Swartz’s life. A coalition of Internet activists, technologists, and policy experts are joining together on Feb. 11, 2014 for “The Day We Fight Back.”
As they say on their Website, reflecting on the victory against SOPA, “Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the Internet and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance. If Aaron were alive, he’d be on the front lines." Listen
(EK) Harvard student downloads academic JSTOR articles and bam!
"The Rocket" (Laos) directed by Kim Mordaunt and starring Sitthiphon
Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Suthep Po-ngam (from Australia)
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