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THE JUDGE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE JUDGE is everything that’s wrong with studio bids for Oscar™ consideration. A carefully calculated effort designed to hit all the perceived necessary tropes to qualify as both important and as quality. Alas, it is neither. True, there are excellent performances by Robert Downey, Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, and Billy Bob Thornton, but they… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, courtroom, fathers and sons, film, lawyer, movie, murder trial, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall

TSOTSI

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

TSOTSI

With TSOTSI, Gavin Hood has taken the liberty of updating the timeframe of South African writer Athol Fugard’s only novel. In doing so, the politics of apartheid that spurred the story in the book has given way to the tragedy of AIDS. Changing the circumstances of its title character’s orphaning, though, doesn’t affect the nature of… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

For Tom McCarthy, it’s WIN WIN

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

For Tom McCarthy, it’s  WIN WIN

Tom McCarthy returned to his hometown of Provinctown, N.J., for WIN WIN, his third film as a writer/director. The story of a lawyer on the verge of a financial meltdown who makes a rash and unethical choice also gave him the opportunity to revist his favorite high school sport: wrestling. A working actor with a… Read More »

Tagged With: Bobby Canavale, coach, comedy-drama, director, ethics, film, high school, lawyer, malfeasance, narrative, New Jersey, Paul Giamatti, Provinctown, Tom McCarthy, wrestling, writer

Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Gavin Hood Tells the Story of TSOTSI

Gavin Hood felt that there was more than just an Oscar ™ riding on the success of TSOTSI, based on the novel by Athol Fugard and South Africa’s official entry for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award ™. It’s one of the many things we talked about when I interviewed him on February 10, 2006. … Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award Winner, Africa, African Cinema, Athol Fugard, Best Foreign Film, cinema, director, drama, Gavin Hood, Johannesburg, lawyer, movie drama, narrative, Oscar-winner, race relations, screenwriter, South Africa, TSOTSI

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