Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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USA Today Oracle

The lead graph introducing USA Today's "Oscar Oracle" chart begins as follows: "If the Academy Awards were given out based on what the nation's film critics think, at least two of the races would be over right now: best actor and actress." And then it goes blah, blah, Forest Whitaker, blah, blah, Helen Mirren (The Queen)....we're bored, we need something to fill space with, we're just running another Oscar chart based on critics like Movie City News, blah, blah...it's the end of the year and we're plotzing.

The critics have gone good things by celebrating United 93 and Emmanuel Lubezki and Half Nelson, etc., but they've also bored everyone to tears with the uniformity of their choices, the result being that nobody wants to hear about them any more. They're done. The Hollywood guilds -- Screen Actors Guild (1.4.07), DGA (noms on 1.9.07), Producers Guild (1.20.07), etc. -- are next on the agenda. They're being announced within the next two or three weeks or so, culminating with the announcement of the Academy Awards nominations on Tuesday, 1.23.07. (The DGA hands its awards out on 2.3.07; the WGA bestows its awards on 2.11.07.)

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 30, 2006 at 11:19 AM

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