Oscars
Viewing the ceremony – not comprehensively – after a multi-year hiatus. (Oscar-cast doubles as storm alerter.)
I’m old enough now to be less keen on the living than on the honored dead:
Of the nominated movies, I’ve seen Sinners. Delroy Lindo, who plays a tragicomical virtuouso drunk (Cat Ballou’s Lee Marvin, anyone?), lost his contest to Sean Penn but would have been a worthy laureate. And I’ve seen KPop Demon Hunters (triumphant but unworthy).
Paul Thomas Anderson will win, one year or another (probably this year); and so will Jessie Buckley, who’s too good to be in what gets made nowadays. She’s acted with Olivia Colman, which reaps dividends, Oscar-wise. I’d like to see Jessie win for something schlocky like her earlier efforts in Beast and Men, or for a Richard Linklater adaptation of Mary Midgley’s Beast and Man – not for a prestige picture about one of Shakespeare’s love interests (everybody wins for that).
It’s been a grueling weekend. Daniel puked, I puked, and now Samuel has just puked. Three of us down, two of us to go.
I’m old enough now to be less keen on the living than on the honored dead:
- Robert Duvall
- Graham Greene
- Diane Keaton
- Val Kilmer
- Robert Redford
- Rob Reiner
- Terence Stamp, etc.
Of the nominated movies, I’ve seen Sinners. Delroy Lindo, who plays a tragicomical virtuouso drunk (Cat Ballou’s Lee Marvin, anyone?), lost his contest to Sean Penn but would have been a worthy laureate. And I’ve seen KPop Demon Hunters (triumphant but unworthy).
Paul Thomas Anderson will win, one year or another (probably this year); and so will Jessie Buckley, who’s too good to be in what gets made nowadays. She’s acted with Olivia Colman, which reaps dividends, Oscar-wise. I’d like to see Jessie win for something schlocky like her earlier efforts in Beast and Men, or for a Richard Linklater adaptation of Mary Midgley’s Beast and Man – not for a prestige picture about one of Shakespeare’s love interests (everybody wins for that).
It’s been a grueling weekend. Daniel puked, I puked, and now Samuel has just puked. Three of us down, two of us to go.