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Saturday
Jan022016

A Happy New (Twitterful) Year

2016 is upon us. So far it's been a wash since a cold has attacked me without warning but while I sleep and stay hydrated (not simultaneously) and procrastinate here are some favorite tweets of the week. But the year started beautifully with two of our favorite film thinkers and Oscar historians Nick Davis and Mark Harris announcing new projects. Nick will be expanding his "Best Actress" section and Mark Harris will be celebrating 1966 movies all year as he preps for the 50th anniversary of those Best Picture nominees he celebrated in his first book "Pictures at a Revolution" which was on the Best Pictures of 1967.

Our first tweet is a perfect message for the "survey the greats" season we're in via filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. Our friend Nick has an interesting solution to this favorites versus perfection equation. He has two top 100s, greatest and favorites. He just wrote a huge batch of new essays which you should really read. Recent pieces include two movies that are accidentallly perfect for New Year's week including Strange Days and When Harry Met Sally (on the "greatest" list)  movies like Movies become "favorites" for so many reasons, whether that's great experiences at the theater where we saw them or, the ease at rewatching them, or just the slow dawning realization that this one you just love whatever its shortcomings (this is me with Burlesque which showed on cable in a loop in 2015 and I couldn't look away.)

 

 MORE AFTER THE JUMP including but not limited to Blanchett, Damon, Gleeson, Isaac ...and Eartha Kitt as 2016's Patron Saint?

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSCAR CEREMONY IDEAS
tis the season! 

 

 

COMPLETELY VICIOUS TAKEDOWNS OF MOVIES
That are also funny because "Accuracy!" 

 

 

 

 FINALLY...
May this be true for all of our 2016s 

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Reader Comments (10)

I think a lot of folks do butch better than Cate Blanchett, but that's just me.

January 2, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterPaul Outlaw

Dem gams on Eartha. Yeowza!

January 2, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterChris

Take me Cate, take me now! But you can't take me now because you are busy being fabulous at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. So take me later on. I will wait.

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterEz

So we can safely assume that Mark Harris googled Fassbender...

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered Commentercatbaskets

Also I'm 100% with Zoe Kazan on this one re: Brooklyn. Although my DG love has been slightly harmed by Star Wars...such a weirdly stiff and unintentionally(?) comedic interpretation.

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered Commentercatbaskets

That Guillermo tweet is so perfect.
And I am falling in love with Oscar Isaac more and more each day.

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterCraver

I think the male actor Mark Harris googled was Chris Hemsworth. He was in VACATION where the joke was that he was very hung (prosthetic penis) and he's always shirtless.

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterGlenn Dunks

And the female celeb: Madonna?

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterPaul Outlaw

Aw, thanks, Nathaniel!! xxx

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterNick Davis

My fav film Twitter bit of the week: comedian Connor Ratliff (@connorratliff) had a brilliant idea that I'll badly paraphrase here. He said that since the Academy doesn't award comedies often, his new goal is to somehow host the ceremony and tell absolutely no jokes; instead he'd pretend to contract a disease and slowly get sicker over the course of the evening, because that seems to be what they like.

January 3, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterDave S.
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