February 2009 - Posts

The 2009 Oscars: Liveblogged
Sun, Feb 22 2009 4:21 PM
I'll be liveblogging the 81st Annual Academy Awards right here once the ceremony starts. In the meanwhile, though I'm feeling as lacking in Oscar predictive mojo as I've ever in my life, let's go ahead and put these out there anyway: Best picture: "Slumdog Millionaire." Director: Danny Boyle. Lead actor: Mickey Rourke. Lead actress: Anne Hathaway. Supporting actor: Heath Ledger. Supporting actress: Penélope Cruz. Animated feature: "WALL-E," unless God is angry. Doc: "Man on Wire." Foreign language film: "The Class." Adapted screenplay: "Slumdog Millionaire." Original screenplay: "Milk."...
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Spirit Awards 2009: Liveblogged
Sat, Feb 21 2009 3:37 PM
Last year I get the chance to go out to Santa Monica to act as one of the hosts of our Spirit Awards red carpet coverage, and, despite getting locked out on the patio of my hotel room and having to climb over the fence and head back into the Casa Del Mar lobby in my socks, it was great. But these are more wintry times, and accordingly I've stayed planted in New York this year, from which I'll be live-blogging the awards. Which will be starting shortly! In the meantime, FIND has gallantly shouldered the red carpet duties -- you can see the tail end of their coverage here. 4:55: Matt Singer, from the red carpet: "Mickey Rourke gave me a fist bump. I'm not gonna lie. It hurt." 5:00: Technically, it's live from a parking lot NEAR the beach, not the actual beach, as much as we'd all...
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SXSW 2009 is all lined up.
Mon, Feb 2 2009 8:00 AM
The complete SXSW 2009 film line-up has been unveiled, the first under new head Janet Pierson and, arguably, its first post-mumblecore iteration. Not that there aren't still plenty of names familiar to anyone acquainted with the movement -- it was already announced that Joe Swanberg would be premiering his fifth feature in five years, "Alexander the Last," at this year's festival, but his wife and sometimes costar Kris Swanberg will also be debuting her first feature, "It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home," and collaborators David Lowery and Dia Sokol each have a film of their own, "St. Nick" and "Sorry, Thanks." And Andrew Bujalski, the One Who Started It All, and who incidentally stars in Sokol's film, will be bringing his first directorial effort since 2005's "Mutual Appreciation," "Beeswax," to the festival after premiering it at Berlin. Elsewhere, I'm happy to finally have my chance to...
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