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Pic of the Day: “You wouldn’t believe how this country’s changed. First time I seen it, there wasn’t a mesquite tree on it. Or a prickly pear neither. I used to own this land, you know. First time I watered a horse at this tank was more than forty years ago. I reckon the reason why I always drag you out here is probably I’m just as sentimental as the next fellow when it comes to old times. Old times… I brought a young lady swimming out here once. More than twenty years ago. It was after my wife had lost her mind and my boys was dead. Me and this young lady was pretty wild, I guess. In pretty deep. We used to come out here horseback and go swimming without no bathing suits. One day she wanted to swim the horses across this tank. Kind of a crazy thing to do, but we done it anyway. She bet me a silver dollar she could beat me across. She did. This old horse I was riding didn’t want to take the water. But she was always looking for something to do like that. Something wild. I bet she’s still got that silver dollar.” “Whatever happened to her?” Oh, she growed up. She was just a girl then, really. Here, let me help you with that.” “Why didn’t you ever marry her after your wife died?” “She was already married. Her and her husband was young and miserable with one another, like so many young married folks are. I thought they’d change with some age, but it didn’t turn out that way.” “Is being married always so miserable?” “Not really. About eighty percent of the time, I guess. We ought to go to a real fishing tank next year. Nah, it don’t do to think about things like that too much. If she was here, I’d probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain’t that ridiculous? No, it ain’t really. Being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being a decrepit old bag of bones, that’s what’s ridiculous. Getting old.” (55th Anniversary)
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Pic of the Day: ♫ “There goes the baker with his tray like always / The same old bread and rolls to sell / Every morning just the same / Since the morning that we came / To this poor, provincial town / “Good morning, Belle” / “Morning, monsieur” / “Where are you off to?” / “The bookshop, I just finished the most wonderful story. About a beanstalk and an ogre and a-“ / “That’s nice. Marie, the baguettes, hurry up” / Look, there she goes, that girl is strange, no question / Dazed and distracted, can’t you tell? / Never part of any crowd / ‘Cause her head’s up on some cloud / No denying, she’s a funny girl, that Belle.” ♫ (35th anniversary)
And the Nominees Are… (2025)
We have our heading.
He said, having seen way to many intro videos from the DVDs of his youth.
It’s a shame physical media is a thing of the past.
Anyway, we’ve got nominees. What an interesting outcome. Just straight up nominated stuff across the board. That’s one way to do it.
I haven’t really looked at things on a macro level yet. Just sort of looked at each individual category. So I’m curious how this is going to look to me now from the perspective of, “So okay… what’s going to win now?” Also very fascinated to come back to this in a week once we have all the precursors we didn’t have to see what would have changed had we known them ahead of time. Read the rest of this page »
Oscars 2025: The B+ Nominations Ballot
’bout that time again. Gonna do the thing.
It tickles me to no end that the Academy looks to be doubling down on non-mainstream choices at the top. They did all this stuff to try to expand the field to get higher profile stuff in to placate those looking to watch the show for entertainment value and the voters are simply putting in more foreign films instead because the American studio system is committed to putting out garbage most of the time. So now there’s even less for the people who only watch a couple of movies a year and nothing out of the realm of the conventional. I love it. I love it the way Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw loves Black girls.
This also means that the deliberate expansion of the voting body the Academy began however many years ago has bore fruit in that people are legitimately picking the movies they liked best and aren’t just falling in line with what studio PR teams tell them are the best (and also reflects that a younger overall demographic is going to have broader tastes than the old guard). Some still will still always get through, but the notion that it is highly likely we’ll have a Best Picture list with multiple foreign nominees on it this year and not Avatar or Wicked absolutely thrills me.
Anyway, time to pick nominees. Read the rest of this page »
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Pic of the Day: “Okay, so you had a dream about this place. Tell me.” “Well, it’s the second one I’ve had, but they’re both the same. They start out that I’m in here, but it’s not day or night. It’s kind of half-night, you know? But it looks just like this… except for the light. And… I’m scared like I can’t tell you. Of all people, you’re standing right over there… by that counter. You’re in both dreams and you’re scared too. I get even more frightened when I see how afraid you are and then I realize what it is. There’s a man… in back of this place. He’s the one who’s doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.” (25th Anniversary)
Oscars 2025: My Nominations Ballot
Best Picture
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Nouvelle Vague
One Battle After Another
The Phoenician Scheme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams Read the rest of this page »
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