That’s just a reminder that Mark Harris is a funny and smart writer who already wrote one of the single best books about film ever written (Pictures at a Revolution). He has a new biography of Mike Nichols and even though I rarely buy biographies at all and certainly not new and in hardcover, I will be getting this when it goes on sale on Tuesday. His Twitter feed is also worth reading and I do that everyday even though I’m not even on Twitter. (more…)
28 January, 2021
Awards Notes 2020 or I Wish I Knew How To Quit You, Golden Globes (ongoing)
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18 December, 2020
Century of Film: The Top 1000 Films (#800-751)
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10 December, 2020
Happy Holidays from the Beck / Martzahl Household
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Good riddance to 2020. As I write this, there are 21 days left in the year and 41 left in the administration that made this year much worse than it needed to be. But both are on their way out and so comes our annual holiday letter, pushed to the internet because I can’t go in to my office and print out copies. So, let’s see what this year brought us. (more…)
7 December, 2020
the next month and a place for award news
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Starting tomorrow (maybe Wednesday), the top of the blog will be our annual Christmas letter. Though that will be stuck to the top of the post, I will probably continue do more film posts – they just won’t be at the top of the page until around New Year’s or so.
We don’t normally post the Christmas letter but COVID has meant it won’t be easy to print the copies we need for our Christmas cards. So if you feel the need to comment on the letter, just remember it’s something that will be read by most of our families and I might cut comments if I view them as not appropriate.
Now, as for the award news. Normally by this time, the Annies have announced, the Globes have nominated and the NYFC and NBR have started handing out actual awards and F.T. is chiming in with guesses about the Best International Feature Film category. But the Oscars, for good or ill (ill in a lot of ways but more on that below) have pushed things back a couple of months. So if you want to chime in with award comments and such, this is the post where I’d prefer you to leave your comments. (more…)