and there's a winner

I'm happy that No Country For Old Men won Best Picture in Oscars. But I can't be that happy because There Will Be Blood didn't.

No Country, for me, is so McCarthy. Simple but intelligent. Blood, on the other hand, is, and will always be, a masterpiece.

*******

Pulp Fiction is cool, but is it that beautiful? Almost. It's fun though.

hot spy, and the debater

ALIAS is still hot. And so as Jennifer Garner.

Rocket Science, a movie by the 2007 Sundance Best Director Jeffrey Blitz, is really good. And just like any great film, it leaves you something [not just laughter]. I owe this movie a lot. I couldn't remember the last time I laughed so hard I couldn't breath anymore. This movie reminds me of that. And I kind of miss it.

my oscars goes to...

Best motion picture of the year:

"Atonement" (Focus Features)
"Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production)
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.)
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)

****** I hope Blood wins. If not, I hope they give it to No Country. Clayton? Are you serious? It isn't even close to Persepolis [which is an animated film]. If Blood or No Country can't win, can they [voters] just not give the award at all?

Performance by an actor in a leading role:
George Clooney in "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis in "There Will Be Blood"
Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah"
Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"

****** I'm sure Day-Lewis will win. Viggo is my second choice [and I love him in Eastern.

Performance by an actress in a leading role:
Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie in "Away from Her"
Marion Cotillard in "La Vie en Rose"
Laura Linney in "The Savages"
Ellen Page in "Juno"

****** Haven't seen Away From Her, La Vie en Rose and The Savages. Give it to Page for a change. I'm forever inlove with Blanchett though. Can I marry her?

Performance by an actor in a supporting role:
Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem in "No Country for Old Men"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War"
Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild"
Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"

****** Have seen Into The Wild and Assassination of Jesse James. Bardem is really good [and irritating] in No Country, but Hoffman is witty and superb in Wilson's War. Go Capote!

Performance by an actress in a supporting role:
Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There"
Ruby Dee in "American Gangster"
Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement"
Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton in "Michael Clayton"

******This is really a competition. I love Dee in Gangster, but only Blanchett can do Dylan.

Achievement in directing:
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Julian Schnabel
"Juno" Jason Reitman
"Michael Clayton" Tony Gilroy
"No Country for Old Men" Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" Paul Thomas Anderson

****** The Coens might take home the award, or even Schnabel but Anderson created a masterpiece [and I love him]. David Cronenberg [Eastern Promises] should be on the list.

Achievement in cinematography:
"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" Roger Deakins
"Atonement" : Seamus McGarvey
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" Janusz Kaminski
"No Country for Old Men" Roger Deakins
"There Will Be Blood" Robert Elswit

****** Elswit!!!! camera work, angle, lighting.. wow.

Adapted screenplay:
"Atonement" (Focus Features), Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
"Away from Her" (Lionsgate), Written by Sarah Polley
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax/Pathé Renn), Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
"No Country for Old Men" (Miramax and Paramount Vantage), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage and Miramax), Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

****** Havent seen The Diving Bell [It's in French]. Blood, I hope, will win.

Original screenplay:
"Juno" (A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production), Written by Diablo Cody
"Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM), Written by Nancy Oliver
"Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros.), Written by Tony Gilroy
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Brad Bird; Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird
"The Savages" (Fox Searchlight), Written by Tamara Jenkins

****** Haven't seen The Savages. Cody speaks my language.

Best foreign language film of the year:
"Beaufort" Israel
"The Counterfeiters" Austria
"Katyn" Poland
"Mongol" Kazakhstan
"12" Russia

****** I know, I know, Diving Bell isn't France official entry [It should be in the best pic category]. And yes I haven't seen it yet. But if you've seen Clayton, you think of the others which could have taken its spot. Juno is great but I don't think it should be in the best pic race as well. And what happened to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [Romania]!? Persepolis [France] should have been included here and not in best animated film. It's that good. So I don't care whoever wins this one.

Best animated feature film of the year:
"Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics): Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
"Ratatouille" (Walt Disney): Brad Bird
"Surf's Up" (Sony Pictures Releasing): Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

****** Come'on, give Persepolis what is due for it. It's even better than Clayton. I wouldn't mind if this wins the Best Pic Award. It's that good.


I hope Blood takes home everything.

truth hurts, and is scary

Please watch An Inconvenient Truth, and then think. Then act.

let's save the light

If you have to die right now, and you really need to read one novel before dying, please make it The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Please. Time is running out, atleast do something worthy while you still have some.

And you really don't have to die though before you read this novel. It is beautiful. And more.

'I drink your milkshake!'

Nobody can deliver this line with such intensity, in a super huge movie, than Daniel Day-Lewis. It makes me wanna consider milkshake, but I'm scared he'll drink it up.

the other

I like blogging with wordpress better.

touch my body

Oh, I don't mean it that way. Just found out that Mariah Carey has a new album, and Touch my Body is her new single. I love it.

greatest novel

Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Hand him the Nobel. Pulitzer just isn't enough.

greatest movie

There Will Be Blood. Wow! And there's Daniel Day-Lewis. Wow! Hope it wins the Oscars. It deserves it, but we can never tell.

No Country For Old Men comes next.

atonement won BAFTA's best film

Whatever.

lesson 102

a man knows when to stop.

everything.

My phone's camera isn't the best but I admire how much beauty it can capture.

I miss and love you baby, even if you're giving me headaches sometimes.

the others

02-03-08 nobody

02-03-08 Rose

2007 vase
I made this last year with Paint. God, I miss me.

deja vu, but not really

I was looking for pirated dvd copies of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis (of France) and 4Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days (of Romania) last Friday night at this small stall near the building where I work at. Unfortunately, the said movies were not yet available. So I opted to TV series. I was very lucky, and very happy, to have found a season 1 copy of one of my favorite series of all time: Felicity. So that same night ('til Saturday morning) I watched it. I've realized how much I miss Felicity, and even Ben and Noel, and I'm reminded of how much I love it after watching its first 22 episodes. I was very young then when I first saw the series. I felt inlove with it right away. Now that I'm old enough, I still love it. I guess my heart never really grew old, if you get what I mean.

Anyway, the reason why I love Felicity is the fact that I can relate to it- with the story and the characters. It's nice (and I feel great) to see someone go through the same things (situations/ fuck ups) I did or I'm going through right now and commit the same mistakes I have committed (and learned from it). The idea made me feel I'm not alone, you know. And it's cool.

bad hairday

I had my hair done last night in one of the barber shops near our apartment. You see, my hair has its own life. It grows in a way it sees fit. It's uncontrolable. Funny thing is that the barber kept on asking me what I would want him to do with it (the hair). It's as if he didn't have any idea, and was propably thinking that nothing can save me from it (the hair). So I told him what I wanted (how I wanted it to be). While he was doing my hair, I can see, on the look on his face, that he was having a hard time, and that he's a bit skeptical about the whole thing. It scared me.

Now I look like (or my hair looks like that of) Javier Bardem in the movie No Country for Old Men (only mine is worse).