Awards Aftermath - Part 2

[brokebacktom]

That article is like a written version of a TMZ episode!  LOL!

Still, they think Brokeback Mountain is a crappy movie (they think all the 5 nominated
films are) and would replace them with things like Syriana or The New World!  Sheesh.

Syriana perhaps. But The New World was boring, great visuals but a bore.

[kathy]

That article is like a written version of a TMZ episode!  LOL!

Still, they think Brokeback Mountain is a crappy movie (they think all the 5 nominated
films are) and would replace them with things like Syriana or The New World!  Sheesh.

**Ditto.**

kathy

[Lyle (Mooska)]

[BayCityJohn]

New video on AMPAS website:

Read the Book, See the Movie

This five-part weekly series in September examines the process of turning a major novel into an enduring movie classic, complete with rare photographs, fun facts, and new videos.





Check out a video selection from Part 1 of our online feature “Read the Book, See the Movie” featuring screenwriter Diana Ossana on adapting “Brokeback Mountain.” For more rare photographs, video and interviews visit

http://www.oscars.org/events-exhibitions/features/media/read-the-book/brokeback.html

This is from the 'Great to be Nominated' screening at the Goldwyn Theater in August 2008 that many of us attended.

[fofol]

Thanks again, BCJ!

[Marge_Innavera]

Does anyone know of a library that doesn't have a copy of Brokeback and would be interested in a donation?

I often check DVD bargain bins, and sometimes find classic movies cheap -- Romeo and Juliet (1968 version) and Milk both for $6.00 were recent finds.  One of my last searches turned up two copies of BBM, one of which I donated to our town's library.  Am looking for a home for the other one !

If anyone has a lead, please PM me or email through my profile.

[BayCityJohn]

The Riverton, WY Library might need a new copy.

Someone from the library posted here a couple of years ago saying that the dvd we dontated came back all scratched up but he was able to repair it.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Brett Ratner out as Oscar Producer after anti-gay slur

http://latimes.com/ratner

[Marge_Innavera]

The Riverton, WY Library might need a new copy.

Someone from the library posted here a couple of years ago saying that the dvd we donated came back all scratched up but he was able to repair it.

Thanks for the lead -- I'll contact them.

[kathy]

The Riverton, WY Library might need a new copy.

Someone from the library posted here a couple of years ago saying that the dvd we dontated came back all scratched up but he was able to repair it

**Yeah - the homophobe who took it out just scratched it all over so it wouldn't be watchable.  I'm surprised the library didn't come back at this jerk; do something.**

kathy   

[fofol]

Does anyone know of a library that doesn't have a copy of Brokeback and would be interested in a donation?

I often check DVD bargain bins, and sometimes find classic movies cheap -- Romeo and Juliet (1968 version) and Milk both for $6.00 were recent finds.  One of my last searches turned up two copies of BBM, one of which I donated to our town's library.  Am looking for a home for the other one !

If anyone has a lead, please PM me or email through my profile.

I haunt DVD bargain bins also, but I call it prestige dumpster-diving.  The good news is that the last time I gave the town library a mitt-full of movies, the librarian handed me a document and told me to list the dozen or so films, and I'm thinking to myself, damn!, I'm donating stuff and they want me to inventory it for them!  But no, as it turns out: she'd handed me an IRS form - each disc is worth $20 for tax deduction purposes.  Pleasant surprise for those who do deductions.

[morrobay]

there's an article in sfgate.com today about Oscar mistakes...thank god they didn't leave this off the list...i can think of more blistering things to say than this little sentence but at least they recognized it:


Crash: A truly brilliant Oscar campaign made this the alternative to "Brokeback Mountain," at a time when some Oscar voters were looking for one. It's a decent film, but it felt staid and nostalgic even in its own time.

http://blog.sfgate.com/mlasalle/2012/01/05/oscar-mistakes-best-picture/#2341-12

[morrobay]

SFgate, second day on Oscar missteps:


Best Picture: What Should Have Won


BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: Six years later, the Academy's mistake more obvious than it even was at the time.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Thanks for those tidbits!  It's award season!  The time of year when these articles
become an annual tradition mentioning this and I love it every year!  It doesn't
get old!

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I don't know when it happened, sometime in 2010, I believe,
but I just found out about it.  For years, the Number 1 title
rented from Netflix was touted as Crash.  And one can understand
that because not many saw it and it came out of nowehre to be
awarded the oscar for best film and it was immediately available to
watch, so people did.  It was also, for a time at least, available to
download or watch on a netflix owned service and those rentals were
included in the tally.  Well, I just discovered that Crash is now Number 2
on netflix and was replaced by another racially themed film that won an
oscar for Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side.  So it has been dethroned.  And,
personally, I've always thought of Crash as number two.