THE ABYSS Screening

The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th anniversary event by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
This Academy screening will premiere a newly struck 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive. Considering that The Abyss boasts awesome underwater cinematography and first-rate visual and sound effects, this is a great chance to catch it on the big screen.

Presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, the evening will be hosted by film historian and author Eric Lichtenfeld and will feature [...]

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2006 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 7, 2006
 

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener in Capote
 

Best Film: Capote (12, on sixth ballot)
Runners-up: A History of Violence (11, on sixth ballot); 2046 (fifth ballot)
Best Foreign-Language Film: Head-On by Fatih Akin (26)
Runner-up: 2046 by Wong Kar Wai (23); Hidden by Michael Haneke (18)
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (60)
Runners-up: Darwin’s Nightmare by Hubert Sauper (27); Ballets russes by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine (19)
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence (32)
Runners-up: Wong Kar Wai, 2046 (26); Bennett Miller, Capote (23)
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (68)
Runners-up: Jeff Daniels, The Squid and [...]

THE HOURS d: Stephen Daldry

The Hours (2002)
Direction: Stephen Daldry
Screenplay: David Hare, from Michael Cunningham’s novel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins
 

 

Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning The Hours uses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway (whose working title was "The Hours") as the link that binds its three leading female characters. Far apart in terms of time and space, those three disturbed, unhappy women have in common both the deadness of a life of self-abnegation and the living reality of death itself.
Despite gaps in the narrative, Stephen Daldry’s stabs at melodrama, and one poor central performance, The Hours stands as an intelligent and deeply moving achievement. Most [...]