Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Academy Awards
In By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall’s updated and extended version of her 1978 bestselling autobiography By Myself, the two-time Tony Award-winning actress (for Applause in 1970 and for Woman of the Year in 1981) candidly discusses the ballyhoo surrounding her very first Academy Award nomination in the mid-1990s.
Apart from a few (film) career lulls, Bacall had been working steadily in front of the camera since 1945. But whether as mere on-screen decoration (Key Largo, Bright Leaf) or as a solid leading lady (Woman’s World, The Fan), Bacall had been invariably ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
More than half a century after Bacall’s film début in To Have and Have Not, actress-director-composer-singer-etc. [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2005
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Tags: 1997 Oscar, Academy Awards, Books, By Myself and Then Some, Film Awards, Harvey Weinstein, Juliette Binoche, Lauren Bacall, The English Patient, The Mirror Has Two Faces
FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Notes
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 was voted best non-fiction film by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, New York Film Critics Circle, Online Film Critics Society, Phoenix Film Critics Society, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and Vancouver Film Critics Circle. It was also the runner-up for best documentary from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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In April 2003, Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions rejected handling Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 project. Moore later claimed that he had a signed contract with Icon before Gibson bowed out due to pressure from the George W. Bush White House. Icon executives, however, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 20, 2004
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Tags: Censorship, Documentaries, Fahrenheit 9/11, George W. Bush, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Eisner, Michael Moore, Political Movies, Politics
Venice Film Festival 2004 Wraps Up
The 2004 Venice Film Festival came to a close on September 11, after nearly two weeks of glitz, glamour, and glitches. Besides loads of Hollywood stars and a number of well-received and/or controversial films, the festival also offered frequent overbooking and long delays at the screenings.
The culprit, according to festival officials, was an uncooperative computer system. As a result of the electronic snafu, Al Pacino couldn’t find a seat for himself at the screening of The Merchant of Venice (above), in which he stars as Shylock, while the crown prince of Malaysia and his entourage arrived at the long-delayed presentation of the most expensive Malaysian film ever, Princess of Mount Ledang, to [...]
by Andre Soares | September 12, 2004
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Tags: Al Pacino, Film Festivals, Harvey Weinstein, Marco Muller, Princess of Mount Ledang, The Merchant of Venice, Venice Film Festival
