Oscar 2005 Articles

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain As I sit here writing, I am finding it hard to gather my thoughts together. Most of this essay has already been outlined, and yet I’m still not sure if it fully expresses my feelings toward Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. I realize that although there is a certain amount of objectivity that goes into judging the merits of a [...]

WALK THE LINE (2005) Direction: James Mangold Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts Screenplay: Gill Dennis and James Mangold; from Johnny Cash's The Man in Black and Cash: The Autobiography Oscar Movies Recommendation: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line First of all, I must admit that before watching Walk the Line I knew nothing about [...]

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005) Direction: Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden's novel Oscar Movies Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Memoirs of a Geisha There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case [...]

MATCH POINT (2005) Direction and screenplay: Woody Allen Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton Oscar Movies Recommended Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay written by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Stanislaw Lem, and based on Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, the result would be something like Woody Allen's latest opus, Match Point. [...]