Coming In April....

Next month we're getting back to the Retrospectives with the films of 1961!

It all begins April 1st, with the nominees for Best Supporting Actor - George Chakiris (West Side Story), Montgomery Clift (Judgment at Nuremberg), Peter Falk (Pocketful of Miracles), Jackie Gleason (The Hustler) and George C. Scott (The Hustler) - followed by Original Screenplay, Score, Actor, and Director.

Featuring:

   

And that's just for starters. April 1st. Be here.



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My Oscar Predictions, 2018 Edition

My final predictions for the 91st Academy Awards in all 24 categories, in three acts.

Act One: No Dog in This Fight (or, i ain't seen all these)

Animated Short - "Bao"
Documentary Short - "Period. End of Sentence."
Live Action Short - "Skin"
Animated Feature - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Documentary Feature - Free Solo
Foreign Language Film - Roma
Original Song - "Shallow" from A Star is Born
Visual Effects - First Man
Makeup and Hairstyling - Vice
Cinematography - Roma

Act Two: Opinions, I Have Them (or, the ol' will win/should win game)

Sound Mixing - Bohemian Rhapsody (should win: Roma)
Sound Editing - Bohemian Rhapsody (should win: First Man)
Costume Design - Black Panther (should win: The Favourite, but I'd be down with Black Panther)
Film Editing - Vice (should win: BlacKkKlansman)
Production Design - The Favourite (should win: The Favourite)

The final act after the jump...

The 2018 Hollmann Awards: Part Two

The rest of the 2018 Hollmann Awards! For full context, make sure to take a look at my Top Ten, the nominees, and the first half of the awards.

Best Adapted Screenplay

 Disobedience

Sebastián Lelio & Rebecca Lenkiewicz

adapted from the novel by Naomi Alderman

2. Little Forest; 3. Can You Ever Forgive Me?; 4. First Man; 5. The Wife

You hear the pitch about lesbians in an Orthodox Jewish community and you know - you just know - this is going to be a preaching-to-the-choir critique against religion's stamping out of individuality! And certainly that's true...for one character. For another character, religion and faith offers clarity, security, a community - going against its tenets goes against all of that. For still another, the two sides are difficult to reconcile, but she tries. Open to everything, understanding - and breathtakingly accurate in its lustful abandon.

In second, Little Forest's instructive, romantic journey across the past and present. In third, Can You Ever Forgive Me?'s empathy and sardonic humor. In fourth, First Man's elegy. In fifth, The Wife's gradual unraveling.

After the jump: Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song, Best Picture, and more....

The 2018 Hollmann Awards: Part One

The first group of awards for the 2018 Hollmann Awards!

Best Original Screenplay

A Bread Factory

Patrick Wang 

2. First Reformed; 3. Tully; 4. Shoplifters; 5. The Spy Gone North

As funny in Part One's depiction of Janeane Garofalo's visiting director as it is poignant in Part Two's "love-long-lost" monologue delivered by Brian Murray, brilliant in its combination of the two in Part One's climactic council hearings and Part Two's final conversation between Tyne Daly and Elisabeth Henry. Wang has created a fully-realized community populated by a large ensemble of very specific characters - it feels real.

In second, First Reformed's balance of anguish and dark comedy. In third, Tully's
In fourth, Shoplifters' humor in the face of poverty. In fifth, The Spy Gone North's political machinations and genuine love of country.

Eight more, including my picks for Best Score, Best Costume Design, and Best Actress, after the jump...

Oscar Guesses

The nominations for the 91st Annual Academy Awards are tomorrow SO let's predict 'em.

Officially, I'm predicting just seven films for Best Picture; A Star is Born leading with 10 nominations.

Check 'em out, after the jump...

The 2018 Hollmann Award Nominees

A terrific year for films, 2018 was. Not since 2011 have I had such a spread: 35 films in 18 categories! And it was tough to narrow down - all the way up to midnight last night, I still had six to eight finalists in several categories...

But here they are! The nominees for the 13th Annual Hollmann Awards:

Best Supporting Actress

Sakura Andô as Nobuyo Shibata
Shoplifters


Ingrid Caven as Miss Vendegast

Suspiria 

Sissy Spacek as Jewel
The Old Man & the Gun

Angela Winkler as Miss Tanner

Suspiria

Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor Young

Crazy Rich Asians

The remaining 17 categories after the jump....

Top Ten of 2018

With apologies to All is True, Bad Times at the El Royale, Black Panther, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Crazy Rich Asians, The Favourite, Good Manners, The Hate U Give, Hereditary, Leave No Trace, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Mary Poppins Returns, The Old Man & the Gun, The Other Side of the Wind, Paddington 2, Shirkers, Shoplifters, A Simple Favor, Swing Kids, and Zama, may I present....

My Top Ten of 2018....after the jump.