Jake Gittes

Just get Chris Hemsworth on this.

Jackson pre-2006 (up to and including King Kong), Nolan post-Prestige. Overall Jackson because Nolan has never done anything as incredible as Heavenly Creatures and LOTR and hasn't shown signs that he ever will.

Wait, those aren't there already? *checks* Huh?

Fuck all this.

FYC: Best Picture, Best Director (Denis Villeneuve), Best Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal), Best Original Score, Best Editing

Oh yeah this was great. Such a cool, controlled horror - it feels like half the movie was shot like the Winkies scene in Mulholland Drive, with the same air of vague terror. It's also one of the best, most original explorations of infidelity and its consequences I've seen in film. Great score, killer ending.

Combined screentime over/under 10 minutes? Anyway I don't always love Malick (mainly I just don't love Tree of Life), but I'll see anything he puts out as soon as I can. There's no other major American director working who's this uncompromising, especially now that Lynch has seemingly quit big-screen filmmaking for good. The more I think about To the Wonder the more I appreciate it.

FYC: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Marion Cotillard), Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), Best Supporting Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Cinematography, Best Production Design I'm gonna keep beating this movie's drum until the end dammit. Go fuck yourself Weinstein.

Ida, The Immigrant, Under the Skin and Grand Budapest all 100% deserve to be here, and only the last of those stands any chance to be nominated. Shame.

Ugh.

I wanna see The Grifters, Jacob's Ladder and Truly Madly Deeply.

That harakiri scene is one of the most painful and visceral things I've ever seen in any movie. There's hardly any blood visible but the build-up to it is just unbelievable.

Right.

Online Film Critics Society Winners Best Picture: The Grand Budapest Hotel Best Animated Feature: The Lego Movie Best Film Not in the English Language: Two Days, One Night Best Documentary: Life Itself Best Director: Richard Linklater - Boyhood Best Actor: Michael Keaton - Birdman Best Actress: Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton - Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette - Boyhood Best Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel Best Adapted Screenplay: Gone Girl Best Editing: Birdman Best Cinematography: The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Big Lebowski Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Rushmore Happiness Out of Sight The Thin Red Line Khrustalyov, My Car!

Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, The Hairdresser's Husband, King of New York, Edward Scissorhands, Metropolitan

Boyhood is looking at 6 noms - BP, BD, Screenplay, Supp Actor, Supp Actress, Editing. It could win anywhere from 1 (Supp Actress) to 5 (everything except Supp Actor). I gotta say that I'm glad Grand Budapest Hotel is putting up a good fight for a nomination here even though I don't love it.

One of those films that feels like it should be much more widely known and accepted as a classic than it is. Both fully accessible and absolutely masterful on basically every level.

Probably my least favorite Jodorowsky I've seen, though it's still decent. But the more it went on, the more I was thinking I'd rather just rewatch Psycho or something.

Amusing for about two minutes. Korine said he wanted it to feel like an anonymous VHS tape you'd find in the trash, which is a decent enough idea, but over the length of a feature film the concept is stretched awfully thin. For the most part it's not really provocative or visceral or even memorable which is the biggest flaw a movie with this title could have. Just a bore.

Just so you know, $1.4m in Russia is not smashing anything.

Very entertaining, beautifully directed technical and performing exercise. You know it's the work of a master just from that one shot where John Dall drops the rope in the drawer and we only see it for a second while the door swings. Not anywhere near as substantial as Hitchcock's best films but who cares.

Critics supporting The Immigrant without any campaigning for the film whatsoever is an inspiring sight, but it also makes me despise Weinstein even more. Every filmmaker who does't make blatant Oscar bait and isn't named Quentin Tarantino should just stay far away from him at this point.

Been excited for this ever since I read the first Cannes reports about it.

I love Swinton but she's not getting nominated. I mean, it's a broadly comic performance in a deeply eccentric post-apocalyptic action movie that was dumped by Weinstein and never saw wide release. It's a critics' darling which is why she's getting nominations from them but who the fuck is going to care about it in the Academy?