Jake Gittes

And when will that be, when she's 70 and has a dozen nominations and no wins? I'm more inclined to put her in one camp with the likes of Kate Winslet and Shirley McLaine in a sense that one day they will just have no choice but to give it to her. She only has two nominations to go until she matches Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter and Glenn Close as the actress with most nominations without wins. In all likelihood, she'll receive those nominations before she's 45. Then she's got another 20+ potentially strong years ahead of her. I think Adams getting up on that stage is nothing but a matter of time.

Adams isn't even 40 yet. To me it's ridiculous to think she won't win one day. It's not like she was ever the frontrunner who lost in a surprising upset - all 4 times she was good enough for a nomination but unfortunately had to deal with a more formidable contender(s). That can't go on forever, especially if she's not gonna slow down in the coming years in terms of giving quality performances.

I don't think there would be many directors capable to fill the Ramsay-shaped hole, if any at all under the circumstances. They could have done a lot worse than O'Connor.

Well, Ramsay does have talent in spades. We Need to Talk About Kevin blows most films released in the past few years out of the water.

Jude Law's great. He rocked it in Anna Karenina and Side Effects.

It's easy for it to be crowded when we haven't seen almost any contenders yet. Adams' performance could end up being as much of a powerhouse as anyone else's, it could be received noticeably worse or noticeably better. We simply have no idea, and much stranger things have happened.

Yup. Apparently since she just so happens to be a film lover with billions of dollars at her disposal, she shouldn't use them to fund films because she's the only one and it would be unfair to those who aren't as rich. Give me a fucking break. Would it sit better with you if she knew she had a chance to help out great filmmakers the way she's doing but instead decided to blow her fortune on booze, drugs, dresses, jewelry, cars, horses etc.? Instead, she invests in intelligent, interesting, ambitious filmmaking, making cinephiles all around the world happy. But no, let's complain because we can't get over the fact she's daddy's rich girl.

Are we absolutely sure Amy Adams is supporting in Abscam? From the plot synopsis it sounds like she might be the second main character after Bale, or at least the third after Bale and Cooper. And we know for sure Lawrence is supporting, which means if they both deliver and Adams has enough screentime Sony might push her in lead.

I just woke up to this news and have no idea what to make of it. Ramsay is an effing brilliant filmmaker and I've never heard anything about her being hard to work with - I'm sure something out of the ordinary must have happened in order for her to do something like this, otherwise what the hell? And when I read that she "dropped out", does that mean she actually contacted them afterwards to say "F you, I'm out" and it wasn't just a case of some extreme personal emergency? Is her directing the film entirely out of the question now? Did she contact the producer or anyone at all to offer any sort of private explanation and/or apology? The mind lingers.

Which means her biggest competition is herself.

I'd like Naomi Watts to win it this year. They've owed her an Oscar since Mulholland Dr. anyway.

Hands down, the best comedy of the past few years. Armando Iannucci and his team are geniuses. One thing I particularly appreciate is how it actually raises above pure ruthless satire by portraying Simon Foster as a guy you actually feel sorry for at the end. Yes, he deserves being a subject of ridicule on more than a few occasions, but at the same time has a certain naiveté and sweetness to him which makes him a full-fledged human being - something I'd be hesitant to say about almost all the other characters, as great as they are. I credit both the writers and Tom Hollander for that, because they could have easily stayed within the confines of an angry satire in which everything is exaggerated, but they actually went slightly beyond that. One of the reasons the movie has such a rewatchability value. Well, beyond having brilliant, intelligent, razor-sharp jokes machine-gunned at you for 90 minutes straight.

Don't get sarcastic with me, son. We invaded your tight-arse country in 1939 and I'm all for doing it again, starting with you, you frat fuck. You get sarcastic with me again and I will stuff so much cotton wool down your fucking throat it'll come out your arse like the tail on a Playboy bunny. I was led to believe I was posting in a serious thread.

I'd like to sue Hollywood for portraying Russia as permanently frozen and populated by dumb alcoholics, tattooed criminals and bears. What's the phone number?

It's been dead since day one. Its corpse was just rotting a little slower this weekend.

"David of Russell"

The Spring Breakers number made my jaw drop. Good job, A24. Damn, I can't wait to see it.

Monumental cinema. Coppola's greatest achievement and probably one of the four or five greatest films I've ever seen. Was in awe from the first minute to the last. Oh, and Vittorio Storaro is a God among cinematographers.

And Foxcatcher and Captain Phillips. Have TSN and ZDT both motivated them to become a major Oscar player? I wouldn't be surprised.

A couple of minutes out of those Butch/Fabienne scenes in Pulp Fiction before he discovers the watch is missing. I understand - and like a lot - the way it surprises the viewer that a classic tough guy like Butch has a girlfriend like *that*, but I think the point could have been made just as well in a shorter amount of time.

I'm still waiting for Black Dynamite 2.

I remember how I first saw Cotillard in the original Taxi movies - very popular in France and parts of Europe, I believe, all produced by Luc Besson. The first one was released in 1998 and Cotillard must have been 22 when she shot it, and guess what, she had a full frontal nude scene within, like, the opening 10 minutes. That was my, uh, introduction to her talents... I remember some years had passed after Taxi 3 (2003) and then I was shocked to see her win an Oscar for La vie en rose, and no less shocked when I saw her actual performance - I never suspected she was such a talented actress in addition to being a very cute one. But it was a pleasant shock, and it was (and remains) pretty neat to witness this next, post-Besson stage of her career. Actually, originally I just wanted to say she was (and is) drop-dead gorgeous, but I got kinda carried away by the memories. Sorry. Her and Eva Green might just be the two most beautiful actresses working today.

People still being upset over his comments would be a thousand times more stupid than the comments themselves ever were.

I think I read somewhere that Behind the Candelabra is definitely in, but I don't know whether in or out of main competition.