IAFT correspondent Pete Wassell recently had a chance to catch up with Writer/Director/Actor Joe Swanberg, who’s directed 16 films, a TV series and a short film in the last 8 years. Joe and I talked about his upcoming retrospective in San Francisco starting on Feb. 21st, as well as the benefits of film school, the direction…
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IAFT’s Pete Wassell at long last concludes his overview of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Zero Dark Thirty: I love Point Break and Near Dark, and I even sort of like Strange Days, but Hurt Locker was not one of my favorites. Kathryn Bigelow won the 2008 Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker. Now…
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Pete Wassell keeps on rolling with his review of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Life of Pi: I must say, of all the Best Picture nominees this is the one I wanted to see the least, and it had nothing to do with the director, Ang Lee. Brokeback Mountain? Sense and Sensibility? Crouching Tiger Hidden…
Pete Wassell continues his review of this year’s Best Picture nominees. Amour: Michael Haneke makes films that test you. His movies are deliberately paced often with gut-wrenchingly long takes. Amour is no different. The story of two octogenarians living together, until one morning at breakfast Anne, played by Emmanuelle Riva, suffers what turns out to…
Our Pete Wassell continues with his incisive look at this year’s Best Picture nominees. Argo: Ben Affleck is getting better… Tight and tense. Affleck seems to have found his true calling. Directing seems to come naturally to him, and I’m personally glad he has stayed with it. Though flawed, I enjoyed his debut feature Gone…
Our Pete Wassell continues his overview of this year’s 9 Best Picture nominees. Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino does what he does and I love it. A great soundtrack, violence, vengeance, dead slave owners and bigots to the left and the right, and comedy… yes, Django Unchained is very funny. That’s what Tarantino does. He’s a…
In a year when a lot of people didn’t see as many movies as they might’ve wanted to, the Oscar nominations don’t surprise, but as always, disappoint. Pete Wassell’s on our team in Burbank. Here’s his overview of some of this year’s 9 Best Picture nominees. Lincoln: Excellent. The best thing Steven Spielberg has done…
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