Booked my ticket for Sunday’s preview of American Gangster at Montecasino.
Want to see if it’s great or just good. I have a feeling I will enjoy the film but it won’t live up to my initial hopes for the film. We will see!!!

I read the script - it was good. Not sure if it’s great. I haven’t seen the film, but some of those who have, say it’s good but not great. And what’s more, it’s been placed in the Comedy category for the Golden Globes. That’s right. COMEDY. After reading the screenplay I wondered if this might happen. (Paige you guessed right, this time). This and Sweeney Todd have been the only two films that have been buzzed like crazy with no screenings, and Charlie was quickly put into the front runner seat, unfairly so?, I’m not sure, have to wait until i see it. I’m going to be optimistic. I have to.

BEST FEATURE
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
I’m Not There, Producers: Christine Vachon, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern
Juno, Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith*
A Mighty Heart, Producers: Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
Paranoid Park, Producers: Neil Kopp, David Cress

BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes, I’m Not There*
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Jason Reitman, Juno
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park

BEST SCREENPLAY
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages*
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, Starting Out in the Evening
Adrienne Shelly, Waitress
Mike White, Year of the Dog

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Jeffrey Blitz, Rocket Science
Zoe Cassavetes, Broken English
Diablo Cody, Juno*
Kelly Masterson, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
John Orloff, A Mighty Heart

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Sienna Miller, Interview
Ellen Page, Juno*
Parker Posey, Broken English
Tang Wei, Lust, Caution

BEST MALE LEAD
Pedro Castaneda, August Evening
Don Cheadle, Talk To Me
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening*
Tony Leung, Lust, Caution

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There*
Anna Kendrick, Rocket Science
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding
Tamara Podemski, Four Sheets to the Wind
Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk To Me
Marcus Carl Franklin, I’m Not There
Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound
Irrfan Khan, The Namesake
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mott Hupfel, The Savages
Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly*
Milton Kam, Vanaja
Mihai Malaimare, Jr., Youth Without Youth
Rodrigo Prieto, Lust, Caution

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
(Given to one film’s director, casting director and its ensemble cast)

I’m Not There, Director: Todd Haynes
Casting Director: Laura RosenthalEnsemble
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood

The Awards will be given out the day before the Oscars…Can’t Wait!
* indicates my prediction of who/what will win.

The film that beat Star Wars for Best Picture in 1977. Big surprise. Woody Allen and Diane Keaton’s labour of love, a masterpiece. The way the story was handled was magical. The history behind the two shines through and the result is a masterpiece i will never forget. I am so getting it on DVD!

Fatac Rating: ***** (not that rating a classic is fair)

I know Margot has no chance of returning to the Oscar race, and i have yet to see it, but I still love Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Lee….and they share a special relationship too, not to start any lesbian rumours….

And they look great here too in the November issue of Interview…

Personal opinion of course….

Flipping through my mothers December issue of Elle Magazine South Africa, paging my way to the article of the lovely Reese Witherspoon, I came across a quick interview with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In the introduction to the interview, it was written that in the interview, “the actor was not always amused,” and neither was I. I was in fact a little shocked at his attitude. Arrogant and cocky, neither bordering on humorous. I suppose as a rising star, and being another actor quick to jump on the bad-boy-from-Ireland bandwagon, he’s entitled to his attitude. He perhaps thought he was too big for the interview, too big of a star to waste time being compliant. In the end it just made him look immature and unfriendly. I never did like him much anyway, I felt nothing for him in ‘Match Point’, he was barely good in ‘Bend It Like Beckham’, I will never watch ‘The Tudors’, and I thought he was perfectly used in ‘Mission Impossible III’, he should stay clear from anything that requires any real acting capabilities. But all that is just my opinion, after all that is almost all I am entitled to in this life. Plus, when I met him a while back, he was so rude to me. I was like “Dude,you are not even famous!” Now he is and I still hate him.

(click on the picture with the article to read it for yourself….)