Welcome to 5 Favorites. Each week, I will put together a list of my 5 favorites (films, performances, whatever strikes my fancy) along with commentary on a given topic each week, usually in relation to a specific film releasing that week. In honor of the impending release of The Call of the Wild, the latest…
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Born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in Puerto Rico on October 28, 1974, the middle child of five of a New York Jewish mother and California father of mostly English heritage, his parents who were then members of the Children of God missionaries changed the family name to Phoenix. With older siblings named River and Rain and…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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Return Links Polls What Are You Watching? (Feb. 21-23, 2020)
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Page Revisions: (February 16, 2020) Original Release Date: March 13, 2020 Synopsis: From IMDb: “Sally Potter’s film follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning), as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her…
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Here we look at the upcoming month’s offerings. March 6, 2020 Onward Premise: From IMDb: “Set in a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on a quest to discover if there is still magic out there.” Box Office Prospects: $250 M Expectations: Excellent. Every original Pixar film, with a few exceptions, has done…
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A new number one is likely with this week’s debut of Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford. It’s an adaptation of a well known novel by Jack London and the previews definitely sell it as a one-of-a-kind adventure between a man and his dog. Unlike this week’s other debut, Brahms: The Boy II, Call…
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I Lost My Body Rating Director Jérémy Clapin Screenplay Jérémy Clapin, Guillaume Laurant Length 1h 21min Starring Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d”Assumcao MPAA Rating None Original Preview None
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released Oscar Nominations
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This organization selects only Italian productions, thus is no general precursor to the Oscars. Award Tallies (18) The Traitor (15) The First King, Pinocchio (11) Martin Eden (9) 5 Is the Perfect Number (6) Suspiria (4) Bangla, The Dea Fortuna, The Mayor of Rita Sanita (3) Memories?, The Paranza of Children The Awards
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This organization selects only Canadian productions, thus is no general precursor to the Oscars. Award Tallies (9) The Song of Names (8) The Twentieth Century (7) Antigone (6) The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (5) And the Birds Rained Down, Goalie, Riot Girls (4) American Woman, Anne at 13,000 ft., Disappearance at Clifton…
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Page Revisions: (February 16, 2020) Original (September 5, 2021) New Release Date (changed from 7/24/20) (October 17, 2021) New Posters (#2-#18) Release Date: October 22, 2021 Synopsis: From IMDb: “A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of…
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New This Week Ford v Ferrari was nominated for four 2019 Oscars and won two for Film Editing and Sound Editing. It was also nominated for Best Picture and Sound Mixing. As such, it falls behind 1966’s Grand Prix, which was only nominated for just three Oscars for Film Editing, Sound, and Sound Effects, but…
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Here’s what happened today in Oscar History. Born Died Released
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Return Links Polls Now That You’ve Seen Sonic the Hedgehog…?
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