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"When the Golden Globe nominations were announced last week, there was one glaring omission from the Best Supporting Actor category: a nod for Milk. Actually, there were four glaring omissions, because Milk still does not have a definite forerunner among its quartet of campaigned-for supporting actors, which includes Josh Brolin, James Franco, Emile Hirsch and Diego Luna. Did the Hollywood Foreign Press Association truly snub the film, as has been suggested, or could the organization simply not decide which actor to nominate? Perhaps the two favorites, Brolin and Franco, cancelled each other out. If so, the Academy needs to ensure that such a thing doesn’t happen with its Oscar nominations. And the best way to do this is to get behind Diego Luna for Best Supporting Actor. This will no doubt seem like a ridiculous suggestion this late in the game, particularly to the critics who fail to appreciate Luna’s performance. His character, Jack "
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"Bad Education2004 (Spain)dir: Pedro AlmodovarGael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Fele MartínezA young man, Enrique (played by Fele Martinez) is working as a film director. He is visited by a childhood friend Ignacio Rodriguez (played by Gael Garcia Bernal), who is looking for work. Before he leaves Ignacio gives Enrique a book that he has written called 'The Visit'. The story centres around the lives of two young boys who attend a Catholic School. Enrique decides to make a film based on the book which is set to resurrect his own childhood.The film visits three time periods. The past features the Catholic School where two young boys come of age and begin to have feelings for one another and the influence their teacher has on their lives, priest Father Manolo (played by Daniel Gimenez Cacho).The director Pedro Almodovar provides a spellbinding insight into how reality is transformed by fantasy as he weaves his story through the 70s and 80s, and pre and post ... "
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"By Tricia Olszewski Love, anger, joy, sorrow—none of these emotions can be found in Bad Education. In this chilly film noir, the usual Pedro Almodóvar trifecta of passion-grief-hysteria—r endered, of course, with Benjamin Moore brightness—is nowhere to be found. Yes, there’s frequent talk of love in this story of priestly pedophilia and prepubescent gay crushes, but none of it is ever brought to life. Also missing are Almodóvar’s women, though given that the Spanish auteur’s last masterpiece, Talk to Her, was also driven by male characters, this probably isn’t the source of the problem. More likely, Almodóvar just got so caught up orchestrating his refracted plot that he forgot to make the people involved in it all that human. Or maybe he was too busy trying to fit in one more reference to a certain cameo-loving American auteur. In any case, thank God his star is so magnetic: Gael García Bernal, last seen port ... "
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"Proteus is an historical drama, shot directly on video in the style of many past PBS specials, more comparable in experience to theatre than film. In the wrong hands stiff and self-conscious, in the right ones understated and dynamic. Filmmakers John Greyson and Jack Lewis have found in actual records of incidents emerging from Robben Island, a penal colony of Cape Town, South Africa, intriguing metaphors (or barometers) for the politics of masculinity that suffused Amsterdam and South Africa in 1725. What makes Proteus ingenious, is how easily it applies to contemporary culture. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, it says more about the community than the accused. Informs by the questions it raises in the audience’s minds. Questions the characters never ask. A possible theme of Proteus might be grotesque consequences of the unspoken: particular acts that are untranslatable in Christian society. Professions of love that even the subtitles refuse to transmit in English.Proteus opens w ... "
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"Our regular guest writer, Dodd (moviedodd at spout.com), tells us what's the latest in movie rating news, and shares his mixed feelings about the proposed changes. Dodd is finishing up a Master's degree in Film Studies at Ohio University. Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about the current film rating system implemented by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Filmmakers have raised hell about it all on their own for the past few years, but now the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated has served as an expose on the selective standards of MPAA members. The film seems to have had an affect already. Since its release, MPAA head honcho Dan Glickman has admitted to the organization's vague guidelines for what sets an R picture apart from an NC-17 one, and that proper actions would be taken to fix that problem. It seems that Glickman was not just throwing words around for publicity purposes. According to a recent Variety article, Dan Glickman has announced th ... "
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