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The Great Debaters (2007)
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"Oprah Winfrey can certainly create a best seller when it comes to books, and her pick of the presidential candidates is on his way to the White House. But can she get behind a movie and contribute to its success? 20th Century Fox seems to hope so, because the studio apparently allowed the talk show host to screen an unfinished cut of Australia in preparation for her November 10 show, which featured the film’s stars, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, as well as a live-via-Skype call-in from filmmaker Baz Luhrman. Fortunately for Fox, Oprah raved about the film, and now the media has latched on to the endorsement, creating some much-needed positive buzz for the Oscar-hopeful. Yet there’s a big problem with all the excitement: Oprah’s film recommendations have hardly been sure-fire champs in the past. Case in point: the first title I came upon while searching for Oprah-select cinema was something called
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"Resolved: This movie belongs on television as a Movie of the Week. The critics who call this a great movie are either on drugs or are having fond memories of being on their high school debate team. I don't know what exactly is so exceptional, other than the fact that the picture has two critically lauded actors, one of which for whom the praise is justified (Forest Whitaker). This may be controversial, but I have been thinking for a while that Denzel Washington is overrated. He is a very good actor, yes, but a great one? He certainly gave at least one great performance, as Malcolm X, but Washington takes too many easy roles in similar films. He needs to stay away from thrillers and never play a cop, soldier or FBI agent again.
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"In the latest “What’s wrong with The Weinstein Company?” piece from the New York Times (Michael Cieply penned the previous installment of the saga, six months back), David Carr begins with the thesis, “For the second year in a row, Harvey and Bob have had some significant misses at the box office and probably won’t be major players at the Oscars.” He then offers a pack of typically hyperbolic denials from Harvey Weinstein. Among them is Harvey contention that his studio does, in fact, have a hand to play at the Oscars–behind Denzel Washington’s latest directorial effort, The Great Debaters, and the John Cusack war widower drama Grace is Gone. But nowhere in the story does Weinstein mention I’m Not There, the film featuring the performance which prompted Weinstein to bellow just two months ago, “If Cate Blanchett doesn’t get nominated, I’ll shoot myself.” Sure, it’s possible that Weinstein *did* flog Todd Haynes d "
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