sketchbook @Filmaster

Pip -- Congrats on your correct calls Re Oscars. Those awards are horrendously predictable. I like to think there'll be a fabulous surprise -- for the good, and there never is.

Oscar Predictions and Commentary 2011 (2010 Films) (Pippin2010)

Pip! 2night! Im predicting Fincher (dir) and Bening (actress) on my Osc party ballot.

Academy Awards Best Picture 2011 (cliodhna)

Does anyone here remember "The Miracle Worker" ? The 2 stars - Bancroft, Duke - won awards. But neither the pic nor dir (A Penn) was nominated. It was about a woman teaching a kid how to say Wa-Waaah-Water!! It was far, far superior to this rubbishy schmaltz tagged "King's Stutter." It's an embarrassment to find it nominated as Best. Best Kaka.

Oscar Predictions and Commentary 2011 (2010 Films) (Pippin2010)

1-week away: Editors guild cited 'Social.' Key group. Holly chums say it's Fincher - best director; v tight race for best pic. Harve the Whine in LA, opening every supermarket ...I really hated 'Stutter.' It's so fuken old-fashioned-tvee-HBO. But schmaltz is what 'those people' like --.

Oscar Predictions and Commentary 2011 (2010 Films) (Pippin2010)

Will the "FB Revolt" in Egypt help Social?

Sophia Coppola's "Somewhere"

For many cinemaddicts "Somewhere" belongs among the top 5 films of the year. It's an intelligent, sensitive European art house-styled look at the banality of life in Hollywood. With little dialogue and long, steadfast shots, "Somewhere" is cousin to the ennui films of Antonioni ("L'Avventura," "La Notte"). A likeable performance by Stephen Dorff as a Famous Actor and a knockout turn by Elle Fanning as the daughter he bonds with.