Zero Dark Thirty
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Zero Dark Thirty and the New History
I saw Zero Dark Thirty twice. The first time, the auditorium was nearly full. The second, about a week later, there were only two other people. But both times, the auditorium felt empty, as if, in commanding the attention of its viewers, the film left no room for thought. Whether Zero Dark Thirty endorses torture or not has been much discussed elsewhere, and that discussion and debate has, in its own way, framed the very way we think about the movie. And yet there is another form of torture depicted in the film and that is the torture perpetrated by […]
by Nicholas Rombes on Jan 29, 2013 -
2013 Oscar Nominees Announced
Oscars show host Seth MacFarlane and actress Emma Stone announced the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards this morning at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The award show telecast will air on Sunday, February 24 at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT on ABC. Not surprisingly following the buzz this year, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is the nomination frontrunner, earning 12 nods including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones) and Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field). Life of Pi edged out Zero Dark Thirty […]
by Billy Brennan on Jan 10, 2013 -
TRAILER WATCH: KATHRYN BIGELOW’S “ZERO DARK THIRTY”
There’s really not a lot of actual footage or dialogue in this teaser trailer for director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal’s follow-up to their Best Picture Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker — instead what we have here is suggestive, and very much style over content. The film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden — which comes out on December 19 — is not set to play fall fests and is still in postproduction, and it seems from this teaser that Columbia Pictures wants to keep as much of the material under wraps as possible, at least for now. […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 6, 2012
