OSCARS 2022 Nominations and Winners

[Chris Knipp]

Two Oscar notes on Oscar awards day

The NYTimes today has another article, credited to two people, about how movies aren't movies anymore because they're not primarily shown in movie theaters.

And it points out CODA is a "streaming" film (AppleTV) and TPOTD is also (Netflix).

I get confused about this because I watch a movie however I can, but it still looks like a movie to me whether I see it on my laptop or in a cinema.

I initially saw Compartment No. 6 on my laptop, then weeks later went to see it in a theater. The theater experience was a richer, more memorable one, both visually and emotionally; but it was quite a good movie both times.

The radical, smart, conservative, Catholic, gay, black critic Armond Wbite has published a defense of Sam Elliott and his attack on The Power of the Dog for violating the true traditions of the Western. (Didn't Clint Eastwood do that with Unforgiven in 1992?)

White refers us to Elliott's "definitive role as The Stranger, a Western archetype, in the cult classic ˆThe Big Lebowski."

But what also struck me about White's piece was his argument that The Power of the Dog is covertly homophobic for representing a gay boy who is evil and "murderous" and, he says, "fascist. (I still don't fully fathom what Kodi Smit-McPhee's character is all about.)