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I attended screenings of nominated documentary "Balseleros" and "My Architect" this week, bringing my total number of nominees seen to a rather paltry seven. How many of the films have you seen?
Update: I saw "Capturing the Friedmans" today (Friday), bringing me to a slightly less paltry eight.
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5{ any of the docs, shorts, or foreigns. Have seen all the Best Pic nominations except Seabiscuit (which I'm quite surprised got to the finals). Speaking of foreign-language films, as usual the best didn't get nominated; last night I saw the Russian movie The Return, which is absolutely stunning, one of the best movies of any kind I've seen in the last year. (Warning: it's not a cheerful movie. No sex and only minor violence, though -- just the misery of existence. Hey, it's Russian.)
Posted by: language hat | February 19, 2004 10:00 AM
Huh? How'd that happen? That should read:
I haven't seen any of the...
Posted by: language hat | February 19, 2004 10:01 AM
I couldn't tell you, but I hope it doesn't happen again!
As I understand it each nation can submit only one film for the Best Foreign-Language Film category (despite each nation potentially having multiple national languages); perhaps another Russian film was offered for consideration.
Posted by: Songdog | February 19, 2004 10:10 AM
Yes, the problem is that most countries seem to pick their films on some basis other than quality.
Posted by: language hat | February 20, 2004 09:43 AM