new zealand takes over the world

[aslant]

i am a little offended by the fact that peter jackson couldn't fucking wash his hair for oscar night. or cut it. i mean, please. simple hygeine, right?

briefly: too many giant bows on the backs of dresses. uma thurman's dress, horrible. liv tyler's, nice, even if i'm sick of her elfy act. marcia gay harden, graceful at nine months, kind of like a greek restaurant, gold braid and dark blue drapery; also she had bride-of-frankenstein hair. nicole kidman's dress was overpraised, i think the ruffly-boob-balcony thing didn't turn out so well. the general trend of silky satiny dresses and long trains is hard to pull off, but there were no egregious offenders.

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we drove to providence saturday morning, drove around to find the theatre where k is working this week. there really is a canal! a pretty city. with lots of bridges and steep streets and beautiful old neighborhoods full of old houses to die for. it was so bright---i had a camera but i couldn't seem to catch what i was seeing. it turned out to be a warm day and there were hoardes of undergraduates everywhere. it felt a little odd, like all the adults had been abducted, but we didn't really have the energy to wander far enough away from the brown campus to find other parts of the town. oh well. we shall return, jenn! we definitely need a tour guide next time.

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[ricecricket.livejournal.com]

did they thank tolkien?

[aslant.livejournal.com]

yes, endlessly. the nz crowd was very polite and thankful, and despite all the "no one left in new zealand to thank" jokes, i have to say it was really refreshing to see such praise for a movie produced so entirely outside of the los angeles world. also, there was a certain sense of 'wow' when some of the technical awards winners thanked their children for being patient with the movie that their parents had been making for six or seven years--longer, in many cases, than most of those kids had been alive. it just gives you a sense of scale, you know?

[souvenant.livejournal.com]

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

i am so in favor of guant bows on the backs of dresses

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i think it was just the smarmy look-at-my-starlet-dress aspect that got on my nerves. everyone expects elegance, but that elegance was so very uniform this year, too many obvious trends for any one dress to stick out of the crowds of long-and-flowing, satin-and-strapless clones.

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

i'd like them all here in my room. with their dumb bows and perfect smiles.

I didn't see a frame of this thing, but in the pizza place I heard one speech by the guy who did "Fog of War". I did see that film. I appreciated his warning that we're going "down the rabbit hole". Bush is taking tiny hits from so many no-names that it has to add up. I hope it adds up.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

oh god i dearly hope so.

there in your room. ha ha. i don't think their egos would fit into a room of plebecite, mortal dimensions, but i'm sure you'd give it the old college try.

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

juilette binoche once said hi to me,
cuz mackin' is my specialty.

[souvenant.livejournal.com]

[aslant.livejournal.com]

she really did look swank on those frames, although i think she was very conscious of that fact, you could kind of see it on her face every time she put them back on. oof. i really get the sense that she is constantly acting a character, when in public--the fey, slightly floaty, willowy liv tyler. it's as if she's acting like a caricature of herself, or of a star like herself.

i was very pleased about sofia coppola, too. she deserves it, but it seems kind of embarassing that this is the first female director nominee for the academy.

i swear to god sean penn looked like he was going to murder the rest of the nominees if he didn't win. i honestly breathed a sigh of relief when he did---no bodies in the alley tomorrow morning, yay! i think 21 grams, despite its good press, didn't get as much play as it should have. (i haven't seen it yet---the list of things i need to see is now, officially, as long as my arm.) there seemed to be the idea, also, that his 21 grams character was so similar to his mystic river character---even though they weren't too alike, really, in the previews you couldn't tell them apart.

there was another hideous dress, and i really wish i could remember who was wearing it...it was this hideous blue confectionary, with asymmetrical random tabs of fabric popping up all over her back, and she gushed about it, whoever she was--i heard an audible sound as joan rivers bit her tongue ;)

i must say, though, the general dress trend was no different than any other dress trend: it allows us to gawk at the million-dollar skeletons of the skinniest of ladies. i mean, you definitely get the feeling that when joan rivers is gushing over nicole kidman's dress (which was really quite simple, tasteful, but not a stunner in my opinion) she was really gushing over the absolute impossibility of her flat stomach. no one but the most perfect of stars would dare to wear those dresses---they show absolutely every fleshly detail. as if living in the public eye isn't bad enough already? joan rivers half-implied that julia roberts needed to go on a diet! not really, but sort of, you could tell julia roberts was nervous when joan said it, like, oh dear god, i'll be on the worst-dressed list. as if. something's a little cock-eyed if julia roberts has to worry about stuff like that. i'm reminded of that one line of hers in notting hill about having been on a diet since seven years old or something. sad.

ok. babbling. done now. xo.

[souvenant.livejournal.com]

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i absolutely agree about the music oscar: annie lennox was very sweet and i admire them for picking someone who has so often been an oddity in the public eye, but i don't think that song deserved it in the least. i thought the cold mountain songs were heartbreaking (okay and sting? was that a fucking hurdy-gurdy he was playing? of course fucking sting is playing the most obscure instrument in the world! of fucking course!)

i was waiting and waiting for the mitch & mickey performance---and it was sheer genius. the music performances this year were all truly wonderful. the triplets of belleville performance? oh man it made you want to get up and dance. how could you not? they had a swank girl in a red dress! a man playing a bicycle! a man playing a vaccuum! flapper back-up singers! it was priceless. i want that soundtrack badly, now.

and yeah, sting was really just a drone in the background. i do think that song was lovely with the teensy bit of harmonizing he added to it, though.

apparently kirk has met alison krauss, he worked at a few of her shows in texas. apparently that was before her hollywood makeover, though.

i was highly annoyed that E! felt the need to pooh-pooh all the music selections as buzzkillers; i think the trend of beautiful bluegrassy/folky songs is so fabulous in comparison to the usually poppy schlock barfed upon movie-goers, a' la celine dion or whitney houston.

& did you see will farrell and jack black's song duet? i laughed until i cried. however: the del taco joke only works in california, boys. but genius, otherwise.