my oscar picks, so far…

Movie City News’ Gurus o’ Gold are back and I’m thrilled to once again join the party. In the words of MCN, we’re offering a weekly take on the Hollywood horse race.

Here’s my picks for the week, with the full chart at Movie City News.

BEST PICTURE
1. The Hurt Locker
2. Precious
3. Up in The Air
4. A Serious Man
5. An Education
6. Up
7. Where the Wild Things Are
8. Bright Star
9. Inglorious Basterds
10. The Road
11. Julie and Julia
12. A Single Man

BEST ACTOR
1. George Clooney, Up in the Air
2. Colin Firth, A Single Man
3. Viggo Mortensen, The Road
4. Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
5. Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
6. Matt Damon, The Informant

BEST ACTRESS
1. Carey Mulligan, An Education
2. Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia
3. Gabby Sibide, Precious
4. Helen Mirren, The Last Station
5. Abby Cornish, Bright Star
6. Penelope Cruz, Broken Embraces

BEST ANIMATED FILM
1. Up
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Ponyo
4. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

eug posted to awards season on November 6, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

will you give $1 to help distribute 100 indie films?

The folks at OpenIndie, the new film distribution concept launched by Arin Crumley and Kieran Masterson, need to raise just $108 in the next 31 hours, to support their new initiative. I finally donated today (sorry for the delay). Will you join?

More on OpenIndie in Eric Kohn’s article at indieWIRE.

eug posted to The Biz on October 28, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

nyc | coming soon: apple store, upw

Walking at Broadway & 67th St. in Manhattan today, I came across the site of the new Apple Store. Apparently, just in time for the holiday shopping season. I’m certainly looking forward to it! (More at CNET)

photos by Google Maps (left, then) and eugene hernandez (right, now)

eug posted to nyc on October 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

two minutes from “antichrist”

LvT’s “Antichrist” opens tonight, at midnight in NYC. Here’s two minutes from the movie. More today at indieWIRE, and here’s our recent conversation with von Trier (fueled by questions from indieWIRE readers).

eug posted to movies on October 22, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)

david carr: “I love my fake friends”

NY Times’ David Carr on leaving the awards season beat:

“I love my fake friends,” [Carr] sighed. “Penelope Cruz air-kissing you, even when she’s not exactly sure who you are, has to have an effect on you.”

He will be greatly missed.

photo by eugene hernandez

eug posted to awards season on October 21, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0)