Re: Glad to see the Blairwitch Project overlooked (but obviously not for any formal reasons, though there is a fundamental flaw that keeps it from being anything but suspenseful). Clarification, in my dissing of the film, I meant to say that the Blairwitch Project suffered from a fundamental flaw which ensured it was anything but suspenseful. Hint to the directors (and those doing the big-budget sequel): it would have been a more successful film had it used only one camera. Cutting between 16mm and video, you can't help but be continually aware of the editor's/director's hands throughout, undermining what might otherwise have been a tension-riddled 'scary' film. What we're left with is a barely passable film-school experiment that bored me (and most of my film school friends). So the academy gets my vote for showing good taste/judgment in this case. And I'd agree with the Richard Farnsworth nomination (although I found the movie on the whole a bit dull. The only thing keeping me up was the chattering seniors behind me - not loud enough to keep my mom up, though - although she is their peer in age). In the spririt of being curmudgeonly, Geoff _____________________________________________ Geoff Stahl Graduate Program in Communications McGill University Home page: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/gstahl.htm IASPM-Canada page: http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/iaspm/ Canadian Journal of Film Studies (Editorial Assistant): http://www.film.queensu.ca/fsac/cjfs.html CKUT 90.3 FM (Montreal) Wednesdays at Midnight (EST) for your aural pleasure. http://www.ckut.ca Postmodernism: It's all fun and games until someone loses an I. ___________________________________________ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +-------------------- new york, london, paris, tokyo ----------------+ +------------------ everybody talk about... popjourno! -------------+ +------------------- http://www.pulped.co.uk/popjourno --------------+ +--------- to send a message to the list, please address it to ------+ +----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------+ +--------- declarations of love, presents, and otherwise saucy ------+ +-------- e-correspondence should be sent directly to the list ------+ +------------------- mummy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------+ +------------- popjourno currently has over 140 subscribers ---------+ +------------------------ (most of them lurkers). -------------------+ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
