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The 78th ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Nominations Oscar Night: Sunday, March 5

Best Picture Best Director Manufactured Mailbag 2 Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee Shoot the Moon 3 Capote Bennett Miller Best Picture / Director 5-6 Crash Paul Haggis Boosting Documentaries 6 Good Night, and George Clooney Best Actor / Actress 7-8 Good Luck Munich Steven Spielberg Supplemental Viewing Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Seeing movies in a theater trumps seeing movies at Terrence Howard Hustle & Flow home. Still, I don’t mind extolling my first full year on Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain Netflix, an impressive movie delivery mechanism. OK, Joaquin Phoenix Walk the Line what does a movie maven select for his first 97 Netflix David Strathairn Good Night, and choices? Since the slant is movies, it’s important to Good Luck qualify that from the 50,000 available titles, several are television shows: “Seinfeld,” Season 1 kind of thing or Best Actress some comic doing a 2 hour show for HBO or watching Judi Dench Mrs. Henderson Ken Burns’s 10 part public television series, Baseball. Presents Felicity Huffman Transamerica About half the films I saw through Netflix were first- Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice time viewings for me. I discovered that Quentin Charlize Theron North Country Tarantino’s Kill Bill, Vol. 2 only had about 7 worthwhile Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line minutes in it. I’m out of popular synch thinking that The Bourne Identity would be better called the “The Best Supporting Actor Bored Identity.” And I was quite surprised that one of George Clooney Syriana the highly revered films of all time, The Bicycle Thief, Matt Dillon Crash seemed so lacking to me. Paul Giamatti Cinderella Man Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback Mountain On the other hand, I thought that Quentin Tarantino William Hurt A History of Violence could learn something about cool from Waking Life. I Best Supporting Actress was sucked in by the brutal sustenance depicted in Fight Amy Adams Junebug Club. And I was warmly engaged by the cross-cultural Catherine Keener Capote tale of an aged Omar Sharif and a sprouting teen in Frances McDormand North Country Monsieur Ibrahim. Also, opportunities to see Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener documentaries such as Born into Brothels, is a part of Michelle Williams Brokeback Mountain the great breadth of Netflix.

(Underlined nominees equal CampChuck predictions) (continued, page 6) (continued from page 4) Best Supporting Actor Manufactured Mailbag well-written tale of an ideal family Dear Editor, Dear Editor, man and owner of a small town business. One of the best realized Did you notice that there are 21 I repeat my question from last screen efforts of 2005, maybe more double letters in the big five year, since I so appreciate you people will see this rough film now, people categories this year? including a top ten list. Doing it because of and despite Hurt’s off- Director Bennett Miller, alone, again? beat inclusion. has 3 double letters in his name. All five Best Supporting Actor Lindy Warne, Roseburg, OR Matt Dillon plays a prejudiced cop nominees have double letters in Crash whose behavior is including double doubles for Jake Dear Lindy, unacceptable. That same bad apple Gyllenhaal and Matt Dillon. is a devoted son caring for his ailing 1. Brokeback Mountain father and a veteran civil servant Hatty Madderthrall, Billings, MO 2. Good Night, and Good Luck still ignoring his own safety in the 3. Junebug line of duty. Dear Hatty, 4. A History of Violence 5. Crash Since the pervasiveness of You are dangerously close to 6. Breakfast on Pluto prejudice colors every scene in unearthing classified code. Don’t 7. Documentary Films including Crash, giving a best supporting lose faith. The Wild Parrots of actor award to any one of the Ed. Telegraph Hill; Mad Hot several fine performances undercuts Ballroom; Enron; Murberball; the theme. Matt Dillon will have to Dear Editor, and March of the Penguins be satisfied with a nomination. 8. Pride & Prejudice Netflix is a pox on purist 9. Me&You& Everyone We Know George Clooney is nominated for devotions to film viewing. 10. Yes Syriana, not for Good Night, and A friend, Los Angeles Good Luck. Impressive in both, it Contenders for the top ten include most certainly is a good year to take Dear friend, Munich and Downfall and The this Oceans Eleven and O Brother Upside of Anger and Cinderella Where Art Thou actor seriously. Pox be with you. Man. A few characterizing words Ed. hint about each of the top ten. Syriana cynically swipes at the oil- mucked power politics that reigns Dear Editor, 1. story-rich, character-rich; Ang over every chess piece on the board. Lee knows relationship angst Clooney’s character, an effective How come, on television, they 2. taut, telling docu-drama operator in this world, experiences can be so insulting as to scrunch 3. a stereotype underminer the similarities between knights and the film credits alongside a rush 4. story grabs you all the way pawns. Syriana dares to pace itself to the next commercial? 5. in your face mesh of prejudice in a noncommercial way. Look for 6. strangely innocent, waifly tale Clooney to ply more than a rakish Inga Sven, Calgary, Alberta 7. great alternative for seeking smile in years to come. His daring satisfaction at the movies is playing well, but not yet as far as Dear Inga, 8. top notch period piece Oscar gold. 9. odd genuineness grows on ya Such crass commercialism won’t 10. a poetic, sensual, intelligent, It’s apples and oranges between happen if you see the movies in a film experiment Gyllenhaal and Giamatti, but theater, although theaters already Giamatti’s got the “poysonality” make us suffer commercials Find The CampChuck Reviewer and Oscar is slower to slap gold on before the film, eh? at http://www.startlets.com. younger actors. Ed. Email: [email protected] 2 Shoot the Moon

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CampChuck Predictions (as also indicated by underlined nominees on page one) Director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, the best story tugging at the human condition this year, will beat the taut political pressure cooker that is Good Night, and Good Luck. Everyone’s a more interesting choice than Reese Witherspoon, but her pop entertainment peppiness will watch the other nominees cancel each other out. Philip Seymour Hoffman’s affectations will beat the narrower excellence struck by David Strathairn. Paul Giamatti’s total resume will inch him past Jake Gyllenhaal’s impressive role. Amy Adams will defy the odds. Picture and Director: Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain Actress and Actor: Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote Supporting Actress & Actor: Amy Adams Junebug Paul Giamatti Cinderella Man

3 Best Supporting Actress Best Supporting Actor

Rachel Weisz leads any betting Consequently, Catherine Keener Last year, Morgan Freeman won on Best Supporting Actress while interesting and effective as Best Supporting Actor playing the because she represents the soul of Harper Lee is an also-ran for Oscar. right-hand man in the boxing her film, The Constant Gardener. movie, Million Dollar Baby. Will Weisz plays a sophisticated Earth- Unlike Capote, Brokeback Paul Giamatti, playing a right- mother probing headlong into Mountain satisfies thoroughly as a hand man in a boxing movie, deadly trouble. She makes you story because of the counter- Cinderella Man, win this year? understand why her timid balances between the characters. husband loves her so much. She Michelle Williams suffers from her Yes. Voters will makes you understand why the man’s secret. More than that, she note that Giamatti timid good people of the world suffers because her man’s only stamps a unique yet must act against exploitation and passion in life does not include her. identifiably human injustice and why they don’t. Nonetheless for Oscar voting, this mark in role after is more a subordinate role than a role. He made In the irrelevant declarations of supporting role, but hats off to Sideways better than it deserved Best Acting, Weisz had a Williams for helping the year’s Best to be. He made American relatively easy job. The world is Picture tell so well. Splendor a must-see, nerdoid so filled with bad and she was so triumph. With fame spot-on, riskingly good. The hidden treat amongst all the accumulating, he’ll be noticed in nominations this year is Amy bunches of earlier roles, “Hey, By contrast, the activism that Adams. Not only does her that’s … that guy. He’s good.” Frances McDormand portrays in performance jump above the other North Country is more practical. four estimable Best Supporting Jake Gyllenhaal is Giamatti’s You feel the long-haul Actress nominees, but her film, only real competition in this commitment of this woman, who Junebug, is a gem. year’s slate of nominees. has worked tough years in the Gyllenhaal could benefit from the mine and worked as a union Playing a 9-months pregnant wife trick of running him in the best representative for every worker’s of a sub-ordinary husband, her supporting category when he rights. The savvy positivity is needs and hopes are so electric, you really shares the lead in the most well suited to turning the key of are first charged with laughter. She prominent film of the year, social change. seems so real and unlikely, yet Brokeback Mountain. Adams makes it impossible not to There’s an effective story appreciate her humanity. It’s almost unfair. The ripping contrivance that is both the reason story of passion works because of McDormand could win and the In Junebug, a sophisticated woman the heat both Heath Ledger and reason why voters may turn past visits the semi-rural, lower-middle Gyllenhaal generate. Maybe that this role to the subtler triumph class home her new husband moved is why the nomination won’t quite that won her an Oscar for Fargo. away from. His sister-in-law win. It’s the pairing that draws (Adams) and brother live with his you and the movie as a whole that If Capote chose to be more about mom and dad. The story is small. paints the compelling reality. the deep friendship between The characters are a precious movie Also, Gyllenhaal seems less tor- Truman Capote and Harper Lee – opportunity, and stereotyping tured, so the turmoil of Ledger’s who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird becomes richly beside the point. character plumbs more deeply. – it would have been a more interesting story. What ticks Although a long shot Was A History of Violence inside their shared history? my money is on rewritten when William Hurt took Amy Adams, out of a supporting part and made it his Instead and impressively, Philip respect for the best own? It’s a crisp caricature, but it Seymour Hoffman lords over the performance in any disrupts the heavy extremes in a film experience in the title role. of the categories. (continued on page 2) 4 Best Picture / Best Director

What makes a Best Picture? It is not the eyebrow choices to present that meticulous reserve. His raising buzz and inevitable shrug about “gay black-and-white film works like amber, suspending cowboys.” It is the substantive accomplishment of Edward R. Murrow's news team in palpable tension. fine storytelling. It is the intensity of the love story, Choosing black and white also allows video footage not the gender of the lovers that will make of Joseph McCarthy to make him a character not Brokeback Mountain the Oscar winning Best played by an actor. Picture. Granted, the gay cowboy thing hasn’t been done before, but it is the heart wrenching Amidst the heated political climate in the beginning tugs of human relationships that assure this years of the 21st century, a cool film like Good story. Night, and Good Luck offers stiff competition for Oscar’s golden mark of respect. Brokeback Mountain is not like Philadelphia, where the story is discrimination against gays. That The substantive accomplishment of fine storytelling “issue” picture works because Tom Hanks plays an takes many forms. Crash overloads its story with exemplary human being, a top notch professional the interweaving of separate lives – too much and a devoted family man. Justice about the “issue” interweaving. Yet, director Paul Haggis makes this in Philadelphia speaks in a court of law. overloading work. Scene after scene stains us with the prejudice that everybody wears. Brokeback Mountain is just about two guys, two rural, no account guys, two guys who don’t mean to The violence and noise and damage of a crash, the make much of their lives. There’s no issue. Except breakdown of a crash, has more subtle features and the one that’s hidden under the spacious skies of definitions than we are tuned to examine. Haggis Brokeback Mountain’s majesty. Director Ang Lee pushes people and cultures together and mooshes the deftly mixes in views of America’s beautiful Big subtleties in our face. Haggis mooshes dualities in Sky country. (Never mind the teensy irony that our face. it was actually filmed in Canada.) A large and impressive ensemble cast delivers There’s no issue. Except the one that’s hidden in Haggis’s vision. Cop this and Black that, Rich this passionless marriages. Director Ang Lee has a strong and Asian that, Latino this and criminal that. To its track record with faceted relationships, including the credit, the elements of this film cannot be Oscar nominated Best Foreign summarized well. For that very reason, the effective Language film, The Wedding overload of Crash makes for an Oscar contender that Banquet, and the Oscar nominated is not easily dismissed. For the same reason, it will Best Picture, Sense and Sensibility. not win. This time, Lee’s cinematic sense and sensibility will be awarded Best The substantive accomplishment of fine storytelling Director and Best Picture. takes many forms. No filmmaker knows this in a more fully realized way than Steven Spielberg. Like The substantive accomplishment of fine storytelling a sports champion, one reason he is the best is that takes many forms. Good Night, and Good Luck lives he’s better than almost everybody even when he’s in claustrophobic corporate spaces. Its story is not playing his best. He can slump through narrow nationwide political intimidation in the era of special-effects money making with War of the Senator Joseph McCarthy and a milestone in Worlds and give us Munich in the same year. television broadcasting. Munich is a bit ungainly, but Spielberg made Edward R. Murrow, the standard bearer of TV ambitious choices in a story about revenge after the journalism, stood up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy by murderous raid on Israeli athletes at the Munich integrating facts and ideas with a keen sense of Olympics. Avengers, secretly sponsored by the state reserve. Director George Clooney made excellent (continued on page 6) 5 (continued from page 5) Best Picture / Best Director of Israel, responded to this travesty. Spielberg chose rendered. This is a successful film, even though it is to make this a more mundane story of men with jobs all about a man you will not like. to do, jobs they had to go to day after day after day, difficult jobs where mistakes happen and To win a Best Picture Oscar, Truman Capote would motivations grind. This film shows that some things have had to have been a different person. To win must be done and that these things are never done. Best Picture, Capote would have had to spend more time showing why Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Munich is not a glamorous adventure flick, although Mockingbird, had such a devoted connection to this it plays in that popular arena. Munich plods intently, man. This film skips past the notion that a weighing down righteousness, but weighing down phenomenon like Truman Capote should actually be the storytelling a bit, too. explained. Director Bennett Miller was faithful to his vision, but it’s not an Oscar winning vision. Further off the mark of fine storytelling, it may not be fair to say that Capote is all about Philip Seymour See Capote for Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Hoffman’s masterful performance. But it is. (See performance, not for what’s so chilling about the Best Actor, page 7.) Capote, the man, was a peculiar story that became In Cold Blood. For that, read the phenomenon. Making a successful film book. depends hugely on how this phenomenon is

Boost Those Documentary Numbers (continued from page 1)

Documentary films deserve a collective Best Supplemental Viewing mention. Last year hosted a very satisfying uptick for this film specialty that almost no one sees. I reconfirmed that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was a sincere attempt but still too messy to It’s not about the numbers. Nonetheless, the buy into. My second viewing of The Manchurian average documentary earns about $3.2 million. Candidate confirms that it is simply too much of a Subtract last year’s hit, March of the Penguins contrivance, notwithstanding its pithy concept. And ($77 million) and 7 other films in the history of whatever hugely impressed me about Shampoo documentaries (including $120 million from decades ago only engaged me moderately this time. Fahrenheit 9/11) and the average earnings plummet 50% to $1.6 million. This doesn’t pay Mostly, picking movies one has seen repeats very for meals on blockbuster films. satisfying viewings. I was charged again by Stand and Deliver about a high school calculus class and See Mad Hot Ballroom ($8m), a more than cute Spellbound about the national spelling bee. I’ve story about 5th graders headed for a dance contest. seen Billy Jack, like, six times, and it’s still a See The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill ($3m), a cornball triumph of spirited violence and spiritual peculiar bit of positivity about an unlikely man non-violence. John Sayles makes such character- caring for unlikely city birds. See Enron: the rich yarns, and The Secret of Roan Inish and Brother Smartest Guys in the Room ($4m), lest we forget from Another Planet pulled me in again. The how callous travesty touches our pocketbooks and Triplets of Belleville is wonderfully bizarro, our psyches. See Murderball ($2m), about the animation. Frida is richly dramatic and arty. Saving inspiring assertiveness of quadripalegic athletes. Private Ryan is intensely big, and The Piano is intensely small. Ask for documentaries. Even these “successful” examples barely show on the radar screen. It’s a I’m constantly pumped by my dozens-long queue of great alternative movie satisfaction to promote. Netflix picks, but I still prefer the movie house.

6 Best Actor

The one sure-fire Oscar this year is Heath Ledger oozes the complex truth in a simple Philip Seymour Hoffman, playing point. “I ain’t queer,” his character says. Although the title role in Capote. The film he is intensely in love with a man and acts on it for works because of how fully 20 years, he ain’t queer, because, well, it ain’t Hoffman reincarnates one of the healthy to be, ain’t right to be. It ain’t what his life most peculiar celebrities ever to is, except for the one guy he can’t help it with, the contort the proportions of fame. couple, few times a year that it happens.

Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood, perhaps his In large part, the story of Brokeback Mountain works only literary work that resonates more memorably because Heath Ledger holds so much in. He doesn’t than his aura of personal genius. The movie, Capote, say much and almost seems to cough out what he constrains itself to the six years Capote spent does say. Sexiness aside and gayness aside, he’s just researching and writing a new kind of book, dubbed a guy. He’s just a guy with a kind of insufficient life "nonfiction novel" writing. He committed himself to that has to be lived without thinking there’s too journalistic truth in his storytelling. Yet he became much he can do about it. Many things make intimately wrapped in knowing the story of two Brokeback Mountain the Best Picture of the year, but heartless murderers. for Best Actor voting, Heath Ledger’s excellence will get unfairly slotted as hunkish, especially next Capote is an obnoxious, grating man. And yet he to the likes of Truman Capote. compels a kind of crawling, gawking attention in the way a highway accident compels attention. Walk the Line possesses an infectious, pop entertainment rhythm while chronicling much of the Philip Seymour Hoffman is so good portraying this colorful life of icon, Johnny Cash. Although larger than life twerp that he makes you care about Joaquin Phoenix inhabits this persona thoroughly, his committed ways while you dislike him for his including the singing and strumming, Walk the Line self-involved core. Hoffman avoided the pitfalls of lacks the depth and ambitious artiness of Ray. By making Capote seem like a caricature. Hoffman's comparison, Cash is a coping journeyman and Ray disarming way makes him the kind of actor that Charles is a transcending genius. Joaquin Phoenix actors respect. Without fitting any movie star mold, was play acting. Jaimie Foxx was serious acting. his acting star is rising. Terrence Howard deserves much credit as the hub of David Strathairn has been around twice as long as a wheel in Hustle & Flow. As a cut-rate pimp with Hoffman. Like Hoffman, Strathairn deserves to be aspirations to become a Hip Hop star, this is an talked about as the kind of actor who makes his American Dream movie in a bad neighborhood. The films and his fellow actors look better. Unlike storytelling is roughly sturdy and touching. It’s the Hoffman, Strathairn’s acting star has been more supporting characters around this hustler that makes steady than bright – until Good Night, and Good the story of trying to make it into the flow so rich. Luck. Hollywood has a long standing place for prostitutes Strathairn’s role will be seen as less complex than with a heart to melt us. Even though Howard reveals Hoffman’s, but Stathairn’s long suit has always been a compelling sensitivity and hopefulness, rooting for strength in reserve. Both strength and reserve are a pimp doesn’t seem to go down as easy as rooting critical to playing out the courage under pressure of for a prostitute. Curiously, Howard’s supporting TV journalist Edward R. Murrow. Curiously, his role in Crash is a more complex triumph. There, he legacy of roles usually involves less accomplished plays a successful Hollywood director trying to do characters, which in many ways is harder to play. well in life as a person until life smears his face with The good news is that this stalwart actor will receive the all too ready message that he is a Black person. a boost from this nomination if not an Oscar. Howard is noteworthy, but Hoffman, he the Oscar man. 7 Best Actress

Much as I like the headline, “Huffman and Hoffman Though the film is an excellent rendering of a classic Heft Oscars,” Felicity Huffman will fall short with Jane Austen novel, this classy British period piece her gimmicky role in Transamerica. She’s the failed to make the Best Picture list. Without currying frontrunner because she does well by the challenging this favor, young Ms. Knightley will not win an novelty of being an actress playing a man in the Oscar in the storied way she wins a movie husband. transsexual process of becoming a woman. Judi Dench already has an Oscar for playing Queen To her credit, Huffman finds an interesting balance Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love. Dame Judi Dench of anxiety and groundedness in the character’s has a grand and continuing career on stage, screen, personal commitment to the change. Maybe a better and television. In Mrs. Henderson Presents, she script could have made for a sure Oscar bet. The plays a wealthy aristocrat in World War II England. road trip he/she takes with his/her troubled teenaged This matron has the quaint notion of running a son, who doesn’t know he is his/her son, pushes the London theater that entertains the troops with possibilities of a gimmick into an undermined vaudeville revues accented by naked ladies. contrivance. As presented, this is hardly a risqué picture, but Actually, the woman-playing-a-man-playing-a- Dame Judi Dench commands its charming center. woman thing has been done. It’s not fair to compare It’s not an Oscar-like performance, but there’s an Transamerica to a farce like Victor/Victoria (1982), Oscar nominatable curiosity about it. Movie making but the point is that one movie is so-so and the other is a business constantly scrambling for beautiful is excellent. people worth plastering on the big screen for two hours. Goldie Hawn has said that the only roles for Sometimes a consummate realization, like Charlize women are “babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Theron as the serial killer in Monster, lays the Daisy.” Judi Dench defies this cynicism. At age 72, competition aside. So, when Charlize Theron puts it is worth the price of admission to watch the stature her all into North Country, she ends up competing and grace of this woman for two hours of playfully with the Oscar she won a couple of years ago. sentimental entertainment on the big screen.

Based on a true story, Theron plays a single mom, Somehow, the Best Actress performance of the year who mostly faces small-mindedness, harassment, was not even nominated. Releasing The Upside of and abuse trying to work in a Minnesota mine. It’s a Anger back in April of 2005 was bad news for Joan dramatic showcase of emotion and strength. Allen. This is a film stoked by four teen and post- Although it is instructive to be shocked by the fact teen daughters, plus Kevin Costner. Allen mostly that such workplace extremes still occurred into the plays as angry and depressed as any actress ever 1980s, the film is diminished a bit by cinematic played a woman whose husband done up and gone. familiarities, especially the all too movie-like It is masterfully painful with a comedic flare. courtroom finish. It is clear, however, that Theron cares to be challenged, and we can expect to see her Lacking a nominated performance that distinguishes run through varying dramatic ringers in the years to itself in a fresh way, the Oscar will go to the most come. visible performance. Reese Witherspoon jumps into the skin of Johnny Cash’s wife, June Carter, in Walk Keira Knightley, who shines in Pride & Prejudice, is the Line. Yes, she is entertaining and heartening but very pretty. This introduces a less shallow it’s not an impressive enough jump observation. You will be drawn to her mouth. There from Reese Witherspoon’s signature is something especially enticing and expressive and roles in Legally Blonde I and II. Yes, intelligent about her mouth, not the least of which she gets points for doing her own are the sentiments spoken therefrom. Pride & singing and for acting brunette. This Prejudice is an enticing, expressive, and intelligent shouldn’t boost her tally to Oscar, but romantic comedy. it will. 8