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THEsome very real CampChuck exploitation is chronicled. REVIEWER A nonprofit subsidiary of CampChuck TWENTY SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION http://www.startlets.com February 27, 2006 Editor, critic, layout, distribution, and general factotum ... Woody Allen Beats Meryl Streep at Tennis page 9 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 In the sweeping resonance of The World Is Flat (on the New York Times best seller list Question for for the past year), it makes brief reference to sustainability. 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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.