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Where Joaquin Phoenix Sowed the Seeds for His Great Performance in “The Master”
Seventeen years ago this month, I interviewed Joaquin Phoenix, then a scrawny 21, whose unwillingness to talk indicated an understandable mistrust of the media in the wake of his elder brother River’s...
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Gotham Awards: “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Gets Two Nods—and a Snub
Arguably the year’s most visionary film with true indie cred, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was unaccountably omitted from the Best Feature contenders when the Gotham Independent Film Award...
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Gotham and Spirit Awards Point “Silver Linings” and “Moonrise” to Oscars
Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom” and David O. Russell’s “Silver Linings Playbook” have emerged as the early frontrunners of the awards season, so far restricted to independent films. “Moonrise...
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“Lincoln” Leads Golden Globes Race With Seven Nominations
Despite the early show of strength by “Zero Dark Thirty” at the start of the awards season, “Lincoln” is emerging as the dominant movie in the race toward the Oscars. Steven Spielberg’s movie about...
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The Top 10 Movies of 2012
A scene from “The Turin Horse” / Courtesy of Cinema Guild One of the recurrent topics in critical discourse this year concerned the death or moribundity of cinema, a theme that was belied by the...
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Awards Latest: “The Master” Isn’t “American” Enough for Oscar Glory
It’s valid to suggest that Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is the most trenchant American drama of the decade so far – and quite possibly the best since Anderson’s 2007 “There Will Be Blood.”...
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