Awards Season 2006

[Michael]

Also those two gay dudes on her show are boring as hell and the whole notion of having gaybors jumped the shark about 5 years ago.

Where the hell have you been? Gaybors have been among all of us since the big bang.

[Antoine Doinel]

Silverman's comic persona is much more complex. Her wedding of bigotry and an overtly pleasant demeanor is about exposing prejudice within the viewer.

In that case, I'll just watch Borat which does the same thing far more intelligently and hilariously.

[Cinesimilitude]

The Bitsy's (digitalbits.com's DVD awards) have just been put online, and Criterion has been honored with the "Lieberfarb".

Read on for more.

[David Ehrenstein]

Independent Spirit Awards 2007 Nominations

Best Supporting Female

Nominees:

Stephanie Daley (2006) - Amber Tamblyn

Well-made, Well-acted, well-directed and very depressing drama about a teenager (Amber Tamblyn) accused of killing her child at birth and the forensic psychologist (Tilda Swinton) assigned to examine her mental state. Brought up in a small Fundie-besotted town our anti-heroine has next to no knowledge of sex (in school they teach "Abstinence Only") and therefore is easily seduced by a sleazy charmer who tells her "I didn't come," when he finishes deflowering her. When she starts to show signs that he was lying, she takes it as a punishment from God, and goes into deep denial. She hides her pregnancy from parents, friends and most importantly herself. So at a ski weekend when she goes into labor in a public bathroom (the film is clearly inspired by the "Prom Mom" case) she falls apart.

The forensic psychologist, meanwhile, has problems of her own. She's pregnant and healthy, but the year before she carried a stillborn child to term. Never quite coming to terms with what happened to her then, she realizes she has a lot more in common with the girl than she thought -- especially as her marriage (to Tim Hutton) is going downhill fast. But the time we get to the finish we realize this is less about this particular girl than the horrors faced by all women who become pregnant -- regardless of the circumstances.

Quite a departure for Brougher, whose debut feature was the great but sadly little seen lesbian time-travel myster The Sticky Fingers of Time. The mode here is far more naturalistic but just as intense and specific in its efffectiveness. Tilda (who co-produced as she did for Thumbsucker) is aces as always, and Amber Tamblyn ( of Joan of Arcadia fame) will break your heart.

[Jeff]

Better late than never, a recovering Roger Ebert has finally posted his Top Ten Films of 2006.

[domino harvey]

Better late than never, a recovering Roger Ebert has finally posted his Top Ten Films of 2006.

Bubble would be my top choice, so while the rest of his list is pretty bad (save the honorable mention for Hard Candy, my other top choice), I'll still give the man his due.

[exte]

Better late than never, a recovering Roger Ebert has finally posted his Top Ten Films of 2006.

Bubble would be my top choice, so while the rest of his list is pretty bad (save the honorable mention for Hard Candy, my other top choice), I'll still give the man his due.

Bubble is GARBAGE.

[Jeff]

Take it over here, boys.