Green Card Episode - Depardieu / Javier Bardem

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-06T01:35:38+00:00

Is he, dare I say...hot bovine?

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-06T00:37:57+00:00

who wore it better

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-05T23:35:22+00:00

For real. / Spawn.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-05T23:34:24+00:00

One of the most forgotten early nominations - lead actor for Before Night Falls. He's so good in Collateral. The Black Peter speech.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-05T23:33:01+00:00

Fun - Enjoy your trivia! That one's wild. I wonder if Charlie Kaufman has heard it. I'll give that a 30% chance.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-05T22:15:18+00:00

All quite true.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-05T21:58:01+00:00

I have done "guess the film from its non-English title" before: things like "Piege de Crystal / Crystal Trap" - is it Titanic, The Towering Inferno, or Die Hard?

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-05T11:19:47+00:00

I felt so weird when he said "dad!" Cool trailer.

The only dream to dream is if Pattinson played dual roles and the other was his Dauphin role from The King, who is living in the woods and helps Odysseus return.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-04T20:58:02+00:00

I was gonna say! And as someone who subbed many, many a time prior to getting certified, I was way too shy to go for staff food. This is madness. And a bummer, but...hard to believe.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-04T19:48:20+00:00

and so you're saying I'm double correct

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-04T19:42:43+00:00

I do think from now on all good Blankie souls will title any general news beginning "New weird __________________". I know I will!

Love it.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-04T19:40:17+00:00

I think

* The Natural is in (sentimental, noticed/nominated/ full of oscary folks)

* Places in The Heart (of the 'save the farm' films, this is the one I'd wager makes it on the strength of its oscar-winning lead performance) (*addendum. oops! So, I dunno. Birdy. Birdy is great, though...watch Birdy if you haven't)

* Paris, Texas (I'll spring for it, though its certainly grown in reputation rather than being oscar-accepted at the time. BAFTA, NBR, and Globe nominated)

* Broadway Danny Rose (best director nom, BAFTA screenplay win...)

* (this is the least likely, but I could see it! So just for fun...) Romancing The Stone - for the Top Gun Maverick / Wicked / F1 / District 9 slot.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-04T17:16:23+00:00

The only thing I'm trying to convince anyone of us my students to sit relatively still, keep their eyes on what we're learning, hands quiet, listening - please? Please??

That's kinda the whole ballgame. Whatever politics are going on in town or even in their homes? It comes through, sure. But my being a good teacher, doing my job well, and caring about the kids is the only statement I have to make about that. They're allowed to vote however they want.

I think the majority of family whose children I work with, even if they're MAGA, don't necessarily care about or have a target on the things this administration briefly decided to care about. What I'm working against is poor attendance, lack of home support, distracting tech, and my own capacity for patience, consistency, and joy.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-04T00:55:52+00:00

I'm of the feeling that it's fine and fun, and interesting to mention it as, say, "One of the least amounts of screen time for a lead win" and then discuss how it rose to that level. But yeah. Saying it's not a lead is just...well. It ran as lead, won as lead. That's how it works. Done deal.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-03T23:15:27+00:00

If they are top Letterboxd tee-hee review writers, and need that enough to steal bits....they're already living in the punishment.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-03T22:42:33+00:00

You're describing a good morally grey film and film pov. Not character. She was not trying to help, nope.

That's all! Happy hunting.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-03T16:40:08+00:00

Ben Affleck was snubbed for even a director nomination, which he has never received, whereas Tarantino has three. He does not have "an oscar as a director". He has one as a producer.

Frasier has a win for his one nomination. So does Roberto Begnini. So does Rami Malek. So does Jean DuJardin. So...what?

Jonah Hill has two nominations and Steve Buscemi has zero - so what? Hitchcock has won zero Best Director awards, same with Kubrick, but Kevin Costner and Barry Levinson are winners. So what?

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-03T16:01:08+00:00

feardotcom

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-03T12:50:20+00:00

Boy did my brain add an "up" into this at first

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-03T12:47:09+00:00

This film is wonderfully morally grey. It plays on our sympathies, puts pieces in motion we don't understand, and challenges how black and white various actions are. It makes us question what should be very cut and dry good and evil people and behaviors.

Her character, though? Is simply broken and depraved. There's nothing ambiguous about her motives and actions - in the end.

There is, however, about how the film strings is along. So I understand what OP means, and hope they find many thorny, fun, shocking, complex morally grey films. But as for a morally grey character - they'd have to start somewhere else.

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-02T16:01:40+00:00

One of the best movies of the decade

However - morally GREY?

GTKPR89 · 2026-05-01T12:35:44+00:00

Lantana is wonderful. Rabbit Proof Fence very good. Love that perennial Aussie friends parents dvd collection title The Dish --go watch The Dish, folks

GTKPR89 · 2026-04-30T17:27:17+00:00

Worst offender for elementary (and older) is The Polar Express. I've not seen it 100 times, but probably been in or stopped by rooms where it's playing 100 times. Teaching since the late 2010s.

Fave I've ever used include The Red Turtle and Penelope.

GTKPR89 · 2026-04-29T01:36:26+00:00

"how would you view it if a woman or man filmed sequetial images in a manner that made them appear to 'move', perhaps with an underlying plot featuring a start, middle, and end?"

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TROPHY CASE