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For those of you who missed it at the 30th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, Yoav Potash’s powerful and gripping documentary Crime After Crime is set for broadcast on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network (in Canada) on Thursday, November 2nd, at 6 p.m., Pacific Standard time. Potash’s documentary is must-viewing. Set your PVR now to record one of the most moving and entirely astonishing chronicles of corruption in the U.S. justice system. In December, OWN will broadcast another outstanding VIFF 30 documentary, One Lucky Elephant, which premières on December 1st.
Although VanRamblings is a little late in pointing you in the direction of Anne Thompson and Kris Tapley’s latest Oscar Talk podcast, and Jeffrey Wells and Sasha Stone’s Oscar Poker podcast, here’s …
1. The non-iTunes link to the 53rd edition of Oscar Poker, where the hosts riff on the usual topics (this week covering Steven Spielberg and the hopes for War Horse, and the date change of the announcement of the New York Film Critics Circle awards, among other topics), and …
2. The link to the non-iTunes / mp3 version of Oscar Talk where In Contention’s British correspondent Guy Lodge reports on his viewing of The Adventures of Tintin, and debate how the Academy’s animation branch will regard this motion capture adventure. The ‘crew’ also cover the impact on indie contenders included or omitted from New York’s recently announced Gotham Award nominations; discuss the moved-up date changes for the New York Film Critics, and the subsequent pressure to screen films before they vote November 28. Lodge also discusses Oscar foreign film contenders, including Sony Pictures Classics’ contenders Where Do We Go Now, A Separation and In Darkness, and asks, “Is Mexico’s Miss Bala too gritty for the mainstream voters?”
In the annals of try-out auditions for a movie, Rachel McAdams’ 2003 reading for the female lead role in Nick Cassavetes’ adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling romance, The Notebook, has to stand as one of the most deeply affecting ‘knocked it out of the park’ auditions from a hitherto unknown actress, of this or any past filmmaking decade. All we have to say is, wow! Have a look and a listen to see what we mean …
Opening on the extended American Thanksgiving ‘long weekend’, on November 23rd, Martin Scorsese’s 3D Hugo stars Jude Law, Asa Butterfield, Chloe Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ben Kingsley in what should emerge as the family entertainment of the upcoming 2011 holiday season.
