Movie Musings

Every critic (this one too) agrees that Karl Markovics gives an outstanding performance as the protagonist in the Oscar winning foreign film The Counterfeiters. Why then didn’t he receive a nomination from the Academy? After all, Marion Cotillard won the Oscar for her performance in a foreign language film La Vie En Rose. Could it be the dreaded “great roles for men but few for women” syndrome?

After all the Brits and Aussies who play (always very well) Americans in movies set in the Colonies (OK the States), it was a refreshing change to see a movie set in England. Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day, featuring Fargo’s Frances McDormand playing a Brit—a vicar’s daughter no less. Maybe it’s me but somehow our English accents don’t sound as authentic as their American ones do. Must be the quality of education.

To slightly change the subject, isn’t it sad that we’re so security conscious (terrified) that movie theaters are now locking all their doors from the outside once the last movie has begun? What happens if there’s a family emergency? If you call, you’ll get a recorded message with the show times. The next step will probably be locking the patrons in so they can’t leave even if the movie is awful.