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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The Screengrab : martin mcdonagh</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/martin+mcdonagh/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: martin mcdonagh</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Screengrab Predicts the Oscars:  The Winners  (Part Five)</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2009/02/05/screengrab-predicts-the-oscars-the-winners-part-five.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:171873</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Osborne</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=171873</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2009/02/05/screengrab-predicts-the-oscars-the-winners-part-five.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the nominees are... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&lt;/em&gt; - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frost/Nixon&lt;/em&gt; - Peter Morgan &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Reader&lt;/em&gt; - David Hare &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt; - Simon Beaufoy &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Doubt&lt;/em&gt; - John Patrick Shanley &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Paul Clark Predicts: &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s the Best Picture nominee, so it’ll win here too. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Andrew Osborne Predicts: &lt;em&gt;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ugh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HpZGV_m0twg&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Leonard Pierce Predicts: &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a good rule of thumb that the Screenplay Oscars go to the movies that deserve a Best Picture nomination but aren’t going to get one. This year, the screenplay adaptation category mostly consists of movies that, deserving or not, have already received Best Picture noms, leaving the popular and critically acclaimed&amp;nbsp;(and I&amp;#39;d argue overhyped) &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt; to take home the Screenplay Oscar as a consolation prize because it’s not going to get anything else. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should Win:&lt;/strong&gt; John Patrick Shanley, &lt;em&gt;Doubt&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will Win:&lt;/strong&gt; Simon Beaufoy, &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Nick Schager Predicts: &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep that Slumdog rolling… &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sarah Clyne Sundberg Predicts: &lt;em&gt;The Reader&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ak70AEHw1as&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the nominees are... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Happy-Go-Lucky&lt;/em&gt; - Mike Leigh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Frozen River&lt;/em&gt; - Courtney Hunt &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Bruges&lt;/em&gt; - Martin McDonagh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Milk &lt;/em&gt;- Dustin Lance Black &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Paul Clark Predicts: Milk&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; is more a director’s movie than a writer’s movie, and the other three nominees will split the indie vote. So this category will be &lt;i&gt;Milk&lt;/i&gt;’s best shot at a win. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Andrew Osborne Predicts: &lt;em&gt;Milk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m thinking this is where &lt;em&gt;Milk&lt;/em&gt; gets the love it’s denied in the Best Picture and Best Director races, but &lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; could be a spoiler. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y_0W1B_Ns0Q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Leonard Pierce Predicts: &lt;em&gt;In Bruges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one’s quite a bit more open, because only one film is up for a Best Picture Oscar. &lt;em&gt;Milk&lt;/em&gt; might seem to be the favorite, but a case can certainly be made for the otherwise-ignored &lt;em&gt;Happy-Go-Lucky&lt;/em&gt; and the cult favorite &lt;em&gt;In Bruges&lt;/em&gt;. Normally I’d guess that&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt; would be a lock, but the presence of the animation category might jeopardize its chances. This one could be one of the tightest calls of the year, like I know what I’m talking about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Should Win:&lt;/strong&gt; Andrew Stanton &amp;amp; Jim Reardon, &lt;em&gt;Wall-E&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will Win:&lt;/strong&gt; Martin McDonagh, &lt;em&gt;In Bruges&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Nick Schager Predicts: &lt;em&gt;Milk&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may be the tightest race, since it’s likely the only award that both &lt;em&gt;Milk&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Happy-Go-Lucky&lt;/em&gt; have a legit shot at winning. Given Sally Hawkins’ egregious snub in the Best Actress category, the Academy must not dig Leigh’s latest, so Dustin Lance Black should be at the podium come Oscar night. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sarah Clyne Sundberg Predicts: &lt;em&gt;In Bruges&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3xlC7TRREdA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the nominee is... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jerry Lewis &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Paul Clark Predicts: Jerry Lewis&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jerry Lewis will win the Humanitarian Award. And you can take that to the bank. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Andrew Osborne Predicts: Jerry Lewis&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m hoping we finally get some clips from &lt;em&gt;The Day The Clown Cried&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SCREENGRAB CONSENSUS: JERRY LEWIS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/adJ-tk2aAnE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/adJ-tk2aAnE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned for Mickey Rourke&amp;#39;s potato face, Darren Aronofsky&amp;#39;s peculiar moustache, Sean Penn&amp;#39;s disapproving grimace and Frank Langella&amp;#39;s sweet, sweet bumcakes &lt;a class="" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2009/02/05/screengrab-predicts-the-oscars-winners-part-six.aspx"&gt;as the Screengrab 2009 Oscar Special continues&lt;/a&gt;! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Contributors: Paul Clark, Andrew Osborne, Leonard Pierce, Nick Schager, Sarah Clyne Sundberg, Scott Von Doviak&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=171873" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/leonard+pierce/default.aspx">leonard pierce</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/paul+clark/default.aspx">paul clark</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+dark+knight/default.aspx">the dark knight</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/milk/default.aspx">milk</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/in+bruges/default.aspx">in bruges</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/scott+von+doviak/default.aspx">scott von doviak</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/iron+man/default.aspx">iron man</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+reader/default.aspx">the reader</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/academy+awards/default.aspx">academy awards</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/happy-go-lucky/default.aspx">happy-go-lucky</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/martin+mcdonagh/default.aspx">martin mcdonagh</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+curious+case+of+benjamin+button/default.aspx">the curious case of benjamin button</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/Andrew+Osborne/default.aspx">Andrew Osborne</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/hellboy+2/default.aspx">hellboy 2</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/slumdog+millionaire/default.aspx">slumdog millionaire</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/sarah+clyne+sundberg/default.aspx">sarah clyne sundberg</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/dustin+lance+black/default.aspx">dustin lance black</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/nick+schager/default.aspx">nick schager</category></item><item><title>Andrew Osborne's Top Ten Movies of 2008 (Part Two)</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/12/28/andrew-osborne-s-top-ten-movies-of-2008-part-two.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:46:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:159629</guid><dc:creator>Andrew Osborne</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=159629</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/12/28/andrew-osborne-s-top-ten-movies-of-2008-part-two.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6. THE WACKNESS&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="295" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8jLREfD1qE4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8jLREfD1qE4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="295"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thoughtful, well-made coming-of-age stories are usually popular, and weed has been making a cinematic comeback lately, so I’m not exactly sure why &lt;em&gt;The Wackness&lt;/em&gt; in general and Josh Peck’s charming turn as wistful pot dealer Luke Shapiro didn’t make more of a splash in 2008. Writer/director Jonathan Levine’s evocation of Manhattan circa 1994 feels as specific and lived-in as Ben Braddock’s Pasadena or Lloyd Dobler’s Washington suburb, and it’s hard to think of a better first-love interest than Olivia Thirlby. I posted &lt;a class="" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/06/23/provincetown-international-film-festival-review-the-wackness.aspx"&gt;a full review of the movie&lt;/a&gt; back in June when it first charmed me at the Provincetown Film Festival, so rather than repeat all that praise, I’ll just paraphrase Thirlby’s character and say the film wound up&amp;nbsp;on my Top Ten because, in a difficult year, it reminded me to look at the dopeness and not just the wackness. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. FULL BATTLE RATTLE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/niFXXEFmc0o&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Full Battle Rattle&lt;/em&gt; is a documentary by Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber about a simulated Iraqi province in California’s Mojave desert, populated by Iraqi-American citizens and U.S. Army “insurgents” in a full-immersion training scenario where soldiers practice both their combat and diplomacy skills before heading off to the real war in Iraq. At first, it’s funny to watch battles interrupted by visits from the ice cream man as the military combines role-playing and stagecraft to create what seems like a strange, gorey theme park or game show (complete with graphically wounded mannequin “casualties,” designed to prepare fledgling medics for the realities of war). But it’s those harsh realities waiting for the participants beyond all the play-acting that provide the film with its emotional core, as we come to know the various players, including an Iraqi immigrant terrified of being deported and an American combat vet who admits, tellingly, that after returning from a tour of duty, it takes him several days to start viewing his Iraqi colleagues as people again (as opposed to&amp;nbsp;potential enemies). By the time the simulation ends and the soldiers we’ve come to know say goodbye to their families and ship out to an uncertain future, the lady next to me in the movie theater was openly weeping, and there seemed to be something in my eye as well. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8. IRON MAN&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/et4FIv9FAfE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/07/26/top-ten-reasons-the-dark-knight-isn-t-as-good-as-you-think-it-is.aspx"&gt;I’ve gone on record&amp;nbsp;about my utter bafflement over the messianic fervor surrounding &lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a good but occasionally clunky superhero movie featuring an entertaining performance by a talented actor who died far too young. But I &lt;em&gt;still&lt;/em&gt; don’t see why Heath Ledger’s Brad Dourif-ian performance as The Joker is considered groundbreaking or revelatory: compare its evocation of evil to Dennis Hopper in &lt;em&gt;Blue Velvet&lt;/em&gt; and then get back to me. And I’m still&amp;nbsp;not really sure why Batman’s deliberations over civil liberties vs. public safety are especially more profound than Iron Man’s growing awareness of the consequences of war profiteering, except that Jon Favreau’s comic book adaptation takes itself far less seriously while delivering its tightly paced (but not over-written) action payload. Robert Downey Jr.’s performance is nowhere near as flashy or iconic as Ledger’s, of course – a typical downside of playing the good guy – but it’s miles ahead of Christian Bale’s stiff-in-a-suit Caped Crusader. Downey is fun and fascinating to watch, infusing a potentially one-dimensional role with the gravity and humanity of hard-won experience, as well as the humility of a man all too aware he could very easily have shared Ledger’s fate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. IN BRUGES&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y6-Gpasi79c&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y6-Gpasi79c&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who is this incredibly engaging, charismatic actor named Colin Farrell, and why haven’t I seen him on the big screen before now?&amp;nbsp; Oh, sure, I’m familiar with his doppelganger: that brooding, constipated Irish guy with the same name who kept threatening to be the next big thing for several years, but never quite arrived thanks to performances in a succession of &lt;em&gt;mezzo-mezzo&lt;/em&gt; movies that never quite connected with audiences. But the Farrell who plays the guilt-ridden hit man Ray in Martin McDonagh’s funny, suspenseful crime drama &lt;em&gt;In Bruges&lt;/em&gt; is a true movie star, well-paired with Brendan Gleeson as&amp;nbsp;the soulful mentor waiting for the other shoe to drop in the titular Belgian town after a botched assignment brings down the wrath of crime boss Ralph Fiennes (who likewise has never been quite so compelling on screen). The beautiful but claustrophobic confines of the distinctive setting and&amp;nbsp;the pervasive&amp;nbsp;undertow of regret gives &lt;em&gt;Bruges&lt;/em&gt; a richer flavor than, say,&amp;nbsp;a fun but ultimately disposable Guy Ritchie offering like &lt;em&gt;RockNRolla&lt;/em&gt;, even if McDonagh’s film isn’t&amp;nbsp;ultimately all that much more than the sum of its high quality parts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VXfGodHXSvo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VXfGodHXSvo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until three seconds ago, I was planning to include &lt;em&gt;Slumdog Millionaire&lt;/em&gt; in the final slot of this list, if only for the energy and scope of Danny Boyle’s storytelling mojo. But as I started to think and write about it, I realized the film as a whole simply left me cold. On the other hand, there was no lack of heat in Woody Allen’s latest comeback film, which is possibly why I have warmer memories of it. Penelope Cruz&amp;#39;s performance as the hot-blooded &lt;em&gt;trois&lt;/em&gt; in the &lt;em&gt;ménage&lt;/em&gt; between Scarlett Johansson’s feckless American tourist and Javier Bardem’s Spanish art stud is probably better than the movie itself, but Allen still has some interesting things to say about the chimerical nature of love, the&amp;nbsp;conflicting&amp;nbsp;desires of the brain, heart and libido&amp;nbsp;and the way smart people consistently outsmart themselves by refusing to acknowledge what they &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; want, even when they somehow manage to find it. (And, of course,&amp;nbsp;the fact the movie unfolds against a backdrop of gorgeous Spanish locations doesn’t hurt, either.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honorable Mention:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wellness, Goliath, Turn the River, American Teen, Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, Tell No One, Ghost Town, Burn After Reading, The Bank Job, RockNRolla, Role Models, Quantum of Solace, Slumdog Millionaire, Doubt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Worst Movies I Actually Saw:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Indiana Jones &amp;amp; The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, What Just Happened?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Worst Movie I Didn’t See:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;An American Carol &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most Overrated:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Dark Knight&lt;/em&gt; (see above) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most Overcriticized:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Happening&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Respected More Than Liked: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Synechdoche &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOP&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;TV: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wire &lt;br /&gt;Mad Men &lt;br /&gt;The Amazing Race &lt;br /&gt;The Daily Show &amp;amp; The Colbert Report &lt;br /&gt;Survivor: Micronesia &amp;amp; Gabon &lt;br /&gt;Breaking Bad &lt;br /&gt;The Soup &lt;br /&gt;Everybody Hates Chris &lt;br /&gt;Recount &lt;br /&gt;Generation Kill &lt;br /&gt;Project Runway &lt;br /&gt;True Blood &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2008 SOUNDTRACK &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;“No One” – Alicia Keyes &lt;br /&gt;“Pretty Blue” – Moonflower &lt;br /&gt;“Paper Planes” – M.I.A. &lt;br /&gt;“Wichita Lineman” – Glen Campbell &lt;br /&gt;“Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” – Beyonce &lt;br /&gt;“Sex Changes” – The Dresden Dolls &lt;br /&gt;“Shoot the Runner” – Kasabian &lt;br /&gt;“Still Alive” – GLaDOS &lt;br /&gt;“Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1” – The Mountain Goats &lt;br /&gt;“M79” – Vampire Weekend &lt;br /&gt;“I Am Commando” – The NorthAtom &lt;br /&gt;“I’m Good. I’m Gone” – Lykke Li &lt;br /&gt;“Belleville Rendezvous” – The Triplets of Belleville (Soundtrack) &lt;br /&gt;“Happy Days Are Here Again” – Barbara Streisand &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class="" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/12/28/andrew-osborne-s-top-ten-movies-of-2008-part-one.aspx"&gt;Click Here For Part One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=159629" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/woody+allen/default.aspx">woody allen</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/guy+ritchie/default.aspx">guy ritchie</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/heath+ledger/default.aspx">heath ledger</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/colin+farrell/default.aspx">colin farrell</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+dark+knight/default.aspx">the dark knight</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/javier+bardem/default.aspx">javier bardem</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/penelope+cruz/default.aspx">penelope cruz</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/in+bruges/default.aspx">in bruges</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/ralph+fiennes/default.aspx">ralph fiennes</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/iron+man/default.aspx">iron man</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/robert+downey+jr/default.aspx">robert downey jr</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/scarlett+johansson/default.aspx">scarlett johansson</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/vicky+cristina+barcelona/default.aspx">vicky cristina barcelona</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/jon+favreau/default.aspx">jon favreau</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+wackness/default.aspx">the wackness</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/jonathan+levine/default.aspx">jonathan levine</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/olivia+thirlby/default.aspx">olivia thirlby</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/martin+mcdonagh/default.aspx">martin mcdonagh</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/full+battle+rattle/default.aspx">full battle rattle</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/jesse+moss/default.aspx">jesse moss</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/tony+gerber/default.aspx">tony gerber</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/Andrew+Osborne/default.aspx">Andrew Osborne</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/rocknrolla/default.aspx">rocknrolla</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/Josh+Peck/default.aspx">Josh Peck</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/slumdog+millionaire/default.aspx">slumdog millionaire</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/screengrab+top+ten+of+2008/default.aspx">screengrab top ten of 2008</category></item><item><title>DVD Digest for June 24, 2008</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/06/24/dvd-digest-for-june-24-2008.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:103590</guid><dc:creator>Paul Clark</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=103590</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/06/24/dvd-digest-for-june-24-2008.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/jarmanglitter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/jarmanglitter.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week brings the release of several new Criterions, the latest DVD from a blogosphere favorite, and a box-set tribute to a late, great British director.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For many DVD fans, this is the week that Criterion releases Anthony Mann’s &lt;i&gt;The Furies&lt;/i&gt; and Milcho Manchevski’s &lt;i&gt;Before the Rain&lt;/i&gt; in stories. But while both of these titles are certainly worthy, the new DVD that most interests me this week is actually Zeitgeist’s &lt;i&gt;Derek Jarman Glitterbox&lt;/i&gt;, containing four of the maverick filmmaker’s works. The best-known title in the box is his 1986 film &lt;i&gt;Caravaggio&lt;/i&gt;, which features early performances from Sean Bean and Jarman friend/frequent collaborator Tilda Swinton. But also justifying the price are 1993’s &lt;i&gt;Wittgenstein&lt;/i&gt; and 1985’s &lt;i&gt;The Angelic Conversation&lt;/i&gt;, the latter of which is only available in the box set. Finally, there’s the strange case of &lt;i&gt;Blue&lt;/i&gt;, Jarman’s final film, also included here. While watching a film that consists entirely of a blue background accompanied by various voiceovers and sound effects, it’s nonetheless a must for Jarman fans, or even those who are curious about his life. Made as he was losing his eyesight due to AIDS-related illness, &lt;i&gt;Blue&lt;/i&gt; is almost certainly the closest Jarman came to making a cinematic confession. You may not watch it again and again, but it demands to be seen at least once, and thanks to DVD, now everyone has that opportunity. Of course, if you’re looking for a more upbeat gay-friendly DVD, there’s always &lt;i&gt;Xanadu: Magical Music Edition&lt;/i&gt; (Universal). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week’s most noteworthy new release comes to us from our friends at &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/controlpanel/blogs/””"&gt;Benten Films&lt;/a&gt;, Matthias Gleisner’s &lt;i&gt;The Free Will&lt;/i&gt;. A prizewinner at the 2007 Berlinale, &lt;i&gt;The Free Will&lt;/i&gt; tells the story of a convicted sex offender who finds himself struggling with life following his release from prison. The first foreign-language release from Benten, the DVD also includes a commentary by Gleisner and star/co-writer Jürgen Vogel, along with the film’s original theatrical trailer and a new essay on the film by critic David Fear. As always, it’s good to see what the Benten boys (Andrew Grant and Aaron Hillis) have in store for us, and &lt;i&gt;The Free Will&lt;/i&gt; should be no exception.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other notable recent releases coming to DVD this week include Marjane Satrapi’s &lt;i&gt;Persepolis&lt;/i&gt; (Sony, also Blu-Ray), which features both French- and English-dubbed versions; Martin McDonagh’s agreeably salty &lt;i&gt;In Bruges&lt;/i&gt; (Universal); Ryan Reynolds romancing a trio of hotties in &lt;i&gt;Definitely, Maybe&lt;/i&gt; (Universal); Roland Emmerich’s latest assault on storytelling coherence and subtlety &lt;i&gt;10,000 B.C.&lt;/i&gt; (Warner, also Blu-Ray); &lt;i&gt;The Spiderwick Chronicles&lt;/i&gt; (Paramount, also Blu-Ray), Hollywood’s latest failed attempt to create a new &lt;i&gt;Potter&lt;/i&gt;-like franchise; John Sayles’ barely-released &lt;i&gt;Honeydripper&lt;/i&gt; (Universal); and the strident &lt;i&gt;Ferris Bueller&lt;/i&gt; wannabe &lt;i&gt;Charlie Bartlett&lt;/i&gt; (MGM).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally… like surfing? Own a Blu-Ray player? Then we’ve got good news for you, as &lt;i&gt;Step Into Liquid&lt;/i&gt; (Lionsgate) receives a Blu-Ray only release this week. Otherwise, if you’re looking for non-recent releases on Blu-Ray this week, I’m afraid you’re rather stuck. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=103590" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/paul+clark/default.aspx">paul clark</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/ferris+bueller_2700_s+day+off/default.aspx">ferris bueller's day off</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/marjane+satrapi/default.aspx">marjane satrapi</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/persepolis/default.aspx">persepolis</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/john+sayles/default.aspx">john sayles</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/aaron+hillis/default.aspx">aaron hillis</category><category 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domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/blue/default.aspx">blue</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+angelic+conversation/default.aspx">the angelic conversation</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/the+free+will/default.aspx">the free will</category><category domain="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/tags/jurgen+vogel/default.aspx">jurgen vogel</category></item><item><title>The Ten Best Cussing Scenes in Movies, Part 1</title><link>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/02/22/best-cussing-scenes.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:72583</guid><dc:creator>Phil Nugent</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=72583</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/archive/2008/02/22/best-cussing-scenes.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Back in 1970, Pauline Kael, reviewing Robert Altman&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;M*A*S*H&lt;/i&gt;, praised it for its &amp;quot;blessed profanity&amp;quot; and wrote, &amp;quot;I salute &lt;i&gt;M*A*S*H&lt;/i&gt; for its contribution to the art of talking dirty.&amp;quot; (Altman&amp;#39;s father reportedly put it another way, warning members of the family to stay away from the theaters because &amp;quot;Bob made a dirty movie!&amp;quot;) There&amp;#39;s been a lot of cusswords under the bridge since then, so much that when a playwright-turned-moviemaker such as Martin McDonagh gives his actors some floridly profane lines to speak, it isn&amp;#39;t even worth a concerned piece in the Arts &amp;amp; Lesiure section from the kind of writer who&amp;#39;d pitch a fit if language half as dirty turned up on one of his kid&amp;#39;s rap CDs. So when somebody has managed to distinguish himself by cussing in a movie in a way that stays with you, a salute is in order. Andrew Dice Clay, watch and learn. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GZ7z6hpO57c&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GZ7z6hpO57c&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may not seem like such a big deal now, but seen in context, at the end of a big old-style Hollywood movie, spoken by Clark Gable in response to a tearful lover&amp;#39;s plea, it&amp;#39;s easy to imagine what a shocker it must have been at the time. God knows that, sixty years later, my own grandmother was just starting to recover from the shock. You can just see the fabric of civilization starting to come apart. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/2008/02/16-22/200px-Bad_news_bears_1976_movie_poster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/2008/02/16-22/200px-Bad_news_bears_1976_movie_poster.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Kids love to swear. I&amp;#39;m sorry, parents, but it&amp;#39;s true. Your little angel is/has been/will someday soon be a potty-mouth. The first phase of cussing is the most innocent one: you know the words are taboo, but have no idea what most of them mean. You never really think through the implications of calling your best friend a &amp;quot;pussy-eating cocksucker&amp;quot; – you simply don&amp;#39;t have all the information you need to understand how wrong it is. The thrill comes from learning and then repeating the words, and for us kids who came of age in the 70s, &lt;i&gt;The Bad News Bears&lt;/i&gt; was an invaluable resource. Hearing obnoxious little Tanner describe his teammates as &amp;quot;a bunch of Jews, spicks, niggers, pansies, and a booger-eating moron&amp;quot; was liberating not because we were a bunch of racists, Nazis and boogerphobes, but because we knew we&amp;#39;d just learned some new words our parents would kill us for saying. And there&amp;#39;s still no more triumphant sentiment in the history of sports movies than Tanner&amp;#39;s final kiss-off: &amp;quot;Hey Yankees – you can take your apology and your trophy and shove &amp;#39;em straight up your ass!&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;FULL METAL JACKET&lt;/b&gt; (1997)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zeX5HSBFooI&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zeX5HSBFooI&amp;amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The training sequences at the beginning of &lt;i&gt;Full Metal Jacket&lt;/i&gt; are so famously vulgar, intense and energetic that once they’re over, the air sort of gets let out of the movie for the entire middle passage and doesn’t pick back up until the end. For this reason, it’s often considered a lesser Stanley Kubrick film, which is somewhat unfair; there’s a lot to like about the movie even once Private Leonard Lawrence and Gunnery Sergeant Hartman exit the stage. But oh, that opening sequence! As Hartman, character actor (and actual Marine Corps sergeant) R. Lee Ermey works in obscenity the way that Picasso worked in paint; so staggeringly awful (and hilariously funny) are his vulgar degradations of his raw recruits that by the time he has his final confrontation with Private Pyle, no one in the audience has any trouble believing that someone would want to shoot him. Although Ermey has tried to claim credit for many of Hartman’s lines, what he really brings to the role is the pitch-perfect delivery; most of the lines are taken directly from Gustav Hasford’s novel &lt;i&gt;The Short-Timers&lt;/i&gt;, on which the movie is based. There’s a telling moment early in Hartman’s tirade where he singles out Pyle for abuse, after he has committed the crime of laughing at his obscene explosions, but it cuts directly to the heart of the matter: as violent, hateful and repulsive as the sarge’s speeches are, they’re also incredibly amusing. His recruits don’t have the luxury of laughter, but we do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;NETWORK (1976)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/2008/02/16-22/Network12.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/2008/02/16-22/Network12.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In the first on-air flip-out scene by Peter Finch&amp;#39;s Howard Beale, the newly fired newsman gazes serenely into the camera and promises to shoot himself on the air because he just can&amp;#39;t take &amp;quot;the bullshit&amp;quot; anymore. The real punch line came a couple of years after the movie premiered in theaters, when it was first shown on network TV. CBS, eager to show that they were in on the joke, allowed Beale&amp;#39;s supposedly unbroadcastable &amp;quot;bullshits&amp;quot; to go throw uncensored. Bravo! But the scene was followed by one in which the movie&amp;#39;s executives gather to discuss what just happened, and they are a foul-mouthed crew. And the soundtrack, on TV, turns into a veritable conga line of &lt;i&gt;bleep!&lt;/i&gt;s. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;TAXI DRIVER (1976)&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;You never had no pussy like that. You can do anything you want with her. You can come on her, fuck her in the mouth, fuck her in the ass, come on her face, man. She get your cock so hard she&amp;#39;ll make it explode. But no rough stuff, all right?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On one level, it&amp;#39;s the world&amp;#39;s filthiest sales pitch, a street-corner pimp&amp;#39;s patter for the passing johns who want to buy what he&amp;#39;s selling. But consider the line that precedes these: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Man, she&amp;#39;s twelve and a half years old.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/2008/02/16-22/TaxiSport_sm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/screengrab/2008/02/16-22/TaxiSport_sm.jpg" align="right" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;With those eight simple words, Sport&amp;#39;s routine becomes something totally different, and altogether more chilling, thanks in no small part to Harvey Keitel&amp;#39;s performance. Screenwriter Paul Schrader originally wrote Sport as African-American, but with Keitel standing in that doorway instead of, say, one of the gentlemen Travis sees at the Belmore Cafeteria, the scene takes on a different tone altogether. What might have been written as a scary, foreboding conversation now comes off as almost genial, with Keitel joking around with Travis&amp;#39; squareness before launching into his prepared monologue. It&amp;#39;s an inspired touch by Scorsese and his actors, and one that ultimately makes the scene even creepier. It&amp;#39;s not simply that Sport is selling &lt;i&gt;wayyyyyyyyy&lt;/i&gt; underage girls to passersby, but that it&amp;#39;s no big deal to him. 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