Comments on: Stuart Townsend’s “Battle” to celebrate American protest in film http://parallax-view.org/2008/09/18/stuart-townsends-battle-to-celebrate-american-protest-in-film/ Smart Words About Cinema Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: “Let the Right One In,” “Ben X” and “A Secret” - DVDs for the Week | Parallax View http://parallax-view.org/2008/09/18/stuart-townsends-battle-to-celebrate-american-protest-in-film/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 “Let the Right One In,” “Ben X” and “A Secret” - DVDs for the Week | Parallax View Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:03:33 +0000 http://parallax-view.org/?p=263#comment-1178 [...] March 10 is an unaccountably busy week for new films on DVD. Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning Milk (for Best Actor Sean Penn and for Best Original Screenplay), Jonathan Demme’s marvelous ensemble drama Rachel Getting Married (which earned an Oscar nomination for Anne Hathaway) and Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky (Oscar nominee for Best Original Screenplay, but Sally Hawkins was robbed of a Best Actress nomination) lead the list, which also includes Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Cadillac Records (starring Adrian Brody as Chess records entrepreneur Leonard Chess and an all-star supporting playing R&B greats), Role Models with Paul Rudd and Battle in Seattle, Stuart Townsend’s dramatization of the 1999 WTO protests (my interview with Townsend is on Parallax View here). [...] [...] March 10 is an unaccountably busy week for new films on DVD. Gus Van Sant’s Oscar-winning Milk (for Best Actor Sean Penn and for Best Original Screenplay), Jonathan Demme’s marvelous ensemble drama Rachel Getting Married (which earned an Oscar nomination for Anne Hathaway) and Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky (Oscar nominee for Best Original Screenplay, but Sally Hawkins was robbed of a Best Actress nomination) lead the list, which also includes Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Cadillac Records (starring Adrian Brody as Chess records entrepreneur Leonard Chess and an all-star supporting playing R&B greats), Role Models with Paul Rudd and Battle in Seattle, Stuart Townsend’s dramatization of the 1999 WTO protests (my interview with Townsend is on Parallax View here). [...]

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