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February 26, 2007
Advanced cricketeering: Wolcott on Oscar
James Wolcott's drowsy Oscar live-blogging proffers a few fine, feathered jabs: "Jackie Earle Haley looks as if he's about to star in the Alistair Crowley story and Peter O'Toole's outfit looks as if it has hidden magic compartments, but otherwise everybody's perfect in every facet of perfection... If there's a dominant style in 
movies today (there isn't, but let's pretend there is), it's jagged-edged, impressionistic realism with a smoke trail of the apocalyptic, as best seen in Children of Man, Babel, and that documentary from Iraq that lost out to An Inconvenient Truth. It's the present as a futuristic glimpse of life as a free-fire zone where all of the formal structures have broken down and the only way to survive is to keep moving. Whereas what this year's Academy Awards reflect is the willful believe that hope is on the way, the worst can be averted, and that—oh, maybe I'll finish that thought tomorrow, if I can reconnect the dots."
Posted by Ray Pride at February 26, 2007 09:46 AM
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