Academy awards.

[worth1]

I had no idea until yesterday.
Even now I don't believe it
I heard the academy members were going to have to actually watch a movie before members could vote on it.
So all those awards handed out really were a pat on each others back popularity contest.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/a ... s%E2%80%9D.

[karstopography]

Going to the movie theater to see the latest and greatest movie was once upon a time a lot of fun.

I think it’s been almost a decade since I stepped foot in a movie theater.

The only Oscar nominated film in the article I have seen (rented at home) was “The Substance” which my mom, inexplicably said to watch, but, to be fair, gave a somewhat muted recommendation for. “The Substance” was maybe not the worst movie I have ever seen, but could be in the top ten worst.

Hollywood seems to have lost a lot of its creative mojo. Don’t fully understand why, but I have some ideas.

[pondgardener]

@worth1 Unbelievable and disappointing...I thought the movie about Bob Dylan was good. I was able to check out a copy from the library.

[PlainJane]

I liked A Complete Unknown too. Amazing that Timothée Chalamet sang and played himself.

[worth1]

I was going to say there are a few good movies that are new only to discover one was over 20 years old.
The Girl With The Pearl Ear Ring.
I've watched that movie several times.
Well worth the watch if you ask me.
Playing on art and the social classes of the time period.

[rxkeith]

i haven't paid attention to hollywood for quite awhile now.
don't know much about anyone or who starred in what.
and yet life goes on.


keith

[ddsack]

It would be nice if they could find script writers with enough of a vocabulary so they wouldn't have to gratuitously use the F word in every other sentence! I don't mind swearing when it's appropriate to a plot point (and do enough of it myself) but it's grating to keep hearing it from every actor's mouth in every scene. It's really out of place in historical movies where characters in past centuries would not have been swearing in normal social conversations.

[karstopography]

I liked my recent watching of “Andrei Rublev” (1966) and “Brother” (1997) with my son. Neither film was made in Hollywood or even America. I don’t read or speak Russian, but the stories were easy enough to follow with a little help from my son.

“Andrei Rublev” was about a fifteen century icon painter which sounds horribly dry, but was anything but.

“брат” or “Brother” is an early post soviet era gangster movie, gangster movies being one of my favorite genres of movies no matter the language. The movie has a different feel about it as compared to American gangster movies.

I avoid movies with animation, cartoon themes, “updated” fairy tales, Marvel, any that want to lecture to me, gratuitously moralize or push special social or political agendas, insert pornography where it does not belong, or any heavy use of CGI or special effects. That wipes out 90% of Hollywood movies these days.

Hollywood never has had a monopoly on cinematic art, especially now.

[PlainJane]

For foodies my favorite somewhat recent movie is The Taste of Things. I have a few pieces of copper cookware but have full-on envy now and have been spending way too much time reading https://www.vintagefrenchcopper.com/

[karstopography]

For foodies my favorite somewhat recent movie is The Taste of Things. I have a few pieces of copper cookware but have full-on envy now and have been spending way too much time reading https://www.vintagefrenchcopper.com/

Looks like a good film. I’m often in awe of some of these chefs and how skilled and creative they are with great ingredients and techniques. I can get pretty intense, sometimes to the annoyance of my wife, in the kitchen putting together a dinner, but I tell her I enjoy the intensity and it’s true, I do enjoy the process of cooking a somewhat involved meal. There are fine lines between perfect and burned and a chef, home or professional, can’t be inattentive or dragging their feet.

My mom has some legitimate quality copper cookware that might be fifty years old or more. I don’t believe she uses it much, though. She uses her french enameled cast iron quite a bit. I have a large Le Creuset dutch oven that sees a lot of use. We got rid of almost all of our nonstick cookware.

[PlainJane]

I bought a set of Le Cruset enameled cast iron in the original weird orange color about 1979 and still have some of it. I use the Dutch oven all the time.
My recent splurge was a vintage copper daubière, tin lined, stamped ‘Hotel Sorbon’. I have a set of Mauviel stainless lined from about 15 years ago and those are my workhorses. And I have a Duparquet 6” egg pan, silver lined. That was a total fantasy itch. I have a big stainless roaster but at some point want to add a smaller antique copper version for doing a few pieces of chicken or game hens.
But getting back to The Taste of Things … you should watch it just to see the old behemoth stoves and how they were used. Completely fascinating.