My friend Andrew sent out his annual Oscars survey with the caveat that he hadn’t seen anything that wasn’t a Disney/Pixar creation. Dan and I probably saw more movies than Andrew, but for the first time in a long time we have only seen two of the best picture nominees. Jordan doesn’t get the artiest films and this year's best picture nominees seem arty rather than commercial. We did see an edited version of Atonement here – only when we later saw a preview for the movie in Tel Aviv featuring a soaking wet Keira Knightly could we confirm that scenes had been cut. We also saw Michael Clayton in Israel but we both found it boring.
Other nominated performances – we enjoyed but found bleak La Vie en Rose; we were disappointed by Golden Compass and liked the very-violent Eastern Promises. Julie Christie was excellent in Away from Her but how many people go see movies about Alzheimers? I am now realizing that except for Atonement, every nominated movie that we have seen, we saw in Tel Aviv or via Netflix.
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i only saw Michael Clayton and Ratatouille. :(
but the writer's stike has meant I made up from movies last year!
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