The cinetrix has been a fan of A.S. Hamrah's film writing since back in the old Club Havana days. So it is with great delight that I point you to n+1 mag [a phrase I never thought I'd utter], where Scott lets loose with a little Oscar prognosticating. It's scathing in the best possible way. Don't believe me?
Atonement
There was an interview a while ago with Ian McEwan that Zadie Smith did for the Believer in which McEwan said that “cinema is a very inferior, unsophisticated medium.” Like many people, I enjoy movies immensely and I don’t see why I should pay money to see the adaptation of a book by someone who thinks the cinema is very inferior. It was the way McEwan used the word very that really bugged me. If he had just said cinema was inferior and unsophisticated, I wouldn't have minded so much.
Everything McEwan writes ends up as a movie. Someday his shopping lists will be filmed. I wonder how he’ll feel about the cinema’s inferiority and lack of sophistication when he cashes the check for the Untitled McEwan Shopping List Project.
Juno
I can’t say anything about Juno because I didn’t see it. I didn’t see it because I hated Little Miss Sunshine so much. After I saw Little Miss Sunshine I really wished I hadn’t. I refuse to make that mistake again. If that’s what a feel good movie is, I can’t stand to feel that good. It's physically painful for me to feel that good.
[Almost as painful, I hope? Those million-buck shoes on Diablo Cody's feet tonight.]
Read the rest here.
