Quick musing on the issue of aging
Who is the better actor?
I don’t know much about Mr. Colin Firth. I enjoyed him in A Single Man. So did Stephen.
I recently saw him in Shakespeare in Love. To be honest, I didn’t really recognize him. So I searched him on Google Images (he passes the nudity test, by the [...]
A SINGLE MAN (2009) deserves the Best Actor Oscar, and his name is Colin Firth
Dir. Tom Ford
Regal Arbor, 1/23/10, 5:10pm
Having reconciled myself to the fact that Nicolas Cage will not be nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, despite giving the year’s best performance in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, I was beginning to think that this category would prove to be a pretty boring one for me [...]
A second viewing of A SINGLE MAN (2009) made me go overboard
I was struck by my second viewing of the film to compare director Tom Ford with Orson Welles. I say this first of all because their first efforts are both very strong. Welles was famous as a very successful person within a different field (theatre and radio), just as Ford is famous in [...]
A SINGLE MAN (2009) a gem in Oscar Season
Dir. Tom Ford
Angelika (New York, NY), 12/22/09, 7:15pm
A Single Man is a surprisingly sweet and touching film. It has been collecting quite a bit of buzz lately, especially for the performance by British tough-guy Colin Firth, and my expectations were quite low when I sat down at New York City’s renowned Angelika Cinema. [...]
Plagued by the Past in 2009
I have been thinking about writing a blog post on the cinema year in review. I’d take about the general trends that the year brought, the highs, lows, surprises and upsets of the year. That kind of thing.
As part of that project, I have been thinking about consistent themes of the [...]
