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Brokeback and The Oscars

March 7, 2006 B. John 299 Views Crash, Film, Oscars, Good Night and Good Luck, Capote, Brokeback Mountain, Academy Awards

Good grief, every where I turn I’m seeing headlines about Brokeback Mountain not getting the Oscar for best picture as some sort of statement about Hollywood dissing the gay film. Could it be that Crash was actually a better film?

Culture Movies

Capote

November 13, 2005 B. John 382 Views Drama, Biography, Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.