For Your Consideration! October Oscar Movies
As lazy August gnaws at our edges, we can start expecting at least one thing: Spring Oscar-candidate trailers. We’ve got two for you today! There’s the much-ballyhooed An Education, a stuffy British trifle, and Amelia, a string-tugging biopic.
Back in February we simply lurved An Education, the Nick Hornby-penned movie about Carey Mulligan (so affecting in The Seagull on Broadway last year) falling in love with an older, dangerous Peter Sarsgaard (less affecting in that same production.)
It looks like one of those stirring, sentimental-in-the-right-smart-ways, heartachers that always get Oscar buzz but never actually get invited to the big dance. Though, now that there will be a whopping ten Best Picture nominees, maybe this lil’ thing will swoop on in.
Speaking of swooping! Here’s also a trailer, that’s been out a week or so, yes, for Amelia, Mira Nair’s misguided-looking biopic of famed aeronautical lesbo-type Amelia Earhart. And who better to play yet another lesbo-type than one Hillary Swank, the worst actress with two Oscars currently working in cinema today? She looks predictably awful in the movie, with an increasingly bedraggled Richard Gere bringing up the rear. The movie is about flying! Of the body and the spirit! SPOILER: She dies.
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I'm expecting a surprise nomination for Patton Oswalt's Big Fan.
Peter Sarsgaaaard as "dangerous"? Sorry, but I still think of him as the guy who didn't know that Stephen Glass was faking.
Also, even Hillary Swank as Amelia Earhart can't ruin my love affair with Amy Adams as Amelia Earhart.
An Education looks like Manhattan but from Mariel Hemingway's point of view (and, thankfully, with plummy British accents rather than her appalling whine).
kickingthecrap
Girls Don't Fly
@TubOfHowardTaft: You fool! you put it on the internet and now it will happen. Future me blames you entirely.
Yes, she dies but the real spoiler is that it's Clint Eastwood's old curmudgeon that takes Swank's Amelia out. Sorry to ruin it for everyone.
I'll skip both of these and wait patiently for The Road.
The scriptwriter of "An Education" may be Nick Hornby but it is based on the true life story of Observer writer Lynn Barber. She wrote about it in the Observer a while back (filled with SPOILERS). Hope the movie is as good as the real story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/07/lynn-barber-virginity-relationships...
SarahHeartburn
@goetz: The Core! God, that was such a bad movie.
Amelia disappeared when her plane tunneled to the center of the Earth.
goetz
"the worst actress with two Oscars currently working in cinema today"
Not fair! Her competition in that category (two Oscars) is Jodie Foster. Which technically makes her only the "worse" actress.
Actually, I loved her in Boys Don't Cry.
sparky
Of course she dies, she wants another Oscar!
Brandon Teena: Check
Maggie Fitzgerald: Check
Amelia Earhart: Check
Up next, Eleanor Roosevelt.
@goetz: Her plane that was shaped like a giant dildo? That plane?
Occula
That preview for An Education looks like it pretty much gives the plot away. I hate it when they do that!
MagsCO