Nominees for the
81st annual Academy Awards
were announced yesterday morning and as it turns out, three of the five films up for Oscars for “Best Picture” are just now coming to theaters in the Humboldt County hinterland.
We’re trying to decide which one to see first. Director
Danny Boyle
‘s
Slumdog Millionaire
opens tonight at t
he Broadway
.
Ron “
Opie
“
Howard
‘s
Frost/Nixon
and
Gus Van Sant
‘s
Milk
both open at
the Minor
. And, the other two best pic noms are still playing:
Stephen Daldry
‘s
The Reader
i
s at
Mill Creek
;
David Fincher
‘s
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
(up for 13 awards) is at Mill Creek and the Broadway. Incidentally, “Best Director” nominees correspond directly with Best Pic this time out.
You might also want to catch “Best Actor” nominee
Mickey Rourke
in
The Wrestler
, opening tonight at The Broadway. While I haven’t seen the movie yet, I’ll go out on a limb and predict the Mickey will win the Oscar this year, and will thank his Chihuahuas in his acceptance speech. The Academy Awards will be presented about a month from now, on Sunday, Feb. 22.
This article appears in Hobart’s Children.
Or you can download and watch them in the privacy of your own home, where you don’t have to listen to people talk on their cell phones or kick the back of your seat or pay $10 to see a movie that wasn’t worth it.
http://waxy.org/2009/01/pirating_the_2009_oscars/
Or you can support Coming Attractions’ decision to bring quality cinema to Humboldt County by not stealing movies off the Web. Yes, theater patrons can be a drag, but I’ll take a big screen, quality sound and an honest ticket ($8.75 tops, by the way) over pixilating pirated copies on my laptop every time.