17 February 2009

OSCARWATCHING

For the past few years, one of the annual pleasures of the Oscar season (and God knows this particular Oscar season needs pleasures) has been Nathaniel R's Oscar Symposium, a collection of some very smart people from around the internet to discuss the year's nominees, and how the relate to everything better that also came out.

This year, I say with the greatest of blushes, that Nathaniel invited me to join him. Along with several other great writers: Ed Gonzalez of Slant, Karina Longworth of Spout, Erik Lundegaard, and Kris Tapley of In Contention. Our retrospective of the sorry state of award-baiting cinema in 2008 kicks off tonight at The Film Experience. Swing on by!

3 comments:

Diego said...

Love this stuff. Reminds me of when I used to read Premiere magazine and it was actually good.

NATHANIEL R said...

thanks for playing along, you were great. Now answer your emails dagnabbit.

Tim said...

Thanks for having me, it was a lot of fun. Though I wish we'd had somewhat more inspiring movies to discuss. Even so, it was one of the highlights of my blogging life. Sorry I fell off the face of the earth once it was over.

That actually goes for everyone: please forgive me for the terrible state of the blog these couple weeks. I expect things to be much better in the immediate future.