Amour/Rust/Argo News/Oscar Matters/Coming Attractions

Good Thursday Everybody!


AMOUR

Sony Pictures Classics continues its dual roll out of Michael Haneke's "Amour" and Jacques Audiard's "Rust and Bone" with interviews stills and such.  Here's the latest on "Amour":

http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2012/11/13/haneke-handles-octogenarian-love-and-loss-in-amour.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amour/366356313450679

http://www.goldderby.com/films/news/3542/michael-hanake-amour-entertainment-news-528174926.html


RUST AND BONE

And also a couple of new posts for "Rust and Bone"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btt7jqfLzLI&feature=youtu.be

http://www.hitfix.com/awards-campaign/marion-cotillard-says-katy-perrys-firework-helped-her-performance-in-rust-and-bone


ARGO NEWS

"Argo" director Ben Affleck will be honored at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as the heat continues to build:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/argos-ben-affleck-be-crowned-389706



OSCAR MATTERS

A couple of Oscar predictors with their podcasts have posted since my last blog entry on Monday.

Here's Derby Talk with Tom O'Neil (Gold Derby) and Thelma Adams (Yahoo):

http://www.goldderby.com/films/news/3589/lincoln-flight-denzel-washington-joaquin-phoenix-movies-entertainment-news-4167093852.html

also from Rope of Silicon:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/podcast-oscar-talk-twilight-pixar-vs-disney-new-dvds-and-blu-rays-and-more/


And The Hollywood Reporter has an actor's roundtable posted with a bunch of the possible Best Actor (and Supporting) nominees involved.  Find that here:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/arkin-damon-foxx-gere-hawkes-and-washington-kick-it-around-in-thrs-actor-roundtable


COMING ATTRACTIONS

Werner Herzog's "Queen of the Desert" is a very real Telluride possibility because it's Herzog.  A couple of caveats...it's a long way away (think TFF #41 at the earliest)  and maybe it gets made, maybe not.  Here are a couple of items:

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=35680

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jude-law-joins-werner-herzogs-queen-of-the-desert-with-naomi-watts-robert-pattinson-20121102


More on Monday.  Have a good weekend!

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