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August 24th, 2010

Early Picks For The 2010 Best Actor Race

This year's race for Best Actor is almost guaranteed to be formed in the final months of this year. Don't get me wrong there have been some terrific performances. But not the kind that are remembered by voters unless they appear late into the season. Besides, with one of the five slots possibly already reserved for the first appearance of Jeff Bridges as Marshall Rooster Cogburn, the very role that got John Wayne his Oscar. Did they give Bridges his lifetime achievement too soon? Or is he simply being setup to be the first guy since Tom Hanks to go back-to-back?

That's a long ways off though. We don't even have a trailer to look at. And per my own rules of prognostication, if we haven't seen the film nor a tiny glimpse of the performances in action, they are left off the list. For the moment. Not only is it unfair and disrespectful to some of the exceptional performers we have seen already but no scout is going to recommend a pitcher they haven't looked at. So who are the leaders in the race to date?

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August 22nd, 2010

Jarmusch Dishes On Film With Fassbender, Swinton, Wasikowska

Jim Jarmusch was casually chatting with Pitchfork about the All Tomorrow's Parties NY music shindig he is curating this year and gave them some delicious scoops of news about some upcoming projects of his. As Jarmusch notes, last year he curated the film section of ATP NY, so they invited him back to work on the music as well. It's an interesting crossover since many of the musicians he picked for ATP NY have been involved in his films, like RZA and GZA, who were in that amazing scene with Bill Murray in Coffee and Cigarettes.

Music and musicians are a huge part of his films; for instance, Down by Law stars Tom Waits and John Lurie, and Jarmusch's friend Iggy Pop shows up in Dead Man. As he explains, "When I started out making films, I was a musician. I knew more musical people, really, than film people. So in my early films, a lot of my friends were in them, and a lot of them were musicians."

The reporter struck a little vein of gold for us fans of Jarmusch and his ubercool films, because the director also had a lot to say about a few upcoming projects. One long-term project is a doc on The Stooges, which is "something Iggy asked me to do." It's hard to say no to those abs, I'm sure. He's co-writing an opera about Nikola Tesla, as you do. Oh, and his new band might score some silent films. (No word on whether or not Jarmusch will be involved in making those silent films or not.)

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