and here ya are, and it's a beautiful day.
Fargo playing but I just finished live tweeting Terminator Genisys , over a hundred tweets, and looking forward to this, a much better film. On the Oscars front, Fargo was nominated for seven awards (Best Picture, Supporting Actor (William H. Macy), Director (Joel Cohen), Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Editing (Ethan and Joel Cohen)) and won two (Actress (Frances McDormand) and Original Screenplay (Ethan and Joel Cohen)). Notably, McDormand won as Lead when she's got less screentime than Supporting nominee Macy. I was thinking about this film just yesterday, about cinematography specifically. Deakins here makes a good show of framing the wide open spaces of North Dakota. Deakins is up for Cinematography again this year--for Sicario . I saw Sicario opening day, four months ago and I'm forgetting how many wide open shots that film--a couple good ones, I suppose. The opening shot, for example, a tract home neighborhood, not the most beautiful of visuals, but the wide shot fr...