Seymour Movies: Oscar Seems a Little Chippy This Year
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These Actor Awards, or whatever they’re called now, have become my favorite awards show because I get the intimate vibe of folks talking amongst themselves instead of down to the masses.
Digress all you want, Amy Madigan!!! You earned this!!! #ActorAwards2026
Most of you may not know, remember, or even care about this not-so-long-ago history. But it was one of the first things I thought of when Jackson died & it not only bears repeating, it bears hammering.
Today is the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. Am I in trouble for mentioning this? substack.com/home/post/p-...
In time for Awards Season, the latest version of my Personal Best Movies from the year I was born till now. If you're scoring, there's 6 westerns (& if you count "Yojimbo"), 3 tie finishes & as of this year, 2 Black vampire movies, neither of which, I say with mild regret, is "Blacula."
I'll save you a lot of reading: unless Mamdani starts taking money from Turks and roasting leprechauns - and even then - there is no way in hell Stefanik is going to win New York a year after this election in the city.
I'd been working on this one for so long that if often felt as though I'd been writing it my whole life. In a peculiar way, maybe I have...
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Once more to the Cave of Wonders. Happy 95th birthday, Sonny Rollins.
Belichick, you know ... it's like if I ran for Mayor of Fresno ...
Today marks Year Four of Ferdinand's insertion into my life. Read the attached to find our what that sentence means.
Still trying to get the hang of this thing. But at least it's no longer calling itself "Gene's Substack." Baby steps.
Oscar Peterson, the Frank Lloyd Wright of Swing, turns 100 today. And what do I mean by that analogy? This is what I mean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agi5...
Uh…duh…
I do not as yet see full-blown war. They are telling Iran in private it's over. The nuclear program has likely not and will not be destroyed, but it has been set far back. I don't see the collapse of the regime, either. The region is now monumentally more unstable.
This could all change in an hour.
Lest we forget: "It's a dog-eat-dog, world, Sam and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear." -- Norm Peterson, Boston barfly.
8 years ago, The Thing To Do (for want of a better phrase) was to (re)read "1984" to get, I guess, a "sense" of whatever was about to, so to speak, Happen Here. Read it again, like now, & if you really want to know why it's happening again, read Orwell's "Politics & the English Language."
Going through the motions. After March 2, it's back to Euro-Noir novels & Big East B-Ball. geneseymour.com?p=4029
You know a movie is great when it makes you forget who, where, & at times like this, even WHAT you are. This is a great movie. #Flowisthebestof2024
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
Clive James
My shiny new BookForum review of Philip Freeman's most excellent & much needed Cecil Taylor biography. www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
Not an Oscar voter, never was, never will be, But if I were voting now for Best Picture, it would come down to either "Anora" or "Nickel Boys." If Harris had won, I'd go with Nickel Boys." But because it was The Other One, I'd go with "Anora" because it's closer to The Way Things Are Now.
