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about ,)er drug use in the best-picture nominated "T-c,trit".. -"It ha d
sense of its content that you don't see in movies, particularly Hollywood
movies," says David Magidson.
November. I have my favorites, and
basically I•m not supposed to reveal
what I vote for. That's the bargain You
make with the Academy-.
"I tend to like the 'kinder, gentler'
films. I loved Chocolat this year. I
thought it was an absolutely exquisite
film for all the right reasons. It was a
big story told in a small way, and I
think those are what I tend to like a lot.
Best picture? I just don't know. They're
all so different, each from the other.
"I thought Crouching Tiger Hidden
Dragon Was a brilliant film, but I don't
think I would call it best picture. It
should win a ton of awards. There are a
lot of good films. Anything is possible.
"In terms of documentary, I am very
hopeful. I have a dear friend, Roger
Weisburg, whose film Sound and Fury is
up for an award. He's a former Detroiter.
Its a beautiful film, absolutely spectacular.
I was saddened that the Hank Greenberg
film did not get a nomination, because I
think it was a wonderful documentary"
Vicki Honeyman, director of the Ann
Arbor Film Festival:
"I'm actually very excited because a
close friend of mine — John Nelson
— has been nominated for an
Academy Award. He's the special
effects director for Gladiator. He's
from Detroit. He's been working in
the industry for about 25 years. We
think that he's going to get it!
"Crouching Tiger is a great film —
technically, the choreography, the spe-
cial effects, the music. The film was
really exceptional.
Gladiator: It probably will win best pic-
cure. 0 Brother, Where Art Thou is proba-
bly one of the favorite films that I've seen.
[There are] films that probably should
win Academy Awards, but they don't
reach that level.
"People really do get caught up in [the
Awards]. That's always fun. But in terms
of merit, and films that really deserve the
recognition for truly being great films,
for the art of films, it's all ar-bitrary. There
are never any surprises."
Elliot Wilhelm, curator of film at the
Detroit Institute of Arts, director of
the Detroit Film Theater and host of
Film Festival, airing 9 p.m. Fridays
on Channel 56:
"I don't think that the Oscars have
ever really amounted to an aesthetic
contest. I don't think that anyone in
Hollywood would ever really tell you
— under penalty of death or hooked
up to a polygraph — that the winner
of the best picture of the year award is
absolutely and beyond question the
best picture of the year.
"[The Oscars are] a kind of social
barometer of where America is at a par-
ticular moment in time. What I find
when you look at movie history — you
look at the pictures that have won for
best picture of the year over the decades
— they tend to be movies that reflect a
particular era, or particular social atti-
tudes at a particular point of our history.
"I sort of feel like taking a slightly
distanced point of view, since, in a
sense, I really do want to champion all
movies, and to get people to see as
many movies as they can, and make
up their own minds." ❑