ACROSS
1 Publishing tasks
6 Jack letters
9 “Hotel Imperial”
(1927) star
14 Best New Artist
Grammy winner
after Alicia
15 Tesoro de la
Sierra Madre
16 Horse play
17 Kitchen drawer?
18 It can be cured
19 “Beats me”
20 Québec quiche,
e.g.?
23 Start of a weekly
cry
24 “Either thou, __
... must go with
him”: Romeo
25 Ran into
26 Saying “It wasn’t
me” when, in
fact, it was?
33 Digitize, in a way
35 Squawk
36 Greenwich
Village sch.
37 Set apart, as
funds
39 Layer
40 Eastwood’s
“Rawhide” role
42 Ref. book
43 Retail giant with
stores in 23 U.S.
states
45 Bit of power
46 “Wish we had
built a bigger
pyramid,” e.g.?
51 Feel poorly
52 Source of bills
53 Stretcher, to
Huck Finn
56 Greeting from a
faithful friend?
61 Sitar
accompaniment
62 Citrus cooler
63 Sarge’s superior
64 “Hamlet”
courtier
65 Fix
66 Supports
illegally
67 Mary’s upstairs
neighbor
68 Cooper creation
69 Performed, in the
Bible
DOWN
1 Pass
2 Modern kerchief
cousin
3 How many O.
Henry stories end
4 Writer Janowitz
5 Sunny day
phenomenon
6 Angora fabric
7 Republic since
1979
8 Search high and
low
9 Legendary
Australian outlaw
10 Fairness
11 “Treasure Island”
castaway Ben
12 Step up?
13 Prefix with bar
21 George’s lyrical
brother
22 __ alcohol: fusel
oil component
27 Bed-in for Peace
participant
28 “Blowin’ in the
Wind” songwriter
29 Early spaceflight
proponent
Willy __
30 Like petroglyphs
31 Nikita’s no
32 Sudden blow
33 Word processing
command
34 Blockage
38 Bolivian border
lake
39 Shade of green
41 Botanical beard
44 Smuggler’s unit
47 Wan
48 Caesar salad
dressing
ingredient
49 Acting guru
Hagen
50 “Good for you”
54 OK components
55 Throw out
56 Load in a basket
57 River of Spain
58 Con man’s target
59 Falco of “Nurse
Jackie”
60 Silk Road desert
61 2015 A.L. East
champ
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Daily Film Writers
predict Oscar wins
By DAILY FILM-WRITERS
Best Picture:
Who Will Win: “The Big Short,”
the sensationalized account of the
2008 financial crisis, is sure to take
home Best Picture, and it certainly
deserves it. With the swerving
cinematography and electrically
intricate storyline, director Adam
McKay (“Anchorman”) finds a
way to simultaneously entertain
and educate the American public
about arguably the stodgiest, most
boring industry. With its fresh,
populist take on big business
alongside some of the biggest
names in Hollywood, “The Big
Short” is hard not to root for.
Who Should Win: “Room,”
the indie darling of this awards
season, is the excruciating but
uplifting tale of Jack (Jacob
Tremblay, “Before I Wake”) and
his Ma, played to perfection by
Brie Larson (“Trainwreck”). The
beauty of “Room” comes from
the dichotomy of being the most
anxiety-producing film of the year
and existing as a quiet testament to
growing up, highlighting the love
between parents and children. The
humanity of the plot and the subtle
but
effective
cinematography
bolster the unadulterated power
of the performances of Tremblay
and Larson, leaving the viewer
unnerved and exhilarated by the
film’s close.
— Rebecca Lerner
Best Original Screenplay:
Who Will Win: It can be easy to
look toward the most harrowing or
dramatic film when predicting the
Best Original Screenplay winner,
but overlooking equally clever
but lighter films can lead to some
unexpected upsets. “Spotlight,”
which presents an incredibly
precise mix of honest fact and
subtle
emotion
in
depicting
Boston Globe journalists exposing
the Catholic Church molestation
cover-up, seems like the most
likely winner for 2016.
Who Should Win: Don’t let
“Inside Out” ’s clever and engaging
exploration of emotions within a
developing mind fall completely
to the side — it’s an unexpected
but equally viable candidate for
its ability to characterize such a
complex concept. We often have
trouble understanding feelings
within ourselves, but “Inside Out”
makes it look easy.
— Lauren Wood
Best Director
Who
Will
Win:
On
the
Oscar campaign trail, there’s
no shortage of “The Revenant”
hardship stories. Between the
frigid temperatures and unique
natural-light shooting, director
Alejandro
González
Iñárritu
(“Birdman”), who induces as
much pain in his characters as
Darren Aronofsky (“Noah”) or
Stanley Kubrick (“The Shining”),
crafted a mind-blowingly visceral
survival story in the American
West.
Who Should Win: There’s
an incredibly strong case to be
made for George Miller (“Happy
Feet”),
whose
“Mad
Max”
revival, “Fury Road,” stunned
critics
and
audiences
alike
with its phenomenal effects,
nearly 90 percent of which were
practical. But my choice is Tom
McCarthy (“Win Win”), whose
Boston-focused journalism story,
“Spotlight,” is perhaps the only
movie ever to make a Microsoft
Excel
sequence
absolutely
riveting.
— Daniel Hensel
Best Actor
Who Will Win: Leo’s not going
to win because he deserves to
(the Academy loves snubbing
“deserving” winners). He’s going
to win because he gave the sort
of immersive performance award
shows go crazy for. Remember
when Matthew McConaughey
almost starved to death for
“Dallas Buyers Club,” or when
Daniel Day-Lewis broke two ribs
getting into character for “My
Left Foot?” The Academy loves
when actors suffer for their art,
and Leo’s performance in “The
Revenant” this year finds the
actor at peak suffering. He slept
in animal carcasses and ate raw
liver for a month. He’s practically
killing himself for the Oscar. And
the Academy is going to go crazy
for that.
Who Should Win: “Room”
featured
both
of
the
year’s
strongest
performances.
Brie
Larson is a deserving shoe-in
for Best Actress, and her co-star,
nine-year-old Jacob Tremblay,
should be a shoe-in for Best Actor.
But he’s not even nominated.
He’s not even nominated for Best
Supporting Actor. And yet his
performance as a young child who
is born and raised in a small room
is full of the one thing lacking
in that of the actual nominees:
honesty. The scene in which
Tremblay comes eye-to-eye with
the sky for the first time in his life
is one of the year’s most powerful
because Tremblay’s performance
is so simple and pure. This year’s
actual nominations for Best Actor
are weak and disappointingly
typical of the Oscars — older white
guys playing biographical roles.
Why not bring in a ringer and
give Tremblay the recognition his
performance deserves?
— Madeleine Gaudin
Best Actress
Who Will Win: She has won
Best
Leading
Actress
from
BAFTA, the SAG, the Golden
Globes and Chicago Film Critics
Association. If past awards are
any indicator of who will win
the Oscar (which they are), odds
are good for Brie Larson as Ma in
“Room.” Her performance is, in
fact, incredible. She elicits such
raw, visceral emotion, primarily
interacting with only one other
actor in a very confining set in
the first half of the movie. Her
liberation from the room that
coincides with her emotional
and mental incarceration is a
frightening experience that’s well
delivered by Larson. Through
Larson’s performance, “Room”
creates a vivid reality.
Who Should Win: Although
all the nominees are deserving
of the Oscar in some respect,
Saoirse Ronan’s (“Atonement”)
performance
in
“Brooklyn”
is
especially
heartwarming
and beautiful — that said, her
character in the movie naturally
lends itself to this type of
performance, so the difficulties
of playing such a character
are
limited.
Brie
Larson’s
performance, on the other hand,
is downright impressive. She had
little to work with (a single set and
a child actor), yet she makes Ma
feel like a real person. Larson has
earned this Oscar.
— Joe Wagner
Best Cinematography
Who Will Win: 13 nominations
later, is it finally time for the
acclaimed Coen brothers (“Hail
Caesar!”)
cinematographer
Roger Deakins (“Unbroken”) to
take home the gold? Not likely.
Sicario looked great in a horribly
dismal sort of way, but methinks
the
Academy
will
recognize
Chivo’s downright breathtaking
accomplishments
with
“The
Revenant” as the visual splendor
to win it all this year. It will be the
third time Emmanuel Lubeszki’s
(“Birdman”) won consecutively,
and the only hat trick ever by a
cinematographer at the Oscars.
Who Should Win: Sorry Roger,
but I’m going to have to go with
one Mr. John Seale (“The English
Patient”) on this one. “Mad Max:
Fury Road” is the rare big-budget
film where every single cent of the
however-many-millions went to
make sure every single frame was
masterful — the intimate kind of
masterful that can’t just be done
in post. “Fury Road” had a unique
splendor completely unmatched
by
any
other
action
movie,
even including films within its
own franchise. Not even “The
Revenant” ’s jaw-dropping nature
photography could beat Seale’s
ultrastylized wasteland.
— Jacob Rich
A24
This movie is too sad to joke about. :(
FILM PREVIEW
TV REVIEW
‘Girls’ grows up
By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK
Daily Arts Writer
When “Girls” debuted on HBO
in 2012, the show filled a hole in
the media: a realistic portrayal
of young people in New York
City.
Before,
there
was
“Sex and the
City,” a show
about success-
ful
women,
established in
their
careers,
looking
for
romance;
and
“Gossip
Girl,”
about
the drama of
trust fund teens on Manhattan’s
Upper East Side. To viewers,
the women on these shows were
certainly #goals; there was no
wardrobe more strongly coveted
than Carrie Bradshaw’s, no love
affair more worshipped than
Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass’s.
They were glamorous and fun,
their problems always fixed
with a mimosa and a new pair
of Louboutins. And they were
totally unrealistic.
“Girls,”
the
semi-autobio-
graphical brainchild of Lena
Dunham
(“Tiny
Furniture”),
tells a much less glamorized
story of young women trying to
make it in the Big Apple. Han-
nah (Dunham), Marnie (Allison
Williams, “Peter Pan Live!”),
Jessa (Jemima Kirke, “Tiny Fur-
niture”) and Shoshanna (Zosia
Mamet, “The Kids Are Alright”)
live as dysfunctional 20-some-
things,
navigating
unpaid
internships, disheveled apart-
ments, college classes and awk-
ward hook-ups.
The girls of “Girls” are cring-
ingly narcissistic, needy and
often self-destructive in their
personal and professional lives
— and while we try hard not
to, we see our own millennial
selves in them. Or, better yet, we
know a self-absorbed Hannah,
a micromanaging Marnie, an
annoyingly aloof Jessa. Despite
the show’s serious flaws — there
isn’t a single person of color in
the core cast, for instance — the
series’s ugly familiarity, the raw
and unfiltered misadventures,
has kept an audience coming
back for five seasons.
But there’s a shift in season
five: “Girls,” believe it or not,
seems to be growing up. Since
Lena Dunham announced in
January that the show will end
after six seasons, some clo-
sure is inevitable — as it’s still
a scripted series, albeit a more
realistic one, the girls need to
find solidity (in life, jobs, rela-
tionships, etc.) by the show’s
finale.
For Marnie, adulthood is
coming in hot — maybe a little
too hot. Season five opens with
Marnie standing before a win-
dow in an upstate New York cot-
tage, dressed in full nude Spanx,
glaring down at the preparations
for her outdoor wedding.
Turns out, she and her sing-
ing partner Desi (Ebon Moss-
Bachrach, “The Lake House”)
have decided to marry after
all, even though he’s a grade-
A jerkface. But then again, it’s
hard to feel sympathy for Mar-
nie, who fails miserably at keep-
ing her inner bridezilla under
wraps. Though she insists on
being a breezy bride — she tells
Bebe (Bridget Everett, “Train-
wreck”), the makeup artist, that
she wants an artsy wedding that
still reflects her heritage as a
“white Christian woman” —
Marnie would rather die than
have a hairpin out of place.
Naturally, everything falls
apart. Hannah, fresh from her
stint as a junior high teacher, is
back to her old selfish ways —
bringing her date into the bridal
room to hang out, then later
sneaking out for a romp in the
backseat of his car — and gener-
ally not paying attention to Mar-
nie on the one day she deserves
it. Jessa has a sneaky hook-up
as well, with none other than
Hannah’s ex-boyfriend, Adam
(Adam Driver, “Star Wars: The
Force Awakens”). Even Bebe’s
in the wrong: she misinterprets
Marnie’s “Joni-Mitchell-meets-
Ralph-Lauren” hair and makeup
vision as “Selena-Gomez-meets-
Jesus,” giving the bridal party
shockingly bad makeovers. And
on top of everything, Marnie’s
biggest fear comes true: it rains
for her outdoor wedding.
After a hurricane-level melt-
down, in which Marnie con-
fronts Hannah about her lack of
support as a friend and maid of
honor (“The very least you could
do right now is to pretend that
I’m doing the right thing,” she
says) the girls hug it out, Marnie
wipes off her makeup and they
all throw raincoats over their
dresses. When life gives you
lemons, I guess.
Though Marnie’s marriage
seems too unstable to last, her
actions hint at more growth to
come in “Girls,” which will be
refreshing to see after years of
the characters’ same old antics.
But then again, the show prides
itself on being realistic — and
there’s nothing more human
than sticking to habit.
B+
Girls
Season 5
Premiere,
Sundays at
10 p.m.
HBO
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