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September 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm #34910
I saw this at TIFF and the Michael Fassbender/Steve McQueen combo was in top form again. Michael won the Best Actor at the Venice film festival, and so far, talk out of TIFF has it as the best reviewed film thus far at TIFF. I wonder if a film like this, the topic of sexual addiction, with, gasp!, male nudity, could win the top award at TIFF?
We’ll soon see, but I’m creating this thread in preparation for Oscar hopes.
ps. Tom, remember when you told me that you weren’t interested in Fassbender until Oscar talk regarding him got serious? Well…
ReplySeptember 30, 2011 at 5:11 am #34912bump up
And as I posted at Fassinating Fassbender today, I speculate that Shame will be released in the US on December 16th. And I know the odds are against Michael Fassbender at this moment to be nominated for an Oscar, let alone win it, but as more people actually see the film, his chances will improve greatly!
ReplyCopy URLSeptember 30, 2011 at 7:21 am #34913He’s going to need to win one or more of the major critics’ awards, Blue. If he does, he might get an AMPAS nod; without that push I doubt enough voters will go there on their own. At this point I think that McQueen is a strong candidate for a writing nod, though…
ReplyCopy URLSeptember 30, 2011 at 3:37 pm #34914I agree with GoBlue that once people have seen the film they’ll realize its brilliance, and specifically the greatness of Fassbender’s performance. I’ve now talked to many local Toronto film fans who attended TIFF and almost all are mentioning Shame & Fassbender, which is interesting to me. I wouldn’t have necessarily thought so many would have seen it, despite the 1,000s that were at the screening GoBlue & I attended.
ReplyCopy URLOctober 4, 2011 at 9:34 pm #34920I have no big love for the Academy “thougjt” process. but I cant see the voters being put off by this film. Without having seen it, it appears to be an edgy challenging film with great performances.
Films like “Knocked Up”, “The Hangover”, and “Bridesmaids” I can understand them overlooking. Not that there’s no room at Oscar for these kinds of ‘films’….
“Shame” is definitely one I’ll be seeing asap.
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Philip K Dick Blade RunnerOctober 10, 2011 at 5:07 am #34925It appears that Shame has experienced some form of editing to be shown at the NYFF. The film I saw at Toronto, and what was shown at Venice, was NOT shown at NY. What surprises me is that if any editing were to take place, I thought it would do so prior to theatrical release. But for Fox Searchlight to ok some editing for the FILM festival of NY, says to me that they are serious about an Oscar campaign for Michael and perhaps did not want to turn off the delicate palates of the powers that be in NY.
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