The 91st Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 24. Just this week, Hammer to Nail ran my reviews of all 15 Oscar-nominated short films, by category. Here are those three pieces:
Enjoy!
Tag: Oscars
“Roughly Speaking” on the 2019 Oscars
Today – Thursday, February 21, 2019 – Linda DeLibero and I joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, “Roughly Speaking,” to discuss the 91st Academy Awards, which will air on Sunday, February 24. Here is the link to that episode. Enjoy!
@fogoftruth Episode 503: 2019 Oscar-Nominated Documentaries and THE SILENCE OF OTHERS
This week we talk Oscars with a brief discussion of the documentary-feature nominees and a more intensive review of each nominated short, as well as kvetch generally about the complicated relationship between documentary films and Oscar, and also interview Robert Bahar, co-director of The Silence of Others.
Oscar Shorts Reviewed:
- Black Sheep / 2018 (Director: Ed Perkins)
- End Game / 2018 (Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
- Lifeboat / 2018 (Director: Skye Fitzgerald)
- A Night at the Garden / 2017 (Director: Marshall Curry)
- Period. End of Sentence / 2018 (Director: Rayka Zehtabchi)
To see the video that accompanies our interview with Bing Liu – from the 2018 AFI DOCS festival – go to our “video extras” page. As always, you can find the audio of the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
“Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Roxana Hadadi – on the 2018 Academy Awards, “Annihilation” and “A Wrinkle in Time”
Christopher Llewellyn Reed, “Reel Talk” host, w/ Roxana Hadadi, of “Chesapeake Family” and “Pajiba”
Welcome to the third episode of the 2017-2018 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Roxana Hadadi, film critic for Chesapeake Family and Pajiba. We discussed this year’s Academy Awards and reviewed two recent films: Annihilation and A Wrinkle in Time. Like what you see? Be sure to check out the first and second episodes of this current season, as well.
In Howard County, Maryland, you can watch the show on Channel 41 (if you’re a Verizon customer) or Channel 96 (if you’re a Comcast customer), and you can watch it online from anywhere. You can also still catch all six episodes from last year (first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth), plus all six from the previous year (first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth), as well as the six episodes from my first season with Reel Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6). Enjoy!
The fantastic Dragon Digital Media team did their usual superlative job putting this together, especially producer Karen Vadnais and director Danielle Maloney, as well as floor manager Anthony Hoos. We’ll be back at the start of March with another episode, so stay tuned. Until then, have fun at the movies!
Podcasts on #Oscars2018 (@RoughlySpeaking) and #SXSW2018 (@fogoftruth)
Yesterday, we posted another special bonus episode of my podcast on documentaries – The Fog of Truth (available on iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher) – this past week, on the documentaries of the upcoming SXSW festival. Earlier in the week, on Monday, Linda DeLibero and I joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, “Roughly Speaking,” to discuss the Academy Awards of the night before. Here is the link to that episode. Enjoy!
6 Reviews @filmfesttoday & @hammertonail: “Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine,” “Death Wish,” “Loveless,” “On Body and Soul,” “The Young Karl Marx” + all 15 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
This past week, Film Festival Today ran one review of mine – of Death Wish – and Hammer to Nail ran five: Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine, Loveless, On Body and Soul, The Young Karl Marx, and a piece on all 15 Oscar-nominated short films. Here are links to all 6 articles:
- Breaking Point: The War for Democracy in Ukraine review
- Death Wish review
- Loveless review
- On Body and Soul review
- The Young Karl Marx review
- Review of all 15 Oscar-nominated shorts
Enjoy!
Pre-Oscars 2018 Coverage of All Shorts and All Documentaries @fogoftruth + @hammertonail
We posted a special bonus episode of my podcast on documentaries – The Fog of Truth (available on iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher) – this past week, on the Oscar-nominated documentaries (shorts and features) of 2017. Hammer to Nail also ran my review of all 15 Oscar-nominated shorts (animated, documentaries and live-action). Enjoy!
And in Podcast News … @roughlyspeaking on Oscar Noms and @fogoftruth on “Rat Film” and “The Blood Is at the Doorstep”
On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s me) – Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University – joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, “Roughly Speaking,” to discuss the Oscar nominations announced earlier that day. Here is the link to the show. Enjoy!
Then, the next day, my podcast on documentaries – The Fog of Truth – released its fourth episode (also available on iTunes and Stitcher). This latest was on Theo Anthony’s Rat Film and Erik Ljung’s The Blood Is at the Doorstep. Hope you enjoy this one, as well!
“Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Leslie Combemale – on “The Post,” “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and the Best Films of 2017
Christopher Llewellyn Reed, “Reel Talk” host, w/ Leslie Combemale, of cinemasiren.com
Welcome to the second episode of the 2017-2018 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was Leslie Combemale, film critic at Cinema Siren. We reviewed two recent films – The Post and Star Wars: The Last Jedi – and compared our respective 2017 “best of” lists (here’s mine). If you want to watch the first episode of the season, from November (we skipped September this year), it is very much still available for viewing.
In Howard County, Maryland, you can watch the show on Channel 41 (if you’re a Verizon customer) or Channel 96 (if you’re a Comcast customer), and you can watch it online from anywhere. You can also still catch all six episodes from last year (first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth), plus all six from the previous year (first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth), as well as the six episodes from my first season with Reel Talk (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6). Enjoy!
The fantastic Dragon Digital Media team did their usual superlative job putting this together, especially producer Karen Vadnais and director Danielle Maloney, as well as floor manager Anthony Hoos. We’ll be back at the start of March with another episode, so stay tuned. Until then, have fun at the movies!
@BaltimoreSun’s @RoughlySpeaking Podcast on Sexual Harassment in Hollywood (and Beyond), Oscar Buzz, Current Films, Claude Rains and Ennio Morricone
On Friday, December 8, 2017, Linda DeLibero – Director, Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University – and Christopher Llewellyn Reed (that’s me) – Chair and Professor, Department of Film & Moving Image, Stevenson University – joined Dan Rodricks on his Baltimore Sun podcast, “Roughly Speaking,” to discuss the following topics: the ongoing revelations of sexual predation and harassment in both Hollywood and the political realm; what’s currently getting Oscar buzz; what is currently out in cinemas that we recommend (including Coco, The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and the upcoming The Shape of Water); and highlights from the careers of actor Claude Rains (1889-1976) and film composer Ennio Morricone (1928 – ), both of whose birthdays are on November 10, when we originally planned to celebrate them (a podcast we had to cancel for various reasons). Here is the link to the show. Enjoy!
