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Entries by John Farr from 02/2010

Why Avatar Should Not Win Best Picture

| Posted 02.08.2010
Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, The Blind Side, The Academy Awards, Avatar, Titanic, Avatar Movie, James Cameron Avatar, Best Movies by Farr, The Oscars, Quentin Tarantino Inglorious Bastards, Steve Martin, Best Picture, James Cameron, 3D Film, Oscars 2010, Alec Baldwin, 3d, News

What does it say about the state of the industry when a film can win Best Picture without having been nominated for anything in either the primary writing or acting categories?

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Jeff Bridges, and the Grizzling of the All-American Boy

| Posted 02.14.2010
Read More: John Carpenter, John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, Kurt Russell, Best Movies by Farr, Crazy Heart, Coen Brothers, Beau Bridges, Kim Basinger, ET:the Extra-Terrestrial, Jeff Bridges, Ethan Coen, Steven Spielberg, Karen Allen, Joel Coen, Peter Bogdanovich, Larry McMurtry, Fearless, Ben Johnson, Joan Allen, The Big Lebowski, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, The Academy Awards, Stacy Keach, The Last Picture Show, Best Movies on DVD, Peter Weir, Rosie Perez, John Huston, Gary Oldman, Isabella Rossellini, Rod Lurie, Lloyd Bridges, John Goodman, News

Perhaps his clean-cut, boyish image obscured my ability to recognize the astonishing talent he possessed from the start. Regardless, I could see it now: Jeff Bridges has always been a lot more than a pretty face.

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Where Is Lee Marvin When We Really Need Him?

| Posted 02.28.2010
Read More: Glenn Ford, Donald Sutherland, Lee Marvin, George Segal, Fredric March, Best Movies on DVD, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, The Oscars, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Burt Lancaster, Jeff Bridges, Angie Dickinson, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Vivien Leigh, Fritz Lang, Humphrey Bogart, News

I look at the new action movies coming out, and I have to wonder: Where's our new Lee Marvin? The manly man, the bad guy turned good guy, the guy who's so ugly he's almost beautiful, the guy who takes no prisoners?

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