under pressure [why can't we give the love one more chance?]
It's nice to be back in New York. In spite of it all, I'm actually very excited for the semester.
I finally finished my script for Color Sync on Sunday (Color Sync being my hardcore intermediate film production class). I love my Color Sync professor; she's this short Israeli woman named Tzipi who curses a lot and whose taste in movies is similar to mine. Today I directed a scene for my Directing the Camera class. It was really intimidating, because I was the first to go and the professor never really specified what I was to do. Plus I had the whole class watching me work the whole time; directing in front of a crew is bad enough, but in front of a classroom-ful of people watching you specifically is quite nerve-wracking. I'm also very excited for my Stop-Motion animation class. The professor said to expect about five hours of homework in the studio every week. Brilliant. I'm also working this semester, which is cool. I work two shifts a week at the Post-Production Center at Tisch checking people in and out of the editing labs. I also dropped doing an internship because i realised there is absolutely no way I would have time for it while doing Color Sync. The more I think about that class, the more nervous I get.
Today they announced the Oscar nominations for this year. I am very angry that Volver was not nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Apart from that, I have no problem with most of them. (Thank goodness I don't have to see Dreamgirls, as it wasn't nominated for Best Picture.) Here are the films/people who I hope win in the major categories:
Best Picture: for the first time in a long time, I actually don't know; I still need to see Letters From Iwo Jima, but all the ones I've seen thus far I thought were all equally good, but all very different; I'll have to get back to you on this one
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (I really really really hope he wins this year; he has never won, The Departed was abso-fucking-lutely amazing, and Clint Eastwood has won so many times now that he's really just starting to piss me off)
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (although they may give it to Peter O'Toole, who is old and has never won)
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley (brilliant performance as a crazy pervert in Little Children)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (because she practically WAS the Queen)
Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi (deaf Japanese girl in Babel; powerful performance)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Little Children (the narration threw me off at first, but I began to appreciate it as a device as the film went on)
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine (you can't say it wasn't very well-written)
Best Foreign Language Film: Pan's Labyrinth (which I haven't actually seen, although I really want to, and from what I've heard I'm sure I'll like it, plus it's looks amazing)
I finally finished my script for Color Sync on Sunday (Color Sync being my hardcore intermediate film production class). I love my Color Sync professor; she's this short Israeli woman named Tzipi who curses a lot and whose taste in movies is similar to mine. Today I directed a scene for my Directing the Camera class. It was really intimidating, because I was the first to go and the professor never really specified what I was to do. Plus I had the whole class watching me work the whole time; directing in front of a crew is bad enough, but in front of a classroom-ful of people watching you specifically is quite nerve-wracking. I'm also very excited for my Stop-Motion animation class. The professor said to expect about five hours of homework in the studio every week. Brilliant. I'm also working this semester, which is cool. I work two shifts a week at the Post-Production Center at Tisch checking people in and out of the editing labs. I also dropped doing an internship because i realised there is absolutely no way I would have time for it while doing Color Sync. The more I think about that class, the more nervous I get.
Today they announced the Oscar nominations for this year. I am very angry that Volver was not nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Apart from that, I have no problem with most of them. (Thank goodness I don't have to see Dreamgirls, as it wasn't nominated for Best Picture.) Here are the films/people who I hope win in the major categories:
Best Picture: for the first time in a long time, I actually don't know; I still need to see Letters From Iwo Jima, but all the ones I've seen thus far I thought were all equally good, but all very different; I'll have to get back to you on this one
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (I really really really hope he wins this year; he has never won, The Departed was abso-fucking-lutely amazing, and Clint Eastwood has won so many times now that he's really just starting to piss me off)
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (although they may give it to Peter O'Toole, who is old and has never won)
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley (brilliant performance as a crazy pervert in Little Children)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (because she practically WAS the Queen)
Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi (deaf Japanese girl in Babel; powerful performance)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Little Children (the narration threw me off at first, but I began to appreciate it as a device as the film went on)
Best Original Screenplay: Little Miss Sunshine (you can't say it wasn't very well-written)
Best Foreign Language Film: Pan's Labyrinth (which I haven't actually seen, although I really want to, and from what I've heard I'm sure I'll like it, plus it's looks amazing)