LG is scheduled to drop something big on April 28th. And if the “G’s” in the save the date invites (above) it sent out to the press is any indication, we can most likely expect its next G-series flagship phone. Besides, several Korean publications al…
What was the best film of 2014? The Oscars said Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance). The New York Film Critics said it was Boyhood. The LA Film Critics Association agreed, naming The Grand Budapest Hotel as the runner-up. But if the IRAs have anything to say about it, the movie that might well rise in stature and come to be remembered as one of the defining films of the year is…Nightcrawler. That was the big winner at the 40th annual IRA Awards handed out over the weekend. It swept most major awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Despite a lot of acclaim (and a juicy supporting performance from Renee Russo that should have snagged her an Oscar nomination), it was passed over at the Oscars and by most critics groups. It grossed less than $40 million worldwide (most of that in the US), so chances are you haven’t seen it yet. You should.
But wait! Who are the IRAs? The IRAs is a mysterious but august film society that has voted on the best films of the year since 1976. More international and indie focused than the Oscars, more mercurial than the LA Film Critics and more loyal to their favorites than the Golden Globes, the IRAs met over the weekend, voting for the best film of 2014 (along with all the usual other categories) and capping off a two-year debate by finalizing their picks for the best films of the 1960s. They have no more claim to pronounce the best films of the year than anyone else but they’ve been doing it for decades so, hey, it’s tradition!
Below are their votes — including nominees and winners in major categories — followed by its list of the Top 100 Films of the 1960s. If you want to see films that will endure, you could do worse than watch all five of the Best Picture nominees. And are you a serious film buff? Well, tell me, how many of the movies on the 1960s list have you seen?
And the IRA goes to….
BEST PICTURE
1. Nightcrawler — 29 pts. (out of a possible 50 pts.)
2. Foxcatcher — 21 pts.
3. Stranger By The Lake — 17 pts.
4. (tie) Boyhood 16 pts.
Ida 16 pts.
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler — 27 pts.
2. Bennett Miller for Foxcatcher — 22 pts.
3. Pawel Pawlikoska for Ida — 16 pts.
4. (tie) Alain Guiraudie for Stranger By The Lake — 15 pts.
Richard Linklater for Boyhood — 15 pts.
BEST ACTOR
Jake Gyllenhall for Nightcrawler by acclamation
1. Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler — 35 pts.
2. Tom Hardy for The Drop and Locke — 19 pts.
3. Oscar Isaac for A Most Violent Year and The Two Faces of January — 16 pts.
4. Joaquin Phoenix for The Immigrant and Inherent Vice –10 pts.
5. Channing Tatum for Foxcatcher — 9 pts.
BEST ACTRESS
1. Essie Davis for The Babadook — 24 pts.
2. Emmanuelle Seigner for Venus In Fur — 21 pts.
3. Marion Cotillard for The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night — 18 pts.
4. (tie) Amy Adams for Big Eyes –11 pts.
Lisa Loven Kingsli for Force Majeure — 11 pts.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Ethan Hawke for Boyhood — 23 pts.
2. Riz Ahmed for Nightcrawler — 15 pts.
3. (tie) Patrick d’Assumçao for Stranger By The Lake — 12 pts.
Jeremy Renner for The Immigrant –12 pts.
5. Mark Ruffalo for Foxcatcher — 9 pts.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Agata Kulesza for Ida — 27 pts.
2. Renee Russo for Nightcrawler — 21 pts.
3. Tilda Swinton for The Grand Budapest Hotel and Snowpiercer — 16 pts.
4. Marion Bailey for Mr. Turner –13 pts.
5. Bharati Achrekar for The Lunchbox — 9 pts.
BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler — 37 pts.
2. Ritesh Batre for The Lunchbox — 17 pts.
3. E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman for Foxcatcher — 16 pts.
4. Alain Guiraudie for Stranger By The Lake –12 pts.
5. Richard Linklater for Boyhood — 10 pts.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Robert Elswit for Inherent Vice and Nightcrawler — 31 pts.
2. Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal for Ida — 26 pts.
3. Dick Pope for Mr. Turner — 20 pts.
4. Greig Fraser for The Gambler and Foxcatcher — 20 pts.
5. Emmanuel Lubezki for Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) — 7 pts.
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
1. Suzie Davies for Mr. Turner — 23 pts.
2. Jess Gonchor for Foxcatcher — 19 pts.
3. Rick Heinrichs for Big Eyes — 16 pts.
4. Kevin Kavanaugh for Nightcrawler –13 pts.
5. Josefin Åsberg for Force Majeure — 12 pts.
BEST SCORE
1. Mica Levi for Under The Skin — 21 pts.
2. James Newton Howard for Nightcrawler — 19 pts.
3. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for Gone Girl — 14 pts.
5. Danny Elfman for Big Eyes–10 pts.
5. Alexandre Desplat for The Grand Budapest Hotel –9 pts.
BEST EDITING
1. (tie) Jay Cassidy, Stuart Levy and Conor O’Neill for Foxcatcher — 12 pts.
Simon Njoo for The Babadook — 12 pts.
3. Jean Christophe Hym for Stranger By The Lake — 11 pts.
4. Sandra Adair for Boyhood –9 pts.
5. Justine Wright for Locke — 7 pts.
BEST COSTUME
1. (tie) Jacqueline Durran for Mr. Turner — 23 pts.
Kasia Walicka-Maimone for Foxcatcher and A Most Violent Year — 23 pts.
3. Milena Cononero for The Grand Budapest Hotel — 13 pts.
4. (tie) Colleen Atwood for Big Eyes and Into The Woods –10 pts.
Maja Meschede and Anna B. Sheppard for Fury — 10 pts.
SOMINEX (The movie that put you to sleep)
1. The Monuments Men — 21 pts.
2. Into The Woods — 13 pts.
3. Jersey Boys — 7 pts.
4. (tie) Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) 5 pts.
The Congress — 5 pts.
Exhibition — 5 pts.
Only Lovers Left Alive — 5 pts.
DRAMAMINE (The film that made you sick)
1 The Imitation Game — 23 pts.
2. Whiplash — 12 pts.
3. Nymphomaniac — 10 pts.
4. The Lego Movie — 9 pts.
5. Into The Woods — 8 pts.
MECHANICAL ACTRESS
1. Lilla Crawford for Into The Woods — 25 pts.
2. Sofía Vergara for Chef — 18 pts.
3. Meryl Streep for Into The Woods — 14 pts.
4. Kate Winslet for Labor Day — 6 pts.
5. (tie) Keira Knightley for Begin Again and The Imitation Game — 9 pts.
Elizabeth Olsen for Godzilla and Very Good Girls — 9 pts.
Rosamund Pike for Gone Girl — 9 pts.
Robin Wright for The Congress — 9 pts.
MECHANICAL ACTOR
1. The entire cast of The Monuments Men — 17 pts.
2. Noah Wiseman for The Babadook — 16 pts.
3. Tom Wilkinson for Selma — 16 pts.
4. Benedict Cumberbatch for The Imitation Game –11 pts.
5. (tie) Johnny Depp for Into The Woods — 7 pts.
J. K. Simmons for Whiplash — 7 pts.
For an explanation of voting, a list of winners from past years and more, go here.
IRAs: THE BEST MOVIES OF THE 1960s
1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) (69 pts./941 pts.) (see note at bottom for explanation of pts.)
2. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) (65/973)
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) (62/958)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) (58/801)
5. Chimes At Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) (50/864)
6. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone, 1968) (49/808)
7. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) (42/790)
8. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) (38/778)
9. When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960) (31/776)
10. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) (30/796)
11. Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger, 1965) (61/745)
12. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) (58/747)
13. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dryer, 1964) (56/764)
14. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) (53/708)
15. Army Of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) (50/754)
16. Home From The Hill (Vincente Minnelli, 1960) (47/733)
17. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962) (45/730)
18. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) (42/740)
19. Band Of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) (41/774)
20. The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963) (32/744)
21. Play Dirty (André De Toth, 1969) (56/664)
22. Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) (56/666)
23. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol, 1960) (53/649)
24. Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan, 1965) (53/677)
25. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) (50/674)
26. Advise And Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962) (49/668)
27. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969) (47/632)
28. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) (46/700)
29. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) (44/627)
30. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) (41/630)
31. Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968) (59/592)
32. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961) (57/589)
33. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) (55/578)
34. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) (51/616)
35. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967) (50/604)
36. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) (47/627)
37. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967) (45/596)
38. Belle De Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) (43/598)
39. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963) (43/608)
40. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) (42/620)
41. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, 1963) (60/554)
42. Ride The High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962) (58/554)
43. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) (57/576)
44. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) (52/560)
45. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) (51/546)
46. Knife In The Water (Roman Polanski, 1962) (51/560)
47. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962) (46/574)
48. Bonnie And Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) (45/572)
49. Jules And Jim (François Truffaut, 1962) (38/533)
50. Shoot The Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960) (37/553)
51. The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) (58/496)
52. Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966) (57/492)
53. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) (54/525)
54. Rocco And His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) (52/502)
55. Eyes Without A Face Georges Franju, 1962) (51/518)
56. Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher, 1960) (47, 512)
57. Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) (47/500)
58. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) (46/492)
59. Cleo From 5 To 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) (45/497)
60. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) (38/499)
61. The Sorrow And The Pity (Marcel Ophuls, 1969) (67/479)
62. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) (65/485)
63. The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961) (56/465)
64. The Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) (55/490)
65. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962) (51/474)
66. Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960) (48/465)
67. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) (48/472)
68. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) (46/485)
69. Splendor In The Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961) (41/468)
70. El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1966) (29/489)
71. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965) (60/432)
72. The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) (60/457)
73. Two Weeks In Another Town (Vincente Minnelli, 1962) (50/438)
74. My Night At Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, 1969) (50/454)
75. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961) (49/430)
76. Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961) (47/449)
77. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964) (47, 442)
78. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1968) (44/441)
79. Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) (44/444)
80. Two For The Road (Stanley Donen, 1967) (43/443)
81. Night Of The Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) (61/409)
82. The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini, 1966) (52/422)
83. Valley Of The Dolls (Mark Robson, 1967) (51/393)
84. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) (51/410)
85. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) (51/425)
86. Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) (50/395)
87. Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965) (49/428)
88. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick, 1962) (48/413)
89. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) (47/426)
90. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) (35/415)
91. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) (60/338)
92. Planet Of The Apes (Franklin J Schaffner, 1968) (59/277)
93. The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich, 1967) (58/314)
94. The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis, 1963) (53/383)
95. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) (51/291)
96. A Shot In The Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964) (49/370)
97. The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1967) (49/337)
98. The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker, 1967) (47/250)
99. The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1964) (35/278)
100. Gunn (Blake Edwards, 1967) (34/219)
MOVIES BY YEAR
1960 — 12 movies XXXXXXXXXXXX
1961 — 07 movies XXXXXXX
1962 — 18 movies XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
1963 — 10 movies XXXXXXXXXX
1964 — 10 movies XXXXXXXXXX
1965 — 7 movies XXXXXXX
1966 — 9 movies XXXXXXXXX
1967 — 14 movies XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
1968 — 07 movies XXXXXXX
1969 — 06 movies XXXXXX
For an explanation on how the voting was done, go here.
For my personal list of the best films of all time, by year, go here.
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Turns out having Martha Stewart at the Comedy Central “Roast of Justin Bieber” was a good thing after all.
Stewart’s tame joke about the roast on Twitter earlier this month had some wondering if she could deliver the type of edgy and downright mean-spirited cracks that mark these celebrations:
I wonder if Justin Bieber like roast beef or roast chicken or pot roast. I have to bring a roast to the roast don’t I?
— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) March 6, 2015
Wonder no more, because Martha Stewart can push the envelope to the extreme. She delivered one of the edgiest jokes of the night, and followed that up with one of the raunchiest.
Check her out in the clip above, then consider purchasing some highly absorbent Martha Stewart bed linens.
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American Pharmacists Association Discourages Members From Providing Lethal Injection Drugs
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe American Pharmacists Association, a major professional organization of pharmacists, adopted a policy Monday discouraging its 62,000 members from providing drugs for executions.
On the final day of the group’s annual meeting in San Diego, its governing body approved a policy declaring that participation in lethal injections violates the profession’s core values:
The American Pharmacists Association discourages pharmacist participation in executions on the basis that such activities are fundamentally contrary to the role of pharmacists as providers of health care.
William Fassett, a board member and professor emeritus of pharmacotherapy at Washington State University Spokane, drafted the policy, which he said had virtually no opposition.
“Changing policy often takes two to three times through the process to bring everyone on board,” Fassett told The Huffington Post. “I was optimistic — cautiously so. But it was as close to a slam-dunk afterwards. Once we had a voice vote, it was clear that the majority of the delegates agreed with the policy.”
Thomas E. Menighan, the association’s executive vice president and CEO, said in a statement that the new policy aligns the group’s execution policy with those of other major health care associations, including the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association and the American Board of Anesthesiology.
“Pharmacists are health care providers and pharmacist participation in executions conflicts with the profession’s role on the patient health care team,” Menighan said.
The new policy was spurred in part by the activist group SumOfUs.org, which describes itself as a watchdog organization and “a global movement of consumers, investors, and workers all around the world, standing together to hold corporations accountable.”
“The question about whether pharmacists should be involved in executions is a very recent one,” Kelsey Kauffman, a SumOfUs senior adviser, told The Huffington Post. “The AMA and nursers associations have had to deal with it for decades.”
About a year ago, Kauffman said she read a report that mentioned pharmacists — unlike doctors in America — are not forbidden by their professional oaths or organizations from participating in executions.
“I thought, ‘They got that wrong, it can’t be true,’” Kauffman said. When she found out it was true, SumOfUs began partnering with Amnesty International, the NAACP, the National Council of Churches, Reprieve and other groups. They sent a letter co-signed by 31 human rights organizations and religious denominations, to the pharmacists’ association, asking it to take a stand against pharmacists participating in executions.
“It’s never been legal in the U.S. to write a prescription to execute a person,” Fassett noted. “The basic federal law is that a prescription is to be used for medical proposes in the context of an established patient-physician relationship.”
Departments of corrections in states that allow the death penalty had traditionally obtained lethal injection chemicals from pharmaceutical companies. Since 1985, the pharmacists’ association has opposed using the term “drug” for chemicals used in lethal injections.)
Around 2011, supply of lethal injection drugs was disrupted due to bans and boycotts that led to drugmakers ceasing production. In the past year, prisons in Oklahoma and Texas, among other states, have run short of stockpiled drugs, forcing them to turn to individual pharmacists and compounding pharmacies to mix chemicals for lethal injections.
“Before that, it was like saying, ‘Should we have a policy about pharmacists flying airplanes without a license?’ It wasn’t an issue for us,” Fassett said. Participation in lethal injections “wasn’t really on our radar until a few years ago”
Though the new policy formalizes the association’s ethical position on lethal injections, Fassett said the group lacks the power of enforcement.
“We’re not trying to get pharmacists de-licensed,” Fassett said. “We just want it clear to pharmacists in that state that they can’t” participate in executions.
Fassett said he’s unsure how the policy will factor into the lethal injection debate. “Every major organization of health care providers who could potentially be asked by the state to join their execution team now have a uniform goal against this,” he said.
“When you’re out by the ocean and the tide finally starts to come in, you think, ‘Which of all those waves is the most important? The first wave that breaks? The last wave to roll in?’ I’m glad we added our little wave to the tide,” Fassett said.
Indy Star Blasts Gov. Mike Pence Over 'Religious Freedom' Law: 'Fix This Now'
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Indianapolis Star is holding Gov. Mike Pence (R) accountable for the state’s controversial “religious freedom” law.
It’s this important. Tuesday’s front page. #rfra pic.twitter.com/jem4Cf5BWg”
— Karen Ferguson (@karenferguson33) March 31, 2015
On Thursday, Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows businesses to discriminate against people by citing religious beliefs if they get sued. The LGBT community is often targeted by this type of discrimination.
Tuesday’s bold front page features an editorial blasting Pence for signing the law, and urging him to fix the damage it has already done to the Hoosier State.
We are at a critical moment in Indiana’s history.
And much is at stake.
Our image. Our reputation as a state that embraces people of diverse backgrounds and makes them feel welcome. And our efforts over many years to retool our economy, to attract talented workers and thriving businesses, and to improve the quality of life for millions of Hoosiers.
Major companies, such as Apple, Walmart and Salesforce, have since announced they will boycott doing business in Indiana. Two states, Washington and Connecticut, said they will ban state-funded travel to Indiana.
The newspaper’s editorial board is calling for the passage of a statewide human rights law that would protect the LGBT community and take a clear stand against discrimination. Indianapolis’ Republican mayor Greg Ballard took similar measures on Monday by signing an executive order that forces businesses to abide by the city’s human rights ordinance, which prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation.
So far, the state’s Republican leaders have defended the law and remained steadfast in saying it does not discriminate. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Pence said the law is “not a license to discriminate” and “simply reflects” federal legislation. Other state GOP leaders said they were “shocked” that their religious freedom law was seen as anti-gay, and that they simply didn’t anticipate the backlash.
But Indy Star has a strong message for these political leaders:
We urge Gov. Pence and lawmakers to stop clinging to arguments about whether RFRA really does what critics fear; to stop clinging to ideology or personal preferences; to focus instead on fixing this.
Governor, Indiana is in a state of crisis. It is worse than you seem to understand.
Surfer Mark Healey has seen his share of hairy moments in the water, but not many will top this one.
While out on a boat in the rough waters of the famed Mavericks surf spot in California’s Half Moon Bay, Healey spotted a big wave and jumped into it.
“Typically, in a potential maritime disaster, the best idea is to stay with the boat,” the 33-year-old told Fox News. “But I really didn’t feel like getting smashed around like an ice cube in a shaker, so I looked to my friends to the left and right of me and just told them, ‘I don’t know about you guys, but I’m jumping.'”
In addition to surfing, Healey is also a stuntman, spear fisherman, free-diver, skydiver and more, so he might be missing the gene that would keep most other people planted to the deck of the boat or avoiding rough waters in the first place.
Fortunately, both Healey and the boat seemed to come through the encounter just fine.
“I came up pretty much dying laughing, and then I checked to make sure everybody was OK on the boat,” Healey told Fox News “There was some damaged equipment — soaked cameras — but everybody was pretty much in good shape.”
The incident took place in December, which is when Healey initially posted the video to his Facebook page.
“This was the best wave I got, at Mavericks Saturday! Hahaha!” Healey wrote. “That’s me flying through the air, trying to put as much space between myself and the potentially doomed boat. Enjoy……”
The clip has been going viral since being posted to YouTube earlier this month as a submission for the 2015 XXL Big Wave Awards, although it was his other epic wipeout that was eventually nominated.
Last year, Healey posted a video showing himself getting thrown around by a 25-foot wave, also at Mavericks.
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