The lists. 2003. 12/19.

So, is Harvey Weinstein's "walk along the movie season's high wire" (Sharon Waxman in the New York Times) already heading towards a happy ending? Happy for him, that is? As you've probably heard, Cold Mountain, with its eight Golden Globe nominations, will be bugging us from now through Oscar Night. Should have seen it coming, this quintessential Miramax confection, what with all those depressingly safe choices - the book to adapt this year, the cast and director, the Ikea color palette. I suspect Ella Taylor nails the film when she writes in the LA Weekly that it "chugs along placidly until it finally fizzles out with a warm and fuzzy picnic on a lovely summer day. I swear I heard Julie Andrews, yodeling in the background." The Academy's gonna love it.

As for the Globes themselves, well, this really is the season to be checking Movie City News a couple of times a day. Besides post-nom analysis from David Poland and Gary Dretzka, there's the terrific spectacle of award-watcher Tom O'Neil's bizarre rant claiming to expose Trio's "dirty little secret" - that's the network running The Golden Globes: Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret, you may remember - and Poland's answer.

For real fun with numbers, take a look at MCN's Awards Scoreboard. The big surprise there is also the #1, that is, just how far ahead of the pack Lost in Translation is in terms of total awards and nominations.

Cinecultist has selected her top ten. #1? Why, it's Translation! Surprise entry: I Capture the Castle at #4.

Greg Allen, the very vortex where the worlds of film and art are subsumed in glorious abandon, posts his art top ten to Modern Art Notes. (A warm Berlin-to-NYC holiday hello back at you, Greg.)

Among a zillion other things, Scott Green reports on the 2004 Prix d'Angoulême, French awards handed out to Japanese manga.

Meanwhile, Fimoculus is tracking the lists in about two dozen categories. Definitely a list hound's smorgasbord. And if you're looking for a gift for that list hound in your life, Bob Carroll reviews a candidate in kamera.co.uk, Stephen Jay Schneider's 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. As a sidenote, the review points to what kamera calls "The mother of all film lists."

Posted by dwhudson at December 19, 2003 12:24 PM