Great Night at the Belcourt Theatre Oscar Benefit
Special thanks to everyone at the Belcourt Theatre who helped us podcast, live blog and Twitter from last night’s Oscar Night America Benefit: ‘The Film Talk’ to Podcast from Belcourt Oscar Party! Gareth and I had a great time – the edited highlights of the our Oscar commentary will be live on the site this [...]
We Live Blogged to the Bitter End…
Here for your viewing pleasure, Dear Listener: the full and unexpurgated TFT Live Blog from the Academy Awards: 3.49pm: (Oscar Time): Gentlemen, Your Vehicles Please: Let the Live Blogging Commence! Some folks like turning up early to the Kodak – and if you’ve ever tried to drive in LA in the week preceding the Oscars [...]
Predicted Winners
Tonight sees TFT’s first live coverage of the Oscars – we’ll be blogging as the show continues; and the podcast will be up in a day or two – but for now, we’ll cast our lot with some predictions: Who’ll Win vs. Who We Like Best Picture Slumdog, of course will win; Gareth liked ‘Milk’ [...]
TFT at the Oscars 2009: The Excitement Mounts
Well, dear listener, the time is almost now – your genial TFT co-hosts are be-suited and be-seated and be-truffled (a new verb to describe the feeling when you’ve just sipped a soup you would only be served at an Academy Awards party; in our case, it came from Panera Bread in downtown Nashville). You may [...]
Podcasting from the Belcourt Oscar Benefit this Sunday!
Just a quick reminder that Prof. Dr. Higgins and I will be podcasting from the Oscar Night America Benefit at the Belcourt Theatre this Sunday: ‘The Film Talk’ to Podcast from Belcourt Oscar Party! We hope to see ya there – and if you can’t make it we’ll be releasing the highlights of the show [...]
'The Film Talk' to Podcast from Belcourt Oscar Party!
TFT will be podcasting this February 22nd at the official Oscar Night America benefit at the Belcourt Theatre! The Belcourt’s Biggest Party and Fundraiser of the Year! Gareth and I will be recording a ‘play-by-play’ account of the ceremony while we watch it live on the local ABC affiliate, WKRN; interviewing local celebs attending and [...]
'Che' Starts Tomorrow at the Belcourt Theatre
As mentioned before on TFT – I’m a huge fan of the new Steven Soderbergh / Benicio Del Toro picture(s) Che: Che – and the Creation of a Style It starts tomorrow, January 23rd at the Belcourt Theatre here in Nashville. See it if you can!
Sundance Reports and Reviews from the Belcourt Blog
I’ve enjoyed Dr. Higgins’ reports from Sundance: Sundance - Korean Documentary ‘Old Partner’ / Irish Short ‘6 Farms’ Sundance 2: The Only Good Indian Sundance 3: Mary and Max Sundance 4: The Clone Returns Home Here’s some more early looks at films you should be keeping an eye out for – from Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre [...]
Lola Montes – Starting Today at the Belcourt
Lola Montes is starting today at the Belcourt -don’t miss it! See our earlier post for all the details.
Che – and the Creation of a Style
Best film I’ve seen in ages – Che. I imagine we’ll go into the politics of the pic amongst its various other attributes when we review it on the Show – but right now I just want to mention its style. If you look back at reviews of the Godfather when it first came out [...]
Timecrimes / Time Crimes / Los Cronocrímenes
Am a sucker for time travel movies me. But even if wasn’t I’d have been impressed with Timecrimes. It’s a perfect example of how to do your first film = keep to a minimum of locations with a minimum of actors, (as in Reservoir Dogs / Dark Star, etc.). What’s great of course is that [...]
