Oscar Reflections/ Moments Beyond Time/ Henryk Gorecki

Mar 08

Oscar Reflections/ Moments Beyond Time/ Henryk Gorecki

Posted by David on Mar 08 2010 at 11:25 am

It’s Monday Morning and the sun is shining. The Oscars are in the history books or at least on Youtube for another year. I was happy to see Monique receive the Best Supporting Actress award. She gave an awe inspiring performance in Precious. Sandra Bullock won Best Actress and she really did a fantastic job as well. Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for playing a Nazi in a way we have not seen before now. Maybe Hogan’s Heroes was the starting point for his portrayal. I don’t know. But he went way beyond the cartoon character of Colonel Klink.

I didn’t see Jeff Bridges play the worn out country singer so I can’t really comment on his performance. My favorite JB film will always be the movie Fearless. The story is one that takes me to a place you may recognize if you read some of the poetry here. And the music is the very original work of Henryk Gorecki. It also takes me to that place. Right around minute 16 of part one is a good launching pad for “spiritual flight” in my opinion. Want to try it out?

Learn to fly. . .

Symphony No. 3 Symphony of Sorrowful Songs I
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I really must say that the show was entertaining this year in a way that it often is not. Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were very funny as they made sure that nobody took themselves too seriously. It should be an evening about art not politics and it was a success in this regard although a film about Iraq won many of the major awards including Best Film.

You can argue whether it won because of its artistic merit including the performances of the actors or because it was about the war and our sons and daughters risking life and limb in that awful place. Or perhaps we can say it was both of these things that brought the voters here. In any case a record was set for the film with the lowest gross receipts winning Best Film. That should change now.

More people will see the film. Could that be a motivation? Almost everyone has already seen Avatar. Maybe the movie public needs more than fantasy at this point in time. There’s some heavy thinking going on. . .