Bowling up to the Racquet Club at 6. Bring on the prizes. No matter that the eight previous recipients had all started to walk off stage right, only to be halted by a nice, smiley lady and ushered off to the left⦠number nine hooked a right all the same.
The full list of award winners is too long and obscure to go into here [that's where us web techies come in useful - here you go Unfortunately it was a taste of things to come, Half Nelson getting the full elbow when it came to gathering trophies. Quinceanera is the kind of film that you expect to win the audience prize it did and go home happy. The closing night party was also something of a let-down, the atmosphere never quite buzzing and the celebrity head count β usually decent β at a disappointing low.
Jury member Alexander Payne was briefly glimpsed posing for photos but that, the cast of Somebodies aside, was it. Total Film made the most of it by quaffing free champagne and wine until the trays ran dry, then headed for the Yarrow Hotel, home to so many press screenings over the past 10 days, for a nightcap. Awaiting transport in the bitter cold at 2am, the thought of catching a flight back to the UK in 11 hours time was a welcome one. Bringing all the latest movie news, features, and reviews to your inbox.
Arriving 45 minutes early for the 8. Is it any wonder Hollywood just keeps on serving us the same old explosions, car chases and stylised gun fights until we learn to judge films largely on the merit of their CGI? Like Sherrybaby, Come Early Morning features a Hollywood actress Ashley Judd roughing it in a downbeat indie pic, and, like Gyllenhaal, she plays a woman trying to right her topsy-turvy life.
Removed from her family and seemingly incapable of courting any form of intimacy, Lucy is stuck in a cycle of boozy one-night-stands followed by quick exits come early morning. It looks like she might finally exit her spiral down the plughole of self-destruction when she meets sensitive new guy in town Cal Jeffrey Donovan β¦ but can she handle a caring, giving adult relationship? Why mention it when most journos would simply wing it?
