BAFTA (schweetie, darhling)

Very touching, the list of the ‘lost’ this year included Brittany Murphy, Natasha Richardson & Patrick Swayze. Fake solemnity from the audience was not appeciated, stop that looking up as if desperately holding in tears and biting of bottom lips cos they aint trembling at all.

Pixar’s ‘Up’ won best animation fabulous but i secretly did hope that ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ had bagged it. Is it wrong to think of Mr Fox as a total saucepot? Yup, thought so.

Director’s BAFTA went to Kathryn Bigelow for ‘The Hurt Locker’ – up against ‘Avatar’ and ‘District 9′ which were both stunning. Dedicated her Bafta to ‘never abandoning finding a resoltion for peace’.  Cool. Nice dress honey.

Best Film : ‘The Hurt Locker’. I must admit i was rooting or ‘Avatar’ but this was maybe considered too mainstrea, and/or profitable.

A balding Prince William coupled with a gloriously gold-frocked Uma Thurman (might have been jealous but she had a BIG zit on one cheek, taking note of which must mean that i was actually green with envy cos she is gorgeous) presented the Fellowship BAFTA to Vanessa Redgrave (dodgy, ramling speech a must have). A BAFTA truly deserved though.

The Lovely Bones

Released (uk) 19th Feb – The Lovely Bones – directed by Peter ‘lotr’ Jackson who also created the lesser known film ‘Heavely Creatures’ which is a visual (sometimes shocking) beautiful feast of a true story. ‘The Lovely Bones’ book by Alice Sebold, sweet take on the afterlife idea. Great, compelling book, except the slightly Hollywood comeuppance type twist near the end, which the more discerning and cynical reader couldn’t be condemned for feeling, may have been written in to keep potential future cinema goers happy. Film trailers look amazing….hope it doesn’t disappoint. Video from @Film4 – http://www.film4.com/videos/article/exclusive-the-lovely-bones-clip

Lovely (bones)