Black Sheep

Wrap columnist Steve Pond yesterday posted a rundown of some likely Best Feature Documentary contenders — Restrepo, A Film Unfinished, The Tillman Story, Inside Job, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Tabloid and — last but not least — Werner Herzog‘s Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

I’ve already made it clear that I won’t shed any tears if Restrepo doesn’t make the final list of five. Then again…who knows?…perhaps Academy liberals will want to vote for “a pro-war, support-the-troops, emotional-propaganda piece wrapped in allegedly neutralist observational verite clothing,” which is how I put it on 7.11.

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13 thoughts on “Black Sheep”

  1. “Restrepo? Oh… that was cute. Oswald Patton was good in that. I like him much better when I don’t have to look at him.”

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  5. “They support liberal propaganda pieces every year, so why not?”

    Didn’t the first half of that sentence answer the question part of it?

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