Articles of Note

1. Profile of Jack Fisk, Art Director/Production Designer on There Will Be Blood, Mulholland Drive, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Straight Story and the Thin Red Line. Great description of his job and his work with Lynch, Malick and PTA. Most interesting article I've read in several months. He based TWBB's sets on the Edward Hopper painting, Early Sunday Morning (at right).

2. Official No Country For Old Men critics discussion of the ending (podcast).

3. National Society of Film Critics Awards:

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS AWARDS VOTING FOR 2007 FILMS

BEST PICTURE
*1. There Will Be Blood (48) - Paul Thomas Anderson [Paramount Vantage]
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) - Julian Schnabel
3. No Country for Old Men (27) - Joel and Ethan Coen
Click below for the rest of the "Bloody" list.
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
*1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) - Cristian Mungiu [IFC]
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) - Julian Schnabel
3. Persepolis (18) - Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

BEST DIRECTOR
*1, Paul Thomas Anderson (47) - There Will Be Blood [Paramount Vintage]
2. Joel and Ethan Coen (29) - No Country for Old Men
2. Julian Schnabel (29) - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST NONFICTION FILM
*1. No End in Sight (43) - Charles Ferguson [Magnolia]
2. Sicko (20) - Michael Moore
3. Terror's Advocate (18) - Barbet Schroeder

BEST ACTOR
*1.Daniel Day-Lewis (66) - There Will Be Blood [Paramount Vantage]
2. Frank Langella (34) -- Starting Out in the Evening
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman (21) -- The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
*1. Casey Affleck (37) - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [Warner Bros.]
2. Javier Bardem (30) - No Country for Old Men
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman (29) - Charlie Wilson's War

BEST ACTRESS
*1. Julie Christie (53) - Away from Her [Lionsgate]
2. Marion Cotillard (50) - La Vie en Rose
3. Anamaria Marinca (28) - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*1. Cate Blanchett (42) - I'm Not There [The Weinstein Company]
2. Amy Ryan (29) - Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
3. Tilda Swinton (23) - Michael Clayton

BEST SCREENPLAY
*1. Tamara Jenkins (28) - The Savages [Fox Searchlight]
2. Paul Thomas Anderson (19) - There Will Be Blood
3. Ronald Harwood (17) - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
*1. There Will Be Blood (51) - Robert Elswit
2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (40) - Janusz Kaminski
3. No Country for Old Men (33) - Roger Deakins