Our main takeaways this time were:
Paul Giamatti did not even get an Oscar (nor a BAFTA) nomination. Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen did, but not he??? I don't understand that. He's fantastic.
Kevin Tent's editing (also not nominated by anyone). That dinner sequence between the four of them, the dissolves, the wine pouring, the meal, the faces - it's not always easy to do that sort of thing well, but this is a superb example. And later, there's a scene with Giamatti in a phone booth, and it looks like it's both in close and medium shots (maybe the closer shot is a crop?) and there's a wonderful slow fade between them.
The fact the Church character still gets married when he clearly isn't ready to do so is unbelievable. Lovely subtleties, like that Giamatti never lets on he's the one who's blabbed the secret about the marriage.
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| One of those back seat of car shots I love |
Rolfe Kent's main theme sounds like it could be modelled on 'Chim Chim Cheree'.
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