The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Fran]

Ennis went to his refrigerator and took out a half-full bottle of cheap white wine.

[memento]

History of the Ivy Film Festival

2008
The 2008 Ivy Film Festival was the most successful and widely attended to date, capped off by an unforgettable Spotlight Address by legendary director Martin Scorsese. A packed audience (which included Sir Ben Kingsley and the mayor of Providence) watched as Scorsese shared clips from some of his most well-known films, and shared insight into topics such as working with actors, his earliest attempts at breaking into the industry, Robert DeNiro’s improvisation skills, and much more. Tom Rothman, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, gave a powerful Keynote Address at our Awards Ceremony, and the festival featured an eclectic range of guests on its numerous panels, including producer Michael Costigan (Brokeback Mountain, American Gangster), writer/directors Michael Corrente (Outside Providence), Jonathan Levine (The Wackness), Ari Gold (Adventures of Power), and Tao Ruspoli (Fix), documentary filmmaker Hart Perry (Sex: The Revolution) and screenwriter David Arata (Children of Men). Advance screenings included the Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light and the celebrated British comedy Son of Rambow. A program of 35 superb student films, chosen from well over 300 submissions from all across the U.S. and dozens of foreign countries, reflected the festival’s growing quality and preeminence. The festival partnered with valued sponsors such as Paramount, Mastercard, and Current TV, among others, to draw a crowd of over 4000 to Brown’s campus.

[southendmd]

Jenny's jacket is lime with pink polka dots.

[Fran]

"Ledger and Gyllenhaal aren't the first mainstream movie stars to risk the box-office death of playing 'gay' -- River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves took a similar flyer 15 years ago as street hustlers in My Own Private Idaho -- but they have made a start in the slow erosion of a stereotype. Jack and Ennis are not predatory, or mincing, or limp-wristed; instead of being the hero's best friend or the upstairs neighbour, they are fully realised human beings who (astonishing!) do macho stuff like ride steers and sleep on mountainsides. It will be interesting to see if anyone follows their lead."

-- Anthony Quinn, "Brokeback Mountain: An elegy to lovesick cowboys"

[memento]

An Oscar First?
An Oscar first perhaps: a shared best actor award to Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger. The most American film of the year looks set to sweep the board in March. And it is hard to see how the leading role, supporting role distinction can be sustained in this absorbing, multi-layered film at the emotional heart of which is the complex, lifelong relationship between Ennis (Ledger) and Jack (Gyllenhaal). I’ll be surprised if Brokeback does not pick up 6 or more statuettes probably for some good and some less good reasons.

The bad reason would be talk of the ‘bravery’ of a gay story set in rural, redneck America. This is no gay cowboy movie. It is rooted not so much in the cowboy movie genre as in that deep part of America’s frontier, pioneering soul that provided the power to drive the cowboy genre in the first place. It is as an unsentimental lament for a lost America. An America as unforgiving and narrow but real, as the vast, wild country that spawned it. Opening in 1963 two dirt poor young drifters meet while seeking work driving sheep up to graze on desolate Brokeback mountain, there to supervise night and day the summer grazing and fight off predators. Both young men share fractured family backgrounds and alienation from their fathers. By this time the old West is long gone, its cowboy skills and arts cling on in rodeos and cheap labour for any remaining ranchwork going. One senses the rootlessness of truck stops, trailer parks and neon-lit motels which have replaced the stable rural, ranching communities of the not so distant past...

BBC Collective

[Meryl]

The ochre color of Alma's dress complemented the harvest dishes on the Thanksgiving table.

[Fran]

Thanks to a quick melt, only a few patches of white snow were still on the ground on the day Jack and Ennis brought the sheep down.

[southendmd]

Ennis's face turned kind of reddish when Alma dropped her Jack Nasty bomb.

[memento]

Ennis swigs Old Rose whiskey and shares a joint with Jack.

[Fran]

After Mrs. Twist placed the Brokeback shirts in a brown paper bag, testy OMT told Ennis, "Tell you what, we got a family plot and he's goin' in it."