Live from Santa Monica, the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards, with?comedian Sarah Silverman hosting, was not as lively nor as funny nor as nutty nor as hoochie-mama as in past years… even with Sharon Stone presenting. What a shame.
WRAP-UP:
Little Miss Sunshine
won Best Feature and Best Director and Best Supporting Male and Best First Screenplay.
Half Nelson
won Best Female and Best Male.
The Road to Guantanamo Bay
won Best Documentary.
Pan’s Labyrinth
won Best Cinematography.
Quinceanera
won the John Cassavetes Award.
Sweet Land
won Best First Feature.
Thank You For Smoking
won Best Screenplay.
Friends With Money
won Best Supporting Female.
The Lives Of Others
(Germany) won Best Foreign Film. For all the winners, see below:
LIVE-BLOGGING:
Sarah Silverman intros with a filmed piece. She says?this year she hasn’t seen any of the movies so she can remain impartial, referring to
Pan’s Labyrinth
, “What’s?a labryrinth? Speak English.” Does a riff about how studios won’t fork over money for pics with a “talking vagina” so that’s why they go indie.?Pretty lame intro,?in my opinion. Sorry, but she ISN’T funny even when she uses various anatomical references and swear words. Going to be a long two hours.
Now Sarah is addressing the audience “live from a tent. The porn awards were in a buildings…” Goes into a riff about indie film awards vs. adult film awards. Praises the crowd of indie filmmakers present. “If a bomb went off, there would be nobody left to make a documentary about it.”
About
Little Miss Sunshine
she says, “I?have a joke for this. It starts with, ‘The last time I was in a van with five strangers…” and it ends with “…crack a window.’”
Uh-oh, Silverman has just gone way over the line. Referring to a German movie that’s nominated, she’s just made a joke about raping Ann Frank. (That’s a favorite?subject for Silverman, who clearly was too lazy to?prepare any new stuff?for the awards show. Like she actually had something better to do.) Nervous scattered laughter. Same when she says, “Go easy on the political statements. ‘
Oooh
, there’s a genocide in Darfur. What the fuck is a Darfur? My feeling is, if Steven Spielberg hasn’t made a movie about it, we don’t need to worry about it.”
This
is the best punchline she could come up with?
Now the awards are starting to be given out:
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