Two pieces of awards-show-season e-mail arrived in my inbox today, signifying that the season has begun in earnest:
1. Cinea wants to remind me to register the DVD player they sent me last award season. It’s been sitting unregistered in a shelf since then, and I don’t intend to register it this year, either. For those of you unfamiliar with the technology, a Cinea DVD player allows studios to send out screener DVDs that can only be played on the Cinea DVD player–and only on the Cinea DVD player of a single person, at that. I’m afraid that, if I register my player, I’ll be contributing to Cinea’s installed user base, which will encourage studios to send out Cinea-only DVDs, and I resent having to wedge a second DVD player into my already-crowded TV cabinet. Still, if there’s some Cinea-only film that I feel I really have to watch in order to vote this year, I will bite the bullet and register the damn thing.
2. BVI wants me to know that next week, they’ll be having screenings of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Cinderella Man, Sin City, and Goal! next week.
I’m not surprised that Cinderella Manand Sin City are getting pushed for awards, and it makes sense to push Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, given how fond the British are of the original series. I’m interested that the list includesGoal!–a film that looked to be fairly bog-standard, based on the reviews I’ve seen.