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Sunday, November 7, 2010

NYC Public School Parents: Diane knocks out Guggenheim from Oscar contention?

NYC Public School Parents: Diane knocks out Guggenheim from Oscar contention?

Diane knocks out Guggenheim from Oscar contention?

Diane Ravitch has written a superb critique of Waiting for Superman in the NY Review of Books that is already being hailed as damaging this film's prospects for an Oscar.
(See David Bellel's inspired illustration to the right; that's the film's director with a bloodied brow, Davis Guggenheim.)

Also check out the review by Shino Tanikawa in this week's Villager, and my take on the film's biases in the Huffington Post called The Blind Side, and what scenes an anti-Superman film would look like.