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Kate: 6/1/09: Premiere of Sam Mendes' 'Away We Go'

Today on DVD: 'Revolutionary Road' A-

Often bleak. Sometimes dreary. Generally rough and tough to watch. Yet brilliant. A marriage is made in "heaven". A marriage erupts. A marriage implodes. Then explodes. A marriage goes to hell. Lives are torn asunder. A slice of many lives hidden behind closed doors and picket fences. The american dream as nightmare. It happens every day.
Sam Mendes brilliantly captures it on film.

Also see it for three brilliant performances:
Leo DiCaprio who should have been Oscar nominated.
Michael Shannon who was nominated for his supporting role.
Kate Winslet who WOULD have been nominated if 'The Reader' had been held off until 2009. And she still would have won. Probably two years in a row. An embarrassment of riches well deserved.

And once and for all she did win her Oscar for the better performance in the better role for 2009. Kate's loss in 'Revolutionary Road' was to herself in 'The Reader'. She is obviously too good for her own good. Not too great a cross to bear or problem to have. And yes she should have won for better roles. By that I mean also won for better roles than either of these period. 'Little Children' to be exact. It didn't happen. But this does not diminish her Oscar this year.
Kate Winslet Oscar Winner.
There. Period. Amen!!!
Stop the battle of which was her better role in 2008 once and for all. It's a done deal. Only I'm still allowed. HA!!!
Now Kate let's get number 2!

A Re-look at Kate's AMEX Ad.

more like a small biographical film. a brilliant idea:

Working with Kate

LOS ANGELES -- Sam Mendes is anxious to direct his wife Kate Winslet again. But can he afford her now that she's an Oscar winner?

"I'll definitely work with her," he answers with a laugh. "The only problem you run into is when you start looking for projects to do together. It never works. It's always better when you find what you love and then find the right people for that project ... (But) I'd like to sooner rather than later. I don't want to wait another six years."

Their last film, the lacerating Revolutionary Road, was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, but Winslet won the best actress statue for the Nazi-themed The Reader. Although there were suggestions Winslet and Mendes were unhappy the two dramas were released in such close proximity, the filmmaker, who won an Oscar for American Beauty, calls that "all hot air ... It was a year when she had two amazing performances. And I think we felt while she won for The Reader, there was a widespread awareness that she had another great performance in the same year. It ended up that both movies did well and she won an Oscar. The rest is just pieces moving around the chess board."


By KEVIN WILLIAMSON
Edmonstun Sun

Kate Re-Signs With 'LANCOME' for 2009-2010

the original unveiling of the 'face of tresor':



the fulll version of the commercial:



the more shown TV spot: