And I was disappointed that Abderrahmane Sissako and his tremendous film Timbuktu went unrewarded.
It's a tremendous film and a monument to Melissa Mathison's gigantic talent.
Either way, it is a tremendous film and a happy start to the festival: entertaining and visually dazzling.
His weakness and Malik's future strength – this is the emotional fulcrum on which this tremendous film is structured.
Whether or not you have read Freedom, The Dragon is a tremendous film, and Koundouros fully deserves the upswing of interest.
Overall, this is a tremendous film – narratively satisfying, visually striking, and with a teasing theological subtext, if that's your bag.
But before we get to that, and bring the audience in, I want to show a clip that shows you at your best, a tremendous film from Spike Lee, 25th Hour.
And while a lot of the money generated by its biggest night goes toward putting on the actual event, the Academy spreads the wealth around in a number of laudable ways, most important through its archive's tremendous film collection, preservation and restoration undertakings.
Writing in this paper, Peter Bradshaw called it "a quietly tremendous film which ensnares both the heart and the mind"; the Financial Times, however, was not alone in complaining that the film "is a series of tableaux to which no one brought the vivants".
It really is a tremendous film, comparable, perhaps, to Michael Madsen's documentary Into Eternity, about the underground tomb being built in Finland for nuclear waste, intended to last for tens of thousands of years, bearing warning signs comprehensible to future humans who have evolved beyond modern language-forms.
