The Auswine Forum

Are people aware of a movie approaching our cinemas soon...and it incorporates alot of wine drinking along the Santa Barbara trail in California...review was in the Weekend Australian just passed...highly rated as well.

Sideways has been nominated for five Academy Awards including BEST PICTURE, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. My money is on an award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and it would be nice if Haden Church sneaked in for Best Supporting Actor.


Sideways is one of the few movies I have seen where I have actually been interested enough to buy the Shooting Script and the score, and both book covers, and the poster, andÂ…Â…


Mike

Saw it on friday. Quite good- the Australian gave it 4 stars, 3-3 1/2 for me. Quite amusing, the representation of the world of the lonely wine nerd is interesting from the outside looking in! A bit of a buddy/road movie with a twist, Haden Church plays his duplicitous character with aplomb- a movie worth seeing.


Cheers

Yep saw it last night and loved it - lots of laughs, cringes etc.

Paul

Vey funny flick...saw it a couple of weeks back...agree....lots of laughs and a few cringes as well.....Maja's description of why she loves wine was beautiful though

Cheers

Dave

Some amusement in this film - principally the antics on the golf course, and the attitudes of so-called wine snobs.

Interestingly, the main character Miles sounds off with booklearnt knowledge but is constantly surprised by reality- and an expensive dinner is amusingly portrayed(for those in the know) by the wines at the end of the dinner swilled when they are rather the worse for wear, being far more expensive than the wines given the "full extended tasting treatment" at the begining of the meal.

Miles appears to have wine snobbishness as his guard against reality intruding - and is his only "life". dare one ask how many members of wine boards would be similarly constrained? (only partly tongue in cheek - an emoticon yet to surface!)

fred

Interesting reading the papers today about the surge in pinot sales and the associated drop in merlot sales...... popular culture still rules... ..... loved reading those quotes from major merlot producers trying to talk it up again.

fred wrote:....... and an expensive dinner is amusingly portrayed(for those in the know) by the wines at the end of the dinner swilled when they are rather the worse for wear, being far more expensive than the wines given the "full extended tasting treatment" at the begining of the meal.

Fred, I don't know about you, but even 'though I'm industry this happens way too often. ..... although we are learning....

I can now understand all the angst about intellectual property rights.

I noted the film for sale on DVD in Beijing last week. $5 gets you a pristine copy!