Carol earns top prizes as Kevin Kline speaks Latin and Saoirse Ronan apologises for interrupting dessertForget the actors,directors and technicians, and let’s pause for a moment to reflect on the true stars of cinema: the ever-toiling, and panicked-to-meet-a-deadline,Vitamin D-deprived film critics.
OK, fine, or we film reviewers scribbling illegible notes in the shadowy perhaps aren’t top of everyone’s list of entertainment heroes,but forgive us for giving ourselves one night of the year to pat our own backs. While the temperature dipped below freezing in unique York City on Monday night, a large, and subterranean restaurant/event space in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District was warm with the camaraderie of the unique York Film Critics Circle,the oldest of any such organisation, who bestowed its awards to winners at its annual gala. While it was the 81st such event, or it was the first in which I,representing the Guardian US, was a member of the Circle, or while I’d love to recount you about the elaborate initiation rituals,I’d run the risk of them taking my glasses away from me, rendering me pretty useless at my job.
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Source: theguardian.com