Nebraska (dir. Alexander Payne, stars Bruce Dern, Will Forte)

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Originally Posted by spanky87

The black and white photography looks like ass in this. Should have used film instead of digital.

I had the privilege of catching Nebraska last week and it immediately shot to the top of my list for the year. The B&W photography is gorgeous. Payne's longtime D.P. Phedon Papamichael shot this.

On the surface, the movie may seem like a small scale family dramedy, but upon further examination, it is a sprawling masterpiece with such careful attention payed to the minute details of small town life and the ravages of time.

The friend I saw it with says it usually takes him several viewings of a Payne film for him to fully appreciate it, but this one he loved immediately. My fingers are crossed that this one doesn't get lost in the holiday shuffle despite the shoe-in nominations for Bruce Dern (Best Actor) and June Squibb (Best Supporting Actress).