Viewers interested in catching up on this year’s Oscar-nominated films have three shots this weekend at seeing Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, which will be screened tonight, Friday and Saturday by the New Jersey Film Festival in New Brunswick.
Precious itself is a Best Picture contender, while lead performer Gabourey Sidibe is up for a Best Actress award for her portrayal of a morbidly obsese, functionally illiterate teenager who, overwhelmed by appalling emotional and sexual abuse, has effectively shut down on life. Author and comedienne Mo’Nique is also up for a Best Supporting Actress award, and filmmaker Lee Daniels has been nominated for Best Director.
Tonight’s screening is at 7 p.m. in Room 001 of the Ruth Adams Building, 11 George Street on the Douglass College campus. The Friday and Saturday shows are at 7 p.m. in Room 105 of Voorhees Hall, adjacent to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Hamilton and George streets on the College Avenue campus.
For more information, call (732) 932-842.
There is a thin line between compassion and voyeurism; soul-searing drama and overwrought melodrama; opera and Oprah. This film tramples all over it