Television Shows and more Oscar Contenders

Homeland continues to be the best show running now.  Other good shows I'm watching are Boardwalk Empire and The Good Wife. Of course, other great shows like Mad Men, The Killing,  Real Time with Bill Maher and Smash are currrently on break.  I've seen a few more Oscar contenders:  The Late Quartet, Lincoln and Argo.  These are all good movies and well worth viewing.  I particularly liked The Late Quartet - an emotionally intense movie centering on the 4 musicians.  I see an Oscar nod here to multi-talented and always intriguing Christopher Walken

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel and Sessions

Diana Vreeland . . . is an exceptional documentary, mainly because Diana Vreeland was such a visionary, an artist, a woman of extraordinary perception of the beauty of people, clothes, sets, designs with a sense of fashion and trends like no other.  The accolades from so many peers is no surprise.  This film has to get an Oscar nomination.  Sessions, a movie about a sex therapist with polio patient in an iron lung who can't move his arms or legs.  John Hawke (Winter's Bone) again gives a nuanced and fully dimensional performance.  At times you almost forget he has any disability.  Helen Hunt as the therapist and William Macy as the priest also give very strong performances.  There's Oscar potential here too.