Oscar Contenders, Coffee Table Movies, and Prestige Pictures

After an appalling barren spring and summer, we’ve finally reached the season of milk and honey for Hollywood releases. We’ll now have the chance to see the best (according to them, anyway) the studios have to offer, including Scorsese’s The Departed, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and Todd Fields’ Little Children.