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<\/a><\/p>\nApparently I\u2019m not the only one who felt dissed when Stories We Tell ended up with no Oscar nominations. Film critic Andrew O\u2019Hehir vented his frustration<\/a> on Slate recently.<\/p>\n Even in a strong year for documentaries\u2014and all five of the nominees are not just respectable but excellent\u2014I\u2019m crushed by the omission of Sarah Polley\u2019s Stories We Tell<\/i>, which moved me at a personal level like no other movie I saw all year. (In fact, it was No. 1 on my list<\/a>.) Possibly it seemed too navel-gazing: a somewhat famous person making a film about her own family. Or maybe its more slippery epistemological elements, the way it subtly Catfishes the viewer into believing certain things we see are \u201creal,\u201d just pissed too many people off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This all said, seems to me there were some very good movies in 2013; too bad nearly all of the films for grownups are now crammed into the end of the year.<\/p>\n For what it\u2019s worth, I interviewed Polley when her first film, Away From Her<\/i>, came out. (I also spoke to Alice Munro, whose story was the basis for that film.) Here<\/a>\u2019s that article.<\/p>\n ALSO: We keep hearing how Facebook and other digital outlets are great, democratizing places for musicians to spread the word on their work. Technology was supposed to remove the middleman and allow artists to reach their fans directly. But a new article<\/a> on the site of the Future of Music Coalition \u2013 a group that is hardly hostile to the digital revolution \u2013 shows how it\u2019s really working, now that Facebook is facing revenue pressures. And now musicians are souring on Facebook, Mary Wilson writes:<\/p>\n What once was a level playing field is now skewed by algorithms that favor the \u201chaves\u201d over the \u201chave nots.\u201d While it makes good business sense for Facebook, making artists, businesses and brands pay to \u201cpromote\u201d content has taken some of the sheen off the Facebook experience. Facebook claimed in 2012 that about\u00a016 percent <\/a>of fans see content posted by a page without paid promotion. But now that number has declined even further<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n