The detrius rolls in earlier and earlier each year. I think this is the right note to kick off this year's marathon:
https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/golden-globe-awards-two-new-categories-1235426060/
The Golden Globes announced two new categories on Tuesday (Sept. 26) recognizing cinematic and box office achievement in motion pictures, and best stand-up comedian on television...“We are proud to recognize the hard work and innovation that goes into making a film that is both a blockbuster and artistically exceptional,” said Helen Hoehne, Golden Globes president.“The new cinematic and box office achievement award is more than just rewarding the year’s top earning and most viewed motion pictures,” said Tim Gray, Golden Globes executive vice president. “These films have typically not been recognized among industry awards, but they should be.”
“We are proud to recognize the hard work and innovation that goes into making a film that is both a blockbuster and artistically exceptional,” said Helen Hoehne, Golden Globes president.
“The new cinematic and box office achievement award is more than just rewarding the year’s top earning and most viewed motion pictures,” said Tim Gray, Golden Globes executive vice president. “These films have typically not been recognized among industry awards, but they should be.”
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 20:28 (ten months ago) link
Seems a slack year so far but maybe some good stuff will feature later on.
Baffled by the love for Past Lives this year. These "Before Sunrise"-core indie movies are all very suspicious imo
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:07 (ten months ago) link
Among other things, it's insane to debut a "best blockbuster" category the year that Barbenheimer are pretty much assured solid best picture runs
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:11 (ten months ago) link
I've watched plenty of good'uns this year.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:20 (ten months ago) link
Best of 2023 https://boxd.it/nXsjm
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 22:38 (ten months ago) link
thanks! Showing Up sounds promising. I've missed a ton of stuff this year.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 23:33 (ten months ago) link
Here's the kinda-sorta official kickoff for detrius season — the Gotham Award nominations:
Best Feature
Passages — Ira Sachs, director; Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt, producers (MUBI)Past Lives — Celine Song, director; David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, producers (A24)Reality — Tina Satter, director; Brad Becker-Parton, Riva Marker, Greg Nobile, Noah Stahl, producers (HBO Films)Showing Up — Kelly Reichardt, director; Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, producers (A24)A Thousand and One — A.V. Rockwell, director; Julia Lebedev, Rishi Rajani, Eddie Vaisman, Lena Waithe, Bred Weston, producers (Focus Features)
Best International Feature
All of Us Strangers — Andrew Haigh, director; Graham Broadbent, Peter Czemin, Sarah Harvey, producers (Searchlight Pictures)Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, director; Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion, producers (NEON)Poor Things — Yorgos Lanthimos, director; Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, producers (Searchlight Pictures)Tótem — Lila Avilés, director; Lila Avilés, Tatiana Graullera, Louise Riousse, producers (Sideshow/Janus Films)The Zone of Interest — Jonathan Glazer, director; Ewa Puszczynska, James Wilson, producers (A24)
Best Documentary Feature
20 Days in Mariupol — Mstyslav Chernov, director; Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Derl McCrudden, Michelle Mizner, producers (PBS Distribution)Against the Tide — Sarvnik Kaur, director; Koval Bhatia, Sarvnik Kaur, producers (Snooker Club Films, A Little Anarky Films)Apolonia, Apolonia — Lea Glob, director; Sidsel Lønvig Siersted, producer (Danish Documentary Production) Four Daughters — Kaouther Ben Hania, director; Nadim Cheikhrouha, producer (Kino Lorber)Our Body — Claire Simon, director; Kristina Larsen, producer (Cinema Guild)
Breakthrough Director Award
Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24)Georgia Oakley, Blue Jean (Magnolia Pictures)Michelle Garza Cervera, Huesera (XYZ Films)Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One (Focus Features)
Best Screenplay
All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Searchlight Pictures)Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (NEON)May December, Samy Burch (Netflix)R.M.N., Cristian Mungiu (IFC Films)The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer (A24)
Outstanding Lead Performance
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin (NEON)Lily Gladstone, The Unknown Country (Music Box Films)Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)Franz Rogowski, Passages (MUBI)Babetida Sadjo, Our Father, The Devil (Cineverse)Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Pictures) Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla (A24)Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One (Focus Features) Michelle Williams, Showing Up (A24)Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things (IFC Films) Penélope Cruz, Ferrari (NEON)Jamie Foxx, They Cloned Tyrone (Netflix) Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight Films) Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures) Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry (IFC Films) Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest (A24)Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate) Charles Melton, May December (Netflix) Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 19:03 (nine months ago) link
Struggling to remember the last time a movie as mainstream as Barbie was ever in the mix for the Gothams (if only just for Gosling's performance)
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 19:04 (nine months ago) link
I pulled my ten best films list from the artforum December print issue and resigned as a contributor. David is a great editor but Penske doesn't care. Such a waste. https://t.co/FwONiqyUue— amy taubin (@AmyOrNot) October 31, 2023
Hopefully more (John Waters) follow suit to make a statement.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:40 (eight months ago) link
Might this be the year detrius finally ends?
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 03:10 (eight months ago) link
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 04:36 (eight months ago) link
So I understand it, a bunch of big studios didn't put their movies up "for consideration," whatever that means in the context of the Gothams. But not Barbie. That movie explicitly went for the nods.
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:15 (eight months ago) link
lol this response to Amy's tweet:
How very fashionable of you, Amy. But it's a good thing that David was fired. In All the Beauty and Bloodshed he looked like he was oozing GHB from every pore. Almost as disgusting as the letter he published.— Monte Burnz (@MystryBurnz) November 1, 2023
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:17 (eight months ago) link
oh, that's where I've seen him!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:41 (eight months ago) link
Although the mostly vaporous Pacifiction earned its acclaim last year, I'd consider Benoît Magimel one of the Best Actor contenders because the thing only got distribution a few months ago and on Mubi specifically.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 November 2023 14:17 (eight months ago) link
My best actor slate this year would include him but also Andrew Scott and, yes, Jeffrey Wright. Absolutely dreading Bradley Cooper’s clown show
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 November 2023 15:34 (eight months ago) link
so yes on All Of Us Strangers?
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 November 2023 15:37 (eight months ago) link
Hard yes, but I’m leaning into my middlebrow years at this point. Plus the story of a gay late-starter was always gonna work on me
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 November 2023 15:39 (eight months ago) link
Oh, also Jordan Firstman was kind of perfect in Rotting in the Sun, but the last thing I’d want to do is encourage that
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 November 2023 15:55 (eight months ago) link
European Film Awards nominations, a couple days late...
European FilmANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE) - Directed by Justine Triet (France)FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLEET LEHDET) - Directed by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland, Germany)GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA) - Directed by Agnieszka Holland (Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium)ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO) - Directed by Matteo Garrone (Italy, Belgium)THE ZONE OF INTEREST - Directed by Jonathan Glazer (United Kingdom, Poland, USA)European DocumentaryAPOLONIA, APOLONIA - Directed by Lea Glob (Denmark, Poland)FOUR DAUGHTERS (LES FILLES D’OLFA) - Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia)MOTHERLAND - Directed by Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich (Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)ON THE ADAMANT (SUR L’ADAMANT) - Directed by Nicolas Philibert (France, Japan)SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD (SAVVUSANNA SÕSARAD) - Directed by Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland)European DirectorJustine Triet for ANATOMY OF A FALLAki Kaurismäki for FALLEN LEAVESAgnieszka Holland for GREEN BORDERMatteo Garrone for ME CAPTAINJonathan Glazer for THE ZONE OF INTERESTEuropean ActressSandra Hüller in ANATOMY OF A FALLEka Chavleishvili in BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRYAlma Pöysti in FALLEN LEAVESMia McKenna-Bruce in HOW TO HAVE SEXLeonie Benesch in THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGESandra Hüller in THE ZONE OF INTERESTEuropean ActorThomas Schubert in AFIREJussi Vatanen in FALLEN LEAVESJosh O’Connor in LA CHIMERAMads Mikkelsen in THE PROMISED LANDChristian Friedel in THE ZONE OF INTERESTEuropean ScreenwriterJustine Triet & Arthur Harari for ANATOMY OF A FALLAki Kaurismäki for FALLEN LEAVESMaciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko & Agnieszka Holland for GREEN BORDERİlker Çatak & Johannes Duncker for THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGEJonathan Glazer for THE ZONE OF INTERESTEuropean Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS) directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain)HOW TO HAVE SEX directed by Molly Manning Walker (United Kingdom, Greece)LA PALISIADA (ЛЯ ПАЛІСІАДА) directed by Philip Sotnychenko (Ukraine)SAFE PLACE (SIGURNO MJESTO) directed by Juraj Lerotić (Croatia, Slovenia)THE QUIET MIGRATION (STILLE LIV) directed by Malene Choi (Denmark)VINCENT MUST DIE (VINCENT DOIT MOURIR) directed by Stéphan Castang (France)European Animated Feature FilmA GREYHOUND OF A GIRL directed by Enzo d’AlòCHICKEN FOR LINDA! directed by Chiara Malta, Sébastien LaudenbachROBOT DREAMS directed by Pablo BergerTEH AMAZING MAURICE directed by Toby GenkelWHITE PLASTIC SKY directed by Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta SzabóEuropean Short Film27, directed by Flóra Anna BudaAQUERONTE directed by Manuel Muñoz RivasDAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS directed by Christian AvilésFLORES DEL OTRO PATIO directed by Jorge CadenaHARDLY WORKING directed by Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
ANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE) - Directed by Justine Triet (France)FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLEET LEHDET) - Directed by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland, Germany)GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA) - Directed by Agnieszka Holland (Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium)ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO) - Directed by Matteo Garrone (Italy, Belgium)THE ZONE OF INTEREST - Directed by Jonathan Glazer (United Kingdom, Poland, USA)
European Documentary
APOLONIA, APOLONIA - Directed by Lea Glob (Denmark, Poland)FOUR DAUGHTERS (LES FILLES D’OLFA) - Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia)MOTHERLAND - Directed by Hanna Badziaka & Alexander Mihalkovich (Sweden, Ukraine, Norway)ON THE ADAMANT (SUR L’ADAMANT) - Directed by Nicolas Philibert (France, Japan)SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD (SAVVUSANNA SÕSARAD) - Directed by Anna Hints (Estonia, France, Iceland)
European Director
Justine Triet for ANATOMY OF A FALLAki Kaurismäki for FALLEN LEAVESAgnieszka Holland for GREEN BORDERMatteo Garrone for ME CAPTAINJonathan Glazer for THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European Actress
Sandra Hüller in ANATOMY OF A FALLEka Chavleishvili in BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRYAlma Pöysti in FALLEN LEAVESMia McKenna-Bruce in HOW TO HAVE SEXLeonie Benesch in THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGESandra Hüller in THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European Actor
Thomas Schubert in AFIREJussi Vatanen in FALLEN LEAVESJosh O’Connor in LA CHIMERAMads Mikkelsen in THE PROMISED LANDChristian Friedel in THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European Screenwriter
Justine Triet & Arthur Harari for ANATOMY OF A FALLAki Kaurismäki for FALLEN LEAVESMaciej Pisuk, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko & Agnieszka Holland for GREEN BORDERİlker Çatak & Johannes Duncker for THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGEJonathan Glazer for THE ZONE OF INTEREST
European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS) directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren (Spain)HOW TO HAVE SEX directed by Molly Manning Walker (United Kingdom, Greece)LA PALISIADA (ЛЯ ПАЛІСІАДА) directed by Philip Sotnychenko (Ukraine)SAFE PLACE (SIGURNO MJESTO) directed by Juraj Lerotić (Croatia, Slovenia)THE QUIET MIGRATION (STILLE LIV) directed by Malene Choi (Denmark)VINCENT MUST DIE (VINCENT DOIT MOURIR) directed by Stéphan Castang (France)
European Animated Feature Film
A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL directed by Enzo d’AlòCHICKEN FOR LINDA! directed by Chiara Malta, Sébastien LaudenbachROBOT DREAMS directed by Pablo BergerTEH AMAZING MAURICE directed by Toby GenkelWHITE PLASTIC SKY directed by Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó
European Short Film
27, directed by Flóra Anna BudaAQUERONTE directed by Manuel Muñoz RivasDAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS directed by Christian AvilésFLORES DEL OTRO PATIO directed by Jorge CadenaHARDLY WORKING directed by Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:42 (eight months ago) link
European FilmANATOMY OF A FALL (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE) - Directed by Justine Triet (France)FALLEN LEAVES (KUOLLEET LEHDET) - Directed by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland, Germany)GREEN BORDER (ZIELONA GRANICA) - Directed by Agnieszka Holland (Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium)ME CAPTAIN (IO CAPITANO) - Directed by Matteo Garrone (Italy, Belgium)THE ZONE OF INTEREST - Directed by Jonathan Glazer (United Kingdom, Poland, USA)
I'm looking forward to all of these films
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 November 2023 00:55 (eight months ago) link
I didn't dig FALLEN LEAVES as much as everybody else apparently.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:06 (eight months ago) link
But I have a dumb excuse if pressed.
I have a screener on that one and plenty of time this holiday weekend, but there are others in front of it in the queue for me, I'd say
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 22:15 (eight months ago) link
Gotham winners:
Best Feature: Past LivesBest International Film: Anatomy of a FallBest Documentary Film: Four DaughtersBest Leading Performance: Lily Gladstone, Unknown CountryBest Supporting Performance: Charles Melton, May DecemberBest Screenplay: Anatomy of a FallBreakthrough Director: A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 03:16 (seven months ago) link
IndieWire's 25 Best Films of 2023https://t.co/PZmZoE1qJ4 pic.twitter.com/X9W1YICqVj— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) November 28, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 01:58 (seven months ago) link
01. Past Lives 02. The Taste of Things 03. Asteroid City04. The Boy and the Heron 05. May December06. Poor Things07. Passages 08. Anatomy of a Fall 09. All of Us Strangers 10. The Zone of Interest 11. A Thousand and One12. Barbie13. The Delinquents14. Oppenheimer15. Killers of the Flower Moon16. R.M.N17. Love Life 18. Pacification19. Kokomo City20. La Chimera21. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse22. Earth Mama23. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret24. Godland25. Beau is Afraid
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 01:59 (seven months ago) link
NYFCC hands their awards out tomorrow btw
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:52 (seven months ago) link
It begins (with a layup):
BEST ANIMATED FILM: The Boy and the Heron.— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:11 (seven months ago) link
Sandra Hüller mostly earns the praise in Anatomy of a Murder, though Samuel Theis as her clueless husband is as fine.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:13 (seven months ago) link
To say nothing of the kid playing the son, who was equally fine
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:21 (seven months ago) link
The kid was fine although I didn’t quite buy the business with the dog towards the end, but that’s more the fault of the screenplay. Huller’s performance was on another level than the rest.
― o. nate, Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:28 (seven months ago) link
Fabulous dog, though.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:44 (seven months ago) link
I don't think we're supposed to presume that the dog experiment is taken as actual evidence where it matters (i.e. the kid's decision, not the court's estimation). The son seems pretty clearly setting up a plausible structure by which to hang his choices on, to believe his mother
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:46 (seven months ago) link
Another layup:
BEST FIRST FILM: Past Lives— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
Good.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Charles Melton, May December— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 15:57 (seven months ago) link
These are getting decided at a super brisk clip this year:
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Oppenheimer— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:07 (seven months ago) link
Downey Jr. looking a little less invincible in supporting actor
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:16 (seven months ago) link
The supporting categories are in diametric contrast this year, with the male lineup all but seemingly locked up rn (Downey + Gosling + De Niro + Ruffalo + now Melton), and the female lineup pretty much wide open but for Randolph in The Holdovers.
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:24 (seven months ago) link
Yes, very very yes:
BEST NON-FICTION FILM: Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:40 (seven months ago) link
(This is only the second time Wiseman's taken this award btw, after In Jackson Heights.)
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:41 (seven months ago) link
I didn't know Wiseman had a film out.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:47 (seven months ago) link
It doesn’t seem to have played around here at all, sadly.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:51 (seven months ago) link
I hadn't noticed until recently that Wiseman splits his time between super-democratic institutional ethnographies and behind-the-rope tours of uber-rarified, exclusive enclaves. This is very much the latter.
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 16:56 (seven months ago) link
the female lineup pretty much wide open but for Randolph in The Holdovers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:11 (seven months ago) link
I've heard some buzz around Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple being a potential challenger to Randolph, though that'll probably depend on what the overall narrative around the movie turns out to be.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:15 (seven months ago) link
My hunch is The Color Purple is going to be a non-factor until the Golden Globe nominations ... and potentially after as well
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:32 (seven months ago) link
BEST SCREENPLAY: May December— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:36 (seven months ago) link
Gonna be a bit embarrassing when the Oppenheimer bloc overpowers the rest for the top prize
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: Anatomy of a Fall— New York Film Critics Circle (@nyfcc) November 30, 2023
― active spectator of ecocide and dispossession (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 November 2023 17:39 (seven months ago) link
Does the format of that show require it be movies that got zero nods? Because The Color Purple feels like a gimme this year
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:11 (six months ago) link
omigod how have I never heard of this podcast?!
However: two hours a show?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:13 (six months ago) link
Every movie podcast that's not Karina's deserves to be chopped down by at least half
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:14 (six months ago) link
Does the format of that show require it be movies that got zero nods? Because The Color Purple feels like a gimme this year― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:11 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:11 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yes, it must be zero. Except they've recently started a Patreon series that covers movies that got one or two (but still less than what might have been hoped for).
Two hours would be a short episode of Blank Check. Both of those podcasts are chatty hangouts and sort of live and die by how much you like hanging out with the hosts.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:18 (six months ago) link
Seeing as they're both about pampered blonde women living in dream houses walled off from harsh reality, Barbie and The Zone of Interest may split their votes.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 23 January 2024 20:08 (six months ago) link
TSPDT's 50 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2023 (Based only on 2023 end-of-year ballots)
01. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Martin Scorsese02. FALLEN LEAVES Aki Kaurismäki03. MAY DECEMBER Todd Haynes03. THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer05. ANATOMY OF A FALL Justine Triet06. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD Radu Jude07. PAST LIVES Celine Song08. OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan09. POOR THINGS Yorgos Lanthimos09. SHOWING UP Kelly Reichardt
11. AFIRE Christian Petzold11. BARBIE Greta Gerwig13. CLOSE YOUR EYES Victor Erice14. ASTEROID CITY Wes Anderson15. PASSAGES Ira Sachs16. THE DELINQUENTS Rodrigo Moreno17. TRENQUE LAUQUEN Laura Citarella18. THE BOY AND THE HERON Hayao Miyazaki19. MUSIC Angela Schanelec20. OUR BODY Claire Simon
21. MENUS-PLAISIRS - LES TROISGROS Frederick Wiseman22. ALL OF US STRANGERS Andrew Haigh23. THE HOLDOVERS Alexander Payne24. LA CHIMERA Alice Rohrwacher24. THE KILLER David Fincher26. PACIFICTION Albert Serra27. YOUTH (SPRING) Wang Bing28. ABOUT DRY GRASSES Nuri Bilge Ceylan28. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 Eduardo Williams30. PRISCILLA Sofia Coppola30. SAINT OMER Alice Diop
32. THE TASTE OF THINGS Tran Anh Hung32. TÓTEM Lila Avilés34. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel34. DRY GROUND BURNING Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós36. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Ryusuke Hamaguchi37. UNREST Cyril Schäublin38. TÁR Todd Field39. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. Kelly Fremon Craig40. LAST SUMMER Catherine Breillat
41. RETURN TO SEOUL Davy Chou41. A THOUSAND AND ONE A.V. Rockwell43. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT Raven Jackson43. THE BEAST Bertrand Bonello43. ROTTING IN THE SUN Sebastián Silva43. THE TRIAL Ulises de la Orden47. BEAU IS AFRAID Ari Aster47. THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE Pedro Costa47. SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson50. IN WATER Hong Sang-soo
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:12 (five months ago) link
I finally watched Oppenheimer. The biopic is one of my least favorite movie categories, in my mind it is one step up from a heist or action film...
But I liked it more than I was expecting to. Compared to other 'genius scientist' biopics such as The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything, it stands out.
As good as Emily Blunt's performance was in it however, I don't know if it deserved an academy award nomination over Julianne Moore in May December. Maybe they both deserved it over America Ferrera
I can see Robert Downey Jr. winning easily for his hammy performance, but not Cillian Murphy
― Dan S, Saturday, 3 February 2024 00:24 (five months ago) link
Do you all think Past Lives is one of the best films of the year? I mean it was a good debut film, but Charlotte Wells' first film Aftersun went so much deeper
― Dan S, Sunday, 4 February 2024 01:00 (five months ago) link
I just can't with this shit:
https://mnfilmcriticalliance.wordpress.com/2024/02/04/oppenheimer-wins-seven-mnfca-awards-including-best-picture/
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Monday, 5 February 2024 22:44 (five months ago) link
DeSantis' Florida voted better.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 February 2024 22:49 (five months ago) link
looking at the TSPDT list, I think Showing Up should have placed higher. It is a subtle and seemingly inconsequential film about a small arts community in Portland, but it seems profound to me. The protagonist is trying to break through but is always thwarted and resentful, seeing her colleague as a frenemy and her family as burdensome
But as much as it is about it one-upsmanship in the art world, in the end it is also about supporting each other in a community, about just trying to be fulfilled as a struggling artist and wanting to make a difference.
Showing up for each other as artists, showing each other up as artists, and just showing up in daily life as a member of a community
A beautiful film.
― Dan S, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:05 (five months ago) link
My mother was not a fan of SHOWING UP: “Ugh. I wanted to slap her!”— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) February 3, 2024
It made my top five: https://wp.me/pzXeC-ii2
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:09 (five months ago) link
I wonder if Showing Up was partially a victim of spanning two years, release wise?
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:11 (five months ago) link
You described it best, Alfred
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/showing-up-is-one-of-the-best-films-about-the-banality-of-making-art/
― Dan S, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:41 (five months ago) link
yeah i really liked that piece
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 February 2024 01:59 (five months ago) link
Return to Seoul is on Alfred's list! That was a cool movie
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 03:25 (five months ago) link
To clarify, I'm NOT a member of the abysmal MN group. But I am a member of this, which has somewhat more idiosyncratic nods:
GALECA: THE SOCIETY OF LGBTQ ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS — 15TH DORIAN FILM AWARDS LIST OF NOMINEESFilm of the YearAll of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Barbie (Warner Bros.)May December (Netflix) Past Lives (A24) Poor Things (Searchlight)LGBTQ Film of the YearAll of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Bottoms (MGM)Passages (MUBI, SBS)Rustin (Netflix)Saltburn (Amazon MGM) Director of the YearGreta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal)Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)Screenplay of the YearNoah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)Samy Burch, May December (Netflix)Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Celine Song, Past Lives (A24) LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (new)Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Dustin Lance Black, Julian Breece, Rustin (Netflix)Arlette Langmann, Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Passages (MUBI)Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms (MGM)Non-English Language Film of the YearAnatomy of a Fall (NEON) The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS, Toho)Godzilla Minus One (Toho)Past Lives (A24)The Zone of Interest (A24)LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year (new)Afire (Janus Films, Sideshow)Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Cassandro (Amazon MGM)Monster (Well Go USA, Gaga, Toho)Rotting in the Sun (MUBI)Unsung Film of the YearAre You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)Monica (IFC)Origin (NEON)Theater Camp (Searchlight)A Thousand and One (Focus Features)Film Performance of the YearColman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix)Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple, Paramount)Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)Trace Lysette, Monica (IFC)Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Universal)Natalie Portman, May December (Netflix)Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight)Supporting Film Performance of the YearDanielle Brooks, The Color Purple (Warner Bros.)Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal)Jodie Foster, NYAD (Netflix)Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Rosamind Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM)Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)Documentary of the YearAmerican Symphony (Netflix)Beyond Utopia (Roadside Attractions, Fathom Events)Kokomo City (Magnolia)Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie20 Days in Mariupol (PBS Distribution)LGBTQ Documentary of the YearEvery Body (Focus Features) Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO, Confluential Films)Kokomo City (Magnolia)Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia)Orlando, My Political Biography (Janus Film, Sideshow)Animated Film of the YearThe Boy and the Heron (GKIDS, Toho)Elemental (Disney)Nimona (Netflix, Annapurna)Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (SONY)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)Genre Film of the Year (new)All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Godzilla Minus One (Toho)M3GAN (Universal)Poor Things (Searchlight)Talk To Me (A24)Film Music of the YearBarbie — Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, et al. (Warner Bros.)The Boy and the Heron — Joe Hisaishi (GKIDS, Toho)The Color Purple — Stephen Bray, Allee Willis, Brenda Russell, Kris Bowers, et al. (Warner Bros.)Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson (Universal) The Zone of Interest — Mica Levi (A24)Visually Striking Film of the YearAsteroid City (Focus Features)Barbie (Warner Bros.)Oppenheimer (Universal)Poor Things (Searchlight)Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (SONY)Campiest Flick Barbie (Warner Bros.)Bottoms (MGM)Dicks: The Musical (A24)M3GAN (Universal) Saltburn (Amazon MGM)“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star AwardAyo EdebiriLily GladstoneJacob ElordiCharles MeltonDominic SessaWilde Artist AwardQuinta BrunsonAyo EdebiriGreta GerwigLily GladstoneTodd HaynesGALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award Colman DomingoJodie FosterAndrew HaighTodd HaynesAndrew Scott
Film of the YearAll of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Barbie (Warner Bros.)May December (Netflix) Past Lives (A24) Poor Things (Searchlight)
LGBTQ Film of the YearAll of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Bottoms (MGM)Passages (MUBI, SBS)Rustin (Netflix)Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
Director of the YearGreta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix)Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal)Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)
Screenplay of the YearNoah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.)Samy Burch, May December (Netflix)Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)
LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (new)Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Dustin Lance Black, Julian Breece, Rustin (Netflix)Arlette Langmann, Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Passages (MUBI)Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms (MGM)
Non-English Language Film of the YearAnatomy of a Fall (NEON) The Boy and the Heron (GKIDS, Toho)Godzilla Minus One (Toho)Past Lives (A24)The Zone of Interest (A24)
LGBTQ Non-English Language Film of the Year (new)Afire (Janus Films, Sideshow)Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Cassandro (Amazon MGM)Monster (Well Go USA, Gaga, Toho)Rotting in the Sun (MUBI)
Unsung Film of the YearAre You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)Monica (IFC)Origin (NEON)Theater Camp (Searchlight)A Thousand and One (Focus Features)
Film Performance of the YearColman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix)Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple, Paramount)Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24)Trace Lysette, Monica (IFC)Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Universal)Natalie Portman, May December (Netflix)Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight)
Supporting Film Performance of the YearDanielle Brooks, The Color Purple (Warner Bros.)Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal)Jodie Foster, NYAD (Netflix)Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate)Charles Melton, May December (Netflix)Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Rosamind Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM)Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
Documentary of the YearAmerican Symphony (Netflix)Beyond Utopia (Roadside Attractions, Fathom Events)Kokomo City (Magnolia)Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie20 Days in Mariupol (PBS Distribution)
LGBTQ Documentary of the YearEvery Body (Focus Features) Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (HBO, Confluential Films)Kokomo City (Magnolia)Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia)Orlando, My Political Biography (Janus Film, Sideshow)
Animated Film of the YearThe Boy and the Heron (GKIDS, Toho)Elemental (Disney)Nimona (Netflix, Annapurna)Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (SONY)Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Paramount)
Genre Film of the Year (new)All of Us Strangers (Searchlight)Godzilla Minus One (Toho)M3GAN (Universal)Poor Things (Searchlight)Talk To Me (A24)
Film Music of the YearBarbie — Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, et al. (Warner Bros.)The Boy and the Heron — Joe Hisaishi (GKIDS, Toho)The Color Purple — Stephen Bray, Allee Willis, Brenda Russell, Kris Bowers, et al. (Warner Bros.)Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson (Universal) The Zone of Interest — Mica Levi (A24)
Visually Striking Film of the YearAsteroid City (Focus Features)Barbie (Warner Bros.)Oppenheimer (Universal)Poor Things (Searchlight)Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (SONY)
Campiest Flick Barbie (Warner Bros.)Bottoms (MGM)Dicks: The Musical (A24)M3GAN (Universal) Saltburn (Amazon MGM)
“We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star AwardAyo EdebiriLily GladstoneJacob ElordiCharles MeltonDominic Sessa
Wilde Artist AwardQuinta BrunsonAyo EdebiriGreta GerwigLily GladstoneTodd Haynes
GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award Colman DomingoJodie FosterAndrew HaighTodd HaynesAndrew Scott
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:20 (five months ago) link
Much better.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:22 (five months ago) link
I yield that our acting nods are disappointingly by-the-numbers. But Oppenheimer missing out nearly everywhere is a big consolation prize.
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 16:22 (five months ago) link
DGA awards are whatever the opposite of a surprise is:
Best director: Christopher Nolan, OppenheimerBest first-time director: Celine Song, Past Lives
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Sunday, 11 February 2024 16:57 (five months ago) link
How delightful.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:01 (five months ago) link
To clarify, actors have been nominated before in separate categories (lead and supporting) in the same year, most recently ScarJo in 2019. AFAIK, there aren't any rules against actors being nominated twice in the same category, it's just never happened before. But if Huller were nominated for Zone of Interest, it would be in supporting.― jaymc, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 12:33 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Wednesday, December 20, 2023 12:33 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
There is Academy precedent: Janet Gaynor's 1929 Best Actress win was collectively for 7th Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and Street Angel (1928). But I wasn't that excited by Huller's performance in AoaF, and I haven't seen TZoI.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 12 February 2024 18:40 (five months ago) link
I posted that before I'd seen Zone of Interest, and now it seems like the only reason she was being pushed for supporting is because she was already being pushed for lead in Anatomy of a Fall. She's a lead in both.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 02:37 (five months ago) link
I think the SAG 4 actors will repeat at the Oscars. If there was a real momentum swing toward Giamatti and Stone, we would've seen it tonight.
― jaymc, Sunday, 25 February 2024 04:42 (five months ago) link
agree with that
― Dan S, Sunday, 25 February 2024 05:27 (five months ago) link
I won’t rest easy until Gladstone is actually giving the Oscar speech. But if Poor Things does manage to get shut out of the top categories, that’ll be satisfactory enough
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Sunday, 25 February 2024 19:52 (five months ago) link
I finally dragged myself to a theater to see the nominated live-action and animated shorts. Next to the annual crop of misery porn, Wes Anderson's latest exercise in tweeness and artificiality looks darn good.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 3 March 2024 15:07 (four months ago) link
lol, yeah Henry Sugar really sticks out in that lineup.
― o. nate, Sunday, 3 March 2024 16:30 (four months ago) link
Not really a film poster, so not sure if there's a better thread to do this, but I did want to get some thoughts down about Trenque Lauqne, which I saw last year, and was probably my favourite film (other candidates: The Boy and the Heron, The Eternal Daughter, Past Lives, Passages). Partly because I thought it wasn't amazingly well served by critics, who seemed to review it more or less favourably.
I'm just transcribing my notes, so it may be a little attenuated.
I saw it in one go but it comprises two parts, each just over two hours iirc. It is a very literary film, which is perhaps why I felt at home with it. I'm generally quite wary of films. A few critics used this term, and I agreed instinctively, but what constitutes 'literary'? It's slightly difficult to say - the typical shape or arc of a film is changed into chapters and nested narratives, two 'books' - i feel i recognise the structure and internal dynamics from books rather than film. Roughly speaking.
This did mean that the reviews I read felt 'illiterate' to a degree. 'Literary' + 'Argentina' seemed to mean name-checking Bolaño and Borges. Not entirely incorrectyly, but irrelevantly enough. Anyway, it's not important.
The trail of the 2 films comes in at a tangent, and a central absence (two men speaking in car park of a woman) and leaves, once again, with the same absence. The trail between the two points is picaresque or quixotic even, lightly handled, with a fantastic soundtrack.
Key elements:
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:33 (four months ago) link
That's Trenque Lauquen instead of whatever garbarge i managed to typo in the first line there. Well done fizzles.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 18:35 (four months ago) link
i like your post Fizzles.
I really kind of hated Passages. I have admired Franz Rogowski in previous roles - Transit, A Hidden Life, Great Freedom - but this film was so off-putting. He was portrayed as a person of interest but was completely unlikeable and uninteresting as a character and I couldn’t muster any empathy for him or for that matter the two other characters who cared about him. I have seen a lot of Ira Sachs’ films and have liked them all up until now
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 00:55 (four months ago) link
otm, he was unpleasant and destroyed people’s quite selfishly. that’s identified v clearly in the opening directorial sequence. he’s selfish and controlling - incidentally that scene also identified the importance of the language of body posture in the film, which is incredibly well handled. it feels like it’s also about the hard work of healing that people do around him as it is the character portrayal of the cause of the destruction. idk i felt it was intelligent about that sort of obsessional love and lust and the sort of person that causes it and the sort of wounds it leaves.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 07:52 (four months ago) link
If you liked Trenque Lauquen, you may also like The Delinquents out in the uk later this month Fizzles. Rodrigo Moreno isn’t a member of el pampero cine as such, though he shares actors (notably Laura Paredes) and a similar literary framework, though this is in some ways more of a traditional noir.
Intrigued as to what the Milei regime is going to mean for this wave of Argentine filmmakers - by all accounts he is taking his fiscal chainsaw to most cultural budgets - tho one of the defining aspects of ECP is their independence from traditional funding streams.
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 08:59 (four months ago) link
Thanks PG, I’ll keep an eye out for it. And I’d wondered that about the collective as well - it’s a very appealing creative structure (i must catch up with some of their previous works). My feeling is these things tend to have a natural life but i hope as you say the Milei administration doesn’t damage their approach and funding capabilities.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 09:47 (four months ago) link
otm, he was unpleasant and destroyed people’s quite selfishly. that’s identified v clearly in the opening directorial sequence. he’s selfish and controlling - incidentally that scene also identified the importance of the language of body posture in the film, which is incredibly well handled.
it feels like it’s also about the hard work of healing that people do around him as it is the character portrayal of the cause of the destruction. idk i felt it was intelligent about that sort of obsessional love and lust and the sort of person that causes it and the sort of wounds it leaves.
OTM. The film's not blind about Rogowski's toxicity and Whishaw's attempts to distance himself from it.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 10:29 (four months ago) link
Between Passages and Keep the Lights On, seems pretty clear that toxic lover really left his mark on Ira Sachs
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:40 (four months ago) link
i'm really still having trouble liking Emma Stone but i absolutely cannot put my finger on why
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:21 (four months ago) link
She's a woman?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:22 (four months ago) link
lol
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 17:23 (four months ago) link
I liked her as an actress in Birdman and The Favourite. I thought she was great in those. And as ambivalent as I was about La La Land, her humorous audition scene near the beginning where she was reading a sad script and managed to squeeze out a tear only to be interrupted and startled by some casting underling endeared her to me.
I'm not looking forward to Poor Things though, I think it is the kind of movie I will most certainly not like. And I'm not sure she deserves a second best actress award right yet.
― Dan S, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:21 (four months ago) link
like somebody said they knew when they saw her in The Favourite that she was the real deal, i remember it being a fine performance. i should see Birdman. but actually i think she's good at accents and quite skillful, and she has that very "real" quality which is nice. still there's something on a personal level that doesn't draw me in. not that it matters.
― Swen, Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:03 (four months ago) link
I enjoyed A.S. Hamrah's recap in N+1, for the insights and takes I hadn't heard before.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:15 (four months ago) link
imho Poor Things is worth seeing even just for the gorgeous set design.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 March 2024 18:17 (four months ago) link
Why hire the great Patrice Rushen to play gentle jazz piano over everything, in a score she didn’t write herself?
You know ... very this!
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 19:39 (four months ago) link
And, this bit is chef's kiss (I liked Barbie):
Richard Brody of the New Yorker became Barbie’s Number One fan among film critics, tweeting about Barbie or its principals some three dozen times, including one tweet in French and another that stated that Barbie was a better movie than 2001: A Space Odyssey, “except for the unrivalled Stargate sequence.” Brody had mentioned Barbie as early as February 2020, more than three years before the film came out, in a review of the Robbie-superhero-starrer Birds of Prey, in which he told readers he was “greatly looking forward to her performance in the title role of Barbie, the next film by Greta Gerwig, who, I suspect, will have an altogether more original view of Robbie’s art.” That is what you call advance praise.
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 19:55 (four months ago) link
really enjoyed those, although the one for anatomy of a fall was just a weirdly unimaginative take on the husband's blaring of the steel drum p.i.m.p. song (it definitely doesn't more than make him seem faintly ridiculous) and claimed the rest of the film was po-faced, which i vm disagree with
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:02 (four months ago) link
does*
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:03 (four months ago) link
Yeah, that's one capsule I just had to give the "different strokes" shrug to
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 March 2024 20:12 (four months ago) link
Two more 2023 films that I saw recently and enjoyed: Monster (Kore-Eda) and Iron Claw (Durkin).
― o. nate, Monday, 1 April 2024 20:07 (three months ago) link