Monday, October 16, 2017 at 8:00AM By Nathaniel R
Sadie Sadie... Married Lady?
Rumor has it that Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender, who've been dating for about three years, were married Saturday at a hush-hush ceremony in Ibiza...
Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 9:30PM by Jason Adams
Have you ever gone back to visit the school you went to as a little kid and realized how small it all looks now? I think we've all had that moment - you walk down the hallway feeling like Godzilla; you'd have to get on your hands and knees to use the drinking fountain. And yet as goofy as it seems - and depending on your experience filled with conflicting emotions as it may be - it pulls at you anyway, yanks at your heart. It is part of you. The pictures might've gotten small but they have crawled inside and curled up and they're not going anywhere.
Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird - that is her given name; she gave it to herself - thrums with that strange and bittersweet nostalgia...
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, NYFF, Saoirse Ronan Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 5:09PM by Nathaniel R
| Weekend Box Office (October 13th-15th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
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| 1. 🔺 HAPPY DEATH DAY $26.5 new | 1.🔺 THE FLORIDA PROJECT $401k on 33 screens (cum. $623k) REVIEW 1, REVIEW 2 |
| 2. BLADE RUNNER 2049 $15.1 (cum. $60.5) REVIEW | SHORTS | "BESTS" | 2. TIL DEATH DO US PART $319k on 400 screens (cum. $3.2) |
| 3. 🔺 THE FOREIGNER $12.8 new | 3. THE STRAY $300k on 430 screens (cum. $1.2) |
| 4. IT $6 (cum. $314.9) REVIEW | 5 TAKEAWAYS | 4. A QUESTION OF FAITH $155k on 228 screens (cum. $2.1) |
| 5. 🔺 THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US $5.6 (cum. $20.5) REVIEW | 5. 🔺 AMERICAN SATAN $132k on 55 screens new |
| 6. AMERICAN MADE $5.4 (cum. $40.1) | 6. 🔺 MARK FELT $123k on 89 screens (cum. $257k) |
| 7. KINGSMAN 2 $5.3 (cum. $89.6) | 7. STRONGER $115k on 174 screens (cum. $4) REVIEW |
| 8. LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE $4.3 (cum. $51.5) | 8. JUDWAA 2 $110k on 106 screens (cum. $1.4) |
| 9. MY LITTLE PONEY $4 (cum. $15.5) | 9. 🔺 GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN $55k on 9 screens new |
| 10. 🔺 VICTORIA & ABDUL $3.1 (cum. $11.3) REVIEW | 10. HUMAN FLOW $47k on 3 screens new |
🔺 = new or significant expansion numbers (in millions unless otherwise noted) from box office mojo |
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It was a rough weekend for awards hopefuls that weren't named Victoria & Abdul. Dame Dench's new vehicle moved into the top ten in its fourth weekend when it finally went wide. Other movies seeking adult audiences had a rougher go of it. The biopics Marshall and Professor Marston & The Wonder Women both opened outside of the top ten despite plentiful screens. (I took in Professor Marston and though it's a niche subject, it's surprisingly good with yet another excellent performance from the ever reliable Rebecca Hall.) More biographical awards hopefuls Goodbye Christopher Robin and Breathe also failed to attract much interest in their platform debuts. It's a tough world out there for non-genre titles that would like adults to go to the movies again!
The weekend's best per screen averages went to the documentary Human Flow and A24's The Florida Project which added 29 screens in its second weekend. WHAT DID YOU SEE THIS WEEKEND?
Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 1:45PM by Murtada
First Reformed
A middle aged priest in crisis sits down with a young man suffering from his own disillusionment with the status of our current world. Once the pleasantries are done with and the futility of existence and our doomed world become the topic of conversation, the alarm sirens start going off. It took the audience at the New York Film Festival screening a few moments to realize that the sirens are not part of the movie unfolding, but an actual false fire alarm asking us to vacate the cinema.
That’s how deeply engrossing Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is...
Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 11:00AM By Nathaniel R
Catherine Deneuve, Björk, and Von Trier at Cannes (2000)
The floodgates have opened post Weinstein and now everyone wants to speak out. This morning Björk issued a statement about her experience working with "a Danish director," a hilariously coy non-naming of names since she's only starred in one movie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000) after which she never appeared in a movie again, unless you count her performance art collaboration with her then-boyfriend Matthew Barney on Drawing Restraint (2009). Which, well, the sexual violence was onscreen in that one with Barney and Björk carving each other up while naked underwater and turning into whales or some such. You know how that happens.
Here is her statement which is worth parsing due to its unexpected Dogville allusion...
