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Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 10:33AM Whoa we're getting behind on the linkages... here ya go
The Babadook order the pop-up book so that I have someone to commiserate with when it keeps us awake at nights in 2015
NYT looks at Ava DuVernay's direction of Selma
MNPP Continually undersung TFE favorite Alessandro Nivola celebrates the shortness of his shorts and how it helped A Most Violent Year win NBR's Best Picture. Hee
The Credits on the makeup work on Wild. How to keep Reese dirty?!
Hey U Guys interviews the always welcome Judy Greer on Men Women and Children and Ant-Man
Dissolve Sundance announces its titles for 2015. I should probably go again but haven't committed yet
Carpetbagger interviews costume designer Albert Wolsky on Birdman's briefs and super suit
In Contention Kris interviews TFE's communal husband, cinematographer Bradford Young (Selma / A Most Violent Year)
Awards Daily mad scramble of wide open Oscar year
Heat Vision Suicide Squad, which I guess is a Batman movie without Batman (isn't TV's Gotham already covering that beat), gets an all star cast: Smith, Hardy, Robbie, Jai Courtney and Jared Leto as the Joker risking Heath comparisons less than a decade later. Yikes.
Boy Culture on Madonna's much talked about new Interview photoshoot
The Atlantic Joe Reid thanks the NYFCC for expanding rather than narrowing the Oscar conversation this year (may other orgs and associations and circles do likewise)
/Film everyone is talking about the Fantastic Four synopsis which I find incredibly strange since its the vaguest thing ever and everyone already knows it (four young people are cosmically transformed in super odd ways and have to face an enemy that was once a friend - duh!)
Variety a bunch of major screenplays are ineligible for the WGA awards this year including The Theory of Everything and Selma
Daily Mail Kathleen Turner profiled for Dumb and Dumber To
I don't look like I did 30 years ago, get over it.
Sorry Kathleen, I'll never get over you! Then or now. (Though I'll skip this type of cameo and wait for the next great stage performance)
Absolute Must Read of the Day
Garden & Gun 98 year-old two-time Oscar winner Olivia de Havilland gets sassy remembering her career and Gone With the Wind (1939). On working with some of the greatest directors of all time from George Cukor to William Wyler...
They didn’t get the performances out of me. I gave the performances to them.
Videos o' the Day
Louis Virtel details all the reasons why Madonna is the greatest celebrity of all time. And David Ehrlich countsdown his 25 favorites of the year with a neato montage with wonderful music choices
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2014: A VIDEO COUNTDOWN from david Ehrlich on Vimeo.
Top Ten / List Manic Season Begins
John Waters the inimitable director does his annual duty for Artforum. It's always refreshingly eclectic and this year he loves Maps to the Stars and Nymphomaniac
Washington Post from Boyhood to Under the Skin
AV Club kicks off it's best & worst of the year with comedy albums, least essential albums (heh) and worst tv. ouch.
The Film Stage looks at the best of 2014 according to Cahiers du Cinema from Under the Skin to Love is Strange
Sight & Sound from Boyhood to Mr Turner
THE FILM EXPERIENCE's YEAR IN REVIEW begins Dec 11th
[Lee Pace doesn't believe us! ------->]
I've seen nearly all the films one has to see (but I have about 10 more I'd like to screen or rescreen before the list-making proper). We'll have a couple of days of "Cinematic Shame" beginning on the 11th to cleanse the palette and from December 14th through January 14th is when "everything is awesome" and we celebrate the Best Ofs. But, as you know it's tough to keep up 'in the season' so some lists/categories from Year In Review will obviously trickle out after the Oscar nominations on January 15th. Stay tuned!
Reader Comments (13)
Out of topic - are you continuing TFE tradition of recapping the actress roundtable. Very boring and uninteresting this time aside from the universal love for Dern but still would love your take.
On topic- love that NYTimes profile of DuVernay. Dargis wrote about her during Middle of Nowhere's release as well. It is a continuing love affair.
Murtada -- i was going to but then i got so far behind and not sure if people would want to go back to it since they seemed unimpressed. I will do something. probably not as extensive though.
We love you Kathleen!!!
Thanks for the link to the Ehrlich video. Surprised to see how high he ranks Inherent Vice. It didn't get a lot of praise from folks commenting here at TFE.
Pam -- i have met David several times and despite a very sympatico take on Gravity, our tastes dont often align :)
Wouldn't Olivia be the perfect person to present Best Picture at the Oscars?!! That would be a moment!
Bia -- it sure would. And for the 75th anniversary of Gone With the Wind winning Best Picture no less. Sadly, they never think of such things.
My other always desire is that they let one of the hOnorary winners do it each year. Maureen O'Hara or Harry Belafonte giving out Best Picture? Why yes please. (Imagine if Belafonte presented to SELMA... not a dry eye in the house) N
Ugh, that Ehrlich montage-it's so beautiful, but some of those choices! Can I hire him to make a montage for MY Top 25?
Any chance that, before you start the 2014 FB awards, you could tell us who won Best Actor last year? It would take all of like 2 seconds!
AR - ha ha. a new side gig for video savvy critics ;)
The only thing wrong with the Olivia de Havilland interview is that it wasn't long enough! Still razor sharp and she looks phenomenal for 98 years old.
oh, thank you for the gif of my imaginery boyfriend!
That Awards Daily piece is great. I find the Oscar race fascinating as entertainment, but I still wish it could be more about who REALLY deserves to win. The political nature of it all is kind of frustrating. But I also find that part fun, so I'm conflicted over the whole thing. Last year, I felt that that rarity occurred--they pretty much got all the major categories right. It was a beautiful thing.