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Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 8:00AM Must Reads
The New Yorker an evocative thoughtful profile of Mike Mills and 20th Century Women
The Muse Rich Juzwiak on the year in overrated pop culture, starting with Manchester by the Sea. ("A Masterpiece." "It's not tho")
The Metrograph Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy (Carol) reflects on Patricia Highsmith's dislike of the screen adaptations of her work - Metrograph is showing a handful of them his month. (Finally my chance to see Purple Noon on a big screen.)
Films which take place in 2017, Hayao Miyazaki's non-retirement retirement, Aquaman stunts, Broadway divas, and Postcards from the Edge after the jump...
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The Independent fun list of 7 films that take place in the "future" 2017.
Film School Rejects "Retired" Hayao Miyazaki is making a short film Boro the Caterpillar and implies he's going to keep working until he dies
Towleroad the stars of Hidden Figures are denouncing hate speech towards gay people from gospel singer Kim Burrell (who is featured on the soundtrack)
9 News a cool segment about Gold Coast stunt performers led by Keir Beck (Mad Max Fury Road) prepping for two new movies including Aquaman
Awards Daily Roadside Attractions has a very good year of grosses with Manchester by the Sea and Love & Friendship in particular
Gothamist suggests 8 inspirational films you might want to stream to be ready for the ethical battles to come with the upcoming T**** dystopia
/Film the ten most pirated movies of the year were mostly films that were very successful anyway (think superheroes) but you do have to weep for Warcraft which struggled in release and could have used the actual money from tickets purchased!
Digital Spy Ridley Scott is not a fan of the superhero movie genre and is worried about cinema today
Pajiba does what they do (bless them) and wonders which Rogue One character is best in bed. This time I feel they've underestimated Cassian and Mon Mothma who I'd rank as #1 and 2 or vice versa
The Stake I really enjoyed this review of Fences which gets as some of big themes and performative boldness
Still Teary about Carrie Fisher
MTV News Teo Bugbee revisits Postcards from the Edge
Variety Billie Lourde makes a public statement about the double-loss of her mother & grandmother (Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds)
The Hollywood Reporter Mark Hammil pens a guest column about working with his screen sister
Boy Culture is this one of her best interviews?
Stage Buzz
Once Oscar season ends, Tony season begins
Theater Mania Cynthia Erivo, our reigning Best Actress Tony winner brought the house down at the Kennedy Center Honors
Broadway Blog Classic musical Hair is getting a special concert on January 21st with members of the casts of both of its Broadway runs. (After the great revival in 2009 I couldn't help but think maybe someone should remake it for the big screen since its film version wasn't as strong)
Playbill warns us that spring on Broadway will be veritably bursting with divas (Glenn Close, Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Patti LuPone, etcetera). Exciting if you can snag tickets.
Reader Comments (11)
i rewatched postcards from the edge over new year. at 97 minutes it is the rarest of rare things: a film that could've been longer.
Bette better win her competitive Tony for this. The fact that they snubbed her for the one woman show a couple years ago was ridic.
"Here's a list of highly praised pop culture works of the past year, some of which you surely loved, and I'm gonna tell you why they're all terrible!" The world needs more of those pieces right now!
Ridley: Um...WOW. You've made some very good to great movies (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, The Martian) and all, but you read the shooting script for Prometheus and didn't back out. Even if we forgive that? You saw the mixed reaction to the original and STILL didn't back out of the sequel. There's a term, Ridley, for people (ESPECIALLY perceived artistic hallmarks of the industry) who aren't part of the solution...
Blasphemy, Nathaniel!
a) It's one of my favorite modern film musicals and b) advocating a REMAKE? ;-)
Someone needs to get Cynthia Erivo a leading role in a big-screen musical stat. I can see her handily walking off with a Best Actress Oscar for the right vehicle.
Where is the "films that take place in 2017?" link?
FOREVER -- eeep. I'm so sorry. I somehow didn't include it. have edited the post. it's the first link after the jump at The Independent.
Mr Scott is right- critics over use the word "masterpiece", "iconic" and my favorite "visionary director"
The word "masterpiece" is definitely overused. But not nearly as much as the word "overrated." That article was deeply annoying.
Jaragon -- my all time favorite most ridiculous abuse of "visionary directory" was when people kept applying it to Zach Snyder for WATCHMEN when he was literally recreating exact compositions that a stronger artist had dreamt up in comic books to much acclaim.