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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 5:40PM The Daily Beast Michael Musto talks to an anonymous Oscar voter about who they're voting for. They're very unhappy with Meryl Streep's 20th and La La Land's 14
/Film Barry Jenkins chooses movies from the Criterion Collection -wonderful. (And people forget how obsessed people were with La Haine when it came out)
Variety ABC picked up a pilot starring Toni Collette. Please let it be good. Miss her so much. Totally the best actress that directors aren't using which I will NEVER understand
Cinematic Corner Sati falls for The Handmaiden
Film School Rejects on Stranger Things SAG acceptance speech and season two
MNPP Jason lets Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) take him on a train of thought and it is a joy as is that movie or at least Gable and Franchot Tone in it
Village Voice Bilge Ebiri's 10 favorites from Sundance include Where is Kyra? and Mudbound
World of Reel Ben Affleck will no longer be directing The Batman movie
Pajiba has news of an incredibly problematic sounding new Mel Gibson movie about police brutality.
Four Two Nine good piece on LGBT characters still being stuck in the "best friend" / "helper" mode despite many more gay characters in film and television
Tracking Board HBO developing a movie about the behind-the-scenes on The Godfather (1972). I mean who gets to play Marlon Brando and Diane Keaton. Those seem like tall orders (lots of people can do a decent Al Pacino)
Off Cinema
Playbill Hamilton is doubling the amount of seats in its lottery starting... yesterday. Good luck!
Village Voice fascinating piece on the billionaire subgenre within romance novels
Los Angeles Times on how the travel ban is worrying Hollywood the business aspects of Hollywood and the talent pool
The Guardian Johnny Depp is suing and being countersued... and he's spending money as wildly and foolishly as Nicolas Cage once did (if you're wondering why they both make so many bad movies)
Dune Again
As was previously rumored but is now true, Denis Villeneuve has signed on to direct Dune. He mentioned this as a possibility in our interview recently and sounded very excited about it, having been a fan of the novel his whole life. But still, TWO reboots of two beloved sci-fi properties back-to-back with Blade Runner 2049 up next? And right after your Oscar nomination after such deserved momentum from doing your own thing (Enemy-Prisoners-Sicario-Arrival)?! I guess this is cashing in while also fulfilling a dream but it worries this fan of Villeneuve doing his own thing.
Though the David Lynch film from 1984 had its issues it also had some deeply memorable imagery so at the very least it will be interesting to see how his version measures up.
Reader Comments (26)
Thanks so much for the link! The Handmaiden is just so incredible
Do we really need another version of "Dune" ?! I'm going to have to watch "Mutiny on the Bounty" the idea of a Crawford, Gable and Tone three way is well interesting....
Thanks for that Daily Beast article; I always like to hear how an actualy Academy member is going to vote. I hope the Hollywood Reporter does there "Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot" series this year.
LOL at the Daily Beast article: that guy says that Isabelle Huppert plays Elle one note? Strange lol I think the lack of obvious reactions to the act is the point. I do admire the voter's own ballot though. It shows there are people who are pretty serious about their craft.
I respect that guys Oscar ballot way more than the one that was published last year. He seems to have actually done his homework at least and I agree with a lot of the things he said.
Interesting that the anonymous Oscar voter would have voted for Viola Davis for Best Actress (and seems very upset about category fraud) but doesn't seem to have considered nominating her in the Best Actress category...
it's william friedkin, some guy said it last year
Cal - but there are multiple people who do this so i wouldn't be so sure. If I know a dozen or so Oscar voters, trust me that Michael Musto knows 100s.
I hope Denis Villeneuve would make Dune awesome but...... it just won't be as good as what Alejandro Jodorowsky was going to make. His version was going to be fucking epic and a fucking game-changer. Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Amanda Lear, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, and music by Magma and Pink Floyd with visual effects by Dan O'Bannon and graphic effects from Moebius, Chris Goss, and H.R. Giger. It would've ruled!
Jaragon: We probably don't need another version of the first three novels after those two miniseries adaptations. And the novel beyond the third devolves into pure self-parody (human society lives for 3500 years ruled by, basically, a GIANT WORM? Are you bleeping kidding!? Even if he COULD live 3500 years, NO ONE would let that stand that long. The parody (Mandy the Merciless) makes more sense, as in, it actually makes any sense at all.), so that's probably never going to get adapted.
Part of me wanted to move on and forgive Mel, but I must accept he's a hateful white supremacist.
Michael Musto's mystery Oscar voters is clearly gay. Look at that best actress roster - Kate Winslet in THE DRESSMAKER, both women from Almodovar's JULIETA, Kate Beckinsale in LOVE & FRIENDSHIP!
Also: "You get beat up, you get raped, and you’re still playing it the same way. There has to be some reaction to the brutality that’s happened to you."
That is *exactly* at least part of why ELLE is so good. It completely reconfigures what society expects from women in general but in particular after rape.
Glenn Dunks: Um...I'd buy both women from Julieta as a potential marker for being gay, but the Kates for The Dressmaker and Love & Friendship? Without the mention of Julieta, I'd guess "straight ally who wants women to be tougher" as maybe a little MORE likely.
These "anonymous oscar voter" articles we get at this time of year make me lose so much hope in humanity. These interviewees all seem to have TERRIBLE taste.
That film of Gibson and Vaughn... I lost my faith in the USA.
Sorry to be a ditz, but where is the mystery Oscar voter's roster? I can't seem to find it in that Daily Beast article.
Ah, Toni Collette. I hope that one day my dream of seeing you portray Madame Rose in either a stage revival or film adaptation Gypsy will come true. Until then, I'll take you where I can get you.
I think it's cute that the people at Pajiba believe that no theater in these United States of America would screen that Mel Gibson movie. The official religion in this country is white supremacy, so there's definitely a market for it (see also: the 2016 presidential election).
Troy H.: Oh, the idea that "no" theatres would show it is ludicrous. But the only ones that WOULD are in states deeply in the red. No movie theatre in a swing state or a blue state would DARE.
Volvagia -- sorry, but Troy's right. it would show everywhere. It's Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn. Their movies open wide, not matter how bad.
Nat: People are energized. People are protesting. Any theatre in a swing state or blue state would expect a lot of people to show up with signs for this thing. The only way it wouldn't? Is if the studio decided to add "These Guys Deserve To Be" to the originally announced title.
Volvagia: Right, just like Chester Cheetah never would become president. And juries that saw video of police officers in various states across the nation shooting unarmed people of color in cold blood definitely would convict them of murder. Believe me, that movie would show everywhere.
Also: No, Vince Vaughn in a lead role is not a guarantee of a wide opening anymore. Delivery Man flopped. Unfinished Business straight up bombed. Term Life was a limited release and basically VOD. Nor is Gibson. The Beaver, Get the Gringo and Blood Father did not get wide theatrical releases. Throw in the probable stink of controversy over this...? Yeah, Red State Only Limited sounds about right.
Troy H.: Read my second follow-up comment. Also: No one sane LIKES that the old, complacent white people that accept jury duty let probably guilty cops off that frequently. Also: Trump "winning" was, if you only accept the popular vote (which, why would you accept anything else in a society heading toward globalization?), THE LOSER WINNING.
If we stop talking about Mel Gibson, would he just go away? It's hard to imagine that one person could be so anti-semitic, racist, misogynistic, and homophobic.
Suzanne - but if you look at the voter's actress picks, he/she only lists 4 (2 Julieta actress, Kate and Kate) so I assume Viola is the 5th.
Re missing Toni Collette I wholeheartedly agree. It's something about how intimate television can be after you fall in love with an actor or actress, and how much you "miss" them when they're not on your little screen week after week. She's done a bunch since United States of Tara, and always good in everything, but I LOVED her in that.