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What's on your cinematic mind?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 5:45PM Do tell in the comments. It's the quiet before the storm in terms of the (prestige) film year so where has your cinematic mind been drifting?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 5:45PM
Reader Comments (39)
My favorite movies aren't Oscar bound because the good stuff usually isn't.
High Life
The Souvenir
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Luce
Good Boys
Finally caught up with High Life — completely disliked it (and I’m a fan of Claire Denis in general). The raves for this movie baffle me.
As always, Jennifer Jones.
I love this time of year—anticipating the imminent Venice excitement and what films will ignite the collective imagination. It will be hard to top ASIB from last year. Sigh.
Timothee Chalamet after watching the trailer of “The King”.
Tobias Menzies. Such a shit in Outlander, so awkward and sweet in This Way Up. He’s got range as an actor. Looking forward to his Prince Philip.
I'm thinking Armie Hammer for a Halston biopic.
Can Renee Zellweger win the Oscar.
The amount of time it takes for a film to actually START when you go to the theater. An 8:00 pm show doesn’t even start until 8:30 anymore at AMC with all the commercials and trailers
Hoping that more live-action adaptations of late 90s/early 00s cartoons are coming after Dora. I mean, a movie NO ONE expected to be good and on a property that few really cared all THAT much for, pulling to $60-70 million? What does that mean for actual cult hits around that time, like Fillmore! or Dave the Barbarian, or the big deal popular toons of the era, like Billy and Mandy or Kids Next Door? Actual success?
I'm taking my 14 year old nephew, who has discovered horror, to see IT: Chapter 2 next week in St. Louis. It's probably his first R Rated movie, and no one will take him. I, too, love Scary Stories, so I'm looking forward to bonding with him.
Which would-be Oscar films will tank and become future entries in Joe Reid/Chris Feil's "This Had Oscar Buzz" podcast? My guess: Harriet, Judy, Motherless Brooklyn, The Two Popes.
What's up with Waves? A24 has put it into the fall season. Shults's Krisha was absolutely wonderful so my interest is piqued.
I know there are arguments about the best year in cinema - 1939 and 1999 seem to come up most often - but does anyone have a year where they struggle to even find five people they'd want to nominate per category? For me, 1970 was incredibly sad. Altman should have won Director in a landslide considering the lack of decent competition.
1) I just saw Luce today. No hyperbole: how does this film NOT win Best Screenplay? 100% serious. Yes, box office is terrible so far. But BESIDES that...
2) I saw The Nightingale yesterday and was disappointed after the stunning Babadook. But this was basically just The Revenant with a woman. This had the tiniest of plots.
Which film will be the one to capture everyone’s attention, divide the Internet, win Best Picture and make us all feel like covering the Oscars just ain’t worth it anymore, even though we always will?
Adjusted for inflation Kramer vs Kramer box office take in 1979/80 would be similar to Spider-man Far From Home today.
That's wild.
And how for an entire generation when people considered divorce and parental custody they thought about Hoffman, Streep and Henry; and whether the films demonization of women who struggle inside unhappy marriages in the end fed the MRA movement?
If Temple Grandin and Grey Gardens had been theatrical releases would Claire Danes and Drew Barrymore be Oscar nominees or winners today?
Tom G I think Drew would,I think Michael Douglas may have won as Liberace to.
Also, Kristin Scott Thomas, who apparently dated Tobias Menzies at some point. How come no one told me she was a Dame? Bring on Mrs. Danvers!
I've just seen Steven Soderbergh High Flying Bird. It's his best non-The Knick work in years! Too bad Netflix won't campaign for it.
I was really shocked to read The Hollywood's Reporter review of Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York. It was apparently written by a Jordan Mintzer. Why didn't Mr. Mintzer stick to reviewing the film? I was not interested in his opinion about the scandal and his level of sarcasm.
@cal roth
High Flying Bird does not qualify because it debut directly to Netflix. And since the Emmy nods for this year have happened and it got nothing there either, don't look for it outside of NAACP recognition.
Just finished the Australia to London flight this morning - I re-watched DRIVING MISS DAISY; TOPAZ; THE MALTESE FALCON; and NEIGHBOURS 2: SORORITY RISING.
DRIVING - Sweet, little movie.
TOPAZ - Was hoping it would be good after not seeing it for years but man was it a slog and unfocused narrative wise!
MALTESE FALCON - still a classic and so well directed!
NEIGHBOURS 2 - hilarious - I still think it’s one of the funniest comedies in years.
Those films and jet lag on my cinematic mind!
I want Nikki Blonsky in a Mama Cass biopic right now!
@Jorge
I think Beanie Feldstein would be perfect for Mama Cass
Glenn lost
@Peggy
I feel tied to Frances McDormand. Close is a friend and as women of a certain age and an actress she felt the sting when she read another name.
Absolutely.
Damn Jorge, Adam instantly put you in your place. Beanie would be a great Cass.
Why the academy chose their rare time of picking the much better performance in the category, as loathe as I am to admit that of Colman Stoleman, I’ll never know. Overdue awards are valid and going purely on the performance from the year of consideration is crummy.
@/3rtful and Peggy, I don't feel there's been appropriate "closure" on Glenn's loss. If a male veteran had lost on their 7th nomination to a relatively unknown British actor in an (arguably) supporting part, there would be uproar. There would've been uproar for Leonardo DiCaprio. Because of ageism and sexism, there isn't uproar for Glenn.
It’s rarely mentioned that The Wife was held from 2017 for the 2018 Oscar race. At the time people said that was genius.
Would Julianne have won for Still Alice if it sat on a shelf for 12 months between TIFF 2014 and fall 2015? That movie was just as bad as The Wife but it had a “hot off the presses, you MUST see this NOW” quality that didn’t give people space to…overthink it.
If you’re gonna force people to wait that long to see Glenn Close’s Greatest Achievement on Film then the movie itself needs to deliver. How could it not disappoint? How could the distributors not look nervous about her actual Oscar chances, if they didn’t think she could beat McDormand?
I’m gonna be very skeptical from now on whenever a distributor tries this.
Glenn lost the Oscar the week from Bafta's night (Feb.10) to Oscar final voting (Feb.19)
@H
2017 was a crowded field. Waiting for a less dense season which 2018 turned out to be the for category worked in her favor with precursors. Colman's victory was an upset despite the fact she would have beat Gaga without Close as a spoiler.
Exactly, Peggy. Under next year's Oscar timeline, Glenn would be our winner! It reminds me of how Ava DuVernay lost her Documentary Oscar to a Netflix miniseries, only for them to change the rules the very NEXT year!
2018 wasn't Glenn's year. 2017 might not have been any better. She wouldn't have cleared the field but maybe McDormand wouldn't have felt so inevitable? I personally think 2018 was the stronger year in Best Actress, all told. When your "filler" is Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? you're not slumming it.
My point is that distributors should strike while the iron is hot, which certainly worked for Julianne Moore. That iron was so hot nobody cared that Still Alice was a glorified Lifetime movie. It's always a gamble but how often does delaying release by a year work out, in Best Actress? I can name a bunch of times it didn't.
Going to Telluride tomorrow... excited!
I watched VALMONT, and it’s so underrated. My favourite version of the story. Annette Bening is so incredible in it — so fun and fabulous. Just absolutely right.
Glenn’s Merteuil in DANGEROUS LIAISONS is fantastic, but now seems so wrong compared to what Annette does with the role.
A flawless version of the story has most of the VALMONT cast + Ryan Phillippee + Michelle Pfeiffer
@Laquanda
LOL Adam is so right! I've been dreaming this biopic for over a decade that didn't look for new choices. I'm so 00's
"Marriage Story" trailer - Scarlett Johansson & Adam Driver, directed by Noah Baumbach
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I'm in.
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And just give Johansson an Oscar!