Linkers Dozen
Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 3:50PM • MovieMaker Bruce Willis retires from acting after Aphasia diagnosis. Our heart goes out to him and his loved ones.
• World of Reel polled 150 critics (including me) on the best films of the 1970s. No surprise to see The Godfather top it even though it wasn't on my list (we could only choose 10-15 films each). Four of my selections made the top ten (Nashville, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, and Network)
• Pajiba great piece on Ryan Reynolds turning himself into a brand while becoming blander as an actor
More after the jump including Essie Davis, Chang Chen, Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, and the aftermath of The Slap at the Oscars...
• MNPP Chang Chen six times
• Awards Daily discusses the buzzy Australian film Nitram with the great actress Essie Davis
• /Film in the latest attempt to revive 90s franchise The Crow, Bill Skarsgård has signed on for the leading role
Off-Cinema
• NYT fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier (famously name dropped in Devil Wears Prada) has died at 76
• Guardian Taron Egerton withdraws from the play Cock for personal reasons. First he fainted onstage, then he tested positive for COVID and now this. Tough year for Egerton thus far.
• Playbill The Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga production of Macbeth has been shutdown temporarily on Broadway due to COVID infections in the company
• TheaterMania Hugh Jackman does a Wolverine pose for a fan at Music Man on Broadway
Oscar leftovers
• THR Will Smith has resigned from the Academy after the slap incident
• Guardian Will Smith facing career troubles now due to Oscar night as well with some of his films on hold
• Gr8ter Days points out which stars we lost last year were not cited during Oscar's "In Memoriam", including inexcusable omissions like Monica Vitti, Sally Ann Howes, and Oscar nominated Cara Williams. They didn't even include Spanish actress Pilar Bardem even though her globally famous son was right there in the audience as a nominee!
Reader Comments (8)
Will is a cuck
Jada is a c*nt
ah... Hollywood :)
I understand why Pilar Bardem was not included in the In Memorian section, but it would have been a nice, heart-warming moment for Javier and Penélope.
Saw the complete results of the poll. I miss specially "The Poseidon Adventure", any work by Luis García Berlanga... and I wish that Cabaret or Day for Night would have ranked way, way higher...
Egerton also left Claire Denis's film earlier in the year for "personal reasons." Hope he's doing ok.
@Yavor-AGREED!
They omitted Monica Vitti? Oh... that does it Academy. I'm going to nuke your ass!
Ryan Reynolds is becoming bland as I feel like he's just playing everything safe and oh man... Shawn Levy is going to fuck up Deadpool 3.
Bruce Willis's effortless everyman character made so many films better than they would have been -- Sixth Sense, Die Hard, 12 Monkeys, Death Becomes Her! Although of course he made a ton of money and was among the most successful actors of all times, it's a shame he never got an Oscar nomination along the way. Would it have been so hard to get something going for his charming work in Pulp Fiction?
Also, happy birthday to The Real Marsha, who turns 80 today!
I get this 70's would never reflect the world's greatest achievements in the 70's (hello, Fassbinder) and would focus on American filmmaking. That's why the absence of Manhattan is so baffling.
I would eliminate the In Memorian in a heartbeat.
@Marsha Mason... yes, it was. Supporting Actor 1994 was insane, with so many deserving contenders...
Martin Landau (winner) Ed Wood
nominees...
Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
Chazz Palminteri, Bulletts over Broadway
Paul Schofield, Quiz Show
Gary Sinise, Forrest Gump
the snubbees...
Bruce Willis, Pulp Fiction
Bruce Willis, Nobody's Fool (there you have why he wasn't nominated... split voting!)
Mykelti Williamson, Forrest Gump
Jeff Anderson, Clerks - let's vindicate him!
Simon Callow, Four Weddings and a Funeral
John Hannah, Four Weddings and a Funeral
Guy Pearce, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Terence Stamp, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (I understand Hugo Weaving is the lead)
Tom Cruise, Interview with the Vampire
Willem Dafoe, Clear and Present Danger
Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Sposito and Samuel L. Jackson, in Fresh (Nelson could have gone lead, but child actors used to go supporting)
there even could have been a narrative for Tom Arnold (True Lies) and Dennis Hopper (Speed), to have settled a campaign for Supporting...
... a quick recap...