Friday, December 2, 2022 at 4:11PM by Nathaniel R
TÁR
The New York Film Critics Circle was founded way back in 1935 and they hold a lofty place in film history given their publishing-giant of a city and their own rich history of interesting choices. For their 88th awards TÁR and The Banshees of Inisherin emerged victorious with two wins each, though a few of the other wins were quite surprising...
Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 3:31PM by Nathaniel R
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
The once a decade Sight & Sound poll of the "Greatest Films of All Time" is upon us, and there's a new winner. Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). The Belgian film jumped 35 spots from a decade ago to claim the top spot from Hitchcock's Vertigo which itself had pushed Citizen Kane from the top of the heap in an earlier poll. The list is getting extremely recent! A full forty percent of the top ten is now from the still newish 21st century... which seems extreme to us for an all time list given that there's nearlly 100 years of feature films before the year 2000!
A few more notes after the jump and the top 50...
Jeanne Dielman, List-Mania, Sight & Sound Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 12:17PM Team Experience will be discussing each Oscar category as we head into the precursors. Here's Nathaniel and Elisa to discuss Makeup...
Colin Farrell and... Colin Farrell?
NATHANIEL: Elisa, let's start with a question: Do you think this category should be split into two: Best Makeup Effects AND Best Makeup and Hairstyling? As it stands now, the latter never gets a fair shake. If you do incredible things with glamour and character design but don't offer anything in the prosthetic department, chances are slim to none that you'll be nominated!
For example I think it's pretty clear that Elvis, The Batman, and The Whale will be competitive primarily because they each bury one key character in prosthetics until they're almost unrecognizable. But why? It always feels a bit like showing off. Why hire a famous actor to play a role if you don't actually want their famous face? This bugs me most in the case of The Batman but it might be because I relish looking at Colin Farrell's face... and if you're going to deny me that, don't promise me Colin 'Feckin' Farrell...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 11:00PM There's only one month left of 2022? Crazy talk! Here are a dozen highlights from November in case you missed them...
• Mahler's 5th in Tár & Decision to Leave Lynn enjoys the renaissance
• The Fabelmans Cláudio's review of Spielberg's confessional family melodrama
• She Said's Modern Marriages Ben with a 'no big deal' observation
• All Quiet on the Western Front Christopher on the overwhelming new war film
• Black Panther Wakanda Forever Nathaniel on the underwhelming sequel. Namor, tho!
• Young Men and Oscar The Academy resists young leading men but quite a few are in buzzy films this year
• European Film Awards Close, Holy Spider, and Triangle of Sadness are popular
• Team Punditry We're polling our writers on where they think the Oscar races stand
• Till Nathaniel is bowled over by Danielle Deadwyler's star turn
• AFI Fest Pinocchio Eurocheese finds Guillermo del Toro's latest dazzling
• Best Supporting Actress is Overcrowded It might be the most volatile race right now
• The Crown Season 5 Cláudio loves the new cast. The show not so much
• Dorothy Dandridge is Carmen Jones Baby Clyde remembers the icon on her Centennial
Coming in December
Avatar The Way of the Water, Empire of Light, Spoiler Alert, several new interviews, the return of the podcast, the Oscar finalists in various categories, and more Oscar volleys
The Film Experience, Year in Review Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 7:11PM 
Noirvember can't end without a noir-themed write-up here at The Film Experience. It falls on the Almost There series to consider a style born in shadows, that cinema which came into its own in the aftermath of war and persists in perpetual reinvention. Though it'd be nice to look back on the origins of noir, most of the classics fell outside the Academy's radar. So it's only logical to wander into the depths of neo-noir, searching for a title that embodies the best of it all, combining classical sensibilities with a modern perspective. Thus, one arrives at Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress, a 1995 adaptation of Walter Mosley's book where a 1940s-set crime drama is reframed through the centering of a Black protagonist.
However, it wasn't the film's hardboiled anti-hero who caught the attention of awards voters. Instead, those honors befell on a supporting player – Don Cheadle in his breakout role as a dangerous man called Mouse…
