SXSW: Patton Oswalt Stars in ‘I Love My Dad’

By Abe Friedtanzer

 

One of the best ways for an up-and-coming filmmaker to make their mark is to cast a well-known actor in their projects. I’ll admit that I’m always intrigued to find a performer I know and like taking on a role in a small independent film, since it’s evidently not the prospect of a big paycheck that drew them to it. Patton Oswalt is someone I think I would watch in anything, and it turns out he’s also the star who could make a dad catfishing his own son seem somehow endearing…

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Kathy Bates does have a point.

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— Kathy Bates (@MsKathyBates) March 10, 2022

More curated tweets after the jump including Ariana DeBose, Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Batman, Benedetta, vintage Stanley Tucci  and more...

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It's a clean sweep for "Drive My Car" at the Japan Academy Awards

by Nathaniel R

Hidetoshi Nishijima accepting BEST ACTOR for "Drive My Car" 

The 45th annual Japan Academy Awards were held last night (aka hours ago -- time differences are confusing!) in Tokyo. 濱口 竜介's Oscar-nominated Drive My Car was honored in all of its categories. The winners are after the jump... 

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Today's magic number is 16. Let's talk 2016

by Nathaniel R

It is 16 days until the Oscars. Since you're all being so freakishly quiet, let's talk about something we know you'll have an opinion about: 2016. Oscar was all about Emma Stone in La La Land and Moonlight in general with pockets of support for Arrival and Manchester by the Sea and Fences. And for some reason Oscar decided Mel Gibson was cool again via Hacksaw Ridge. If you could change one thing about the Oscar outcomes of 2016 what would it be? 

I have one other question for you about the Oscars after the jump...

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Best Shot Index: West Side Story (2021)

Thank you to everyone who participated tonight. Next week's film is Romancing The Stone (1984) streaming on HBOMax so we hope you'll join us and pick your own shot. Here were the eight choices from West Side Story (2021) and we're marvelling at the variety and beauty. The film is up for Best Cinematography, Best Picture and more at the Oscars. Click on the image for the article, tweet, or tumblr post...

Ryan on Twitter (thread)

Keisha at Cinema Cities (article)

Cláudio Alves at The Film Experience (article)

Working Stiff at Tumblr (multiple articles)

Intifada on Tumblr (gallery)

Ben Miller at  Ice Cream For Freaks (article)

Steven James on Twitter (capsule)

And finally we love this fascinating choice from Alexander Georgakis on Twitter who writes:

The dissolve from the former Anita to the current one is more than a clever meta moment -- it asks us to consider if over the last sixty years, America has finally become that better time and place Valentina dreams about in “Somewhere”? In some ways, yes; in others, sadly, no.