Complete the sentence(s)...

I'm off to see Eyes of Tammy Faye and apologize that the Smackdown is running late (it'll be up tomorrow... the registrations and site difficulties of the past few days have eaten up all our time) so in the meantime, complete these sentences in the comments for fun.

1. The movie I'm most excited about this fall/winter is ________ because __________ . 
2. I don't care about ________ but I hope it means good things for ___________'s career. 
3. ______________ is winning ___________ at the Oscars and you can't convince me otherwise ... yet!

"Spencer" Teaser. Kristen Stewart for the gold?

by Nathaniel R

It never fails. Every time something exciting happens, like a Power of the Dog teaser, there's something immediately on its heels giving you barely any time to process. Spread the wealth studios, meter out that cinephilia bait, we beg you. Here's the Spencer teaser starring Kristen Stewart...

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"Power of the Dog" teases. Venice here we come

by Nathaniel R

Behold the first teaser for Power of the Dog which opens in the US in limited release on November 17th followed by Netflix streaming on December 1st. Director Jane Campion has long been a favourite and I've scheduled this for my first day at my first ever Venice Film Festival (!!!) That's right, I will be joining our new regular Italian festival reporter Elisa Giudici (who you heard from at Cannes and Locarno) for this edition of the Venice Film Festival which runs September 1st through September 11th.

What should Elisa and I see? The lineups are after the jump...

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1986: The rise of Daniel Day-Lewis

by Cláudio Alves

Some years are especially momentous in an actor's career. A few days ago, I wrote about Adam Driver's promising 2021, how a collection of ambitious projects might make the performer essential to any overview of the cinematic year. A similar situation happened in 1986 when Daniel Day-Lewis first came to prominence for worldwide audiences. While he had had small roles in a couple of films in the early eighties, it was the international release of a remarkable pair of features that put his name on the map. It happened all at once, and, for New Yorker filmgoers, in particular, it was staggeringly sudden. On March 7th, 1986, NYC was blessed with the premiere of two pictures featuring two incredibly different performances by the same (then) little-known Irish actor. To this day, A Room with a View and My Beautiful Laundrette represent some of Daniel Day-Lewis' most excellent work…

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