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Sunday
Jan312021

Sundance: Clifton Collins Jr. in “Jockey”

By Abe Friedtanzer

 

It feels like there’s at least one memorable horse movie every year at Sundance. Dream Horse played last year (as did Horse Girl), The Mustang was a hit in 2019, and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider screened in 2018. There’s just something about the bond between man and the animal that’s not necessarily known as his best friend but is still thought of in quite an endearing manner. The best of those films tend to focus just as much on the human protagonist’s own internal and interpersonal struggles as they do on their relationship with their prized steed. This year’s signature Sundance entry, Jockey, does just that… 

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Sunday
Jan312021

Best International Feature: China, India, Japan

by Cláudio Alves

The cultural hegemony of Hollywood can make it seem as if the American film industry were the biggest in the world. However, some nations produce even more cinema than the US, and, annually, there's a much greater number of non-English-speaking features than Anglophonic ones. Since the Oscars tend to relegate such films to the Best International Feature category, it's possible to get a skewed view of the global realities of movie-making from them. In truth, the Academy's very local in its choices. With that in mind, let's explore the submissions of three countries whose industries are as robust as America's…

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Sunday
Jan312021

January. It's a Wrap

Wow, time sure is speeding up. It's already the end of January which means Sundance is in progress and awards season in full crazy swing. And it also means Nathaniel's Film Bitch Awards begin. Here are highlights from the month that was in case you missed them.

12 highlights
Interview: Kingsley Ben-Adir Murtada with One Night in Miami's Malcolm X
The Furniture: Promising Young Woman "an agent of heaven or hell?"
Monsoon Wedding Cláudio had never seen it. We're glad he loved
Best Supporting Actresses of a Certain Age Who were the oldest nominees?
Doc Corner Gunda Glenn goes to the buzzy farm
Familiar Faces: Chris Nolan Nathaniel looks at which actors the action director most loves throwing around in his twisty spectacles
Stage to Screen to Oscar? Christopher checks the (abundant) stats with Ma Rainey in the mix this year
Gay Best Friend: The Next Best Thing is it as bad as you've heard?
Cloris Leachman and Cicely Tyson - we lost two greats
The Ghost of Promising Young Woman Lynn Lee wonders about "Nina"
Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford the most exciting TV news this month
The Father Eric wonders why people aren't talking about this gem

4 most discussed articles
9th Annual Team Experience Awards Promising Young Woman reigns
Oscars Acting Races where we were at on January 22nd (though this is always changing!)
• Ellen Burstyn's Oscar History Claudio investigates
Year in Review: Thirst Traps feat. Ahmed, Plaza, Majors, etc

COMING IN FEBRUARY
The Golden Globe Awards, SAG nominations, FYCs for Oscar categories, the 10th anniversary of the 83rd Oscars, TV classic "The Muppet Show" and a centennial tribute to Lana Turner.

Sunday
Jan312021

Sundance: "John and the Hole" review

by Jason Adams

Titled like a Bible story or a fable of ol' Aesop's (or perhaps it's the start of a dirty limerick), John and the Hole does indeed contain both a John, and a hole. John, played by Captain Fantastic's Charlie Shotwell (and seen just recently doing the disaffected youth thing, and to better effect if you ask me, in Sean Durkin's The Nest), is an absent-eyed 13-year-old sociopath who only seems to spurt to life when playing video-games and screaming obscenities at his best friend via headset. Otherwise he wanders his cavernous home in a daze, occasionally aided by some pills he steals from his parent's drawer...

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Sunday
Jan312021

Showbiz History: Derek Jarman, The Misfits, and Jennifer Lawrence's breakout

7 random things that happened on this day, January 31st, in showbiz history

1941 Alfred Hitchcock's comedy Mr & Mrs Smith, no not the Brangelina one, opened in theaters starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. Yes, Hitchcock once made a screwball comedy without thriller elements. 

1961 The Misfits, the elegaic last film for both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable and one of Montgomery Clift's last pictures, has its world premiere in Reno, Nevada. It will open in movie theaters the next day...

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