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...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 1:57PM by Nathaniel R
A24's restless inventive sleeper hit Everything Everywhere All At Once continues to win. It's now the leader at the 38th annuel Independent Spirit Awards with 8 nominations and all four of its principal actors were nominated. In second place is Tár with seven nominations. Aftersun missed a couple categories we thought it might hit but it still did very well with five nominations overall. Love for the rest of the eligible movies was more measured but Bones and All, The Inspection, The Cathedral, and Women Talking also showed up in a few places.
Since the Spirit Awards have a budget cap ($30 million now) many key potential Oscar players weren't eligible including most Netflix titles as well as presumed Oscar players like The Fabelmans, Banshees of Inisherin, Empire of Light and naturally all of the spectacle blockbusters. The Spirit Awards rule also deny international cinema the chance to compete in major categories, relegating them to a single "international" category...
Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 12:00PM by Lynn Lee
Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is enjoying a bit of a renaissance these days, thanks to its prominent placement in not just one but two of the most fascinating films of the year, Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave and Todd Field’s Tár. Not that it’s ever really been out of the public eye. It’s been a staple of classical orchestras for decades, and its fourth movement – the dreamily romantic Adagietto, which cinephiles may recognize from Visconti’s Death in Venice – long ago reached a degree of mainstream popularity rarely accorded classical works.
Just because it’s a war horse, though, doesn’t mean it can’t be used in constantly different and surprising ways. The Fifth – like all of Mahler’s symphonies, but perhaps even more so – contains multitudes...
Decision To Leave, Sound, Soundtrack, Tár, composers Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 7:30PM by Nathaniel R
Kerry Condon is brilliant in "Banshees of Inisherin". Oscar nomination forthcoming
Early December has a way of suddenly narrowing down Oscar nomination dreams but until we get there, the year's most volatile acting category feels like Best Supporting Actress. From the plethora of films with multiple options (Women Talking, The Woman King, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Glass Onion, Tár, She Said) to stand-outs in films with male leads (The Banshees of Inisherin, Armageddon Time, Triangle of Sadness, The Whale, The Inspection) and one key still-to-screen performance (Jean Smart in Babylon), there are a lot of valid choices for Academy members. And that isn't even all of the options if they're feeling freethinking and adventurous this season (rare but one can always dream).
At this point we're predicting...
Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 11:00AM curated for you
this shot from #decisiontoleave just broke my brain. seo-rae in the foreground is out of focus while her reflection in the two-way mirror is in focus. but hae-jun in the foreground is in focus while his reflection in the mirror is out of focus.
— Pramit (@pramitheus) October 30, 2022
i'm guessing there's no mirror here pic.twitter.com/98cPQEGERs
Okay, so definitely need to see that movie again. Wow. Other showbiz (mostly movies) related tweets so you dont have to spend time on twitter after the jump including Halloween costumes spotted and enjoyed this week...
Decision To Leave, Deep Water, Halloween, Harris Dickinson, Namor, Nicole Kidman, Twitter, Tár, cosplay 