Halfway Mark - Team Experience "Top Three" Random Joyfulness

Nathaniel here. Since I already shared my favourites of 2021 thus far in terms of films and performances, I asked the team about theirs halfway through the year. Since not everyone has had the opportunity to get fully back into the swing of moviegoing they were given free reign to share any kind of "top three" they wanted to. I felt such joy reading what made them the happiest, entertainment-wise, this year thus far. Maybe you will to. The various "top threes" after the jump...

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A New Team Experience Emmy Panel

By Abe Friedtanzer 

Emmy nominations will be announced in just under a week. Now that we’ve finished our major category predictions, we had a chance to convene the Emmy team at The Film Experience (myself, Christopher, Nathaniel, Carlos, and Cláudio) for a broad discussion of our hopes and expectations. Watch below to enjoy an energetic conversation about many topics, and share your favorites and predictions in the comments! We’ll be back again in this format once nominations have been announced.

more on the upcoming Emmys

• COMEDY
• Actress Comedy
• Actor Comedy
• Supporting Actress, Comedy
• Supporting Actor, Comedy
• DRAMA
• Actress Drama
• Actor Drama
• Supporting Actress, Drama
• Supporting Actor, Drama
• LIMITED SERIES / MOVIE
• Lead Actor Limited Series/Movie
• Lead Actress Limited Series
• Supporting Actress Limited Series
• Supporting Actor Limited Series
• MORE...
• Emmy Ballots
• FYC The Handmaid's Tale
• FYC Kate Winslet and Mare of Easttown
• FYC Marielle Heller, Queen's Gambit
• FYC Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
• FYC Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision
• FYC I May Destroy You
• FYC Small Axe
• FYC For All Mankind

Back to the Movie Theaters: Lynn Sees "Gunda"

By Lynn Lee

a sad strip mall interior for happy experiences

Until yesterday, the last movie I saw in a theater was Emma – on March 7, 2020, just before the reality of COVID-19 descended on me and most people I knew.  If you’d told me that the next time I’d be in a movie theater would be nearly 14 months later, in a tiny, crappy arthouse joint in a suburban Virginia strip mall, and that the movie would be an idiosyncratic black-and-white documentary about a brood sow, I probably wouldn’t have believed you.  And yet that is exactly where I found myself Sunday afternoon.  

It wasn’t the return to moviegoing I’d envisioned since my husband and I got our second Pfizer dose in early April...

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Team Experience SAG/Globe Reactions Pt 2: Happy Thoughts & Virtual Anticipation

In part one, we polled Team Experience about the darker side of the SAG and Globe nominations this week. For part two we'll lighten up with happy questions.

• Which acting nomination most thrilled you?
• What was your happiest non-acting moment during the nods?
• Despite a rough week for them, which film or performer are you still hopeful about?
• Whose home are you most eager to see in the virtual ceremonies to follow? 

You know what to do! Read their answers and provide your own in the comments... 

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Team Experience SAG/Globe Reactions Pt 1: Dark Thoughts & Unsurprising Surprises

Hey hey. So we polled Team Experience about this week's barrage of honors to see where their heads and hearts were at (though you know some of their loves if you checked out the Team Experience Awards). So let's start with less thrilling questions like ...

• Which SAG or GLOBE nomination left you cringeing or shaking your head?
• Which "surprises" were not actually surprises?
• Any theories about the ___ snub?

Read their answers and supply yours in the comments, please...

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