Damon did The Great Wall just for the $$, but Suburbicon and Downsizing seem like good ideas on paper, with a respectable pedigree. All 3 could be on a list of worst movies of 2017 actually. Then there’s also all the backlash he received for his relationship with Harvey Weinstein and his comments after bout sexual assault/harassment. Also, his Dad died this month. One positive I guess, he probably had my favorite cameo in Thor: Ragnarok....
What does NBR picking Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick” as they best film mean for the Oscar race? Well, we’re not entirely sure. If you remember, last year Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” won their top prize and the year before that it was Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods.” What I do know is that “Top Gun: Maverick” got a boost today from NBR. So did Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion) who won Best Supporting Actress....
Deadline: “Famous astrophysicist/TV personality Neil deGrasse Tyson has come under scrutiny as two more women have accused the Cosmos host of sexual misconduct. In light of the new allegations, the networks and producers behind the Emmy-winning Cosmos reboot are vowing to look into the matter.” “The credo at the heart of Cosmos is to follow the evidence wherever it leads,” the producers of the show said in a statement to Deadline....
The official announcement is said to come later this afternoon … the entire NYFF main slate will appear next week. Some names to expect include Serra, Gray, Skolimowski, Reichardt, Castaing/Paravel, and Hansen-Love. Poitras’ film is said to tackle the American opioid epidemic via the eyes of “photographer Nan Goldin’s battle against the notorious big-pharma Sackler family.” The film is Poitras’ first feature since 2016’s “Risk.” The New York Film Festival describes Poitras’ film as “a thrilling, empowering film....
Mangold is a great director, but one wonders if the Indiana Jones series has any juice left in its reservoir. The last good movie in the franchise was “Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade,” which was released almost 31 years ago. Time to move on. There was a noble attempt at gaining back the relevance of yore in 2008, but it turned out that “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” wasn’t that answer....
Warner Bros. released the trailer for “auteur” Wilde’s film last month and the whole thing gave me weird vibes. Wilde is clearly going for social commentary in this sci-fi film. There’s definitely a “Stepford Wives” vibe going here as well. Wilde raised some eyebrows at CinemaCon by comparing her film to “Inception”, “The Matrix” and “The Truman Show.” Talk about raising expectations. However, if you’ve read the screenplay, which has been on Hollywood’s famous blacklist for a few years now, then you “get” why she would compare “Don’t Worry Darling” to those films....
Of course, these comments were greeted with scorn by “When They See Us” director Ava DuVernay, calling King’s comments “backward and ignorant.” “When you wake up, meditate, stretch, reach for your phone to check on the world and see a tweet from someone you admire that is so backward and ignorant you want to go back to bed,” DuVernay commented. Wait, what? So we should give Oscars based on diversity instead of quality?...
Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” has basically been the frontrunner since its TIFF world premiere. There was and still is no other movie that could overtake it. They said maybe “Babylon” or “Avatar: the Way of Water” but it’s not looking likely. It’s still ‘Fabelmans’ and … nothing else? Then again, given its tepid box-office numbers, pundits are trying to find a new frontrunner, but they honestly can’t. That’s why “Banshees of Inisherin” is being flirted with as a possibility by Kohn/Thompson and Davis, because there is no other real possibility....
When the lights went up last night at the Lumiere theatre, the applause for Park’s film was very weak. Don’t believe me? I was there. Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux had to pump the crowd up to continue the ovation. Then Park spoke, and said “thank you for watching my long and boring movie.” Of course, he was half-kidding, but you knew he felt the tepid atmosphere in the room. The film is basically a Detective-falls-in-love-with-suspect mystery....
A few noteworthy quotes: “I remember [Alfred] Hitchcock once telling me in that most movies are just pictures of people talking. Now you have movies that are just people being blown up, like in a lot of these superhero pictures. I don’t even know what to say about that.” “I don’t think there’s any question that things have gotten worse. It’s gotten even harder to get movies into theaters that are about recognizable people....
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What happened? We’re not entirely sure, but signs are pointing towards Johnson exiting on his own. Regardless, Disney just needed to cut down on their losses after over-betting on Star Wars with their last few films, including Johnson’s own ‘Last Jedi’ which ended up making $300 million less than its predecessor, JJ Abrams’ “The Force Awakens.” Not only that, but Johnson’s second chapter in the trilogy irked plenty of longtime fans to the point that they who vowed to never watch another Star Wars movie again....
Badalmenti was a master of his craft, having composed some of the most iconic cinematic scores. He was David Lynch’s go-to musician, having been behind the scores of “Mulholland Drive,” “Twin Peaks,” “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart,” “Lost Highway” and “The Straight Story.” His style was at making dark, dreamy and atmospheric music. And yet, there was also this strange melancholy that would seep through his compositions. There was nobody else like him....
Oscar-winning director Spike Lee has been re-named jury president for the 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival. The festival is set to take place this July. Lee will not only be the first African-American to serve as jury president for the festival, but also the first person from the African diaspora. Lee has had seven films that have premiered at Cannes over the years, including “Do the Right Thing,” “Jungle Fever” “Summer of Sam,” and “BlacKkKlansman....
Suffice to say, Lee belongs in the pantheon of American filmmakers. But which films and filmmakers influenced him? I found this little nugget on Reddit. it’s a list of films that Lee deems to be most essential for every inspiring director to see. I do love the inclusion of Paul Schrader’s “Blue Collar” in here. Some of the list reads like film school 101 minus the silent era, but the majority of these are excellent selections....
“MIB: International” (4,224 screens) is projected to gross $26 million on its opening weekend. By comparison, all three Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones’ “MIB” movies opened to more than double that figure, with even 2012’s “Men In Black 3” opening to an impressive $54.5 million Memorial Day Week-End. As for “Shaft,” it is set to open to a very disappointing $7.3 million opening (2,952 screens). Contribute Hire me...
Coming off last year’s fairly mediocre lineup, which, regardless, gave us one legitimate dramatic triumph, Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell,” but also an assortment of box-office fails (“Late Night” and “Blinded by the Light”), Sundance this year needs a much-needed blast of creative serum to make us forget about the 2019 edition. Why is Sundance more important than ever before and why do we badly need the 2020 edition to flourish?...
The teaser is said to be around 90 seconds long. The hype already started this morning when Universal released a poster for the film. The trailer is said to be “stitched into" the beginning of “Nope,” meaning that it plays right before “Nope” begins with no interludes or advertisements put in between. As is the tradition for many upcoming Nolan movies, a teaser tends to be snuck into one of the bigger summer blockbusters a year prior to release....
I’ve already lauded the curation of Julie Huntsinger’s Telluride Film Festival, it’s almost second-to-none to the point of being a major precursor for potential quality of the fall films. If you want a good idea of what top-tier films to expect this fall season then what Telluride head Huntsinger and her team select is the way to go. With the knowledge of today’s premiere statuses for the NYFF films, one can now get a clearer picture of what will show up at the Telluride Film Festival....
Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy title: “The 10 Best Films Made By Directors Under 25 World Of Reel” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-06” author: “Annmarie Eells” Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)Mommy (Xavier Dolan) Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)Duel (Steven Spielberg)Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)Evil Dead (Sam Raimi) El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez)Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton)Clerks (Kevin Smith)George Washington (David Gordon Green) I reshuffled, subtracted, and added some films....
