The Three Phases of Link
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 at 9:00PM Sight on Earth On Gone Girl's women... "Psycho Bitch: Qu'est-ce que C'est?"
Awards Circuit Power Hour Actress Oscar categories with Nathaniel R (c'est moi) as guest
In Contention looks at the Best Original Song race
Vulture Most Valuable Stars List methodology...
Vulture 100 Most Valuable Stars rankings with JLaw up top followed by the usuals RDJ, Leo, Bullock... but what's far far more interesting is the lower tiers like Jake Gyllenhaal at 57 'The Modest Movie Star' and Anna Kendrick at 98 'The Songbird' and some inexplicably high placements like Mila Kunis at 37 'The Ingenue in Intermission'
Yahoo funny piece on Britney Spears terror-laden smiles
Wired has a Disney cover and I'm only linking because shouldn't Wired of all places do a little something more creative with an interactive cover than Youtube links? I mean...
BFI is Paris the animation capital of the world for art-driven cartoons?
Esquire "films stupid people think are clever" shameless click bait!
IndieWire does some investigation as to exactly how Poland's Ida became such a big arthouse hit this year.
Slate on the "Bottom Shaming" of How To Get Away With Murder. I think this piece is really smart. While it's true that depiction is not endorsement (see all the dumb misogyny arguments on every movie ever with a female lead who is mistreated) but I'd argue that depiction is endorsement when multiple characters with presumably varying points of view all sound off on said topic and all agree on said depiction.
Marvel Made A Teensy Announcement Phase 3 Today
But I'm feeling cranky about superheroes so it doesn't get a whole post. Every godforsaken movie site on the planet will continue to cover it ad nauseum and will probably publish another 5 thinkpieces tomorrow alone on what we "might" see in each of the 8 movies. Repeat for the next five years. Good god film bloggers get a grip and start talking about actual movies that exist for a change! You're turning film culture into a fast food restaurant that only serves air. Zero calories but there's absolutely no nutritional value in publishing your 10,001st post on Dr. Strange's casting.
Anyway...
/Film has video of Marvel's annoyingly ubiquitous Phase Three commercial from earlier today in which they announced 8 new movies including The Black Panther with Chadwick Boseman and Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel in a very late attempt to stave off those "no diversity!" complaints. Those films arrive in 3 to 4 years respectively because we can't have people of color and women before that, you know? That's RISKY BUSINESS. Never mind that women and people of color have led box office hits since the 1920s and 1960s respectively. That's just too progressive for Marvel right now)
The Stake has a great suggestion for Captain Marvel casting but since we're 4 years away still the actress who will eventually be cast might not even be someone anyone has even heard of yet.
Finally... a trailer but perhaps not the trailer is here for Suite Française is here. EOneUK, releasing the trailer on YouTube claims this will open in January. It's hitting the American Film Market this month too supposedly but it still isn't scheduled for a US release. The buzz for this one started strong last year and nosedived as less and less news was announced. It was starting to feel like a fictional film until this trailer, actually. My yes no maybe so entirely consists of Yes (production team, crazylust for Matthias, tearful farewell to Kristin Scott Thomas), No (WW II prestige fatigue) and Maybe So (is it any good?)
Reader Comments (8)
Hi Nathaniel,
I checked the IMDB site but can't see where it says that 'Suite Francaise' is meant to be shown at AFI.
All I can deduce from the fact that Weinstein is showing it at the 'American Film Market' is that he's looking to unload it onto another distributor (why else would he show it there?).
One more link: Frances McDormand on "looking your age."
Some of the entries in that Vulture ranking are preposterous. They wonder if ScarJo could become an international movie star? Like she isn't already! Also, relevantly for TFE, no Nicole Kidman?! :O I mean, I know she's not exactly a box office powerhouse, but neither is her bestie Watts (among others). And Kidman works SO much!
This superhero movie thing is getting beyond ridiculous and feels like synthetic film mkaing.
Suite Francaise- wait! what? That dining room/piano scene looks exactly like the one in Fury. And did I just see Ruth Wilson in this too? I hope the movie is better than the book, which was beyond dull. The author's personal story would have been more interesting. But I'm a Yes because I'm a KST completist, and Michelle Williams is always engaging.
Pam: The concept is French Occupation Titanic, which is EXTREMELY delicate conceptually, and certainly not anything that should be handled by anything less than a daring, challenging filmmaker if it's going to get made at all. The kind of twisted nightmare scenario that should be handled by an Andrea Arnold or, if she's willing to examine something outside of her own experience, Breillat, not Saul "The Duchess" Dibb.
The Marvel Announcement - This isn't an original thought but I think people have to realize that superhero film is no longer a niche thing: It's a genre onto itself. Just like horror, comedies, dramas or thrillers; It will produce quality films, middling films and bad ones. Does it rob the superhero film of its specialness? To a degree but we get dozens of animated films a year and that doesn't take away from when Pixar - or another company - does a great one.
Look, I'm not saying the genre doesn't have big issues. However, the sheer number of these films being made in a year shouldn't get this big sigh as if it's the only genre to do it.
Suite Française - I think I'm getting as tired of WWII films as people on here are getting tired of superhero films. Therefore, unless this gets serious oscar buzz then I'm a big fat HELL NO on this project. I also have a weird relationship with Michelle Williams as an actress. When she was on Dawson's Creek, she was one of my favorite actors on the show and I was disappointed when it looked like Katie Holmes would become the bigger star.
I should be happy that this didn't happen but I just find Williams' film performances - aside from Blue Valentine, at least - so cold and off-putting that I never enjoy her work. Here, unfortunately, it looks to be more of the same.
In clicking through the Wired Interactive Disney cover, the video for Paperman has a completely different soundtrack from the original version! weird O.o