New York Film Festival Selects Mike Mills' 20th Century Women for Centerpiece Film
Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 9:00AM Sound the alarms: there's a fresh new reason to celebrate Annette Bening. Following in the footsteps of last year's selection of Steve Jobs, the New York Film Festival has chosen Mike Mills' 20th Century Women as its 2016 Centerpiece, which stars The Bening as a single mother raising her son in 1979 Santa Barbara, co-habiting with a Bowie-cut Greta Gerwig, nomadic carpenter Billy Crudup, and frequent house guest Elle Fanning. We've been anxiously awaiting Mills' follow up to the intimate, structurally adventurous tone poem that is Beginners for a few years now, and NYFF's programming pick (and description of the film as a vibrantly alive time capsule, plus taste-maker A24's acquisition) signals a strong indication that it's been worth the wait. Imagining The Bening caught at the crux of cultural, decade-splitting identities, and strapped into denim overalls to boot, would be enough reason to anticipate the film, but the thought of another story stripped from the personal headlines of Mills' own life and translated into pure cinema has us downright salivating. I can smell the burnt sage from here.
Reader Comments (11)
Looks like Best Actress will be a real nail biter this year better start growing yours now people.
Since the Globes are indifferent completely to Davis she could experience her only televised defeat of the season there.
The film has been labeled as a comedy, I suppose it will go on that side of the Golden Globes (plus, we still don't know for sure if Bening's role is lead or supporting, maybe à la Frances McDormand in Almost Famous)
Bening is the only one from Mills' film who will be campaigned lead.
Please don't make me choose between Bening and Davis this year. Pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase!
I really resent the Academy for denying them in 2010 and 2011.
This will probably be a moot point come February when a young starlet (probably Emma Stone) cruises to a Best Actress win.
Stone's not winning Best Actress this year. Not sure she's even close to being nominated. A musical comedy is not there thing.
Stone's not winning Best Actress this year. Not sure she's even close to being nominated. A musical comedy is not their thing.
Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, Sissy Spacek, Reese Witherspoon, Marion Cotillard (with her singing dubbed). It can be done. (La La Land is described as a "comedy-drama.")
Stone is overrated!