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Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 1:48PM Village Voice Bilge Elbiri on a film review that changed his live (J Hoberman's 1992 piece on Orson Welles' Othello) - lovely personal piece
Nick Davis Chicago film festival jury picks and his own precise takes on the movies screened including high profile gems like Call Me By Your Name, and several foreign film Oscar submissions
Esquire Bryan Cranston must be seeking to sabotage his Oscar hopes this year with this admission that he's rooting for Trump to succeed
Huffington Post talks to Melissa Leo about Novitiate and becoming a gay icon with those "Consider..." ads
Another Mag amazing photos of the well decorated sets of Call Me By Your Name
EW Moulin Rouge!'s stage musical adaptation sets its debut for next summer in Boston. Which means we're probably looking at a Broadway transfer and contention for the June 2019 Tonys.
SBS an amazing interview with Katya and Trixie whose new series The Trixie & Katya Show starts real soon
Vanity Fair sits down with still-rising Tessa Thompson about her stereotype defying career
Esquire jumps on the "give I, Tonya Oscars" bandwagon. I tell you what dear readers, the ease with which this movie is getting people excited when I though it was genuinely not good (mockumentary stale, politically problematic, and cheap-looking) is going to make this Oscar season a loooong one for me (sigh). Ah well. You can't love everything... or every Oscar season.
Reader Comments (13)
I love Tessa Thompson after Creed especially and stoked to see her in Thor and Annihilation (trailer makes it seem she has some rather intense scenes!). What an exciting new actress.
@Huh: Tessa Thompson is definitely enjoying a breakthrough right now, but it’s weird to see the phrase “new actress” applied to someone who had a significant role throughout Season 2 of Veronica Mars 12 years ago.
brevity -- well, TV fame is very weird that way. unless people are watching that specific show it tends to mean nothing in terms of stardom. There are whole swaths of people who are very famous to about 200,000 people and remain a total unknown to everyone else. She really began to break through in the past 3 years. The first time I saw her was in 2010 with For Colored Girls but it really seemed to be DEAR WHITE PEOPLE (2014) that put her on the Hollywood map despite lots of credits before that.
Cranston reportedly doesn't need Trump to scupper his chances this year.
i've heard so many stories about how awful melissa leo is from people who have worked with her, and that article sure reflects some big ole crazy. does she really think antoine fuqua is "one of the best directors the united states HAS EVER HAD?" and i love how she is still burning over those consider ads...she doesn't really now want people to think they were for fun, does she? really fascinating article...thanks for flagging!
If it's any consolation, I can't believe I, Tonya is an Oscar contender after seeing those trailers. Remember that movie The Bronze? It looks like its sister.
And trailers never lie, right?
"Moulin Rouge" is already ready for the stage, but whatever happened to "Smash"?
I, TONYA doesn't open in Australia till 15 February so it feels like a looong wait before I can make up my mind about it.
At least I, Tonya is like a fun twist on biopics I guess. Thank god it's at least not another movie about a boring white old guy. I am here if it means Allison Janney getting an Oscar nom.
I love Tessa Thompson - but I don't know what the fuck she was attempting to do with that "accent" in Thor!
And I hate that she appears in a superhero movie, and likely will appear in many future Marvel movies, but if it'll mean that she gets to do better and cooler projects, then... ok.
Re. Moulin Rouge! - I've been needing an excuse to visit Boston!
Not that Bryan Cranston really needs defending, but I'm pretty sure he meant it in the Obama way, as in "I hope he accomplishes some good, effective things so our country won't end up a disaster," which is, obviously, antithetical to what Trump and his party stand for, but I sort of get the sentiment.
re: TV fame ... it's like Gilmore Girls Melissa McCarthy v Bridesmaids Melissa McCarthy. Totally different career stages.