Links: Sharp Objects, French Directors, Emmy Ladies
Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 10:28PM THR amazing casting news: the great Patricia Clarkson will play Amy Adams estranged mother in HBO's Sharp Objects. Both roles are so juicy. Filming starts soon but we're talking next summer's Emmy nomination's not 2017's. Speaking of...
Decider Joe Reid's already thinking of the Lead Actress in a Miniseries Emmy race: 10 women, only 6 slots
/Film original Ghost in the Shell actors will dub the new film for Japanese relates
Salon looks back at memorable Russian villains in movies and on TV
All Things Considered wonders if you can make a King Kong movie without perpetuating racial undertones
Variety winners for the Miami Film Festival: Family Life and Maria (and Everybody Else)
Awards Daily 77 films about women on the way. That sounds like a lot, so, yay!
The Sun a couple of more pictures from the set of Mary Poppins Returns. A polka dot bowtie on Mary!
Decider Girls found the line that HBO wouldnt cross for sex scenes
/Film Edgar Wright's Baby Driver starring Ansel Elgort premiered at SXSW so here's the trailer
W Mag classic Linda Evangelista photo. Love.
French Waves, Not New
The New Yorker has an article / theory on why France hasn't produced a great director in three decades. Interesting ideas but I disagree with the thesis. France may never be the critical hotspot in international cinema -- there's always some exciting country of the moment in international cinema and it changes every handful of years -- but they're consistently strong.
Thirty years ago was 1987. Directors who made their first feature films after 1987 include Claire Denis (1988), Arnaud Desplechin (1991), Jacques Audiard (1994). Does The New Yorker really exclude all of them from a list of great French directors? I admit France isn't turning out the greats as consistently as they once did and Brody is right that the new exciting directors dont seem to stay as exciting for as long as they should now (what happened to Christophe Honore, for example?) but let's be reasonable! I personally have high hopes for Celine Sciamma (Girlhood), Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Mustang) and Alice Winocour (Disorder) so maybe the future is female?
"Complicit"
Did you see SNL's perfume ad of Ivanka Trump starring Scarlett Johansson? The Titanic joke is rich.
Reader Comments (13)
What about Olivier Assayas, Catherine Breillat, Leos Carax, ...? And that's just the ABC's
That New Yorker article is so bizarre. Doesn't even begin to take into account the changing world of film. In the '50s and '60s, sure, France was churning out legends, but that was aided by the fact that the number of foreign films audiences were getting and had access to was minor compared to today. Back then it was France, Italy, maybe one or two from Spain, Russia, Czechoslovakia and so on. Now we have entire "new wave"s from places like Romania of all places. We now have the ability to see Asian and African cinema (the same argument of the article could be made of Japan, probably, but would they ignore that we now have Thai/Korean/Iranian/Turkish etc cinema?). Nor does the article go into the downturn of foreign language cinema at the box office, which we all know about here at The Film Experience. It's hard to be a cultural touchstone when there are more films vying for attention and getting it.
And, yeah, Denis, Carax, Assayas, Audiard, Breillat (even if I'm not personally a fan), Sciamma...
It also doesn't go into how much middle-of-the-road French cinema there was then and is now. Let's not pretend French cinema isn't as bad as America in that regard.
I don't know if anyone's read Sharp Objects but Patricia Clarkson is the best casting - the mother role is such a juicy role so start throwing the awards st her now!
Word around town is that HBO is planning on submitting Big Little Lies in Drama Series. That can obviously change, especially since submissions don't open until later this month, but thats the early word.
The spoiler to Joe's list is Amybeth McNulty in Anne (Netflix), premieres May 12. I wouldn't rule her out.
The New Yorker can go fuck itself. That is all.
Well... you can't expect the new Godard to come from a film school ^^
Also, what about Abdellatif Kechiche (Golden Lion for Best First Film in 2000)
Last night's Feud was so bad that I doubt either Sarandon or Lange will deserve those nominations (but I'm sure they'll get them, they're very famous, you know).
Reese for the Emmy! Feud is a snooze.
Scarlett proved (again) that she's a secret weapon crackling character comedy actress. The funeral sketch with Kenan is lame on paper but she knew exactly how to make it funny. The Olive Garden sketch has some pretty fantastic physical stuff from her, too.
Honestly, Scarlett could spend a few years playing obnoxious Jersey/borough girl stereotypes in broad comedies and I wouldn't complain. How quickly we've forgotten Don Jon! I'm bummed that she appears to play it straight in this new bachelorette comedy.
The New Yorker can suck it. France has been making awesome films for years and they're still thriving.
BTW, I loved that commercial that Scarlett did as Hovanka.
Given how weak the source material Scarlett had to work with for SNL and given how she elevated it in such a great way, I would give her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series... Seriously, the perfume ad alone is just comedic gold! xD
On that Emmy Miniseries Best Actress, would Mary-Louise Parker and Rachel Griffiths of When We Rise have any chance at all to stay in the conversation? I just finished watching it. I didn't read much review so I am not quite sure how the miniseries fare in the eye of the critics, but I understand the rating was not good. And then there's the fact that they only appear in the second half. I absolutely adore these two ladies, perhaps they go supporting?