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Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 8:30PM
Gurus of Gold - current predictions
Cartoon Brew - talks to the directors of all the animated short nominees
Movie City News - David Poland thinks the Oscar season is not too short but not short enough. Eeep! We wildly disagree since the shortened season made voters even lazier than usual.
More after the jump including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Under the Skin, Lee Grant, and List-Mania...
Shorts Charts - we’ve finally gotten these charts up to date. Now to cram in all these minis films before the big night
Today’s Video
Got 28 minutes? If so here’s a mini-documentary on the making of Best Picture nominee Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood selling it as “a love letter to making movies” which it, of course, partially is.
Off Oscar
Vanity Fair an interview with the legendary Lee Grant. WHY ISN'T SHE PRESENTING AT THE OSCARS?!? GET WITH IT AMPAS
Cartoon Brew -animation industry responds to Kobe Bryant’s death. He of course won an Oscar writing and producing the animated short Dear Basketball
Towleroad - The Superbowl gets its first draq queen commercial: Miz Cracker and Kim Chi star
Deadline Robert Pattinson has officially started shooting The Batman
Coming Soon Lin-Manuel Miranda is making a movie of Jonathan Larsen's stage musical Tick, tick... Boom!
Deadline Here's something we didn't expect: Our #1 film of 2014 Under the Skin has prompted a bidding war for rights to a possible spin-off series
Variety Sony Pictures Classics has bought the gay drama I Carry You With Me out of Sundance
The Guardian Rosie Perez has now testified in the Harvey Weinstein trial
Extra John Karlen, Emmy winner from Cagney & Lacey has died
List-Mania
(You might have seen some of these already but we wanted to share them)
Nick Davis - top 100 of the 2010s, a truly epic read
Queer Review - top 20 LGBTQ films of the decade
IndieWire - various directors pick their favourites of the year. Really interesting stuff. Like the director of John Wick choosing all action pictures… and Little Women. And here’s Bong Joon Ho’s list:
- “First Cow” – Kelly Reichardt
- “The Irishman” – Martin Scorsese
- “Asako 1 & 2” – Hamaguchi Ryuske
- “Marriage Story” – Noah Baumbach
- “Midsommar” – Ari Aster
- “Uncut Gems” – Safdie Brothers
- “Hotel by the River” – Hong Sang Soo
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“Mindhunter” (Season 2) – David Fincher & others
*sniffle* so sad that Mindhunter is over.
Reader Comments (22)
Why is no one talking about how Kobe Bryant was a rapist?
@Owen, oh, plenty are talking about it.
“a truly epic read” Just say extraordinarily long.
Wow, Queer Review nailed it!
I enjoyed Nick's list, but there were WAY too many ties.
And why would we be talking about that here, Owen? Never mind. I don't want to hear it.
I don’t think Lee Grant wants everybody talking and speculating on her face like when Kim Novak presented at the Oscars a few years back.
Does Nick Davis sleep? His write-ups are a treasure.
I’m obsessed with the idea of Luca Guadagnino casting Lena Dunham in his next movie now.
Right? I mean she's totally articulate at 94. Year after year we miss the opportunity of watching true legends at the Oscars. Have you seen the current list of presenters?
"the shortened season made voters even lazier than usual." Co-sign.
Thank you so much for sharing the interview with Lee Grant - She is a fabulous actress. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend the filmed version of "The Seagull" from the 70s starring Grant as Arkadina - it's perhaps the best iteration of this wonderful character I've seen.
Today I learned that Dinah Manoff is Lee Grant’s daughter.
That Lee Grant interview is an absolute delight.
That Lee Grant interview is amazing. In a way, I have TFE to thank for introducing me to her because I became a fan after watching The Landlord, which I only watched because of the Smackdown episode it was featured on. I’ve subsequently seen her in The Mafu Cage (a great, really weird film), Shampoo, and In the Heat of the Night, and she’s phenomenal in all of them.
@thefilmjunkie - I would definitely recommend seeking out her other Oscar-nominated performances in Detective Story (Cannes Best Actress win!) and Voyage of the Damned.
And as a I mentioned up-thread, everyone should see her as Arkadina in The Seagull! I love it so, so much.
RE: The Gurus of Gold predictions...
It would be fun if there was *one* surprise in the acting categories this year.
I will never see Richard Jewell but if they called Kathy Bates' name, for example, I would live for the drama and shock of the moment. I wanted Glenn to win last year but there's no denying the utter thrill of watching that category throw a curveball. It's crass but even terrible surprises make great TV, not just the good ones.
Well JF Zellweger is vulnerable. If she's as meh in comparison to her fellow nominees as Nathaniel and many here say, then I think enough of the voters will screen her competitors and maybe agree with Nathaniel that she is really not up to scratch and vote accordingly.
I'm rooting for Zellweger but I wouldn't mind at all if she lost. Zero downside to any of this for her.
@Owen this is a film site so it would ve been better to discuss it when he won an Oscar in 2018, but we can definitely talk about Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin, David Bowie and Roman Polanski being rapists!
Lee is so great in everything! And what an interesting life - I also love that she transitioned to directing docs (one which won an Oscar). If you want to listen to a long interview with her, Gilbert Godfried's podcast just uploaded it's entire archive and there is a great conversation with her.
Kobe Bryant didn't rape anyone. Neither did Charlie Chaplin. When can we finally admit that #MeToo and all intersectional feminist ideology, along with this bullshit restorative view of history, has absolutely destroyed all of our discourse in the public eye? It's ridiculous. Mike/Owen or whatever, you should be ashamed of yourself for pushing that, here of all places.
I love "Under My Skin" but I really can't see it as tv show