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Monday, May 25, 2020 at 12:27PM • Variety The Venice Film Festival will commence (not cancelling) on September 2nd
• IndieWire does some myth-busting by looking back at an historic movie weekend in 1977, when both Smokey and the Bandit and Star Wars opened
• Variety on how Carole Lombard becamse the first Hollywood casualty of WW II
After the jump including the first drag queen Emmy nominee, fight challenge, Michel Piccoli RIP, no Bridesmaids sequel, trivia and Brokeback reminiscences with Oscar pundits, Diva, and more...
• MUBI Notebook celebrates Michel Piccoli (1925-2020). Do you have a favourite role of his? I remember him most from Belle de Jour (1967) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
• IndieWire Disney+ "Out," a short film, is Pixar's first gay anything. It's wonderful except for the completely silly superfluous framing device
• The Guardian "my favourite film aged 12: Diva" (I was a bit older when I finally saw Diva but I loved it as a teenager, too)
• Out We already shared brief thoughts on the daytime Emmy noms but did you know that Willam is the first drag queen ever nominated for an acting Emmy?
• AV Club the original screenplay of the film Yesterday was a lot different before Richard Curtis rewrote and took the sole credit.
• Reunited Apart have you seen Josh Gad's YouTube show which reunites casts of 80s movies? They've done The Goonies and Back to the Future. Next up (tomorrow) is Splash.
• The Guardian CAA has signed "virtual" actor Miquela
• IndieWire Paul Feig, apparently one of the last sensible people in Hollywood, explains why we dont need a Bridesmaids sequel
• Broadway Blog Broadway On Demand will host a huge celebration of Broadway in the place of the Tony Awards this year since CBS can't even be bothered to do that opting for a Grease sing-a-long instead.
Ouch!
How did we miss this "fight challenge video" with so many famous actresses 3 weeks back? Here it is. LOVE Daryl Hannah's cameo and of course Juliette Lewis, Julia Butters, Cameron Diaz, Rosario Dawson, Florence Pugh and many more are great fun, too.
The AV Club has alerted us that Laika responded with their own version of the "fightchallenge" on TikTok
Exit Video. Indie Pundits Trivia Night Part Two
If you have two and a half hours.
Please note: This is not to be confused with Michael Cusumano's Trivia Night, sponsored by TFE, which is an actual trivia contest that anyone attending can win.) In this more free-form irregular sorta-trivia-focused nite in which the biggest "indie" Oscar sites (i.e. anything not an offshoot of the major publications) get together to get tested on their Oscar trivia and also answer general questions. We did it again this Saturday (embedded above) and this time I won the trivia round (!!!) before the general discussion. The second half ended up being mostly a discussion of that sad 2005 Oscar season in which Brokeback lost. Erik Anderson (Awards Watch) speaks emotionally about that experience and there's also a kind Sasha Stone (Awards Daily) shoutout to an article I wrote that season which Marshall Flores (Awards Daily) actually quotes referring to the night "Black Sunday" (which was what I dubbed the night in that now infamous article which was a breakthrough for TFE in terms of the profile and popularity of the site). Anyway this was a fun night Saturday night even if it unexpectedly focused on a very unpleasant memory from (gulp) 14 and a half years ago!
Reader Comments (17)
Praying for a President Biden next Memorial Day.
I hate to say it but I really didn't like Out :(
Nice answer to the favorite Oscar year question, Nathaniel. While in some ways my favorite year is the No Country year, maybe my favorite moment watching was sitting with my mom watching Halle Berry's win and speech. Sometimes the best aspects of the Oscars are about more than winners aligning with one's preferences.
Love the Laika fight challenge
Cinema lost a giant with the passing of Michel Piccoli. It's impossible to highlight one great performance - I'd just like to mention "Le Mépris", "La Belle Noiseuse" and "Milou en Mai".
I love that fight video. Fight, fight, fight!
Weeks later and I’m still thinking about Juliette Lewis in I Know This Much is True. Great actressing at the edges.
Piccoli had a gigantic career. I particulary liked him in Grandeur nature.
Also memorable: Michel Piccoli with Mastroianni, Tognazzi, and Noiret in “La Grande Bouffe”, four friends who decide to commit suicide by over-eating. The terminal flatulence, the mounds of blancmonge....
“...a kind Sasha Stone...” Completely new word combination!
God bless Paul Feig. And what an asshole Richard Curtis turned out to be, he clearly seems not to be a team player.
Congratulations on winning the trivia contest Nathaniel. The best/worst Oscar talk was also really fascinating.
Michel Piccoli was awesome in his movies with Claude Sautet. As a good actressexual, you should see everything Sautet directed because of Romy Schneider.
I'm listening to Simon's Song right now from The Young Girls of Rochefort. RIP Monsieur Dame, Michel Piccoli.
I can't be the only one who can't watch those fight challenge videos until the end. They're so repetitive and ... I don't know, they're like Ryan Murphy' shows, you see the cast and it makes you feel excited, they sound good on paper, but you begin to watch, just to realize it's the same old thing and you stop watching.
I mean the 70s gave us all star casts in movies, now it's just short videos with blink and miss (or don't recognize) said stars. They're just sad.
It's a shame Michael Curtis is lying about a film that's really not very good. The love story is a mess.
I think that I'll watch this movie after reading this geometry dash bloodbath review.