I Feel Pretty, 2018 The main character of the movie worked on her personality for a long period and tried to keep her figure. She ended up in a fitness club, where she sweated hard on the simulators. Unfortunately, her efforts were to no avail. After falling off anexercise bike and hitting her head, Renee Bennett believes thather appearance has changed as if by magic and now she is a dazzling beauty....
Meanwhile, Venice, Telluride, and New York will likely be the beneficiaries of Toronto’s misfortune, as the in-person formats for those festivals have been much more embraced by studios. For the past week, I’ve been asking around, looking for folks in the know, trying to assess what might be in store for us at the fall fests. Let’s start with Telluride, the festival that has launched many Oscar contenders. The following films seem to very much be in the cards, with only “The Tragedy of Macbeth” as a major question mark:“The Hand of God” (Paulo Sorrentino)“C’mon C’mon” (Mike Mills)“The Power of Dog” (Jane Campion)“Madres Paralelas” (Pedro Almodovar)“The Card Counter” (Paul Schrader)“Spencer” (Pablo Larrain) “Tick, Tick… Boom!...
Today’s importance of zeroing in on Oscar contenders rather than the quality of a film, a trend which seems to have started only recently with the rise of the “Oscar blogger” in the mainstream media, and all this despite the consistent downfall of Oscar ratings ever since the early 2000s, has positioned a problem which we haven’t fully dealt with or even decided to ponder in the States. Media outlets seem obsessed with who and what will be showered with Oscar gold come next February/March instead of, you know, actual artistic quality....
“Emancipation” is in all likelihood done. It won’t contend for anything and will probably garner some views on Apple TV, mostly from curiosity seekers who want to know what Will Smith has been up to post-slap. Hack director Antoine Fuqua is the man behind “Emancipation,” so I never really thought it stood a chance at awards. The critics have also sunk it: The movie currently has a 49% on Rotten Tomatoes and is now available on Apple TV....
Whilst although a trivial matter when weighed up against what is happening in the world, let’s take a dive into how some of the films which have found new release dates, may fancy their chances at taking the Dolby theatre stage, providing the world slips back into relative normality. First up is one offering relatively simple analysis, Disney and Pixar’s animated feature hopeful (more like front-runner) “Soul”, the story of musician Joe Gardiner (Jamie Foxx) who finds himself transported out of his body and begins his journey back to it, finding himself along the way....
Here’s some good news. Allen has wrapped production on his latest film in Paris. He tends to be pretty quick in the editing room, so this one should easily be ready by early 2023. The film started production on September 27th. That’s a quick shoot, but it’s how Allen usually works. Not many takes, just a few locations and a sprightly atmosphere. DP Vittorio Storaro is back shooting this latest one with Allen....
Yes, there were some excellent films from female directors this year, particularly Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” and Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell,” but both are in a foreign language and, unless you’re named “Parasite,” we all know how the Academy frowns upon subtitles. Then there’s the Greta Gerwig issue. The director’s period drama “Little Women,” failed to make Gerwig one of only five women to have landed a Best Director nomination in history — Gerwig was shut out of the race this year....
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I mean, really, the fault’s on De Niro, he’s the one that agreed to sign up and star in such aughts travesties as “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle,” “Showtime,” “City By the Sea,” “Analyze That,” “Godsend,” “Meet the Fockers,” “Hide and Seek,” “Righteous Kill,” “What Just Happened,” “Little Fockers,” “Killer Elite,” “New Year’s Eve,” “Red Lights,” “The Big Wedding,” “Freelancers,” “The Ages of Love,” “Everybody’s Fine,” “The Family,” “Last Vegas” and so on....
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This year’s Berlinale winner, Carla Simón’s “Alcarràs” was just bought by the streaming service MUBI. It is now set for a brief theatrical release in late 2022 before going to streaming. The 72nd Berlin Film Festival wrapped up in late February to rather muted buzz. I was supposed to attend, but ended up getting cold feet due to the lukewarm lineup and the severe restrictions that came in attending the festival this year....
As autobiographical as the Queens filmmaker has ever gotten with his cinema, it’s also the simplest film he’s ever made. Recounting his childhood in New York, this is a Truffaut-esque story about friendship, tolerance and family. After going for his biggest and most expensive movie in 2019 with “Ad Astra,” Gray has decided to go back to the basics with this one, tackling a multiracial friendship and an ailing grandfather with the kind of specificity that, at times, feels overwhelmingly authentic....
These preview earnings place ‘Way of Water’ as the 36th highest Thursday total ever. The movie cost $300- 350 million to make and has been in development for close to 12 years. Disney-Fox are supposedly lowballing estimates, hoping to say on Monday that the movie “overperformed.” What’s really going on here is a mixture of factors: very bad weather in the Northeast, good but not great reviews and far less interest, at least when compared to the first “Avatar” movie....
Led by a beautifully subtle performance from Barbara Colen, here is a film unafraid to please both arthouse and midnight crowds in equal measures. The result is confusing in tempo, but unique and compulsively watchable in a where-the-hell-will-it-take-me-next kind of nature. Set “a few years from now” in the imagined town of Bacurau, the first half hour or so of the film sets up a place so unknown that the locals can’t even seem to pinpoint it on a map when trying to teach local kids where they come from, the film starts off steeped in magical surrealism as Teresa (Bárbara Colen) comes back to Bacurau to mourn the death of her grandmother....
The plot goes like this: T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is the king of Wakanda, but when he dons his leather all-Ebony suit, he’s the Black Panther. Since this is Coogler, Michael B. Jordan has to be cast in some kind of role, so here the 31-year-old actor plays the villainous Erik Killmonger and he, quite frankly, steals the show from Boseman’s rather stilted, uninteresting performance. Ditto Letitia Wright as T’Challa’s very own “Q,” Shuri....
That’s why Denis has a been a hit and miss director for me all these years. This year, she’s premiered two new films; “Both Sides of the Blade,” and “The Stars at Noon,” both subpar. In “Both Sides of the Blade” (being released on July 8th), Denis sets her sights on a soapy love triangle. Sara (Juliette Binoche) and Jean (Vincent Lindon) have been in a loving relationship for ten years....
This A24 Jennifer Lawrence drama is very minor. Don’t get me wrong, it’s decent enough, but once it ends you just shrug it off and go on with your life. It’s basically a two-handed character study that purposely, I think, goes nowhere. The film has crashed at the Toronto International Film Festival with okay reactions. Nothing wrong with that. Just a few months ago, the film was supposed to be abysmal, purely based on word of mouth....
The story is rather simple and familiar, man and a woman share one compartment on a train despite the clear personality differences. Finnish student Laura (Seidi Haarla) and Russian miner Ljoha (Yuriy Borisov) are both going to Murmansk; she a palaeontologist, wants to see ancient petroglyphs. He, headed to work, and drinking … a lot. The uncomfortable dynamics drive this movie forward until, lo and behold, an attraction starts creeping in....
Can you take seriously a list of the finest actors around that includes the likes of Keanu Reeves and Melissa McCarthy? Of course not. A.O. and Manohla apparently picked the cream of the crip of acting via a woke checklist perspective. They wanted to be as inclusive as possible because their Times masters are constantly watching over their backs 24/7, they have to appease, no, lick the derrieres, of the progressive-left editors, otherwise, they can be in big trouble....
“Dogman” turns out to be a kind of David vs. Goliath story. Described as an urban western, while the drama does possess traces of Eastwood’s early no-frills gut-punches, it’s also very much a B-movie soaked in horror and revenge. It finds director Mateo Garrone back in fine form and mostly, at the height of his game; the allure of his monstrous antagonistic character is undeniable and he earns extra credit for creating one of the most reprehensible movie villains in recent memory....
