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I still believe there is secret Lynch project going on. I’m also still trying to decipher how the rumor of a new Lynch movie premiering at Cannes materialized into a full-blown media onslaught. The whole drama behind it felt rather surreal or, dare I say it, Lynchian in nature. It all started with the very reliable Kaleem Aftab cryptically tweeting three days ago: Fine, this kicked off an onslaught of guessing games, most of which came back to Lynch possibly having a new secret film ready for Cannes....

Fresh off the “Bardo” fiasco he’s had to deal with at Venice and potentially on a break from cutting more “Bardo” scenes, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is using a pendulum to confirm to himself that Ingmar Bergman’s spirit is very much with him. This short video, one of the most unintentionally funny things I’ve seen online in a very long time, has to be seen to be believed. Maybe he can team-up with Ana de Armas on his next film as the actress recently confirmed she went to Marilyn Monroe’s grave to get the OK to play the late actress in “Blonde....

Fogelman was the scribe of witty pop-culture-oriented fare such as “Crazy Stupid Love” and the somewhat underrated Disney animated flick “Tangled.” However, his screenwriting filmography does also include below-average entities such as “Danny Collins,” “Last Vegas,” “The Guilt Trip” and “Cars 3.” I do need to mention this film again, but Fogelman is coming is just coming off it; Life Itself,” which is, honestly, one of the absolute worst big-studio screenplays of the last few years....

Netflix seems to think they may have finally found the film that will win them the top prize at the Oscars — at least, after numerous attempts with “Roma,” “The Irishman” “Marriage Story” and“Mank.” And yet, are Oscar voters ready to embrace a streaming film as one of their own? The looming question remains as to whether or not voters have been really taken by Campion’s film enough to champion it come March 27th....

Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale” was the only film directed by a woman to be part of this year’s Venice competition. Yes, the film was deemed somewhat of a disappointment for many but that wasn’t an excuse for a member of the Italian press to shout “Shame on you, whore! You Suck!” when Kent’s name appeared on the screen during the credits. Eventually, the person who yelled the obscenity apologized, but Sharif Meghdoud said, “I put my face on it and take responsibility....

However, what I was most fascinated by was Coen’s take on the art of TV making, more precisely, the fundamental problem of creating a long-form TV series. I tackled Coen’s take on this topic back in November of 2019, mostly because I found his was the best and most enriching take on the TV vs Cinema debate: “The thing about TV series that I don’t understand and I think is hard for both of us to get our minds around is, you know, feature films have a beginning, a middle and an end,” Coen said....

Confirming that the official title will be “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” filming on the film, which Joel called a “thriller,” had begun on February 10th and Coen confirmed that they were about 2/3 of the way done with the shoot before production shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now actor Miles Anderson, who stars in Coen’s upcoming Shakespearean adaptation, tweeted that there were only two weeks left to filming when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the set had to be locked down....

I wrote this about Carpenter last year and the incredible decade he’s had despite releasing no movie: If there’s a filmmaker whose stock/legacy has been considerably bumped up the past decade, it’s John Carpenter’s. And yet, he’s only directed a single film in the last 17 years (2010’s The Ward" starring Amber Heard). At 70 years of age, Carpenter is mostly concentrating on producing nowadays, but you cannot deny just how influential he’s been to the resurgence of the horror genre....

Melissa McCarthy was perfectly cast in Marielle Heller’s film, an Oscar-nominated role that also happened to be the best performance of her career. In the film she played biographer Israel, who had a knack for forging celeb letters in the early ‘90s. The film was originally to be directed by talented writer-director Nicole Holofcener (“Lovely and Amazing”), who wrote the screenplay and was slated to direct Moore in the lead role....

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Does it get better than Leonardo DiCaprio signing onto Paul Thomas Anderson’s next movie? Now, that’s a scoop. I’ll try to get more details from Sneider in the coming hour … For the time being nothing is official, but Sneider says it’s almost a done deal. This is said to be the mysterious project that we reported on a few weeks ago. A new movie from PTA with no plot details nor a cast to its name....

With all that said, Netflix will be legitimizing itself even further this year as a major studio with its star-studded fall lineup, which includes Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.” Some people still aren’t taking Netflix seriously as a distributor of “cinema.” Those unwilling to accept that, yes, a Netflix movie should be counted as a real movie, one that is gunning for credible awards contention, will be proven wrong, eventually. Some of the most important Hollywood filmmakers are now making the jump to the streaming giant....

When asked about his thoughts on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the legendary filmmaker decided to not hold back: “I don’t see them,” revealed Scorsese. “I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being....

Of course, it’s quite the bet to bank on this happening, but, quite surprisingly, it is a possibility, especially in a year when most of the major studios have been plagued with movie delays and constant rescheduling. Enter Netflix, who have fallen short of winning the top prize the last two years with the likes of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma.” They again have a decent shot at winning the top prize with Aaron Sorkin’s rousing and crowd-pleasing “Trial of the Chicago 7....

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Chastain’s performance in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” was the kind of work that elevated mediocrity. You can’t take your eyes off her in this film. It’s a showy role, but far from her best work (that would be Maya in “Zero Dark Thirty”). The 44-year-old actress has been around for quite some time now and it seems as though Oscar might finally be calling. And yet, it’s far from a done deal that she will end up winning Best Actress come the third week of March....

Speaking to Deadline, while promoting his new film “The Card Counter,” Schrader didn’t shy away about the toxicity of cancel culture. His comments came after he was asked if “there’s no such thing as bad press” … “Careers have ended not because of criminal charges but because of personal ones, whether it be Kevin Spacey, Scott Rudin, Johnny Depp. They’ve gotten caught up in cancel culture. Cancel culture is infectious, it’s like the Delta virus....

Reviews for “Master Gardener” haven’t been as rousing as those that met “The Card Counter” or “First Reformed,” but no serious cinephile would dare miss this latest cinematic provocation from Schrader. One thing I’ve notice from this trilogy of Bresson-inspired films is that all three leads not only write in a diary, but they also have the same short gel-brushed to the side haircut. This news made me want to go through Schrader’s filmography to see what have been the highlights of his 5-decade filmmaking career, I’m not counting his incredible scripts for “Taxi Driver,” “Rolling Thunder,” “Raging Bull,” “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “Bringing Out the Dead....

The industry just loves Sorkin, they are suckers for whatever he does. Just look at the email I received from a prominent Hollywood pundit back in late October, around two months before ‘Ricardos’ was set to be released. The studio had screened the film for him way in advance and he couldn’t stop raving about it to me afterwards, even calling Sorkin “a master of the game.” Another semi-shocker was the PGA nominating Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “Tick, Tick … Boom!...

“I love cinema, You love cinema,” Tarantino has posted on Instagram and Twitter. “It’s the journey of discovering a story for the first time. The cast and crew have worked so hard to create something original, and I only ask that everyone avoids revealing anything that would prevent later audiences from experiencing the film in the same way.” Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy