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Anatomy of a fail: Inside France’s dysfunctional Oscar committee
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Movie of the Week #13 - Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Fourth movie with a running time of 100 minutes or less is Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (90 minutes) from 2021
Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
The final movie for January is next Monday on the 29th with The Iron Giant
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Before It Ends / Når Befrielsen Kommer | Trailer
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2024 Oscar nominations
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Razzie Awards: ‘Expend4bles’ leads nominations
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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New ‘Jurassic World’ movie in the works with David Koepp writing
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Hit Man | Official teaser
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Berlin reveals 2024 competition lineup: Rooney Mara, Mati Diop, Isabelle Huppert, Abderrahmane Sissako movies among selection
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Where Hollywood's printed props are made
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David Lynch's Dune coming to theaters in February
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Final 2024 Oscar nominations predictions
Nominations are coming out on Tuesday. Here's my final predictions on what gets in: Picture Oppenheimer The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Poor Things Barbie Maestro Anatomy of a Fall Past...
Nominations are coming out on Tuesday. Here's my final predictions on what gets in:
Picture
- Oppenheimer
- The Holdovers
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Poor Things
- Barbie
- Maestro
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Past Lives
- The Zone of Interest
- American Fiction
Director
- Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
- Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
- Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall
- Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Original Screenplay
- The Holdovers
- Past Lives
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Maestro
- May December
Adapted Screenplay
- Poor Things
- Barbie
- Oppenheimer
- American Fiction
- Killers of the Flower Moon
Lead Actor
- Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
- Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
- Bradley Cooper - Maestro
- Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
Lead Actress
- Emma Stone - Poor Things
- Lilly Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
- Carey Mulligan - Maestro
- Margot Robbie - Barbie
Supporting Actor
- Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer
- Ryan Gosling - Barbie
- Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon
- Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things
- Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
Supporting Actress
- D'avine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
- Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
- Sandra Huller - The Zone of Interest
- Penelope Cruz - Ferrari
- Florence Pugh - Oppenheimer
Film Editing
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Barbie
- The Holdovers
Sound
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- The Zone of Interest
- Ferrari
Cinematography
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Maestro
- The Zone of Interest
Costume Design
- Barbie
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Oppenheimer
- Napoleon
Production Design
- Barbie
- Poor Things
- Oppenheimer
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Napoleon
Make-up and Hairstyling
- Oppenheimer
- Maestro
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- Golda
Original Score
- Oppenheimer
- Poor Things
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Zone of Interest
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Original Song
- I'm Just Ken from Barbie
- What Was I Made For? from Barbie
- Dance the Night from Barbie
- Road to Freedom from Rustin
- Quiet Eyes from Past Lives
VFX
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- The Creator
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Poor Things
Animated Feature
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- The Boy and the Heron
- Elemental
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Nimona
Documentary
- American Symphony
- 20 Days in Mariupol
- Four Daughters
- Beyond Utopia
- The Eternal Memory
International Film
- The Zone of Interest
- Society of Snow
- Fallen Leaves
- The Taste of Things
- Perfect Days
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The Court Jester | Short film | Pauly Shore is Richard Simmons
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‘The Fabelmans’ star Gabriel LaBelle to play Lorne Michaels in Sony’s ‘SNL 1975’; Cooper Hoffman and Rachel Sennott also join ensemble
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‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Poor Things’ lead 2024 BAFTA nominations
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‘Oppenheimer’ wins Best Picture and Director at Critics Choice Awards, leads field with eight; ‘Barbie’ gets six
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Movie of the Week #12 - City Lights
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
We got our first silent movie (almost) with Charlie Chaplin's City Lights from 1931.
How familiar are you with silent films and Charlie Chaplin? Is a movie that is more than 90 years old still worth watching today? Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
Rest of the schedule for January is:
- 22nd: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
- 29th: The Iron Giant
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Spaceman | Official trailer
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Jonathan Majors’ ‘Magazine Dreams’ leaves Searchlight as filmmakers shop for new home
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In the screening room with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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‘Fast & Furious 11’ will be Vin Diesel’s last one, smaller budget and a “throwback” to the first film
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‘Wonka’ hits sweet milestone as musical tops $500m worldwide
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Why you should watch Straight Jacket, the lost gay rom-com
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David O. Russell to direct Linda Ronstadt biopic, starring Selena Gomez
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PGA awards nominations: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ and ‘Zone of Interest’ make history and join ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ and more
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Lighthearted movie about someone finding a new direction?
Can you please recommend a movie about someone finding a new direction in life? Ideally something heartwarming, no soul-crushing drama this time. My picks would be: Chef Secret Life of Walter...
Can you please recommend a movie about someone finding a new direction in life? Ideally something heartwarming, no soul-crushing drama this time. My picks would be:
Do you know about something like that, but less known?
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Sony lands surprise box office hit with ‘Anyone But You’
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Abigail | Official trailer
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Back to Black | Teaser trailer
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Dan Levy’s Criterion Collection closet picks
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‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’: Jon Favreau to direct and produce ‘Star Wars’ pic for Lucasfilm
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DGA Awards film nominations: Gerwig, Nolan, Scorsese, Lanthimos, and Payne
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Paul Thomas Anderson and Warner Bros set Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall in film to shoot this year
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SAG Awards nominations: ‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Succession’ top list
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Movie of the Week #10 - Four Rooms
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
We begin the new year with a movie that takes place on new year's eve with Four Rooms from 1995. Written and directed by four direcors - Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.
How was the movie as a whole? Were there any of the four segments that you particularly liked - or hated?
Rest of schedule for January is:
- 8th: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
- 15th: City Lights
- 22nd: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
- 29th: The Iron Giant
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Tom Cruise signs deal with Warner Bros. to develop and produce original and franchise films
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Movie of the Week #11 - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Next movie with a running time of less than 100 minutes is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles directed by John Hughes from 1987.
Is this movie a Thanksgiving tradition for you? How did you find the humor in this movie? Still funny or dated? How does it compare to other John Hughes movies? Feel free to add any thoughts, opinions, reflections, analysis or whatever comments related to this film.
Rest of the schedule for January is:
- 15th: City Lights
- 22nd: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
- 29th: The Iron Giant
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Golden Globes: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things’ win Best Picture awards
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Jurassic World and overcomplicated plot
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‘Past Lives’ wins Best Picture from National Society of Film Critics
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Longlegs | Teaser
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The Peasants | Official trailer
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Benny breaks out: The Safdie brother on going solo, making you squirm with ‘The Curse’ and what he learned from Christopher Nolan and PTA
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The First Omen | Official trailer
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Trailer for Mickey Mouse slasher film drops on same day ‘Steamboat Willie’ character enters public domain
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Paradise (2023)
Paradise is an exciting action sci fi with a really interesting premise. What if eternal youth, was available to anyone with money... yet it involved literally sucking the life force out of others...
Paradise is an exciting action sci fi with a really interesting premise. What if eternal youth, was available to anyone with money... yet it involved literally sucking the life force out of others less fortunate than yourself?
The movie focuses on Max, who after his wife is unexpectedly forced to give up 40 years of her life, he desperately searches for a way to get her youth back. The movie is filled with the usual plot twists, cool sci fi graphics, true love and the like.
There are two truly interesting elements to this movie. The first is the cynical idea that if the rich could live forever, then they would be much more motivated to think about and solve for the long term health of the planet.
In this movie, only the rich can afford to extend their lives for as long as they choose, so we also see how that would severely impact wealth inequality.
The second interesting element of this movie is a series of questions very similar to the trolley problem. If you could extend your life, at the cost of someone else's youth, would you, assuming they were somehow reimbursed financially?
What if your youth had been taken from you; or what if youth had been taken from someone you loved. Would you take it back? Would you take it back as ethically as possible, or ethics be damned?
Could you give up your youth to save a loved one from an extremely unkind yet uncertain end, or is it easier to risk your life to save theirs than it is to give up eternal youth once you have it?
At one point in the movie, we learn it is easier to take someones life passively through the forces of economics and medical science, than it is to actively kill someone with a gun to their head. Which is the essence of the trolley problem. But it is also the essence of wealth inequality.
We could easily flip the switch, to improve the quality of life and length of life for many people, at the cost of one rich persons riches, but those with power passively choose to not do so. The movie doesn't philosophize anywhere near as much as I am doing right now, instead focusing on fast action, true love and cool sci fi. But I think perhaps this movie is a very subtle warning to the rich. At a certain point of wealth inequality, some portion of the population will want their fair share of the wealth, ethics be damed.
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YouTuber Joel Haver to create twelve feature-length films in twelve months
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