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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 24, 2021 0:11:52 GMT
Can't find a Supporting Actress thread, so I'll just say this here.
Apparently Balfe is the MVP of Belfast.
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Post by stephen on Aug 24, 2021 0:41:29 GMT
I am absolutely here for a Caitriona Balfe Oscar campaign.
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 1, 2021 14:21:07 GMT
So turns out Belfast isn't having it's WP here, it's also going to Telluride. I think this is going to end up being quite a strong contender.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 2, 2021 17:10:51 GMT
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Post by quetee on Sept 2, 2021 17:17:01 GMT
So turns out Belfast isn't having it's WP here, it's also going to Telluride. I think this is going to end up being quite a strong contender. I was predicting it to win the audience award at TIFF but I guess that's impossible now. I think Belfast and CODA are scoring bp nods.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 7, 2021 17:14:42 GMT
Looks like I'm seeing a few titles next week: Encounter, The Survivor, The Forgiven, and Official Competition w Cruz....
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 12, 2021 23:08:40 GMT
The reviews for The Humans - are limited so far but heavy on praise for it as a film not just the acting - although all the acting has been praised - which seriously must baffle A24 who has THREE films now that are baity with no release dates because they're awful at this stuff. Anybody seeing this @ Toronto? 5 out of 5 in The Guardian: It’s perhaps no big surprise that the greatest work here is done by Houdyshell, who has been with her character now for so long that it’s almost second nature, but her remarkably lived-in performance is still astonishingly impressive, her face subtly registering the impact of every minor insult or embarrassment. It’s a deceptively small moment but her wavering over which dessert to pick, after digs about her weight, is truly shattering.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Sept 13, 2021 2:21:36 GMT
So turns out Belfast isn't having it's WP here, it's also going to Telluride. I think this is going to end up being quite a strong contender. I was predicting it to win the audience award at TIFF but I guess that's impossible now. I think Belfast and CODA are scoring bp nods. I don’t think premiering there is a requirement for the audience award. Nomadland and Three Billboards premiered at Venice.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 13, 2021 16:25:02 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 13, 2021 18:02:54 GMT
So.... Power of the Dog as Tommen_Saperstein said and 3 more September 13, 2021 Jordan Ruimy Four major titles that played at the digital edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have leaked online over the weekend. I’m not going to get into the specifics and name these movies, but this could result in the final death nail of digital festival-going. It was always a major fear that studios had when it came to presenting their movies online at film festivals during this pandemic. Would the titles leak? Well, now they have. I just hope this doesn’t affect Sundance 2022 too much as I was going to rely heavily on the digital component of that upcoming festival. So, let’s find the bastard who leaked these films, reprimand him and move on according to plan?www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/9/r5xy1qas53luqxiegzz31l2jiq8kzg
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Post by speeders on Sept 13, 2021 18:06:55 GMT
So.... Power of the Dog as Tommen_Saperstein said and 3 more September 13, 2021 Jordan Ruimy Four major titles that played at the digital edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have leaked online over the weekend. I’m not going to get into the specifics and name these movies, but this could result in the final death nail of digital festival-going. It was always a major fear that studios had when it came to presenting their movies online at film festivals during this pandemic. Would the titles leak? Well, now they have. I just hope this doesn’t affect Sundance 2022 too much as I was going to rely heavily on the digital component of that upcoming festival. So, let’s find the bastard who leaked these films, reprimand him and move on according to plan?www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/9/r5xy1qas53luqxiegzz31l2jiq8kzgThe Guilty is another one. Curious about the other 2...
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Post by quetee on Sept 13, 2021 20:07:08 GMT
So.... Power of the Dog as Tommen_Saperstein said and 3 more September 13, 2021 Jordan Ruimy Four major titles that played at the digital edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have leaked online over the weekend. I’m not going to get into the specifics and name these movies, but this could result in the final death nail of digital festival-going. It was always a major fear that studios had when it came to presenting their movies online at film festivals during this pandemic. Would the titles leak? Well, now they have. I just hope this doesn’t affect Sundance 2022 too much as I was going to rely heavily on the digital component of that upcoming festival. So, let’s find the bastard who leaked these films, reprimand him and move on according to plan?www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/9/r5xy1qas53luqxiegzz31l2jiq8kzgThe Guilty is another one. Curious about the other 2... would be interesting if other two are Netflix.
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Post by quetee on Sept 14, 2021 15:14:35 GMT
I was predicting it to win the audience award at TIFF but I guess that's impossible now. I think Belfast and CODA are scoring bp nods. I don’t think premiering there is a requirement for the audience award. Nomadland and Three Billboards premiered at Venice. When I wrote that, I thought Focus pulled it entirely. So onward.... looks like it is definitely a contender now.
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Post by quetee on Sept 14, 2021 16:16:06 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 14, 2021 20:49:59 GMT
The Survivor 6/10 or so. Generic biopic from Barry Levinson who is halfway making his Holocaust movie and his Raging Bull..... Harry Haft started professional fighting around 1948 the same year the great sports writer Jimmy Cannon called boxing "the swill barrel of sports." The movie skips a lot of important sections on Haft - his wikipedia is more interesting than the movie - and it muddles the reason behind his postwar continuing to box. Shot in Budapest, some good locations but the visuals are much too dark and crushed. Zimmer apparently did the score but I can't recall it already.
Ben Foster's perf is solid and physically ambitious - he's playing an age range from teens to middle age and the weight- he lost 62 lbs at first and then gained over 50 during production for the present day scenes. Vicky Krieps who I find overrated is pretty good as well. Danny DeVito in one or two scenes shoots some life into the movie. Leguizamo is totally wasted.
Levinson made this on $24m, not a small budget, and has had hell getting distribution. They were done filming with a market reel ready at Cannes.....2019 !! He's said that all the streamers turned 'em down too. Idk if it'd turn out any Oscar noms but then, many lesser similar-type movies have been awarded. But anyway I still like Levinson - he's a smart, funny guy, he's made a dozen very good movies and several great ones, including that Coppola-esque one-two of Avalon and Bugsy.
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Post by quetee on Sept 14, 2021 21:01:28 GMT
Mattsby, didn't realize you were there. What else do you plan on checking out?
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 14, 2021 21:04:47 GMT
Mattsby , didn't realize you were there. What else do you plan on checking out? I am firmly planted around East Coast coffee at all times, quetee! I bought virtual screening tix! and I'm also seeing: Encounter tonight , The Forgiven (which got some fascinating reviews!) , and Official Competition with Penelope Cruz's hair. Might sneak around some more if there are availabilities...
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 15, 2021 3:14:25 GMT
Encounter - around 6.5/10 Sophomore effort from Michael Pearce whose debut Beast was a very good psychological piece. There's a similar mental distorting and questioning with the Riz Ahmed character here as the movie moves under several genres - an alien invasion movie (sort of lo-fi Body Snatchers), a bug horror, a road trip/family movie, and a character study. While the movie forks itself plot-wise and chooses, no spoilers, the lesser option, I still liked it.... Townes van Zandt on the soundtrack.... the dried-out locations.... how Pearce keeps an eye on sound design and gets a very good ensemble - Octavia Spencer, Rory Cochrane, the kids, and... We have a thread Best Actors Born in the 80s that's been posted into late 2020 and there's still no mention of the man Riz Ahmed who's better than all of 'em, except Gosling. Sound of Metal he's terrific but nobody talked about Mogul Mowgli which as a movie dampens as it goes on but the Riz perf suggests Shakespeare in him. I have friends who have no idea he's British, actually.... Fascinating talent and this part he manages to be moving, frightening, and believable as this specific former serviceman.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2021 17:30:35 GMT
Kind of sad description www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/9/z3v2agptknwzy0w8l6gy2rgx5dlbav I’m not entirely sure attending TIFF this year was worth it. Sure, there’s still a full two days of screenings left, but what the pandemic has done to this festival is devastating. The capacity restrictions, which are understandable given Canada’s restrictive COVID laws, made it very hard to book tickets for some of the higher-profile films such as “Dune” and “Belfast.” Good thing then that the generosity of studio publicists enabled me to watch most of them.
The vibe itself was morose. Press and industry presence was very scant, and I’ve spoken to many who regretted not attending Telluride or Venice instead. The world premieres have also been slim pickings. The big one, “Belfast,” was stolen, at the very last minute by Telluride, and what we were left with were rather mediocre “buzz” titles such as “Dear Evan Hansen,” “The Starling,” and “The Forgiven.”
Even worse, there were a bunch of Telluride/Venice titles missing in Toronto such as Pedro Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God,” Marcus Reinaldo Green’s “King Richard” and Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon.” Why did they not make the trek to Canada?
While fests such as Cannes and Venice have made it a priority to continue on with the fervour passion of cinephiles demanding the show must go on, Toronto decided to play it safe this year. This is, of course, not a dig and could very much just be the underlying reality of being in Canada during the age of COVID — and curfews were he norm here when things were really bad.
The festival’s decision to have a digital component may also have scared off some of the major studios, but then again the thick of the lineup wasn’t even available to screen online, puzzling many who expected a larger library of titles to stream at the comfort of their own homes.
It’s not like Canada isn’t a highly vaccinated populace either. 80% of eligible Torontonians have been fully vaccinated — a much higher percentage than most of Europe or the United States. It all begs us to ask a very dicey and uncomfortable question: Are the glory days of the Toronto International Film Festival behind us? Has the pandemic destroyed a world-class film festival? When all is said and done, and the pandemic is finally behind us, there will no doubt be negative effects to be uncovered in the movie world, let’s hope TIFF isn’t one of them.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 17, 2021 19:52:40 GMT
Official Competition 5.5/10 - This is pretty much about the statically absurd rehearsals between two famous actors (Banderas as the global star, Oscar Martínez as the revered) and their pretentious director (Penelope Cruz). The minimalist designs of the locations sort of fascinate and overwhelm the movie...and it's directed in a quiet, deliberate style that's almost anti-comedic. It becomes a movie of hit-or-miss scenes, and it goes on much too long but the perfs are good, especially Banderas and Martínez and their varied sides of ego.
The Forgiven 7ish/10 - I would rate a bit higher but I didn't like the ending. Edgy movie from the older McDonagh that sends up the blind amorality of the privileged. "Look at them - continental wildebeests." Not quite the Burton-Taylor movie for Chastain and Fiennes that some critics insisted it was but it's an unpredictable movie, lotta good lines ("the world is cruel, my father says so"), and a good cast - a thorny, thawing Fiennes, an amused Chastain, Matt Smith, Christopher Abbott, but the standout is Ismael Kanater (the Brando of Morocco?) who's my Supporting win for the year....tho this has no release date yet.
The Power of the Dog 7.5/10 more or less - Still thinking on it. One, it should be longer. Scenes feel cut short, they go by too quickly.... and it's tellingly edited by David Michôd's guy (all of his movies have pacing problems). It also ends balled up - both very suggestive and obvious in a so-what way. But it's well-made by the great Campion (tho beyond her '90-96 peak) and well-acted by Cumberbatch .
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Post by quetee on Sept 17, 2021 20:07:14 GMT
Official Competition 5.5/10 - This is pretty much about the statically absurd rehearsals between two famous actors (Banderas as the global star, Oscar Martínez as the revered) and their pretentious director (Penelope Cruz). The minimalist designs of the locations sort of fascinate and overwhelm the movie...and it's directed in a quiet, deliberate style that's almost anti-comedic. It becomes a movie of hit-or-miss scenes, and it goes on much too long but the perfs are good, especially Banderas and Martínez and their varied sides of ego. The Forgiven 7ish/10 - I would rate a bit higher but I didn't like the ending. Edgy movie from the older McDonagh that sends up the blind amorality of the privileged. "Look at them - continental wildebeests." Not quite the Burton-Taylor movie for Chastain and Fiennes that some critics insisted it was but it's an unpredictable movie, lotta good lines ("the world is cruel, my father says so"), and a good cast - a thorny, thawing Fiennes, an amused Chastain, Matt Smith, Christopher Abbott, but the standout is Ismael Kanater (the Brando of Morocco?) who's my Supporting win for the year....tho this has no release date yet. The Power of the Dog 7.5/10 more or less - Still thinking on it. One, it should be longer. Scenes feel cut short, they go by too quickly.... and it's tellingly edited by David Michôd's guy (all of his movies have pacing problems). It also ends balled up - both very suggestive and obvious in a so-what way. But it's well-made by the great Campion (tho beyond her '90-96 peak) and well-acted by Cumberbatch . So what do you think can you see it winning bp?
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 17, 2021 20:14:07 GMT
The Power of the Dog 7.5/10 more or less - Still thinking on it. One, it should be longer. Scenes feel cut short, they go by too quickly.... and it's tellingly edited by David Michôd's guy (all of his movies have pacing problems). It also ends balled up - both very suggestive and obvious in a so-what way. But it's well-made by the great Campion (tho beyond her '90-96 peak) and well-acted by Cumberbatch . So what do you think can you see it winning bp? Absolutely not. In an odd way, it's both too good and too unsatisfying to be a big Oscar player, I'd say. I don't think there'll be much passion or rallying behind it. I imagine Don't Look Up will take precedent for Netflix. (Then again I'm a horrible predictor so grain-of-salt and all that)
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 17, 2021 23:22:51 GMT
I think if The Power of the Dog can place Top 3 for the audience award tomorrow, it's a real threat for BP. Some people have been assuming it will be too cold/inaccessible/divisive/artsy/whatever other adjectives you want to throw at it, but it topped the Telluride People's Poll, and it still has 91% on RT and 92 on MC.
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Post by quetee on Sept 19, 2021 0:01:33 GMT
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Post by mhynson27 on Sept 19, 2021 1:09:49 GMT
I think if The Power of the Dog can place Top 3 for the audience award tomorrow, it's a real threat for BP. Some people have been assuming it will be too cold/inaccessible/divisive/artsy/whatever other adjectives you want to throw at it, but it topped the Telluride People's Poll, and it still has 91% on RT and 92 on MC. Well there you go.
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