Category: Oscars 2025
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Telluride Film Festival RECAP: Get Ready For HAMNET
The 52nd Telluride Film Festival (which always takes place over Labor Day weekend) wraps up tomorrow, with most of the heavy hitters now unveiled. Among the standouts already seen at Cannes (and by yours truly) were Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident, The Mastermind, Nouvelle Vague, The History of Sound, and…
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Venice Day Five HOT TAKES: Jim Jarmusch’s latest adored by critics; WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN and Ann Lee receive polarizing reactions
The biggest premieres of day 5 of the Venice Film Festival were the Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin, and first peek at Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Anne Lee. Jim Jarmusch’s minimalist style, wry humor, and poetic portraits of outsiders have made him a pioneer of independent…
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Venice Day Four HOT TAKES: Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN is Alive!!
Guillermo del Toro’s dream project was finally unveiled tonight at the Venice Film Festival. What seems like a perfect melding of artist and subject, his take on Frankenstein certainly drew it’s ardent admirers—many who were in awe of the film’s craftsmanship, and del Toro’s success in crafting a transcendent, romantic, emotionally complex melodrama—as well as…
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Venice Day Three HOT TAKES: Is Park Chan-wook’s NO OTHER CHOICE the next Golden Lion winner?
Day three saw the official red carpet premier of After the Hunt, which has continued to procure very mixed reviews, prompting many on film twitter to hastily declare it a catastrophic misfire (the good ol’ folk on film twitter tend to oscillate between extremes often, especially regarding film festival premieres, especially during awards season). This…
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HAMNET is soaring at the Telluride Film Festival; Jeremy Allen White impressing as The Boss
The Telluride Film Festival has officially started, and the first big peeks were Chloe Zhao’s much anticipated HAMNET and Scott Cooper’s DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. We’ll have more tomorrow, when official reviews will be out, but the verdict for HAMNET is: a bona fide Best Picture contender (as Joseph and I predicted from the get-go),…
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Venice Day Two HOT TAKES: BUGONIA ascends; AFTER THE HUNT falls; JAY KELLY is mid-tier Baumbach
Day 2 of the Venice Film Festival was a big one: the highly anticipated, and Oscar-pegged, titles of Jay Kelly, Bugonia, and After the Hunt revealed themselves to the world for the first time (After the Hunt during a press-only screening). Results were interesting, if not all that surprising. Prior to the festival bows, Joseph…
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Venice Day One HOT TAKES: LA GRAZIA a “powerful return to form” for Paolo Sorrentino; plus Noomi Rapace makes an impression in MOTHER
The Venice Film Festival is finally upon us and we’ve got Day 1 Hot Takes. The two most notable premieres were Paolo’s Sorrentino’s LA GRAZIA (which features another collaboration with famed Italian actor and theater director Tony Servillo, who is said to be stupendous in this new film) in the Main Competition, and Teona Strugar…
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If The Oscars Were Tomorrow: Best Picture (Oscars 2025)
We’ve finally reached the end of our series “IF THE OSCARS WERE TOMORROW” and can unveil the films we believe would earn mentions for Best Picture. Ground rules to keep in mind. For the best possible accuracy, we’ll be considering not just every film that’s opened theatrically to date, but also every film SCREENED thus…
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If The Oscars Were Tomorrow: Director (Oscars 2025)
We’re winding down our “IF THE OSCARS WERE TOMORROW” series, and forecasting who’s in the lead for Director so far this year. Ground rules to keep in mind. For the best possible accuracy, we’ll be considering not just every film that’s opened theatrically to date, but also every film SCREENED thus far that has both…
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If The Oscars Were Tomorrow: Adapted Screenplay (Oscars 2025)
On this edition of our “IF THE OSCARS WERE TOMORROW” series we’re diving into the Adapted Screenplay category, which has us scrambling for movies to fill-in the final spots. Ground rules to keep in mind. For the best possible accuracy, we’ll be considering not just every film that’s opened theatrically to date, but also every…
