Tag: Bugonia
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The Critics Choice Awards and Their Complicated Role as an Oscar Precursor vs. Prognosticator
The Critics Choice Association will unveil its nominees on Friday, and as always, I find myself approaching the announcement with mixed feelings. For all its visibility, the ceremony has long carried an air of amateurism and a lingering question of who is actually deliberating its awards. Unlike established critical institutions such as the New York…
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Final Venice Predictions
The winners of the 82nd Venice Film Festival will be announced this Saturday, so here are our final predictions for which films might take home a prize. Recently, Ildikó Enyedi’s competition entry SILENT FRIEND received a very warm reception — great news, as she remains one of our most prominent surreal humanist filmmakers, a true expert at…
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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 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…
