Tag: Tar
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Hildur Guðnadóttir Used a Solo Clarinet to Help Create Jump Scares in ‘A Haunting in Venice’
Hildur Guðnadóttir grew up on Agatha Christie mysteries. “I totally lived for those novels,” the composer says. Ever since then, she has wanted to sink her teeth into story by the famous author. So when director Kenneth Branagh approached her, she said yes. “He wanted to do something darker and almost horror, and that dark…
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Telluride 2023 Produced Many Winners, with One Taking the Oscars Lead
The Telluride Film Festival has launched many Oscar Best Picture winners, from “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog Millionaire” to “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight.” Oscar campaigners bring their films here to build critical reaction and positive buzz, often amplifying awareness at subsequent festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Last year, “Tár” and “Women…
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Aki Kaurismaki’s ‘Fallen Leaves’ Voted Best Film of the Past Year by International Film Critics Federation Fipresci
Aki Kaurismäki’s Cannes Jury Prize winner “Fallen Leaves” has snagged the 2023 Intl. Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) Grand Prix for best film of the past year. All films released after July 1 2022 were eligible.The Fipresci Grand Prix will be presented to Kaurismäki at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s opening night gala ceremony on…
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A Hollywood Classic Raises A Big Question: Are Supporting Acting Categories Even Necessary?
(Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we look at an Oscars category from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy’s winner stands the test of time.)We are in somewhat of a transitional period with how we think about the acting categories for entertainment awards. This, primarily, has to do with gender. We…
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Variety Picks Up 13 First-Place Wins at L.A. Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards
Variety won 13 first-place awards Sunday night at the Los Angeles Press Club’s 65th annual SoCal Journalism Awards, more than twice as many as any other entertainment publication.The lucky 13 awards represented a historic high for Variety at the SoCal Journalism Awards, topping the previous best of 12 first-place prizes the magazine earned in 2018.…
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“I Would’ve Shot the Telephone Directory of New York If Todd Had Asked Me To”: Dp Florian Hoffmeister on TÁR
According to cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, writer/director Todd Field often expressed his desired aesthetic for TÁR in a series of repeated Field-isms: Let’s just witness. Don’t gild the lily. Don’t make it look like a movie with a capital “M.” In other words, make the style invisible. However, Hoffmeister’s work was far from invisible to his…
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ASC Awards: ‘Elvis’ Cinematographer Mandy Walker Takes Feature Film
“Elvis” director of photography Mandy Walker won Feature Film at the ASC Awards March 5, when the American Society of Cinematographers handed out its honors at the 37th annual awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.Walker’s win in the feature film category could prove prescient; 17 out of the last 36 years found the ASC film…
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Writers Guild of America Awards Winners List (Updating Live)
The writers of this season’s top films and series face off tonight at the Writers Guild of America Awards, the final awards ceremony before next week’s 95th Oscars.The WGAs are not televised but rather held at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City. “Abbott Elementary” star Janelle James hosted the West Coast edition,…
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‘Tár’ Editor Reveals Deleted Line That Nods to the Film’s Ending
Spoiler Alert: This story contains major spoilers for “Tár.”Todd Field’s “Tár” ends with disgraced conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) conducting the score of “Monster Hunter,” a fantasy video game series, for a group of cosplayers in Southeast Asia. It’s a huge fall from grace from her previous post as head of the Berlin Philharmonic.Countless theories…
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How This Year’s Best Picture Oscar Nominees Fight the Power
From the most commercial movies to the artiest of arthouse fare, all of the year’s best picture Oscar nominees have one thing in common: themes of power struggles and an anti-authoritarian streak. This reporter spoke with the filmmakers behind “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,”…