Overview, Game Changer: The Collector, his sideways sidekick, the CM and the game of musical chairs
It used to be ‘the end justifies the means’, and the end was always the turnstiles. So, the end was always the same, only the means, or the ways of getting there, were different. Then it became ‘the means are the same, since the end is the same’. So we had similarity in approach too,...
MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: SCREENPLAYS AND MORE
Before we get to this post's Oscar nomination predictions, The Academy last night extended the nomination voting window by two days and moved the announcement of nominees to Sunday, January 19th due to the L.A. fires. Now, onto the predictions which seem sort of a small consideration in light of what's going on in Southern California....
GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS AND TFF
The Golden Globe Awards for Film and Television were handed out last night and here are your winners with TFF films/performers in Bold.
Best Picture (Drama): The Brutalist
Best Picture (Musical or Comedy): Emilia Perez
Best Director: Brady Corbet/The Brutalist
Best Actress (Drama): Fernanda Torres/I'm Still Here
Best Actor...
by Tomasz Ludward IFMCA member Tomasz Ludward recently interviewed composers Caleb and Brian Chan about his score for the animated Nickelodeon show The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish. TL: First off, congratulations on winning the Breakout Composer Award at the 2024 SOCAN Awards! Given your rich musical background—from classical training to indie tours and sound […]
PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 21: Filmmaker Sally Aitken smiles at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival “EVERY LITTLE THING” premiere at The Ray Theatre. (Photo by Haley Nord/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Annie Lyons Meet Jimmy, the young performer behind a breakout debut performance in Sally Aitken’s EVERY LITTLE THING, which premiered on January […]
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Bong Joon Ho‘s hotly anticipated sci-fi film “Mickey 17,” starring Robert Pattinson, will have its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, Variety has learned. The $118 million movie marks Bong’s first directorial effort since “Parasite,” which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or and made Oscar history, becoming the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for […]
Indonesian filmmaker Razka Robby Ertanto’s “Midnight in Bali” will make its world premiere in the Harbour section of International Film Festival Rotterdam, bringing a complex narrative of identity and transformation to the international stage. A trailer has been unveiled for the film. The film follows Bulan, a transgender woman working as a club performer in […]
Despite a flourishing, decades-long career in Hollywood as a multi-hyphenate, Selena Gomez‘s “Emilia Perez” role was something she’d been craving “for years,” she said at a Kering’s Women in Motion panel at the Palm Springs Film Festival. “The whole experience was a dream job for an actor. I had been craving for years to find […]
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, 2024) 2½ out of 5 stars The British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (The Book of Clarence) is a powerhouse performer, bringing deep wells of emotion to each role and transforming herself as required. Deservedly Oscar-nominated for her previous collaboration with director Mike Leigh—the 1996 Secrets & Lies—she approaches the new part he […]
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The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, 2024) 1 out of 5 stars Renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door, is a major disappointment. Although the subject here—death—is nothing new for the cineaste, whose recent films, including the 2021 Parallel Mothers and 2019 Pain and Glory, have demonstrated an increasing awareness […]
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