Posted on 02/08/2022 7:29:37 AM PST by sphinx
Netflix-backed The Power Of The Dog secured 12 nods including best picture, directing and cinematography as well as four acting nominations for lead actor Benedict Cumberbatch, supporting actors Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smith-McPhee, and actress Kirsten Dunst....
Sci-fi blockbuster Dune received 10 nominations including best picture and across the technical categories for sound, visual effects, cinematography and costume design among others.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story both secured seven nominations, including best picture and directing, while King Richard received six, including best picture and for leading actor for Will Smith, who plays the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams in the biopic.
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Thanks for your comments, now I may well give them a try. Very few real insights in most film reviews.
If you think the crap they put out is drama I’m not sure what you see. As far as the whole industry is concerned I guess their hypocrisy is just fine.
Don’t forget to watch the new Viking with the black women as a Viking leader. I don’t see any redeeming qualities in anything those self aggrandizing puff balls have to offer as production.
Oh boy! The Film Grammys. Awards no one watches, cares who wins and if they do win, destroys their careers. Like being on the cover of Madden Football!
Even GBII was just a quickie money grab...
I noticed yesterday that GB, GBII, and GB:A were packaged together as one option... almost as if the sassy-girl version no longer existed. Fitting.
“One Flew over the CuKoos Nest:The Joe Biden Story”
Best I can do is nominate the very last picture I saw in a movie theatre...
For 1972, I choose: “The Godfather”
Great movie, but you’ve missed a few good ones since then.:)
What happened in 1972? A Blockbuster open up next door?
I liked Belfast too and was happy that Judy Dench and Ciarán Hinds (the grandfather) got Oscar nominations. Their parts were small, but they made them memorable.
The ending of The Power of the Dog was the best part of it. The movie is really slow and drags, but the ending was a shocker. It’s a subtle and maybe to some ambiguous ending, but it made me re-evaluate the entire film and notice all sorts of hints about the boy and his motives from earlier in the film. The ending (beyond the solid acting and cinematography) was what made sitting through such a dull film worth it I think, at least for those who like artsy movies. I’m still surprised it’s the frontrunner though (probably the gay cowboy thing bumped it up a few slots in Hollywood’s estimation).
Of the other nominees, I liked Nicole Kidman’s portrayal of Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos. The movie was a bit of a mixed bag, but I thought she did a good job and really reminded me of Lucy.
I was happy to see the Academy starting to treat foreign-language films more fairly outside of the Best International Feature category, since a lot of the best films are not made in Hollywood and not in English.
Agreed. But I think most of the better movies are now coming from overseas, Korea and Japan mainly. So who needs Hollywood?
Exactly, when I think of the recent movies I like, almost none of them are from the US.
It is a great flick, one of Tyrone Power's best.
I watched the new version recently. It is just too DARK.
Shortly after scene Nightmare Alley I also saw Tyrone Power in Witness For The Prosecution. Another fantastic movie. Charles Laughton was one of the best characters I’ve ever seen in a movie. I love being surprised by old film noirs.
Ditto. I tend to use the word "Hollywood" carelessly to refer to the whole film industry. It's a bad habit that I shall try (and probably fail) to break. But yes, a lot of the better new films are coming from overseas. And a lot of the best U.S. films are coming from the indies and smaller to mid-major studios. The competition can only help, provided that all the independents and rising mid-majors aren't bought up by the Borg and turned into clone machines.
The big legacy studios are mostly owned by the streamers. They're the Borg. They sometimes manage to produce a decent film -- they're so big that sometimes they can't help themselves -- but a good film has to run the gauntlet of a DEI committee, a phalanx of woke freaksters out to cancel any non-conforming thought, and corporate suits who are in the business of selling subscriptions, not movies. They see films as generic content, are biased towards quantity over quality, and live in fear of the God King Emperor Xi and Chinese censors.
Meanwhile, the independent writer/director with a good idea and a passion to make good movies can still do great work. The question is finding distribution and getting decent marketing. The big studios dominate the Oscars and the other awards, which are just marketing devices.
At the outset I listed four 2021 films that I would highly recommend; none of them are Oscar nominees, though After Yang, produced by A24, could be in the discussion next year. That is the second film by Kogonada, a Korean American director who was born in Seoul, immigrated with his family when he was young, and was raised in Louisville. His first film, Columbus (2017), was the movie I tripped over by accident and that made me realize that I had a huge blind spot. Columbus cost $700,000 and was shot in 18 days with a first cut completed in three weeks to meet a hard deadline for submission to Sundance. It was good enough IMHO to have awards potential for cinematography, score, and best actress, and might have gotten more attention had more than ten people seen it in theaters. It's become a word of mouth classic, but it had virtually no marketing campaign byond the festivals, where it was very well received.
Great films are still being made. The trick is finding them in all the streaming clutter.
It's like that old studio, Miracle Films. Their slogan was 'If the picture is any good, it's a Miracle!'
My great turnaround movie discovery, Columbus, was made for $700,000. Would Netflix ever make a film like that? Probably not. It might acquire such a film as an afterthought when it was sweeping up the indie offerings from the festivals, but would it promote it? No. The film would get three days on the "New This Week" list and disappear into the depths of the catalogue.
“so no dog at involved at all.”
Right. The title is a phrase from Scripture. Has something to do with rescuing a woman maybe. Can’t recall for sure.
Thank you. I will find it and watch it.
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