Jake Gittes
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The Meyerowitz Stories and Brawl in Cell Block 99 go VOD next weekend. Excited as hell for both. Look out for stuff people. -
At least The Florida Project opened well.
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I mean it can be done the right way like when Lynch saw the English language in 24 accents video on YouTube and cast the guy in Twin Peaks as 2017's greatest superhero.
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Subtlety is not always needed or useful.
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No joke it somehow took me until this moment happened in the movie to realize that this was Ana de Armas/Joi too and not some random girl.
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I'm almost tempted to watch Wetlands now. Usually not one to judge but
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Ana de Armas was my favorite for sure though Carla Juri managed to get dangerously close with just one major scene. The pacing and structure may have suffered from the length here and there, but the performances only benefited.
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Gokira is back? Now all we need is for davinci to appear and tell us Blade Runner flopped because it didn't have enough black people in it.
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That's even before you go back the '60s, when it was the norm for 3/5 nominees in, say, original screenplay be non-English language films. I wouldn't say the quality has really gone down, it's just become tougher for European filmmakers and actors to break through if they aren't living legends on the level of Haneke or Isabelle Huppert last year. Needs to be a GOAT-level achievement like, say, the screenplay of A Separation, and even that won't give you a win. Just from the last few years there's no real reason why films like Toni Erdmann, The Handmaiden, Son of Saul, Phoenix, The Great Beauty shouldn't have been present in major categories. Elle deserved a lot more than a lone Best Actress nom. It doesn't help that Sony Classics is the only remotely powerful studio left that distributes these films - the Miramax that distributed City of God/Amelie/Life Is Beautiful is no more, PictureHouse that distributed La Vie en Rose and Pan's Labyrinth is no more - and it generally gets a handful each year, and you can only spend so much promoting all of them. Magnolia and IFC just aren't on that level. Actually, that does give me a thought - it'd be great if places like A24 or Searchlight acquired foreign-language titles and brought them back some prominence by actively marketing them and pushing them for awards, and I'm not entirely sure why they don't even try.
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Academy moves to lock out Netflix eligibility
Jake Gittes replied to AndyK's topic in And The Winner Is...
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Not really. 120 Beats Per Minute seems to be the most acclaimed/popular European movie of the year and I think it can easily win Foreign Language Film but it won't get anywhere else.
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Suckiest number for a big movie in a while relative to expectations/acclaim. Makes Apes look like Logan. Ugh.
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Before I joined any of the forums I thought the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated movie would open to 70m. Guess I was thinking of The Simpsons Movie as a comparison. I also thought Tintin would push 300m DOM.
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Just have her appear as Gisele's identical cousin in a wig (glasses optional). Problem solved.
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Yeah there's a reason they shot for six months and spent, what, two years in post-production.
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I don't see how MMFR was any easier to achieve. In fact I'm sure it wasn't.
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Yeah that forum made me admire Deakins even more. Dude just casually talks his craft with anyone who's interested.
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I had to choose between IMAX 3D dubbed and regular screen 2D in English. Went with the latter. Think I chose wisely yeah.
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Statham and the Rock without Diesel and his delusions of grandeur sounds like a pretty fucking sweet proposition to me.
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Why would you ever hire Shane Black to direct someone else's script. Wouldn't mean shit I mean come on.
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1. Enemy 2. Sicario 3. Polytechnique 4. Blade Runner 2049 5. Arrival 6. Prisoners
