Jake Gittes

This is not coming out in July dude. With drops like that it'd barely reach 80m total.

1. Blade Runner 2. Shape of Water 3. Dunkirk 4. Call Me by Your Name 5. Wonder Wheel Alt.: mother!

GDT, Nolan and Guadagnino are the big three (and likely to win in that exact order I think). Because I don't care about rationally predicting the other two spots with a bunch of movies still unseen but I want the line-up to remain exciting, let's say PTA and Jordan Peele for #4 and #5. Anyone but Wright and Frears really.

If both him and Hammer got in that would finally mean recognition for all three snubbed supporting actors from The Social Network 7 years later

It would have had to wait over a year since it premiered at NYFF last October. And last year was definitely too packed for it to make any impact, it would have had the same fate as Silence except with 0 nominations instead of 1. No ideal way to push it, really, coupled with the fact that the movie itself is not at all interested in pandering to awards voters even though on the surface it looks like something they'd be into.

Is Amazon going to give The Lost City of Z any kind of a push at all? It's probably a little too classical and leisurely paced to become a fashionable awards season player, even if there was no Weinstein to bury it beforehand, but at the very least it could get a Cinematography nod (it's still the most gorgeous movie of the year) and maybe production/costume design. With James Gray, any recognition would be something. As far as cinematography goes I hope they don't sleep on Vittorio Storaro's work with Woody this year as well. If Café Society was any indication, Wonder Wheel is bound to look amazing. (I also hope the rumors about Jim Belushi being a legit supporting actor contender are true, he'd be having a hell of a year with that & getting to play one of the best characters on Twin Peaks.)

Ehrlich gonna Ehrlich I see

on the bright side i just slept for 9 hours and I only had a single page of this thread to catch up with. That won't soon happen again.

The movies tend to be comedies, which are hard enough sells as it is, and they hardly ever star actors who mean anything to anyone outside of the US. And correct me if I'm wrong but a good chunk of them probably get specific enough about the black experience in America that they wouldn't resonate nearly as much in countries with little to no black population. I suppose you could call it a vicious circle - they aren't pushed hard enough because they don't sell, and they don't sell because they aren't pushed, though there are other reasons as well. Black Panther will be successful because it's an MCU movie, but why would it change anything for comedies and dramas?

No joke he's one of the best characters. Bless this man.

Wow. You have no idea how quickly you need to rectify that.

Now I want that third act to be the black-and-white Trinity explosion and aftermath

That was pretty rude towards @Water Bottle.

Read this in Anne Hathaway's voice.

In my showing of Atomic Blonde there was an old married couple who heroically sat through about 3/4 of it, so all the early action, the lesbian sex scene, etc., only to finally leave about halfway through the stairwell fight. I remain fascinated by how they ended up there and what was going through their heads as they were watching it.

Why not the summer this time? Get those weekdays.

I dream of seeing Rear Window, 2001, Days of Heaven and Heat in a theater. I'd hit all those and at least half the others if I were you. (Buena Vista Social Club is the only one that sticks out, not cause it's bad but because it was shot on really ugly late '90s digital video, and time has done its look no favors.)

Be a fluke that nothing will come close to in the foreseeable future? I dunno why people expect the performance of this to make any long-lasting waves. It's setting itself to be a perfect storm, a freak of nature, and it's going to remain that.

I already hope Fury Road comes back on the big screen sooner rather than later. I mean I'd happily go rewatch it in IMAX once every few months if I could.

We have a company/distributor here that started organizing event screenings (one-and-done, not actual re-releases, but still) of classic movies in major cities a while ago. So over the past year I got to see The Thing, The Fly, Seven, Fight Club, LOTR Extended Editions, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Cabaret, the Dollars trilogy, Alien, Ivan the Terrible, Raiders, Blowup all on the big screen. These were all some of the best cinema experiences I've ever had and probably will ever have.

Even if this was true (which it isn't), so what, we should just let that awareness get lower and lower, right? If you are not a recent pop culture phenomenon with kid appeal, tough luck, no big screen for you again? Fuck that. Classics need to be shown and studios need to do a better job of promoting it.

Click on the eye in the editor.

You might wanna spoiler-tag even that. Just in case.

"A missing teenage girl. A brutal and tormented enforcer on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of violence that may lead to his awakening." International trailer just dropped. This made a lot of waves in Cannes, I recall reading that Ramsay only arrived with a DCP the night before the screening (the film didn't even have any credits), which itself was on the final day of the festival. It won Best Actor and Best Screenplay, and was praised to high heaven with people describing it as extremely brutal and violent and bringing up Taxi Driver and Man on Fire as comparisons. Amazon picked it up for US distribution, but there's no release date yet, and weirdly it's skipping Toronto as well. Makes me think it's gonna be set for next year. Ratcatcher and We Need to Talk About Kevin are both stunning films so this has been one of my most anticipated from the moment I learned about it. Clip from three months ago:

Requiem definitely became big over the years. By the time I was in high school less than a decade after it came out I think half of my class had seen it. All the claims about how INTENSE this is just make me think of Zulawski's Possession, incidentally also drama/horror with a married couple in the center. I'll be impressed if this even comes close to that one.