Jackson pre-2006 (up to and including King Kong), Nolan post-Prestige.
Overall Jackson because Nolan has never done anything as incredible as Heavenly Creatures and LOTR and hasn't shown signs that he ever will.
Oh yeah this was great. Such a cool, controlled horror - it feels like half the movie was shot like the Winkies scene in Mulholland Drive, with the same air of vague terror. It's also one of the best, most original explorations of infidelity and its consequences I've seen in film. Great score, killer ending.
Combined screentime over/under 10 minutes?
Anyway I don't always love Malick (mainly I just don't love Tree of Life), but I'll see anything he puts out as soon as I can. There's no other major American director working who's this uncompromising, especially now that Lynch has seemingly quit big-screen filmmaking for good. The more I think about To the Wonder the more I appreciate it.
FYC: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress (Marion Cotillard), Best Actor (Joaquin Phoenix), Best Supporting Actor (Jeremy Renner), Best Cinematography, Best Production Design
I'm gonna keep beating this movie's drum until the end dammit. Go fuck yourself Weinstein.
Ida, The Immigrant, Under the Skin and Grand Budapest all 100% deserve to be here, and only the last of those stands any chance to be nominated. Shame.
That harakiri scene is one of the most painful and visceral things I've ever seen in any movie. There's hardly any blood visible but the build-up to it is just unbelievable.
Online Film Critics Society Winners
Best Picture: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Animated Feature: The Lego Movie
Best Film Not in the English Language: Two Days, One Night
Best Documentary: Life Itself
Best Director: Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Best Actor: Michael Keaton - Birdman
Best Actress: Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton - Birdman
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Best Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Adapted Screenplay: Gone Girl
Best Editing: Birdman
Best Cinematography: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Boyhood is looking at 6 noms - BP, BD, Screenplay, Supp Actor, Supp Actress, Editing. It could win anywhere from 1 (Supp Actress) to 5 (everything except Supp Actor).
I gotta say that I'm glad Grand Budapest Hotel is putting up a good fight for a nomination here even though I don't love it.
One of those films that feels like it should be much more widely known and accepted as a classic than it is. Both fully accessible and absolutely masterful on basically every level.
Probably my least favorite Jodorowsky I've seen, though it's still decent. But the more it went on, the more I was thinking I'd rather just rewatch Psycho or something.
Amusing for about two minutes. Korine said he wanted it to feel like an anonymous VHS tape you'd find in the trash, which is a decent enough idea, but over the length of a feature film the concept is stretched awfully thin. For the most part it's not really provocative or visceral or even memorable which is the biggest flaw a movie with this title could have. Just a bore.
Very entertaining, beautifully directed technical and performing exercise. You know it's the work of a master just from that one shot where John Dall drops the rope in the drawer and we only see it for a second while the door swings. Not anywhere near as substantial as Hitchcock's best films but who cares.
Critics supporting The Immigrant without any campaigning for the film whatsoever is an inspiring sight, but it also makes me despise Weinstein even more. Every filmmaker who does't make blatant Oscar bait and isn't named Quentin Tarantino should just stay far away from him at this point.
I love Swinton but she's not getting nominated. I mean, it's a broadly comic performance in a deeply eccentric post-apocalyptic action movie that was dumped by Weinstein and never saw wide release. It's a critics' darling which is why she's getting nominations from them but who the fuck is going to care about it in the Academy?