AniNate Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 The 2017 Oscar buzz starts this week with the Sundance Film Festival. Brooklyn premiered here last year, as did other critically acclaimed films like Shaun the Sheep and The Diary of a Teenage Girl Opening night premieres: Belgica (Felix van Groeningen) http://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/film-review-belgica-1201685368/ Other People (Chris Kelly) http://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/other-people-review-sundance-molly-shannon-1201686115/ Complete schedule http://dotorg-prd-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/film-guide/FilmGrid_Web_Jan6.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I really hope Christine is as great as the buzz and lands a great distributor if it does. It's a tough subject but it sounds like a fantastic showcase for Rebecca Hall that could easily score her her first nomination (at last). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 Morris from America appears to be the first hit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 AKA The Jurassic World II and some marvel bullshit auditions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 23, 2016 Author Share Posted January 23, 2016 Swiss Army Man sounds like a South Park joke stretched to 90 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Swiss Army Man sounds incredible to me lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Netflix has already bought the streaming rights to the U.S Dramatic competitor Tallulah, which was written by an Orange Is The New Black writer. It'll be interesting to see how it fares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Variety raved about Tallulah. Funny how Netflix appears to be redefining "direct to video" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Quote Shot in crisp, gorgeous black-and-white, The Eyes Of My Mother (Grade: B/B+) is an extreme genre movie with the skin of an art film pulled tightly over its bones. The programmer who introduced it issued an ominous disclaimer, warning the unsuspecting audience that what they were about to see might disturb them. He wasn’t blowing smoke up our asses; by the final third, when the film takes the most shocking turn in a whole line of them, viewers began to flee the theater in droves. (An elderly woman in the row ahead of me seemed visibly scarred by the experience, though to her credit, she sat through the whole thing.) Eyes begins with a woman in shackles collapsing on the highway, before cutting immediately to a secluded farmhouse, where a little girl gets a crash course in anatomy from her mother, once a surgeon in Portugal. To say much more would be to spoil the nasty surprises to come, though I will note that fans of this millennium’s French horror offerings will find much to appreciate. The Eyes Of My Mother is too deliberately paced, and way too artfully constructed, to serve as red meat for the witching-hour crowd, which is why it’s not appearing as part of the Midnight slate. Pesce is the latest talent to emerge from the Borderline Films stable—following Antonio Campos (Afterschool), Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene), and Josh Mond (James White)—and he shares with his creative collaborators a clear admiration for the highbrow horror of Michael Haneke and Roman Polanski, not to mention an expert eye and a formidable command of chilling sound design. Much of the film’s violence is implied, with shock cuts that either skip past the moment of bloodshed or offer just a lightning-quick glimpse. All the same, once Pesce had established exactly the kind of movie we were watching, I spent the rest of the relatively slim runtime in a state of near-constant anxiety, waiting on bated breath for the next nightmarish jolt. http://www.avclub.com/article/horror-houses-frat-houses-and-return-todd-solondzs-231184 Oooooh. Gonna wait for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Everyone's going nuts over Manchester by the Sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 http://www.cinemablend.com/m/new/Why-Daniel-Radcliffe-Movie-Has-People-Walking-Out-Theaters-107857.html Breaking news: Swiss Army Man isn't good. Time to edit my early Best Picture prediction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 i'd hate to be the one to bring it up this early but Manchester By The Sea looks like this year's Sundance Oscar movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Gittes Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 I haven't even seen Lonergan's previous two films but having read about all his struggles with Margaret it'd be nice if he got a break with this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 A24 picked up Morris from America and Amazon(!) got Manchester by the Sea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blankments Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Amazon getting Manchester by the Sea disappoints me for Oscar chances; was about to slot it in as the film with easily the best narrative going into next Oscar season Oh wait it's January, I have 14 months to analyze the race Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AniNate Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Apparently they're still planning a theatrical bow for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Indignation, the directorial debut of former Focus head James Schamus starting Logan Lerman, has been getting really good notices and has been picked up by Summit/Lionsgate. I imagine that they'll debut it in September like they did with The Perks of Being a Wallflower a few years ago. John Carney's (Once, Begin Again) latest, Sing Street, is looking to be one of the brightest spots of the festival. Trailer is now out but US release date has been given yet (Weinstein is handling distribution). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmasterclay Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Birth of a Nation just dropped. Sounds like a big time Oscar contender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmlover Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Cmasterclay said: Birth of a Nation just dropped. Sounds like a big time Oscar contender. Academy Award Nominee Aja Naomi King, please. I need the How to Get Away with Murder students (Alfred "Dean Thomas" Enoch, King, Matt McGorry, Jack Falahee, Karla Souza) going on to have huge careers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
