The Boston Online Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2020 today and Nomadland picked up another win. I have a feeling that I’m going to soon get bored with Nomadland winning awards from the critics. That’s not a knock on Nomadland as much as it’s just a lament for a more varied […]
The Boston Online Film Critics Honor Nomadland
Highlights include directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Robin Wright, and Questlove.
Sundance Film Festival Announces 2021 Virtual Lineup
Europe’s biggest night of the awards season unfolded virtually out of Berlin.
European Film Award Winners: ‘Another Round,’ Mads Mikkelsen, Paula Beer, and More
“Time” nabs six nominations, followed by “Collective,” “Gunda,” and “Welcome to Chechnya” with four.
‘Time’ Leads Influential Cinema Eye Honors Documentary Nominations
There will be no more category hopping for anthology series, as the TV Academy decided to group them with Limited Series.
Emmy Rule Changes for 2021: Variety Series Collapsed, Anthology Series Refined
BoJack Horseman Christmas Special: Sabrina’s Christmas Wish (2014). While this is slightly cheating with the formula I utilise for this Christmas blogging series, I felt this episode needed to be noted. Also my BoJack-mad sister suggested I review this episode. It’s a pretty standard BoJack episode but just centered around Christmas. Todd (Aaron Paul) and […]
Festive Movie Marathon 2020 (#1)
So, as we all know, December is typically the start of Awards Season but this year, things are up in the air. With the Academy extending the eligibility window (don’t even get me started on how annoyed I am about that), a lot of critics groups have also pushed back their selection date. For instance, […]
The Sunset Film Circle Honors Promising Young Woman
‘’Kuşa bir yuva, örümceğe bir ağ, insana dostluk.’’ William Blake’in Cennet ile Cehennemin Evliliği adlı eserinin “Cehennem Meselleri” kısmından yapılan yukarıdaki alıntı, Kelly Reichardt‘ın 70. Berlin Film Festivali’nde ana yarışmada yer alan First Cow filminin açılışında karşılıyor izleyenlerini. Reichardt’ın sinemasında nostaljik bir yolculuğa çıkan yapıt, iki dost üzerinden, yönetmenin alışıldık nahif diliyle kurduğu anlatısını; kapitalizm ve…
Yönetmenliğini Seyid Çolak’ın yaptığı TRT ortak yapımı “Kapan” filmi, İtalya’nın başkenti Roma’da düzenlenen Uluslararası Rieti Sabina Film Festivali’nde “En İyi Film” ve “En İyi Erkek Oyuncu (Onur Dilber)” ödüllerini kazandı. Yönetmenliğini ilk uzun metrajına imza atan Seyid Çolak’ın yaptığı bol ödüllü Kapan filmine bir ödül de İtalya’dan geldi. Film, Roma’da yaklaşık 300 filmin başvurusuyla düzenlenen Uluslararası Rieti Sabina Film […]
“kapan”a roma’dan iki ödül birden
Its taken a while to wrap up the Festival du Nouveau Cinema coverage but we’re in the final double feature. Both a romance in their own regards is a Canadian film, Sin La Habana and a French movie, Poissonsexe. Both having a romance wrapped up in highlighting a bigger plot and both carrying a different […]
FNC 2020: Sin La Habana (2020) & Poissonsexe (2020)
Pablo Larraín begins Ema with an indelible image: fire engulfs a traffic light in the middle of a street, slowly making its way down from the red light to the green light with the titular Ema (Mariana Di Girólamo) looking on, a flamethrower in hand. The film then shifts to a group dance performance in […]
Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Ema’
Malumunuz, Cannes’daki prömiyerinden beri ortalığa damgasını vuran bir film var; Parasite. Okja ve Snowpiercer ile tanıdığımız Güney Koreli yönetmen Bong Joon-Ho’nun 2019 yılında çıkmış bu filmi çıktığı günden beri gerek ülkemizde gerekse de dünya çapında büyük tartışmalara mevzu oldu. Hatta işler o noktaya geldi ki, bu tartışmalar Parasite’in boyunu aşar oldu. İşte Cannes’da yaptığı açılıştan […]
Parasite ve Nasıl Piyasa Filmi Yapılır Yahut Film Nasıl Piyasaya Mâl Edilir?
THANKS TO UNRESTRICTED VIEW HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2020! Just a quick post to say thank you to the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival for screening my short film You Have A New Follower (2020). They screened it online as part of their Little Terrors programme on Tuesday 27th October 2020. Loads of great shorts and […]
THANKS TO UNRESTRICTED VIEW HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2020!
It’s in a wind-battered 1840s Lyme Regis that we meet Kate Winslet’s Mary Anning. She plies her trade as a palaeontologist, recovering fossils on the shore of the Jurassic Coast, finding solace in her craft. Yet it’s a life of repression that she lives, from her ailing mother who watches her every move, and from […]
Ammonite Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)
Acclaimed director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest The Human Voice – a short but sharp film adaptation of the theatre production of the same name – hinges on its central performance. Lucky for him then that he has Tilda Swinton fronting this (almost) one-woman show. Because it’s Swinton’s whirlwind turn that really sells this off-kilter tale of […]
The Human Voice Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)
Bong Joon Ho has done 600 “Parasite” interviews since it premiered, but his Criterion commentary track proves there’s still more to say.
How ‘Fury Road’ Inspired ‘Parasite’: 10 Takeaways from Bong Joon Ho’s Criterion Commentary
Scary Mother (Sashishi deda) Georgia (2017) Dir. Ana Urushadze Are writers misunderstood? Is their ability to create people, places, and situations that are wondrously fantastic out of thin air or to allegorise a real event or story into a piece of fiction a sign of inventive genius or a twisted psyche? And why are expressive […]
Freewheeling slacker Kun (Zhou You) is the proud new owner of a smoking, broken-down mess of a Jeep, his spirit animal in vehicular form. Whilst the car is a direct representation of Kun as a person at this moment in his life, the journey that he takes in it also works well as a metaphor […]
Striding Into the Wind Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)
Harry Macqueen directs Supernova with a gentle hand, putting performance first in this story of love and loss in the face of illness. And right he is to put faith in his actors, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci bringing affectionate warmth to this quietly heartbreaking film.
Supernova Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)
