Thursday 22 December, 2022 Nzt — Introducing Best In Show, a twelve-episode limited podcast series brought to you by Letterboxd, and hosted by the service’s West Coast editor Mia Vicino, with editorial producer and Hollywood veteran Brian Formo and editor-in-chief Gemma Gracewood.
From the Letterboxd Year in Review through to the 95th Academy Awards, Best In Show will cover the noms and gongs from this awards season, chat with contenders, look back at snubs and surprises through cinema history, and shine a spotlight on the magnificent films from the past year that can get lost in the noise.
“Awards season is the only time I ever truly understand why sports fans root so hard for their teams,” says West Coast editor and host Mia Vicino, “How Los Angeles feels about the Dodgers is how I feel about Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár.”
“As Rowlf and Kermit once sang: ‘You can’t live with ‘em,...
From the Letterboxd Year in Review through to the 95th Academy Awards, Best In Show will cover the noms and gongs from this awards season, chat with contenders, look back at snubs and surprises through cinema history, and shine a spotlight on the magnificent films from the past year that can get lost in the noise.
“Awards season is the only time I ever truly understand why sports fans root so hard for their teams,” says West Coast editor and host Mia Vicino, “How Los Angeles feels about the Dodgers is how I feel about Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár.”
“As Rowlf and Kermit once sang: ‘You can’t live with ‘em,...
- 1/3/2023
- Podnews.net
We're usually fans of spreading the wealth, but we can't disagree on this one...
Kirsten Dunst could be cast in every movie and still not be in nearly enough movies pic.twitter.com/1gJe6lgwDo
— It's Turkey Time, Gobble Gobble (@Nico_Lang) December 5, 2021
The most relatable part in West Side Story is during the Quintet when Anita sings about how excited she is to get absolutely railed that night
— Jorge Molina (@colormejorge) December 4, 2021
Imagine seeing critics group winners and getting upset that it doesn’t push an Oscar narrative.
— Brian Formo (@BrianFormo) December 3, 2021
We're going to be seeing a lot of the latter probably! It's such a weird part of the awards circus.
More curated tweets for amusement and discussion after the jump including a killer Rami Malek impression, Adam Driver ubiquity, and Thomasin McKenzie's voice...
Kirsten Dunst could be cast in every movie and still not be in nearly enough movies pic.twitter.com/1gJe6lgwDo
— It's Turkey Time, Gobble Gobble (@Nico_Lang) December 5, 2021
The most relatable part in West Side Story is during the Quintet when Anita sings about how excited she is to get absolutely railed that night
— Jorge Molina (@colormejorge) December 4, 2021
Imagine seeing critics group winners and getting upset that it doesn’t push an Oscar narrative.
— Brian Formo (@BrianFormo) December 3, 2021
We're going to be seeing a lot of the latter probably! It's such a weird part of the awards circus.
More curated tweets for amusement and discussion after the jump including a killer Rami Malek impression, Adam Driver ubiquity, and Thomasin McKenzie's voice...
- 12/5/2021
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Paul Verhoeven’s lesbian nun drama “Benedetta” just premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, and early viewers took to social media to praise the film and the filmmaker’s direction.
“Absolute Verhoeven,” World of Reel’s Jordan Ruimy said. “Erotic, violent, religiously sinful and absurdist. You have never seen a movie quite like this one. It’s a feminist take on Christ. If Virginie Efira doesn’t win Best Actress then there is no God.”
Fandango’s Brian Formo added: “Is ‘Benedetta’ one of Paul Verhoeven’s best? No. But is it one of his most subversive? Absolutely. It’s a riot. Let yourself be surprised. It makes sense that it’s released same day in France as #Cannes premiere. ‘Lesbian nuns’ is only the half of it.”
“Benedetta” is an erotic drama directed by Verhoeven about a young nun in 17th century Italy who carries on an affair with another nun,...
“Absolute Verhoeven,” World of Reel’s Jordan Ruimy said. “Erotic, violent, religiously sinful and absurdist. You have never seen a movie quite like this one. It’s a feminist take on Christ. If Virginie Efira doesn’t win Best Actress then there is no God.”
Fandango’s Brian Formo added: “Is ‘Benedetta’ one of Paul Verhoeven’s best? No. But is it one of his most subversive? Absolutely. It’s a riot. Let yourself be surprised. It makes sense that it’s released same day in France as #Cannes premiere. ‘Lesbian nuns’ is only the half of it.”
“Benedetta” is an erotic drama directed by Verhoeven about a young nun in 17th century Italy who carries on an affair with another nun,...
- 7/9/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights: Year-end Review Our favorite movies of 2018: Fandango editors Erik Davis and Brian Formo listed their top 10 movies of this year, with lots of love going to If Beale Street Could Talk, Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Roma between them. Read their respective picks for the best of 2018 here and here. The women of Welcome to Marwen: Meet the real women characters of...
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- 12/21/2018
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Guillermo del Toro — while a talented guy — is one of those filmmakers who hasn’t always clicked with me. I enjoyed his work on Blade II and Pan’s Labyrinth, but beyond that, there hasn’t been much for me. I found his Hellboy movies to be slow and boring, Pacific Rim was a disappointing joke in my eyes. I worried that his involvement in these bigger fanboy projects would suck away the talent that he clearly has.
Luckily for us, The Shape of Water, his latest dark fantasy, seems poised to scratch that itch I’ve been having. Rather than see another big budget blockbuster, I wanted to see another Pan’s Labyrinth, and based on that first trailer, it looked like this could fit the bill. But del Toro had let me down in the past before, so I wasn’t ready to paint this one as another victory just yet.
Luckily for us, The Shape of Water, his latest dark fantasy, seems poised to scratch that itch I’ve been having. Rather than see another big budget blockbuster, I wanted to see another Pan’s Labyrinth, and based on that first trailer, it looked like this could fit the bill. But del Toro had let me down in the past before, so I wasn’t ready to paint this one as another victory just yet.
- 8/31/2017
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
Thanks to Brian Formo over at Collider, we have a sneak peak at French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan’s first English language feature film, The Death and Life of John F.
- 5/11/2017
- by Jazz Tangcay
- AwardsDaily.com
Well, we’ve made it to another month, which means we have a bunch of new VOD releases to look forward to throughout February. If you are looking to escape the winter doldrums while keeping safe and snug on your couches, you have plenty of horror and sci-fi titles arriving digitally in the coming weeks to keep you busy and out of the brutal winter chill.
February’s VOD offerings kick off with Katee Sackhoff in Don’t Knock Twice from IFC Midnight, and for those of you with Dish services, the psychological thriller Lavender makes its bow on that platform beginning February 3rd. The Oscar-nominated Nocturnal Animals arrives on Digital HD on February 7th, the very same day that Stake Land II gets released courtesy of Dark Sky Films.
If you missed Arrival in theaters, Paramount Pictures will release the film On Demand beginning February 14th (following its January...
February’s VOD offerings kick off with Katee Sackhoff in Don’t Knock Twice from IFC Midnight, and for those of you with Dish services, the psychological thriller Lavender makes its bow on that platform beginning February 3rd. The Oscar-nominated Nocturnal Animals arrives on Digital HD on February 7th, the very same day that Stake Land II gets released courtesy of Dark Sky Films.
If you missed Arrival in theaters, Paramount Pictures will release the film On Demand beginning February 14th (following its January...
- 2/1/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
If you missed seeing Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (which landed on some of Daily Dead's favorites of 2016 lists) in theaters, you won't have to wait long to watch it from the comfort of your couch, as Paramount Home Media Distribution will release the sci-fi film on Digital HD beginning January 31st, followed by a 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD release on February 14th:
Press Release: Hollywood, Calif.-- Hailed by critics as “mesmerizing” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), “amazing” (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and “the best film of the year” (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve’s (Sicario) phenomenal tour de force Arrival makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD January 31.
Five-time Academy Award® nominee* Amy Adams “delivers one of her best performances” (Brian Truitt,...
Press Release: Hollywood, Calif.-- Hailed by critics as “mesmerizing” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), “amazing” (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and “the best film of the year” (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve’s (Sicario) phenomenal tour de force Arrival makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD January 31.
Five-time Academy Award® nominee* Amy Adams “delivers one of her best performances” (Brian Truitt,...
- 1/11/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” entered fall with serious Oscar buzz. But after the curtain was lifted at last night’s Nyff world premiere, director Ang Lee’s excitement for the new technology that brought his story to the screen — with a presentation in 3D, 4k resolution and 120 frames-per-second — appears to have been his undoing. Indiewire’s Eric Kohn gave the film a B-, noting that it’s “just a decent story laced with attempts to make it larger than life.” Reviews across the board greeted the movie with something of a shrug, and critics had many problems with the technology. Some notable industry takes:
The Guardian‘s Benjamin Lee
It’s a strange test subject for this technology and Lee’s two-hour argument that this will be how all films should be viewed in the future is a failed one.
Uproxx‘s Mike Ryan
I never felt like I was watching a movie.
The Guardian‘s Benjamin Lee
It’s a strange test subject for this technology and Lee’s two-hour argument that this will be how all films should be viewed in the future is a failed one.
Uproxx‘s Mike Ryan
I never felt like I was watching a movie.
- 10/15/2016
- by William Earl
- Indiewire
HitFix's recent spate of "Best Year in Film History" pieces inevitably spurred some furious debate among our readers, with some making compelling arguments for years not included in our pieces (2007 and 1968 were particularly popular choices) and others openly expressing their bewilderment at the inclusion of others (let's just say 2012 took a beating). In the interest of giving voice to your comments, below we've rounded up a few of the most thoughtful, passionate, surprising and occasionally incendiary responses to our pieces, including my own (I advocated for The Year of Our Lynch 2001, which is obviously the best). Here we go... Superstar commenter "A History of Matt," making an argument for 1968: The Graduate. Bullit. The Odd Couple. The Lion in Winter. Planet of the Apes. The Thomas Crown Affair. Funny Girl. Rosemary's Baby. And of course, 2001, A Space Odyssey. And that's only a taste of the greatness of that year. "Lothar the Flatulant,...
- 5/2/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
All week our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. It’s perhaps a little quaint to choose a year that I wasn’t even alive during to represent the best year of cinema. I was not there to observe how any of these films conversed with the culture around them when they were first screened. So, although I am choosing the glorious year of 1973, I am choosing not just due to a perusal of top ten lists that year—but because the films that were released that year greatly influenced how I engage with movies now, in 2015. Films speak to more than just the audiences that watch them—they speak to each other. Filmmakers inspire each other. Allusions are made. A patchwork begins. These are the movies of our lives. Having grown up with cinema in the 90s,...
- 4/30/2015
- by Brian Formo
- Hitfix
All week our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. When I picked this year, it was under the mistaken assumption that we were writing on the best film of a year, and not the best film year in general. But having realized the mistake, I stand by my choice. 1995 is still the best! Straight up: 1995 wins, because Todd Haynes’s “[Safe]" is still my favorite film to have come out since, Idk, I’ve been alive. It’s deeply self-conscious about genre, while still managing to not really resemble anything I’ve ever seen. It’s the perfect film about L.A.; about how space is mobilized in cinema; about the environment; about Gothic horror; about white femininity; about film bodies; about falling in love in the movies. It’s Todd Motherf*#@$^ Haynes’s best film.
- 4/30/2015
- by Jane Hu
- Hitfix
All week our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. I’m here today to argue that 2012 was the greatest year in cinema. I know you’re thinking: is she insane? How will she even begin to argue such a ridiculous theory? Sure, 2012 didn't bring us Vertigo or Citizen Kane or Chinatown or whatever, but it Was the year Spring Breakers came out, so I think it’s time you showed some respect. Just kidding, just kidding, calm down. The truth is, it really was the best year in cinema and here is why: Jennifer Lawrence. 2012 was the year J-Law rose to superstardom and showed the world how insanely talented she is in two very different but equally special films: Silver Linings Playbook and Hunger Games, the coolest dystopian film of our generation, and a creative,...
- 4/29/2015
- by Zara Lisbon
- Hitfix
All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. I was one of the first to select years for this particular exercise, which probably allowed me to select the correct year. The answer is, of course, 1974 and all other answers are wrong. No matter what your criteria happens to be, 1974 is going to come out on top. Again, this is not ambiguous or open to debate. We have to start, of course, with the best of the best. "Chinatown" is one of the greatest movies ever made. You can't structure a thriller better than Robert Towne and Roman Polanski do, nor shoot a Los Angeles movie better than John Alonzo has done. Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway give the best performances of their careers, which is no small achievement. If you ask...
- 4/29/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. While I tend to think of the '80s as a crassly commercial lull between the artistic adventurousness of the '70s and the independent experimentation of the '90s, there were things about the '80s that i hold dear in terms of what I love about movies. And if you're talking about the best of the '80s, the year that crystallized all the things the decade did well was 1988, a year that looks upon closer inspection like an embarrassment of riches. One of my twenty favorite films of all time, as outlined in this article, was released in 1988, which automatically makes it a year worth closer consideration. The '80s may have begun with one of his strongest films, but...
- 4/29/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. 1977 is the greatest year in film history. I'm positive. Why? It's the year that made you believe giant blockbusters could bring you state-of-the-art science fiction, modern (and enduring) takes on romance, compelling heroes, and a shrewd understanding of real people. It's the year that put us in touch with our most superheroic and most sentimental qualities, and that range alone is worth honoring. '77 is the year that gave us "Star Wars." I could go on about why that's a great movie, or we could just understand that every sci-fi blockbuster since "Star Wars" has had to deal with belittling comparisons to the greatness of "Star Wars." Sure, there've been other blockbusters with grandeur and special effects galore, but did they have C3PO's charisma?...
- 4/28/2015
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. "Mulholland Drive." "Donnie Darko." "Spirited Away." "Ghost World." "The Royal Tenenbaums." "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." "Wet Hot American Summer." "Pulse." "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." If you're not stunned by the sheer variety of greatness in the above list of films, you probably won't be on board with my argument for 2001 as the greatest year in movie history. And if you're puzzled by the exclusion of "A Beautiful Mind," then you might as well stop reading now. "A Beautiful Mind," of course, won Best Picture at the Oscars the following year, an honor that felt undeserved at the time and positively baffles in hindsight. The Ron Howard-directed drama was an ephemeral triumph, the kind of middle-of-the-road Hollywood...
- 4/28/2015
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Kriv Stenders' Kill Me Three Times may well have had a .boisterously enthusiastic reception. at its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, as The Sydney Morning Herald reported last week.
However the critics in Toronto were far from unanimous in their judgments on the comedy-thriller that stars Simon Pegg as an assassin who encounters a group of increasingly violent locals who carry their own dark secrets.
Sullivan Stapleton, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Alice Braga and Bryan Brown co-star in the film scripted by James McFarland and produced by Laurence Malkin, Share Stallings, Tania Chambers. EOne, which will release the film in Australia next year, hasn.t revealed the launch date.
The pro- camp saw a very funny, cleverly plotted and crowd-pleasing film that subverts expectations.
The anti- brigade saw a mediocre, derivative crime potboiler.
Stenders and Chambers understandably are keen to stress the Tiff audiences. reactions and the positive reviews.
However the critics in Toronto were far from unanimous in their judgments on the comedy-thriller that stars Simon Pegg as an assassin who encounters a group of increasingly violent locals who carry their own dark secrets.
Sullivan Stapleton, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Alice Braga and Bryan Brown co-star in the film scripted by James McFarland and produced by Laurence Malkin, Share Stallings, Tania Chambers. EOne, which will release the film in Australia next year, hasn.t revealed the launch date.
The pro- camp saw a very funny, cleverly plotted and crowd-pleasing film that subverts expectations.
The anti- brigade saw a mediocre, derivative crime potboiler.
Stenders and Chambers understandably are keen to stress the Tiff audiences. reactions and the positive reviews.
- 9/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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