Category: Award Season
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THE LOST DAUGHTER’s Gotham Awards sweep ignites Award Season lift-off
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Most popularly known for that face-off with the Joker in smash hit THE DARK KNIGHT as “Batman’s girlfriend,” Maggie Gyllenhaal has come so very far from the bat cave. While Gyllenhaal’s first feature THE LOST DAUGHTER just swept the Gotham Awards, including top gongs for best screenplay and director…
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Erica Eng’s AMERICANIZED, short film contender, takes on identity and sports
SPOTLIGHT: Director Erica Eng’s AMERICANIZED enters the Best Short competition this year with a hard look at identity on and off the basketball court. Set in Oakland, California, Eng said, “I wrote this story based on my experiences growing up in Oakland as a fifth-generation Chinese American. I had a hard time understanding what it…
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Director Mike Mills’ C’MON C’MON is a showcase for Joaquin Phoenix and cast
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Writer-director Mike Mills’ black-and-white film C’MON C’MON is a gorgeous essay on parenting starring Joaquin Phoenix in a role as Johnny, uncle to Jesse (Woody Norman) whose mother Viv (Gaby Hoffmann) is facing down a mental health challenge with the boy’s father, her ex-husband Paul (Scoot McNairy). This is…
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KING RICHARD’s Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis to be 2022’s SBIFF Outstanding Performers
SANTA BARBARA, CA: Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis will receive the Outstanding Performers of the Year Award at the 37th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Smith and Ellis will be honored at an in-person conversation about their cinematic careers leading up to their outstanding performances in this year’s “King Richard” from Warner Bros Pictures. “We’re so excited to be…
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SPENCER, the sticky wicket of portraying Princess Diana for her stans
by Quendrith Johnson, Film Critic Finally Kristen Stewart has had a real sunrise since the early Twilight of her career. That would be SPENCER, her peckish portrait of Princess Diana from Director Pablo Larrain. This is the “hellish Christmas” Princess Diana moment of thirty years ago, set in 1991, that released Nov. 5 from NEON. …
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RED ROCKET rendezvous with screenwriter Chris Bergoch
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent RED ROCKET shot off as a commando Award Season contender this year on the film festival circuit, and you’ll really be in for a ride on Dec. 3 when this new film from Director Sean Baker hits the multiplex. Baker is known for THE FLORIDA PROJECT and TANGERINE, both…
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FLEE, a brave new stylistic animated documentary
Review by Robin Menken Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s award-winning animated doc FLEE opens in U.S. theaters on December 3. NEON acquired FLEE at Sundance, and the film is also an official selection at Cannes that recently won the Annecy Festival (France) Cristal award and the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. It’s the story…
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AFI President & CEO Bob Gazzale names Jan. 7, 2022 for AFI AWARDS
Los Angeles, CA: Today, the American Film Institute (AFI) announced that AFI AWARDS 2021, celebrating the year’s most outstanding achievements in film and television, will take place on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Los Angeles. Honorees will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Immediately following the honoree-only event in Los Angeles, AFI will also…
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MASS: a head-spinner with Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd, Reed Birney
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent MASS, a new film that opens this Friday from Bleeker Street, is an exquisite head-spinning quartet with Jason Isaacs, Martha Plimpton, Ann Dowd, and Reed Birney, directed by Fran Kranz. The pairs of distraught parents meet in a secular-feeling church setting to discuss the fatal encounter of their two…
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C’MON C’MON, KING RICHARD tie for Film Fest 919 crowd raves
Posting this from the airport on the way back to LA. News from Film Fest 919 in Chapel Hill, NC, founded by Randi Emerman and Carol Marshall, more to come on closing film SPENCER. For now, news from #FF919 on which films won the most popular votes. Read on… Chapel Hill, NC: The 2021 Film…
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RED ROCKET’s Chris Bergoch & FF919 gang at afterparty shot on an iPhone
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent In the spirit of Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch’s first breakout film TANGERINE, last night Film Fest 919 founders Randi Emerman and Carol Marshall lined up with RED ROCKET Screenwriting Honoree Chris Bergoch and festival pals from an afterparty for some impromptu iPhone filming. This weekend’s footage followed a…
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Nicole Kidman & Javier Bardem work it as legends in BEING THE RICARDOS
by Screenmancer Staff OMG, Lucille Ball is branded a “Red” and not strictly a redhead, all the while being blue about Desi Arnaz and his skirt-chasing ways… wait, that’s Lucy and Desi in real life, not the iconic “I Love Lucy” beloved duo Lucy and Ricky with Fred and Ethel. It’s also where the ferociously…
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What jumped off the page for Matt Damon in THE LAST DUEL & red carpet footage
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Ridley Scott is back in action again as helmer of THE LAST DUEL, and last night at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater re-teamed stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck from GOOD WILL HUNTING walked the red carpet with Jodie Comer and Harriet Walter, to lift the curtain…
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The Wright stuff is Peter Dinklage as CYRANO in time for Award Season
by Screenmancer Staff Never has a role been cast so perfectly as “Game of Thrones” Peter Dinklage in CYRANO from Pride & Prejudice Director Joe Wright, and this classic misfit tale opens Dec. 31 in theaters. The much portrayed Cyrano de Bergerac is seen in an entirely new light here with Peter Dinklage, accent-free, as…
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How Kristen Stewart became SPENCER, a French Connection to Princess Diana
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent It’s been six short years since actor Kristen Stewart became the first American in 30 years to be nominated, then remarkably win, a César or “French Oscar” for CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA. With that opener, this comes as an updated version of KStew’s comeback, which should now be complete…
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