would you have moved her in ahead of any Best Actress nominee from the class of 88?
i haven't seen anna and the cher and holly hunter performances are both v good but sure i'd be happy to sub in JLC's flawlessly timed screwball for glenn close as a rubber monster or meryl streep being Utterly Transformed
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
oh wait that's not how years work
on nepotism - love Lena Horne's comment during her '81 one woman show Lady & Her Music re allegations that she was only cast as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz, cos her son-in law Sydney Lumet was directing it "nepotism, nepotism, nepotism - if you got it - use it"
its how world works - everyone uses whatever links they have to get ahead (and obv lena horne wasn't cast in The Wiz just coz of her son-in-law) but there are so many more serious issues for ppl to think about (esp in Hollywood)
of course deeply amused by all the people falling over themselves denying they had no easy access/step-up - just acknowledge it
that said there is no excuse for, say, brooklyn beckham
― H in Addis, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, March 1, 2023 4:03 PM bookmarkflaglink
clicked forward to the 1989 oscars to start all over again and imagine my surprise there at meeting glenn close and meryl streep
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 2 March 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link
she'll have more chances in the future for her work to get noticed
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 March 2023 06:54 (one year ago) link
I would've nominated her for Wanda.
And it's worth remembering Kline got his Oscar for supporting actor there.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 March 2023 07:19 (one year ago) link
Anyway less than a week to go until it hopefully wins everything (I can dream), and this is the most detailed interview with Hsu I've read yet:
https://ew.com/movies/stephanie-hsu-profile-everything-everywhere-all-at-once/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 March 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
The Daniels did the opening for tonight's Colbert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23sRimLcTBk
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 04:51 (one year ago) link
awesome
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 06:23 (one year ago) link
Still need to read that multiverse book mookieproof recommended.― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:38 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:38 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
which book Mookie?
― But who are we doing it versus? (sunny successor), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link
i'm not really into this movie, representation politics can be kinda ridiculous, and i love JLC, but if JLC ends up being the only one to win from a movie with a predominantly asian/asian-american cast, that will not be a good look.
― 龜, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
Good thing then that won't happen as Ke Huy Quan is as close to a lock as anything this year.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:15 (one year ago) link
KHQ seems like a lock, and Yeoh has a decent chance. The movie is a enough of a success story and has given such visibility to the cast/crew/directors that even JLC wins a legacy Oscar (essentially) it's NBD
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:16 (one year ago) link
I was kind of surprised that the "directors who worked up from doing creative music videos" to movie pipeline ended up making a film so similar to the Spike Jonze/Michel Gondry era of twenty years ago
but it was a pleasant surprise
― mh, Wednesday, 8 March 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
Roll on Sunday. Meantime:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-03-10/queer-movies-parents-family-coming-out-identity-sexuality
As I said on FB: I can sense that for those for whom the film didn't work it may seem that these kinds of pieces read as trying to force you into liking it, but I've seen plenty like this and heard similar and sometimes a piece of popular art just hits harder.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 March 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
I tried to watch this with my most respected movie friend this past summer, and when the first action sequence at the IRS office came around he wanted me to turn it off.
I then watched it by myself and was somewhat put off by all of the chaos and cheesy effects, but saw that there was a story behind it
Watched it again recently and the story became much more clear and poignant. The movie is still a TikTok/Youtube/video game obfuscating mess, but I can now see how it is groundbreaking and has a very distinct aesthetic point of view
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 March 2023 01:54 (one year ago) link
:-)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2023 04:26 (one year ago) link
Ya. Glad this did well.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 13 March 2023 04:40 (one year ago) link
<3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 March 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
lol I'd like to see this movie inspire a whole bunch of shitty knockoffs a la "Pulp Fiction." Imitators, start your engines! (Not you, OGs Spike Jonze/Michel Gondry, just keep doing whatever it is you are up to).
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 March 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link
Get Morty
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 13 March 2023 10:35 (one year ago) link
Wrong supporting actress won
― giant bat fucker (gyac), Monday, 13 March 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
Good title for what's happening now.
https://t.co/Y7WfQgfoU6 pic.twitter.com/VwRHMFWlsj— Mr. Bedtime (@InternetHippo) March 13, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 March 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link
I liked this piece by Justin Chang, who's ambivalent about the movie but happy for its success: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-03-12/oscars-2023-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-best-picture
― jaymc, Monday, 13 March 2023 13:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah I liked that as well. Obviously I feel much differently about the film but that’s a thoughtful disagreement there instead of whatever screed Wells has.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2023 13:07 (one year ago) link
Good piece, sticks the landing with a quality Dad-pun. In theory I like the idea that more than prestige Oscar-bait films can win best picture; they don't need to because people can already tell they're prestigious. So while I can't imagine ever seeing this movie a second time and struggled with it the first, I like the idea of it winning more than I like the movie itself. Even if somewhere in the multiverse murk I feel it moves us one step closer to Pomplamoose winning an Oscar.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 March 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
I agree with this on paper but ... seeing Hsu unabashedly cheering for JLC's victory was a nice consolation
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 13 March 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
Even if somewhere in the multiverse murk I feel it moves us one step closer to Pomplamoose winning an Oscar.
LOL, they're totally going to EGOT now
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Monday, 13 March 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
Meantime most of the core cast is in this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeemjfVvM0
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
speaking of fwiw I've seen next to no comic book movies.
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Monday, 13 March 2023 16:52 (one year ago) link
Good thread
I liked EEAAO a lot, think it’s the best action comedy since Hot Fuzz etc. but I also think it’s an interesting adaptation of the fantasy of fixing our problems by exploiting another land that we see in things like The Tempest and earlier 20th c sci fi.— Isaac Butler (he/him) (@parabasis) March 13, 2023
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 13 March 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
I was hoping that someone would have thanked Kathleen Malone of the 2005 Cincinnati IRS office.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 05:56 (one year ago) link
_Still need to read that multiverse book mookieproof recommended.― Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:38 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink_which book Mookie?
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:12 (one year ago) link