Nominations voting was from January 11–16, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 23. Final voting is February 22–27. And finally, the 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10, and air live on ABC at 7 p.m. Et/ 5 p.m. Pt. We update predictions throughout awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2024 Oscar picks.
The State of the Race
After grabbing two out of three prizes at the 71st Motion Picture Sound Editor’s Golden Reel Awards and the top sound mixing prize at the 60th Cas Awards, Christopher Nolan’s explosive “Oppenheimer” is now in the driver’s seat for the sound Oscar. The other nominees are “The Zone of Interest,” “The Creator.” “Maestro,” “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.”
“The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed Holocaust drama about the banality of evil and the international feature film Oscar favorite, poses the most serious threat,...
The State of the Race
After grabbing two out of three prizes at the 71st Motion Picture Sound Editor’s Golden Reel Awards and the top sound mixing prize at the 60th Cas Awards, Christopher Nolan’s explosive “Oppenheimer” is now in the driver’s seat for the sound Oscar. The other nominees are “The Zone of Interest,” “The Creator.” “Maestro,” “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.”
“The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer’s acclaimed Holocaust drama about the banality of evil and the international feature film Oscar favorite, poses the most serious threat,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
When Robbie Robertson and The Band performed their final concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom in November 1976, it was clearly an ending for the group, as expressed in the title of the 1978 film Martin Scorsese made about the event, “The Last Waltz.” While that movie — by virtually any imaginable criteria, the greatest rock and roll film ever made — documented a farewell, it itself represented a new beginning: a collaboration between Scorsese and Robertson that would last nearly 50 years and yield an astonishing series of masterpieces including “Raging Bull,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and most recently “Killers of the Flower Moon,” for which Robertson — who died last August at the age of 80 — posthumously scored an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.
Robertson’s work in “Killers” is the apotheosis of his partnership with Scorsese, a score that exhibits the passion, variety, and depth of expression familiar from Robertson...
Robertson’s work in “Killers” is the apotheosis of his partnership with Scorsese, a score that exhibits the passion, variety, and depth of expression familiar from Robertson...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
The crucial moment in “Maestro,” when Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein furiously conducts Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” at England’s Ely Cathedral in 1973, marks the culmination of Kazu Hiro’s remarkable transformation of the actor-director as the musical legend. This will likely earn the prosthetic makeup guru his third Oscar (following “Bombshell” and “Darkest Hour”).
Like Cooper, this was a passion project for Hiro, who dreamed of sculpting Bernstein’s face ever since he fell under its spell watching a documentary at the age of 19. Thus, the collaboration between actor-director and makeup artist became a close one in their shared desire to portray Lenny’s iconic look as authentically as possible (covering the ages of 25 to 71 in five stages). They even shared a room together, making it easier to apply the prosthetics in the middle of the night. Hiro had never before encountered anyone as open and communicative as Cooper,...
Like Cooper, this was a passion project for Hiro, who dreamed of sculpting Bernstein’s face ever since he fell under its spell watching a documentary at the age of 19. Thus, the collaboration between actor-director and makeup artist became a close one in their shared desire to portray Lenny’s iconic look as authentically as possible (covering the ages of 25 to 71 in five stages). They even shared a room together, making it easier to apply the prosthetics in the middle of the night. Hiro had never before encountered anyone as open and communicative as Cooper,...
- 2/12/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
"Maestro" is an audacious title for Bradley Cooper's freshly released Leonard Bernstein biopic. Sure, at first glance, it's just referring to the title bestowed upon the conductor of a classic orchestra. Bernstein, one of the great musicians of the 20th century, more than earned the title. However, it ropes back around considering Cooper cast himself in the lead part; he's boasting about what he can do. It's not surprising he sees kinship with Bernstein either, since directing and composing are easily comparable. Both are the art of guiding many moving pieces into a perfect whole.
Cooper was paired with Emma Stone for Variety's Actors on Actors series; the conversation eventually turned to how his acting and directing intersected on "Maestro." Particularly, his difficulties crafting the movie's high point; Bernstein conducting Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony at the Ely Cathedral in England in 1973. The scene, never interrupted by dialogue or copious reaction shots,...
Cooper was paired with Emma Stone for Variety's Actors on Actors series; the conversation eventually turned to how his acting and directing intersected on "Maestro." Particularly, his difficulties crafting the movie's high point; Bernstein conducting Gustav Mahler's Resurrection Symphony at the Ely Cathedral in England in 1973. The scene, never interrupted by dialogue or copious reaction shots,...
- 12/30/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
“If you’re going to do a Chanel suit, you have to have respect for it,” costume designer Mark Bridges says. So when Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” script called for one, he went directly to the Parisian fashion house for assistance.
Spanning four decades, “Maestro” follows Leonard Bernstein’s (Cooper) journey to becoming the legendary composer and conductor. However, the story steps away from being a traditional biopic, instead focusing on the love story between Leonard and Felicia Montealegre played by Carey Mulligan.
In one scene, towards the end of the film, Felicia visits the doctor’s office and is diagnosed with cancer. Bridges notes that the detail of her character wearing Chanel’s iconic tweed jacket was in the script. “I loved that. I think it’s interesting when things contradict the surroundings. It speaks to me as clothes as armor and protection if she was going to get bad news,...
Spanning four decades, “Maestro” follows Leonard Bernstein’s (Cooper) journey to becoming the legendary composer and conductor. However, the story steps away from being a traditional biopic, instead focusing on the love story between Leonard and Felicia Montealegre played by Carey Mulligan.
In one scene, towards the end of the film, Felicia visits the doctor’s office and is diagnosed with cancer. Bridges notes that the detail of her character wearing Chanel’s iconic tweed jacket was in the script. “I loved that. I think it’s interesting when things contradict the surroundings. It speaks to me as clothes as armor and protection if she was going to get bad news,...
- 12/20/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Howard Rosenman made his way to a screening of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro at the Academy a few weeks back, and admits that before he took a seat, he really wanted to not like it.
The veteran producer (Father of the Bride, Call Me by Your Name) tried to sell a project based on the life and career of Leonard Bernstein years ago but says he “didn’t have the juice” to get it off the ground. But what Rosenman does have is close personal ties to the iconic composer, a man he says dramatically changed the course of his life — and then some. Instead of hating it, Rosenman, 78, tells The Hollywood Reporter that he was so floored by Cooper’s film that he couldn’t stop crying. “It’s a masterpiece,” he says.
The quick backstory. In 1967, Rosenman, who is Jewish, was in medical school in Philadelphia. Amid a rising conflict in Israel,...
The veteran producer (Father of the Bride, Call Me by Your Name) tried to sell a project based on the life and career of Leonard Bernstein years ago but says he “didn’t have the juice” to get it off the ground. But what Rosenman does have is close personal ties to the iconic composer, a man he says dramatically changed the course of his life — and then some. Instead of hating it, Rosenman, 78, tells The Hollywood Reporter that he was so floored by Cooper’s film that he couldn’t stop crying. “It’s a masterpiece,” he says.
The quick backstory. In 1967, Rosenman, who is Jewish, was in medical school in Philadelphia. Amid a rising conflict in Israel,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper disappears into the role of legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, one of the most consequential American figures in classical music. Like his 2018 directorial debut, “A Star Is Born,” Cooper also co-wrote, produced and directed the film. In his conversation with Emma Stone for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, he spoke at length about the six years he spent devoting himself to bringing Bernstein’s singular life to the screen.
At one point Stone (there to discuss her own performance in “Poor Things”) talked about going to Cooper’s house with her mother to watch a cut of “Maestro,” which reduced them both to tears. Stone was especially stunned by a scene, roughly two thirds into the film, in which Cooper as Bernstein conducts Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony at Ely Cathedral in England in 1973.
“Full body chills,” Stone said. “It felt like I was watching a true conductor,...
At one point Stone (there to discuss her own performance in “Poor Things”) talked about going to Cooper’s house with her mother to watch a cut of “Maestro,” which reduced them both to tears. Stone was especially stunned by a scene, roughly two thirds into the film, in which Cooper as Bernstein conducts Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony at Ely Cathedral in England in 1973.
“Full body chills,” Stone said. “It felt like I was watching a true conductor,...
- 12/8/2023
- by Adam B. Vary
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winning sound designer/supervising sound editor Richard King has two frontrunners this season with Christopher Nolan’s explosive “Oppenheimer” and Bradley Cooper’s musical “Maestro.” While each offers very different soundscapes, they capture the essence of these two 20th-century giants of quantum physics and music.
For the sound design of the biopic thriller about the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), King, Oscar-winning music and sound effects mixer Kevin O’Connell (“Hacksaw Ridge”), and dialogue mixer Gary Rizzo got to create the horrifying sound of the Trinity test explosion along with the sounds of the subatomic world of particles and waves that stirred Oppenheimer’s troubled mind.
For the sound design of the complicated love story between legendary conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and actress wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), King worked with the Oscar-nominated team from the director’s “A Star Is Born”: production sound mixer Steve Morrow,...
For the sound design of the biopic thriller about the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), King, Oscar-winning music and sound effects mixer Kevin O’Connell (“Hacksaw Ridge”), and dialogue mixer Gary Rizzo got to create the horrifying sound of the Trinity test explosion along with the sounds of the subatomic world of particles and waves that stirred Oppenheimer’s troubled mind.
For the sound design of the complicated love story between legendary conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and actress wife Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), King worked with the Oscar-nominated team from the director’s “A Star Is Born”: production sound mixer Steve Morrow,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Launching an ambitious program of compelling global and Czech work, the 27th edition of the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival opened on Tuesday, kicking off six days of more than 350 film screenings by veteran and new filmmakers.
Fest head and founder Marek Hovorka, who launched the event in his hometown in 1997, introduced what is now Central and Eastern Europe’s main event for docs, defining the fest mission as “a celebration of films, image, sound, gestures and diversity.”
The films selected this year are “all very original,” he told the opening gala audience, and show filmmakers “perceive the world very differently.”
The fest, raising its curtain in the location that remains its home, the communist-era Dko “house of culture,” as the pre-1989 regime dubbed such multi-purpose spaces, attracts for its launch hundreds of guests seated at white-decked tables, sipping local wine.
Opening night moderators embraced an ironic take on AI,...
Fest head and founder Marek Hovorka, who launched the event in his hometown in 1997, introduced what is now Central and Eastern Europe’s main event for docs, defining the fest mission as “a celebration of films, image, sound, gestures and diversity.”
The films selected this year are “all very original,” he told the opening gala audience, and show filmmakers “perceive the world very differently.”
The fest, raising its curtain in the location that remains its home, the communist-era Dko “house of culture,” as the pre-1989 regime dubbed such multi-purpose spaces, attracts for its launch hundreds of guests seated at white-decked tables, sipping local wine.
Opening night moderators embraced an ironic take on AI,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Vienna-based Terra Mater Studios, a subsidiary of Red Bull, is developing its first fictional series “Salon of Sugar.”
The historical drama will focus on Berta Zuckerkandl, born in 1864: a writer, journalist and a hostess of an important literary salon in Vienna, frequented by the likes of Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt, director Max Reinhardt or Stefan Zweig.
“Composer Gustav Mahler actually met his wife Alma there,” says producer Nina Steiner, teasing other familiar faces bound to appear in the show, from Freud to Georges Clemenceau. Verena Puhm writes.
According to the makers, by creating an environment where revolutionary ideas and discussions flourished, Berta found herself at the very center of cultural and intellectual evolution during a “transformative” era in European history.
“I was drawn to this story because it encapsulates the timeless struggle for freedom and equality amidst a backdrop of societal change. Berta’s journey embodies the resilience and...
The historical drama will focus on Berta Zuckerkandl, born in 1864: a writer, journalist and a hostess of an important literary salon in Vienna, frequented by the likes of Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt, director Max Reinhardt or Stefan Zweig.
“Composer Gustav Mahler actually met his wife Alma there,” says producer Nina Steiner, teasing other familiar faces bound to appear in the show, from Freud to Georges Clemenceau. Verena Puhm writes.
According to the makers, by creating an environment where revolutionary ideas and discussions flourished, Berta found herself at the very center of cultural and intellectual evolution during a “transformative” era in European history.
“I was drawn to this story because it encapsulates the timeless struggle for freedom and equality amidst a backdrop of societal change. Berta’s journey embodies the resilience and...
- 10/17/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro opens presumptuously with a quote that Leonard Bernstein uttered during a lecture he gave at Harvard University in 1976: “A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.” To some degree, the quote encapsulates Cooper and co-writer Josh Singer’s mosaic-like method in attempting to capture Bernstein as a human being—one that lays the man’s contradictions bare without overt psychologizing. It also, though, inevitably raises the question of whether Cooper’s film approaches the breadth and majesty of its subject.
Maybe no biopic, however sensitively done, can come close to encompassing the entirety of Bernstein’s life. This was a man so filled with passion for music in all its forms that he couldn’t help but let it out not only in the music he composed, but also on...
Maybe no biopic, however sensitively done, can come close to encompassing the entirety of Bernstein’s life. This was a man so filled with passion for music in all its forms that he couldn’t help but let it out not only in the music he composed, but also on...
- 10/5/2023
- by Kenji Fujishima
- Slant Magazine
“Not a Word,” which is being sold by international sales agency Beta Cinema, will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in the competitive Platform section. Variety speaks to the film’s writer-director, Hanna Slak, and debuts its trailer.
“Not a Word” tells the story of a relationship crisis between a parent and her teenage son. Maren Eggert, who won the best acting award at the Berlin Film Festival for “I’m Your Man,” plays an ambitious orchestra conductor, Nina. Jona Levin Nicolai plays her moody son, Lars. Following the death of a girl at Lars’ school, the boy has a mysterious accident, but refuses to talk about it. Nina decides to take a break from city life and together they head to their vacation home on an island on the rugged Atlantic coast. As a storm gathers, their brittle relationship, wreathed in silence, is pushed to breaking point.
“Not a Word” tells the story of a relationship crisis between a parent and her teenage son. Maren Eggert, who won the best acting award at the Berlin Film Festival for “I’m Your Man,” plays an ambitious orchestra conductor, Nina. Jona Levin Nicolai plays her moody son, Lars. Following the death of a girl at Lars’ school, the boy has a mysterious accident, but refuses to talk about it. Nina decides to take a break from city life and together they head to their vacation home on an island on the rugged Atlantic coast. As a storm gathers, their brittle relationship, wreathed in silence, is pushed to breaking point.
- 8/29/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Cate Blanchett is already certified as one of Hollywood’s great actresses, willing to transform aspects of herself to play a character. But Tár represents a new achievement in her career. To pick up the many complexities of a powerful woman who feels the consequences of her decisions closing in around her, Blanchett fully engrossed herself in the life of Lydia Tár, learning multiple instruments and a new language to get in touch with the character.
Cate Blanchette plays a creative in crisis in ‘Tár’ Cate Blanchett attends the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards I Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
It’s clear from the moment that Tár starts that Lydia Tár (Blanchett) is a genius. She is an Egot winner and the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic on the verge of a new career milestone: recording a version of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
But as the movie...
Cate Blanchette plays a creative in crisis in ‘Tár’ Cate Blanchett attends the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards I Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
It’s clear from the moment that Tár starts that Lydia Tár (Blanchett) is a genius. She is an Egot winner and the first female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic on the verge of a new career milestone: recording a version of Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
But as the movie...
- 3/12/2023
- by Sam Hines
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
We will update all our Oscar predictions throughout the season, so keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Oscar race. The nomination round of voting will take place from January 12 to January 17, 2023, with the official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is between March 2 and 7, 2023. Finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.
The State of the Race
It’s now a race between “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” following their wins for Theatrical Drama and Comedy at the 73rd annual Ace Eddie Awards (March 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall). They defeated the other three Oscar nominees: “Elvis” and “TÁR” for Drama and “The Banshees of Inisherin” for Comedy.
Best Picture Oscar favorite “Eeaao” defies categorization as a multiverse sci-fi adventure wrapped around a compelling family drama and comedy.
The State of the Race
It’s now a race between “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” following their wins for Theatrical Drama and Comedy at the 73rd annual Ace Eddie Awards (March 5 at UCLA’s Royce Hall). They defeated the other three Oscar nominees: “Elvis” and “TÁR” for Drama and “The Banshees of Inisherin” for Comedy.
Best Picture Oscar favorite “Eeaao” defies categorization as a multiverse sci-fi adventure wrapped around a compelling family drama and comedy.
- 3/6/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Richard Wagner was born on May 22nd, 1813, in Leipzig, Germany.
Richard Wagner
His father died when he was 6 years old and his mother raised him and his two siblings alone.
He composed his first opera, “Die Feen” at the age of 19.
Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for all of his operas.
He is most famous for his “Ring Cycle”, a series of four operas based on Norse mythology.
Wagner is credited with introducing the concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk”, or the total work of art, in which all aspects of a production unite to form one artistic experience.
Wagner’s works are considered to be some of the most influential in musical history, having inspired such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
His music is thought to have been an influence on modern art and music, including rock and roll.
Wagner had several controversial views and relationships during his life,...
Richard Wagner
His father died when he was 6 years old and his mother raised him and his two siblings alone.
He composed his first opera, “Die Feen” at the age of 19.
Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for all of his operas.
He is most famous for his “Ring Cycle”, a series of four operas based on Norse mythology.
Wagner is credited with introducing the concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk”, or the total work of art, in which all aspects of a production unite to form one artistic experience.
Wagner’s works are considered to be some of the most influential in musical history, having inspired such composers as Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
His music is thought to have been an influence on modern art and music, including rock and roll.
Wagner had several controversial views and relationships during his life,...
- 2/9/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
This article contains Tár spoilers.
For the last 10 minutes of Todd Field’s Tár, an elusive yet beguiling character study about an elite musician’s fall from grace, the fate of Lydia Tár remains a mystery. We know that Lydia, as played with an erudite augustness by Cate Blanchett, has been exposed to be many things: a sexual predator, a manipulative employer, and a relentlessly selfish spouse. Even her name is an embellishment, with the disgraced Egot winner returning to her forgotten childhood home where her estranged brother calls her Linda. In this context, it isn’t a stretch to imagine the accent mark on her surname is similar affectation—a pretension that reveals a flattering self-regard and overbearing pretension.
But after her brother surmises she hasn’t the faintest idea about what her life really is—accusing her of not knowing “where the hell you came from or where...
For the last 10 minutes of Todd Field’s Tár, an elusive yet beguiling character study about an elite musician’s fall from grace, the fate of Lydia Tár remains a mystery. We know that Lydia, as played with an erudite augustness by Cate Blanchett, has been exposed to be many things: a sexual predator, a manipulative employer, and a relentlessly selfish spouse. Even her name is an embellishment, with the disgraced Egot winner returning to her forgotten childhood home where her estranged brother calls her Linda. In this context, it isn’t a stretch to imagine the accent mark on her surname is similar affectation—a pretension that reveals a flattering self-regard and overbearing pretension.
But after her brother surmises she hasn’t the faintest idea about what her life really is—accusing her of not knowing “where the hell you came from or where...
- 1/28/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The remaining members of former supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young have paid tribute to their late bandmate David Crosby, who passed away earlier this week.
Canadian singer-songwriter, Neil Young honoured Crosby with a heartfelt tribute on his Neil Young Archives website.
“David is gone, but his music lives on,” the 77-year-old musician wrote. “The soul of Csny, David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band. His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was always fun and exciting when we got to play together.”
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“‘Almost Cut My Hair’ ‘Dejavu’, and so many other great songs he wrote were wonderful to jam on and Stills and I had a blast as he kept us going on and on,” he continued. “His singing with Graham was so memorable,...
Canadian singer-songwriter, Neil Young honoured Crosby with a heartfelt tribute on his Neil Young Archives website.
“David is gone, but his music lives on,” the 77-year-old musician wrote. “The soul of Csny, David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band. His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was always fun and exciting when we got to play together.”
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“‘Almost Cut My Hair’ ‘Dejavu’, and so many other great songs he wrote were wonderful to jam on and Stills and I had a blast as he kept us going on and on,” he continued. “His singing with Graham was so memorable,...
- 1/21/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Tributes have poured in for the late great, David Crosby after his death was announced Thursday (19 January).
The rock and roll legend passed away aged 81 following “a long illness”, his widow Jan Dance announced.
The musician was a founding member of the hugely popular Sixties groups, the Byrds and Crosby, as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Crosby’s former bandmates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash were among the first to pay homage to the artist.
“It is with a deep and profound sadness that I learned that my friend David Crosby has passed,” Nash wrote on Facebook. ” I know people tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been at times, but what has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years.
The rock and roll legend passed away aged 81 following “a long illness”, his widow Jan Dance announced.
The musician was a founding member of the hugely popular Sixties groups, the Byrds and Crosby, as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Crosby’s former bandmates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash were among the first to pay homage to the artist.
“It is with a deep and profound sadness that I learned that my friend David Crosby has passed,” Nash wrote on Facebook. ” I know people tend to focus on how volatile our relationship has been at times, but what has always mattered to David and me more than anything was the pure joy of the music we created together, the sound we discovered with one another, and the deep friendship we shared over all these many long years.
- 1/20/2023
- by Tom Murray
- The Independent - Music
David Crosby’s impact as both a solo artist and member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills and Nash helped shape the sound of Sixties rock and beyond. Following his death at the age of 81, the singer, songwriter and guitarist was remembered by Stephen Stills of their supergroup trio.
Stills paid tribute to his fellow musicians in a moving message sent to Rolling Stone.
“I read a quote in this morning’s paper attributed to compose Gustav Mahler that stopped me for a moment:
‘Death has, on placid cat’s paws,...
Stills paid tribute to his fellow musicians in a moving message sent to Rolling Stone.
“I read a quote in this morning’s paper attributed to compose Gustav Mahler that stopped me for a moment:
‘Death has, on placid cat’s paws,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Refresh for updates… Stephen Stills has joined his former bandmate Graham Nash in paying tribute to David Crosby, who died Thursday at 81.
In a statement provided to Deadline, Stills said:
I read a quote in this morning’s paper attributed to compose Gustav Mahler that stopped me for a moment:
“Death has, on placid cat’s paws, entered the room.”
I shoulda known something was up.
David and I butted heads a lot over time, but they were mostly glancing blows, yet still left us numb skulls..
I was happy to be at peace with him.
He was without question a giant of a musician, and his harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius.
The glue that held us together as our vocals soared, like Icarus, towards the sun.
I am deeply saddened at his passing and shall miss him beyond measure.”
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Graham Nash,...
In a statement provided to Deadline, Stills said:
I read a quote in this morning’s paper attributed to compose Gustav Mahler that stopped me for a moment:
“Death has, on placid cat’s paws, entered the room.”
I shoulda known something was up.
David and I butted heads a lot over time, but they were mostly glancing blows, yet still left us numb skulls..
I was happy to be at peace with him.
He was without question a giant of a musician, and his harmonic sensibilities were nothing short of genius.
The glue that held us together as our vocals soared, like Icarus, towards the sun.
I am deeply saddened at his passing and shall miss him beyond measure.”
Related: Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries
Graham Nash,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
I'm very amused that some people mistake "TÁR" for a biopic. It's surprising how many people have seemingly thought this, as one would think we would have heard about this woman prior to seeing this movie. However, I think this is a testament to writer/director Todd Field and actor Cate Blanchett for being able to craft such a densely layered character that her complexities, contradictions, and lived-in history could only come from a real source. Character studies this thorough and messy used to be a staple of American filmmaking, particularly in the New Hollywood era, but today, movies rarely afford the opportunity for a film to go so deep on one person, as these stories have mostly been shuffled off to television.
One thing that struck me about the stated biography of Blanchett's Lydia Tár was that the conductor/composer was an Egot winner, meaning she had won an Emmy,...
One thing that struck me about the stated biography of Blanchett's Lydia Tár was that the conductor/composer was an Egot winner, meaning she had won an Emmy,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Cate Blanchett is not an actor who skims a screenplay when she’s considering it. “I read scripts very, very slowly,” she says, “but this one I read incredibly quickly. I knew from the get-go that it was about really big things — metaphysical, existential things that I was interested in — so I read it very quickly and said yes immediately.” She turns to Todd Field, the writer-director of the film in question, “Tár,” and says, “And you crashed your car.”
On this chilly Sunday afternoon in mid-November, Blanchett has made the long trip to Los Angeles from Australia, where she’s been in production. She’s here to attend the Governors Awards as a formidable Oscar contender, having given one of the most rapturously reviewed performances of her career as Lydia Tár — troubled, lesbian, world-famous conductor of a major orchestra in Berlin. She’s sitting next to Field, who, it’s true,...
On this chilly Sunday afternoon in mid-November, Blanchett has made the long trip to Los Angeles from Australia, where she’s been in production. She’s here to attend the Governors Awards as a formidable Oscar contender, having given one of the most rapturously reviewed performances of her career as Lydia Tár — troubled, lesbian, world-famous conductor of a major orchestra in Berlin. She’s sitting next to Field, who, it’s true,...
- 1/5/2023
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
“For me, it’s fantastic. And I love it, to record on set acoustic instruments,” says “TÁR” sound mixer Roland Winke about the experience of recording the orchestral music featured in the film about an embattled conductor (played by Cate Blanchett) preparing for a live performance of Gustav Mahler‘s “5th Symphony.” We talked to Winke, re-recording mixer Deb Adair and supervising sound editor Stephen Griffiths about their work on the film. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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Winke set up a Decca tree to catch “the ambient sound” and “the feeling of this room where the music plays,” in addition to the special sound crew that was on-hand to capture the full orchestra. Adair felt those Decca tree recordings “were instrumental in the final mix because it really did capture the ambience of the room. And that was one...
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Winke set up a Decca tree to catch “the ambient sound” and “the feeling of this room where the music plays,” in addition to the special sound crew that was on-hand to capture the full orchestra. Adair felt those Decca tree recordings “were instrumental in the final mix because it really did capture the ambience of the room. And that was one...
- 12/14/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
At least two major musical works from this year's batch of Oscar contenders have been left out of the running for Best Original Song and Best Original Score, according to Variety. Previous Oscar-winner Hildur Guðnadóttir, who took home the prize for the soundtrack to 2019's "Joker," will be ineligible for her work on "Tár," while rapper Doja Cat was left off the longlist for the song "Vegas," from Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis."
According to the outlet's sources, both determinations apparently come down to the "Original" part of the Best Music categories, as each of the two artists built upon pre-existing tracks to create part or all of the music for the new films. This is neither a huge surprise nor a scandal, as both films called for reinterpretations of existing songs as opposed to original music, but it is still unfortunate to see both contributions left out.
Awards Eligibility Guidelines Strike Again
"Vegas,...
According to the outlet's sources, both determinations apparently come down to the "Original" part of the Best Music categories, as each of the two artists built upon pre-existing tracks to create part or all of the music for the new films. This is neither a huge surprise nor a scandal, as both films called for reinterpretations of existing songs as opposed to original music, but it is still unfortunate to see both contributions left out.
Awards Eligibility Guidelines Strike Again
"Vegas,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
The 53rd edition of International Film Festival of India (Iffi) to be held in Goa from November 20 to 28 will open with Austrian film ‘Alma and Oskar’.
The passionate and tumultuous relationship between the Viennese society Grand Dame Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is the subject of this biopic. Directed by Dieter Berner, the film has total runtime of 110 minutes.
Oskar Kokoschka, an upcoming painter, finds Alma, a music composer, during a time when she had already begun a relationship with architect Walter Gropius, after the death of her first husband, Gustav Mahler. Not wanting to be with another man in who’s shadow she cannot realise her artistic potential, Alma initiates a fiery affair with Oskar Kokoschka. Such is the nature of their relationship that Kokoschka paints his most famous work based on it. The film explores their relationship which has been described as ‘stormy’ and...
The passionate and tumultuous relationship between the Viennese society Grand Dame Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is the subject of this biopic. Directed by Dieter Berner, the film has total runtime of 110 minutes.
Oskar Kokoschka, an upcoming painter, finds Alma, a music composer, during a time when she had already begun a relationship with architect Walter Gropius, after the death of her first husband, Gustav Mahler. Not wanting to be with another man in who’s shadow she cannot realise her artistic potential, Alma initiates a fiery affair with Oskar Kokoschka. Such is the nature of their relationship that Kokoschka paints his most famous work based on it. The film explores their relationship which has been described as ‘stormy’ and...
- 11/8/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
It’s a banner year for Oscar-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker”), who could make history as the first woman to be nominated twice in the same season for Best Picture contenders “TÁR” (Focus Features) and “Women Talking” (UA). Both films focus on difficult subjects like power, abuse, and identity, and take the composer in varied musical directions. Her lyrical, guitar-driven score for “Women Talking” serves its purpose well in channeling a sense of hope for the traumatized Mennonite women at the center of Sarah Polley’s film, while her meta score for Todd Field’s psychological drama about the world of classical music represents Guðnadóttir’s most personal work to date.
In “TÁR,” renowned conductor Lydia Tàr (Cate Blanchett) is forced to confront her personal demons (including accusations of sexual abuse) while rehearsing Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 5 and Edward Elgar’s under-appreciated Cello Concerto in E Minor with the Berlin Philharmonic.
In “TÁR,” renowned conductor Lydia Tàr (Cate Blanchett) is forced to confront her personal demons (including accusations of sexual abuse) while rehearsing Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 5 and Edward Elgar’s under-appreciated Cello Concerto in E Minor with the Berlin Philharmonic.
- 10/24/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Todd Field’s widely acclaimed Oscar hopeful “TÁR” takes on a rarified world rarely explored in movies: classical music. In the drama now in limited release, Cate Blanchett plays the Egot-minted conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic who idolizes Leonard Bernstein and is now recording Gustav Mahler’s fifth symphony in his vein. Except, she’s now in freefall, thanks to a blizzard of accusations from protégés and peers alike.
The movie may be divisive for its morally ambiguous take on a public figure and self-styled genius who unravels amid #MeToo-worthy allegations — when she’s not seemingly grooming an ingenue, she’s stomping over them, such as Noémie Merlant’s up-and-coming violinist-turned-assistant Francesca. But the movie now has one especially coveted imprimatur: that of Yo-Yo Ma, Grammy-winning cellist.
Yo-Yo Ma exclusively told IndieWire, “Todd has created such a striking film. Cate Blanchett’s Lydia Tár demands that we wrestle with two...
The movie may be divisive for its morally ambiguous take on a public figure and self-styled genius who unravels amid #MeToo-worthy allegations — when she’s not seemingly grooming an ingenue, she’s stomping over them, such as Noémie Merlant’s up-and-coming violinist-turned-assistant Francesca. But the movie now has one especially coveted imprimatur: that of Yo-Yo Ma, Grammy-winning cellist.
Yo-Yo Ma exclusively told IndieWire, “Todd has created such a striking film. Cate Blanchett’s Lydia Tár demands that we wrestle with two...
- 10/20/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Branford Marsalis, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, and Kris Bowers — what do they have in common, besides each being an accomplished composer, conductor, and/or recording artist in his own right? Within the past four years, they all produced a film score that didn’t even register as a blip on the Oscar radar. “Let Them All Talk” and “Pieces of a Woman” gained zero traction for 15-time Oscar nominee Newman and three-time “The Lord of the Rings” Oscar winner Shore. Bowers and Marsalis had respectively picked up momentum elsewhere on the awards circuit for “Green Book” (the eventual Best Picture winner) and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (the eventual Best Makeup and Hairstyling winner), yet those two films’ Oscar fortunes couldn’t do anything to boost their chances in Best Original Score.
There’s no chalking it up to crowded fields, or voter bias. It all comes down to the rules: Prior to last Oscar season,...
There’s no chalking it up to crowded fields, or voter bias. It all comes down to the rules: Prior to last Oscar season,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Early in Todd Fields’ Tár, Lydia Tár (played by Cate Blanchett) — a world renowned conductor; the rare maestro to cross over into something approaching mainstream recognition, with the money, orchestral appointments, sycophants, and New Yorker coverage to prove it — makes a decision. She is at the height of her career. She has already toured the circuit of major orchestras in America and beyond (her current gig is with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), already hit Egot status, already accomplished enough, lived enough, to merit a major autobiography, to be titled Tár on Tár.
- 10/8/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Plot: In the days leading up to the debut of her magnum opus, musician Lydia Tár’s carefully compartmentalized life begins to shatter amid rumors of inappropriate, predatory conduct.
Review: Tár marks director Todd Field‘s first movie in sixteen years, and for lack of a better term, it’s a banger. Like In the Bedroom and Little Children, it’s a deeply layered work, but it’s a shattering portrait of the privilege of prestige and talent. Cate Blanchett delivers perhaps a career-best performance in the lead.
Many will call this the “cancel culture” movie, and to some extent, it is. It’s a nuanced portrait of an artist watching their world crumble around them in real time. Tár is being hoisted on her own petard here, but many critics have taken to calling this film “anti” cancel-culture because Field evokes some empathy for his central figure. That said,...
Review: Tár marks director Todd Field‘s first movie in sixteen years, and for lack of a better term, it’s a banger. Like In the Bedroom and Little Children, it’s a deeply layered work, but it’s a shattering portrait of the privilege of prestige and talent. Cate Blanchett delivers perhaps a career-best performance in the lead.
Many will call this the “cancel culture” movie, and to some extent, it is. It’s a nuanced portrait of an artist watching their world crumble around them in real time. Tár is being hoisted on her own petard here, but many critics have taken to calling this film “anti” cancel-culture because Field evokes some empathy for his central figure. That said,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
“I’ve been so altered by Todd’s films, and it’s a rarity that he leaves home and goes and makes a movie, so you know it’s going to be a very considered event. He doesn’t put himself out there unless he has something to say, and I think that this film has so much to say,” remarked Cate Blanchett about what drew her to writer-director Todd Field‘s film “Tar,” about a classical conductor, Lydia Tar, who faces personal and professional crises while she and her orchestra rehearse for a concert. Blanchett, Field, and their team discussed the film with press and industry at the New York Film Festival on October 3. Watch their press conference above.
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“I’d never read a screenplay like it,” Blanchett added. “It was like a musical score.
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“I’d never read a screenplay like it,” Blanchett added. “It was like a musical score.
- 10/7/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
There is a line at the beginning of Todd Field‘s celebrated new film “Tar” that notes its subject, fictional conductor Lydia Tar, is many things. She’s an Egot winner. She’s a best-selling author. She’s, in this world at least, a classical music icon. But for Cate Blanchett, the Oscar-winner who magnificently portrays the title character, she represents something much more.
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Field’s first film in 16 years, “Tar” follows Lydia as she prepares to record Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no.
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Field’s first film in 16 years, “Tar” follows Lydia as she prepares to record Gustav Mahler’s Symphony no.
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- 10/4/2022
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Cate Blanchett plays a conductor who orchestrates her own undoing in Todd Field’s return to filmmaking, “TÁR.” It’s her career-best performance since she told Therese Belivet “I like the hat” in 2015’s “Carol,” and her latest role allows her to dig into the sinews of her gifts while also reflecting on her own public-figure status and genius. Here in Field’s fictional universe that mirrors our wobbly own, she’s playing Lydia Tár, the most famous female conductor in history, and a woman whose interpersonal dealings with protégés, peers, fans, and colleagues become her inevitable destruction. Watch the final trailer for the film below before Focus Features opens it theatrically on October 7.
The movie is set primarily in Berlin, where Lydia lives with her partner Sharon and small, adopted Syrian daughter. A self-described “U-haul lesbian,” Lydia is preparing to record Gustav Mahler’s fifth symphony with the German...
The movie is set primarily in Berlin, where Lydia lives with her partner Sharon and small, adopted Syrian daughter. A self-described “U-haul lesbian,” Lydia is preparing to record Gustav Mahler’s fifth symphony with the German...
- 9/28/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
When fall festivals introduce Oscar buzz, we learn not only which movies may make the cut but also the themes they create. This time last year, “The Power of the Dog” and “Belfast” launched dueling stories of troubled youth. This year, brace for it: Cancel culture is coming to Oscar season.
The undisputed victor of the Venice-Telluride dash is “TÁR,” which arrived in the Rockies from the Lido riding the waves of rapturous praise. The Telluride crowd confirmed that director Todd Field’s first movie in 15 years is a riveting cinematic journey into the downfall of a brilliant-but-troubled conductor whose career goes into a tailspin after a series of scandals. With Cate Blanchett’s fiery performance as celebrated composer Lydia Tár at its center, the movie barrels through nearly three hours of inquiries into personal and professional behavior, separating art from the artist, and social media snafus.
Field directs his...
The undisputed victor of the Venice-Telluride dash is “TÁR,” which arrived in the Rockies from the Lido riding the waves of rapturous praise. The Telluride crowd confirmed that director Todd Field’s first movie in 15 years is a riveting cinematic journey into the downfall of a brilliant-but-troubled conductor whose career goes into a tailspin after a series of scandals. With Cate Blanchett’s fiery performance as celebrated composer Lydia Tár at its center, the movie barrels through nearly three hours of inquiries into personal and professional behavior, separating art from the artist, and social media snafus.
Field directs his...
- 9/5/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
"Perhaps the chief requirement of [the conductor] is that he be humble before the composer; that he never interpose himself between the music and the audience," said famed conductor Leonard Bernstein. "All his efforts, however strenuous or glamorous, be made in the service of the composer's meaning — the music itself, which, after all, is the whole reason for the conductor's existence."
Bernstein serves as something of a guiding light to the titular character of writer/director Todd Field's "TÁR" — a title so serious it requires special instructions to ensure capitalization and with an acute Á. Cate Blanchett's Lydia Tár is a contemporary composer-conductor and protégé of Bernstein's who seeks to occupy a similar place in the cultural firmament. She's an Egot polymath on the verge of completing a famed cycle of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and writing a book extolling her own brilliance. It's no wonder Field claims the film...
Bernstein serves as something of a guiding light to the titular character of writer/director Todd Field's "TÁR" — a title so serious it requires special instructions to ensure capitalization and with an acute Á. Cate Blanchett's Lydia Tár is a contemporary composer-conductor and protégé of Bernstein's who seeks to occupy a similar place in the cultural firmament. She's an Egot polymath on the verge of completing a famed cycle of Gustav Mahler's symphonies and writing a book extolling her own brilliance. It's no wonder Field claims the film...
- 9/1/2022
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slash Film
“Tár,” written and directed by Todd Field, tells the story of a world-famous symphony orchestra conductor played by Cate Blanchett, and let me say right up front: It’s the work of a master filmmaker. That’s not a total surprise. Field has made only two previous films, and the first of them, the domestic revenge drama “In the Bedroom” (2001), was languorous and lacerating — a small, compact indie-world explosion. His second feature, “Little Children” (2006), was a misfire, though his talent was all over it.
But “Tár,” the first film he has made in 16 years, takes Todd Field to a new level. The movie is breathtaking — in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision. It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power. It’s set in the contemporary classical-music world, and if that sounds a bit high-toned, the movie leads us through that world in a...
But “Tár,” the first film he has made in 16 years, takes Todd Field to a new level. The movie is breathtaking — in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision. It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power. It’s set in the contemporary classical-music world, and if that sounds a bit high-toned, the movie leads us through that world in a...
- 9/1/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Bradley Cooper shared on a recent podcast that a famous director — whom he did not name — told him to his face he didn’t deserve to have racked up seven career Oscar nominations when “A Star is Born” was making the awards rounds.
At a 2017 CAA party, Cooper, told Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes on the SmartLess podcast, he was talking to a thrice-Oscar-nominated actress (whose name he also withheld) and the director. The helmer told the actor, “What world are we living in where you have seven nominations and she’s only got three?'”
Cooper, who now has nine total Academy Award nominations for co-producing “Joker,” and “Nightmare Alley,” was stunned. As he said on the podcast, “I’m like, ‘Bro, why are you such an a—hole.’ I would never f—ing forget that. Go f— yourself.”
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At a 2017 CAA party, Cooper, told Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes on the SmartLess podcast, he was talking to a thrice-Oscar-nominated actress (whose name he also withheld) and the director. The helmer told the actor, “What world are we living in where you have seven nominations and she’s only got three?'”
Cooper, who now has nine total Academy Award nominations for co-producing “Joker,” and “Nightmare Alley,” was stunned. As he said on the podcast, “I’m like, ‘Bro, why are you such an a—hole.’ I would never f—ing forget that. Go f— yourself.”
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- 6/21/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Bradley Cooper revealed on a recent episode of the “SmartLess” podcast (via IndieWire) that a famous director once mocked him for having 7 career Oscar nominations. The incident occurred at a party during Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” awards season. The music drama boosted Cooper’s Oscar nomination haul from four (three acting noms and a best picture nom as a producer on “American Sniper”) to seven.
At an awards season party, Cooper met with a famous director who made a joke out of Cooper’s 7 Oscar nominations. Cooper was joined at the party by a friend, a famous actress, who had three Oscar nominations under her belt. The director told Cooper, “What world are we living in where you have 7 nominations and she’s only got three?”
“I’m like, ‘Bro, why are you such an asshole?’” Cooper told the “SmartLess” podcast hosts. “I would never fucking forget that.
At an awards season party, Cooper met with a famous director who made a joke out of Cooper’s 7 Oscar nominations. Cooper was joined at the party by a friend, a famous actress, who had three Oscar nominations under her belt. The director told Cooper, “What world are we living in where you have 7 nominations and she’s only got three?”
“I’m like, ‘Bro, why are you such an asshole?’” Cooper told the “SmartLess” podcast hosts. “I would never fucking forget that.
- 6/20/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Bradley Cooper is coming for the awards circuit.
After most recently landing a Best Actor nomination for his Oscar-winning directorial debut “A Star Is Born,” Cooper is helming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” plus co-writing, producing, and starring in the upcoming feature opposite Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Silverman, Scott Ellis, and Matt Bomer.
Nine-time Academy Award nominee Cooper revealed that he still isn’t taken seriously in Hollywood while candidly speaking with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes on their “SmartLess” podcast. The “Silver Linings Playbook” alum opened up about an awkward encounter with two stars at an Oscar party thrown by agency CAA four years ago, circa the days of “A Star Is Born,” where Cooper was up for three Oscars, including Best Picture.
Cooper, who at the time had seven Oscar nominations total, added that his accolades are “crazy, it’s nuts.” At the party,...
After most recently landing a Best Actor nomination for his Oscar-winning directorial debut “A Star Is Born,” Cooper is helming Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” plus co-writing, producing, and starring in the upcoming feature opposite Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Silverman, Scott Ellis, and Matt Bomer.
Nine-time Academy Award nominee Cooper revealed that he still isn’t taken seriously in Hollywood while candidly speaking with Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and Sean Hayes on their “SmartLess” podcast. The “Silver Linings Playbook” alum opened up about an awkward encounter with two stars at an Oscar party thrown by agency CAA four years ago, circa the days of “A Star Is Born,” where Cooper was up for three Oscars, including Best Picture.
Cooper, who at the time had seven Oscar nominations total, added that his accolades are “crazy, it’s nuts.” At the party,...
- 6/20/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Stories of urban life under pressure dominated the 25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as the event wrapped Saturday with top honors going to Slovak director Barbora Sliepkova for “Lines,” called by the jury an “exceptional” approach to showing how “beauty, intimacy and space are intertwined” amid social and economic contradictions and connections.
“Lines” also took the prize for best debut and sound design by Michal Horvath along with $10,000, and was praised for its “complex and perfectly well crafted work.”
Main competition special mention went to “When You Are Close to Me,” a look at the lives of deaf and blind people by Italian director Laura Viezzoli, which the jury, including Syrian writer and filmmaker Orwa Al Mokdad and Romanian producer Anamaria Antoci, honored for its explorations of “sensitive and intimate space.”
Prizes for crucial non-directing work initiated this year went to Mexican director Tin Dirdamal for editing on “Dark Light Voyage,...
“Lines” also took the prize for best debut and sound design by Michal Horvath along with $10,000, and was praised for its “complex and perfectly well crafted work.”
Main competition special mention went to “When You Are Close to Me,” a look at the lives of deaf and blind people by Italian director Laura Viezzoli, which the jury, including Syrian writer and filmmaker Orwa Al Mokdad and Romanian producer Anamaria Antoci, honored for its explorations of “sensitive and intimate space.”
Prizes for crucial non-directing work initiated this year went to Mexican director Tin Dirdamal for editing on “Dark Light Voyage,...
- 10/31/2021
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The preventive measures put in place have been disrupting projects by the biggest spenders in the Czech Republic, such as Netflix and Amazon. The measures implemented to prevent the spread of the coronavirus will reduce film production in the Czech Republic by 75% until the end of the year, according to the Czech Audiovisual Producers’ Association. The outbreak of the pandemic and the subsequent strict restrictions have disrupted domestic film and television productions, local distribution operations and large foreign productions such as Alma and Oskar, a biopic drama revolving around painter Oskar Kokoschka and Gustav Mahler’s widow, as well as the second season of Amazon’s steampunk gothic fantasy series Carnival Row. Amazon and Netflix are among the biggest spenders in the Czech Republic, with Carnival Row holding the current record for incurring almost €68.5 million in eligible costs (see the news). The restrictions have obstructed another blockbuster series from Amazon.
Film music has come a long way in the 100+ years since moving images were first accompanied with sound (synchronized or otherwise), but seldom has it ever evolved more radically or aggressively than it did over the last decade. Spurred on by digital technology and/or a general tone of cosmic dissonance, rock and avant-garde musicians like Jonny Greenwood and Mica Levi used narrative projects as inspiration to explore new facets of their genius, while more traditional composers such as Alexandre Desplat and Carter Burwell rose to the challenge by delivering the most beautiful work of their careers. Hans Zimmer went deep into outer space, while Trent Reznor and Atticus Rose plunged head-first into the abyss of being extremely online.
It was a great time to go to the movies, even with your eyes closed.
Earlier this week, IndieWire revealed our list of the 100 Best Movies of the Decade. Now, we...
It was a great time to go to the movies, even with your eyes closed.
Earlier this week, IndieWire revealed our list of the 100 Best Movies of the Decade. Now, we...
- 7/26/2019
- by David Ehrlich, Kate Erbland, Chris O'Falt and Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
High class Italo filmmaking slips into the ’70s with Luchino Visconti still on top. This handsomely appointed period drama recreates Venice of 1910. Make that a highly stylized recreated Venice. As curiously enacted by Dirk Bogarde, Thomas Mann’s story of a composer’s inner turmoil over a maddeningly attractive teenaged boy becomes a one-man ordeal.
Death in Venice
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 962
1971 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 25, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson,
Carole André, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano.
Cinematography: Pasquale De Santis
Costume Designer: Piero Tosi
Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Music selections: Gustav Mahler, Beethoven, Mussorgsky
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Written by Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco from the novel by Thomas Mann
Produced by Robert Gordon Edwards, Mario Gallo, Luchino Visconti
Directed by Luchino Visconti
See Venice and die… or isn’t it supposed to be ‘see Rome and die?...
Death in Venice
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 962
1971 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 25, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson,
Carole André, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano.
Cinematography: Pasquale De Santis
Costume Designer: Piero Tosi
Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti
Music selections: Gustav Mahler, Beethoven, Mussorgsky
Film Editor: Ruggero Mastroianni
Written by Luchino Visconti, Nicola Badalucco from the novel by Thomas Mann
Produced by Robert Gordon Edwards, Mario Gallo, Luchino Visconti
Directed by Luchino Visconti
See Venice and die… or isn’t it supposed to be ‘see Rome and die?...
- 2/23/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Death in Venice. Courtesy of Warner Bros."You’re much too important a man to be a slave to conventions about nature. I’ll restore what was yours [...] Then you can fall in love."—Luchino Visconti's Death in VeniceThe adaptation of a novel to film is a precarious task, especially with source material as philosophically dense and deliberately cryptic as Thomas Mann’s turn-of-the-century novella Death in Venice. Since the time of its release, Luchino Visconti’s 1971 interpretation of the famous work has weathered a mixed critical reception, with praise reserved primarily for the film’s lush, scenic photography. Still, some considered these elements wasted on a questionable depiction of a man’s Lolita-esque sexual guilt trip. Gustav von Aschenbach, the writer-protagonist of Mann’s story, is in Visconti’s interpretation Aschenbach the composer (played by Dirk Bogarde with fussy and uncharacteristically sallow demeanor), a man self-exiled to Venice in search of rest,...
- 12/14/2018
- MUBI
Picture Tree International handling period project at Afm.
Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps has signed up to play Viennese-born composer Alma Mahler in Dieter Berner’s period feature Alma & Oskar.
The film will depict a tumultuous three-year relationship between Kriep’s Mahler and the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka in the early 1900s, by which point she had buried her first husband, fellow composer Gustav Mahler. Kokoschka used Alma as a model for his most famous work, and their relationship marked the most prodigious period of his artistic life.
Berlin-based Picture Tree International is handling sales on the project at Afm.
Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps has signed up to play Viennese-born composer Alma Mahler in Dieter Berner’s period feature Alma & Oskar.
The film will depict a tumultuous three-year relationship between Kriep’s Mahler and the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka in the early 1900s, by which point she had buried her first husband, fellow composer Gustav Mahler. Kokoschka used Alma as a model for his most famous work, and their relationship marked the most prodigious period of his artistic life.
Berlin-based Picture Tree International is handling sales on the project at Afm.
- 11/1/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Den of Geek Staff Oct 24, 2018
George R.R Martin, Hubble Telescope, Motorola, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
George R.R. Martin has confirmed a popular Game of Thrones theory about the White Walkers.
"It’s kind of ironic," Martin said. "Because I started writing Game of Thrones all the way back in 1991, long before anybody was talking about climate change."
Read more at Mental Floss.
Scientists ranked the landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover.
"After three days of lively debate last week in Glendale, California, 158 scientists and Mars enthusiasts voted on the best landing and research site for the Mars 2020 Rover, leaving with a virtual tie."
Read more at Inverse.
Marvel's Thor "What If" comic is a love letter to Loki.
"As a fan of Thor in both comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I was excited by the God of Thunder’s new What If? scenario: what...
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George R.R. Martin has confirmed a popular Game of Thrones theory about the White Walkers.
"It’s kind of ironic," Martin said. "Because I started writing Game of Thrones all the way back in 1991, long before anybody was talking about climate change."
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Scientists ranked the landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover.
"After three days of lively debate last week in Glendale, California, 158 scientists and Mars enthusiasts voted on the best landing and research site for the Mars 2020 Rover, leaving with a virtual tie."
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Marvel's Thor "What If" comic is a love letter to Loki.
"As a fan of Thor in both comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I was excited by the God of Thunder’s new What If? scenario: what...
- 10/24/2018
- Den of Geek
Can a making-of be a complex anthropological piece of filmmaking? Andrea Bussmann answers that question easily with her documentary short, He Whose Face Gives No Light (2011), filmed during the recording of Malaventura, the first film of Mexican programmer Michel Lipkes. In this documentary, the Canadian director already touches on all of her concerns and intentions regarding cinema, such that her follow-up feature, Tales of Two Who Dreamt (2016), made in collaboration with her husband, the festival-favorite Nicolás Pereda, confirmed her ethnographic approach and her influences from literature, how both of these approaches can work on documentary, and her interest in questioning the concepts and conventions of fiction and documentary forms.We talked to Andrea Bussmann about her first feature directed solo, Fausto (Faust), a particularly interesting and articulate anthropological reflection on the complex historical construction of the present through literature and mythology and the colonizing influence of the word and fiction on quotidian life.
- 8/12/2018
- MUBI
Run for your life and your next big gig, available in today’s roundup! Venture into post-apocalyptic America in the feature film “Blood Red,” now casting a key supporting role in London. Plus, a feature film is seeking its rebel soldier lead, play Gustav Mahler and more famous historical characters in a play about love and art, and a short about British identity post-Brexit is on the search for a British Asian actor. “Blood Red”“Blood Red,” a feature film set in post-apocalyptic America, is now casting a key supporting role. A female actor, aged 20–26, is wanted to play Ronda, a mysterious and deadly character who brings tension to the film. Rehearsals begin in September in London and the film shoots in mid-2019 in Georgia (the country). Pay is Tbd commensurate with the final shooting budget. Apply here! Untitled Feature, Insurgent Films Ltd.Insurgent Films is currently casting the lead in its second feature.
- 6/29/2018
- backstage.com
High Definition Tape Transfers, which specializes in high-definition releases of classical, jazz and pop classics and whose extensive catalogue goes from Duke Ellington to Gustav Mahler, is proud to announce the high-definition release in 2018 of Judy Garland's very last concert, recorded at Falkoner Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 25, 1969.
- 10/2/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jerry Goldsmith was already a veteran film composer with numerous iconic scores under his belt by the time he was enlisted to work on Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979). He’d worked in radio and television through the 1950s, contributing music to classic shows such as The Twilight Zone (1959) and Perry Mason (1959) before making the move to film, writing scores for films as diverse in subject matter (and sound) as Stagecoach (1966) and Planet of the Apes (1968) in the 1960s and Chinatown (1974) and The Omen (1976) in the 1970s. Goldsmith’s rich orchestral scores for such films, which were informed and influenced by early 20th century modernist composers, are both experimental and economical in their use and development of thematic material. He explained, “What I really try to do is to take one simple motif of the material for the picture, and a broad theme, and construct it so they always can work...
- 6/6/2017
- MUBI
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