a native american woman is (almost certainly) going to win best actress for the first time in history and instead of like celebrating that countless film journos are implying that margot robbie not being nominated in the same category is somehow a loss for feminism
"The optics of excluding
#Barbie
's Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie from the directing and lead actress categories — the women most responsible for a critically acclaimed film that became the biggest blockbuster of 2023 — are not good"
i would be pretty annoyed if i gave a long interview about being the most high profile lesbian in hollywood for years and how that's affected the way i view younger queer people and try to uplift them in ways that i wasn't supported and every outlet just reported this bit instead
Jodie Foster to
@Guardian
on her frustrations with Gen Z:
“They’re really annoying, especially in the workplace. They’re like, ‘Nah, I’m not feeling it today, I’m gonna come in at 10.30am.’ Or, like, in emails, I’ll tell them this is all grammatically incorrect, did you not…
netflix doing a long thread about the wachowskis and trans readings of the matrix just a couple of years after cancelling a series by the wachowskis that had one of the few trans protagonists on television really sums up how brands approach activism lol
the funniest thing about the scorsese/marvel beef is that marty wrote one mild article about the state of the film industry and then hasn't mentioned it since and mcu people are still so rattled by it that they keep insisting they're making REAL films as if scorsese cares
“You can ask Scorsese ‘Would you want to make a Marvel movie?’ But he doesn’t know what it’s like because he’s never made one. I’ve made Marvel movies & movies that have been in conversation for Oscars & the only difference is one is much more expensive than other”
– Tom Holland
so the icj rules that israel needs to allow humanitarian aid in and in response western countries stop funding humanitarian aid based on israel making allegations with zero evidence about an agency they've already killed over 100 members of, great
BREAKING: The UK will temporarily pause funding to the UN's relief agency in Gaza over claims members were involved in Hamas' attack on Israel
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sorry to be a hater but getting dicaprio scorsese and gladstone in an interview together and asking them if they saw barbenheimer, if leo enjoyed the renaissance tour, what scorsese thinks about the criticism the movie was too long... come on!!
Martin Scorsese on criticism of ‘Flower Moon’s’ 3+ hour runtime: “Not every film is for every person...I don’t know if it’s something that will be universally accepted. This one felt right [at this length], and I felt that while I was watching it.”
conversion therapy is still legal in the uk, gay men are unable to give blood, a trans woman was granted asylum in new zealand because the uk was deemed an unsafe environment for trans people, bear things like this in mind when the government are tweeting "happy pride month!"
i don't think it's feminist to imply that tina fey must treat all female filmmakers with kid gloves and refuse to make jokes about them the way she would with male filmmakers
honestly i think it's extremely unprofessional to ask her about this. not even a question about what the critics feel, just putting her in a position where she has to find an eloquent way to say "i think she's wrong but i respect her opinion" about someone she's irl friends with
Lily Gladstone responds to "Reservation Dogs" star Devery Jacobs, who said watching "Killers of the Flower Moon" was "f*cking hellfire" because the Osage characters were "underwritten" and "helpless victims."
"Her reaction is hers. Her reaction is a response to a lot of trauma…
she doesn't need to get rid of her stylist because she has the "boygenius safety net" ensuring she will never be the worst dressed person at any music event
aren't you all tired of asking ever over-50 celebrity a leading question about cancel culture or whether the youths are too sensitive or some such nonsense so you can take it out of context and generate twitter engagements. is this fun for you still
yeah im so glad that the plucky underdog of marvel studios, owned by disney, the largest media conglomerate in the world, is finally standing up to Guillermo Del Toro
he was really like "i think it's bad when one corporation has almost complete control over the industry and forces out other creatives in favour of their one note blockbusters" and years later half the cast of avengers 18 is like this one is gonna win an oscar old man!!
bizarre stage of pop culture where writers will insert lines into tv shows for the sole purpose of the network's official social media accounts being able to post it as a hopefully viral quote
i appreciate that it's fine and normal to put in a few casual questions but it increasingly feels like film journalism is moving towards screenshottable pop culture moments rather than any kind of analysis. there's so much more to ask all three of these people!
there are directors who've made worse films but the russos still manage to be uniquely evil in their approach, just openly trying to accelerate the decline of film into 'content' and pretending that this is in some way exciting
idk how anyone can read scorsese's actual words and not be at least slightly moved by them? the problem is not just whether marvel movies are good or bad! some of them are pretty good, that doesn't make the industry any less terrible!
@ctrlpetal
what 'situation', she simply wasn't as good as the five directing nominees like. it's not even a huge snub it's perfectly reasonably particularly in a very competitive year
must be so annoying to be an up and coming director (kristoffer borgli) and be constantly ignored because various sites figured they'd get more interactions by citing a more famous producer. remember when they did this to nia dacosta and it was always "produced by jordan peele"
Nicolas Cage in ‘DREAM SCENARIO’, produced by Ari Aster.
The film follows a professor who becomes an overnight celebrity after appearing in everyone's dreams.
Read our review:
you'd think it'd be a *good* thing that there are lots of viable nominees for next actress but noooo endless whining about the billion dollar movie not getting enough awards recognition
Lilly and Lana Wachowski gave us one of the most influential, enduring, and celebrated films of all time. Through THE MATRIX, they gave trans people the possibility of a cinematic world without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible.
i feel like 'queer readings' have stopped being about reading a film against the grain to draw out unintentional queer subtext and are now a weird way to praise writers and directors for representation that isn't actually representation in any meaningful sense
And the fact that in this Matrix red pill/blue pill moment in Barbie, the Birkenstock is represented as the real world means that textually Barbie is a queer coming out story.
@LeiselHughes
@ctrlpetal
there's ten best picture nominations and five for directing and acting, if the latter categories had ten slots they both would've been nominated lol
i think it's so funny that the most depraved dirty disgusting thing emerald fennell can think of is "what if a guy was GAY and he LICKED a BATHTUB!!!!"
i think it's good when awards shows are elitist and out of touch and don't just give a special medal to whatever movie made the most money that year idk
the actors weren't even causing them PR problems, the agency and the studio have drawn far more controversy and attention to themselves by firing them. it clearly isn't about unacceptable comments, they're just sending the message that being pro-palestinian will get you fired
guarantee that the amount studios like netflix talk about lgbt+ and particularly trans representation is massively disproportionate to the amount of trans creators they actually work with. much keener on clapping themselves on the back than producing content from trans people.
sorry but who was watching tenet and thinking nolan's aim was to make a smart film to appeal to (pseudo)intellectuals and not a pulpy fun mildly homoerotic blockbuster
Nolan is a pseudointellectual who makes middlebrow blockbusters, but he happens to work in a period in which popular discourse (especially online) is dominated by pseudointellectuals who love middlebrow blockbusters (youtubers, video essayists, podcasters, etc).
it is quite funny that wes anderson's whole style has been reduced by this type of crap to "symmetrical shot of actor looking at camera", like how are people actually impressed by this
@darthgordita
"i don't think so honey" is so camp i think she realised she accidentally made an extremely hetero mean girls remake and is embracing her inner gay man
poor things is almost oppressively heavy handed in how it instructs the viewer which characters are good, which are bad, is this action good or bad, etc. the problem is that people are not paying attention or are deliberately misinterpreting it to fit with a preconceived take
The entire Poor Things conversation is just proof that people cannot handle consuming a movie that isn't didactically telling them how to feel at every single moment
personally i think it's admirable when someone can pull off such an open grift. the consensus is that all of them are awful and yet he still gets away with being like here's three more books on what the atreides family were doing just before dune. inspirational stuff
seen people say he's overacting but i don't think he really has a scene in the movie where he's not intentionally amping it up for an audience? like the smirk isn't rdj being extra, it's *strauss* being extra because he wants oppenheimer to know how much he loathes him
the un relief agency immediately fired members accused of being hamas and still gets funding withdrawn, the idf has killed over a hundred members of the same relief agency and western govts can't even put out a "we'd rather you didn't do that" statement while sending them weapons
billy porter not knowing the name 'hamas', admitting he doesn't know the history at all and saying of the ongoing genocide "the retaliation is a little overkill, now, doll" is gonna stick with me i think
KOTFM does feel like a movie that if your first reaction is to do a letterboxd joke or make a meme about it you probably have a sickness of the soul idk
is it not just straightforwardly misogynist that when a film very clearly has awful cinematography and terrible writing to be like "it's for the girls the MEN wouldn't get it", as if those are things that no woman cares about or understands
It’s been said, but big studios co-opting social justice to shield their slop from criticism is one of the most genius/insidious grifts of all time. Talked about, wrote about, and loved plenty of female led and directed films this year. Don’t have to go to bat for Madame Web.
the idea that lgbt people in countries like the uk should be thankful because in other countries it's illegal isn't progressive, it sends the message "accept what you have and don't ask for any more because if you're not grateful we can always take those rights away"
we need to go back to directors being unafraid to criticise each other's movies... like why is a guy who has four oscars having to put out a statement because he implied a film brought to you by Mattel™ wasn't serious cinema. let him cook!
everything i find out about this movie makes me more convinced that she saw the peach scene in cmbyn, assumed nobody else watched that movie, and figured she could just make a shocking and provocative movie that consisted only of unrelated peach scenes
it's not a 'queer reading' if the movie is hinting at a character being queer but in a subtle enough way that they won't get flak from conservatives, that's just being cowards. get an aggressively hetero movie and find all the proof they're dropping rawdog loads in each other!!
@eruuris
i did read the article and i found it weirdly jarring that half the questions were great and elicit meaningful and elicited meaningful answers and half of them were just clearly bait about a recent pop culture phenomenon
asking an actor how they feel about the critical consensus - mostly irrelevant question but whatever
asking an actor to respond to a specific person who criticise their movie - you are not a gossip columnist, grow the fuck up
when there's video evidence of israel shooting civilians trying to surrender politicians will insist it must be faked or say they need more information before responding, when israel makes accusations politicians don't even ask for any evidence before agreeing to what they want
in addition to this scene making no sense in the context of the movie (because the barbies cannot relate to any of this! they live with plastic bodies in a matriarchy!) the amazon prime logo popping up at the end of the clip feels very apt for the Brand™ Feminism aesthetic lmao
realising that listening to sad music when you're sad just puts you in a spiral and makes you weirdly addicted to the feeling of sadness changed my life... im one of many gays who unironically cured depression with kylie minogue step back in time: the definitive collection
i have been diagnosed with clinical depression for 8 years and more than any medical intervention or therapy, not listening to sad music has healed me. phoebe bridgers you’re nothing
also shows a lot of people don’t care about cinema outside of consuming it if they’re applauding scab behavior you’re watching someone actively kill the thing you claim to love
i feel like the movies are way more complex than this and guarantee scorsese does not care if some teens online are accusing him of glorifying violence lol
Killers of The Flower Moon and The Irishman are what happens when a director who spent his whole career being accused of glorifying violence finally responds and just spells out for you what he’s been saying this whole time
variety's reporting on this is disgraceful lmao, they're citing people like brett gelman as if they're impartial bystanders and failing to mention that tishby has literally worked for the israeli government and went on an unhinged rant after annie lennox called for a ceasefire
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
i don't particularly like wes anderson or edgar wright movies but does anyone seriously believe that kevin feige cares about the art of cinema more than they do?
this would to me basically be on the level of JLC winning best supporting actress for literally no reason but uh unfortunately that did actually happen so
important to recognise too that the law is not the defining factor in lgbt liberation - arrests of gay men increased after homosexuality was decriminalised, abolition of section 28 didnt guarantee any lgbt education etc