Sean Baker’s Oscars Battle Cry (and Mine): Don’t Abandon the Big Screen
Two minor quakes hit Los Angeles Sunday night, and I like to think that they were cosmically connected. The second earthquake was a small rattler (3.9) centered in the San…
Two minor quakes hit Los Angeles Sunday night, and I like to think that they were cosmically connected. The second earthquake was a small rattler (3.9) centered in the San…
Ross himself never appears in the film, and we rarely hear him speak, but there’s a notable exception. About midway through “Hale County,” he, or maybe we, are in a…
Who is nominated? The Spanish-language narco-musical “Emilia Pérez” leads the pack with 13 nominations, followed by Brady Corbet’s epic drama “The Brutalist” and the gravity-defying musical “Wicked” with 10 each.…
“Hello. I’m Denis Villeneuve. I’m the director of ‘Dune, Part Two’.” “So this scene happens exactly after the introduction of Feyd-Rautha, where we saw him as a psychopath. And here,…
✓ “Anora” “The Brutalist” “A Complete Unknown” “Conclave” “Dune: Part Two” “Emilia Pérez” “I’m Still Here” “Nickel Boys” “The Substance” “Wicked” After a few years where the best picture winner…
This tumultuous Oscar season has a certified front-runner. On Saturday night in Los Angeles, more than a month after “Anora” lost every award it was nominated for at the Golden…
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two…
In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You…
The Golden Globes really are back. After a scandal-ridden few years that had the Golden Globes on the ropes, that awards body’s influence could be felt all over the Oscar…