Trailer for Andrew Haigh's Lean On Pete, one of the best films I saw during TIFF this year: [link]
The movie is a stunner - sparse and gorgeous, and strikingly unsentimental for a movie about a boy and a horse. And I have never seen a character who needed a hug more than this poor kid in the film, my God. The young actor who plays the lead is fantastic - he's named Charlie Plummer, and he's also playing the kidnapped teenager in All the Money in The World (the one in which Ridley Scott is replacing Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer in the eleventh hour). Hopefully this will get a wide enough release in small theaters.
My feelings on Shape of Water is that it is a lovely fairy tale romance, but because it's such a sweet, simple story, it doesn't quite have the oopmh of del Toro's other work.
Thinking more about it after a couple days' digestion, it is refreshing to see a story with such clear good and bad guys - defined by how much they help or hurt the people around them. The protagonist's fish kink is treated as evidence that she's an emotionally healthy sex-positive adult, and we the audience are 100% rooting for their love story - no antiheroes here. The bad guys are vocally racist, sexist, and homophobic - we are not asked to sympathize with their secret manpain because what matters is that they are ASSHOLES, which is a bad thing to be.
I want to see it even more now!
Dang it, why is that not playing closer to me?
It turns out I'm not seeing it this weekend, because it doesn't open here yet, just a one night only screening that I can't make it to. Grrr. I WANT TO SEE MY FISH MONSTER/LADY ROMANCE.
Say Ladybird tonight and did not love it. I expected to love it and I just liked it.
Who decided
Get Out
was a "comedy or musical"? [link]
Someone who didn't see the movie, I'm guessing. I mean the friend at TSA was comic relief, but that wasn't a big part of the movie.
Actually, the studio and director made that decision, because the "comedy or musical" category has become a catch-all for any genre film, which helps the genre films not go up against big dramas like
Dunkirk.
The year
The Martian
was released, it was nominated as a comedy or musical, and it won.
I could almost buy The Martian as a musical.
Actually, the studio and director made that decision, because the "comedy or musical" category has become a catch-all for any genre film, which helps the genre films not go up against big dramas like Dunkirk.
Yeah, that's annoying and weird. You might as well call the categories "Oscar Movies" and "Golden Globe Movies."
