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The legendary filmmaker hasn’t been shy in revealing his issues when it comes to securing funding for his next film. If you remember, last October he told the BBC’s Culture Life that he was “struggling like mad to get anybody to back a film”. He’s not short on ideas and energy, just money. Then, in November, he doubled down saying that Netflix rejected his new project. Now, in an interview with Variety, he says things haven’t really changed since last fall; “It’s always been a bit of a struggle, but there’s a lot more reluctance and resistance for backers to take that on board now,” he says....

“White Noise” has been deemed “impossible to film” ever since it was published back in 1985. It is a plotless postmodernist exploration of death, consumerism, and suburban malaise. Dealing with Jack and Babette Gladney, a college professor of “Hitler studies” and his mostly-loving wife, DeLillo’s novel deals with this couple’s social anxieties, but, more specifically, their unabashed fear of death. Baumbach is the New York-born director of indie classics such as “The Squid and the Whale, ” and “Frances Ha....

This is very much good news, we’re going to get to see Baumbach’s sprawling, ambitious opus, an adaptation of Don Delilo’s polarizing novel that is said to be so vast that it easily counts as the writer-director’s biggest movie yet. The entire Venice lineup will be revealed on Tuesday, some names that will certainly be a part of this 91st edition include Baumbach, Inarritu, Aronofsky, Schrader, Panahi, Guadagnino, McDonagh, Dominik, Field, Hong, and Wiseman....

First things first, we already knew Bardo wasn’t going, but also missing are The Son, Women Talking, Bones & All, The Banshees of Inisherin, Empire of Light and The Whale. There are 10 films from Venice, including ”White Noise,” “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” ”Un Couple,” “The Eternal Daughter,” “Master Gardener,” “Saint Omer,” and “Tar.” Also, 16 from Cannes, including competition auteurs Skolimowski, Mungui, Serra, Reichardt, Gray, Park, Denis and Ostlund....

Back to Oscar. These should be the titles to look out for: Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood”Steven Soderbergh’s “The Laundromat”Ang Lee’s “Gemini Man”Joe Wright’s “The Woman in the Window”Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet”Noah Hawley’s “Pale Blue Dot”Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out”Marielle Heller’s ”A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood”Jay Roach’s “Fair and Balanced”Dee Rees’ “The Last Thing He Wanted”Ira Sachs’ “Frankie”the Safdies’ “Uncut Gems”Josh Cooley’s “Toy Story 4”Jim Jarmusch’s ”The Dead Don’t Die” Hesitant to include these movies: Jordan Peele’s “Us”Benh Zeitlin’s “Wendy”Terrence Malick’s “Radegund”James Gray’s “Ad Astra”Gerwig’s “Little Women” Contribute Hire me...

Carey Mulligan‘s performance as a cheating mom in small-town Montana rings harrowingly true. But the overall, gloomily doomsday-ic feel that Dano goes for is impenetrable. As great as Mulligan is, and she wholly deserves awards attention, the self-destructive behavior of her Jeanette, abandoned by her husband Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) who decides to go off and fight forest fires with local volunteers, results in her all-but inviting 14 year-old son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) to participate in the extra-marital affair she has with a small-town millionaire (Bill Camp)....

Sure, pedestrians will mostly remember Hall for playing dead-serious library cop Bookman, who went after Jerry for a copy of Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” that was two decades overdue, but Hall was also one of the great character actors. The bags under his doleful eyes, and the voice compared to sandpaper — those were his indelible traits. A mix of sadness, rage, and loneliness encompassed many of his characters....

The last poll was also the first time Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” failed to take the number one spot on either the Critics or Director’s lists. The last poll, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” dethroned ‘Kane,’ a film that held the top spot for almost three decades. “Vertigo” beat ‘Kane’ 191 to 157. The following are 2012’s Critics results: Assuming they follow tradition, there will be another poll done in 2022, and it will most likely be the most polarizing results we’ve seen in a very long time....

Speaking to members of the press, after the Globes win, May claimed the bad reviews were because critics made the mistake of reviewing the trailer instead of reviewing the film. They jumped to conclusions and once they come to a conclusion “it’s hard for them to withdraw,” said May (via Deadline). Suffice to say, we’re all glad Brian May is sticking to music and not film analysis. Contribute Hire me...

“Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear told the Tulsa World on Friday evening that Scorsese and members of his team visited the Osage Nation campus earlier that day for about two hours. He said the tribe told Scorsese’s team about its interest in providing resources to help ensure that the film portrays an accurate representation of the Osage people.” Scorsese, according to Osage Chief Standing Bear, said Robert De Niro has also agreed to play the part of William Hale, one of the main characters in the book....

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It’s also, all of a sudden, climbed up the Gold Derby Best Picture rankings to #16. I doubt it gets nominated, but that is still very impressive. Nobody expected this one to figure even in the top 30. Wells’ film has also now topped Sight and Sound’s year-end critics poll, beating out competition titles from Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. Finishing at #2 is another film by a female director, Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer” — which I was told came very close to making it into Cannes competition, but, while waiting for a final answer from the festival, ultimately decided to take Venice’s offer....

Obviously, comparing ‘Fabelmans’ to “Glass Onion,” which also opened in 600 theaters, is probably unfair, but Rian Johnson’s sequel made around $14-15 million this weekend. More and more people are thinking it could get Best Picture nominated now … EARLIER: Steven Spielberg’s critically acclaimed “The Fabelmans” is now out in theaters, more specifically 638 of them. We’re keeping a close eye on this one as it comes out at the same time other prestige films are failing at the box-office....

The “how” was actually rather simple, with a special table and the actor only exposing part of his body as the rest was composed of a false torso that had the chest-bursting alien popping out. There is no better compliment than getting the Kubrick seal of approval, the legendary director was well-known to be an obsessive-compulsive filmmaker in and out of the set, shooting an unending amount of takes per scene and meticulously deconstructing every single detail of a given frame....

The gist of the cause for this TIFF meltdown seems to derive from the plain fact that the major studios are hesitant in adhering to the digital components that Toronto has in store this year. The Telluride and Venice festivals, unlike Toronto, will not be doing streaming, and that’s obviously something that turns most big title owners off. Right now, Canadian government is being extremely cautious about the new Delta strain of COVID-19, which, who knows, could be an issue for other festivals this fall as well....

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Disney took full advantage of this problem, which many young, up-and-coming directors had this last decade, by hiring promising directors such as Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson, Garret Edwards, Chloe Zhao, Joss Whedon, James Gunn, and Ryan Coogler. If anyone tells you what these directors have done isn’t selling out, then they are in denial. The movies the above filmmakers made for the mouse house were corporate-driven and for mass marketing consumption....

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If you’ve seen “The Irishman” then you would know that Scorsese’s longtime Oscar-winning editor has pulled off the best film editing job of the year. There’s no doubt about it. The film, which clocks in at a monstrous 209 minutes, speeds by like a bullet train. You don’t even have time to check your watch and, before you know it, the film has entered its final and slowly meditative epilogue....