The Autumn festival Firehose has opened. We are now flooded with new film premieres (TIFF, for one, have an astonishing 209 functions), with Tellurid wrapped and Venice On the way into his last weekend.
In this section of indieviews ”Screenpat“Podcast, Indifire-editor-in-Sty Anne Thompson and Managing Editor Ryan Lattanzio break down the heights and lowness in case festival Circuit so far, from petitions to the surprising misunderstandings. lush mounted “frankenstein” (We’re a little split on it; Anne is a constant part Toro head) and Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly.”
In the lead role of George Clooney as an aging Hollywood star staring down a potential PR crisis after a mix with a former actor -Peer, it is Baumbach’s most sentimental film yet, although Clooney and Adam Sandler are likely to make Oscar nominations. If you like your Baumbach brittle (Ryan is a self -described “‘Margot at the Wedding’ Gay”), “Jay Kelly” is not for you. The movie Netflix should prioritize is Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Doomsday thriller “A House of Dynamite”, which went spectacularly at Venice and plays the next New York Film Festival.
Back at Telluride, Anne was high on the Colorado mountains and the world premiere of Chloé Zhao’s “Harbor”, which received eco -static reviews and Oscar pre -prospects across the line. The focus contains strategically brought Zhao’s romantic tragedy in the Shakespeare era, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, to Telluride to know that it would get the best reviews there, and is the Zhao festival.
Focusing other award season horses in the race, “Bugonia”, they took to Yorgos Lanthimo’s regular launch point in Venice, where it received more guarded reviews compared to the scary Tellurid reception. Ryan said that part of its bludgeoning satire-it is about a totally right conspiracy nut (Jesse Plemons) who kidnaps a large harma CEO (Emma Stone) which he thinks is a stranger-known as Lanthimos Schtick. Anne reveals the film and Talked to Jesse Plemons.
We both saw “After the Hunt”, which skipped Telluride to exclusively debut out of the competition in Venice before opening the New York Film Festival. Luca Guadagnino’s interrupting-cultural drama in the Academia world did not play well at its original Italian festival, and before a Rowdy press conference. Anne criticized the length and agreed with Ryans review That the script is often confused and incoherent despite a substantial performance from Julia Roberts as a philosophy professor who struggles with her student (Ayo Edebiri) against a colleague, played by Andrew Garfield.
Listen to the podcast in its entirety and hear more of our favorites and also Rans from Venice and Telluride below.
