World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy is projecting a few titles for the 2022 Venice Film Festival — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Bardo, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin and Paul Schrader’s The Master Gardener.
HE’s heart goes out to poor Bruce Willis, 67, who’s been forced to retire from acting due to aphasia, a degenerative brain ailment that results in a growing inability to remember lines.
We all understand that getting older and coping with the failure of this or that vital organ can be a heartless process, but this is sadistic. In a perfect world Willis would be able to keep making “Bruce Willis movies” at least another dozen years, and then he could shift into odd character parts in his late 70s and 80s.
Not only well said, but the rapid-fire montage editing (Critical Drinker's own hand or someone else's?) is ace-level.
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“Unacceptable and harmfulbehavior” that we need to mull over and reflect upon for…uhm, three or four weeks. Or maybe five. Or six. We will not be rushed.
Joseph Kosinski, Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer‘s Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount, 5.27) opens two months hence, and will have its first big screening in Cannes on Wednesday, 5.18. I have nothing more to say.
18 months ago a 4K UHD streaming version of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch A Thief became available. In terms of sharpness and detail and density of information it looks magnificent -- superior to the 2012 Bluray version. But the nighttime or deep-dusk scenes in the 4K version are way too bright -- not even a faint attempt to simulate nighttime. The 2012 Bluray fails in this regard also, but not as egregiously as the 4K.
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I’m aware that Zero Fucks Given was the title of a Kevin Hart/Netflix concert film, but it’s still a great title for a French narrative drama about an airline stewardess (Adele Exarchopoulos) living an arid, moment-to-moment, divorced-from-deep-feeling life. The French title is Rien à foutre. I’ll be watching it this evening. Co-directed and partially co-written by Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre; Mariette Desert shares the co-wriing credit.
Bill Maher’s TMZ interview about the Will Smith-Chris Rock thing is worth it for the JackieKennedyanalogy. 48 hours after her husband’s head exploded during a Dallas motorcade, the former First Lady showed class and grace during the funeral observances. 1.5 seconds after he was slapped upside the head by Will Smith, Chris Rock showed class and grace by keeping his cool and basically saying “okay, that happened, amazing television, let’s move on.”
For what it's worth, I never had a grade-school teacher who shared anything about his or her personal life (sexual orientation, who they were married to or were living with, where they went camping the previous weekend)...nothing. It seems to me that this Florida teacher wants his students to know that he's gay and has a partner in order to (a) bring them into his world and thereby (b) normalize gay lifestyles and coupledom so as to discourage any homophobic thoughts that might arise down the road.
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HE to readership: In his remarks this morning to CBS Mornings' Gayle King, Jim Carrey said that Chris Rock should sue Will Smith for $200 million because "that insult is going to last forever...it's going to be ubiquitous."
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Russia’s deputy defense minister says Moscow has decided to “fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernigiv” in order to “increase mutual trust for future negotiations to agree and sign a peace deal with Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/2qDYOzAzDp