Awards obsessives spend months speculating, tracking patterns, tuning in to the yay-or-nay buzz, consulting and re-consulting our tea leaves – but at the end of the day, nobody knows anything except the person holding that little envelope. Months of prognostication were upended this morning when the nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards were finally announced (the telecast runs Sunday, February 26th), sending the internet into a tizzy of insta-analysis over the shocks, surprises ... and of course, the snubs.
With 2016 yielding a bumper crop of excellent films and performances, some perfectly...
With 2016 yielding a bumper crop of excellent films and performances, some perfectly...
- 1/24/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Part of our continuing partnership with the online film journal cléo, which guest programs a film to watch on Mubi in the United States. In conjunction, we'll be hosting an exclusive article by one of their contributors. This month Mallory Andrews writes on Cecil B. DeMille's Joan the Woman (1916), now showing through December 15, 2015.It’s a bit of a shame that Cecil B. DeMille’s two-hour 1916 silent film will likely always be overshadowed by Carl Theodor Dreyer’s indelible The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). The universal praise for Dreyer’s intimate take on La Pucelle is well-earned and full of images that remain some of the most moving uses of close-ups in cinema. By contrast, Joan the Woman (being a typical DeMille joint) is concerned more with epic, operatic imagery. The climactic Battle of Orleans is teeming with detail, an elaborate scope that pushes at the boundaries of the square Academy ratio frame,...
- 11/16/2015
- by Mallory Andrews
- MUBI
The show begins with Josh (Jay Baruchel) awkwardly leaving the apartment of his now ex-girlfriend Maggie (Maya Erskine). As he walks away, heartbroken, suddenly it starts raining. But it’s only raining on him, nobody else. Dead birds fall from the sky and hit him, furthering his depressing state. The show only gets weirder from there. Within the next ten minutes, he’s gone on a date with an actual troll. Yes, you read that right. An actual troll. By the end of the pilot he’s also discovered that his ex-girlfriend is dating Hitler. Yes, that Hitler. This is just the first episode, and there are 9 more to go from there (plus another season on the way!), each one getting progressively more bizarre.
Fxx’s comedy, which airs on Wednesday nights and is created by showrunner Simon Rich, has many strengths, chief among them being how it takes very...
Fxx’s comedy, which airs on Wednesday nights and is created by showrunner Simon Rich, has many strengths, chief among them being how it takes very...
- 3/11/2015
- by Dylan Griffin
- SoundOnSight
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