FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONTENDERS WITH BIGGER DREAMS
Anne Thompson penned a piece at Indiewire this week assessing the Oscar prospects of two films that are expected to be major players in the Best Foreign Language Film category. She's talking about Alfonso Cuaron's Roma and Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War both of which played TFF #45.
The two films seem locks for nominations in that category but Anne suggests they're both after bigger things as both Netflix with Roma and Amazon with Cold War are hoping that their respective films could be players for other nominations including Best Picture.
Roma already seems very likely to make the Oscar parade for Best Picture and probably direction, cinematography and editing as well. It could well factor in the Best Original Screenplay category and perhaps even acting nominations for actress and supporting actress could be accessible. I'm basing that assessment largely on the critical reception that Curaon's passion project has received as it has moved through Venice, where it won the Golden Lion, Telluride and Toronto.
Cold War seems like a longer stretch to me. At this point I think it ends up with the single nomination for Best Foreign Film.
Both films have some baggage that may impede Oscar voters embracing them past the Foreign Language category. The first thing, of course, is that they're not in English. They're both black and white and both are from outlets that are viewed primarily as streaming services by many in the Academy and that, to some, is pejorative.
For more, take a look at Anne's article here.
TRAILER FOR THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD
Many of you saw They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, the companion documentary for The Other Side of the Wind at the fest a few weeks ago. This week Netflix dropped a trailer for the Morgan Neville directed film as well as the above poster.
Here, from YouTube, is the trailer:
I've also linked a couple of stories that came out this week about the documentary from:
Indiewire
FirstShowing
HITLER'S LAST SHOW
So, during this year's festival, I was asked if I might be interested in participating in a small project. I said "maybe" and ultimately this was the result.
The folks that dreamed this up wanted to create a Hitler Downfall parody about TFF. I didn't even really know what that was but I do now.
For the uninitiated, there is a program that allows people to create their own script for the titanic Hitler rant in Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 Oscar nominated (Best Foreign Film) Downfall.
The "film" was completed this week and here it is with a couple of notes.
1) It pokes fun at TFF but it's all done with love. Believe me, the folks who put this together love the fest.
2) There's a tad bit of language that would likely earn it a PG-13 rating so if that's an issue, maybe don't watch.
3) I am to credit the film to "An Anonymous TFF Fan".
As a teaser, here's a screenshot of one of the captions:
That's a wrap for MTFB for this Thursday. There will be more here on Monday. Have a fine weekend!
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