Monday, October 16, 2023

Oscar Update: Best Picture and Direction / New Fingernails Clip / Interviews: The Holdovers' Payne, The Pigeon Tunnel's Errol Morris and Baltimore's Molloy and Lawlor

OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND DIRECTION

Here's MTFB's first Oscar Update since the original set of predictions three weeks ago.  Today I'm updating the Best Picture and Direction categories.  As usual TFF #50 films are in Bold.  A film's previous position on the MTFB Oscar chart is listed in parentheses.

BEST PICTURE



1) Oppenheimer (1)
2) Killers of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Poor Things (3)
4) Barbie (4)
5) The Holdovers (7)
6) Maestro (5)
7) Past Lives (8)
8) American Fiction (6)
9) The Color Purple (10)
10) The Zone of Interest (9)

Alternates: Anatomy of a Fall, Air, Saltburn and The Iron Claw.

BEST DIRECTION

1) Christopher Nolan/Oppenheimer (1)
2) Martin Scorsese/Killer of the Flower Moon (2)
3) Yorgos Lanthimos/Poor Things (3)
4) Greta Gerwig/Barbie (4)
5) Jonathan Glazer/The Zone of Interest (5)

Alternates: Alexander Payne/The Holdovers, Bradley Cooper/Maestro, Celine Song/Past Lives and Justine Triet/Anatomy of a Fall. 


NEW FINGERNAILS CLIP

Apple TV released a new clip from Christos Nikou's Fingernails this past week.  The film will be in limited release on Oct. 27th and is expected to stream on Apple TV on Nov. 3rd. Here's the clip via YouTube:





INTERVIEWS: THE HOLDOVERS' PAYNE, THE PIGEON TUNNEL'S ERROL MORRIS AND BALTIMORE'S MOLLOY AND LAWLOR

From 1011Now, Alexander Payne talks the creation of The Holdovers.  The film is set for limited release on Oct. 27th and wide release on Nov. 10th.




From Pop Culture Confidential, Errol Morris talks about his John Le Carre documentary The Pigeon Tunnel.




Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's Baltimore was a TFF #50 selection.  It was also a choice of the BFI London Film Festival which just concluded.  The couple were interviewed by Loud and Clear Reviews for its London screening and you can find that here.



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