Plus, inside the best-actress battle royal.
It's been a busy week on the film desk. That's how it always is at the end of the year when studios rush to bring out their prestige offerings. |
Those titles have to include "Women Talking," Sarah Polley's fictionalized drama about the aftermath of sexual assaults in a Mennonite sect. My colleague Nicole Sperling gathered the filmmaker and two of her stars, Rooney Mara and Claire Foy, for a conversation about the film and what a post-#MeToo future might look like. |
Like "Women Talking," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Bardo" was a much-discussed entry on the fall festival circuit. Carlos Aguilar spoke with the director along with Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro — a.k.a. the Three Amigos — about the film's star, Daniel Giménez Cacho, He is the rare actor to have worked for all three filmmakers, and Cuarón recalled that more than once, he had passed over Giménez Cacho thinking there were better options only to realize "that was really dumb." |
Speaking of major performances, the Projectionist columnist Kyle Buchanan has a zippy look at the most hotly contested Oscar race of the season: best actress. He says the field is so stacked with contenders that five slots aren't enough, adding, "Couldn't we swipe a few more from the wan best-actor category, at least?" He sees the front-runners as Cate Blanchett (Tár), Michelle Yeoh ("Everything Everywhere All at Once"), Michelle Williams ("The Fabelmans") Danielle Deadwyler ("Till"), Viola Davis ("The Woman King") and Margot Robbie ("Babylon"). |
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