The other surreally glorious thing about the Killers Of The Flower Moon party was having a long conversation with Martin Scorsese about Joseph Losey’s The Criminal and him telling me he loves Stanley Baker because his wife is half-Welsh #Cannes
@the_film_maniac @expert_oscar And then Oppenheimer will swoop in and shit all over everything. Zone of interest will get best adapted screenplay while Oppenheimer will get best picture let’s say. Lots of adaptation this year so who’s getting original screenplay?
Cannes Films by Metacritic Scores so far:
The Zone of Interest: 99
The Killers of the Flower Moon: 91
Anatomy of a Fall: 90
May December: 83
About Dry Grasses: 80
Monster: 79
Banel & Adama: 69
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: 53
Hypnotic: 53
Jeanne Du Barry: 51
@TwistedNubbins @hibachijustice inside joke in the development department which if a script comes in with a character who has a military or some sort of action hero background hidden that comes out etc it’s a VET who’s a VET. That character we’ll say “he’s a quiet Veterinarian who’s also a veteran, until…
@julie_bush I guess also decades of consistency, more and more of the same stuff but it’s all good, you become reliant on it, it’s a fix, it’s dependable, strong willed, it’s inspiring, you aim for it, it’s only attainable to that actor, they just keep delivering and they keep performing.
@julie_bush It’s a magic recipe for a movie star. It doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a magically mix of scandals and talent and strong opinions and sex appeal and Chinese whispers and paparazzi’s getting that iconic shot, and the partners and the DUI mug shot and the apology and the Oscar.
@tmtalksmovies But we all know Oppenheimer is the one this year, we know it in our hearts, it’s timely, there is an actual Nuclear ☢️ Cold War happening right this moment, it’s absolutely everything Oscars care about, it’s a message, it’s sexy, it’s Nolan, and we all know it’s going to slay.
@tmtalksmovies That’s good taste. When you look at their movies, they are just all down to good taste. It’s taken them from $1m investment to $2B valuation.
@SimplyRedHQ @eddiemarsan saw Karl Cox at Goodwood with all his mates once, he hired the whole track and brought all his cars down with him, if you’ve got the money and you want to drive fast, just get into track days it soon gets that itch out of your system, you’ll drive home like a chauffeur.
@JoyceCarolOates 100 years ago depression and other mental illnesses were often bundled into the term Hysteria, for which it obviously only affected women, so man quickly came up with cures.