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Best 2024 Films at Half-Time (15) Here’s an HE rundown of the 15 best films I’ve seen this year, including some of my Cannes favorites (all unreleased) as well as Steven Zallian ‘s Ripley, the knockout Netflix miniseries. These are the films that I felt truly impressed by, that I liked the most or have thought about hard since seeing them ...
Reliable Oscar handicappers Sasha Stone (Awards Daily) and Eric Anderson (Awards Watch) have spitballed projections for the likeliest major 2024 (or 2025 to be specific) Best Picture nominations. Sasha ‘s and Eric ‘s lists cover the usual suspects in a general way.
Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Michael Bay, the Russo Brothers and a whole battalion of like-minded filmmakers have never made a classically immersive movie in their lives, and they never will. But throughout much of the 20th Century immersive realism was, for the most part, scrupulously adhered to up and down the line .
About – Hollywood Elsewhere. Jeffrey Wells writes a daily stream-of-Hollywood-consciousness column for Hollywood Elsewhere, which he’s been running on his own since August 2004. Well, the editorial part at least. Sean Jacobs handles HE’s advertising.
Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Michael Bay, the Russo Brothers and a whole battalion of like-minded filmmakers have never made a classically immersive movie in their lives, and they never will. But throughout much of the 20th Century immersive realism was, for the most part, scrupulously adhered to up and down the line .
3 days ago · Finest 2024 Films ( 15) in this order…I’ll paste in my review links later today or tonight: 1. Sean Baker ‘s Anora (Neon, 10.18) 2. Payal Kapadia ‘s All We Imagine as Light. 3. Alice Rohrwacher ‘s La Chimera. 4. Steven Zallian ‘s Ripley.
Over the years I’ve never been more aware of the cries of seagulls than during the Cannes Film Festival. If you’re staying anywhere near the marina (as Hollywood Elsewhere is) their squawking cuts through the night air like an ambulance siren…wailing, aarking, “wake up, you sleepyheads.”.
Last night Hollywood Elsewhere sat down with Marc Turtletaub‘s Jules (Bleecker Street), a quiet little fable about a vaguely flaky, absent-minded old guy (Ben Kingsley) who gradually blooms emotionally and spiritually when a smallish flying saucer crashes into his backyard garden and a wounded, pint-sized, shiny-skinned alien crawls out and ...
In all candor, my strongest recollection of the recently deceased Godfather producer was the unfortunate fact that he wore a profoundly ugly tuxedo to the 1973 Oscars (i.e., the watched-by-tens-of-millions ceremony that raised high the Godfather legend). May 29, 2024 11:07 pm by Jeffrey Wells.
Oscar Poker Podcast. Extras from Hollywood-Elsewhere.com, including Oscar Poker with Jeff Wells and Sasha Stone. On Friday afternoon (4.12), HE chatted with entertainment critic, on-air host, podcaster and movie maven Neil Rosen (“Talking Pictures with Neil….
