#Best international film

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International film

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I really need to watch this, after I watch Young Royals tomorrow

The speech is talking about Gaza, it’s amazing

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Photo: IFTA, 2 February 2018

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Six years ago, the movie Urban and the Shed Crew won the People's Award and Richard won the Best Actor Award as Chop at the Newcastle International Film Festival.

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Cailee Spaeny won the 'Best Actress' award for 'Priscilla' at the 80th Venice International Film Festival – 09/09/23

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Eddie Redmayne talks about his beginnings as an actor learning from own mistakes and the experience to work with stars like Robert De Niro, Kate Blanchett and Michelle Williams, during a warm and candid conversation at The Toronto International Film Festival

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Marriage Story (2019, Noah Baumbach)

25/12/2023

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All jokes aside, which do you prefer; Jaizra or Zarezra?

jai actually shows up again so... jai!

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Impressions from Berlinale of Dan Stevens' performance as Mr. König in 'Cuckoo'.

Warning: Spoilers for his role/character.

Telegraph

... As he has proved before (in The Guest and The Rental), he’s a real asset in trashy genre fare, and a hoot as a villain: his particular pronunciation of the name “Gretchen” here – as if it had an acute accent on the first “e” – never gets less funny.

Screendaily

... Also a lot of fun is Dan Stevens, chewing his way through his dialogue and a sizable chunk of the Bavarian Alps as Mr König, the resort’s unnerving, unblinking owner.

Deadline

... As chief villain, Stevens has an appealingly quirky, ironic twist to his evil smile that encourages us to think this is all a bit of a lark, really.

Indiewire

... Stevens is clearly having a great time as the movie’s resident Wizard of Oz, a man who appears to control everything but the weather. It’s not at all clear what he’s actually doing — the recurring theme of the film — but his energy is enough to carry the action through its early chapters.

Little White Lies

... The family are warmly greeted by the resort’s cheerfully sinister owner Herr König (Dan Stevens relishing another chance to get weird)

... Dan Stevens is on top form leaning into his knack for playing offputting weirdos ...

Katie at the Movies

... the mustache-twirling of Stevens’ heightened performance (he, accent and all, is in on the fun from the get-go and never lets up in an immensely fun performance) ...

Roger Ebert

... creepy, crawly German Mr. König (an exceptional Dan Stevens)

... But it’s Stevens, who’s often strongest when he turns weird, who is unforgettable, one-upping Andre 3000 as cinema’s premiere flute player. Every choice Stevens makes as Mr. König doubles as a lampoon and a threat, being equally hilarious and sadistic.

Next Best Picture

... Dan Stevens enters the scene, the real shining light of this film, playing the resort owner, Mr König. The underrated actor is so committed to his character’s bit throughout, complete with a German accent and a tiny bird whistle, which he uses as a tool in the twisted experiment. He is simultaneously mysterious and effortlessly funny and brings a heightened energy to the film, letting you know it isn’t taking itself too seriously.

... Dan Stevens commits to this film like his life depends on it.

Variety

... Dan Stevens' hilariously eccentric villain, the second recent showcase for Stevens’ excellent spoken German after Maria Schrader’s “I’m Your Man.” Few are the films and fewer are the actors that can get such sinister mileage out of a character’s insistently Teutonic, semi-sibilant mispronunciation of the name “Gretchen.” 

Hollywood Reporter

... the mad German gyno-meddler is played with undiluted oiliness by Dan Stevens ...

... König is a creep for the ages, and Stevens has a lip-smacking good time being solicitous but casually skeevy ...

... But in Schafer and Stevens, it has two fiercely compelling adversaries.

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Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell

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English: Watch Society of the Snow! You have to! It's a very well done movie directed by Juan Antonio Bayona about an unbelievable real story about the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. Some of the survivors even make a quick appearance. I'm writing this in 3 languages because everybody should know this story!

Español: Mira La sociedad de la nieve! ¡Tienes que ver! Es una película muy bien hecha dirigida por Juan Antonio Bayona sobre una increíble historia real sobre el vuelo 571 de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya. Algunos de los supervivientes incluso hacen una aparición rápida. ¡Estoy escribiendo esto en 3 idiomas porque todos deberían conocer esta historia!

Português: Assista A Sociedade da Neve! Você tem ver! É um filme muito bem feito, dirigido por Juan Antonio Bayona, sobre uma inacreditável história real sobre o vôo 571 da Força Aérea Uruguaia. Alguns dos sobreviventes até fazem uma rápida aparição. Estou escrevendo isso em 3 idiomas porque todos deveriam conhecer essa história!

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268 - Shattered Glass (with Richard Lawson!)

Hayden Christensen arrived seemingly out of nowhere to land the role of pre-Vader Anakin Skywalker, becoming one of Hollywood's hottest stars overnight and largely untested as a screen presence. After a respected turn in Life As A House (see previous episode!), the Attack of the Clones reviews soured audiences on this brand new star. The very next year, he gave a terrific performance in Shattered Glass as journalist Stephen Glass who famously fabricated stories for The New Republic. But awards bodies overlooked Christensen's work and instead nominated the rising Peter Sarsgaard as Glass' pseudo-rival Chuck Lane.

This episode, we talk about the Entertainment Weekly It List that was Christensen's first debut post-Star Wars casting and his return to the franchise. We also talk about director/writer Billy Ray, Sarsgaard's near nomination here, and journalism movies that were successful with Oscar.

Topics also include working with fact checkers, college group watch television, and the 2003 Independent Spirit Awards.

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Federico Fellini, La dolce vita, 1960 VS Patrick Procktor, Dominic Prima, 1981

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So, I was just looking for a Snow White gif set, and I came across quite a few posts expressing displeasure about Rachel Zegler’s flippant attitude to the original Disney film. And while I agree she was being a bit glib, you have to remember, it’s all about playing it up for the camera. Maybe her manager told her to push a love-to-hate-it angle. Who knows. Disney is still trying to work that little bit of feminism that is truly marketable but is ‘safe’ in their standards.

But what irritates me is that those posts immediately delve into the history and animation of the work in the film. As an artist, I totally respect the work and success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was in 1937. It’s a beautiful piece, to be sure.

And Snow White was kind of modern for the movie’s supposed setting and time period! She has a bob! It’s easily demonstrated and acknowledged by the audience how hard she works, in both the castle and the cottage! She’s a upper class woman who manages to stay chaste despite living with, horror among horrors, seven unmarried men!

But, come on. She was relatively safe, barely pushing the envelope, in 1937. Women were in factories, wearing pants, and were still actively fighting for their rights at the time. All while weathering the Great Depression!

Films like Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman have already done more-feminine-modern takes on the tale. But Zegler isn’t wrong. If the original film’s story, no changes, came out today, it would be disappointing to a lot of feminists. So if you’ve watched the other live action Disney princess films, I’d say don’t knock the Snow White one just yet. It might actually offer something new but nice to more modern feminist audiences.

Just please don’t forget that something can be wonderful in one way and meh in another. The original film was an artistic masterpiece, but wasn’t the be-all end-all of feminism in the 30s. Check out this film, for example.

And hey, this is the webbed site of anxiety. You’ve all probably said things you regret, whether you ‘deserve’ to regret it or not. Don’t forget actors can make mistakes too. They’re human.

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All Quiet on the Western Front celebrating their Oscar wins: Edward Berger, Volker Bertelmann, Albrecht Schuch, Christian M. Goldbeck and Felix Kammerer.

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