#lion chris dunne

[dreamland-dweller]

turned the podcast guys into cookies because miss them

they came out so horribly i love them

[psilliguykai]

As the title suggests, I’m out as of now (July 15th) until July 27th or 28th depending on your time zone ^^ stay epic and stay safe wooo 💥💥

Intro post! I edit this semi-regularly, so feel free to check back for name/fandom updates, edits, etc.

Yo! Call me the s- nevermind. (/ref)

I’m Phillip/Kai (either name it good, no preference) 💥

Guy creature thing. He/him, they/them is aight too ^^

DMs and asks are always open! Feel free to send me anything so long as it’s SFW :]

Half Southeast Asian. Not super relevant but I might occasionally post characters in traditional/cultural dress, art featuring Hanzi, etc.

DNI: pretty much the usual. No queerphobia, racism, xenophobia, sexism, proship, z00s, p3d0s, etc. +no pro ana and no anti-alterhumans or anti-furries.

Queer, disabled, neurodivergent, BIPOC, furry, alterhuman, xenogender, system, and probably-a-lot-of-other- things-I’m-forgetting safe blog

Current interests: Chonny Jash, Will Wood, LITWTC, Revelator (LITWTC/Chris Dunne), CHNT, TMA, Willard 1971/2003, Ben 1972, Jesus Christ Superstar, snakes, isopods, mountain lions, and fungi.

General stuff I might reblog/post about (less at the forefront of my interests, but I still like them): Wings of Fire, Gravity Falls, Inanimate Insanity, HFJONE, BFB/XFOHV, Malevolent, Rockabye the musical, Ride The Cyclone, and WTNV

All my art [unless stated otherwise] is free to use as icons, banners, wallpapers, etc., just be sure to credit. It’s not needed, but feel free to shoot me an ask/dm if you do! It makes me really happy knowing my work is being appreciated and put to good use :]

Note for jashers: I see the jashlings (Including other people’s interps/designs) as characters/OCs based on the music, rather than representations of the man himself! This includes HMSW.

I personally am not big on HMSW jashipping (no problems, just not my thing) but do occasionally partake in shipping of the other jashlings it’s really mostly just drunkendemon 🥲. Any ship related things will be appropriately tagged, including reblogs ^^

Tags:

Art - #appalling mustelid tornado

Text posts - #shit dins

Asks - #soup incident

Saves/favs - #psilliman saves

Tag games - #the sp in glockenspiel

Polls - #second sight snalls

I own CCCC au based around Will Wood [And The Tapeworms]'s music, titled William's Wanton Weary Wiles! The masterpost can be found here, and all posts relating to it will be under #wwww au and #william’s wanton weary wiles . :]

If I do anything that upsets or makes anyone uncomfortable, please let me know!

[bryceslahela]

which choices man would you do that Amy Dunne “I’m that cunt”/“That’s marriage” monologue to?

oooooohhh…. i would like to say marc antony but he would feed my ass to the lions or something like that. so maybe …. hmm …. imma say chris from tf and my reasoning is - HERE ME OUT - i loved antagonising him and hes the only one that i actively wouldn’t mind yelling at and marrying at the same time. only one i have that weird enemy/lover relationship with.

[piecewithoutwork]

We need more respect for Little Guys. Like, silly goobers. Little goofy guys. Yeah ok your favourite animal is a lion well that’s cool I guess what aboutbshrimp. Shrimspw are cooler than any lion.

Top ten little guys:

1. Rats I love them yever see them thuy rock littleb furry goofy goovers that arealps really smart and intelligent guys but youvw judt never rtried to meet them

2. Snails snails are cool man after it eains a bunch theybjust sorya gatehr and stick to walls I wanna stick to walls and chust chill aftet it raisn

3. Shrimp water snailrs without the ahells akso loyok cool ashrll pceanwbugs hell yeya

4. Chris Dunne fnas of litwtc are kindaa anoting about likijgb Will mroe then Chris my favourite boy at times and it fucking sucks hes so silly ri love gim

5. This si a call outbpeot abour all rhen people who cosl it “Will’s podcast worh his friend” likeno pdople arent extensions of the famoud prople rheu know duck tou

[dribbonart]

Steven Universe: Done Dirty Candidates

When we think about who got a bad deal in Steven Universe, I think the first question is: a bad deal compared to what? Characters got different levels of development, but that’s only natural: some characters show up more than others. 

Zach Callison Steven Universe  175 episodes, 2013-2020 

Deedee Magno Hall Pearl  129 episodes, 2013-2020 

Michaela Dietz Amethyst  124 episodes, 2013-2020 

Estelle Garnet  119 episodes, 2013-2020 

Tom Scharpling Greg Universe  56 episodes, 2013-2020 

Grace Rolek Connie Maheswaran  44 episodes, 2013-2020 

Shelby Rabara Peridot  42 episodes, 2015-2020 

Matthew Moy Lars Barriga  37 episodes, 2013-2019 

Kate Micucci Sadie Miller  34 episodes, 2013-2019 

Jennifer Paz Lapis Lazuli  24 episodes, 2014-2020 

Dee Bradley Baker Lion  21 episodes, 2013-2020 

Reagan Gomez-Preston Jenny  20 episodes, 2014-2019

Zach Steel Ronaldo Fryman  19 episodes, 2013-2018 

Erica Luttrell Sapphire  19 episodes, 2015-2020 

Charlyne Yi Ruby  19 episodes, 2015-2020 

This is a list of actors I pulled from IMDB. It’s not scientific, but it gives us a place to start. I included all the people that appeared nineteen times or more. Amazingly, it’s only 15 actors. And one of them does the voices for animals. Realistically, there’s 14 characters that speak nineteen times. 

What do these numbers mean?

First, this show is about the Crystal Gems, and everyone else is a distant second. Greg doesn’t get half as many appearances as Garnet.

Second, I think we can treat this list as an informal list of “major characters.” We can’t be too surprised that characters with fewer appearances don’t get as much development as we’d like.

I’d say, for the most part, these characters get as much development as they get episodes. Jenny has the least development, and she’s in only 20 episodes.

Then we get the “minor characters.”

Kimberly Brooks ... Jasper / ...16 episodes, 2015-2020  Lamar Abrams ... Buck Dewey / ...16 episodes, 2014-2020  Susan Egan ... Rose Quartz / ...15 episodes, 2014-2019  Joel Hodgson ... Mayor Bill Dewey / ...13 episodes, 2013-2018  Billy Merritt ... Mr. Fryman / ...11 episodes, 2013-2016  Brian Posehn ... Sour Cream / ...11 episodes, 2014-2020  Lisa Hannigan ... Blue Diamond / ...11 episodes, 2017-2020  Mary Elizabeth McGlynn ... Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran / ...10 episodes, 2014-2020  Atticus Shaffer ... Peedee Fryman / ...10 episodes, 2013-2018  Patti LuPone ... Yellow Diamond  10 episodes, 2016-2020  Chris Jai Alex ... Korean Exercise Announcer / ...9 episodes, 2014-2020  AJ Michalka ... Stevonnie  8 episodes, 2015-2019  Sinbad         ... Mr. Smiley  6 episodes, 2013-2014  Toks Olagundoye ... Nanefua / ...7 episodes, 2014-2018  Uzo Aduba ... Bismuth    6 episodes, 2016-2020  Eugene Cordero ... Jamie / ...6 episodes, 2013-2018  Christine Ebersole ... White Diamond / ...5 episodes, 2018-2020  Kate Flannery ... Barb Miller  5 episodes, 2015-2018  Enuka Okuma ... Rhodonite   5 episodes, 2017-2019  Ian Jones-Quartey ... Actor / ...4 episodes, 2013-2019  Della Saba ... Aquamarine    4 episodes, 2017-2019  Jackie Buscarino ... Vidalia    4 episodes, 2015-2018  Kathy Fisher ... Fluorite    4 episodes, 2017-2018  Ashly Burch ... Rutile Twins   4 episodes, 2017-2018  Natasha Lyonne ... Smoky Quartz   4 episodes, 2016-2019  Colton Dunn ... Mr. Smiley / ...4 episodes, 2015-2017  Crispin Freeman ... Doug Maheswaran / ...3 episodes, 2014-2017  Miriam A. Hyman ... Bismuth   3 episodes, 2020  Christine Pedi ... Holly Blue Agate   3 episodes, 2017-2019  Godfrey         ... Kofi   3 episodes, 2014-2016  Andrew Kishino ... Kevin / ...3 episodes, 2015-2017  Nicki Minaj ... Sugilite   3 episodes, 2014-2016  Jon Wurster ... Marty   3 episodes, 2015-2016  Dave Willis ... Andy DeMayo   2 episodes, 2016-2017  Sarah Stiles ... Spinel   2 episodes, 2020  Eric Bauza ... Belly Bag / ...2 episodes, 2015-2016  Alastair James ... Rainbow Quartz / ...2 episodes, 2019  Rita Rani Ahuja ... Alexandrite   2 episodes, 2014-2016  Shoniqua Shandai ... Sunstone   2 episodes, 2019  Aparna Nancherla ... Jades / ...2 episodes, 2018  Alexia Khadime ... Sardonyx   2 episodes, 2015-2016  Martha Higareda ... Topaz   1 episode, 2017  Jemaine Clement ... Kerry Moonbeam   1 episode, 2020  Aimee Mann ... Opal   1 episode, 2014  Eric Bell Jr. ... Li'l Butler   1 episode, 2015  Peter Browngardt ... Uncle Grandpa   1 episode, 2015  Mason Cook ... Lighthouse / ...1 episode, 2015  Braden Fitzgerald ... Lighthouse / ...1 episode, 2015  Adam Devine ... Pizza Steve   1 episode, 2015  Cristina Valenzuela ... Jay-Ten / ...1 episode, 2017  Kevin Michael Richardson ... Mr. Gus   1 episode, 2015  Jinkx Monsoon ... Emerald   1 episode, 2018  Michelle Maryk ... Larimar   1 episode, 2019  Olivia Olson ... Pop Singer   1 episode, 2015  Brian George ... Mr. Frowney   1 episode, 2016  Mike Krol ... Self   1 episode, 2016  Nancy Linari ... Martha Barriga   1 episode, 2016  Amy Sedaris ... Defense Zircon / ...2 episodes, 2017-2018  Joan Jett ... Sunshine Justice   1 episode, 2018  Larissa Gallagher ... Bluebird Azurite   1 episode, 2019  Indya Moore ... Shep   1 episode, 2019  Johnny Hawkes ... Cookie Cat / ...1 episode, 2020 

What do we learn from this list? The main thing I learned is that Sinbad played Mister Smiley. (!!!!!!) Despite doing an essay about every single episode of the show, I’d never looked at the entire cast list until now. Also, the wonderful Eugene Cordero, who I should have recognized by his voice. I also had no idea about Joan Jett. The casting on this show is perfection.

What really surprises me is how many characters feel fleshed out with so few appearances. It feels impossible that Barb and Vidalia can feel like real people while only appearing five and four times, respectively. Did Kofi only talk in three episodes?

When I look at these lists, there are three obvious candidates for my “done dirty” list. If you’ve followed my rewatch, you can probably guess who they are. 

If you want to suggest someone, let me know!

[bestdjkit]

You Can Buy Tickets to ODESZA, Swedish House Mafia and More for Just $25—But Only for a Week

Live Nation's "Concert Week" initiative offers fans all-in tickets—including fees—for $25 flat.

For one week in May 2022, tickets to see your favorite artists will cost less than a meal at Olive Garden.

Yes, the unlimited breadsticks deal is amazing, but it pales in comparison to Live Nation's "Concert Week" initiative. Starting Wednesday, May 4th at 10AM ET (7AM PT), the entertainment goliath is offering fans all-in tickets to more than 3,700 shows across North America—including fees—for $25 flat.

Electronic dance music fans can snag tickets to see Swedish House Mafia, Kraftwerk, ODESZA, Porter Robinson, RÜFÜS DU SOL, The Chainsmokers, ILLENIUM, GRiZ and more. Considering these tickets can run you anywhere from $55 to upwards of $300, it's a steal.

Pioneering electronic music band Kraftwerk. 

Peter Boettcher

"Concert Week" also offers tickets to concerts featuring many of the world's top contemporary music artists, of course. Fans of country, hip-hop, Latin, metal, pop, rock and more can get passes for shows with Zac Brown Band, Halsey, H.E.R., John Legend, Machine Gun Kelly, Nelly, OneRepublic, The Who and many, many more.

You can purchase the discounted "Concert Week" tickets here and check out a comprehensive, alphabetized list of participating artists below. The promotion ends on May 10th.

Live Nation Concert Week 2022

070 Shake 24KGoldn 311 5 Seconds of Summer Aerosmith AFI AJR Alanis Morissette Alejandra Guzman Alejandro Fernandez Alice Cooper Alice In Chains & Breaking Benjamin + Bush Alicia Keys Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness Anjelah Johnson-Reyes Anthrax As I Lay Dying Asking Alexandria Atmosphere with Iration Backstreet Boys BANKS Barenaked Ladies Bastille Ben Platt Ben Rector Benny the Butcher Bert Kreischer Biffy Clyro Big K.R.I.T. Big Time Rush Bill Burr Bill Maher Bleachers Bon Iver Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Bonnie Raitt Boyz II Men Brad Paisley Brandi Carlile Brian Regan Brooks & Dunn Caifanes Camilo Septimo Celeste Barber CHEER Live Chelsea Handler Chet Faker Chicago and Brian Wilson Chris Rock Chris Young Clannad Coheed and Cambria COIN Collective Soul Courtney Barnett Daniel Tosh Darius Rucker Dashboard Confessional Dave Chappelle David Gray Death Cab for Cutie Debbie Gibson Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe Deftones Denzel Curry Derek Hough Devo Dierks Bentley Franz Ferdinand Freddie Gibbs Gabriel Iglesias Garbage George Lopez Gera MX Gloria Trevi Goo Goo Dolls Greensky Bluegrass GRiZ H.E.R. HAIM Halestorm & The Pretty Reckless Halsey Hank Williams Jr. Hombres G Iliza Shlesinger Illenium Imagine Dragons Incubus Indigo Girls Interpol & Spoon Iration Jack Johnson Jack White James Taylor Jason Aldean Jason Isbell Jim Gaffigan Jimmy Buffett John Legend John Mulaney Jon Pardi Jonas Brothers Josh Groban Judah & the Lion jxdn Kane Brown Kany Garcia Keith Urban Kenny Chesney Kevin Hart Kid Rock King Princess Kip Moore KISS Koffee Korn & Evanescence Kountry Wayne Kraftwerk Lady A LANY Lauv Lee Brice Leon Bridges Lewis Black Lord Huron Los Angeles Azules Luke Bryan Lynyrd Skynyrd Mac DeMarco Machine Gun Kelly Maren Morris Margaret Cho Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin Megadeth Metric Miranda Lambert & Little Big Town Omar Apollo OneRepublic & NEEDTOBREATHE Our Lady Peace Parker McCollum Patton Oswalt Pet Shop Boys Pitbull Porter Robinson Primus Puddle of Mudd Purity Ring Randy Rainbow Ray LaMontagne Rebelution Rels B REO Speedwagon & Styx with Loverboy Rex Orange County Rise Against Rob Zombie & Mudvayne Rod Stewart Roxy Music RuPaul's Drag Race Russ RÜFÜS DU SOL Sam Hunt Sammy Hagar Santana & Earth, Wind, & Fire Sebastián Yatra Shania Twain Shawn Mendes Sheryl Crow Shinedown Sigur Rós Simple Plan Slipknot Spoon Static-X Steely Dan Sting Summer Walker Swedish House Mafia Switchfoot Sylvan Esso T-Pain Tai Verdes Tash Sultana Tears For Fears TECH N9NE Tedeschi Trucks Band Tenacious D Tesla The Airborne Toxic Event The Avett Brothers The Beach Boys The Black Crowes The Black Keys The Chainsmokers The Chicks The Doobie Brothers The Head and The Heart The Killers The Marcus King Band The Offspring The Who Third Eye Blind Thomas Rhett Tim McGraw Tina Fey

from Best DJ Kit https://edm.com/news/odesza-swedish-house-mafia-rufus-du-sol-tickets-live-nation-concert-week

[stainedglassgardens]

Favourite films watched in 2020

In no particular order:

Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Agnès Varda, 2000) Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, Werner Herzog, 1971) Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012) The Return (Возвращение, Andrey Zvyaginstev, 2003) The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, 2018) Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019) Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues, Denis Côté, 2019) The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936) Viy (Вий, Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov, 1967)

Complete list of all 323 films watched in 2020 under the cut!

January

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Gurinder Chadha, 2008) Blade (Steven Norrington, 1998) Who Among Us! (Abhishek Prasad and Rebecca Kahn, 2019) Brotherhood (Meryam Joobeur, 2018) Disctrict 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) Hair Love (Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver, 2019) Kitbull (Rosana Sullivan, 2019) Sister (妹妹, Siqi Song, 2019) Nuts! (Penny Lane, 2016) The Judge (Erika Cohn, 2017) The Ghosts of Sugar Land (Bassam Tariq, 2019) Amazonia (Dominic Hicks, 2018) Dearborn Ash (Hena Ashraf, 2018) Pineal (Jenny Rinta-Kanto, 2019) Headcleaner (Nick Scott, 2019) Rattlesnake (Zak Hilditch, 2019) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) Skin (Audrey Rosenberg, 2018) The Banishment (Изгнание, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2007) F is for Friendship (Shaya Mulcahy, 2016) Paradise Hills (Alice Waddington, 2019) Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria, 2019) I Believe in Unicorns (Leah Meyerhoff, 2014) Ghost Train (Lee Cronin, 2014) Troop Zero (Bert & Bertie, 2019) For the Love of God (Pour l'Amour de Dieu, Micheline Lanctôt, 2011)

February

Sitting Next to Zoe (Ivana Lalović, 2013) Dark Places (Gilles Paquet-Brenner, 2015) Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016) The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh, 2013) Good Sam (Kate Melville, 2019) Anima (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2019) What Did Jack Do? (David Lynch, 2017) Fleur de tonnerre (Stéphanie Pillonca, 2016) Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) The Field Guide to Evil (Peter Strickland, Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, Katrin Gebbe, Yannis Veslemes, Ashim Ahluwalia, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Can Evrenol, Calvin Reeder, 2018) Devil (John Eric Dowdle, 2010) 37 Seconds (Hikari, 2019) The Falling (Carol Morley, 2014) Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓, Hotaru no Haka, Isao Takahata, 1988) Elena (Елена, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011) The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers, 2019) Baskin (Can Evrenol, 2015) In Fabric (Peter Strickland, 2018) Leviathan (Левиафан, Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014) Suffragette (Sarah Gavron, 2015)

March

The East (Zal Batmanglij, 2013) Solaris (Солярис, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) Io (Jonathan Helpert, 2019) The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (David France, 2017) A Bump Along the Way (Shelly Love, 2019) Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, 2019) Divines (Houda Benyamina, 2016) Vanishing Waves (Kristina Buožytė, 2012) Mirror (Зеркало, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017) Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis, 2019) Joy (Sudabeh Mortezai, 2018) Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017) Quarantine (John Eric Dowdle, 2008) The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh, 2017) Leto (Лето,  Kirill Serebrennikov, 2018) The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

April

Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015) Black Christmas (Sophia Takal, 2019) Dogs of Chernobyl (Léa Camilleri & Hugo Chesnel, 2020) Firecrackers (Jasmin Mozaffari, 2018) Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, 2019) The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981) The Daughters of Fire (Las hijas del fuego, Albertina Carri, 2018) The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948) The Wailing (곡성, Gokseong, Na Hong-jin, 2016) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) Sorrowful Shadow (Guy Maddin, 2004) Mistery Lonely (Harmony Korine, 2007) The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack, 2018) Zombieland: Double Tap (Ruben Fleischer, 2019) Waves '98 (Ely Dagher, 2015) Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019) The Last Séance (Laura Kulik, 2018) Too Late to Die Young (Tarde para morir joven, Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, 2018) Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) Queen & Slim (Melina Matsoukas, 2019) The Holy Mountain (La montaña sagrada, Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973) The Chaser ( 추격자, Chugyeokja, Na Hong-jin, 2008) Made in Dagenham (Nigel Cole, 2010) The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը, Nřan guynə, Sergei Parajanov, 1969) Lost Girls (Liz Garbus, 2020) Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues, Denis Côté, 2019) And Then There Were None (René Clair, 1945) Doctor Sleep (Mike Flanagan, 2019) Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) Circus of Books (Rachel Mason, 2019) Catfish (Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, 2010) Wildling (Fritz Böhm, 2018) Delphine (Chloé Robichaud, 2019) The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, 1946) The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge, Albert Lamorisse, 1956) Nona. If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them (Nona. Si me mojan, yo los quemo, Camila José Donoso, 2019) The Lodge (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, 2019) Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell, 2020) Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)

May

A Russian Youth (Мальчик русский, Alexander Zolotukhin, 2019) Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015) Fedora (Billy Wilder, 1978) LoveTrue (Alma Har'el, 2016) The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019) Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres, Céline Sciamma, 2007) The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2019) The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020) Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011) The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, 1964) Beanpole (Дылда, Kantemir Balagov, 2019) Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014) The Fall (Jonathan Glazer, 2020) Girlhood (Bande de filles, Céline Sciamma, 2014) Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962) Marguerite & Julien (Valérie Donzelli, 2015) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu, Céline Sciamma, 2019) This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Gâteau!, Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2018) Romantic Comedy (Elizabeth Sankey, 2019) Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019) Eraserhhead (David Lynch, 1977) The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019) Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020) Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, 2019) Charlie's Angels (Elizabeth Banks, 2019) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Cathy Yan, 2020) The Ancestors Came (Cecile Emeke, 2017) Suicide by Sunlight (Nikyatu Jusu, 2019) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, 2018) A Perfect 14 (Giovanna Morales Vargas, 2018) Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (Lorna Tucker, 2018) Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958) Aniara (Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, 2018) Vivarium (Lorcan Finnegan, 2019) La Pointe-Courte (Agnès Varda, 1955) Diary of a Pregnant Woman (L'Opéra-Mouffe, Agnès Varda, 1958) Salut les Cubains (Agnès Varda, 1964) Uncle Yanco (Oncle Yanco, Agnès Varda, 1967) GUO4 (Peter Strickland, 2019) Atlantiques (Mati Diop, 2009) Sitara: Let Girls Dream (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 2019) Lions Love (Lions Love... And Lies, Agnès Varda, 1969) Živan Makes a Punk Festival (Živan pravi pank festival, Ognjen Glavonić, 2014) Plastic and Glass (Tessa Joosse, 2009) The So-Called Caryatids (Les Dites Cariatides, Agnès Varda, 1984) The Octopus (La Pieuvre, Jean Painlevé, 1928) Hyas and Stenorhynchus (Hyas et sténorinques, crustacés marins, Jean Painlevé, 1929) Sea Urchins (Les Oursins, Jean Painlevé, 1929) Bernard-L'Hermite (Bernard-l'Ermite, Jean Painlevé, 1930) The Sea Horse (L'Hippocampe ou "cheval marin", Jean Painlevé, 1934) Voyage to the Sky (Voyage dans le ciel, Jean Painlevé, 1937) Le Vampire (Jean Painlevé, 1945) Freshwater Assassins (Assassins d'eau douce, Jean Painlevé, 1947) How Some Jellyfish Are Born (Comment naissent des méduses, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1960) Shrimp Stories (Histoires de crevettes, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1964) The Love Life of the Octopus (Les Amours de la pieuvre, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1965) Acera, or The Witches' Dance (Acera, ou le Bal des Sorcières, Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1972) Pigeons of the Square (Les Pigeons du square, Jean Painlevé, 1982) The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982) Jane B. par Agnès V. (Agnès Varda, 1988) The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) Crystal Swan (Хрусталь, Darya Zhuk, 2018) Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević, 2019) Microhabitat ( 소공녀, Jeon Go-woon, 2017) The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn, 2007)

June

Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997) Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach, 2008) Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog, 1989) Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia (Glocken aus der Tiefe - Glaube und Aberglaube in Russland, Werner Herzog, 1993) We Are the Best! (Vi är bäst!, Lukas Moodysson, 2013) Olla (Ariane Labed, 2019) Return to Reason (Le Retour à la raison, Man Ray, 1923) Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk, Hans Richter, 1928) Sissy Boy Slap Party (Guy Maddin, 2004) The Republic of Enchanters (La République des enchanteurs, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh, 2016) Sullivan's Banks (Sullivans Banken, Heinz Emigholz, 2000) Black Panthers (Agnès Varda, 1970) Asparagus (Suzan Pitt, 1979) America (Valérie Massadian, 2013) The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006) The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) Douce Menace (Ludovic Habas, Yoan Sender, Margaux Vaxelaire, Mickaël Krebs, Florent Rousseau, 2011) Curling (Denis Côté, 2010) Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001) The Return (Возвращение, Andrey Zvyaginstev, 2003) Maillart's Bridges (Maillarts Brücken, Heinz Emigholz, 2000) Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, 2011) The Creeping Garden (Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp, 2014) Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2016) A Radiant Life (Une Vie radieuse, Meryll Hardt, 2013) Shirley (Josephine Decker, 2020) Disclosure (Sam Feder, 2020) Baghead (Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass, 2008) Lahemaa (Leslie Lagier, 2010) Closeness (Теснота, Kantemir Balagov, 2017) Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973) Daughter (Dcera, Daria Kashcheeva, 2019) Human Nature (Sverre Fredriksen, 2019) 1 Dimension (一维, Lü Yue, 2013)

July

Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas, 2012) Something to Remember (Något Att Minnas, Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, 2019) Gegenüber (Ewa Wikiel, 2019) The Claudia Kishi Club (Sue Ding, 2020) Villa Empain (Katharina Kastner, 2019) Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1971) Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder,1959) Breakwater (Quebramar, Cris Lyra, 2019) Y a-t-il une vierge encore vivante? (Bertrand Mandico, 2015) Virus Tropical (Santiago Caicedo, 2017) The Tribe (Племя, Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, 2014) Integration Report 1 (Madeline Anderson, 1960) Tribute to Malcolm X (Madeline Anderson, 1967)

August

The Stopover (Voir du pays, Delphine and Muriel Coulin, 2016) Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo, Carlos Reygadas, 2018) Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman, 2020) Land of Silence and Darkness (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, Werner Herzog, 1971) Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil, Stéphane Lafleur, 2007) Spaceship Earth (Matt Wolf, 2020) The Go-Go's (Alison Ellwood, 2020) First Cow (Kelly Reichardt, 2019) Light of My Life (Casey Affleck, 2019) Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2012) Spinster (Andrea Dorfman, 2020) Love and Anarchy (Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza..., Lina Wertmüller, 1973) Shapito Show (Шапито шоу, Sergey Loban, 2011) Charade (Stanley Donen, 1693) Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) Radioactive (Marjane Satrapi, 2019) Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010) The Mourning Forest ( 殯の森, Mogari No Mori, Naomi Kawase, 2007) Lilya 4-ever (Lilja 4-ever, Lukas Moodysson, 2002)

September

The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent, 2018) Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy, 2019) Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, 2017) Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, Wim Wenders, 1987) In My Room (Mati Diop, 2020) Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland, 2009) Les 3 Boutons (Agnès Varda, 2015) Somebody (Miranda July, 2014) Öndög (Wang Quan'an, 2019) Strasbourg 1518 (Jonathan Glazer, 2020) Mermaid (Русалка, Anna Melikyan, 2007) The Lighthouse (Маяк, Maria Saakyan, 2006) Phenomena (Dario Argento, 1985) That One Day (Crystal Moselle, 2016) Brigitte (Lynne Ramsay, 2019) The Wedding Singer's Daughter (Haifaa al-Mansour, 2018) Shako Mako (Hailey Gates, 2019) Carmen (Chloë Sevigny, 2017) The Summer of Sangailė (Sangailės Vasara, Alanté Kavaïté, 2015) Hello Apartment (Dakota Fanning, 2018) Seed (Naomi Kawase, 2016) Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, 2019) Matthias & Maxime (Xavier Dolan, 2019) The Gleaners and I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, Agnès Varda, 2000)

October

American Murder (Jenny Popplewell, 2020) Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018) Ghostland (Pascal Laugier, 2018) Triangle (Christopher Smith, 2009) The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg, 1979) The Visit (M. Night Shyamalan, 2015) The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009) Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990) The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013) Metamorphosis (변신, Kim Hong-sun, 2019) Errementari (Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017) I Am a Ghost (H.P. Mendoza,2012) The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980) Witching and Bitching (Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi, Álex de la Iglesia, 2013) Thirst (박쥐, Park Chan-wook, 2009) V/H/S ( Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, 2012) The Autopsy of Jane Doe (André Øvredal, 2016) Overlord (Julius Avery, 2018) Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922) Viy (Вий, Georgiy Kropachyov & Konstantin Ershov, 1967) Amulet (Romola Garai, 2020) A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman, 1959) The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1959) Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017) Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) The Open House (Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote, 2018)

November

The Damned Don't Cry (Vincent Sherman, 1950) Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, 1956) The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, 2001) The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948) The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, 1936) Croupier (Mike Hodges, 1998) In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Louis Malle, 1958) Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) The Long Farewell (Долгие проводы, Kira Muratova, 1971) The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944) The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998) Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)

December

Nimic (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2020) Elsa la rose (Agnès Varda, 1966) Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda, 1965) Little Girl (Petite Fille, Sébastien Lifshitz, 2020) Cold Meridian (Peter Strickland, 2020) The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Les Fiancés du Pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des Lunettes Noires)) (Agnès Varda, 1961) Along the Coast (Du côté de la côte, Agnès Varda, 1958) Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Vic + Flo ont vu un ours, Denis Côté, 2013) Zootopia (Byron Howard, Rich Moore, 2016) It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Paddington (Paul King, 2014) Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) High Life (Claire Denis, 2018) Paddington 2 (Paul King, 2017)

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Ultimate MBTI Fictional Characters List

Disclaimer: whenever I’m refering to a literary character, I am going to specify the name of the author of the literary work that he belongs to and its original publication date; instead, whenever I’m refering to a cinematic or a tv character, I’m going to specify only the period of time in which the movie or tv show I’m talking about was on air. Therefore there might be cases where a single character appears in multiple categories, depending on whether I’m refering to the original character or its movie/tv adaptation one. 

ENFJs.

Anna Karenina; Anna Karenina, L. Tolstoj (1878).

Bill Denbrough; It, S. King (1986).

Bob Armstrong; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Brook Soso; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Caroline Channing; 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017).

Catherine Earnshaw; Wuthering Heights, E. Bronte (1847).

Denahi; Brother Bear (2003). 

Denethor; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003). 

Derek Sheperd; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Drusilla; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Emma Woodhouse; Emma, J. Austen (1815).

Frankie Thomas; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Hans; Frozen (2013).

Horace Slughorn; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Judy Hopps; Zootopia (2016).

June Osborne; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Kala Dandekar; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly INFJ)

Lorna Morello; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Lucy Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010). 

Maeve Millay; Westworld (2016-present).

Margaery Tyrell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Martino Rametta; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Mufasa; The Lion King (1994).

Pacha; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

Primrose Everdeen; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Razumikhin; Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoevsky (1866). 

Robin Hood; Robin Hood (1973).

Snow White; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

ENFPs.

Aladdin; Aladdin (1992).

Amy March; Little Women (2019). 

Anna; Frozen (2013).

Ariel; The Little Mermaid (1989). 

Beth; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Clarisse McClellan; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953).

Chelsea Daniels; That’s So Raven (2003-2007).

Donkey; Shrek (2001-2010).

Dory; Finding Dory (2016).

Elizabeth Bennet; Pride and Prejudice (2005).

Gilderoy Lockhart; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Harper Finkle; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Izzy; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Jesper Fahey; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Koda; Brother Bear (2003).

Kronk; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

Lilo Pelekai; Lilo & Stitch (2002).

Luke Triton; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Marty; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Mike Wheeler; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Nick Dunne; Gone Girl, G. Flynn (2012). (Ne-Te Loop)

Nymphadora Tonks; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Peeta Mellark; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Piper Chapman; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Po; Kung Fu Panda (2008-2016).

Rapunzel; Tangled (2010). (possibly ESFJ in Loop)

Ron Stoppable; Kim Possible (2002-2007).

Sid; Ice Age (2002-2016).

Sierra; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Tom Scavo; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

ENTJs.

Alma Coin; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Annalise Keating; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020). (possibly INTJ)

Berlino; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Carlos Solis; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Cristina Yang; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Coriolanus Snow; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Diane Lockhart; The Good Wife (2009-2016). 

Elastigirl; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Eli Gold; The Good Wife (2009-2016). 

Elizabeth Swann; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

Esmeralda; The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1996).

Gale Hawthorne; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Gale Weathers; Scream (1996-2011).

Jadis The White Witch; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Jafar; Aladdin (1992).

Johanna Mason; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Kathryn Marteuil; Cruel Intentions (1999).

Kim Possible; Kim Possible (2002-2007).

Lawrence Gordon; Saw (2004).

Lynette Scavo; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Minerva McGonagall; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Miranda Priestly; The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

Nina Zenik; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Olenna Tyrell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Scar; The Lion King (1994).

Sharpay Evans; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Tywin Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Vee Parker; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

ENTPs.

Alex Russo; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Amanita Caplan; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Andrew Wells; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Chris McLean; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Connor Walsh; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Dirk Gently; Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency (2016-2017).

Dustin Handerson; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Elsie Hughes; Westworld (2016-present).

Fleabag; Fleabag (2016-2019).

Grace Augustine; Avatar (2009). 

Haymitch Abernathy; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010). (possibly INTJ)

Jack Sparrow; Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017).

Jenny Calendar; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Jim Moriarty; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017). (possibly INFJ)

John Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).

Kevin McCallister; Home Alone (1990). 

Lyra Belacqua; His Dark Materials, P. Pullman (1995-2000).

Margo Dunne; Gone Girl, G. Flynn (2012).

Moana; Moana (2016).

Moira; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Niccolò Fares; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Nick Wilde; Zootopia (2016).

Nicky Nichols; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019). 

Phineas Fletcher; Phineas and Ferb (2008-2015).

Richie Tozier; It, S. King (1986).

Sebastian Valmont; Cruel Intentions (1999).

Sirius Black; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Tyrion Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Will Gardner; The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Winifred Burkle; Angel (1999-2004).

Xander Harris; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Yzma; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

ESFJs.

Aleida Diaz; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Capheus Onyango; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Coralee Armstrong; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Daniela Velasquez; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Daphne Blake; Scooby-Doo (1969-1976).

Dawn Summers; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Draco Malfoy; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Dwight Riley; Scream (1996-2011).

Effie Trinket; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Fleur Delacour; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Gimli; The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003).

Giovanni Garau; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Gloria; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Gloria Mendoza; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

John Watson; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017).

Isobel Stevens; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Leshawna; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Meg March; Little Women (2019).

Molly Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Nancy Wheeler; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Owen; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Peter Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Polly Plummer; The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis (1955).

Raven Baxter; That’s So Raven (2003-2007).

Rapunzel; Tangled (2010). (Fe-Ne Loop) (possibly ENFP)

Sansa Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Sophia Burset; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Tiffany Doggett; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Troy Bolton; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Wendy Darling; Peter Pan (2003).

ESFPs.

Asher Millstone; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Belch Huggins; It, S. King (1986).

Bellatrix Lestrange; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Black Cindy; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Buffy Summers; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Denver; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Eddie Thomas; That’s So Raven (2003-2007).

Eva Brighi; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Fliss Sidebotham; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Finnick Odair; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Geoff; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Glorificus; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Hercules; Hercules (1997).

Homer Roberts; The OA (2016-2019).

Jaime Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Jacob Black; Twilight Saga (2008-2012).

Jesse Pinkman; Breaking Bad (2008-2013).

Joffrey Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Kenai; Brother Bear (2003).

Lindsay; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Lito Rodriguez; Sense8 (2015-2018).

London Tipton; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

Max Russo; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Mildred Montag; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953).

Mr. Incredible; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Nemo; Finding Nemo (2003).

Oberyn Martell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Peregrin Took; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Peter Pan; Peter Pan (2003).

Ronald Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Sarah Sanderson; Hocus Pocus (1993).

Susan Mayer; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Theon Greyjoy; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tokyo; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Wendy Wu; Wendy Wu: Homecomig Warrior (2006).

ESTJs.

Anya Jenkins; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Boromir; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Bree Van De Kamp; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Cal Hockley; Titanic (1997).

Cersei Lannister; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Cordelia Chase; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Courtney; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Dolores Umbridge; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Eustace Scrubbs; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Fred Waterford; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present). 

French; The OA (2016-2019).

Galina Reznikov; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Hector Barbossa; Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017).

Hermione Granger; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

James Norrington; Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017).

Justin Russo; Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012).

Lucas Sinclair; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Maddie Fitzpatrick; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

Michaela Pratt; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Mycroft Holmes; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017).

Raquel Murillo; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Renee Perry; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Robb Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Taylor McKessie; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Tiana; The Princess and the Frog (2009).

Wesley Wyndam-Price; Angel (1999-2004).

Will Gorski; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Winifred Sanderson; Hocus Pocus (1993).

ESTPs.

Alex; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Big Boo; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Bronn; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Chad Danforth; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Dash; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Deloris Van Cartier; Sister Act (1992).

Duncan; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Edie Britt; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Ethan Hunt; Mission Impossible (1996-present).

Faith Lehane; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Flynn Rider; Tangled (2010).

Fred Jones; Scooby-Doo (1969-1976).

Gabrielle Solis; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Ginny Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Henry Bowers; It, S. King (1986).

Jake Sully; Avatar (2009).

John Smith; Pocahontas (1995).

Kenny Tam; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Kuzco; The Emperor’s New Groove (2000).

Nairobi; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Ramsay Bolton; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Robert Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Steve Harrington; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Steve Winchell; The OA (2016-2019).

Tarzan; Tarzan (1999).

Taystee Jefferson; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Ygritte; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Zack Martin; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

INFJs.

Albus Dumbledore; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007). 

Alicia Florrick; The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Aslan; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Bernard Lowe; Westworld (2016-present).

Binx; Hocus Pocus (1993).

Cinna; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Daenerys Targaryen; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Elizabeth Bennet; Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813).

Elsa; Frozen (2013).

Emily; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Galadriel; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Jim Moriarty; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017). (possibly ENTP)

John Kramer; Saw (2004).

Jo March; Little Women (2019).

Kala Dandekar; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly ENFJ)

Kidagakash Nedakh; Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).

Laurel Castillo; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Lord Varys; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Maritza Ramos; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Melisandre; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Prairie Johnson; The OA (2016-2019).

Richard Wilkins; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Rose DeWitt Bukater; Titanic (1997).

Rosie Cartwright; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Sitka; Brother Bear (2003).

Tara Maclay; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Tia Dalma; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

Todd Brotzmann; Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency (2017-2018).

INFPs.

Bella Swan; Twilight Saga (2008-2012).

Belle; The Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Beth March; Little Women (2019).

Bran Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Buck Vu; The OA (2016-2019).

Caspian; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Davy Jones; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

Dobby; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Dolores Abernathy; Westworld (2016-present).

Don Pablo; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Eddie Kaspbrak; It, S. King (1986). (Fi-Si Loop)

Eleonora Sava; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Eleven; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Faramir; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Frodo Baggins; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Gabriella Montez; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Jonathan Byers; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Kelsi Nilsen; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Luna Lovegood; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Missandei; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Poussey Washington; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Priest; Fleabag (2016-2019).

Quasimodo; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).

Remus Lupin; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Riley Gunnardottir; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly ISFP)

Rio; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Sebastian Wilder; La La Land (2016).

Violetta; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Willow Rosenberg; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Wylan Van Eck; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

INTJs.

Amy Elliot Dunne; Gone Girl, G. Flynn (2012).

Annalise Keating; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020). (possibly ENTJ)

Ben Hanscom; It, S. King (1986).

Edna Mode; The Incredibles (2004-2018).

Elrond; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Felicia Tilman; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Fitzwilliam Darcy; Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813).

Hap; The OA (2016-2019).

Haymitch Abernathy; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010). (possibly ENTP)

Heather; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Holden Caulfield; The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (1951). (Ni-Fi Loop)

The Professor; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Jane Smith; Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).

Kalinda Sharma; The Good Wife (2009-2016).

Katniss Everdeen; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Kaz Brekker; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Nomi Marks; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Paul Young; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Petyr Baelish; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Raskolnikov; Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoevsky (1866).

Robert Ford; Westworld (2016-present).

Saruman; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Serena Joy; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present). (Ni-Fi Loop)

Severus Snape; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007). (Ni-Fi Loop) (possibly ISTJ)

Sherlock Holmes; BBC Sherlock (2010-2017).

Nanny McPhee; Nanny McPhee (2005).

Theo Decker; The Goldfinch, D. Tartt (2013)

V; V per Vendetta (2005).

Voldemort; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Walter White; Breaking Bad (2008-2013).

Whispers; Sense8 (201-2018).

INTPs.

Alan Turing; The Imitation Game (2014).

Alice Liddell; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, L. Carroll (1865).

Arthur Weasley; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Beetee; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Digory Kirke; The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis (1955).

Edmund Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

Faber; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953).

Foxface; Hunger Games, S. Collins (2008-2010).

Gandalf; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Hernando Fuentes; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Hershel Layton; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Karen McCluskey; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Lewis; Meet The Robinsons (2007).

Meredith Grey; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Milo Thatch; Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).

Neo; The Matrix (1999).

Noah; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Oz; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Peter Pettigrew; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Samwell Tarly; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Suzanne Warren; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Velma Dinkley; Scooby-Doo (1969-1976).

    ISFJs.

Andrea Sachs; The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

Angel; Angel (1999-2004).

BBA; The OA (2016-2019).

Catelyn Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Cinderella; Cinderella (1950).

Cody; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Cody Martin; Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005-2008).

Gilly; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Jane Bennet; Pride and Prejudice, J. Austen (1813).

Jill Pole; The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis (1953).

Jorah Mormont; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Joyce Byers; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Joyce Summers; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Lyndz Collins; The Sleepover Club (2002-2004).

Manny; Ice Age (2002-2016).

Mary Alice Young; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Mary Sanderson; Hocus Pocus (1993).

Matthias Helvar; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Melman; Madagascar (2005-2012).

Mia Dolan; La La Land (2016).

Mosca; La Casa de Papel (2017-present).

Narcissa Malfoy; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Neville Longbottom; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Nonnie Thompson; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Norma Romano; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Offred; The Handmaid’s Tale, M. Atwood (1985).

Samvise Gangee; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Sonya; Crime and Punishment, F. Dostoevsky (1866).

Talisa Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tommen Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Victor Criss; It, S. King (1986).

William Turner; Pirates of The Caribbean (2003-2017).

ISFPs.

Adam Faulkner; Saw (2004).

Arwen; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Arya Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Aurora; Sleeping Beauty (1959).

Bambi; Bambi (1942).

Beast; The Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Beverly Marsh; It, S. King (1986).

Bridgette; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Dayanara Diaz; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Eowyn; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Eve Hammond; V per Vendetta (2005).

Gwen; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Rubeus Hagrid; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Harry Potter; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Inej Ghafa; Six of Crows Duology, L. Bardugo (2015-2016).

Jack Dawson; Titanic (1997).

Jasmine; Aladdin (1992).

Jesse; The OA (2016-2019).

Jon Snow; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Loras Tyrell; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Newt Scamander; Fantastic Beasts (2016).

Neytiri; Avatar (2009).

Patty Bladell; Insatiable (2018-2019).

Pocahontas; Pocahontas (1995).

Riley Gunnardottir; Sense8 (2015-2018). (possibly INFP)

Ryan Evans; High School Musical (2006-2008).

Shaggy Rogers; Scooby Doo (1969-1976).

Shrek; Shrek (2001).

Sidney Prescott; Scream (1996-2011).

Silvia Mirabella; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Simba; The Lion King (1994).

Spike; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Wes Gibbins; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Will Byers; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Yoga Jones; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

ISTJs.

Aragorn; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Bonnie Winterbottom; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Brienne of Tarth; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Claire; Fleabag (2016-2019).

Claudette Pelage; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Davos Seaworth; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Eddard Stark; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Edward Cullen; Twilight Saga (2008-2012).

Emily Charton; The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

Farah Black; Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency (2017-2018).

Guy Montag; Fahrenheit 451, R. Bradbury (1953). (Si-Fi Loop)

Heathcliff; Wuthering Heights, E. Bronte (1847).

Janae Watson; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Jane; Tarzan (1999).

Jim Hopper; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Kendra Young; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Lucius Malfoy; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Marlin; Finding Nemo (2003).

Nick; The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-present).

Porpentina Goldstein; Fantastic Beasts (2016).

Riley Finn; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Rupert Giles; Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).

Ruth DeWitt Bukater; Titanic (1997).

Sana Allagui; Skam Italia (2018-present).

Severus Snape; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007). (Si-Fi Loop) (possibly INTJ)

Stanley Uris; It, S. King (1986).

Stannis Baratheon; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Sun Bak; Sense8 (2015-2018).

Susan Pevensie; The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010).

William Parry; His Dark Materials, P. Pullman (1995-2000).

ISTPs. 

Alejandro; Total Drama (2007-2014).

Alex Karev; Grey’s Anatomy (2005-present).

Alex Vause; Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019).

Diego; Ice Age (2002-2016).

Emmy Altava; Professor Layton (2007-present).

Ferb Fletcher; Phineas and Ferb (2007-2015).

Frank Delfino; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Gendry; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Jim Hawkins; Treasure Planet (2002).

Legolas; The Lord of the Rings (2001-2003).

Man in Black; Westworld (2016-present).

Max Black; 2 Broke Girls (2011-2017).

Max Mayfield; Stranger Things (2016-present).

Megara; Hercules (1997).

Merry Brandibuck; The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003).

Mike Delfino; Desperate Housewives (2004-2012).

Mike Hanlon; It, S. King (1986).

Mulan Fa; Mulan (1998).

Rebecca Sutter; How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020).

Sandor Clegane; Game of Thrones (2011-2019).

Tris Prior; Divergent (2014).

Viktor Krum; Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (1997-2007).

Wolfgang Bogdanow; Sense8 (2015-2018).

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2019 in Movies - My Top 30 Fave Movies (Part 1)

30.  GLASS – back in 2000, I went from liking the work of The Sixth Sense’s writer-director M. Night Shyamalan to becoming a genuine FAN thanks to his sneakily revisionist deconstruction of superhero tropes, Unbreakable.  It’s STILL my favourite film of his to date, and one of my Top Ten superhero movies EVER, not just a fascinating examination of the mechanics of the genre but also a very satisfying screen origin story – needless to say I’m one of MANY fans who’ve spent nearly two decades holding out hope for a sequel.  Flash forward to 2016 and Shyamalan’s long-overdue return-to-form sleeper hit, Split, which not only finally put his career back on course but also dropped a particularly killer end twist by actually being that very sequel.  Needless to say 2019 was the year we FINALLY got our PROPER reward for all our patience – Glass is the TRUE continuation of the Unbreakable universe and the closer of a long-intended trilogy.  Turns out, though, that it’s also his most CONTROVERSIAL film for YEARS, dividing audiences and critics alike with its unapologetically polarizing plot and execution – I guess that, after a decade of MCU and a powerhouse trilogy of Batman movies from Chris Nolan, we were expecting an epic, explosive action-fest to close things out, but that means we forgot exactly what it is about Shyamalan we got to love so much, namely his unerring ability to subvert and deconstruct whatever genre he’s playing around in.  And he really doesn’t DO spectacle, does he?  That said, this film is still a surprisingly BIG, sprawling piece of work, even if it the action is, for the most part, MUCH more internalised than most superhero movies.  Not wanting to drop any major spoilers on the few who still haven’t seen it, I won’t give away any major plot points, suffice to say that ALL the major players from both Unbreakable and Split have returned – former security guard David Dunn (Bruce Willis) has spent the past nineteen years exploring his super-strength and near-invulnerability while keeping Philadelphia marginally safer as hooded vigilante the Overseer, and the latest target of his crime-fighting crusade is Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), the vessel of 24 split personalities collectively known as the Horde, who’s continuing his cannibalistic serial-murder spree through the streets.  Both are being hunted by the police, as well as Dr. Ellie Staple (series newcomer Sarah Paulson), a clinical psychiatrist specialising in treating individuals who suffer the delusional belief that they’re superheroes, her project also encompassing David’s former mentor-turned-nemesis Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), the eponymous Mr. Glass, whose life-long suffering from a crippling bone disease that makes his body dangerously fragile has done nothing to blunt the  genius-level intellect that’s made him a ruthlessly accomplished criminal mastermind. How these remarkable individuals are brought together makes for fascinating viewing, and while it may be a good deal slower and talkier than some might have preferred, this is still VERY MUCH the Shyamalan we first came to admire – fiendishly inventive, slow-burn suspenseful and absolutely DRIPPING with cool earworm dialogue, his characteristically mischievous sense of humour still present and correct, and he’s retained that unswerving ability to wrong-foot us at every turn, right up to one of his most surprising twist endings to date.  The cast are, as ever, on fire, the returning hands all superb while those new to the universe easily measure up to the quality of talent on display – Willis and Jackson are, as you’d expect, PERFECT throughout, brilliantly building on the incredibly solid groundwork laid in Unbreakable, while it’s a huge pleasure to see Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark (a fine actor we don’t see NEARLY enough of, in my opinion) and Charlayne Woodard get MUCH bigger, more prominent roles this time out, while Paulson delivers an understated but frequently mesmerising turn as the ultimate unshakable sceptic.  As with Split, however, the film is comprehensively stolen by McAvoy, whose truly chameleonic performance actually manages to eclipse its predecessor in its levels of sheer genius.  Altogether this is another sure-footed step in the right direction for a director who’s finally regained his singular auteur prowess – say what you will about that ending, but it certainly is a game-changer, as boldly revisionist as anything that’s preceded it and therefore, in my opinion, exactly how it SHOULD have gone.  If nothing else, this is a film that should be applauded for its BALLS …

29.  THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON – quite possibly the year’s most adorable indie, this dramatic feature debut from documentarian writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz largely snuck in under the radar on release, but has gone on to garner some well-deserved critical appreciation and sleeper hit success.  The lion’s share of the film’s success must surely go to the inspired casting, particularly in the central trio who drive the action – Nilson and Schwartz devised the film with Zack Gotsagen, an exceptionally talented young actor with Down’s Syndrome, specifically in mind for the role of Zak, a wrestling obsessive languishing in a North Carolina retirement home who dreams of escaping his stifling confines and going to the training camp of his hero, the Saltwater Redneck (Thomas Haden Church), where he can learn to become a pro wrestler; after slipping free, Zak enlists the initially wary help of down-at-heel criminal fisherman Tyler (Shia LaBaouf) in reaching his intended destination, while the pair are pursued by Zak’s primary caregiver, Eleanor (Dakota Johnson).  Needless to say the unlikely pair bond on the road, and when Eleanor is reluctantly forced to tag along with them, a surrogate family is formed … yeah, the plot is so predictable you can see every twist signposted from miles back, but that familiarity is never a problem because these characters are so lovingly written and beautifully played that you’ve fallen for them within five minutes of meeting them, so you’re effortlessly swept along for the ride. The three leads are pure gold – this is the most laid back and cuddly Shia’s been for years, but his lackadaisical charm is pleasingly tempered with affecting pathos driven by a tragic loss in Tyler’s recent past, while Johnson is sensible, sweet and likeably grounded, even when Eleanor’s at her most exasperated, but Gotsagen is the real surprise, delivering an endearingly unpredictable, livewire performance that blazes with true, honest purity and total defiance in the face of any potential difficulties society may try to throw at Zak – while there’s excellent support from Church in a charmingly awkward late-film turn that goes a long way to reminding us just what an acting treasure he is, as well as John Hawkes and rapper Yelawolf as a pair of lowlife crab-fishermen hunting for Tyler, intending to wreak (not entirely undeserved) revenge on him for an ill-judged professional slight.  Enjoying a gentle sense of humour and absolutely CRAMMED with heartfelt emotional heft, this really was one of the most downright LOVEABLE films of 2019.

28.  PET SEMATARY – first off, let me say that I never saw the 1989 feature adaptation of Stephen King’s story, so I have no comparative frame of reference there – I WILL say, however, that the original novel is, in my opinion, one of the strongest offerings from America’s undisputed master of literary horror, so any attempt made to bring it to the big screen had better be a good one.  Thankfully, this version more than delivers in that capacity, proving to be one of the more impressive of his cinematic outings in recent years (not quite up to the standard of The Mist or It Chapter 1, perhaps, but certainly on a par with the criminally overlooked 1408), as well as one of the year’s top horror offerings.  This may be the feature debut of directing double-act Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, but they both display a wealth of natural talent here, wrangling bone-chilling scares and a pervading atmosphere of oppressive dread to deliver a top-notch screen fright-fest that works its way under your skin and stays put for days after.  Jason Clarke is a classic King everyman hero as Boston doctor Louis Creed, displaced to the small Maine town of Ludlow as he trades the ER for a quiet clinic practice so he can spent more time with his family – Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color, Stranger Things), excellent throughout as his haunted, emotionally fragile wife Rachel, toddler son Gage (twins Hugo and Lucas Lavole), and daughter Ellie (newcomer Jeté Laurence, BY FAR the film’s biggest revelation, delivering to the highest degree even when her role becomes particularly intense).  Their new home seems idyllic, the only blots being the main road at the end of their drive which experiences heavy traffic from speeding trucks, and the children’s pet cemetery in the woods at the back of their garden, which has become something of a local landmark.  But there’s something far darker in the deeper places beyond, an ancient place of terrible power Louis is introduced to by their well-meaning but ultimately fallible elderly neighbour Jud (one of the best performances I’ve ever seen from screen legend John Lithgow) when his daughter’s beloved cat Church is run over. The cat genuinely comes back, but he’s irrevocably changed, the once gentle and lovable furball now transformed into a menacingly mangy little psychopath, and his resurrection sets off a chain of horrific events destined to devour the entire family … this is supernatural horror at its most inherently unnerving, mercilessly twisting the screws throughout its slow-burn build to the inevitable third act bloodbath and reaching a bleak, soul-crushing climax that comes close to rivalling the still unparalleled sucker-punch of The Mist – the adaptation skews significantly from King’s original at the mid-point, but even purists will be hard-pressed to deny that this is still VERY MUCH in keeping with the spirit of the book right up to its harrowing closing shot.  The King of Horror has been well served once again – fans can rest assured that his dark imagination continues to inspire some truly great cinematic scares …

27.  THE REPORT – the CIA’s notorious use of torture to acquire information from detainees in Guantanamo Bay and various other sites around the world in the wake of September 11, 2001, has been a particularly spiky political subject for years now, one which has gained particular traction with cinema-goers over the years thanks to films like Rendition and, of course, controversial Oscar-troubler Zero Dark Thirty.  It’s also a particular bugbear of screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, Contagion, Side Effects) – his parents are both psychologists, and he found it particularly offensive that a profession he knows was created to help people could have been turned into such a damaging weapon against the human psyche, inexorably leading him to taking up this passion project, championed by its producer, and Burns’ long-time friend and collaborator, Steven Soderbergh.  It tells the true story of Senate staffer Daniel Jones’ five-year battle to bring his damning 6,300-page study of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program, commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee, into the light of day in the face of increasingly intense and frequently underhanded resistance from the Agency and various high-ranking officials within the US Government whose careers could be harmed should their own collusion be revealed. In lesser hands this could have been a clunky, unappetisingly dense excuse for a slow-burn political thriller that drowned in its own exposition, but Burns handles the admittedly heavyweight material with deft skill and makes each increasingly alarming revelation breathlessly compelling while he ratchets up the tension by showing just what a seemingly impossible task Jones and his small but driven team faced.  The film would have been nought, however, without a strong cast, and this one has a killer – taking a break from maintaining his muscle-mass for Star Wars, Adam Driver provides a suitably robust narrative focus as Jones, an initially understated workman who slowly transforms into an incensed moral crusader as he grows increasingly filled with righteous indignation by the vile subject matter he’s repeatedly faced with, and he’s provided with sterling support from the likes of Annette Bening, delivering her best performance in years as Senator Dianne Feinstein, Jones’ staunchest supporter, the ever-wonderful Ted Levine as oily CIA director John O. Brennan, Tim Blake Nelson as a physician contracted by the CIA to assist with interrogations who became genuinely disgusted by the horrors he witnessed, and Matthew Rhys as an unnamed New York Times reporter Jones considers leaking the report to when it looks like it might never be released.  This is powerful stuff, and while it may only mark Burns’ second directorial feature (after his obscure debut Pu-239), he handles the gig like a seasoned pro, milking the material for every drop of dramatic tension while keeping the narrative as honest, forthright and straightforward as possible, and the end result makes for sobering, distressing and thoroughly engrossing viewing.  Definitely one of the most important films not only of 2019, but of the decade itself, and one that NEEDS to be seen.

26.  DARK PHOENIX – wow, this really has been a year for mistreated sequels, hasn’t it?  There’s a seriously stinky cloud of controversy surrounding what is now, in light of recent developments between Disney and Twentieth Century Fox, the last true Singer-era X-Men movie, a film which saw two mooted release dates (first November 2018 then the following February, before finally limping onto screens with very little fanfare in June 2019, almost as if Fox wanted to bury it. Certainly rumours of its compromise were rife, particularly regarding supposed rushed reshoots because of clashing similarities with Marvel’s major tent-pole release Captain Marvel (and given the all-conquering nature of the MCU there was no way they were having that, was there?), so like many I was expecting a clunky mess, maybe even a true stinker to rival X-Men Origins: Wolverine.  In truth, while it’s not perfect, the end result is nothing like the turd we all feared – the final film is, in fact, largely a success, worthy of favourable comparison with its stronger predecessors.  It certainly makes much needed amends for the disappointing mismanagement of the source comics’ legendary Dark Phoenix saga in 2006’s decidedly compromised original X-Men trilogy capper The Last Stand, this time treating the story with the due reverence and respect it deserves as well as serving as a suitably powerful send-off for more than one beloved key character.  Following the “rebooted” path of the post-Days of Future Past timeline, it’s now 1992, and after the world-changing events of Apocalypse the X-Men have become a respected superhero team with legions of fans and their own personal line to the White House, while mutants at large have mostly become accepted by the regular humans around them.  Then a hastily planned mission into space takes a turn for the worst and Jean Grey (Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner) winds up absorbing an immensely powerful, thoroughly inexplicable cosmic force that makes her powers go haywire while also knocking loose repressed childhood traumas Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) would rather had stayed buried, sending her on a dangerous spiral out of control which leads to a destructive confrontation and the inadvertent death of a teammate.  Needless to say, the situation soon becomes desperate as Jean goes on the run and the world starts to turn against them all once again … all in all, then, it’s business as usual for the cast and crew of one of Fox’s flagship franchises, and it SHOULD have gone off without a hitch.  When Bryan Singer opted not to return this time around (instead setting his sights on Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody), key series writer Simon Kinberg stepped into the breach for his directorial debut, and it turns out he’s got a real talent for it, giving us just the kind of robust, pacy, thrilling action-packed epic his compatriot would have delivered, filled with the same thumping great set-pieces (the final act’s stirring, protracted train battle is the unequivocal highlight here), well-observed character beats and emotional resonance we’ve come to expect from the series as a whole (then again, he does know these movies back to frond having at least co-written his fair share).  The cast, similarly, are all on top form – McAvoy and Michael Fassbender (as fan favourite Erik Lehnsherr, aka Magneto) know their roles so well now they can do this stuff in their sleep, but we still get to see them explore interesting new facets of their characters (particularly McAvoy, who gets to reveal an intriguing dark side to the Professor we’ve only ever seen hinted at before now), while Turner finally gets to really breathe in a role which felt a little stiff and underexplored in her series debut in Apocalypse (she EASILY forges the requisite connective tissue to Famke Janssen’s more mature and assured take in the earlier films); conversely Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler) and Evan Peters (Quicksilver) get somewhat short shrift but nonetheless do A LOT with what little they have, and at least Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult still get to do plenty of dramatic heavy lifting as the last of Xavier’s original class, Raven (Mystique) and Hank McCoy (Beast); the only real weak link in the cast is the villain, Vuk, a shape-shifting alien whose quest to seize the power Jean’s appropriated is murkily defined at best, but at least Jessica Chastain manages to invest her with enough icy menace to keep things from getting boring.  All in all, then, this is very much a case of business as usual, Kinberg and co keeping the action thundering along at a suitably cracking pace throughout (powered by a typically epic score from Hans Zimmer), and the film only really comes off the rails in its final moments, when that aforementioned train finally comes off its tracks and the reported reshoots must surely kick in – as a result this is, to me, most reminiscent of previous X-flick The Wolverine, which was a rousing success for the majority of its runtime, only coming apart in its finale thanks to that bloody ridiculous robot samurai.  The climax is, therefore, a disappointment, too clunky and sudden and overly neat in its denouement (we really could have done with a proper examination of the larger social impact of these events), but it’s little enough that it doesn’t spoil what came before … which just makes the film’s mismanagement and resulting failure, as well as its subsequent treatment from critics and fans alike, all the more frustrating.  This film deserved much better, but ultimately looks set to be disowned and glossed over by most of the fanbase as the property as a whole goes through the inevitable overhaul now that Disney/Marvel owns Fox and plans to bring the X-Men and their fellow mutants into the MCU fold.  I feel genuinely sorry for the one remaining X-film, The New Mutants, which is surely destined for spectacular failure after its similarly shoddy round of reschedules finally comes to an end this summer …

25.  IT CHAPTER 2 – back in 2017, Mama director Andy Muschietti delivered the first half of his ambitious two-film adaptation of one of Stephen King’s most popular and personal novels, which had long been considered un-filmable (the 90s miniseries had a stab, but while it deserves its cult favourite status it certainly fell short in several places) until Muschietti and screenwriters Cary Joji Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman seemingly did the impossible, and the end result was the top horror hit of the year.  Ultimately, then, it was gonna be a tough act to follow, and there was MAJOR conjecture whether they could repeat that success with this second half.  Would lightning strike twice?  Well, the simple answer is … mostly.  2017’s Chapter 1 was a stone-cold masterpiece, and one of the strongest elements in its favour was the extremely game young cast of newcomers and relative unknown child actors who brought the already much beloved Loser’s Club to perfectly-cast life, a seven-strong gang of gawky pre-teen underdogs you couldn’t help loving, which made it oh-so-easy to root for them as they faced off against that nightmarish shape-shifting child-eating monster, Pennywise the Dancing Clown.  It was primal, it was terrifying, and it was BURSTING with childhood nostalgia that thoroughly resonated with an audience hungry for more 80s-set coming-of-age genre fare after the runaway success of Stranger Things.  Bringing the story into the present day with the Losers now returning to their childhood home of Derry, Maine as forty-something adults, Chapter 2 was NEVER going to achieve the same pulse-quickening electric charge the first film pulled off, was it?  Thankfully, with the same director and (mostly) the same writing crew on hand (Fukunaga jumped ship but Dauberman was there to finish up with the help of Jason Fuchs and an uncredited Jeffrey Jurgensen) there’s still plenty of that old magic left over, so while it’s not quite the same second time round, this still feels very much like the same adventure, just older, wiser and a bit more cynical.  Here’s a more relevant reality check, mind – those who didn’t approve of the first film’s major changes from the book are going to be even more incensed by this, but the differences here are at least organic and in keeping with the groundwork laid in Chapter 1, and indeed this film in particular is a VERY different beast from the source material, but these differences are actually kind of a strength here, Muschietti and co. delivering something that works MUCH better cinematically than a more faithful take would have. Anyway, the Loser’s Club are back, all grown up and (for the most part) wildly successful living FAR AWAY from Derry with dream careers and seemingly perfect lives.  Only Mike Hanlon has remained behind to hold vigil over the town and its monstrous secret, and when a new spree of disappearances and grisly murders begins he calls his old friends back home to fulfil the pact they all swore to uphold years ago – stop Pennywise once and for all.  The new cast are just as excellent as their youthful counterparts – Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy are, of course, the big leads here as grown up Beverley Marsh and Bill Denbrough, bringing every watt of star power they can muster, but the others hold more interest, with Bill Hader perfectly cast (both director and child actor’s personal first choice) as smart-mouth Richie Tozier, Isaiah Mustafah (best known as the Old Spice guy from those hilarious commercials) playing VERY MUCH against type as Mike, Jay Ryan (successful on the small screen in Top of the Lake and Beauty & the Beast, but very much getting his cinematic big break here) as a slimmed-down and seriously buffed-out Ben Hanscom, James Ransone (Sinister) as neurotic hypochondriac Eddie Kaspbrak, and Andy Bean (Power, the recent Swamp Thing series) as ever-rational Stan Uris – but we still get to hang out with the original kids too in new flashbacks that (understandably) make for some of the film’s best scenes, while Bill Skarsgard is as terrifying as ever as he brings new ferocity, insidious creepiness and even a touch of curious back-story to Pennywise.  I am happy to report this new one IS just as scary as its predecessor, a skin-crawling, spine-tingling, pants-wetting cold sweat of a horror-fest that works its way in throughout its substantial running time and, as before, sticks with you LONG after the credits have rolled, but it’s also got the same amount of heart, emotional heft and pathos, nostalgic charm (albeit more grown-up and sullied) and playful, sometimes decidedly mischievous geeky humour, so that as soon as you’re settled in it really does feel like you’ve come home. It’s also fiendishly inventive, the final act in particular skewing in some VERY surprising new directions that there’s NO WAY you’ll see coming, and the climax also, interestingly, redresses one particularly frustrating imbalance that always bugged me about the book, making for an especially moving, heartbreaking denouement.  Interestingly, there’s a running joke in the film that pokes fun at a perceived view from some quarters that Stephen King’s endings often disappoint – there’s no such fault with THIS particular adaptation.  For me, this was altogether JUST the concluding half I was hoping for, so while it’s not as good as the first, it should leave you satisfied all the same.

24.  MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN – it’s taken Edward Norton twenty years to get his passion project adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel to the big screen, but the final film was certainly worth the wait, a cool-as-ice noir thriller in which its writer-director also, of course, stars as one of the most unusual ‘tecs around.  Lionel Essrog suffers from Tourette syndrome, prone to uncontrollable ticks and vocal outbursts as well as obsessive-compulsive spirals that can really ruin his day, but he’s also got a genius-level intellect and a photographic memory, which means he’s the perfect fit for the detective agency of accomplished, highly successful New York gumshoe Frank Minna (Bruce Willis).  But when their latest case goes horribly wrong and Frank dies in a back-alley gunfight, the remaining members of the agency are left to pick up the pieces and try to find out what went wrong, Lionel battling his own personal, mental and physical demons as he tries to unravel an increasingly labyrinthine tangle of lies, deceit, corporate corruption and criminal enterprise that reaches to the highest levels of the city’s government.  Those familiar with the original novel will know that it’s set in roughly the present day, but Norton felt many aspects of the story lent themselves much better to the early 1950s, and it really was a good choice – Lionel is a man very much out his time, a very odd fit in an age of stuffy morals and repression, while the themes of racial upheaval, rampant urban renewal and massive, unchecked corporate greed feel very much of the period. Besides, there’s few things as seductive than a good noir thriller, and Norton has crafted a real GEM right here. The pace can be a little glacial at times, but this simply gives the unfolding plot and extremely rich collection of characters plenty of room to grow, while the jazzy score (from up-and-comer Daniel Pemberton, composer on Steve Jobs, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) provides a surprising complimentary accompaniment to the rather free-form narrative style and Lionel’s own scattershot, bebop style.  Norton is exceptional in the lead, landing his best role in years with an exquisitely un-self-conscious ease that makes for thoroughly compelling viewing (surely more than one nod will be due come awards-season), but he doesn’t hog ALL the limelight, letting his uniformly stellar supporting cast shine bright as well – Willis doesn’t get a huge amount of screen time, but delivers a typically strong, nuanced performance that makes his absence throughout the rest of the film keenly felt, Gugu Mbatha-Raw continues to build an impressive run of work as Laura, the seemingly unimportant woman Lionel befriends, who could actually be the key to the whole case, Alec Baldwin is coolly menacing as power-hungry property magnate and heavyweight city official Moses Randolph, the film’s nominal big-bad, Willem Dafoe is absolutely electrifying as his down-at-heel, insignificant genius brother Lou, and Boardwalk Empire’s Michael K. Williams is quietly outstanding as mysterious jazz musician Trumpet Man, while Bobby Canavale, Ethan Suplee and Dallas Roberts are all excellent as the other hands in Minna’s detective agency.  It’s a chilled-out affair, happy to hang back and let its slow-burn plot simmer while Lionel tries to navigate his job and life in general while battling his many personal difficulties, but due to the incredible calibre of the talent on offer, the incredibly rich dialogue and obligatory hardboiled gumshoe voiceover, compelling story and frequently achingly beautiful visuals, this is about as compulsively rewarding as cinema gets. Norton’s crafted a film noir worthy of comparison with the likes of L.A. Confidential and Chinatown, proving that he’s a triple-threat cinematic talent to be reckoned with.

23.  PROSPECT – I love a good cinematic underdog, there’s always some dynamite indies and sleepers that just about slip through the cracks that I end up championing every year, and one of 2019’s favourites was a minor sensation at 2018’s South By Southwest film festival, a singularly original ultra-low-budget sci-fi adventure that made a genuine virtue of its miniscule budget.  Riffing on classic eco-minded space flicks like Silent Running, it introduces a father-and-daughter prospecting team who land a potentially DEEPLY lucrative contract mining for an incredibly rare element on a toxic jungle moon – widower Damon (Transparent’s Jay Duplass), who’s downtrodden and world-weary but still a dreamer, and teenager Cee (relative newcomer Sophie Thatcher), an introverted bookworm with hidden reserves of ingenuity and fortitude.  The job starts well, Damon setting his sights on a rumoured “queen’s layer” that could make them rich beyond their wildest dreams, but when they meet smooth-talking scavenger Ezra (Narcos’ Pedro Pascal), things take a turn for the worse – Damon is killed and Cee is forced to team up with Ezra to have any hope for survival on this hostile, unforgiving moon.  Thatcher is an understated joy throughout, her seemingly detached manner belying hidden depths of intense feeling, while Pascal, far from playing a straight villain, turns Ezra into something of a tragic, charismatic antihero we eventually start to sympathise with, and the complex relationship that develops between them is a powerful, mercurial thing, the constantly shifting dynamic providing a powerful driving force for the film.  Debuting writer-directors Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell have crafted a wonderfully introspective, multi-layered tone poem of aching beauty, using subtle visual effects and a steamy, glow-heavy colour palette to make the lush forest environs into something nonetheless eerie and inhospitable, while the various weird and colourful denizens of this deadly little world prove that Ezra may be the LEAST of the dangers Cee faces in her quest for escape.  Inventive, intriguing and a veritable feast for the eyes and intellect, this is top-notch indie sci-fi and a sign of great things to come from its creators, thoroughly deserving of major cult recognition in the future.

22.  DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE – S. Craig Zahler is a writer-director who’s become a major fixture on my ones-to-watch list in recent years, instantly winning me over with his dynamite debut feature Bone Tomahawk before cementing that status with awesome follow-up Brawl On Cell Block 99.  His latest is another undeniable hit that starts deceptively simply before snowballing into a sprawling urban crime epic as it follows its main protagonists – disgraced Bulwark City cops Brett Ridgeman (Mel Gibson) and Tony Lurasetti (BOCB99’s Vince Vaughn), on unpaid suspension after their latest bust leads to a PR nightmare – on a descent into a hellish criminal underworld as they set out to “seek compensation” for their situation by ripping off the score from a bank robbery spearheaded by ruthlessly efficient professional thief Lorentz Vogelmann (Thomas Kretschmann).  In lesser hands, this two-hour-forty-minute feature might have felt like a painfully padded effort that would have passed far better chopped down to a breezy 90-minutes, but Zahler is such a compellingly rich and resourceful writer that every scene is essential viewing, overflowing with exquisitely drawn characters spouting endlessly quotable, gold-plated dialogue, and the constantly shifting narrative focus brings such consistent freshness that the increasingly complex plot remains rewarding right to the end.  The two leads are both typically excellent – Vaughn gets to let loose with a far more showy, garrulous turn here than his more reserved character in his first collaboration with Zahler, while this is EASILY the best performance I’ve seen Gibson deliver in YEARS, the grizzled veteran clearly having a fine old time getting his teeth into a particularly meaty role that very much plays to his strengths – and they’re brilliantly bolstered by an excellent supporting cast – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’s Tory Kittles easily matches them in his equally weighty scenes as Henry Johns, a newly-released ex-con also out to improve his family’s situation with a major score, while Kretschmann is at his most chilling as the brutal killer who executes his plans with cold-blooded precision, and there are wonderful scene-stealing offerings from Jennifer Carpenter, Udo Kier, Don Johnson (three more Zahler regulars, each featured with Vaughn on BOCB99), Michael Jai White, Laurie Holden and newcomer Miles Truitt.  This is a proper meaty film, dark, intense, gritty and unflinching in its portrayal of honest, unglamorous violence and its messy aftermath, but fans of grown-up filmmaking will find PLENTY to enjoy here, Zahler crafting a crime epic comparable to the heady best of Scorsese and Tarantino.  Another sure-fire winner from one of the best new filmmakers around.

21.  FAST COLOR – intriguingly, the most INTERESTING superhero movie of the year was NOT a major franchise property, or even a comic book adapted to the screen at all, but a wholly original indie which snuck in very much under the radar on its release but is surely destined for cult greatness in the future, not least due to some much-deserved critical acclaim.  Set in an unspecified future where it hasn’t rained for years, a homeless vagabond named Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is making her aimless way across a desolate American Midwest, tormented by violent seizures which cause strange localised earthquakes, and hunted by Bill (Argo’s Christopher Denham), a rogue scientist who wants to capture her so he can study her abilities.  Ultimately she’s left with no other recourse than to run home, sheltering with her mother Bo (Middle of Nowhere and Orange is the New Black’s Lorraine Toussaint), and her young daughter Lila (The Passage’s Saniyya Sidney), both of whom also have weird and wondrous powers of their own.  As the estranged family reconnect, Ruth finally learns to control her powers as she’s forced to confront her own troubled past, but as Bill closes in it looks like their idyll might be short-lived … this might only be the second feature of writer-director Julie Hart (who cut her teeth penning well-regarded indie western The Keeping Room before making her own debut helming South By Southwest Film Festival hit Miss Stevens), but it’s a blinding statement of intent for the future, a deceptively understated thing of beauty that eschews classic superhero cinema conventions of big spectacle and rousing action in favour of a quiet, introspective character-driven story where the unveiling and exploration of Ruth and her kin’s abilities are secondary to the examination of how their familial dynamics work (or often DON’T), while Hart and cinematographer Michael Fimognari (probably best known for his frequent work for Mike Flanagan) bring a ruined but bleakly beautiful future to life through inventively understated production design and sweeping, dramatic vistas largely devoid of visual effects.  Subtlety is the watchword, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t fireworks here, it’s just that they’re generally performance-based – awards-darling Mbatha-Raw (Belle) gives a raw, heartfelt performance, painting Ruth in vivid shades of grey, while Toussaint is restrained but powerfully memorable and Sidney builds on her already memorable work to deliver what might be her best turn to date, and there are strong supporting turns from Denham (who makes his nominal villain surprisingly sympathetic) and Hollywood great David Strathairn as gentle small town sheriff Ellis. Leisurely paced and understated it may be, but this is still an incendiary piece of work, sure to become a breakout sleeper hit for a filmmaking talent from whom I expect GREAT THINGS in the future, and since the story’s been picked up for expansion into a TV series with Hart in charge that looks like a no-brainer.  And it most assuredly IS a bona fide superhero movie, despite appearances to the contrary …

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Us, July 22

Cover: Team Taylor Swift vs. Scooter Braun’s Squad -- Who’s Lying? (if you want this story or anything else scanned, let me know!)

Page 1: First Look -- Jessica Alba in Milan 

Page 2: Red Carpet -- Suits -- Halsey, Yara Shahidi, Maisie Williams, Regina Hall

Page 3: Angela Bassett, Ellie Goulding, Jourdan Dunn, Glenn Close, Piper Perabo 

Page 4: Who Wore It Best? Emily Ratajkowski vs. Gigi Hadid, Andie MacDowell vs. Jessica Chastain, Sienna Miller vs. Bella Hadid 

Page 6: Loose Talk -- Alan Cumming, Kate McKinnon on Elizabeth Warren, Terry Crews, Tyra Banks on Rihanna, Dax Shepard

Page 7: Contents 

Page 10: Hot Pics -- The U.S. Women’s soccer team won the World Cup 

Page 11: Milo Ventimiglia, Pippa and James Middleton, Teyana Taylor 

Page 12: Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin, Candace Cameron Bure 

Page 14: Dua Lipa and Anwar Hadid, Cardi B, The cast of The Lion King -- Billy Eichner, Shahidi Wright Joseph, JD McCrary, Seth Rogen, Florence Kasumba, Donald Glover, Beyonce Knowles-Carter, Alfre Woodard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Oliver, Keegan-Michael Key, Eric Andre 

Page 16: Furever Friends -- Eric McCormack and one of his rescue pups, Kevin Hart’s son Enzo and dog Roxy, Andy Cohen and dog Wacha, Lauren Conrad and puppy 

Page 18: Stars and Stripes -- Irina Shayk, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake and son Silas, Olivia Culpo, Behati Prinsloo 

Page 19: Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon, Jana Kramer and husband and kids, Tiffani Thiessen and husband and kids, January Jones, Hilary Swank 

Page 20: Family Matters -- Stephen “tWitch” Boss and Allison Holker with son Maddox, Ciara and Russell Wilson and daughter Sienna, Neil Patrick Harris and husband and twins 

Page 22: Stars They’re Just Like Us -- Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, Rihanna 

Page 23: Chris Pine, Sharon Stone 

Page 24: Float On! Britney Spears, Khloe Kardashian’s daughter True, Ashanti, Julianne Hough, Nina Dobrev 

Page 26: Lauren Burnham on parenthood 

Page 28: Miranda Lambert is returning to work 

Page 29: Evan Spiegel appreciates Miranda Kerr’s inner beauty, Shay Mitchell is six months pregnant, Val Chmerkovskiy and Jenna Johnson had a second wedding in Jenna’s hometown on Provo, Utah 

Page 30: Leah Remini is considering legal action because she feels Scientology got her show Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath cancelled 

Page 31: Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are fueling dating rumors, Adele is taking her revenge body very seriously 

Page 32: 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After’s Jay Smith was served divorce papers by Ashley Martson and facing deportation, Vicki Gunvalson has been demoted to friend on RHOOC, Bachelor Nation likes talking about sex -- Hannah Brown, Colton Underwood, Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robinson, Nick Viall and Andi Dorfman 

Page 33: Meghan McCain’s days on The View may be numbered, VIP Style -- Paris Hilton, Mindy Kaling, John Stamos, Mary-Kate Olsen and Dasha Zhukova and Camilla Fayed, Lucy Hale, Justin Theroux, Amy Poehler, Ted Danson, Shaquille O’Neal, Liam Hemsworth 

Page 34: What’s in My Bag? Heidi Montag 

Page 35: Goop’s most eyebrow-raising moments 

Page 36: Hollywood’s A-list takes sides as Taylor Swift accuses powerhouse manager Scooter Braun of bullying 

Page 40: Inside the christening of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie 

Page 42: Million Dollar Listing’s Steve Gold and girlfriend Luiza Gawlowska’s bundle of joy 

Page 44: Celebs Who Save

Page 48: Style -- Heel Steal -- Virginia Gardner, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o, Leighton Meester 

Page 49: Bella Hadid, Mandy Moore, Kacey Musgraves, Awkwafina, Kate Upton 

Page 51: Gigi Hadid is the new face of Michael Kors Wonderlust 

Page 52: Us Musts -- Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista on Stuber 

Page 54: Suits

Page 55: Ella Purnell on Sweetbitter

Page 58: Fashion Police -- Lena Dunham, Megan Thee Stallion, Tana Mongeau 

Page 59: Natalia Vodianova, Lewis Hamilton, Lil’ Kim 

Page 60: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me -- Julia Stiles 

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extremely angry and overly shaded sun with a gun

ok bye

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Grammy Nomations 2020 (see complete list)

The 2020 Grammy Awards nomination list has been released and its a big win for Nigeria because Burna Boy's boy 'African Giant' album made the list.   Lizzo led the pack with eight nods, while Billie Eillish and Lil Nas X took the second spot with six nominations each for the 62nd Grammy Awards which will be held on January 26 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.   Burna Boy was nominated in the World Music album category alongside African music legend Angelique Kidjo.   See the complete list below;   Record Of The Year “Hey, Ma” — Bon Iver “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish “7 Rings” — Ariana Grande “Hard Place” — H.E.R. “Talk” — Khalid “Old Town Road” — Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus “Truth Hurts” — Lizzo “Sunflower” — Post Malone & Swae Lee Album Of The Year “I, I” — Bon Iver “Norman F—ing Rockwell!” — Lana Del Rey “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” — Billie Eilish “Thank U, Next” — Ariana Grande “I Used To Know Her” — H.E.R. “7” — Lil Nas X “Cuz I Love You” (Deluxe) — Lizzo “Father of the Bride” — Vampire Weekend Song Of The Year “Always Remember Us This Way” — Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey & Lori McKenna, songwriters (Lady Gaga) “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) “Bring My Flowers Now” — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, songwriters (Tanya Tucker) “Hard Place” — Ruby Amanfu, Sam Ashworth, D. Arcelious Harris. H.E.R. & Rodney Jerkins, songwriters (H.E.R.) “Lover” — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift) “Norman F—ing Rockwell” — Jack Antonoff & Lana Del Rey, songwriters (Lana Del Rey) “Someone You Loved” — Tom Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Pere Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn & Sam Roman, songwriters (Lewis Capaldi) “Truth Hurts” — Steven Cheung, Eric Frederic, Melissa Jefferson & Jesse Saint John, songwriters (Lizzo) Best New Artist Black Pumas Billie Eilish Lil Nas X Lizzo Maggie Rogers Rosalía Tank and the Bangas Yola POP FIELD Best Pop Solo Performance: “Spirit” — Beyoncé “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish “7 Rings” — Ariana Grande “Truth Hurts” — Lizzo “You Need To Calm Down” — Taylor Swift Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Boyfriend” — Ariana Grande & Social House “Sucker” — Jonas Brothers “Old Town Road” — Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus “Señorita” — Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:   Sì — Andrea Bocelli Love (Deluxe Edition) — Michael Bublé Look Now — Elvis Costello & The Imposters A Legendary Christmas — John Legend Walls — Barbra Streisand Best Pop Vocal Album: The Lion King: The Gift — Beyoncé When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go — Billie Eilish Thank U, Next — Ariana Grande No. 6 Collaborations Project — Ed Sheeran Lover — Taylor Swift DANCE/ELECTRONIC FIELD Best Dance Recording: “Linked” — Bonobo “Got To Keep On” — The Chemical Brothers “Piece Of Your Heart” — Meduza & Goodboys “Underwater” — Rüfüs Du Sol “Midnight Hour” — Skrillex & Boys Noize With Ty Dolla $ign Best Dance/Electronic Album: LP5 — Apparat No Geography — The Chemical Brothers Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape) — Flume Solace — Rüfüs Du Sol Weather — Tycho CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Ancestral Recall — Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Star People Nation — Theo Croker Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music! — Mark Guiliana Elevate — Lettuce Mettavolution — Rodrigo y Gabriela ROCK Best Rock Performance: “Pretty Waste” — Bones UK “This Land” — Gary Clark Jr. “History Repeats” — Brittany Howard “Woman” — Karen O & Danger Mouse “Too Bad” — Rival Sons Best Metal Performance: “Astorolus – The Great Octopus” — Candlemass ft. Tony Iommi “Humanicide” — Death Angel “Bow Down” — I Prevail “Unleashed” — Killswitch Engage “7empest” — Tool Best Rock Song: “Fear Inoculum” — Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan, Songwriters (Tool) “Give Yourself A Try” — George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy & Ross Macdonald, Songwriters (The 1975) “Harmony Hall” — Ezra Koenig, Songwriter (Vampire Weekend) “History Repeats” — Brittany Howard, Songwriter (Brittany Howard) “This Land” — Gary Clark Jr., Songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.) Best Rock Album:   Amo — Bring Me The Horizon Social Cues — Cage The Elephant In The End — The Cranberries Trauma — I Prevail Feral Roots — Rival Sons ALTERNATIVE Best Alternative Music Album: U.F.O.F. — Big Theif Assume Form — James Blake i,i — Bon Iver Father of the Bride — Vampire Weekend Anima — Thom Yorke R&B Best R&B Performance: “Love Again” — Daniel Caesar & Brandy “Could’ve Been” — H.E.R. & Bryson Tiller “Exactly How I Feel” — Lizzo & Gucci Mane “Roll Some Mo” — Lucky Daye “Come Home” — Anderson .Paak & André 300 Best Traditional R&B Performance: “Time Today” — BJ The Chicago Kid “Steady Love” — India.Arie “Jerome” — Lizzo “Real Games” — Lucky Daye “Built For Love” — PJ Morton & Jazmine Sullivan Best R&B Song: “Could’ve Been” — Dernst Emile Ii, David “Swagg R’celious” Harris, H.E.R. & Hue “Soundzfire” Strother, Songwriters (H.E.R. Ft. Bryson Tiller) “Look At Me Now” — Emily King & Jeremy Most, Songwriters (Emily King) “No Guidance” — Chris Brown, Tyler James Bryant, Nija Charles, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Michee Patrick Lebrun, Joshua Lewis, Noah Shebib & Teddy Walton, Songwriters (Chris Brown Ft. Drake) “Roll Some Mo” — David Brown, Dernst Emile Ii & Peter Lee Johnson, Songwriters (Lucky Daye) “Say So” — Pj Morton, Songwriter (Pj Morton Ft. Jojo) Best Urban Contemporary Album: Apollo XXI — Steve Lacy Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) — Lizzo Overload — Georgia Anne Muldrow Saturn — Nao Being Human In Public — Jessie Reyez Best R&B Album: 1123 — BJ The Chicago Kid Painted — Lucky Daye Ella Mai — Ella Mai Paul — PJ Morton Venture — Anderson .Paak RAP Best Rap Performance: “Middle Child” — J.Cole “Suge” — DaBaby “Down Bad” — Dreamville ft. J.I.D, Bas, J. Cole, Earthgang & Young Nudy “Racks In The Middle” — Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch & Hit-boy “Clout” — Offset ft. Cardi B Best Rap/Sung Performance: “Higher” — DJ Khaled ft. Nipsey Hussle & John Legend “Drip Too Hard” — Lil Baby & Funna “Panini” — Lil Nas X “Ballin” — Mustard ft. Roddy Ricch “The London” — Young Thug ft. J. Cole & Travis Scott Best Rap Song: “Bad Idea” — Chancelor Bennett, Cordae Dunston, Uforo Ebong & Daniel Hackett, songwriters (Ybn Cordae ft. Chance The Rapper) “Gold Roses” — Noel Cadastre, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Khristopher Riddick-tynes, William Leonard Roberts Ii, Joshua Quinton Scruggs, Leon Thomas Iii & Ozan Yildirim, songwriters (Rick Ross ft. Drake) “A Lot” — Jermaine Cole, Dacoury Natche, 21 Savage & Anthony White, songwriters (21 Savage ft. J. Cole) “Racks In The Middle” — Ermias Asghedom, Dustin James Corbett, Greg Allen Davis, Chauncey Hollis, Jr. & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch & Hit-boy) “Suge” — Dababy, Jetsonmade & Pooh Beatz, songwriters (Dababy) Best Rap Album: Revenge Of The Dreamers III — Dreamville Championships — Meek Mill i am > i was — 21 Savage IGOR — Tyler, The Creator The Lost Boy — YBN Cordae COUNTRY Best Country Solo Performance: “All Your’n” — Tyler Childers “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” — Ashley McBryde “Ride Me Back Home” — Willie Nelson “God’s Country” — Blake Shelton “Bring My Flowers Now” — Tanya Tucker Best Country Duo/Group Performance: “Brand New Man” — Brooks & Dunn with Luke Combs “I Don’t Remember Me (Before You)” — Brothers Osborne “Speechless” — Dan & Shay “The Daughters” — Little Big Town “Common” — Maren Morris ft. Brandi Carlile Best Country Song: “Bring My Flowers Now” — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, Songwriters (Tanya Tucker) “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” — Jeremy Bussey & Ashley Mcbryde, Songwriters (Ashley Mcbryde) “It All Comes Out In The Wash” — Miranda Lambert, Hillary Lindsey, Lori Mckenna & Liz Rose, Songwriters (Miranda Lambert) “Some Of It” — Eric Church, Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde & Bobby Pinson, Songwriters (Eric Church) “Speechless” — Shay Mooney, Jordan Reynolds, Dan Smyers & Laura Veltz, Songwriters (Dan + Shay) Best Country Album: Desperate Man — Eric Church Stronger Than The Truth — Reba McEntire Interstate Gospel — Pistol Annies Center Point Road — Thomas Rhett While I’m Livin’ — Tanya Tucker NEW AGE Best New Age Album: Fairy Dreams — David Arkenstone Homage To Kindness — David Darling Wings — Peter Kater Verve — Sebastian Plano Deva — Deva Premal JAZZ Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Elsewhere” — Melissa Aldana, soloist “Sozinho” — Randy Brecker, soloist “Tomorrow Is The Question” — Julian Lage, soloist “The Windup” — Brandford Marsalis, soloist “Sightseeing” — Christian McBride, soloist Best Jazz Vocal Album: Thirsty Ghost — Sara Gazarek Love & Liberation — Jazzmeia Horn Alone Together — Catherine Russell 12 Little Spells — Esperanza Spalding Screenplay — The Tierney Sutton Band Best Jazz Instrumental Album: In The Key Of The Universe — Joey DeFrancesco The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul — Branford Marsalis Quartet Christian McBride’s New Jawn — Brad Mehldau Come What May – Joshua Redman Quartet Best Jazz Ensemble Album: Triple Helix — Anat Cohen Tentet Dancer In Nowhere — Miho Hazama Hiding Out — Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra The Omni-american Book Club — Brian Lynch Big Band One Day Wonder — Terraza Big Band Best Latin Jazz Album: Antidote — Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band Sorte!: Music By John Finbury — Thalma De Freitas With Vitor Gonçalves, John Patitucci, Chico Pinheiro, Rogerio Boccato & Duduka Da Fonseca Una Noche Con Rubén Blades — Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades Carib — David Sánchez Sonero: The Music Of Ismael Rivera — Miguel Zenón GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC Best Gospel Performance/Song: “Love Theory”– Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, Songwriter “Talkin’ ‘Bout Jesus” — Gloria Gaynor ft. Yolanda Adams; Bryan Fowler, Gloria Gaynor & Chris Stevens, Songwriters “See The Light” — Travis Greene ft. Jekalyn Carr “Speak The Name” — Koryn Hawthorne ft. Natalie Grant “This Is A Move (Live)” — Tasha Cobbs Leonard; Tony Brown, Brandon Lake, Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Nate Moore, Songwriters Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: “Only Jesus” — Casting Crowns; Mark Hall, Bernie Herms & Matthew West, songwriters “God Only Knows” — for King & Country & Dolly Parton; Josh Kerr, Jordan Reynolds, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone & Tedd Tjornhom, songwriters “Haven’t Seen It Yet” — Danny Gokey; Danny Gokey, Ethan Hulse & Colby Wedgeworth, songwriters “God’s Not Done With You (Single Version)” — Tauren Wells “Rescue Story” — Zach Williams; Ethan Hulse, Andrew Ripp, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters Best Gospel Album: Long Live Love — Kirk Franklin Goshen — Donald Lawrence Presents The Tri-City Singers Tunnel Vision — Gene Moore Settle Here — William Murphy Something’s Happening! A Christmas Album — CeCe Winans Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: I Know A Ghost — Crowder Burn The Ships — for King & Country Haven’t Seen It Yet — Danny Gokey The Elements — TobyMac Holy Roar — Chris Tomlin Best Roots Gospel Album: Deeper Roots: Where The Bluegrass Grows — Steven Curtis Chapman Testimony — Gloria Gaynor Deeper Oceans — Joseph Habedank His Name Is Jesus — Tim Menzies Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout (Various Artists) — Jerry Salley, producer LATIN Best Latin Pop Album: Vida — Luis Fonsi 11:11 — Maluma Montaner — Ricardo Montaner #ELDISCO — Alejandro Sanz Fantasía — Sebastian Yatra Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: X 100PRE — Bad Bunny Oasis — J Balvin & Bad Bunny Indestructible — Flor De Toloache Almadura — iLe El Mal Querer – Rosalía Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): Caminando — Joss Favela Percepción — Intocable Poco A Poco — La Energia Norteña 20 Aniversario — Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea De Ayer Para Siempre — Mariachi Los Camperos Best Tropical Latin Album: Opus — Marc Anthony Tiempo Al Tiempo — Luis Enrique + C4 Trio Candela — Vicente García Literal — Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 A Journey Through Cuban Music — Aymée Nuviola AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC Best American Roots Performance: “Saint Honesty” — Sara Bareilles “Father Mountain” — Calexico With Iron & Wine “I’m On My Way” — Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi “Call My Name” — I’m With Her “Faraway Look” — Yola Best American Roots Song: “Black Myself” — Amythyst Kiah, songwriter (Our Native Daughters) “Call My Name” — Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I’m With Her) “Crossing To Jerusalem” — Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, songwriters (Rosanne Cash) “Faraway Look” — Dan Auerbach, Yola Carter & Pat Mclaughlin, songwriters (Yola) “I Don’t Wanna Ride The Rails No More” — Vince Gill, songwriter (Vince Gill) Best Americana Album: Years To Burn — Calexico And Iron & Wine Who Are You Now — Madison Cunningham Oklahoma — Keb’ Mo’ Tales Of America — J.S. Ondara Walk Through Fire — Yola Best Bluegrass Album: Tall Fiddler — Michael Cleveland Live In Prague, Czech Republic — Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Toil, Tears & Trouble — The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Royal Traveller — Missy Raines If You Can’t Stand The Heat — Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen Best Traditional Blues Album: Kingfish — Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Tall, Dark & Handsome — Delbert McClinton & Self-made Men Sitting On Top Of The Blues — Bobby Rush Baby, Please Come Home — Jimmie Vaughan Spectacular Class — Jontavious Willis Best Contemporary Blues Album: This Land — Gary Clark Jr. Venom & Faith — Larkin Poe Brighter Days — Robert Randolph & The Family Band Somebody Save Me — Sugaray Rayford Keep On — Southern Avenue Best Folk Album: My Finest Work Yet — Andrew Bird Rearrange My Heart — Che Apalache Patty Griffin — Patty Griffin Evening Machines — Gregory Alan Isakov Front Porch — Joy Williams Best Regional Roots Music Album: Kalawai’anui — Amy H?naiali’i When It’s Cold – Cree Round Dance Songs — Northern Cree Good Time — Ranky Tanky Recorded Live At The 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — Rebirth Brass Band Hawaiian Lullaby (Various Artists) — Imua Garza & Kimié Miner, Producers REGGAE Best Reggae Album: Rapture — Koffee As I Am — Julian Marley The Final Battle: Sly & Robbie Vs. Roots Radics — Sly & Robbie & Roots Radics Mass Manipulation — Steel Pulse More Work To Be Done — Third World WORLD MUSIC Best World Music Album: Gece — Altin Gün What Heat — Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley African Giant — Burna Boy Fanm D’ayiti — Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet Celia — Angelique Kidjo CHILDREN’S Best Children’s Music Album: Ageless Songs For The Child Archetype — Jon Samson Flying High! — Caspar Babypants I Love Rainy Days — Daniel Tashian The Love — Alphabet Rockers Winterland — The Okee Dokee Brothers SPOKEN WORD Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): Beastie Boys Book (Various Artists) — Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt, producers Becoming — Michelle Obama I.V. Catatonia: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer Survivor — Eric Alexandrakis Mr. Know-It-All — John Waters Sekou Andrews & The String Theory — Sekou Andrews & The String Theory Comedy Best Comedy Album: Quality Time — Jim Gaffigan Relatable — Ellen Degeneres Right Now — Aziz Ansari Son Of Patricia — Trevor Noah Sticks & Stones — Dave Chappelle MUSICAL THEATER Best Musical Theater Album: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life And Times Of The Temptations — Saint Aubyn, Derrick Baskin, James Harkness, Jawan M. Jackson, Jeremy Pope & Ephraim Sykes, principal soloists; Scott M. Riesett, producer (Original Broadway Cast) Hadestown — Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada & Patrick Page, principal soloists; Mara Isaacs, David Lai, Anaïs Mitchell & Todd Sickafoose, producers (Anaïs Mitchell, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast) Moulin Rouge! The Musical — Danny Burstein, Tam Mutu, Sahr Ngaujah, Karen Olivo & Aaron Tveit, principal soloists; Justin Levine, Baz Luhrmann, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers, producers (Original Broadway Cast) The Music Of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child – In Four Contemporary Suites — Imogen Heap, producer; Imogen Heap, composer (Imogen Heap) Oklahoma! — Damon Daunno, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Ali Stroker, Mary Testa & Patrick Vaill, principal soloists; Daniel Kluger & Dean Sharenow, producers (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (2019 Broadway Cast) MUSIC FOR VISUAL MEDIA Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: The Lion King: The Songs — (Various Artists) Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood — (Various Artists) Rocketman — Taron Egerton Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse — (Various Artists) A Star Is Born — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Avengers: Endgame — Alan Silvestri, composer Chernobyl — Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer Game Of Thrones: Season 8 — Ramin Djawadi, composer The Lion King — Hans Zimmer, composer Mary Poppins Returns — Marc Shaiman, composer Best Song Written For Visual Media: “The Ballad Of The Lonesome Cowboy” — Randy Newman, songwriter (Chris Stapleton); Track from: “Toy Story 4” “Girl In The Movies” — Dolly Parton & Linda Perry, songwriters (Dolly Parton); Track from: “Dumplin’” “I’ll Never Love Again (Film Version)” — Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper); Track from: A Star Is Born “Spirit” — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Timothy McKenzie & Ilya Salmanzadeh, songwriters (Beyoncé); Track from: “The Lion King” “Suspirium” — Thom Yorke, songwriter (Thom Yorke); Track from: “Suspiria” COMPOSING/ARRANGING Best Instrumental Composition: “Begin Again” — Fred Hersch, composer (Fred Hersch & The WDR Big Band Conducted By Vince Mendoza) “Crucible For Crisis” — Brian Lynch, composer (Brian Lynch Big Band) “Love, A Beautiful Force” — Vince Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts & Temple University Studio Orchestra) “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite” — John Williams, composer (John Williams) “Walkin’ Funny” — Christian McBride, composer (Christian McBride) Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: “Blue Skies” — Kris Bowers, arranger (Kris Bowers) “Hedwig’s Theme” — John Williams, arranger (Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams) “La Novena” — Emilio Solla, arranger (Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Orchestra) “Love, A Beautiful Force” — Vince Mendoza, arranger (Vince Mendoza, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts & Temple University Studio Orchestra) “Moon River” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier) Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: “All Night Long” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier Featuring Jules Buckley, Take 6 & Metropole Orkest) “Jolene” — Geoff Keezer, arranger (Sara Gazarek) “Marry Me A Little” — Cyrille Aimée & Diego Figueiredo, arrangers (Cyrille Aimée) “Over The Rainbow” — Vince Mendoza, arranger (Trisha Yearwood) “12 Little Spells (Thoracic Spine)” — Esperanza Spalding, arranger (Esperanza Spalding) PACKAGE Best Recording Package: Anónimas & Resilientes — Luisa María Arango, Carlos Dussan, Manuel García-Orozco & Juliana Jaramillo-Buenaventura, art directors (Voces Del Bullerengue) Chris Cornell — Barry Ament, Jeff Ament, Jeff Fura & Joe Spix, art directors (Chris Cornell) Hold That Tiger — Andrew Wong & Fongming Yang, art directors (The Muddy Basin Ramblers) i,i — Aaron Anderson & Eric Timothy Carlson, art directors (Bon Iver) Intellexual — Irwan Awalludin, art director (Intellexual) Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Anima — Stanley Donwood & Tchocky, art directors (Thom Yorke) Gold In Brass Age — Amanda Chiu, Mark Farrow & David Gray, art directors (David Gray) 1963: New Directions — Josh Cheuse, art director (John Coltrane) The Radio Recordings 1939–1945 — Marek Polewski, art director (Wilhelm Furtwängler & Berliner Philharmoniker) Woodstock: Back To The Garden – The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive — Masaki Koike, art director (Various Artists) NOTES Best Album Notes: The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions — Judy Cantor-Navas, album notes writer (Various Artists) The Gospel According To Malaco — Robert Marovich, album notes writer (Various Artists) Pedal Steel + Four Corners — Brendan Greaves, album notes writer (Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band) Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection — Jeff Place, album notes writer (Pete Seeger) Stax ’68: A Memphis Story — Steve Greenberg, album notes writer (Various Artists) HISTORICAL Best Historical Album: The Girl From Chickasaw County – The Complete Capitol Masters — Andrew Batt & Kris Maher, compilation producers; Simon Gibson, mastering engineer (Bobbie Gentry) The Great Comeback: Horowitz At Carnegie Hall — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Andreas K. Meyer & Jennifer Nulsen, mastering engineers (Vladimir Horowitz) Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 — Spencer Doran, Yosuke Kitazawa, Douglas Macgowan & Matt Sullivan, compilation producers; John Baldwin, mastering engineer (Various Artists) Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection — Jeff Place & Robert Santelli, compilation producers; Pete Reiniger, mastering engineer (Pete Seeger) Woodstock: Back To The Garden – The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive — Brian Kehew, Steve Woolard & Andy Zax, compilation producers; Dave Schultz, mastering engineer, Brian Kehew, restoration engineer (Various Artists) PRODUCTION, NON-CLASSICAL Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: All These Things — Tchad Blake, Adam Greenspan & Rodney Shearer, engineers; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer (Thomas Dybdahl) Ella Mai — Chris “Shaggy” Ascher, Jaycen Joshua & David Pizzimenti, engineers; Chris Athens, mastering engineer (Ella Mai) Run Home Slow — Paul Butler & Sam Teskey, engineers; Joe Carra, mastering engineer (The Teskey Brothers) Scenery — Tom Elmhirst, Ben Kane & Jeremy Most, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Emily King) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? — Rob Kinelski & Finneas O’Connell, engineers; John Greenham, mastering engineer (Billie Eilish) Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Jack Antonoff Dan Auerbach John Hill Finneas Ricky Reed Best Remixed Recording: “I Rise (Tracy Young’s Pride Intro Radio Remix)” — Tracy Young, remixer (Madonna) “Mother’s Daughter (Wuki Remix)” — Wuki, remixer (Miley Cyrus) “The One (High Contrast Remix)”– Lincoln Barrett, remixer (Jorja Smith) “Swim (Ford. Remix)” — Luc Bradford, remixer (Mild Minds) “Work It (Soulwax Remix)” — David Gerard C Dewaele & Stephen Antoine C Dewaele, remixers (Marie Davidson) PRODUCTION, IMMERSIVE AUDIO Best Immersive Audio Album: Chain Tripping — Luke Argilla, immersive audio engineer; Jurgen Scharpf, immersive audio mastering engineer; Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans & Rob Kieswetter, immersive audio producers (Yacht) Kverndokk: Symphonic Dances — Jim Anderson, immersive audio engineer; Robert C. Ludwig, immersive audio mastering engineer; Ulrike Schwarz, immersive audio producer (Ken-David Masur & Stavanger Symphony Orchestra) Lux — Morten Lindberg, immersive audio engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive audio mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive audio producer (Anita Brevik, Trondheimsolistene & Nidarosdomens Jentekor) The Orchestral Organ — Keith O. Johnson, immersive audio engineer; Keith O. Johnson, immersive audio mastering engineer; Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin, immersive audio producers (Jan Kraybill) The Savior — Bob Clearmountain, immersive audio engineer; Bob Ludwig, immersive audio mastering engineer; Michael Marquart & Dave Way, immersive audio producers (A Bad Think) PRODUCTION, CLASSICAL Best Engineered Album, Classical: Aequa – Anna Thorvaldsdóttir — Daniel Shores, engineer; Daniel Shores, mastering engineer (International Contemporary Ensemble) Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 — Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Rachmaninoff – Hermitage Piano Trio — Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers; Keith O. Johnson, mastering engineer (Hermitage Piano Trio) Riley: Sun Rings — Leslie Ann Jones, engineer; Robert C. Ludwig, mastering engineer (Kronos Quartet) Wolfe: Fire In My Mouth — Bob Hanlon & Lawrence Rock, engineers; Ian Good & Lawrence Rock, mastering engineers (Jaap Van Zweden, Francisco J. Núñez, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Young People’s Chorus Of NY City & New York Philharmonic) Producer Of The Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh James Ginsburg Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin Morten Lindberg Dirk Sobotka CLASSICAL Best Orchestral Performance: “Bruckner: Symphony No. 9” — Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) “Copland: Billy The Kid; Grohg” — Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) “Norman: Sustain” — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) “Transatlantic” — Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) “Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21” — Mirga Gra?inyt?-tyla, conductor (City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Kremerata Baltica) Best Opera Recording: “Benjamin: Lessons In Love & Violence” — George Benjamin, conductor; Stéphane Degout, Barbara Hannigan, Peter Hoare & Gyula Orendt; James Whitbourn, producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House) “Berg: Wozzeck” — Marc Albrecht, conductor; Christopher Maltman & Eva-Maria Westbroek; François Roussillon, producer (Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Chorus Of Dutch National Opera) “Charpentier: Les Arts Florissants; Les Plaisirs De Versailles” — Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Jesse Blumberg, Teresa Wakim & Virginia Warnken; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble; Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble) “Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox” — Gil Rose, conductor; John Brancy, Andrew Craig Brown, Gabriel Preisser, Krista River & Edwin Vega; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Boston Children’s Chorus) “Wagner: Lohengrin” — Christian Thielemann, conductor; Piotr Becza?a, Anja Harteros, Tomasz Konieczny, Waltraud Meier & Georg Zeppenfeld; Eckhard Glauche, producer (Festspielorchester Bayreuth; Festspielchor Bayreuth) Best Choral Performance: “Boyle: Voyages” — Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing) “Duruflé: Complete Choral Works” — Robert Simpson, conductor (Ken Cowan; Houston Chamber Choir) “The Hope Of Loving” — Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Conspirare) “Sander: The Divine Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom” — Peter Jermihov, conductor (Evan Bravos, Vadim Gan, Kevin Keys, Glenn Miller & Daniel Shirley; PaTRAM Institute Singers) “Smith, K.: The Arc In The Sky” — Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing) Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: “Cerrone: The Pieces That Fall To Earth” — Christopher Rountree & Wild Up “Freedom & Faith” — Publiquartet “Perpetulum” — Third Coast Percussion “Rachmaninoff” – Hermitage Piano Trio — Hermitage Piano Trio “Shaw: Orange” — Attacca Quartet Best Classical Instrumental Solo: “The Berlin Recital” — Yuja Wang “Higdon: Harp Concerto” — Yolanda Kondonassis; Ward Stare, conductor (The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) “Marsalis: Violin Concerto; Fiddle Dance Suite” — Nicola Benedetti; Cristian M?celaru, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra) “The Orchestral Organ” — Jan Kraybill “Torke: Sky, Concerto For Violin” — Tessa Lark; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony) Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: The Edge Of Silence – Works For Voice By György Kurtág — Susan Narucki (Donald Berman, Curtis Macomber, Kathryn Schulmeister & Nicholas Tolle) Himmelsmusik — Philippe Jaroussky & Céline Scheen; Christina Pluhar, conductor; L’arpeggiata, ensemble (Jesús Rodil & Dingle Yandell) Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24, Kerner-lieder Op. 35 — Matthias Goerne; Leif Ove Andsnes, accompanist Songplay — Joyce Didonato; Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry, accompanists (Steve Barnett & Lautaro Greco) A Te, O Cara — Stephen Costello; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra) Best Classical Compendium: American Originals 1918 — John Morris Russell, conductor; Elaine Martone, producer Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 ‘heichalos’; Guitar Concerto; Starburst — Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer Meltzer: Songs And Structures — Paul Appleby & Natalia Katyukova; Silas Brown & Harold Meltzer, producers The Poetry Of Places — Nadia Shpachenko; Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin, producers Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel D’hiver — Hannu Lintu, conductor; Laura Heikinheimo, producer Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Bermel: Migration Series For Jazz Ensemble & Orchestra — Derek Bermel, composer (Derek Bermel, Ted Nash, David Alan Miller, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra & Albany Symphony Orchestra) Higdon: Harp Concerto — Jennifer Higdon, composer (Yolanda Kondonassis, Ward Stare & The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) Marsalis: Violin Concerto In D Major — Wynton Marsalis, composer (Nicola Benedetti, Cristian M?celaru & Philadelphia Orchestra) Norman: Sustain — Andrew Norman, composer (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic) Shaw: Orange — Caroline Shaw, composer (Attacca Quartet) Wolfe: Fire In My Mouth — Julia Wolfe, composer (Jaap Van Zweden, Francisco J. Núñez, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Young People’s Chorus Of NY City & New York Philharmonic) MUSIC VIDEO/FILM Best Music Video: “We’ve Got To Try” — The Chemical Brothers, Ellie Fry, video director; Ninian Doff, video producer “This Land” — Gary Clark Jr., Savanah Leaf, video director; Alicia Martinez, video producer “Cellophane” — FKA twigs, Andrew Thomas Huang, video director; Alex Chamberlain, video producer “Old Town Road (Official Movie)” — Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus, Calmatic, video director; Candice Dragonas, Melissa Larsen & Saul Levitz, video producers “Glad He’s Gone” — Tove Lo,  Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia, video directors; Natan Schottenfels, video producer Best Music Film: HOMECOMING — Beyoncé, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Ed Burke, video directors; Dora Melissa Vargas, video producer Remember My Name — David Crosby, A.J. 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You Can Buy Tickets to ODESZA, RÜFÜS DU SOL and More for Just $25—But Only for a Week

Live Nation's "Concert Week" initiative offers fans all-in tickets—including fees—for $25 flat.

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Live Nation Concert Week 2022

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Watched in May

A Russian Youth (Мальчик русский) Sicario Fedora LoveTrue The Platform Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) The Assistant The Half of It Tomboy The Last Man on Earth Beanpole (Дылда) Mommy The Fall Girlhood (Bande de filles) Carnival of Souls Marguerite & Julien Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Gâteau!) Romantic Comedy Transnistra Eraserhhead The Farewell Emma. Late Night Charlie's Angels Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) The Ancestors Came Suicide by Sunlight Anthropocene: The Human Epoch A Perfect 14 Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist Free Radicals Aniara Vivarium La Pointe-Courte Diary of a Pregnant Woman (L'Opéra-Mouffe) Salut les Cubains Uncle Yanco (Oncle Yanco) GUO4 Atlantiques Sitara: Let Girls Dream Lions Love (Lions Love... And Lies) Živan Makes a Punk Festival (Živan pravi pank festival) Plastic and Glass The So-Called Caryatids (Les Dites Cariatides) The Octopus (La Pieuvre) Hyas and Stenorhynchus (Hyas et sténorinques, crustacés marins) Sea Urchins (Les Oursins) Bernard-L'Hermite (Bernard-l'Ermite) The Sea Horse (L'Hippocampe ou "cheval marin") Voyage to the Sky (Voyage dans le ciel) Le Vampire Freshwater Assassins (Assassins d'eau douce) How Some Jellyfish Are Born (Comment naissent des méduses) Shrimp Stories (Histoires de crevettes) The Love Life of the Octopus (Les Amours de la pieuvre) Acera, or The Witches' Dance (Acera, ou le Bal des Sorcières) Pigeons of the Square (Les Pigeons du square) The Slumber Party Massacre Jane B. par Agnès V. The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли) Crystal Swan (Хрусталь) Take Me Somewhere Nice Microhabitat ( 소공녀) The Unforeseen

Did not finish

Swiss Army Man (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2016) Braid (Mitzi Peirone, 2018) A Secret Love (Chris Bolan, 2020) Calder's 1927 Great Circus (Le Grand Cirque Calder 1927, Jean Painlevé, 1955)

Did not like

Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, 2015) The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, 2019) The Half of It (Alice Wu, 2020) Sitara: Let Girls Dream (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, 2019)

I could take them or leave them

Fedora (Billy Wilder, 1978) LoveTrue (Alma Har'el, 2016) This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Gâteau!, Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels, 2018) Romantic Comedy (Elizabeth Sankey, 2019) Eraserhhead (David Lynch, 1977) Late Night (Nisha Ganatra, 2019) Charlie's Angels (Elizabeth Banks, 2019) Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958) Aniara (Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, 2018) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (Cathy Yan, 2020) The Ancestors Came (Cecile Emeke, 2017) GUO4 (Peter Strickland, 2019) Živan Makes a Punk Festival (Živan pravi pank festival, Ognjen Glavonić, 2014) The Unforeseen (Laura Dunn, 2007)

Films I enjoyed

A Russian Youth (Мальчик русский, Alexander Zolotukhin, 2019): Went into this with the single aim of improving my Russian. Loved the back-and-forth between “the story” and the orchestra playing the score to said story. The “story” itself is also tragically moving

Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres), Tomboy, Girlhood (Bande de filles) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (Céline Sciamma, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2019): I saw all four of Céline Sciamma’s films practically in a row! I liked all of them, don’t think I prefer one over another. And I recognise she’s a talented filmmaker, even though she’ll probably never be a favourite

The Last Man on Earth (Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow, 1964): A good... vampire-zombie film... that is worth sticking with even though you might find it too ordinary at first

Beanpole (Дылда, Kantemir Balagov, 2019): This story is fucked up! I liked it up to a certain extent, but I suspect it was mainly because of the historical and geographical setting. If you like post-WW2 Russia and this is the film for you

Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2014): The portrayal of the titular mother hit a bit too close to home... This was my first Xavier Dolan film and I was not disappointed. Only drawback: Céline Dion’s song “On ne change pas” has been stuck in my head ever since

The Fall (Jonathan Glazer, 2020): It was... good? From the publicity it received on Mubi, I thought this was going to be a feature film, so yeah, I was disappointed, I loved Sexy Beast and Under the Skin so much

The Farewell (Lulu Wang, 2019): I really liked it, I think this didn’t get nearly enough praise -- but I was expecting something life-changing when I “only” found this very good

Emma. (Autumn de Wilde, 2020): This adaptation felt like Autumn de Wilde really, really wanted her film to be shown in as many classrooms as possible. It was enjoyable! I liked her additions to the book, and I appreciate the challenge she took up

Suicide by Sunlight (Nikyatu Jusu, 2019): A good short vampire film about Black vampires who are protected from daylight by their melanin

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, 2018): Stunning visuals, sobering message. Somewhere between Koyaanisqatsi and Unser Täglich Brot in tone

A Perfect 14 (Giovanna Morales Vargas, 2018): This, by necessity, doesn’t cover everything on the subject of plus-size models, and practically speaking I didn’t learn anything -- but it’s well-made, and the personal stories of the main interviewees make a good, contrasted portrait

Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (Lorna Tucker, 2018): I came out of this feeling as if Vivienne Westwood wasn’t that interesting of a person, which I’m sure wasn’t the director’s intention... still, it was informative enough

Plastic and Glass (Tessa Joosse, 2009): A short somewhat-documentary about a choir in a recycling facility. Good music

The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982): Finally saw this! Very surprised to learn this was written by Rita Mae Brown. It was good as far as slashers go and of course, it is nice to watch something from that era that is not appallingly sexist

The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957): I guess I had to read about this afterwards in order to see how unusual it was for the time it was made. While I watched it I enjoyed the way it was filmed but the story left me indifferent, and I thought it lacked subtlety

Crystal Swan (Хрусталь, Darya Zhuk, 2018): A very aesthetically pleasing story set in 1990s Belarus, about a young woman who wants to emigrate to Chicago for the love of house music... the story will keep taking you unexpected places from there. The costumes are perfect, the soundtrack is interesting. It does feel a little as if it were made for export, and I thought it relied quite heavily on stereotypes about Slavs

Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarević, 2019): This coming-of-age road movie about a Bosnian girl who was raised in the Netherlands and comes back to visit her father in hospital has everything... drugs, violence, death, even cute dogs. The pastel palette makes it very satisfying

Microhabitat ( 소공녀, Jeon Go-woon, 2017): This film about a woman with a minimum-wage job who would rather leave her flat than quit smoking and drinking whisky just spoke to me

La Pointe-Courte, Diary of a Pregnant Woman (L'Opéra-Mouffe), Salut les Cubains, Uncle Yanco (Oncle Yanco), Lions Love (Lions Love... And Lies), The So-Called Caryatids (Les Dites Cariatides), Jane B. par Agnès V. (Agnès Varda, 1955, 1958, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1984, 1988): I decided to watch all of Agnès Varda’s films that are on Mubi France and that I haven’t seen already, in chronological order. This feels a bit like a chore sometimes, but I find it rewarding. It’s strange to think that even a few years ago hers was a name I’d heard a few times but that didn’t mean anything to me. And I know I can be merciless when it comes to French cinema. Anyway... I like what I’ve seen so far (the above plus Cléo and Vagabond), I like that someone can just pick up her film camera and make a short about caryatids... generally speaking I like Varda’s approach to film that makes it seem more accessible to people like me. I don’t think all of her films are particularly good, but I like that she made all of them. I never did particularly like Cléo, and I didn’t particularly like La Pointe-Courte in spite of the fact that it was shot very close to where I’m from. Of the above, my fave was probably Lions Love, even though (or because?) it doesn’t very much feel like a Varda film. Uncle Yanco is a close second. I’ve got three feature films left now

Films I loved

The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2019): Unfortunately enough, this reminded me of an internship I did a few years ago... I found it uncomfortably realistic, and thus very good. Julia Garner is perfect, as usual

Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962): I watched this because it is a classic, expecting it to be over-the-top and not nearly as scary as I found it... a very good surprise

Marguerite & Julien (Valérie Donzelli, 2015): It’s hard to talk about this in a way that will make people want to see it without making me sound like a huge weirdo but here goes. It’s a story about a brother and sister who are madly in love with each other. It takes place in a fantasy past and is told like a fairytale. If you think it’s impossible to turn this premise into a good film please watch this

Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019): With this film I discovered the existence of the tiny unrecognised state named Transnistria... I also discovered Alla Pugacheva, who is part of a great nostalgic Russian soundtrack with Kino amongst others. The story is one of those documentaries about youth that punches you right in the gut. Definitely recommended

Vivarium (Lorcan Finnegan, 2019): This is the type of what, for lack of a better term, I call “minimal science fiction” that I really enjoy. I’ve thought about it a lot since then. I don’t know why people generally didn’t seem to like it. I thought the premise was terrifying and nightmarish, and the actual film effectively claustrophobic. Plu:s Imogen Poots

Atlantiques (Mati Diop, 2009): This is the short, not the feature film of the same name. I’ve heard a lot about Mati Diop and I saw this the second it became available on Mubi France -- and I didn’t regret it. Can’t wait to see Atlantiques, long form

The Octopus (La Pieuvre), Hyas and Stenorhynchus (Hyas et sténorinques, crustacés marins), Sea Urchins (Les Oursins), Bernard-L'Hermite (Bernard-l'Ermite), The Sea Horse (L'Hippocampe ou "cheval marin"), Voyage to the Sky (Voyage dans le ciel), Le Vampire, Freshwater Assassins (Assassins d'eau douce), How Some Jellyfish Are Born (Comment naissent des méduses), Shrimp Stories (Histoires de crevettes), The Love Life of the Octopus (Les Amours de la pieuvre), Acera, or The Witches' Dance (Acera, ou le Bal des Sorcières), Pigeons of the Square (Les Pigeons du square) (Jean Painlevé, 1928, 1929, 1929, 1930, 1934, 1937, 1945, 1947; Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1972; Jean Painlevé, 1982): I didn’t know who Jean Painlevé was before I decided to watch The Octopus. As it turns out, I am a sucker for well-made nature documentaries, and since all of these are short films, I ended up watching them all, in order of release, over the course of one afternoon. It’s a little bit crazy that these were getting made as early as the 1920s, and I can’t imagine what it would have been like to see them in theatres nearly a hundred years ago. Anyway these are all good, although I wasn’t expecting the vivisection that seems to have been par for the course in the early days

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Yes, I really did watch 65 films in May. It becomes a little less impressive considering a fair amount of those were shorts, but still. Unemployment!

I have access to Outbuster now in addition to Mubi and Netflix, this time through my boyfriend’s account. It’s a French thing I think, and very cheap, but I’ve only just tried it with Microhabitat. Of course it was the Mubi Library thing that just completely sent me over the edge, and I want to watch all the things.

In June I hope to finish Agnès Varda’s filmography on Mubi and maybe watch some more Tarkovsky!

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Grammy Nomations 2020 (see complete list)

The 2020 Grammy Awards nomination list has been released and its a big win for Nigeria because Burna Boy's boy 'African Giant' album made the list.   Lizzo led the pack with eight nods, while Billie Eillish and Lil Nas X took the second spot with six nominations each for the 62nd Grammy Awards which will be held on January 26 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.   Burna Boy was nominated in the World Music album category alongside African music legend Angelique Kidjo.   See the complete list below;   Record Of The Year “Hey, Ma” — Bon Iver “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish “7 Rings” — Ariana Grande “Hard Place” — H.E.R. “Talk” — Khalid “Old Town Road” — Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus “Truth Hurts” — Lizzo “Sunflower” — Post Malone & Swae Lee Album Of The Year “I, I” — Bon Iver “Norman F—ing Rockwell!” — Lana Del Rey “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” — Billie Eilish “Thank U, Next” — Ariana Grande “I Used To Know Her” — H.E.R. “7” — Lil Nas X “Cuz I Love You” (Deluxe) — Lizzo “Father of the Bride” — Vampire Weekend Song Of The Year “Always Remember Us This Way” — Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey & Lori McKenna, songwriters (Lady Gaga) “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish O’Connell & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (Billie Eilish) “Bring My Flowers Now” — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, songwriters (Tanya Tucker) “Hard Place” — Ruby Amanfu, Sam Ashworth, D. Arcelious Harris. H.E.R. & Rodney Jerkins, songwriters (H.E.R.) “Lover” — Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift) “Norman F—ing Rockwell” — Jack Antonoff & Lana Del Rey, songwriters (Lana Del Rey) “Someone You Loved” — Tom Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Pere Kelleher, Benjamin Kohn & Sam Roman, songwriters (Lewis Capaldi) “Truth Hurts” — Steven Cheung, Eric Frederic, Melissa Jefferson & Jesse Saint John, songwriters (Lizzo) Best New Artist Black Pumas Billie Eilish Lil Nas X Lizzo Maggie Rogers Rosalía Tank and the Bangas Yola POP FIELD Best Pop Solo Performance: “Spirit” — Beyoncé “Bad Guy” — Billie Eilish “7 Rings” — Ariana Grande “Truth Hurts” — Lizzo “You Need To Calm Down” — Taylor Swift Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Boyfriend” — Ariana Grande & Social House “Sucker” — Jonas Brothers “Old Town Road” — Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus “Señorita” — Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album:   Sì — Andrea Bocelli Love (Deluxe Edition) — Michael Bublé Look Now — Elvis Costello & The Imposters A Legendary Christmas — John Legend Walls — Barbra Streisand Best Pop Vocal Album: The Lion King: The Gift — Beyoncé When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go — Billie Eilish Thank U, Next — Ariana Grande No. 6 Collaborations Project — Ed Sheeran Lover — Taylor Swift DANCE/ELECTRONIC FIELD Best Dance Recording: “Linked” — Bonobo “Got To Keep On” — The Chemical Brothers “Piece Of Your Heart” — Meduza & Goodboys “Underwater” — Rüfüs Du Sol “Midnight Hour” — Skrillex & Boys Noize With Ty Dolla $ign Best Dance/Electronic Album: LP5 — Apparat No Geography — The Chemical Brothers Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape) — Flume Solace — Rüfüs Du Sol Weather — Tycho CONTEMPORARY INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Ancestral Recall — Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Star People Nation — Theo Croker Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music! — Mark Guiliana Elevate — Lettuce Mettavolution — Rodrigo y Gabriela ROCK Best Rock Performance: “Pretty Waste” — Bones UK “This Land” — Gary Clark Jr. “History Repeats” — Brittany Howard “Woman” — Karen O & Danger Mouse “Too Bad” — Rival Sons Best Metal Performance: “Astorolus – The Great Octopus” — Candlemass ft. Tony Iommi “Humanicide” — Death Angel “Bow Down” — I Prevail “Unleashed” — Killswitch Engage “7empest” — Tool Best Rock Song: “Fear Inoculum” — Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Adam Jones & Maynard James Keenan, Songwriters (Tool) “Give Yourself A Try” — George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy & Ross Macdonald, Songwriters (The 1975) “Harmony Hall” — Ezra Koenig, Songwriter (Vampire Weekend) “History Repeats” — Brittany Howard, Songwriter (Brittany Howard) “This Land” — Gary Clark Jr., Songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.) Best Rock Album:   Amo — Bring Me The Horizon Social Cues — Cage The Elephant In The End — The Cranberries Trauma — I Prevail Feral Roots — Rival Sons ALTERNATIVE Best Alternative Music Album: U.F.O.F. — Big Theif Assume Form — James Blake i,i — Bon Iver Father of the Bride — Vampire Weekend Anima — Thom Yorke R&B Best R&B Performance: “Love Again” — Daniel Caesar & Brandy “Could’ve Been” — H.E.R. & Bryson Tiller “Exactly How I Feel” — Lizzo & Gucci Mane “Roll Some Mo” — Lucky Daye “Come Home” — Anderson .Paak & André 300 Best Traditional R&B Performance: “Time Today” — BJ The Chicago Kid “Steady Love” — India.Arie “Jerome” — Lizzo “Real Games” — Lucky Daye “Built For Love” — PJ Morton & Jazmine Sullivan Best R&B Song: “Could’ve Been” — Dernst Emile Ii, David “Swagg R’celious” Harris, H.E.R. & Hue “Soundzfire” Strother, Songwriters (H.E.R. Ft. Bryson Tiller) “Look At Me Now” — Emily King & Jeremy Most, Songwriters (Emily King) “No Guidance” — Chris Brown, Tyler James Bryant, Nija Charles, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Michee Patrick Lebrun, Joshua Lewis, Noah Shebib & Teddy Walton, Songwriters (Chris Brown Ft. Drake) “Roll Some Mo” — David Brown, Dernst Emile Ii & Peter Lee Johnson, Songwriters (Lucky Daye) “Say So” — Pj Morton, Songwriter (Pj Morton Ft. Jojo) Best Urban Contemporary Album: Apollo XXI — Steve Lacy Cuz I Love You (Deluxe) — Lizzo Overload — Georgia Anne Muldrow Saturn — Nao Being Human In Public — Jessie Reyez Best R&B Album: 1123 — BJ The Chicago Kid Painted — Lucky Daye Ella Mai — Ella Mai Paul — PJ Morton Venture — Anderson .Paak RAP Best Rap Performance: “Middle Child” — J.Cole “Suge” — DaBaby “Down Bad” — Dreamville ft. J.I.D, Bas, J. Cole, Earthgang & Young Nudy “Racks In The Middle” — Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch & Hit-boy “Clout” — Offset ft. Cardi B Best Rap/Sung Performance: “Higher” — DJ Khaled ft. Nipsey Hussle & John Legend “Drip Too Hard” — Lil Baby & Funna “Panini” — Lil Nas X “Ballin” — Mustard ft. Roddy Ricch “The London” — Young Thug ft. J. Cole & Travis Scott Best Rap Song: “Bad Idea” — Chancelor Bennett, Cordae Dunston, Uforo Ebong & Daniel Hackett, songwriters (Ybn Cordae ft. Chance The Rapper) “Gold Roses” — Noel Cadastre, Aubrey Graham, Anderson Hernandez, Khristopher Riddick-tynes, William Leonard Roberts Ii, Joshua Quinton Scruggs, Leon Thomas Iii & Ozan Yildirim, songwriters (Rick Ross ft. Drake) “A Lot” — Jermaine Cole, Dacoury Natche, 21 Savage & Anthony White, songwriters (21 Savage ft. J. Cole) “Racks In The Middle” — Ermias Asghedom, Dustin James Corbett, Greg Allen Davis, Chauncey Hollis, Jr. & Rodrick Moore, songwriters (Nipsey Hussle ft. Roddy Ricch & Hit-boy) “Suge” — Dababy, Jetsonmade & Pooh Beatz, songwriters (Dababy) Best Rap Album: Revenge Of The Dreamers III — Dreamville Championships — Meek Mill i am > i was — 21 Savage IGOR — Tyler, The Creator The Lost Boy — YBN Cordae COUNTRY Best Country Solo Performance: “All Your’n” — Tyler Childers “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” — Ashley McBryde “Ride Me Back Home” — Willie Nelson “God’s Country” — Blake Shelton “Bring My Flowers Now” — Tanya Tucker Best Country Duo/Group Performance: “Brand New Man” — Brooks & Dunn with Luke Combs “I Don’t Remember Me (Before You)” — Brothers Osborne “Speechless” — Dan & Shay “The Daughters” — Little Big Town “Common” — Maren Morris ft. Brandi Carlile Best Country Song: “Bring My Flowers Now” — Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth & Tanya Tucker, Songwriters (Tanya Tucker) “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” — Jeremy Bussey & Ashley Mcbryde, Songwriters (Ashley Mcbryde) “It All Comes Out In The Wash” — Miranda Lambert, Hillary Lindsey, Lori Mckenna & Liz Rose, Songwriters (Miranda Lambert) “Some Of It” — Eric Church, Clint Daniels, Jeff Hyde & Bobby Pinson, Songwriters (Eric Church) “Speechless” — Shay Mooney, Jordan Reynolds, Dan Smyers & Laura Veltz, Songwriters (Dan + Shay) Best Country Album: Desperate Man — Eric Church Stronger Than The Truth — Reba McEntire Interstate Gospel — Pistol Annies Center Point Road — Thomas Rhett While I’m Livin’ — Tanya Tucker NEW AGE Best New Age Album: Fairy Dreams — David Arkenstone Homage To Kindness — David Darling Wings — Peter Kater Verve — Sebastian Plano Deva — Deva Premal JAZZ Best Improvised Jazz Solo: “Elsewhere” — Melissa Aldana, soloist “Sozinho” — Randy Brecker, soloist “Tomorrow Is The Question” — Julian Lage, soloist “The Windup” — Brandford Marsalis, soloist “Sightseeing” — Christian McBride, soloist Best Jazz Vocal Album: Thirsty Ghost — Sara Gazarek Love & Liberation — Jazzmeia Horn Alone Together — Catherine Russell 12 Little Spells — Esperanza Spalding Screenplay — The Tierney Sutton Band Best Jazz Instrumental Album: In The Key Of The Universe — Joey DeFrancesco The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul — Branford Marsalis Quartet Christian McBride’s New Jawn — Brad Mehldau Come What May – Joshua Redman Quartet Best Jazz Ensemble Album: Triple Helix — Anat Cohen Tentet Dancer In Nowhere — Miho Hazama Hiding Out — Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra The Omni-american Book Club — Brian Lynch Big Band One Day Wonder — Terraza Big Band Best Latin Jazz Album: Antidote — Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band Sorte!: Music By John Finbury — Thalma De Freitas With Vitor Gonçalves, John Patitucci, Chico Pinheiro, Rogerio Boccato & Duduka Da Fonseca Una Noche Con Rubén Blades — Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis & Rubén Blades Carib — David Sánchez Sonero: The Music Of Ismael Rivera — Miguel Zenón GOSPEL/CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC Best Gospel Performance/Song: “Love Theory”– Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin, Songwriter “Talkin’ ‘Bout Jesus” — Gloria Gaynor ft. Yolanda Adams; Bryan Fowler, Gloria Gaynor & Chris Stevens, Songwriters “See The Light” — Travis Greene ft. Jekalyn Carr “Speak The Name” — Koryn Hawthorne ft. Natalie Grant “This Is A Move (Live)” — Tasha Cobbs Leonard; Tony Brown, Brandon Lake, Tasha Cobbs Leonard & Nate Moore, Songwriters Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song: “Only Jesus” — Casting Crowns; Mark Hall, Bernie Herms & Matthew West, songwriters “God Only Knows” — for King & Country & Dolly Parton; Josh Kerr, Jordan Reynolds, Joel Smallbone, Luke Smallbone & Tedd Tjornhom, songwriters “Haven’t Seen It Yet” — Danny Gokey; Danny Gokey, Ethan Hulse & Colby Wedgeworth, songwriters “God’s Not Done With You (Single Version)” — Tauren Wells “Rescue Story” — Zach Williams; Ethan Hulse, Andrew Ripp, Jonathan Smith & Zach Williams, songwriters Best Gospel Album: Long Live Love — Kirk Franklin Goshen — Donald Lawrence Presents The Tri-City Singers Tunnel Vision — Gene Moore Settle Here — William Murphy Something’s Happening! A Christmas Album — CeCe Winans Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: I Know A Ghost — Crowder Burn The Ships — for King & Country Haven’t Seen It Yet — Danny Gokey The Elements — TobyMac Holy Roar — Chris Tomlin Best Roots Gospel Album: Deeper Roots: Where The Bluegrass Grows — Steven Curtis Chapman Testimony — Gloria Gaynor Deeper Oceans — Joseph Habedank His Name Is Jesus — Tim Menzies Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout (Various Artists) — Jerry Salley, producer LATIN Best Latin Pop Album: Vida — Luis Fonsi 11:11 — Maluma Montaner — Ricardo Montaner #ELDISCO — Alejandro Sanz Fantasía — Sebastian Yatra Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album: X 100PRE — Bad Bunny Oasis — J Balvin & Bad Bunny Indestructible — Flor De Toloache Almadura — iLe El Mal Querer – Rosalía Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano): Caminando — Joss Favela Percepción — Intocable Poco A Poco — La Energia Norteña 20 Aniversario — Mariachi Divas De Cindy Shea De Ayer Para Siempre — Mariachi Los Camperos Best Tropical Latin Album: Opus — Marc Anthony Tiempo Al Tiempo — Luis Enrique + C4 Trio Candela — Vicente García Literal — Juan Luis Guerra 4.40 A Journey Through Cuban Music — Aymée Nuviola AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC Best American Roots Performance: “Saint Honesty” — Sara Bareilles “Father Mountain” — Calexico With Iron & Wine “I’m On My Way” — Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi “Call My Name” — I’m With Her “Faraway Look” — Yola Best American Roots Song: “Black Myself” — Amythyst Kiah, songwriter (Our Native Daughters) “Call My Name” — Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’donovan & Sara Watkins, songwriters (I’m With Her) “Crossing To Jerusalem” — Rosanne Cash & John Leventhal, songwriters (Rosanne Cash) “Faraway Look” — Dan Auerbach, Yola Carter & Pat Mclaughlin, songwriters (Yola) “I Don’t Wanna Ride The Rails No More” — Vince Gill, songwriter (Vince Gill) Best Americana Album: Years To Burn — Calexico And Iron & Wine Who Are You Now — Madison Cunningham Oklahoma — Keb’ Mo’ Tales Of America — J.S. Ondara Walk Through Fire — Yola Best Bluegrass Album: Tall Fiddler — Michael Cleveland Live In Prague, Czech Republic — Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Toil, Tears & Trouble — The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Royal Traveller — Missy Raines If You Can’t Stand The Heat — Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen Best Traditional Blues Album: Kingfish — Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Tall, Dark & Handsome — Delbert McClinton & Self-made Men Sitting On Top Of The Blues — Bobby Rush Baby, Please Come Home — Jimmie Vaughan Spectacular Class — Jontavious Willis Best Contemporary Blues Album: This Land — Gary Clark Jr. Venom & Faith — Larkin Poe Brighter Days — Robert Randolph & The Family Band Somebody Save Me — Sugaray Rayford Keep On — Southern Avenue Best Folk Album: My Finest Work Yet — Andrew Bird Rearrange My Heart — Che Apalache Patty Griffin — Patty Griffin Evening Machines — Gregory Alan Isakov Front Porch — Joy Williams Best Regional Roots Music Album: Kalawai’anui — Amy H?naiali’i When It’s Cold – Cree Round Dance Songs — Northern Cree Good Time — Ranky Tanky Recorded Live At The 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — Rebirth Brass Band Hawaiian Lullaby (Various Artists) — Imua Garza & Kimié Miner, Producers REGGAE Best Reggae Album: Rapture — Koffee As I Am — Julian Marley The Final Battle: Sly & Robbie Vs. Roots Radics — Sly & Robbie & Roots Radics Mass Manipulation — Steel Pulse More Work To Be Done — Third World WORLD MUSIC Best World Music Album: Gece — Altin Gün What Heat — Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley African Giant — Burna Boy Fanm D’ayiti — Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet Celia — Angelique Kidjo CHILDREN’S Best Children’s Music Album: Ageless Songs For The Child Archetype — Jon Samson Flying High! — Caspar Babypants I Love Rainy Days — Daniel Tashian The Love — Alphabet Rockers Winterland — The Okee Dokee Brothers SPOKEN WORD Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): Beastie Boys Book (Various Artists) — Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz, Scott Sherratt & Dan Zitt, producers Becoming — Michelle Obama I.V. Catatonia: 20 Years As A Two-Time Cancer Survivor — Eric Alexandrakis Mr. Know-It-All — John Waters Sekou Andrews & The String Theory — Sekou Andrews & The String Theory Comedy Best Comedy Album: Quality Time — Jim Gaffigan Relatable — Ellen Degeneres Right Now — Aziz Ansari Son Of Patricia — Trevor Noah Sticks & Stones — Dave Chappelle MUSICAL THEATER Best Musical Theater Album: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life And Times Of The Temptations — Saint Aubyn, Derrick Baskin, James Harkness, Jawan M. Jackson, Jeremy Pope & Ephraim Sykes, principal soloists; Scott M. Riesett, producer (Original Broadway Cast) Hadestown — Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada & Patrick Page, principal soloists; Mara Isaacs, David Lai, Anaïs Mitchell & Todd Sickafoose, producers (Anaïs Mitchell, composer & lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast) Moulin Rouge! The Musical — Danny Burstein, Tam Mutu, Sahr Ngaujah, Karen Olivo & Aaron Tveit, principal soloists; Justin Levine, Baz Luhrmann, Matt Stine & Alex Timbers, producers (Original Broadway Cast) The Music Of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child – In Four Contemporary Suites — Imogen Heap, producer; Imogen Heap, composer (Imogen Heap) Oklahoma! — Damon Daunno, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Ali Stroker, Mary Testa & Patrick Vaill, principal soloists; Daniel Kluger & Dean Sharenow, producers (Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist) (2019 Broadway Cast) MUSIC FOR VISUAL MEDIA Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media: The Lion King: The Songs — (Various Artists) Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood — (Various Artists) Rocketman — Taron Egerton Spider-man: Into The Spider-Verse — (Various Artists) A Star Is Born — Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media: Avengers: Endgame — Alan Silvestri, composer Chernobyl — Hildur Guðnadóttir, composer Game Of Thrones: Season 8 — Ramin Djawadi, composer The Lion King — Hans Zimmer, composer Mary Poppins Returns — Marc Shaiman, composer Best Song Written For Visual Media: “The Ballad Of The Lonesome Cowboy” — Randy Newman, songwriter (Chris Stapleton); Track from: “Toy Story 4” “Girl In The Movies” — Dolly Parton & Linda Perry, songwriters (Dolly Parton); Track from: “Dumplin’” “I’ll Never Love Again (Film Version)” — Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper); Track from: A Star Is Born “Spirit” — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Timothy McKenzie & Ilya Salmanzadeh, songwriters (Beyoncé); Track from: “The Lion King” “Suspirium” — Thom Yorke, songwriter (Thom Yorke); Track from: “Suspiria” COMPOSING/ARRANGING Best Instrumental Composition: “Begin Again” — Fred Hersch, composer (Fred Hersch & The WDR Big Band Conducted By Vince Mendoza) “Crucible For Crisis” — Brian Lynch, composer (Brian Lynch Big Band) “Love, A Beautiful Force” — Vince Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts & Temple University Studio Orchestra) “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite” — John Williams, composer (John Williams) “Walkin’ Funny” — Christian McBride, composer (Christian McBride) Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella: “Blue Skies” — Kris Bowers, arranger (Kris Bowers) “Hedwig’s Theme” — John Williams, arranger (Anne-Sophie Mutter & John Williams) “La Novena” — Emilio Solla, arranger (Emilio Solla Tango Jazz Orchestra) “Love, A Beautiful Force” — Vince Mendoza, arranger (Vince Mendoza, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts & Temple University Studio Orchestra) “Moon River” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier) Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: “All Night Long” — Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier Featuring Jules Buckley, Take 6 & Metropole Orkest) “Jolene” — Geoff Keezer, arranger (Sara Gazarek) “Marry Me A Little” — Cyrille Aimée & Diego Figueiredo, arrangers (Cyrille Aimée) “Over The Rainbow” — Vince Mendoza, arranger (Trisha Yearwood) “12 Little Spells (Thoracic Spine)” — Esperanza Spalding, arranger (Esperanza Spalding) PACKAGE Best Recording Package: Anónimas & Resilientes — Luisa María Arango, Carlos Dussan, Manuel García-Orozco & Juliana Jaramillo-Buenaventura, art directors (Voces Del Bullerengue) Chris Cornell — Barry Ament, Jeff Ament, Jeff Fura & Joe Spix, art directors (Chris Cornell) Hold That Tiger — Andrew Wong & Fongming Yang, art directors (The Muddy Basin Ramblers) i,i — Aaron Anderson & Eric Timothy Carlson, art directors (Bon Iver) Intellexual — Irwan Awalludin, art director (Intellexual) Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package: Anima — Stanley Donwood & Tchocky, art directors (Thom Yorke) Gold In Brass Age — Amanda Chiu, Mark Farrow & David Gray, art directors (David Gray) 1963: New Directions — Josh Cheuse, art director (John Coltrane) The Radio Recordings 1939–1945 — Marek Polewski, art director (Wilhelm Furtwängler & Berliner Philharmoniker) Woodstock: Back To The Garden – The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive — Masaki Koike, art director (Various Artists) NOTES Best Album Notes: The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions — Judy Cantor-Navas, album notes writer (Various Artists) The Gospel According To Malaco — Robert Marovich, album notes writer (Various Artists) Pedal Steel + Four Corners — Brendan Greaves, album notes writer (Terry Allen And The Panhandle Mystery Band) Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection — Jeff Place, album notes writer (Pete Seeger) Stax ’68: A Memphis Story — Steve Greenberg, album notes writer (Various Artists) HISTORICAL Best Historical Album: The Girl From Chickasaw County – The Complete Capitol Masters — Andrew Batt & Kris Maher, compilation producers; Simon Gibson, mastering engineer (Bobbie Gentry) The Great Comeback: Horowitz At Carnegie Hall — Robert Russ, compilation producer; Andreas K. Meyer & Jennifer Nulsen, mastering engineers (Vladimir Horowitz) Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 — Spencer Doran, Yosuke Kitazawa, Douglas Macgowan & Matt Sullivan, compilation producers; John Baldwin, mastering engineer (Various Artists) Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection — Jeff Place & Robert Santelli, compilation producers; Pete Reiniger, mastering engineer (Pete Seeger) Woodstock: Back To The Garden – The Definitive 50th Anniversary Archive — Brian Kehew, Steve Woolard & Andy Zax, compilation producers; Dave Schultz, mastering engineer, Brian Kehew, restoration engineer (Various Artists) PRODUCTION, NON-CLASSICAL Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: All These Things — Tchad Blake, Adam Greenspan & Rodney Shearer, engineers; Bernie Grundman, mastering engineer (Thomas Dybdahl) Ella Mai — Chris “Shaggy” Ascher, Jaycen Joshua & David Pizzimenti, engineers; Chris Athens, mastering engineer (Ella Mai) Run Home Slow — Paul Butler & Sam Teskey, engineers; Joe Carra, mastering engineer (The Teskey Brothers) Scenery — Tom Elmhirst, Ben Kane & Jeremy Most, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Emily King) When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? — Rob Kinelski & Finneas O’Connell, engineers; John Greenham, mastering engineer (Billie Eilish) Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Jack Antonoff Dan Auerbach John Hill Finneas Ricky Reed Best Remixed Recording: “I Rise (Tracy Young’s Pride Intro Radio Remix)” — Tracy Young, remixer (Madonna) “Mother’s Daughter (Wuki Remix)” — Wuki, remixer (Miley Cyrus) “The One (High Contrast Remix)”– Lincoln Barrett, remixer (Jorja Smith) “Swim (Ford. Remix)” — Luc Bradford, remixer (Mild Minds) “Work It (Soulwax Remix)” — David Gerard C Dewaele & Stephen Antoine C Dewaele, remixers (Marie Davidson) PRODUCTION, IMMERSIVE AUDIO Best Immersive Audio Album: Chain Tripping — Luke Argilla, immersive audio engineer; Jurgen Scharpf, immersive audio mastering engineer; Jona Bechtolt, Claire L. Evans & Rob Kieswetter, immersive audio producers (Yacht) Kverndokk: Symphonic Dances — Jim Anderson, immersive audio engineer; Robert C. Ludwig, immersive audio mastering engineer; Ulrike Schwarz, immersive audio producer (Ken-David Masur & Stavanger Symphony Orchestra) Lux — Morten Lindberg, immersive audio engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive audio mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, immersive audio producer (Anita Brevik, Trondheimsolistene & Nidarosdomens Jentekor) The Orchestral Organ — Keith O. Johnson, immersive audio engineer; Keith O. Johnson, immersive audio mastering engineer; Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin, immersive audio producers (Jan Kraybill) The Savior — Bob Clearmountain, immersive audio engineer; Bob Ludwig, immersive audio mastering engineer; Michael Marquart & Dave Way, immersive audio producers (A Bad Think) PRODUCTION, CLASSICAL Best Engineered Album, Classical: Aequa – Anna Thorvaldsdóttir — Daniel Shores, engineer; Daniel Shores, mastering engineer (International Contemporary Ensemble) Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 — Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Rachmaninoff – Hermitage Piano Trio — Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers; Keith O. Johnson, mastering engineer (Hermitage Piano Trio) Riley: Sun Rings — Leslie Ann Jones, engineer; Robert C. Ludwig, mastering engineer (Kronos Quartet) Wolfe: Fire In My Mouth — Bob Hanlon & Lawrence Rock, engineers; Ian Good & Lawrence Rock, mastering engineers (Jaap Van Zweden, Francisco J. Núñez, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Young People’s Chorus Of NY City & New York Philharmonic) Producer Of The Year, Classical: Blanton Alspaugh James Ginsburg Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin Morten Lindberg Dirk Sobotka CLASSICAL Best Orchestral Performance: “Bruckner: Symphony No. 9” — Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) “Copland: Billy The Kid; Grohg” — Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) “Norman: Sustain” — Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic) “Transatlantic” — Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) “Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21” — Mirga Gra?inyt?-tyla, conductor (City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Kremerata Baltica) Best Opera Recording: “Benjamin: Lessons In Love & Violence” — George Benjamin, conductor; Stéphane Degout, Barbara Hannigan, Peter Hoare & Gyula Orendt; James Whitbourn, producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House) “Berg: Wozzeck” — Marc Albrecht, conductor; Christopher Maltman & Eva-Maria Westbroek; François Roussillon, producer (Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Chorus Of Dutch National Opera) “Charpentier: Les Arts Florissants; Les Plaisirs De Versailles” — Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, conductors; Jesse Blumberg, Teresa Wakim & Virginia Warnken; Renate Wolter-Seevers, producer (Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble; Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble) “Picker: Fantastic Mr. Fox” — Gil Rose, conductor; John Brancy, Andrew Craig Brown, Gabriel Preisser, Krista River & Edwin Vega; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Boston Children’s Chorus) “Wagner: Lohengrin” — Christian Thielemann, conductor; Piotr Becza?a, Anja Harteros, Tomasz Konieczny, Waltraud Meier & Georg Zeppenfeld; Eckhard Glauche, producer (Festspielorchester Bayreuth; Festspielchor Bayreuth) Best Choral Performance: “Boyle: Voyages” — Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing) “Duruflé: Complete Choral Works” — Robert Simpson, conductor (Ken Cowan; Houston Chamber Choir) “The Hope Of Loving” — Craig Hella Johnson, conductor (Conspirare) “Sander: The Divine Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom” — Peter Jermihov, conductor (Evan Bravos, Vadim Gan, Kevin Keys, Glenn Miller & Daniel Shirley; PaTRAM Institute Singers) “Smith, K.: The Arc In The Sky” — Donald Nally, conductor (The Crossing) Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: “Cerrone: The Pieces That Fall To Earth” — Christopher Rountree & Wild Up “Freedom & Faith” — Publiquartet “Perpetulum” — Third Coast Percussion “Rachmaninoff” – Hermitage Piano Trio — Hermitage Piano Trio “Shaw: Orange” — Attacca Quartet Best Classical Instrumental Solo: “The Berlin Recital” — Yuja Wang “Higdon: Harp Concerto” — Yolanda Kondonassis; Ward Stare, conductor (The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) “Marsalis: Violin Concerto; Fiddle Dance Suite” — Nicola Benedetti; Cristian M?celaru, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra) “The Orchestral Organ” — Jan Kraybill “Torke: Sky, Concerto For Violin” — Tessa Lark; David Alan Miller, conductor (Albany Symphony) Best Classical Solo Vocal Album: The Edge Of Silence – Works For Voice By György Kurtág — Susan Narucki (Donald Berman, Curtis Macomber, Kathryn Schulmeister & Nicholas Tolle) Himmelsmusik — Philippe Jaroussky & Céline Scheen; Christina Pluhar, conductor; L’arpeggiata, ensemble (Jesús Rodil & Dingle Yandell) Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24, Kerner-lieder Op. 35 — Matthias Goerne; Leif Ove Andsnes, accompanist Songplay — Joyce Didonato; Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry, accompanists (Steve Barnett & Lautaro Greco) A Te, O Cara — Stephen Costello; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra) Best Classical Compendium: American Originals 1918 — John Morris Russell, conductor; Elaine Martone, producer Leshnoff: Symphony No. 4 ‘heichalos’; Guitar Concerto; Starburst — Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer Meltzer: Songs And Structures — Paul Appleby & Natalia Katyukova; Silas Brown & Harold Meltzer, producers The Poetry Of Places — Nadia Shpachenko; Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin, producers Saariaho: True Fire; Trans; Ciel D’hiver — Hannu Lintu, conductor; Laura Heikinheimo, producer Best Contemporary Classical Composition: Bermel: Migration Series For Jazz Ensemble & Orchestra — Derek Bermel, composer (Derek Bermel, Ted Nash, David Alan Miller, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra & Albany Symphony Orchestra) Higdon: Harp Concerto — Jennifer Higdon, composer (Yolanda Kondonassis, Ward Stare & The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) Marsalis: Violin Concerto In D Major — Wynton Marsalis, composer (Nicola Benedetti, Cristian M?celaru & Philadelphia Orchestra) Norman: Sustain — Andrew Norman, composer (Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic) Shaw: Orange — Caroline Shaw, composer (Attacca Quartet) Wolfe: Fire In My Mouth — Julia Wolfe, composer (Jaap Van Zweden, Francisco J. Núñez, Donald Nally, The Crossing, Young People’s Chorus Of NY City & New York Philharmonic) MUSIC VIDEO/FILM Best Music Video: “We’ve Got To Try” — The Chemical Brothers, Ellie Fry, video director; Ninian Doff, video producer “This Land” — Gary Clark Jr., Savanah Leaf, video director; Alicia Martinez, video producer “Cellophane” — FKA twigs, Andrew Thomas Huang, video director; Alex Chamberlain, video producer “Old Town Road (Official Movie)” — Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus, Calmatic, video director; Candice Dragonas, Melissa Larsen & Saul Levitz, video producers “Glad He’s Gone” — Tove Lo,  Vania Heymann & Gal Muggia, video directors; Natan Schottenfels, video producer Best Music Film: HOMECOMING — Beyoncé, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Ed Burke, video directors; Dora Melissa Vargas, video producer Remember My Name — David Crosby, A.J. 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WordPress 5.3 “Kirk”

Introducing our most refined user experience with the improved block editor in WordPress 5.3! Named “Kirk” in honour of jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the latest and greatest version of WordPress is available for download or update in your dashboard.

5.3 expands and refines the block editor with more intuitive interactions and improved accessibility. New features in the editor increase design freedoms, provide additional layout options and style variations to allow designers more control over the look of a site.

This release also introduces the Twenty Twenty theme giving the user more design flexibility and integration with the block editor. Creating beautiful web pages and advanced layouts has never been easier.

Block Editor Improvements

This enhancement-focused update introduces over 150 new features and usability improvements, including improved large image support for uploading non-optimized, high-resolution pictures taken from your smartphone or other high-quality cameras. Combined with larger default image sizes, pictures always look their best.

Accessibility improvements include the integration of block editor styles in the admin interface. These improved styles fix many accessibility issues: color contrast on form fields and buttons, consistency between editor and admin interfaces, new snackbar notices, standardizing to the default WordPress color scheme, and the introduction of Motion to make interacting with your blocks feel swift and natural.

For people who use a keyboard to navigate the dashboard, the block editor now has a Navigation mode. This lets you jump from block to block without tabbing through every part of the block controls.

Expanded Design Flexibility

WordPress 5.3 adds even more robust tools for creating amazing designs.

The new Group block lets you easily divide your page into colorful sections.

The Columns block now supports fixed column widths.

The new predefined layouts make it a cinch to arrange content into advanced designs.

Heading blocks now offer controls for text and background color.

Additional style options allow you to set your preferred style for any block that supports this feature.

Introducing Twenty Twenty

As the block editor celebrates its first birthday, we are proud that Twenty Twenty is designed with flexibility at its core. Show off your services or products with a combination of columns, groups, and media blocks. Set your content to wide or full alignment for dynamic and engaging layouts. Or let your thoughts be the star with a centered content column!

As befits a theme called Twenty Twenty, clarity and readability is also a big focus. The theme includes the typeface Inter, designed by Rasmus Andersson. Inter comes in a Variable Font version, a first for default themes, which keeps load times short by containing all weights and styles of Inter in just two font files.

Improvements for Everyone

Automatic Image Rotation

Your images will be correctly rotated upon upload according to the embedded orientation data. This feature was first proposed nine years ago and made possible through the perseverance of many dedicated contributors.

Improved Site Health Checks

The improvements introduced in 5.3 make it even easier to identify issues. Expanded recommendations highlight areas that may need troubleshooting on your site from the Health Check screen.

Admin Email Verification

You’ll now be periodically asked to confirm that your admin email address is up to date when you log in as an administrator. This reduces the chance of getting locked out of your site if you change your email address.

For Developers

Date/Time Component Fixes

Developers can now work with dates and timezones in a more reliable way. Date and time functionality has received a number of new API functions for unified timezone retrieval and PHP interoperability, as well as many bug fixes.

PHP 7.4 Compatibility

WordPress 5.3 aims to fully support PHP 7.4. This release contains multiple changes to remove deprecated functionality and ensure compatibility. WordPress continues to encourage all users to run the latest and greatest versions of PHP.

The Squad

This release was led by Matt Mullenweg, Francesca Marano, and David Baumwald. They were enthusiastically supported by a large release squad:

Editor Tech: Riad Benguella (@youknowriad)

Editor Design: Mark Uraine (@mapk)

Core Tech: Andrew Ozz (@azaozz)

Docs Coordinator: Justin Ahinon (@justinahinon)

Marketing/Release Comms: Mike Reid (@mikerbg)

Media/Uploader: Mike Schroder (@mikeschroder)

Accessibility: JB Audras (@audrasjb)

Default Theme Wrangler: Ian Belanger (@ianbelanger)

Default Theme Designer: Anders Norén (@anlino)

The squad was joined throughout the twelve week release cycle by 645 generous volunteer contributors (our largest group of contributors to date) who collectively fixed 658 bugs.

Put on a Rahsaan Roland Kirk playlist, click that update button (or download it directly), and check the profiles of the fine folks that helped:

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