We weren’t really sure if this one was still happening, but a recent report is stating that Ridley Scott is currently scouting locations for “Gladiator 2.”
Read moreAndrew Dominik: Hate For ‘Blonde’ Stems From US Critics Wanting An “Empowered Woman” Depicted On-Screen
Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” was roasted by American critics when it came out in late September.
Read moreMartin Scorsese Says ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Will Be Released “In A Few Months”
‘Fabelmans’ Will Barely Make $1 Million This Weekend
Steven Spielberg’s love letter to himself is drowning fast at the box-office. After last week’s tepid $2.2 million , it stands to not make more than an estimated $1.3 million this weekend.
Read moreSteve McQueen’s WWII Epic ‘Blitz’ Starts Production
With a resume that includes “Hunger,” “Shame,” “12 Years A Slave,” and “Lovers Rock” (all excellent) it’s always exciting to find out what former-visual-artist-turned-director Steven McQueen will do next.
Read moreS&S Hired Voting Consultant Who Vowed to “Push Hard on Straight White Male Canon” and “Set it on Fire”
Just a day before the Sight and Sound results were published, the LA Review of Books had an excellent piece on the potential drama that could surround this year’s results.
Read moreCritic Calls Out Paul Schrader, Compares Him to “White Supremacist”
Coming off a certain peanut-shaped man trying to, in failing fashion, put his pretentious finger to the pulse of this whole Sight and Sound debacle, here comes another critic calling out Paul Schrader’s S&S criticism as “white supremacy!”
Read more‘Bardo’ is Unwatchable [Capsule]
I tried hard to give Inarritu’s “Bardo” a fair shot. I stuck with it for its entire 150 minutes, but the “wisdom” this fiom seems to be conveying is pure claptrap.
Read moreOscars: It’s Probably ‘The Fabelmans’ vs ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (And Maybe ‘Top Gun: Maverick’)
With Kohn/Thompson and, now, Variety’s Clayton Davis hopping onboard the “Banshees of Inisherin” frontrunner train, I can see a changing of the guarding maybe occurring in the next few weeks.
Read moreForgotten: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Topped the S&S Director’s Poll
With all the drama surrounding Sight and Sound’s critics poll, the Directors’ Poll has now emerged as the go-to for comprehensive film history.
Read morePaul Schrader: ‘Jeanne Dielman’ at #1 Undermines the Credibility of Sight and Sound Poll
Major props to Paul Schrader for calling it like it is. I do think the Sight and Poll results will wake more than a few people up about what is actually going on: a total reinterpretation of film history.
Read moreFincher’s ‘The Killer’: Behind-the-Scenes Footage Released
We’re all wondering when in 2023 David Fincher’s “The Killer” will be released. The truth is, nobody really knows what’s going on with “The Killer”, not even Netflix. They’re just letting Fincher take his time ..
Read moreNYFCC: ‘TÁR’ Wins Best Film [Updated]
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) announces its winners this morning. What do you think they’ll go with? I believe the Best Picture prize will be between “TÁR,” “Aftersun” and “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
Read moreScorsese’s Sight and Sound Ballot Includes ‘2001,’ ‘The Searchers’ and ‘Vertigo’
The Year the Sight & Sound Poll Died
Honestly speaking, I expected this. Today’s S&S/BFI poll results make sense. We knew that this list would be so much less well versed in film history given the abhorrent freefall of English film criticism over the last decade.
Read more‘Indiana Jones And the Dial of Destiny’ Trailer ...
Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman’ is Sight and Sound Poll’s New Greatest Film of All-Time — ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Get Out,’ ‘Portrait of Lady on Fire’ in Top 100
Today is the day. At around 1pm ET we’ll be getting the results of the once-in-a-decade Sight and Sound Poll, which has now gone from having 800 voters to more than 1600 (many, no doubt, aiming for social equity with their picks). God have mercy on us all.
Read moreCahiers du Cinéma Reveal Their Top 10 Films of 2022
The Cahiers du Cinéma never cared about hive-mind or “groupthink,” they live in their own passionate world of moviegoing.
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