Whaddayasay, this Oscar season just keeps giving and giving. Another gem that impressed me much has arrived in Estonian cinemas, and I want to give this sassy girl top marks!
It's a story of an artistically inclined girl calling herself Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) who doesn't know how to be a kid any more, and tries to search for purpose beyond the familiar confines on school, family, etc.
Also appearing, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Jordan Rodrigues, Marielle Scott, Lois Smith, Stephen Henderson, Odeya Rush, making up a wonderful cast of characters among which I very much enjoyed spending some time with.
"Lady Bird" is not just authentic, sweet, funny, and well realised screen story about
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I am also very impressed by the creative style of the author Greta Gerwig, the writer-director of this joint. Many of the scenes are actually quite short but she has never failed to capture a lot of meaningful content in every snapshot that she offers about the characters' lives.
The dialogue, the acting, the atmosphere, the duration - everything is so sharp, precise, and to the point. I would say there's no filler material, like, at all. Everything is in its right place, carries enough meaning to justify being there and leaves its mark during watching. There's nothing that I would leave out. In this sense, I'd compare the result to good poetry. In a world full of 2+ hour movies which have only medium amount of meaningful content, we need more movies like this!
In addition to that, although the titular character is very much at the center of the story, Gerwig somehow has found enough empathy and ways to make everybody else on the screen live and breathe, too. They are not just figures to fill the scene and help make everything move
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Just replace the gay guys with straight girl and sunny 1980's Italy with economically shaky 2002's USA Sacramento.
I am proud to say that I've managed to see most of the key movies of this Oscar season by now, and the Oscar gala is still more than a week away. This fact has no real value at all, of course... but it's still nice.
"Lady Bird" is nominated for 5 Oscars: best picture, actress (Saoirse Ronan), supporting actress (Laurie Metcalf), director and original screenplay (both by Greta Gerwig).
Some claim that women in film industry should get more attention and praise. I don't give any filmmaker special attention just because s/he happens to be of fairer sex (or black, or Estonian, or member of LGBT community, or whatever). The work has to speak for itself.
"Lady Bird" is a great example of how "minority group" really deserves the awards and positive word-of-mouth - because it's jsut good enough. As opposed to grabbing attention for political reasons - here's looking at you, "Mudbound", nominated for 4 Oscars.
P.S. "Lady Bird" has already won Golden Globe awards for best actress (Ronan) and movie. It has 83 wins and 190 nominations
...on all 24. Nominated for 2 British Academy Film Awards and has not won either, same with Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards. Nominated for 4 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards and did not win any of them. Nominated for 2 Emmy Awards won one. Nominated for 2 Golden Globes did not win either time. Nominated for 11 Grammy Awards won once. Nominated for 1 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards did not win it. Nominated for 6 Satellite Awards won once. Nominated for 12 Saturn Awards won 5 of them. Nominated for 2 Sierra Awards one once. Nominated for 2 World Soundtrack Awards did not win either time. He has been nominated for a total of 75 awards and has won 33.
Lisa Cholodenko grew up in Los Angeles and she began her film careers working as an assistant editor; however, she then moved to New York and earned an MFA in screenwriting and direction at the Columbia University School of arts. At Columbia University School of Arts, Cholodenko filmed her first short movie Dinner Party. Besides being a director, Lisa Cholodenko also was a film professor at Columbia University, an advisor and is currently on the Board of Governs of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science. It was surprising to be able to find out how active Cholodenko is in the film industry and in the university she attended. This portrays how committed Cholodenko is to creating successful movies and to be a part of others film victory.
ARABIAN NIGHTS enthralled me and the rest of the audience with its rich suspense, romance and humour. Well done Ravenswood Drama Department March 2014!!!
...n American woman to be awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s best director prize in 2012 for her film “Middle of Nowhere” (Keegan). In the interview of DuVernay, she explains how even though only 9.9% of speaking characters are black, with a black director that percentage rises to 52.6% of black speaking characters (Keegan). This explains a lot of why there are is such a small amount of minority speaking roles in movies. This means that because of the majority of the directors being white, they therefore want to hire and have more whites speak in their movies rather than minorities. At the end of the article, Keegan elaborates on how people are now noticing this race and gender inequality in films and are trying to improve it. For example, as stated in the article, the Motion Picture Academy is working on making their company more diverse and not merely white males.
Honestly I thought that the movie had such a simple story but at the same time it is so complex. The way it was delivered it was amazing, it's such a moving film. The actor’s were amazing, there isn’t anything I would want to change about this film. I would 100% recommend this movie to anyone, its so inspiring and it really makes you think.
...ue to the fact that she is so concerned with the gender aspect that she overlooks the reasons for keeping the categories separate. By having separate categories a male and female staring in the same film are both eligible to win an award, something that would be impossible if the categories were merged. She also disregards the fact that merging the two categories would lead to fewer nominees, which would force both male and female actors to be left out of the nominations. Her background in Women’s studies further impacts the overall effectiveness of this argument. Many readers may disregard the entire article because they feel that she is just using it as a means to promote Women’s rights. On the other hand, people who firmly believe in gender equality may be more inclined to accept her argument, even if they could care less about having separate categories.
Aside from Darren Aronofsky’s ability to visually tell breathtaking stories, it is his formalistic style of filmmaking that has earned him his recognition in the film industry. Born on February 12, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, Darren was a self described "Brooklyn Hip-Hop kid." His upbringing was marked by his Jewish heritage. Darren would paint graffiti art on subway cars and film going in Times Square. He had a lot of inspiration around him that led him to have a passion for film and all types of art. He had said himself that one of his biggest inspirations for becoming a director was Spike Lee’s film She’s Gotta Have It because of the relation between the New Yorkers in the film and his own experience in Brooklyn. After attending Harvard University, Aronofsky won many awards for his senior thesis film Super Market Sweep at the American Film Institute. Soon after he began writing Pi, which also had nominations for best cinematography, screenplay, and film, Aronofsky began his trademark of writing about characters that lead themselves to self-destruction. Self- destruction is clear in most of Aronofsky’s films like his latest film Black Swan that also won many awards and led actress, Natalie Portman to win the Oscar for Best Actress. His formalistic nature flows through each one of his films whether it is with special effects, or with the performance done by the actors.
the end Marry Poppins ended up winning five Academy Awards including best actress for Dame Julie Andrews.
With many different genres and types of filmmaking, it can result in a large variety of stories and conflicts. Nevertheless, film has always brought people together as a society. If there is one thing everyone can notice about films is the achievement in style and directing. The three directors talked about in this paper are the most successful at delivering a breathtaking style and direction to their films. Baz Luhrmann, Wes Anderson, and Martin Scorsese have produced and directed films over decades and each film as impacted not only the United States but worldwide. With the unmistakable trademarks that each director has, it is very easy to feel sucked into the world in which they are shaping around you and the story. Because of these three directors, the film world and industry has been revolutionized for many centuries to come.
non-actors that appear in the film, for various reasons. In the process of being introduced
Major Actors: James Stewart as John “Scottie” Ferguson, Kim Novak as Madeleine Ester and Judy Barton, Barbara Bel Geddes as Midge Wood
Baz Luhrmann has done this film in a unique and brilliant way, with help of the above, and of course a great loved story as a base.
The film was highly praised by audiences and critics for its unique style of animation. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards — Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song for "Belleville Rendex-vous". It was also screened out of competition (hors concours) at the 2003 Cannes Festival.
The "birdgirl" is important because she becomes to Steven a muse which empowers him to become an artist. When he glimpses her there in the water, he has a sudden moment of clarity about who he is and what he should become. Steven is forever changed by this revelation because it gives him the vision and strength to become an artist.
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.