This week we have Eleanor on the podcast to talk about her movie and TV upbringing, how degrees in history and film led her away from polemics and instead strengthened her life as a cinephile, and a few movies we’ve seen recently. With Saltburn, Godzilla Minus One, and Napoleon, we get three very different movies to end November and kick off December.
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Check out trailers for the films we discussed below:
- And as we mentioned, check out this article about Godzilla and the impact it’s had on Tokyo, tourism, and culture.
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Saltburn – In Theaters: A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family’s sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.
- Writer/Director: Emerald Fennell
- Stars: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Archie Madekwe
Godzilla Minus One – Toho / In Theaters: Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.
- Writer/Director: Takashi Yamazaki
- Stars: Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Sakura Ando
Napoleon – AppleTV+ / In Theaters: An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine.
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: David Scarpa
- Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim
News:
‘Succession’ vs. ‘The Bear’ vs. ‘Jury Duty’: Golden Globes’ Supporting Actor Categories May Hold the Future to TV Awards’ Genre Conundrum
- https://variety.com/2023/tv/awards/golden-globes-succession-hbo-max-tv-analysis-2023-1235833699/
- “And so goes the most unusual TV awards season ever, where a delayed Primetime Emmys — with its June 1, 2022, to May 31, 2023, eligibility window — falls smack into a Globes, Critics’ Choice and guild awards season with a January to December, 2023 time frame.”
- “The Hollywood strikes also may have had an impact on the even more limited-than-usual showing for broadcast networks at the Globes. ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” was the sole broadcast nominee, and even it saw its fortunes drop to just two nods: Best comedy and best female actor in a comedy (Quinta Brunson).”
- “The Globes traditionally likes to get to new TV projects first before the Emmys has a chance to honor those shows — but this year that was limited mostly to a handful of limited/anthology series: Netflix’s “All the Light We Cannot See,” FX’s latest season of “Fargo,” Showtime’s “Fellow Travelers” and Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry.””
- “Of course, really driving Netflix was the new stand-up comedy on TV field, which included five of the six nominations: “Ricky Gervais: Armageddon,” “Trevor Noah: Where Was I,” “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage,” “Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact” and “Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer.” (The one exception: HBO’s “Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love.”)”
- “Maybe this is a reminder that all awards shows should drop the genres and just go with best acting. (And as I’ve written before, perhaps the gender distinctions need to be eliminated as well.) And then we’ll have room for… more standup comedy awards? OK, maybe not.”
Google Year in Search 2023: ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead Top-Trending Movies, ‘Last of Us’ Tops TV Rankings
- https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/google-year-in-search-2023-barbie-oppenheimer-last-of-us-1235833582/
- “No surprise here: “Barbenheimer” led the field on the top-trending Google searches of the year in movies, while HBO’s dystopian video-game adaptation “The Last of Us” came out on top on the TV front.”
- “In TV, Netflix had a strong showing, with seven of the top 10 trending searches in the category for the streamer’s originals: “Ginny & Georgia,” “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” “Wednesday,” “That ’90s Show,” “Kaleidoscope,” “Beef” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.””
- “The No. 1 top-trending actor searched among Google U.S. users was Jeremy Renner, who suffered a near-fatal snow plow accident in January.”
James Cameron Made ‘Titanic’ Set Look Bigger With ‘Short Extras’: ‘Anybody Above Five Foot Eight, We Didn’t Cast Them’
- https://variety.com/2023/film/news/james-cameron-cast-short-extras-titanic-set-bigger-1235832610/
- “James Cameron reflected on the making of “Titanic,” the most expensive film of its time, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times for the film’s 4K remastering home video release.”
- “In an effort to keep the budget under control, producer Jon Landau said they saved $750,000 by scrapping an entire set that was planned to be canted at a three-degree angle. Instead, they stuck to two other sets — one for pre-iceberg scenes and the second one tilted at six degrees, replicating the ship sinking.”
- “”We only cast short extras so it made our set look bigger,” Cameron said. “Anybody above five foot eight, we didn’t cast them. It’s like we got an extra million dollars of value out of casting.””
- “”If the studio had had their way, they would have cut the entire ship sinking,” Cameron added. “The smartest thing we did was do the sinking last. It wasn’t because of strategy — it was simply because you sink the set last because otherwise it doesn’t look so good the next morning when you bring it back up.””
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