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Awards Radar Podcast #310: Joey and Kate Talk About the New York Film Festival, Potential ‘Digger’ Audience Reactions, and More
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘NAZA’ is a Chilling Account of Investigative Journalism During Wartime
Regardless of your thoughts about the war in Gaza, it should be unrcontionable for civilians to be murdered. Whether it’s soldiers or terrorists, it’s just plain wrong to target innocents. That should be a common sense take, if not a particularly nuanced one. Of course, this particular war has become such a wedge issue and […] More
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NYFF Film Review: Eleanor Coppola is a Masterful Observer in the Layered Documentary ‘Making Marie Antoinette’
Every documentarian has their own taste. Eleanor Coppola‘s is to turn on the camera and roll on things that interest her. On location of Marie Antoinette, directed by her daughter Sofia Coppola in 2006, what interested her was time. Jason Schwartzman plucking a harpsicord, flip flops intermingling with French silk kitten heels, a man on […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘Misty Green’ is an Imperfect Yet Compelling Character Study from Chris Rock with a Breakthrough Star Turn from Rosalind Eleazar
It’s hardly a novel concept to present to audiences that Hollywood can chew a person up and spit them out. In fact, films about Hollywood almost exclusively traffic in failed dreams. So, for Chris Rock to want to make a movie about Hollywood, there would have to be a hook of some kind. With Misty […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ is a Sequel That’s Bigger (and Often Better) in Nearly Every Way
It was shocking how good Godzilla Minus One turned out to be. Taking the monster movie back to basics resulted in an incredibly satisfying, visual splendid, and surprisingly complex experience. Now, with Godzilla Minus Zero, the flick is bigger in basically every single way. Is it better? Often yes, sometimes no, and offers up a […] More
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NYFF Film Review: ‘Paper Tiger’ is a James Gray Masterpiece With Phenomenal Turns from Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller
The best James Gray films are obsessed with the weight of family, the broken promise of the American Dream, and the criminal element that can be lurking just beneath the surface of society. With Paper Tiger, he’s combined them into a brilliant movie that is as good as anything he’s ever done (it’s this and […] More
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NYFF Film Review: Kate and Rooney Mara Are an Hypnotic Novelty in the Otherwise Too Thinly Drawn ‘Bucking Fastard’
There is a novelty at the center of Bucking Fastard that nearly makes it worth the price of admission all on its own. The novelty? Watching Kate Mara and Rooney Mara not just share the screen for the first time together, but essentially act as one. It’s remarkable to watch them in action, and during […] More
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NYFF Film Review: Sandra Hüller Soldiers On in the Riveting ‘Rose’
Smoke rises from the ground in the rural countryside of Germany in the 17 th century. Smallplumes reveal themselves as ashes that make way to reveal Sandra Hüller’s Rose, a youngsoldier with a distinctive scar from a bullet that ripped through her cheek while battling for hercountry in the Thirty Years’ War. As a reminder […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: Where Do We Stand After the First Wave of Fall Film Festival Debuts?
Just a few weeks ago, I posted a predictions update piece that came right as the fall film festival season was getting underway. I was in Colorado for the start of the Telluride Film Festival, which would kick off that day, while the Venice Film Festival had just started up. It was truly the calm […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #308: Joey Recaps TIFF and Previews NYFF with a Returning Kate Schroeder
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s ‘You Can See Everything’ Added to 64th New York Film Festival Lineup
Here is the press release from NYFF: Film at Lincoln Center has added the New York premiere of Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything to the Spotlight section of the 64th New York Film Festival. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, the 64th New York Film Festival will take place […] More
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Awards Season / Oscar Predictions Update: The Summer is Pretty Much Over and Fall Film Festival Season is About to Reveal Some Contenders
Well, the wait is over folks, as we’ve arrived. The fall film festival season is literally underway, with so much of the early speculation about to give way to analysis and reviews. Yesterday, I departed for the Telluride Film Festival, so as you read this, I’m on the ground preparing to, or actually already watching […] More
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