Hello readers,
I hope to bring you some significant new Oscar content next week as I have discovered that "Can You Ever Forgive Me" starring Oscar hopefuls Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty and directed by the woman who has the best chance of getting into the Best Director race, Marielle Heller is now playing in Memphis. "Wildlife," directed by Paul Dano and starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gylenhaal is also playing, in the same theatre, but due to limited time, I am going to pass, for now.
The gifts of being a member of GALECA (the LGBTQ Society of Entertainment Critics) and Film Independent in addition to writing about the Oscars is an addition of content that I hope to consider seriously when it comes to nominating for the Dorian and eventually voting for both Dorian and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Already I have a stack of screeners (although I've seen most of them) and a folder of screening links (many, many I have not seen) waiting to be viewed for consideration. I usually let the Oscars dictate what I should watch, but this year feels different.
So, "Wildlife" will wait while I hope to watch films like "Lez Bomb," "Shoplifters" and "The Marriage" next week.
I also had the pleasure of seeing "Roma," which I have yet to talk about here. That will be coming soon. I am very interested in how Netflix is operating in this year's Oscar landscape, particularly compared to Amazon but hope to view a few more Netflix films ("22 July" and "The Kindergarten Teacher") before writing about that.
It's a busy time.
Oh...and I haven't even mentioned that I will be starring in a 10 Minute Play in less than a week I have yet to rehearse for. I haven't acted in ages and am filling in for someone who dropped out. And it is a GREAT play.
GALECA and AFI FEST Screenings
For those of you in LA, GALECA has partnered with AFI Fest for a screening of Bjork's acting debut, "The Juniper Tree," right before its official release, 30 years after being made. In addition to "The Juniper Tree" there will be a screening of the French Canadian boarding school drama, "Genesis." Check them out if you can.
More info below:
THIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 4 p.m. Hollywood Egyptian Theater: Witness Björk's film acting debut in The Juniper Tree! Ms. Guðmundsdóttir headlined this feminist take on the Grimms witchcraft tale, at just 20 years old (see her in character below!). Tree is stark, atmospheric and slow-moving in a mesmerizing way. 78 mins. running time.
THIS MONDAY NOV. 12, 5:45 p.m., Hollywood Mann Chinese 4: Swoon and fall into awkward-youth memories via Genesis, director Philippe Lesage's new and heartbreaking tale of first love. 130 mins. running time. (Photo below)
THE JUNIPER TREE (EINITRÉÐ)
Director: Nietzchka Keene
Screenwriter: Nietzchka Keene
Producer: Patrick Moyroud
Executive Producer: Nietzchka Keene
Director of Photography: Randy Sellars
Editor: Nietzchka Keene
Production Designer: Dominique Polain
Music: Larry Lipkis
Cast: Björk Gudmundsdottir, Bryndis Petra Bragadottir, Valdimar Orn Flygenring, Gudrun S. Gisladottir, Geirlaug Sunna Pormar
Iceland, 1990
78 min.
Feature
Cinema's Legacy Section
Synopsis:
This beautiful world-premiere restoration exhumes Nietzchka Keene’s unheralded debut, a feminist interpretation of the Brothers Grimm fairytale that underscores the uncertain safety of women in a patriarchal society. Filmed in Iceland, this atmospheric fantasy features a 20-year-old Björk as Margit, who escapes with her sister Katla when their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. To ensure their protection, Katla casts a love spell on a young widower, but his son is not so easily persuaded. In this insightful interpretation of the Brothers Grimm tale, Keene subverts a folkloric obsession with women and witchcraft to underscore the uncertain safety of women in a male-dominated society. Its dynamic score and rich, black-and-white cinematography imbue the sprawling Icelandic tundra with a delicate strangeness, obscuring the boundaries between reality and illusion, the living and the dead. THE JUNIPER TREE was restored in 2018 by the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research, with funding provided from the The Film Foundation and the George Lucas Family Foundation. – Malin Kan
GENESIS (GENÈSE)
Director: Philippe Lesage
Screenwriter: Philippe Lesage
Producer: Galilé Marion-Gauvin
Director of Photography: Nicolas Canniccioni
Editor: Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Production Designer: Marjorie Rhéaume
Cast: Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin, Jules Roy-Sicotte, Maxime Dumontier, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Émilie Bierre, Pier-Luc Funk, Vassili Schneider, Mylène Mackay
Canada, 2018
130 min.
Feature
World Cinema Section
Premiere: Los Angeles
Synopsis:
Guillaume is an outwardly confident teenager in a posh boarding school. Intelligent and brash, he veers between likable and overbearing both in the faculty's and his fellow student's eyes. When surprising new feelings of love and alienation consume him, his veneer of composure begins to crack. Meanwhile, his older sister Charlotte has just wriggled free of a disappointing relationship with her boyfriend, and travels down a new, thorny path with an older suitor whose rebellious charm may blind her to inevitable heartbreak. Together, Guillaume and Charlotte's parallel stories form a detailed, incisive portrait of adolescent yearning from
Québécois director Philippe Lesage, whose AFI FEST 2016 entry THE DEMONS manages to subtly extend its reach into this film's narrative. – Mike Dougherty
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