Sound people had a tough year. Like everyone else in the industry, they found less film work. Second, with Covid, audiences mostly watched movies on the small screen, not getting the full impact of sound, which could affect Oscar voting.
Third, Oscar’s two sound categories were combined last year, which pinpoints a key AMPAS question: Is the Oscar show for saluting great work or is it primarily a TV show to entertain the masses?
When I began writing about film years ago, I didn’t understand why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences needed two sound categories. Now, I realize Oscar could actually use more.
As a comparison, you could combine cinematography and production design into one category called best visuals, but why would you want to? It’s the same with combining two very different sound arts.
In the Midge Costin-directed documentary “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound,...
Third, Oscar’s two sound categories were combined last year, which pinpoints a key AMPAS question: Is the Oscar show for saluting great work or is it primarily a TV show to entertain the masses?
When I began writing about film years ago, I didn’t understand why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences needed two sound categories. Now, I realize Oscar could actually use more.
As a comparison, you could combine cinematography and production design into one category called best visuals, but why would you want to? It’s the same with combining two very different sound arts.
In the Midge Costin-directed documentary “Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
In Seberg, . It’s such a stellar turn that she almost redeems this well-meaning but wobbly biopic — which earns points for trying to do her justice. Someone needed to. In playing Jean Seberg, Stewart embodies the question at the core of the film: How does a college girl from Marshalltown, Iowa — who was plucked from obscurity in 1957 to play Joan of Arc in a major motion picture — end up dead in Paris 22 years later, her body found decomposing in her car with a bottle of pills by her side? It...
- 12/13/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Despite being years removed from the Twilight franchise, having spent the majority of her career at this point in independent cinema, Kristen Stewart still is lumped in as someone who’s just a part of the Hollywood machine. That ignores a whole host of tremendous performances by Stewart, but the bad rap remains. Today, Stewart has another indie would be awards hopeful to share in the biopic Seberg. She is as good as she’s ever been here, but the film itself is not on her level. It’s a shame too, since in better hands, she’d be an Oscar nominee this year in Best Actress, I can all but assure you of that much. The movie is a biopic, as previously mentioned, looking at and taking inspiration from a seminal moment in the life of Jean Seberg (Stewart). Set in the late 1960’s, Seberg is an actress, darling of the French New Wave,...
- 12/13/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Pop culture creates goddesses only to offer them up for sacrifice, and over the course of her career, Kristen Stewart has no doubt gotten close enough to that pyre to smell the brimstone. So she’s a natural to play Jean Seberg in “Seberg,” about the Iowa girl who became an international movie star, only to be targeted and ultimately destroyed by the FBI because of her affiliation with the Black Panthers.
And while “Seberg” is rarely as great as its lead actress, the film does shed light on a tragic corner of American history that’s not discussed nearly enough — the U.S. citizens who had their lives shattered by J. Edgar Hoover’s secret Cointelpro (counter-intelligence program) surveillance that targeted anyone the FBI considered “subversive,” be they Vietnam War protesters, black or indigenous activists, even environmentalists.
Jean Seberg’s life comes with its own built-in metaphor: She began...
And while “Seberg” is rarely as great as its lead actress, the film does shed light on a tragic corner of American history that’s not discussed nearly enough — the U.S. citizens who had their lives shattered by J. Edgar Hoover’s secret Cointelpro (counter-intelligence program) surveillance that targeted anyone the FBI considered “subversive,” be they Vietnam War protesters, black or indigenous activists, even environmentalists.
Jean Seberg’s life comes with its own built-in metaphor: She began...
- 12/13/2019
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless—Ok, watch it again—and it is impossible not to be struck by the mysterious, stunning, enigmatic Jean Seberg. Here was an actor clearly destined for icon status, a Midwesterner with a European sensibility and piercing onscreen intelligence. Offscreen, Seberg was a woman under siege by the American government, and this tumultuous period of her life—the late 1960s and early 1970s—is covered in Benedict Andrews’s fascinating, ultimately disappointing and oddly shaped Seberg. Starring the ever-splendid Kristen Stewart, a gifted actor who captures Seberg’s look and grace, the film is a watchable failure.
Plaguing it is a startling lack of context. The film opens with a rather startling yet metaphorically obvious re-creation of the burning of Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan. The audience is quickly plunged directly into Seberg’s post-Breathless, post-Saint Joan life without any greater sense...
Plaguing it is a startling lack of context. The film opens with a rather startling yet metaphorically obvious re-creation of the burning of Joan of Arc in Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan. The audience is quickly plunged directly into Seberg’s post-Breathless, post-Saint Joan life without any greater sense...
- 9/8/2019
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
“Who is Jean Seberg?” a reporter asks the eponymous movie star midway through “Seberg,” attempting to close a puffy promotional interview for “Paint Your Wagon” with some semblance of personal insight. She doesn’t get to answer, as Seberg’s publicist swiftly calls time on the question: “Let’s just keep it about the movie,” he instructs. It’s one of many moments in Benedict Andrews’ slick, diverting portrait in which Seberg is shown to be treated as a product, a pawn or a patsy, handled by men in their own best interests rather than hers. And yet “Seberg” does something a little similar to that protective publicist: Every time it threatens to truly pierce the psyche of its subject, played with typically intriguing, elusory intelligence by Kristen Stewart, the more ordinary mechanics of the movie she’s serving get in the way.
In fairness, those mechanics are more movie-ish...
In fairness, those mechanics are more movie-ish...
- 8/30/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
A fitting punishment for anyone who felt that “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” didn’t lavish enough love upon the late Sharon Tate, Benedict Andrews’ “Seberg” is proof enough that extra screen time isn’t the secret to a more satisfying cinematic séance.
Which isn’t to say that this scattered look at the last years of Jean Seberg’s life gives the actress its undivided attention. Less a biopic about the “Breathless” star than a paranoid thriller that revolves around her fateful role in the FBI’s Cointelpro surveillance program, Andrews’ film might position Seberg as its subject, but it ultimately just uses her as a screen on which to project a story about someone else. Whereas Quentin Tarantino suffused Tate’s memory into the very soul of his revisionist elegy, liberating the murdered starlet from her own iconography, Andrews — whose film also takes place in the late...
Which isn’t to say that this scattered look at the last years of Jean Seberg’s life gives the actress its undivided attention. Less a biopic about the “Breathless” star than a paranoid thriller that revolves around her fateful role in the FBI’s Cointelpro surveillance program, Andrews’ film might position Seberg as its subject, but it ultimately just uses her as a screen on which to project a story about someone else. Whereas Quentin Tarantino suffused Tate’s memory into the very soul of his revisionist elegy, liberating the murdered starlet from her own iconography, Andrews — whose film also takes place in the late...
- 8/30/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Against All Enemies
Another highly anticipated sophomore feature in our countdown, Benedict Andrews expands the size of canvas moving from the duet in Una to the meatier Against All Enemies – which went into production May of this year. Jack O’Connell, with Kristen Stewart taking on big screen duties of the iconic Jean Seberg. Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Margaret Qualley, Stephen Root, Anthony Mackie with cinematographer Rachel Morrison onboard.
Gist: Based on the screenplay by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, this centers on an ambitious young F.B.I. Agent named Jack Solomon (O’Connell) and the attempts by the FBI to discredit iconic actress Jean Seberg (Stewart) through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party.…...
Another highly anticipated sophomore feature in our countdown, Benedict Andrews expands the size of canvas moving from the duet in Una to the meatier Against All Enemies – which went into production May of this year. Jack O’Connell, with Kristen Stewart taking on big screen duties of the iconic Jean Seberg. Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Margaret Qualley, Stephen Root, Anthony Mackie with cinematographer Rachel Morrison onboard.
Gist: Based on the screenplay by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, this centers on an ambitious young F.B.I. Agent named Jack Solomon (O’Connell) and the attempts by the FBI to discredit iconic actress Jean Seberg (Stewart) through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party.…...
- 2/8/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Universal’s Les Misérables was honored for Best Sound Mixing for a motion picture and Disney/Pixar’s team for Brave took the award for animated feature film tonight as the Cinema Audio Society handed out prizes for Sound Mixing for 2012 in six categories plus a separate pair of awards for technical achievement. The team for Hatfields & McCoys Part 1 (The History Channel) took the nod for TV movie or miniseries, and Homeland: Beruit Is Back (Showtime) won in the one-hour TV series category. The prize for mixing of a half-hour series went to the team behind ABC’s Modern Family. The 49th Annual Cas Awards were hosted by Ktla’s Sam Rubin at downtown La’s Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Anne Hathaway presented director Jonathan Demme the Cas Filmmaker Award, and triple Oscar-winning sound mixer Chris Newman received the 31st Cas Career Achievement Award presented by Demme and previous Cas honoree-Oscar winner Tom Fleischman.
- 2/17/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Ryan Gosling said Peter Jackson fired him from The Lovely Bones because he had gotten fat. It was all part of a character choice for the role of grieving father Jack Soloman, Gosling explains, and apparently, a choice Jackson didn't agree with. Gosling said when he was hired, he weighed 150 pounds and he arrived on set a few days before filming at 210 pounds. Gosling says, "I really believed he (the character) should be 210 pounds. I mean, I was melting Haagen-Daaz and drinking it when I was thirsty. I really believed in it, I was really excited about it. And I showed up and he (Jackson) said, 'You look terrible.' And I said, 'I know, isn't it great?' 'No, it's not. Hit the treadmill."
Gosling explained the weight gain was just one sign of a different interpretation of the character and that in the end, "I showed up on...
Gosling explained the weight gain was just one sign of a different interpretation of the character and that in the end, "I showed up on...
- 12/3/2010
- by tara@kidspickflicks.com (Tara the Mom)
- kidspickflicks
A Norman Rockwell painting which once belonged to moviemaker Steven Spielberg is to go on show in Rhode Island after lawmakers ruled FBI officials were wrong to list the piece as stolen art.
Spielberg voluntarily handed over Rockwell's Russian Schoolroom in 2007 after it landed on a most wanted list.
A judge in Las Vegas ruled earlier this month that the painting, which Spielberg paid $200,000 (£125,000) for, could be returned to the owner - after investigators declared it was a legitimate purchase.
Rockwell's 1967 painting was stolen from a Missouri gallery in 1973, but ownership had been resolved by the time the piece was auctioned in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1988.
New York art dealer Judy Goffman Cutler bought the item and then sold it to Spielberg in 1989.
Jack Solomon, the owner of the Russian Schoolroom at the time of the 1973 theft, sued Spielberg in 2007 for ownership and Cutler stepped in and replaced the painting with another Rockwell piece to protect the filmmaker from legal problems.
She took over as the defendant, and the new ruling means the painting is now rightfully hers again.
It is not known if the piece will be returned to Spielberg, who "never should have had to give it up," according to Cutler's lawyer Gene Brockland.
For the time being, the painting will be displayed at the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island, which Cutler co-founded, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Spielberg voluntarily handed over Rockwell's Russian Schoolroom in 2007 after it landed on a most wanted list.
A judge in Las Vegas ruled earlier this month that the painting, which Spielberg paid $200,000 (£125,000) for, could be returned to the owner - after investigators declared it was a legitimate purchase.
Rockwell's 1967 painting was stolen from a Missouri gallery in 1973, but ownership had been resolved by the time the piece was auctioned in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1988.
New York art dealer Judy Goffman Cutler bought the item and then sold it to Spielberg in 1989.
Jack Solomon, the owner of the Russian Schoolroom at the time of the 1973 theft, sued Spielberg in 2007 for ownership and Cutler stepped in and replaced the painting with another Rockwell piece to protect the filmmaker from legal problems.
She took over as the defendant, and the new ruling means the painting is now rightfully hers again.
It is not known if the piece will be returned to Spielberg, who "never should have had to give it up," according to Cutler's lawyer Gene Brockland.
For the time being, the painting will be displayed at the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island, which Cutler co-founded, according to the Los Angeles Times.
- 4/20/2010
- WENN
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