Guy Lodge
@GuyLodge
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Film critic: Variety, The Observer, The Guardian, more. Co-pilot of https://t.co/efqsyLufkM. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.
London, England
Joined July 2009
Now online: “Phantom Attachments”, my essay for the @Criterion edition of Andrew Haigh’s newly-wrenching-every-time ALL OF US STRANGERS. This was most rewarding to write, and Andrew Chan’s editing had much to do with that. Let’s hear it for the Andrews.
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Probably the woman he’s been with for 12 years and had two kids with, but I’m just spitballing here.
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Are Krasinski and Tucci secretly in OPPENHEIMER or is Blunt simply not allowed to go anywhere without them.
Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and John Krasinski in Paris for #Oppenheimer
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That Best Picture nomination ensures that everyone is now going to watch I’M STILL HERE, and once they do, I think a whole lot of people are going to switch their planned Best Actress vote.
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THE SHAPE OF WATER is the first Best Picture winner with a female lead since MILLION DOLLAR BABY thirteen years ago.
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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not Jellicles can and Jellicles do, they didn't stop to think if Jellicles should.
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There are a lot of jobs in filmmaking that are highly skilled and valuable to the process, but aren’t really suited to competition, and surely intimacy coordination falls under that category.
The Art of Filming Sex Safely and the Case for an Intimacy Coordinator Oscar
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Two teasers in, I haven't a clue what the film is about and I am sold. See how it's done?.
Cannes of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos' KINDS OF KINDNESS comes to this year's @Festival_Cannes. In select theaters June 21st. #KindsofKindness #Cannes2024
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Has a film ever received this much sympathy for getting eight Oscar nominations.
Greta & Margot,. While it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you. You’re both so much more than Kenough. #HillaryBarbie.
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Oscar season: when people who don’t watch a lot of movies rage against people who do watch a lot of movies for not being open-minded enough.
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If Christopher Nolan had decided to make a film about the Japanese experience of the atom bomb, that would have gone very well and there’d have been no complaints.
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Yes, Martin Scorsese should really consider getting into film preservation
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Are you saying a sex scene did in fact propel the story forward
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What has broken down in our comprehension of performance that people couldn’t see this was a standard hacky bit.
Amy Schumer has addressed criticism of her Kirsten Dunst seat filler joke — “That was a choreographed bit she was in on. Wouldn’t disrespect a queen like that.”
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An all-time great award presentation by John Mulaney followed by an all-time great win for The Zone of Interest followed by an all-time great production number from Gosling — this is as good as the Oscars get.
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I think in this era the definition of “movie star” should be someone who just floats above all this.
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If you needed a perfect illustration of how studios see their superhero films as product rather than cinema — you know, like Scorsese said, to the misplaced consternation of millions of fans — this BATGIRL story is it.
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So many terrible things happened at the Oscars last night, but let us never forget the absolute joy and beauty of *both* those stupid Twitter votes getting sabotaged by deranged Zack Snyder fans. Congratulations to them, as well as a sincere thank you.
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Any, congratulations on an early Christmas Day for Brazilian Film Twitter, a group so ardent and impassioned in advocating their faves that they make Ariana Grande stans look lazy.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye winning more Oscars than The Power of the Dog is not where I saw this awards season going a few weeks ago, I must admit.
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*sits bolt upright in bed with the belated realisation that they called it Wonder Woman 1984 so it wouldn’t be abbreviated to WW2*.
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EEAAO isn’t my jam, personally, but I’m okay with a big Oscar win for a distinctive, unusual film and a legitimate phenomenon that actually means something to people — as opposed a purely manufactured campaign narrative like CODA last year.
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I've joked a lot about CATS over the years, but here is an entirely serious, sincere opinion: the best thing in the film, the one performer who completely hits their marks and pulls off the lone successful number, is. Taylor Swift.
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Went to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul today and it was dazzling, but I ended up taking a hundred photos of the mosque cat instead
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I’m so glad Colin Farrell didn’t have to star in a dreary biopic to finally get everyone to formally recognise how good he’s always been.
Best Actor: Colin Farrell, AFTER YANG and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (71 points). Runners-up:.Paul Mescal, AFTERSUN (55 points).Bill Nighy, LIVING (33 points).
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Can’t repeat this enough: you don’t want a very good, very interesting actor’s prime years all snagged up with playing James Bond.
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I've sat through a lot of dreary superhero films but DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE was the first to actually make me think mainstream cinema might not be salvageable.
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This thread is a JOURNEY, but worth the length. You couldn’t satirise influencer culture any better than this.
That Instagram influencer I occasionally check in on because she's The Worst is now charging $165 for a 4 hour "seminar" on how to be yourself.
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“Jew hatred won the day” is such a stupid, ugly thing to say about a Jewish artist who made that film, of all films, and spoke sincerely about his faith and his politics, whether you share them or not.
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
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Sympathetic shoutout to Denis Villeneuve. It happens sometimes, but to see every formal element of your film get nominated and then get no recognition for marshalling them all — that’s a rough deal.
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People keep saying Trump will forever be known as the man who destroyed the Republican Party, but I intend to remember him for his failures, not his accomplishments.
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That wasn’t even a sex scene
Gen Z want less sex in movies, according to a new study. A new study of 10 - 24 year olds found that 47% said sex “isn’t needed” for most TV shows & movies while 44% believe romance is “overused”. (Source:
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Also: if, as an actor, you find sex scenes uncomfortable and don’t want to do them, that’s fine! But I don’t know, doesn’t framing it this way — as some kind of breach of fidelity — seem weird to the people you’ve worked with?
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Why does she keep sharing the jokes even the Oscar producers didn’t think were funny.
Amy Schumer shares one joke she couldn’t say at the Oscars. “My husband goes down on me, or as he calls it Squid Game, so he’s in my Nightmare Alley, my House of Gucci, I say C’mon C’mon, he goes tick tick BOOM, he Belfast. I say get off my Dune and that’s how our son was born.”
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Bong Joon-ho getting a Best Director award from Spike Lee, and shouting out Scorsese and Tarantino. Kind of a perfect Oscar moment.
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RECALL ME BY YOUR NAME, guys, this is pathetically easy.
Luca Guadagnino wants Dakota Johnson to play Armie Hammer's wife in the #CallMeByYourName sequel, but he's struggling with a name: “The only problem is the title. It cannot be ‘Call Me by Your Name Two.’”
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Very glad to see that future knitwear/coatporn classic KNIVES OUT was rewarded by the Costume Designers' Guild. Would have been a fun Oscar nominee if it ever occurred to the Academy that films set in the present day have costumes too.
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It wasn’t anything new, but I’m thinking about how at last night’s Barbie screening we signed a review embargo and were then told, “But we do want to hear all your positive reactions on social media!” I can’t think why people keep getting critics and influencers mixed up!.
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The Bon Iver duet being my favourite track on the Taylor Swift album is the kind of twist that would happen in 2020.
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Watched the trailer for DEAR EVAN HANSEN and I think we destroyed the Golden Globes just in time.
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Jessica Chastain winning an Oscar for a film that critics didn’t like *and* that nobody saw would be quite something.
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Very bad, yes. A deeply disappointing upset, yes. And yet still not as much of a non-movie as CODA.
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TOY STORY 4 was released four months ago, got glowing reviews and made a billion dollars — yet doesn't it kind of already feel as if it never happened?.
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PARASITE has now won awards from four guilds: the Screen Actors' Guild, the Writers' Guild of America, the American Cinema Editors and the Art Directors' Guild. It's the first non-English-language film to win the SAG cast award, and the first to win any award from the WGA or ACE.
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I’ve looked at a lot of cats in my life and I’ve never seen one with a tail coming out of its ass
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I don't really know what to say about CATS at this early stage, since a perfectly credible reaction like "it's one of the worst pieces of art I've ever witnessed" can only sound like empty hyperbole. Maybe I should just wait a few months.
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That’s how you do a teaser, folks.
This is it. The moment of truth. KINDS OF KINDNESS. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer. In theaters June 21st. #KindsofKindness
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Big fan of how Baz Luhrmann has claimed three writing credits on one movie
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If you watched I’M NOT THERE and INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and thought, “Well, those films elegantly and imaginatively evoked the soul of Bob Dylan but all I’m after is the facts,” then A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is the film for you. Handsome and workmanlike, so fully at odds with its subject.
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I really hope this pair of shopfronts is not a sign of the Best Director race to come.
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Having a star of one of the year’s certain Best Picture nominees announce the nominations is tacky, sorry
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Just thinking how much better Hoult would have been in DON’T WORRY DARLING and MY POLICEMAN.
Nicholas Hoult joins Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU, replacing Harry Styles.
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It’s so satisfying when they choose exactly the right clip. The *layers* in these 30 seconds! Robbed.
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Do these people think all sex scenes involve real sex? Is that what’s driving this discourse? We need to figure out what’s going on.
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Every condemnation of Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar speech underlines his point, perhaps even more plainly than he made it himself.
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This is all well and good, and some fine work has come out of it, but I wouldn’t call his choices adventurous either: huge studio prestige productions with established male directors.
Unlike virtually every other A-lister, @LeoDiCaprio has rebuffed franchises, has never donned spandex, wielded a lightsaber or starred in a sequel – yet he has dominated the box office (and awards season) for more than two decades
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The Academy really can’t win, can it? They nominate a big, broad, starry comedy that millions upon millions of people have seen: “No, not popular enough!” They nominate a big, starry sci-fi epic that has made $400 million: “No, too elitist! Marvel or bust!”.
Jimmy Kimmel slams #OscarNoms: "You’re telling me ‘Don’t Look Up’ was better than ‘Spider-Man?’ It most certainly was not! Why do best picture noms have to be serious? When did that become a prerequisite for getting nominated for an Academy Award?"
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When ANATOMY OF A FALL wins at least one Oscar — as I think it will — Messi deserves a significant amount of credit. That boy has done the work.
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Jeremy Hunt, the *better* of two candidates for Prime Minister, actually said this, and I just had to write it down verbatim, so I can stare at it in complete disbelief.
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This may or may not be good, but it’s so rare to see films now with this sheer, opulent sense of *scale*.
He came from nothing. He conquered everything. From acclaimed director Ridley Scott, @NapoleonMovie is exclusively in movie theaters this Thanksgiving. Watch the official trailer now.
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There can be a hundred people in a room, and sometimes one of them is Glenn Close.
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Lady Gaga being billed as “Academy Award winner” on the HOUSE OF GUCCI poster may be technically legit, but it is also high camp.
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Is Donald Trump the single most stupid person ever to have led a country?
BAIER: Kim Jong Un is "clearly executing people.". TRUMP: "He's a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people, and you take it over from your father . if you could do that at 27-years old, I mean, that's 1 in 10,000 that could do that." (via FOX)
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Lady Gaga is following Cher’s exact Oscar trajectory: A STAR IS BORN was her “see, I’m a real actor now” nomination à la SILKWOOD, HOUSE OF GUCCI her “not so fast” snub à la MASK, followed by a good-sport presenter slot at the show. What’ll be her MOONSTRUCK in two years’ time?.
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I mean, ideally it would have lost to MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, but at least it lost.
Reminder that THE REVENANT lost the Best Picture Oscar to…. SPOTLIGHT.
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Many Trump/Brexit supporters now saying they refuse to visit France. Truly, the French have so much to celebrate today.
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A critical factor to note about Olivia Colman’s upset victory: it was not heavily campaign-aided. Filming The Crown in the UK severely limited her visibility and availability for interviews and gladhanding the last couple of months. She won it on performance.
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There is no assignment in film criticism that requires as much tactful eggshell-treading as reviewing a Beyonce album.
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If GREEN BOOK wins Best Picture, don’t fret: we can persuade the Academy to change their mind in a week.
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I never really understood where the Giamatti-as-frontrunner talk came from. Over *this* performance in *that* movie?.
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@jonathanmb32 They actually made a few good calls here. But the Matt Damon entry is bizarre — he was already a major star in his own right by that point.
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The Cesars made Claire Denis present Best Director to Polanski? There's insult, there's injury, and then there's something else.
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