Murtada Elfadl
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Culture Writer & Critic / @Variety /Curator @NewFestNYC @DOCNYCfest / Queer / Sudani / murtada.elfadl @gmail .com
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Thank you to Millennium Docs Against Gravity for giving me the space to speak about what’s happening in Sudan at their closing ceremony.
#freesudan
#keepeyesonsudan
#talkaboutsudan
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Judi Dench is right there so is Javier Bardem ... why didn't they present the Bond montage?
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happy fall it's the season for buying the flowers yourself
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Neon is a distributor / corporation not a filmmaker nor an artist, this means nothing
NEON has now won the Palme d’Or four consecutive times in a row
#CannesFilmFestival
#Awards
#FilmTwitter
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When Angela Bassett wins the oscar she must start het speech by saying “and in the words of ariana debose, i did the thing”
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Cuba Gooding’s son, Jonah Hill’s sister and Carrie Fisher’s daughter. They are all good but come on don’t go overboard with “opening doors” proclamations
Olivia Wilde shares the casting process behind
#Booksmart
, which premieres this weekend: "Turns out, when you really open up the doors and look at all the talent, you end up with a representative cast because the world is naturally diverse"
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If/when Penelope Cruz wins the Oscar for Parallel Mothers it will also be for all the other fabulous collaborations she made with Almodovar
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People used to try and anoint a Meryl Streep successor but quietly the lady herself has chosen one. This is not the first time Streep showed up to honor Carey Mulligan
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RRR the most exuberant movie experience of the year, so happy i finally saw it
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John Magaro should be winning all the awards for Past Lives
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Enough with Julia Fox. One good performance does not give her this much time in the culture. Make a few more good movies first.
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Already a classic scene and it’s not even the best scene in TÁR ( thT would be Juilliard)
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Kate Winslet is back on hbo yet no one - from what i see - is talking about her show at all. What gives?
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worlds collided Blanchet, Almodovar and Cruz it's almost unbearable
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Why is everyone writing Amy Adams’ career obituary today? So the last 2 movies didn’t work. She’s still in mid career and has many years and great performances ahead of her.
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Smh Oscar pundits who admit that they still haven’t seen Miss Juneteenth. On a podcast no less. Even after Nicole Beharie won the Gothams. That’s what happened last year with Clemency.
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Well May December hive, let’s celebrate that original screenplay nomination
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Thank you IndieWire for the news flash that queer love stories have been done to death.
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Congratulations to the Hollywood Reporter for finding all the assholes who vote for the Oscars
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if Damien Chazelle's Babylon is really about Hollywood in the silent film era, may i present the perfect person to star in it: Ruth Negga
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fuck the andrea riseborogh "grassroots" campaign crowding out one of the best performances in danielle deadwyler
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And here it is; Denzel Washington remains WITHOUT a bafta nomination. Ever!
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Frances McDormand has three times more best actress Oscars than all Black actresses in the 93 year history of the Oscars.
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hello leo and bradley cooper, take a few supporting roles in female led films
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Penelope Cruz SHOULD win for an Almodovar movie... it's just the right thing to do
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cate is cosplaying as the other great kate, the one with 4 oscars
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If you haven’t seen Diana Ross’ Mahogany, you haven’t known cinema
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after all the pundits dismissed her chances Ruth Negga was nominated... hope that pattern repeats again this year
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Quoted in this Tar poster!!
yet despite my gorgeous writing the academy’s sound branch passes
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Lydia Tár is an EGOT however I expect Cate Blanchett will be an OOO in a few months.
Yes, I saw Tár!
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Lady Gaga deserves her exceptional awards season, not just for the choice bon mots she provides on the press tour but for the performance itself... I wrote about it back in November for
@Into_tweets
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Eileen is a movie that made me think “fucking fantastic,” so many times while I was watching it.
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everybody who thinks The Trial of the Chicago 7 deserves awards, just go so see Mangrove
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second viewing of TÁR revealed Nina Hoss' absolute genius. Just watch her face - the history of that relationship, all the things that happen off screen are in full view on her face. Cate is a master of course but Hoss matches her wonderfully.
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Todd Field, Nina Hoss and Cate @ nyff press conference for tar
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Where is Ruth Negga? One of the most exciting actors to appear in the last decade
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why do so many people think Viola Davis will not be nominated tomorrow? She been nommed by all the "precursors." She's a 4 time nominee, and she's run a great campaign highligting her roles as both actor and producer
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2019 was JLo's year yet awards seem not to comprehend that simple fact. JLo could play the part in MS - any capable actress could - but could anyone else be Ramona? No.
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how could not love this face colin farrell keeps making in banshees of inisherin, reason enough to live the movie
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The Underground Railroad; meticulous, moving and deliberate storytelling….and distinctly from Barry Jenkins. Of the actors the standout is Sheila Atim in her spotlight episode. She just raises the bar so much more.
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The Ruth Negga Oscars omission brings back memories of the Carol best pic omission ie trauma
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Rob Morgan and his sad eyes save The Photograph. He comes in for two scenes, and gives the movie depth, meaning and pathos.
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The holy pope of cinema has spoken
Martin Scorsese: The ‘Clouds Lifted’ for Cinema’s Future When I Saw ‘TÁR’
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and here’s a pic of Cate between Julianna Margulies and Gina Gershon
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people are dying, we might be in a pandemic for another year or two, the sanctity and survival of the theatrical experience is the last thing I'm thinking about
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after two fantastic cameos (Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza), it's time for Paul Thomas Anderson to give Harriet Sansom Harris the lead role in his next film
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More Blanchett; exactly what I want. Make it 6 hours!
Todd Field's TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett, is 2 hours and 38 minutes.
See the first teaser ahead of a Venice 2022 premiere:
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the star of the night has arrived... let's go Dame Judi Dench
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Cate Blanchett wins the trifecta of critics awards for the second time
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, TÁR (59 points)
Runners-up:
Michelle Yeoh, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (38 points)
Tilda Swinton, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, and Michelle Williams, THE FABELMANS (27 points)
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everyone loves Mahler and his 5th symphony all of a sudden. I wonder why?
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Love the “her” and “her” chairs on TÁR, frankly an inspiration and aspiration
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Harriet is not my favorite film of the year but if you gave hours of your life to see Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything, you have time for a Harriet Tubman movie.
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the whiplash of seeing Carol and Therese in a totally different world ... yet still in the 1950s
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Yeah yeah it’s cate vs michelle but here’s a pic of me with the year’s real best actress
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Todd Field writing a film for the C/Kates? Is he inside my fantasy world?
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TÁR isn't just another movie—this is an immersive visual and aural experience. Blanchett is utterly bewitching. We understand her appeal and are drawn to her, despite all that’s transpiring......my review
@TheAVClub
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Do NOT like it when film critics use melodrama as derogatory.
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what i did to myself ater listening to kelly clarkson and those two dudes babble on and say nothing of consequence for hours
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To reward the actors who played the queen, philip and charles but pointedly not diana is very royalist of the emmys
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Well this MUST be included in the Will Smith movie
That’s Richard Williams & Oracene Price’s daughter right there
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Succession season 3 shooting around the corner. It’s coming !
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Cate Blanchett as Andy Warhol. You know what to do, Todd Haynes!
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Cate Blanchett would appear for photo shoots in Schiaparelli couture the same weekend but won’t show up on the zoom
#GoldenGlobes
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With both Ruth Negga and Jennifer Hudson not getting nominated Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg and Octavia Spencer remain the only Black actresses to be nominated more than once
#OscarNoms
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Sudan submitting a film to the Oscars for the first time
بكل فخر نعلن رسميًا عن اختيار #ستموت_العشرين سيمثّل #ألسودان رسميًا ولأول مرة في تاريخ السودان في سباق الأوسكار لأفضل فيلم دولي لعام 2021. لحظة تاريخية لفيلمنا الذي يعتبر ثامن فيلم روائي طويل في تاريخ السودان. لحظة رائعة لكل صانع أفلام سوداني لطالما انتظر الفرصة.
#Oscars2021
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I once asked Marion Cotillard who her favorite actress was, her very specific answer: Toni Collette in The Hours. Happy 44th, Toni.
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about time someone disrupted an awards show, and still almost everyone on stage buried their heads in the sand and refused to acknowledge the protestors
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when you mention The Farewell as "foreign" in any context, you devalue the contributins of all immigrants to this country. It is the most quintessentially American film of 2019. Happy to see Awkwafina win
#GoldenGlobes
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Now that Thelma and Louise were s getting the criterion treatment, maybe next it can be Notes on a Scandal and I get to write that essay
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She’s gonna be sublime
Ruth Negga will star in and executive produce
#Josephine
, a limited drama series about legendary Jazz age performer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker.
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why are y'all highlighting and quoting that bad review of TÁR? Highlight good writing on the film like my review found right here:
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there are some bad performances nominated for acting this year, like worst of the decade
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exclusive: sources close to the show reveal that lydia tár's magnum opus "apartment for sale" will open the show
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Cate Blanchett woke up this morning and said “ Gimme SHOULDERS”
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You can keep your omicron jokes & memes. For those us with family in sub saharan Africa, this is personal. It means we might NOT see those family members we’ve been waiting to see for 2 years.
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Look I like Nomadland and thinks its filmmaking is brilliant aesthetically, however some of the criticism it’s getting right now is not backlash and is valid. It is a very white movie.
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