With final Oscar balloting closed on March 7, we’re continuing with our sixth annual series of interviews with Academy voters from different branches for their unfiltered takes on what got picked, overlooked, and overvalued in the 2023 award season. Interview edited for brevity.
Best Picture
Well, this year is the year of the repeat for me. I watched more movies a second time to try and figure out why I didn’t like them the first time.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” I watched three and a half times. I thought it was a generational thing. But then everyone else I know loved it. So I watched it once in the theater and I go, “I don’t really get it.” And I tried it a second time on the [Academy screening] portal. And I gave up halfway. And then it won all the awards. And I said to myself, “I’m not sure,...
Best Picture
Well, this year is the year of the repeat for me. I watched more movies a second time to try and figure out why I didn’t like them the first time.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” I watched three and a half times. I thought it was a generational thing. But then everyone else I know loved it. So I watched it once in the theater and I go, “I don’t really get it.” And I tried it a second time on the [Academy screening] portal. And I gave up halfway. And then it won all the awards. And I said to myself, “I’m not sure,...
- 3/11/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
“Fairytale of New York” is a drunken hymn for people with broken dreams and abandoned hopes. It is, therefore, a perfect contrast to some of the perkier perennial favourites we wheel out each Christmas.
The song begins with its narrator, an Irish immigrant, being thrown into a drunk tank to sleep off his Christmas Eve binge.
Hearing an old man sing the Irish ballad “The Rare Old Mountain Dew”, he begins to dream about his memories of the female character in the song, and so begins the story of two people who fell in love in America, only to see their plans of a bright future dashed.
Some of the best songs combine uplifting instrumentation with lyrics that are downright miserable, and such is the case for “Fairytale of New York”. It has none of the gooeyness of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” or Wham!
The song begins with its narrator, an Irish immigrant, being thrown into a drunk tank to sleep off his Christmas Eve binge.
Hearing an old man sing the Irish ballad “The Rare Old Mountain Dew”, he begins to dream about his memories of the female character in the song, and so begins the story of two people who fell in love in America, only to see their plans of a bright future dashed.
Some of the best songs combine uplifting instrumentation with lyrics that are downright miserable, and such is the case for “Fairytale of New York”. It has none of the gooeyness of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” or Wham!
- 12/16/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
“Fairytale of New York” is a drunken hymn for people with broken dreams and abandoned hopes. It is, therefore, a perfect contrast to some of the perkier perennial favourites we wheel out each Christmas.
The song begins with its narrator, an Irish immigrant, being thrown into a drunk tank to sleep off his Christmas Eve binge.
Hearing an old man sing the Irish ballad “The Rare Old Mountain Dew”, he begins to dream about his memories of the female character in the song, and so begins the story of two people who fell in love in America, only to see their plans of a bright future dashed.
Some of the best songs combine uplifting instrumentation with lyrics that are downright miserable, and such is the case for “Fairytale of New York”. It has none of the gooeyness of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” or Wham!
The song begins with its narrator, an Irish immigrant, being thrown into a drunk tank to sleep off his Christmas Eve binge.
Hearing an old man sing the Irish ballad “The Rare Old Mountain Dew”, he begins to dream about his memories of the female character in the song, and so begins the story of two people who fell in love in America, only to see their plans of a bright future dashed.
Some of the best songs combine uplifting instrumentation with lyrics that are downright miserable, and such is the case for “Fairytale of New York”. It has none of the gooeyness of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” or Wham!
- 12/16/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
Every year we hear the same Christmas songs again and again and again, the playlist seldom changing.
While the supermarkets might stick rigidly to Slade and Wizzard, and the high street coffee shops prefer the gingerbread-and-eggnog stylings of Michael Buble, Norah Jones or the Rat Pack, variation is minimal and certain tracks just will not go away.
You might wonder how much cash the writers of the more ubiquitous seasonal standards squirrel away every year and whether it’s really possible to live on the royalties.
In Nick Hornby’s novel About a Boy (1998), Will Freeman does precisely that, living an agreeably idle bachelor life on the proceeds of a festive single written by his late father.
The truth is, it’s hard to say for sure precisely how much The Pogues or Mariah Carey have coined from their work as the Performing Right Society (Prs) does not reveal the...
While the supermarkets might stick rigidly to Slade and Wizzard, and the high street coffee shops prefer the gingerbread-and-eggnog stylings of Michael Buble, Norah Jones or the Rat Pack, variation is minimal and certain tracks just will not go away.
You might wonder how much cash the writers of the more ubiquitous seasonal standards squirrel away every year and whether it’s really possible to live on the royalties.
In Nick Hornby’s novel About a Boy (1998), Will Freeman does precisely that, living an agreeably idle bachelor life on the proceeds of a festive single written by his late father.
The truth is, it’s hard to say for sure precisely how much The Pogues or Mariah Carey have coined from their work as the Performing Right Society (Prs) does not reveal the...
- 12/13/2022
- by Joe Sommerlad
- The Independent - Music
Years ago, when the Vertigo Comics series Fables was particularly popular, Warner Bros. was talking about making a movie based on it, and for a long time Harry Potter director David Yates was attached to direct it with it being produced by that franchise’s David Heyman.
Not that long ago, Yates dropped out of the project, and when you see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them it might be obvious why, because the two projects certainly have similarities, dealing with fantasy and magic brought into the real world, specifically New York City.
When Lrm spoke with Heyman and Yates at the Fantastic Beasts junket last week, we asked them both about the project, firstly asking Yates whether the similarities were why he dropped out of the project.
“Do you know what's really strange? I'll tell you what's really odd,” he said. “There were two things I was quite...
Not that long ago, Yates dropped out of the project, and when you see Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them it might be obvious why, because the two projects certainly have similarities, dealing with fantasy and magic brought into the real world, specifically New York City.
When Lrm spoke with Heyman and Yates at the Fantastic Beasts junket last week, we asked them both about the project, firstly asking Yates whether the similarities were why he dropped out of the project.
“Do you know what's really strange? I'll tell you what's really odd,” he said. “There were two things I was quite...
- 11/12/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
According to Variety, J.P. Donleavy‘s 1968 novel, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, has been picked up by Donleavy-Mitchell and Honora Productions for a big screen adaption.
The novel, which has been translated into over 20 languages since its 1968 release, “follows the eponymous character — a shy and elegant young man who is victim of a bizarre series of misadventures — from his birth into his mid-20s.” Donleavy himself adapted the novel for the stage, which ran in London’s West End and starred Billy Connoly and Simon Callow.
85 year-old Donleavy is keeping this project very close, as he is also writing the screenplay alongside his son Philip. They previously worked together on adapting Donleavy‘s first novel, The Ginger Man, who Johnny Depp as a potential candidate to star. Robert Mitchell and Giles Andrew from Honora are producing the latest project.
To give the project a little more insight, here’s...
The novel, which has been translated into over 20 languages since its 1968 release, “follows the eponymous character — a shy and elegant young man who is victim of a bizarre series of misadventures — from his birth into his mid-20s.” Donleavy himself adapted the novel for the stage, which ran in London’s West End and starred Billy Connoly and Simon Callow.
85 year-old Donleavy is keeping this project very close, as he is also writing the screenplay alongside his son Philip. They previously worked together on adapting Donleavy‘s first novel, The Ginger Man, who Johnny Depp as a potential candidate to star. Robert Mitchell and Giles Andrew from Honora are producing the latest project.
To give the project a little more insight, here’s...
- 3/13/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Johnny Depp, who topped the Forbes list last year and this time he finished in second place, is the forward-thinking man who option the rights to The Vault, an Image comic book through his production company, along with producer Graham King.
Creator and writer,Sam Sarkar briefly explained his three part comic book:
The Vault is kind of a contemporary Pandora’s Box story. Though it appears on the surface to be a pretty straightforward story, it has most of its mythology buried deeply. It gets uncovered both literally and figuratively as the pit gets excavated.
Yes, the Vault is about a small squad of treasure hunters, struggling to unearth a dangerous and legendary treasure pit before a huge tempest hits Sable Island, the ‘Graveyard of the North Atlantic.’ Fully equipped with all new technology, the scientists think they are prepared against nature’s fury, but nothing can prepare them...
Creator and writer,Sam Sarkar briefly explained his three part comic book:
The Vault is kind of a contemporary Pandora’s Box story. Though it appears on the surface to be a pretty straightforward story, it has most of its mythology buried deeply. It gets uncovered both literally and figuratively as the pit gets excavated.
Yes, the Vault is about a small squad of treasure hunters, struggling to unearth a dangerous and legendary treasure pit before a huge tempest hits Sable Island, the ‘Graveyard of the North Atlantic.’ Fully equipped with all new technology, the scientists think they are prepared against nature’s fury, but nothing can prepare them...
- 8/5/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Johnny Depp has admitted that there are still a number of dream projects he wants to be a part of, despite already having appeared in nearly 50 films over the course of his career so far. Depp said that he has one or two pet projects he wants to get off the ground before even considering retiring from acting, including an adaptation of J.P. Donleavy's novel The Ginger Man. "There's certain books that I've been in love with for years that I'd love to bring to life, things like Tom Robbins's Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. That's a great, great book," Depp explained to Fox News. "We're (more)...
- 2/27/2011
- by By Tom Ayres
- Digital Spy
It looks that Johnny Depp is still interested in that The Ginger Man, an adaptation of J.P. Donleavy novel.
I’ve been reading some articles about Depp and his recent work and I’m not sure what to think about the whole thing. Some say he’s too occupied with that Pirates-Of-The-Caribbean-making-me-a-millionaire project(s), which is true, of course.
But, on the other hand, you can’t blame man for being so lucky and loved by almost everyone out there who would pay a ticket to see him on a big screen.
So, we watched Depp in almost everything, but is there something left to check before he turns away from Hollywood once and for all?
According to the interview he had with Fox News, Depp said he still has every intention of making The Ginger Man, and some other projects, as well:
“I’m going to have to play...
I’ve been reading some articles about Depp and his recent work and I’m not sure what to think about the whole thing. Some say he’s too occupied with that Pirates-Of-The-Caribbean-making-me-a-millionaire project(s), which is true, of course.
But, on the other hand, you can’t blame man for being so lucky and loved by almost everyone out there who would pay a ticket to see him on a big screen.
So, we watched Depp in almost everything, but is there something left to check before he turns away from Hollywood once and for all?
According to the interview he had with Fox News, Depp said he still has every intention of making The Ginger Man, and some other projects, as well:
“I’m going to have to play...
- 2/26/2011
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Since as far back as 2006, international superstar Johnny Depp has been interested in one day adapting J.P. Donleavy's novel The Ginger Man. Obviously he's been a little busy over the past five years, so it's not surprising it hasn't happened yet. However, in speaking with Fox News (via Cinematical), Depp said he still has every intention of making the project. While speaking of the roles he'd like to step into before he retires (don't worry, it won't be anytime soon), the actor said, "There's certain books that I've been in love with for years that I'd love to bring to life." One is h Ginger Man, and the other is a title that hasn't come up before. Depp said he's interested in "things like Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates that's a great, great book." For those interested, here's the wholly peculiar synopsis for Robbins' story: The...
- 2/25/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
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