“One Battle After One other” has screened for press and business, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s raved-about motion thriller (which can also be a comedy!) is now an Oscar frontrunner, as IndieWire’s Anne Thompson already stated. (IndieWire’s David Ehrlich additionally referred to as it presumably the perfect American studio film since he turned a movie critic. That’s setting down some large footwear to fill.)
Nonetheless, on this week’s episode of IndieWire’s “Display screen Speak” podcast, co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio make amends for the film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a former revolutionary trying to find his lacking daughter (Chase Infiniti) after a fabled former enemy (Sean Penn) returns. Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, and Regina Corridor additionally star in an epic that will run 2 hours, 40 minutes, and alter, however it appears like 90 minutes. Ryan thinks “One Battle After One other” will go all the way in which to win a number of high Oscars and possibly Greatest Image, whereas Anne makes the case for Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” and Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” to do the identical.
Talking of, Ryan lastly caught up on “Hamnet” after lacking out on Telluride and Toronto. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal give transferring performances as a grieving William Shakespeare and his spouse after their son dies of the plague, however Ryan had a bone to select about using Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight” in a key emotional climax, a bit we’ve already heard in “Arrival,” “The Final of Us,” and “Shutter Island” in equally cathartic moments. Plus, Richter had an entire authentic rating (one more likely to be Oscar-nominated) written and prepared, proper there!
We additionally recap what went down ultimately weekend’s Venice Movie Competition awards, the place Alexander Payne’s jury controversially selected Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mom Sister Brother” because the Golden Lion winner over projected winner “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s pro-Palestine Gaza rescue drama.
Hearken to this week’s episode beneath.