Seems like it
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 1, 2022 3:44 PM |
Cate does seem to enjoy playing the lezzers.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 1, 2022 3:46 PM |
Guess Michelle Williams will be going as Supporting for Fablemens
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 1, 2022 3:51 PM |
This looks good. I'm glad to see a movie taking on the subject of "cancel culture" or whatever you want to call our current cultural climate in a nuanced way. Blanchett seems well suited to this role.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 1, 2022 3:51 PM |
The reviews are that good I’m thinking it could get Best Picture.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 1, 2022 3:55 PM |
Ham Blanchett.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 1, 2022 3:57 PM |
Lol at them playing it safe by making this about a female character. Pathetic.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 1, 2022 3:59 PM |
I loved Todd field’s other two films Little Children and In the Bedroom so I look forward to this one.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 1, 2022 4:01 PM |
She's so tiired. Retire her please. For her own sake. Hag
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 1, 2022 4:02 PM |
Damn, I was not expecting such strong reviews. It's an artsy cerebral film though, I can see it bombing at the box office and then missing out on the BP Oscar because of that.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 1, 2022 4:02 PM |
PSSSST
The last film to win best picture grossed 1.6 million at the NA box office
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 1, 2022 4:04 PM |
R7 I think it's an interesting choice, not a cop out. Among other reasons, it's more likely to provoke empathy from some of those that would instinctively distrust the premise if it was a man. It also allows for an exploration of power dynamics not influenced by gender, but other factors
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 1, 2022 4:05 PM |
I hope she roasts Julia roberts in her acceptance speech again.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 1, 2022 4:05 PM |
Isn't this in the same ballpark as Miss Cooper's Bernstein biopic? I get my talents-misbehaving plots mixed up.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 1, 2022 4:06 PM |
[quote] It also allows for an exploration of power dynamics not influenced by gender, but other factors
They could easily have done that with a gay male character.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 1, 2022 4:07 PM |
Suck it, Julia!
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 1, 2022 4:17 PM |
R15 Yes, I considered that as well. It could be interesting, but it would be a bit more fraught, given the history of gay men being portrayed as sexually predatory to a somewhat larger degree than lesbians. That doesn't mean this sort of story couldn't or shouldn't be told about gay men, but the reception and context would be different. Would you as a (presumably) gay man prefer it with gay men?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 1, 2022 4:30 PM |
The story of a ball-breaking, once-in-a-generation cultural icon who is cancelled?
I’m up for this!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 2, 2022 5:05 AM |
The movie looks amazing. I was surprised to learn that Todd Field was the piano player in Eyes Wide Shut (he also helped invent Big League Chew bubblegum that was purchased by Wrigley's for $800 million, I wonder if he got a cut). I only recently learned that Cate was in EWS indirectly; she did the voice, with an American accent, of one of the nude masked female models at the ball that Tom Cruise crashes. I think that Todd Field was a Kubrick protégée and I noticed some Kubrickian references in the TÁR preview ads.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 2, 2022 5:35 PM |
She looks like Tilda in that photo. Interesting. Movie sounds great. I will watch. Love me some Cate.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 2, 2022 5:50 PM |
I love Cate Blanchett, but coming from the classical music industry, this movie sounds absolutely insufferable. I guarantee Fields will get 99% of how classical music functions completely wrong. The fact that they’re using Bernstein as a name check, as well as focussing largely on her conducting of Mahler’s Fifth as some sort of career pinnacle is already more than cliche and eye rolling. And couching that in a metoo metaphor? And I’m sure we’re going to hear for months about how she “learned” conducting technique, piano, and German all in a few months and she’s an expert now. I’m sure there will be lots of quick cuts of hair flinging and choppy editing to make it look like she did learn to do those things but really they couldn’t use more than a few seconds of a take at a time because she had no clue what she was doing. So insulting to actual musicians in orchestras who spend decades studying their craft and then a lifetime honing it professionally. UGH.
That being said, it sounds like all of that is really just window dressing for Blanchett to meltdown on screen, so I’ll hate watch it for that.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 2, 2022 6:11 PM |
[quote] I love Cate Blanchett, but coming from the classical music industry, this movie sounds absolutely insufferable.
So do you.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 2, 2022 6:15 PM |
Lol r21 I think you’re right. The conducting scenes will be a hot mess. I enjoy Blanchett greatly but so much of her “important” work is just camp. Notes on a Scandal, Carol, that Allen movie from a few years back. This movie seems likely to evoke as many laughs as gasps.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 2, 2022 6:16 PM |
Hope Julia gets nominated and wins the award this year. In no other world Cate having one more Oscar than Julia is justified let alone two.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 2, 2022 6:49 PM |
[quote] I was surprised to learn that Todd Field was the piano player in Eyes Wide Shut (he also helped invent Big League Chew bubblegum that was purchased by Wrigley's for $800 million, I wonder if he got a cut).
Todd Field must be an actual genius. I loved In the Bedroom and miss that nearly-extinct type of film.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 2, 2022 6:50 PM |
This looks wonderful. As for classical music realism, I've had movies made about my line of work that weren't accurate. You just go with it.
I'm predicting Cate for Best Actress, and (unfortunately) Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick for Best Actor and Best Picture. It made a ton of money, got people back to the theater, was a mainstream film with good reviews, has the nostalgia factor, and I'm willing to bet Academy voters will recognize it for those factors after Parasite, Nomadland, and CODA.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 2, 2022 7:54 PM |
Hmmm I know Vera Farmiga was up for this, and she was really excited to do the part.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 4, 2022 2:24 AM |
Has a prominent lesbian even been Me-Too'd yet? I guess only in Hollywood.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 4, 2022 2:29 AM |
I do like Cate Blanchett.
Apparently, there have only been seven three-time Oscar winners - Walter Brennan, Nicholson, Day-Lewis for men and Hepburn, Bergman, M, and Frances McDormand for women.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 4, 2022 2:43 AM |
R21? Am I mistaken in thinking that a female conductor with long hair would almost certainly wear it in a bun or chignon? TIA
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 4, 2022 10:02 AM |
Cate Blanchett holds the distinction of being an actor whose work I love…even though I can’t stand them as a person. I look forward to seeing the film, but I will be actively avoiding any and all press she does to support it…and I look forward to scrutinizing her acceptance speeches.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 4, 2022 10:05 AM |
She’s had sufficient Oscars.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 4, 2022 10:07 AM |
[quote]and I look forward to scrutinizing her acceptance speeches.
Mary!
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 4, 2022 10:23 AM |
[quote] I'm predicting Cate for Best Actress, and (unfortunately) Tom Cruise and Top Gun: Maverick for Best Actor and Best Picture.
R26 = idiot
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 4, 2022 11:57 AM |
[quote]Todd Field was the piano player in Eyes Wide Shut (he also helped invent Big League Chew bubblegum that was purchased by Wrigley's for $800 million
Wow. So Wrigley Field was named after him?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 4, 2022 12:12 PM |
Tom Cruise winning an Oscar for Top Gun? Hahahhahahah omg. The only shot Cruise has at an Oscar is a lifetime achievement twenty years from now when he’s in a wheelchair.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 4, 2022 12:18 PM |
[quote]Am I mistaken in thinking that a female conductor with long hair would almost certainly wear it in a bun or chignon?
I couldn't speak for all of them, but Australia's Simone Young, who has been resident conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and has conducted a wide range of top orchestras, frequently wears hers down, and quite long.
As for the classical music snob, for all we know Blanchett might have been a fan of orchestral music all her life and watched dozens of conductors. They're not always in a pit any more, and even if they are you can sit in a box and look down at them.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 4, 2022 12:20 PM |
R30 Well, no one ever asked Dudamel to put his hair in a scrunchy....
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 4, 2022 12:22 PM |
I’ve worked with several female conductors over the years R30, and all but two had longer hair that they would leave down. Maybe it would be pulled back in rehearsal but not for performance. Some conductors (male and female) love to use their hair as a sweaty form of drama.
There’s also backstage chitchat that this movie has some loosely based elements on Marin Alsop, lesbian former conductor of Baltimore Symphony who has had some of these, let’s call them “issues” over the years.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 4, 2022 12:24 PM |
Thanks, R39.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 4, 2022 12:38 PM |
Here's Sarah Hicks conducting with her hair down.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 4, 2022 1:11 PM |
Barbara Hannigan and Mirga Graznyte-Tyla are two of the hottest new female conductors who have Cate's hairdo.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 4, 2022 1:37 PM |
Meryl should have been offered this role
by Anonymous | reply 43 | September 4, 2022 1:43 PM |
[quote]Cate Blanchett holds the distinction of being an actor whose work I love…even though I can’t stand them as a person
How come? I’m genuinely curious. I dont know much about her.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 4, 2022 2:20 PM |
R42 Is Mirga Graznyte-Tyla's partner a male or a female?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 4, 2022 2:26 PM |
R43 Ugh, no.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 4, 2022 2:27 PM |
I've never liked Cate Blanchett, she seems horribly smug , cold, and superior.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 4, 2022 2:45 PM |
Karmina Silec conducting with her hair loose
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 4, 2022 2:49 PM |
What does Tar do that gets her cancelled? Shove her baton up someone's ass on air?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 4, 2022 2:54 PM |
I know I'm supposed to like this but the trailer really turned me off. Looks VERY artsy-fartsy.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 4, 2022 9:50 PM |
Please spoil the plot, why does she get cancelled?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 4, 2022 9:57 PM |
I like Cate Blanchett as an actress, and I LOVE Todd Field's work (particularly "Little Children", which is one of my favorite films), so I'll be seeing this.
If Blanchett hadn't already worked with my other favorite Todd in "Carol" (among others), I'd wish for that. I do hope the conducting doesn't come off as obnoxious, try-hard, or unintentionally funny. Time will tell!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 4, 2022 10:12 PM |
Isn’t this a 168- minute art film? She will be lucky to even be nominated.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 4, 2022 10:18 PM |
R49 From what I can piece together, she seems to have been cancelled because she took advantage of some students and one killed herself. It appears that there was some out of context video of her being abusive to a student or students that became viral and things started to fall apart. Apparently it has a shocking unexpected ending, 'm trying to find out what happens (I don't care about spoilers). In any case, after seeing Cate play Dr. Lilith Ritter in the not so great movie Nightmare Alley, I've become a huge fan (I was already a fan from Blue Jasmine and some of her other movies) and I can't wait to see TÁR.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 4, 2022 10:35 PM |
Again? Was she an abusive teacher in a past life?
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 4, 2022 11:23 PM |
Cate has been on autopilot since Blue Jasmine and truly capable of both extreme greatness and extreme awfulness. I wonder if this will be good.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 4, 2022 11:25 PM |
[quote] I noticed some Kubrickian references in the TÁR preview ads.
What did they look like, R19?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 4, 2022 11:27 PM |
[quote] Love me some Cate.
Does that mean that you love yourself, R20?
Cate is purely incidental in your self love.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 4, 2022 11:35 PM |
I saw it today in Telluride and it lives up to the hype….but the screenplay and cinematography are doing heavy lifting as well…the film is long but it pays off…..
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 4, 2022 11:36 PM |
Dear senior lesbian R30, Cate Blankett modelled her character on her fellow self-absorbed Aussie termagant—
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 4, 2022 11:55 PM |
R54, from what I’ve read, the conductor established an organization to help women who were studying to be conductors themselves. It becomes a vehicle for her to select women for sexual relationships.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 4, 2022 11:59 PM |
Violet Davis is the frontrunner for The Woman King.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 5, 2022 12:01 AM |
I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 5, 2022 12:08 AM |
Cate isn't winning shit.
Viola's movie is going to generate a lot of controversy. This seems like it could be a movie that you're either going to love or hate with a passion depending on the historical depiction.
The following younger actresses have strong chances of getting nominated and winning:
Michelle Yeoh - Everything, everywhere all at once
Danielle Deadwyler - Till
Ana De Armas - Blonde
Naomi Ackie - I want to dance with somebody
Keke Palmer - Nope
Cate's going to have to duke it out with Emma Thompson, Margot Robbie, Regina King and Frances McDormand for the established/veteran actress slots. And since she already has two, and they haven't been enthused to nominate her since, it's going to be a hard sell.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 5, 2022 12:15 AM |
[quote]The fact that they’re using Bernstein as a name check, as well as focussing largely on her conducting of Mahler’s Fifth as some sort of career pinnacle is already more than cliche and eye rolling.
I don't care about the rest of it, but I'm glad there's a focus on Mahler. Wish it had been the 2nd or the 6th instead of the 5th, though.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 5, 2022 12:17 AM |
I don’t think the Academy’s that into Cate anymore. She was last nominated 7 years ago. Viola’s movie will also bomb.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 5, 2022 12:35 AM |
[quote] Danielle Deadwyler
Not just a name, a real human being.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 5, 2022 12:38 AM |
So she’s playing James Franco?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 5, 2022 12:38 AM |
I thought Cate was the highlight of Don’t Look Up last year. She was hysterical in it.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | September 5, 2022 12:41 AM |
R65, I understand that part of the plot is Cate trying to program a second piece along with the Mahler, one that will feature a cello player she has her eye one. You couldn’t do that with Mahler’s Second, it’s too long!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 5, 2022 12:44 AM |
R57 The Kubrickian references that I noticed were; a scene in a mansion with an man beating a stick on the floor (Eyes Wide Shut), a scene where Lydia is looking at her computer screen that was shot similar to the scene in The Shining where Wendy discovers Jack's writing on the typewriter. Some frame within a frame shots and just the overall austere visuals that are in most of Kubrick's films. I would have to see the entire movie to see more, I'm sure they are there.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 5, 2022 1:01 AM |
Margot Robbie will be the frontrunner with Babylon. She's the hot actress right now with Barbie and Babylon. It feels like Hollywood has already decided that this is her year.
I don't see them rewarding Viola or Cate again, since both of them are past their box-office peaks, and Hollywood likes to push young stars who can make them money.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 5, 2022 1:39 AM |
What about one of the Women Talking actresses? That cast is stacked with talent.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 5, 2022 1:48 AM |
[quote]I thought Cate was the highlight of Don’t Look Up last year. She was hysterical in it.
As was, to my astonishment, Tyler Perry.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 5, 2022 1:55 AM |
[quote]I've never liked Cate Blanchett, she seems horribly smug , cold, and superior.
She's too sane and logical for diva worship. Star worship requires a sense the person is slightly mad, unstable, and OTT.
When reporters tried to create sensation when she was promoting the movie Carol, the way she coolly slapped it down, by saying she wasn't remotely interested in making agitprop, was impressive. But it doesn't make for fan love. Only respect.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 5, 2022 6:38 AM |
Aussies grew tired of her when she became a champagne socialist jetting around the world with Leo DiCaprio and the gang.
She sold her multi million dollar base in Sydney and brought up another multi million dollar base in London next door to Georgey Clooney.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 5, 2022 6:50 AM |
R76 They didn't call me Carbon Cate for nothing.
Do as I say, not what I do.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 5, 2022 7:23 AM |
What do you think will be the pushback for a straight woman playing a lesbian who is depicted unfavorably in a movie written and directed by a straight man?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 5, 2022 11:12 AM |
R74 Oddly, I’d love to see Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry act alongside one another again - the two of them had great chemistry and were the MVPs of Don’t Look Up.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 5, 2022 11:57 AM |
[quote]I don't see them rewarding Viola or Cate again, since both of them are past their box-office peaks, and Hollywood likes to push young stars who can make them money.
Thank you, doll.
- 45-year old Jessica Chastain, 65-year old Frances McDormand and 53-year-old Renee Zellweger.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 5, 2022 12:05 PM |
Ah r60, you forgot me, 60 year old Michelle Yeoh.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 5, 2022 2:20 PM |
That Yeoh picture was trash and if she gets nominated—big if—she’ll never win for it.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 5, 2022 2:22 PM |
R82 Why was it trash? It is highly acclaimed by both critics and fans.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | September 5, 2022 3:09 PM |
Cate has the respect but she will never have the love.
And who is the audience for a 3 hour film about a predator lesbian orchestra conductor?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | September 5, 2022 3:43 PM |
R84 Me
by Anonymous | reply 85 | September 5, 2022 3:49 PM |
[quote]She's too sane and logical for diva worship. Star worship requires a sense the person is slightly mad, unstable, and OTT.
Oh please. She shows up every time she's nominated for something. And every time she wins she of course pretends to be above it all in a patronizing, condescending speech. That act wears thin after a while.
She will never be Judy Davis no matter how hard she tries on all fronts.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | September 5, 2022 4:36 PM |
All your love for my movie just exacerbates this great moment
by Anonymous | reply 87 | September 5, 2022 4:43 PM |
[quote]She will never be Judy Davis no matter how hard she tries
No, she's more talented and actually beautiful.
Davis was merely a brown-lipsticked, bad-haired, and note-less Patti LuPone in irritation mode.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | September 5, 2022 6:00 PM |
[quote] Davis
I guess poor, short Davis is sixty now. She's now ready to play those 'hag' roles just like old Bette did in 'Baby Jane'.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | September 5, 2022 9:42 PM |
I just hope her beat patterns are aligned to the fucking music. Hollywood still fucks up beat patterns to this day. Bonus points if she actually cues in different sections correctly. Solo horn should be spitting flames during the scherzo mvmt too.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | September 5, 2022 10:10 PM |
Cate is pushing 60. This movie is not going to win her an Oscar. The subject matter is too dark.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | September 5, 2022 10:13 PM |
R91 she's 53, hardly pushing 60. And it's serious, dark drama The Academy usually creams over
by Anonymous | reply 92 | September 5, 2022 10:20 PM |
When has the Academy ever rewarded a 3 hour art film?
by Anonymous | reply 93 | September 5, 2022 10:22 PM |
It's a long road for Cate to get that third Oscar...I think what was said above is true - lots of respect but no love.
Manifesto was so pretentious and I'm sure Tar will be too...
There's so much of Cate in the media these days, can we just change the channel?
by Anonymous | reply 94 | September 5, 2022 10:25 PM |
I’m thinking Michelle Yeoh & Brendan Fraiser for the win. Who knows? It’s september.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | September 5, 2022 10:32 PM |
I can’t live in a world where cate has three leading actress Oscar’s and Tilda has only one in supporting role.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | September 5, 2022 10:52 PM |
Cate won for Supporting in Aviator.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | September 5, 2022 10:57 PM |
Oh then I’ll live then. Phew.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | September 5, 2022 11:18 PM |
Jamie Lee Curtis will probably win supporting actress this year for Everything, Everywhere all at once.
It's a career defining performance plus she's long overdue for an oscar. Plus the last Halloween movie is coming out and that will keep her in the public eye as well.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | September 5, 2022 11:56 PM |
R91 53 is pushing 60? Are you stupid?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | September 6, 2022 12:58 AM |
Is she's nominated she'll tie with Glenn and Geraldine Page at 8 nominations, behind Davis, Hepburn and Streep
by Anonymous | reply 101 | September 6, 2022 7:39 PM |
What dos “Tár” mean?
by Anonymous | reply 102 | September 6, 2022 11:52 PM |
It's 8 pm Eastern time!
Overture, curtain, lights!
Put on the wigs full of shites!
by Anonymous | reply 103 | September 7, 2022 12:01 AM |
R102, it’s Cate’s character’s last name.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | September 7, 2022 1:54 AM |
Thank you, R104. I was guessing she might be one of these—
by Anonymous | reply 105 | September 7, 2022 1:57 AM |
Tár is an anagram for art.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | September 7, 2022 2:21 AM |
Well, as long as it's not diminutive for 'tart'.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | September 7, 2022 2:44 AM |
"When has the Academy ever rewarded a 3 hour art film?"
The Last Emperor, for one.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | September 7, 2022 3:36 AM |
^ That one had spectacle.
The latest Cate Blanket is just talking heads
by Anonymous | reply 109 | September 7, 2022 3:38 AM |
Blanchett is many things but she is not and has never been beautiful. Striking, maybe, but never beautiful or pretty.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | September 7, 2022 3:55 AM |
[quote] Striking, maybe, but never beautiful or pretty.
Yes, rather like Mrs David Lean
by Anonymous | reply 111 | September 7, 2022 4:12 AM |
I've never been able to look at her the same after that utterly pointless scene in Notes On A Scandal where she's sitting on a toilet wiping her arse. Foul.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | September 7, 2022 1:22 PM |
R110=blind
by Anonymous | reply 113 | September 7, 2022 1:30 PM |
Waaaaa waaaaaa waaaaa waaaaa.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | September 7, 2022 1:39 PM |
[quote] When has the Academy ever rewarded a 3 hour art film?
DDL in There Will Be Blood.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | September 7, 2022 2:00 PM |
Sorry TWBB was actually just 2.5 hours.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | September 7, 2022 2:01 PM |
By today's low standards, things like The Godfather and All About Eve are "art films."
by Anonymous | reply 117 | September 7, 2022 2:11 PM |
The Last Emperor was a fairly standard epic.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | September 7, 2022 2:18 PM |
Correct me if I'm wrong but Cate has never gone nude on screen? Even La Streep whipped a tit out in Silkwood!
by Anonymous | reply 119 | September 7, 2022 5:44 PM |
Wasn't she nude in Carol?
by Anonymous | reply 120 | September 7, 2022 6:39 PM |
R120 Just a bit of tit and some of it could have been a body double.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | September 8, 2022 4:06 AM |
If Cate showed some pink at 55 it'd get her another Oscar, I betcha.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | September 8, 2022 4:27 AM |
I know someone who worked on the film in Berlin and she said Todd Field was batshit crazy. She’s divided as to whether she wants the film to be a success or not because Field was such a wack job.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | September 11, 2022 3:07 AM |
She just won best actress at Venice.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | September 11, 2022 3:33 AM |
R123, What did your friend say about seeing Cate work on this film. Maybe there's a reason why Todd Field hasn't made a film in 16 years...
by Anonymous | reply 125 | September 11, 2022 4:02 AM |
I was surprised "Blonde", the Marilyn "biopic" got raves. Maybe that actress will compete with Cate at The Oscars
by Anonymous | reply 127 | September 11, 2022 8:04 AM |
Jesus, R126 -- that looks awful!
by Anonymous | reply 128 | September 11, 2022 8:18 AM |
R125, she said that Cate was wonderful, if understandably intense a lot of the time. Field is just sane enough to know he needs to treat the main principal actors well, it’s the crew aka his “underlings” that he treats like shit.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | September 11, 2022 5:03 PM |
Nutso lez film
by Anonymous | reply 130 | September 11, 2022 5:12 PM |
How many turns is Cate Blanchett gonna take participating in a male director's microscopic, two-hour, minute-by-minute dismantling and abasement of a woman undone by her own flaws of character?
by Anonymous | reply 131 | September 12, 2022 5:57 AM |
Yes, because male actors never star in films made by male directors showing the dismantling and abasement of a man undone by his own flaws of character.
Honestly: the comments of the Woke get more idiotic every day.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | September 12, 2022 7:50 AM |
R131, you’re a parody of some angry dyke on Twitter.
Get a JOB.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | September 12, 2022 11:27 AM |
This would have been a great part for an older actress like Glenn, Meryl, Siggy or Mirren, where this grand concert is meant to be their last hurrah before they retire, thereby raising the stakes a little
by Anonymous | reply 134 | September 12, 2022 5:19 PM |
Glenn did play an opera singer in the film Finding Venus back in the 1980s. I rewatched it last year and the bits I winced at back then still warranted wincing. The male lead was disastrously miscast as a sexually alluring symphony conductor.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | September 12, 2022 5:44 PM |
Oops, sorry, it was called Meeting Venus and it came out in 1991.
The conductor in that film was Hungarian (although played by a Dane). Tár is a Hungarian name, no?
by Anonymous | reply 136 | September 12, 2022 5:47 PM |
I guess if Glenn put that tux on as Tar she'd look like Albert Nobbs
by Anonymous | reply 137 | September 12, 2022 6:12 PM |
They did a remake of Ishtar?
by Anonymous | reply 138 | September 13, 2022 4:16 AM |
How many lesbians has Cate played? At least three?
by Anonymous | reply 139 | September 13, 2022 4:26 AM |
R139 Carol and now this movie. Which is the third one?
by Anonymous | reply 141 | September 13, 2022 8:20 AM |
R141 Notes On A Scandal
by Anonymous | reply 142 | September 13, 2022 8:24 AM |
Opps, she only played a minge-teaser in Notes On A Scandal
by Anonymous | reply 143 | September 13, 2022 8:36 AM |
She didn't play a lesbian in that film.
by Anonymous | reply 144 | September 13, 2022 12:53 PM |
What film R144?
by Anonymous | reply 145 | September 13, 2022 9:13 PM |
Blanchett is a Woody Allen supporter.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | September 13, 2022 9:16 PM |
Woody has never been charged with any crime R146
by Anonymous | reply 147 | September 13, 2022 9:52 PM |
Notes on a Scandal, R145. Judi Dench was a lesbian but Cate wasn’t.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | September 13, 2022 10:16 PM |
r147 and what's your excuse for her not having a problem with Roman Polanski?
"Cate Blanchett‘s older children’s monikers draw from a literary great and an iconic filmmaker, but when it came time to name her third child, the Oscar-winner turned to Captain Underpants.
Blanchett said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that she and husband Andrew Upton had “run out of ideas” when Ignatius, now 7, came around.
“Dash, I guess came from Dashiell Hammett, and Roman … Polanski, but it’s also the French word for book, and Ignatius came from this book called Captain Underpants,” she says."
by Anonymous | reply 149 | September 13, 2022 10:18 PM |
My mom named my sister and me after soap opera characters.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | September 13, 2022 10:42 PM |
I accept you, R150.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | September 14, 2022 2:09 AM |
Cricket and Snapper, #150?
by Anonymous | reply 152 | September 14, 2022 9:55 AM |
So it's "woke" to wonder if this is Cate Blanchett's third? fourth? fifth? go-round giving us a macro-lens view of a female dismantled and abased by her character flaws for two and a half hours? And here I thought it was a weary movie-goer's lament . . . Telling and funny that it provoked such venom and rage. What are the odds there's a spectacularly grotesque, can't-look-away "Blue Jasmine" breakdown in the third reel?
by Anonymous | reply 153 | September 14, 2022 10:28 AM |
Lol r153 has a point even if no one wants to admit it. CB has gone to this well before. This is just a remix if the plot summary is accurate.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | September 14, 2022 1:49 PM |
R148 I was joking from the point of view of DL favourite Barbara Covett, who wished to "roll on the floor like lovers" with sexy Sheba..
by Anonymous | reply 155 | September 14, 2022 5:04 PM |
Michelle Williams is winning the Oscar for The Fabelmans.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | September 14, 2022 5:50 PM |
That’s supporting, dear^^^
by Anonymous | reply 157 | September 14, 2022 5:51 PM |
“Tard”
by Anonymous | reply 158 | September 14, 2022 6:00 PM |
R158
by Anonymous | reply 159 | September 14, 2022 6:05 PM |
If Moving On gets a distributor, don't discount Jane Fonda, playing an eighty some odd year old survivor of sexual abuse who wants to kill her attacker.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | September 14, 2022 6:25 PM |
Plus, she is battling cancer irl R160.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | September 15, 2022 3:32 AM |
R160 & R161 But the film is supposed to be utter shit. The Hollywood Reporter sort of ripped into it. They tried to be as kind as they could...
by Anonymous | reply 162 | September 15, 2022 11:18 AM |
We needed another Fonda/Tomlin project? Really?????
by Anonymous | reply 163 | September 15, 2022 5:49 PM |
How long have they been a couple?
by Anonymous | reply 164 | September 15, 2022 6:31 PM |
I'm looking forward to watching Cate chew the scenery in her pull-out-the-stops last-act meltdown. After all, she's gotta outdo "Blue Jasmine" for screaming meemees to even get a nomination.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | September 15, 2022 7:09 PM |
Can anything outdo her meltdown in Notes On A Scandal?
by Anonymous | reply 166 | September 15, 2022 8:01 PM |
Yeah, "Notes on a Scandal," too! The bar has been set high, and she's gonna have to foam at the mouth in "Tar" just to get a nomination.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | September 15, 2022 9:26 PM |
I loved Notes on a Scandal. Dame Judi was robbed of an Oscar by that whore Dame Helen.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | September 15, 2022 9:45 PM |
“It’s a flat in the archway road and you think you’re Virginia friggin’ Woolf!”
by Anonymous | reply 169 | September 15, 2022 11:57 PM |
Shame Maestro isn’t coming out until next year or we’d potentially have two Oscar winning roles of symphony conductors.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | September 16, 2022 3:15 AM |
Judi deserved the Oscar for Notes On A Scandal, her best movie performance, alongside Iris.
Helen should have won for Gosford Park in 2001.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | September 16, 2022 6:57 AM |
[quote]I loved Notes on a Scandal. Dame Judi was robbed of an Oscar by that whore Dame Helen.
Notes needed a better veteran actress. Judi was just some poor, horny old lez. The notion that Cate would be terrified of her is laughable. You needed someone like a Glenda Jackson, who is a master in intimidation.
And having Cate wipe her ass on camera after taking a shit in the toilet was repulsive.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | September 17, 2022 3:34 PM |
[QUOTE] You needed someone like a Glenda Jackson, who is a master in intimidation.
Which is so interesting because when I met Glenda Jackson twice, both times at stage doors (once at the “Three Tall Women” and the “King Lear” the next year) she could not have been more warm, gracious, and generous with her time. She saw everyone who wanted to see her and was a delight. She seems really close to Ruth Wilson during “Lear” who was also lovely.
Do you know who wasn’t at all? Laurie Metcalf. And Alison Pill had someone announce to all of us that she wouldn’t be posing for selfies or signing Playbills, both things literally no one was even wanting.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | September 17, 2022 5:46 PM |
Alison who? Fucking Canadian. She’s lucky she’s even had a career. She was awful in The Newsroom-a Melinda Dillon type cast in a role which cried out for a Meg Ryan type.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | September 17, 2022 10:05 PM |
Judi was very menacing in NOAS, it was psychological blackmail, not physical intimidation, and she pulled off the character beautifully
by Anonymous | reply 175 | September 17, 2022 10:50 PM |
Indeed, R175, we even felt for her character a few brief seconds when her cat got put down but then she used it as a form of manipulation and we went back to hating her again. This East German judge gave her a 9.95 for difficulty. That whore Dame Helen could play Liz in her sleep.
by Anonymous | reply 176 | September 17, 2022 11:20 PM |
[quote]Judi was very menacing in NOAS, it was psychological blackmail, not physical intimidation,
I'm aware of what she was supposed to do. And she fell short. She's too wimpering in R175.
Watch Women in Love for a master class in psychological blackmail. There was a reason Judi hit it big AFTER Glenda retired.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | September 17, 2022 11:42 PM |
Saw it today. The movie is great, and Cate is great. I don't think she'll win the Oscar, though. The performance is a bit more cerebral and restrained than they usually go for, but if she does win it'll be well-deserved.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | October 7, 2022 11:03 PM |
R175 I feel the scriptwriter of that scene deserves as much praise as the puppets reciting his words in that scene.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | October 7, 2022 11:12 PM |
How do we pronounce Tár?
by Anonymous | reply 180 | October 7, 2022 11:24 PM |
R180, your answer is up above.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | October 7, 2022 11:25 PM |
A German film called The Audition was on my Delta flight in January. Nina Hoss plays a violinist who teaches a promising young student. It all goes horribly wrong. I recommend it.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | October 7, 2022 11:32 PM |
Oh for fuck sake, R7. Mads Mikkelson played a teacher falsely accused of having a relationship with one of his students. Get a grip.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | October 7, 2022 11:38 PM |
Terd
by Anonymous | reply 184 | October 7, 2022 11:43 PM |
R178 does Cate finally show her titties or fanny?
by Anonymous | reply 185 | October 7, 2022 11:50 PM |
Apparently the shocking ending is Lydia lowering herself to run an orchestra in Asia where she goes to a brothel and gets a massage. 🙄
by Anonymous | reply 186 | October 8, 2022 1:12 AM |
Is Michelle Williams her strongest competition right now?
by Anonymous | reply 187 | October 8, 2022 1:14 AM |
Will Cate ever kiss someone passionately with an open mouth in a movie? It always looks like she's kissing a cousin.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | October 8, 2022 1:16 AM |
Cate Blanchett isn't a real woman. She hasn't got any breasts.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | October 8, 2022 5:27 AM |
Cate Blanchett is a slightly more real version of a woman than Tilda Swinton.
Swinton has no breasts and would make a convincing Martian.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | October 8, 2022 6:03 AM |
It's gonna be a campfest for the ages. Cate has a high bar to meet to outdo her scenery-chewing meltdowns in "Blue Jasmine," "Notes on a Scandal," and others bravura hambone turns. But we know she's up to it.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | October 13, 2022 3:16 AM |
Excited to see this. Is that Cate in OP’s photo? It doesn’t look like her.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | October 13, 2022 3:33 AM |
Click, click, click.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | October 13, 2022 8:39 AM |
She looked amazing in Don't Look Up, they really went to town with her make up and teeth
by Anonymous | reply 194 | October 13, 2022 8:24 PM |
Flop
by Anonymous | reply 195 | October 13, 2022 10:21 PM |
R134 If Meryl had landed the role, she would serve up a tepid remix of Miranda Priestly. I'm not the biggest fan of Blanchett's acting style, but she's superior to Meryl at this point.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | October 13, 2022 11:47 PM |
I saw this last night. I was extremely impressed. I think DL will love it, it’s a nuanced and fleshed out character study that didn’t read as Oscar Bait at all - I think it’s too weird for the Academy, in fact. I’m hit or miss with Cate but she was on top form here.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | October 14, 2022 12:37 AM |
Nah. She's had a Best Actress and a Best Supporting. She'll have to wait a while for another one.
by Anonymous | reply 198 | October 14, 2022 12:41 AM |
No one will see this.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | October 14, 2022 1:14 AM |
Part of that is accurate, r186.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | October 14, 2022 1:37 AM |
R198 Yes, I agree.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | October 14, 2022 2:00 AM |
Cate Blanchett likes to put harvested foreskins of newborn Korean boys on her face.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | October 14, 2022 2:33 AM |
R199 I will.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | October 14, 2022 8:12 AM |
It’s already flopped. It had a good per theater for about two days then it was all downhill. It’s already out of audience. Any hope they have is on streaming. And no one is going to be rewarding an Oscar to a two time Oscar winning actress in a movie that’s barely been able to eke out 250k internationally over two weeks against a movie that’s well reviewed, well received, and that’s made well over 100 mil profit and is still making money.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | October 15, 2022 3:03 PM |
R204 has made good points. This is the classic example of a Film Festival megahit that flops in real life.
However I suspect the actress playing the Mother in Till will win.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | October 15, 2022 3:26 PM |
Till will bomb at the box office, too, R205. No fucking way will Deadwyler win.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | October 15, 2022 6:36 PM |
Since when did you need a Box Office hit to win Best Actress?
by Anonymous | reply 207 | October 15, 2022 6:55 PM |
R204, though Tar won't be a box office success and Blanchett already has two Oscars, I think this is a case where the performance is just too big too ignore. Critics are calling Blanchett's performance the best of her career, and the movie is almost three hours of Oscar clip after Oscar clip. She's not just in every scene of the movie, she's in almost every frame.
I'm skeptical about Deadwyler because it's really tough to win an Oscar in Lead if you're a virtual unknown. Jean Dujardin was probably the last time that happened, and he was in the Best Picture winner. You could make the case for Brie Larson or Olivia Colman, but even they were in the awards conversation for other projects before they won on their first nomination.
I know it's early in the season (last year at this time it it looked like Kristen Stewart was going to be the winner, and she barely eked out a nomination), but if the conversation comes down to "it's Blanchett versus Yeoh," "no, it's Blanchett versus Deadwyler," "no, it's Blanchett versus Michelle Williams," the most likely result is that it's just going to be Cate Blanchett.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | October 15, 2022 7:18 PM |
Why would they give an Australian woman three Oscars? And for this kind of movie? I doubt it, unless there literally is no competition.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | October 15, 2022 7:47 PM |
Glennie not winning for The Wife is possibly down to the film getting mixed to negative reviews and very small box office receipts. Livvie’s film The Favorite got fantastic reviews and did very well at the box office.
The woke brigade/bleeding hearts are praising Deadwyler to the skies but Blanchett is clearly winning this no matter what.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | October 15, 2022 10:12 PM |
I just saw this in the theater. The audience was about 30 folks -- all 40 & above.
Cate was terrific in it. This was a pretentious slog. Wow. How I wanted to love it.
Todd Fields needs to take another 16 years away from filmmaking and then quit entirely.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | October 15, 2022 11:18 PM |
The premise of this tale is just so incredibly dense: "Lydia Tár is one of the greatest living composer/conductors, and first-ever female chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic."
The problem is that this could never happen in real life on planet Earth. Due to biology. The whole story is yet another pure woke make-belief where they put a woman in a role written for a man.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | October 15, 2022 11:52 PM |
R212 Are you retarded? Don't answer.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | October 16, 2022 12:05 AM |
R209 What does her being Australian has to do with anything?
by Anonymous | reply 214 | October 16, 2022 12:05 AM |
R214 We don't like interlopers in OUR award shows.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | October 16, 2022 12:10 AM |
R215 Yeah, that's why she has two Oscars.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | October 16, 2022 12:12 AM |
[quote] she has two Oscars
No, one proper oscar and a smaller, second-rate Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 217 | October 16, 2022 12:18 AM |
Yeah, two Oscars.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | October 16, 2022 12:27 AM |
R217, that’s like the “little bit pregnant” argument. Dolt.
by Anonymous | reply 219 | October 16, 2022 3:15 AM |
Two Oscars too many.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | October 16, 2022 10:19 AM |
Has no one bothered to see this? It came into wide release yesterday.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | October 30, 2022 3:12 AM |
You mean there isn’t an audience for a campy #metoo movie about a dyke who conducts Mahler with the Berlin Philharmonic?
Color me shocked.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | October 30, 2022 3:29 AM |
I went today and there were only 3 other people in the theater besides me. 2/4 were both pushing 60 and one of them took 3 bathroom breaks throughout the whole movie.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | October 30, 2022 3:33 AM |
Wow, where was this r223?
by Anonymous | reply 224 | October 30, 2022 3:17 PM |
R223 it was probably someone off to the loo for a wank, thinking about Cate and her baton!
by Anonymous | reply 225 | October 30, 2022 5:31 PM |
I wasn’t blown away by Cate like I was expecting to be, but she was good. If she had to win a 3rd Oscar it should’ve been for Carol.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | November 5, 2022 3:20 AM |
How Mahlerific is it, actually? Do they only use the first movement?
by Anonymous | reply 227 | November 5, 2022 4:07 AM |
^ first movement of Symphony No. 5, that is.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | November 5, 2022 11:27 AM |
Please R227. It’s a Hollywood movie that doesn’t know shit about classical music. Of course they’re using the fourth movement, adagietto, the cliche music Hollywood always uses when it comes to Mahler. The moment the movie was announced I knew they’d use it since it’s been used dozens of times before. There was an entire movie revolving around the adagietto, The Music Teacher, or whatever it was, starring Jose VanDam.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | November 5, 2022 11:35 AM |
R229 hasn’t seen the movie or listened to the soundtrack. There’s more of the first movement than the fourth.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | November 5, 2022 11:48 AM |
[quote]There was an entire movie revolving around the adagietto, The Music Teacher, or whatever it was, starring Jose VanDam.
R229 that wasn't a Hollywood movie (i.e., United States).
It was from Belgium.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | November 5, 2022 11:51 AM |
And it was terrible R231.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | November 5, 2022 12:03 PM |
But Jose Van Dam has dreamy eyes and a gorgeous voice
by Anonymous | reply 233 | November 5, 2022 12:09 PM |
I went to see "Banshees of Inisherin " last night. There were, indeed, under 40s in line for "Tar" and for "Banshees", but "Banshees" seems more like successful Oscar bait. Collin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are great---Farrell is a "star" who can act and Gleeson is a character player who can hold his own with a star. Plus the supporting cast is terrific and the cinematography is incredible (the weather in Ireland rarely cooperates).
"Tar" has several things going against it---a predatory woman will make men and women uneasy---it's akin to why the news media never explores why Trump got a majority from white women. Men keep away from a subject they'll be accused of screwing up no matter what and educated, nominally feminist women don't like to confront the notion that women can be as cruel and ignorant as men. Also, the Mahler revival has run its course and many classical music fans, including me, really don't care for his music. Todd Field, who hasn't done anything in years is the Oscar-worthy story here. He might win for Direction but Blanchett and the film will not.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | November 5, 2022 12:12 PM |
No way he wins direction. Sarah Polley, Daniels, Chazelle, hell even Spielberg are ahead of him. He might be able to eke out a nom, barely, but a win? No way. Hollywood doesn’t like temperamental autistics who only pull their shit together to make a mediocre movie every decade and a half. See: Terence Malick.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | November 5, 2022 12:19 PM |
[quote]I’m sure there will be lots of quick cuts of hair flinging and choppy editing to make it look like she did learn to do those things but really they couldn’t use more than a few seconds of a take at a time because she had no clue what she was doing.
R21 that's exactly how I made everyone think CZJ could dance in Chicago.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | November 5, 2022 12:35 PM |
This dog will be ignored by the Academy.
Most members will barely be able to get past the first 30 minutes.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | November 5, 2022 1:06 PM |
Malick's films are confusing muddles. Spielberg collected lots of honors in the 90s and '00s, he doesn't seem like someone who will get the "obligatory" nom now.
by Anonymous | reply 238 | November 5, 2022 1:06 PM |
[quote]Also, the Mahler revival has run its course
What has replaced it?
by Anonymous | reply 239 | November 5, 2022 1:42 PM |
Many classical music fans really don’t care for his music?
Bitch, please.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | November 5, 2022 3:33 PM |
Nothing needs to replace Mahler's revival. Anyone who lived through the hype that was building in the 70s and 80s ais relived that beyond a few fanboys, we can admit that his work is dreary and lacking.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | November 5, 2022 3:35 PM |
Mahler, "dreary and lacking"? Oh, please, queen.
There's no composer I like more. I'm also fond of Beethoven's non-orchestral music, everything by Schubert and Bach, and I've come to like Barber and Brahms. But there is no classical music I like more than Mahler's symphonies.
You sound dreary, r241. And very, very lacking.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | November 5, 2022 3:46 PM |
Lacking: an adjective used by those who think they sound deep when they’ve got nothing.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | November 5, 2022 4:29 PM |
The Fabelmans is currently running number one for both nominations and wins on Gold Derby and they generally get this stuff right R238. Spielberg is currently the number one director. He’s not only going to be nominated, he has the inside track on the win.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | November 5, 2022 7:51 PM |
It should be noted that Blanchett is also running number one on Gold Derby, but it’s the closest race by far with Michelle Yeoh right behind her. I think Yeoh will eke out the win.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | November 5, 2022 7:52 PM |
Does she show her boobs? She's never done any nudity. Even Meryl flashed a tit in Silkwood
by Anonymous | reply 246 | November 5, 2022 8:07 PM |
This POS has barely made $3 million. It’s not winning anything.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | November 5, 2022 9:30 PM |
R26, If Brendan Fraser isn't BA, there is no way TC will be.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | November 5, 2022 9:41 PM |
It's between Michelle Yeoh and Margot Robbie in Babylon. I give the edge to Yeoh because there are a ton of Hollywood heavyweights who are obsessed with EEAO and Yeoh's performance. No one will see Tar at the end of the day.
"Regardless, I’ll mention it again, I’ve never seen this many actors/filmmakers gushing over a film this decade. Industry superfans of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" include Miles Teller, Riz Ahmed, Sian Heder, Guillermo del Toro, Anne Hathaway, Scott Derrickson, Colman Domingo, Sam Rockwell, Edgar Wright, SZA, Andrew Garfield, Reese Whitherspoon, Kogonada, Keke Palmer, Barry Jenkins, Lilly Wachowski, Florence Pugh, Jodie Foster, The Russos and Mike Flanagan.
At the end of the day, it comes down to “Babylon.” The film will be press screened on November 14th and then, only then, will we know what awaits Damien Chazelle’s epic film. The now-legendary test-screening that occurred this past Spring had people leaving the theatre floating in sheer cinematic nirvana. I’ve spoken to more than half a dozen attendees who now all abide by the church of “Babylon.”
by Anonymous | reply 249 | November 6, 2022 1:31 AM |
[quote]The now-legendary test-screening that occurred this past Spring had people leaving the theatre floating in sheer cinematic nirvana. I’ve spoken to more than half a dozen attendees who now all abide by the church of “Babylon.”
Also likely to earn Jean Smart a BSA nomination.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | November 6, 2022 2:48 AM |
Looks like an amalgamation of many other "Decadence Among the Rich and Famous" movies.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | November 6, 2022 7:33 AM |
Brendan Fraser is definitely getting nommed R248, he’s in first by a wide margin on Gold Derby.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | November 6, 2022 12:08 PM |
FUCK OFF. Ms. Cate Blanchette is today’s Meryl.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | November 6, 2022 12:13 PM |
R253 days that like it is a compliment.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | November 6, 2022 1:56 PM |
[R253] says that like it is a compliment
by Anonymous | reply 255 | November 6, 2022 1:57 PM |
R249- The trailer was not great for Babylon, but you now have me psyched.
I am pulling for Sarah Polley at least getting nominated, as I really just like her as a human being (The film looks like a complete bore)
I am excited for White Noise and Tar.
Not much else.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | November 6, 2022 2:03 PM |
What was going on at the end of TÁR. Was she conducting for a Japanese cosplay convention?
by Anonymous | reply 257 | November 6, 2022 2:19 PM |
Michelle Williams will win if Fabelmans wins best picture.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | November 6, 2022 2:23 PM |
R258 win what? Best Actress?
by Anonymous | reply 259 | November 6, 2022 2:26 PM |
I love Michelle and would never root against her. Many people thing she is a drip. I dig her. I have no interest in Speilberg's film though.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | November 6, 2022 2:27 PM |
And by the hell is A24 and Mia Goth not campaigning for herself? (Pearl)I feel she deserves the nomination as well as anyone!
by Anonymous | reply 261 | November 6, 2022 2:28 PM |
I think Mia Goth could be a surprise nominee come nomination morning.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | November 6, 2022 2:42 PM |
Yes, r252; my post indicates that.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | November 6, 2022 2:49 PM |
I believe Cate was conducting her score for a movie she had done. EGOT, remember?
by Anonymous | reply 264 | November 6, 2022 5:26 PM |
Lol R22, imagine thinking your opinion matters to me or anyone else for that matter.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | November 7, 2022 12:22 AM |
The Gold Derby nerds adore Michelle Yeoh but no way will she win. She’s not respected as an actress even though she does a good job in EEAAO. In all her other films she comes off as stiff and robotic.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | November 7, 2022 5:06 PM |
"Tar," with an accent mark no less, will fail at the Box Office. Utterly.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | November 8, 2022 12:37 AM |
It already has
by Anonymous | reply 268 | November 8, 2022 1:28 AM |
It and "The Banshees of Whatever" are currently being shown at my local art-theatre venue (where "Elvis" was all summer). Pass. The latter's story of friends falling out isn't one I care to live fictionally as I lived it in reality.
I will go to see "The Whale," though, to see for myself Brendan's performance.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | November 8, 2022 6:06 AM |
Saw Tar last night. Cate Blanchett was amazing. As a classical musician, I can say with absolute certainty that Cate Blanchett actually was playing the piano in the film - (correct notes, correct rhythms, correct fingering) - and she did it very well - AND spoke while doing it. That is huge to me, because so rare in film, where usually they pan on the actors face and quickly pan down to fingers that CLEARLY don't belong to the actor Her conducting technique was a little more questionable, yet not weirder than some I've seen, including some clips of Lenny Bernstein conducting which can be found on youtube. I found the film mesmerizing, but this would be a difficult slog for someone who wasn't knowledgeable about classical music. (It has a bit of a horror film vibe, which might be enough to sustain it for those who know nothing of the classical music scene).
by Anonymous | reply 270 | November 8, 2022 8:35 AM |
Thanks for your thoughts R270
by Anonymous | reply 271 | November 8, 2022 2:39 PM |
Michelle Yeoh has the best narrative to win this year. Huge industry support for the movie and her performance, and potentially the first Asian woman to win the best actress Oscar. The movie is also an audience favorite.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | November 8, 2022 3:38 PM |
[quote]Michelle Yeoh has the best narrative to win this year.
Did you have to call it "the narrative"?
by Anonymous | reply 273 | November 8, 2022 3:39 PM |
R273, that’s the term film nerds like Perri Nemiroff use.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | November 10, 2022 9:10 PM |
I loved both Everything Everywhere All at Once AND Tar. They were both very unique, well cast and acted. I’d be happy if either one won but somehow I think it unlikely they will.
by Anonymous | reply 275 | November 11, 2022 2:21 AM |
R275 = miss pollyanna pissface
by Anonymous | reply 276 | November 11, 2022 3:21 AM |
Shit would have been a more appropriate title.
by Anonymous | reply 277 | November 12, 2022 6:06 AM |
I saw this last night in the theater. I wanted to like it more than I did. I really enjoyed Todd Field's "In the Bedroom"—such a bleak but powerful film despite having such a straightforward story. No frills, but completely riveting. This film took place in a much more rarified world, and I felt like there was a lot of material built into the narrative that was left largely unexplored. I expected the film to reach a fever pitch at some point, which it sort of did, but it didn't feel nearly as powerful as I was hoping it would. The overall tone of it was drab, and at times it almost played like a psychological horror movie. Blanchett was great in it, admittedly, as were all the supporting actors. It's something I may need to rewatch to fully appreciate.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | November 12, 2022 6:36 AM |
Just started watching. This is some super pretentious shit. This beginning with the staged interview is such a cheat, so exposition heavy. Looks like Cate Blanchett’s worst performance, not a word of it is believable.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | November 17, 2022 9:02 PM |
Tar was pretentious, boring and totally unnecessary. It's already been forgotten by everyone. The publicist who started this thread can now stop.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | November 17, 2022 9:24 PM |
I loved In the Bedroom and liked Little Children so I was expecting to love this Tar, but it left me cold. Interesting movie but I didn’t find it very engaging. Cate was good but she could give this performance in her sleep.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | November 17, 2022 10:06 PM |
$19.99 to rent this movie on demand and $24.99 to purchase it! WTF.
Please save your money on this over-hyped & amateurish movie!
by Anonymous | reply 282 | November 18, 2022 9:30 PM |
Good movie. Won't win any Oscars. Will get a few nods.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | November 18, 2022 10:24 PM |
Looked great, but it's one of the coldest movies I think I've ever seen. Even the kiddie scenes felt ice-cold. Funny how the homage to Tarkovsky's Stalker with the dog in the abandoned building (best moment in the whole movie) felt like the most human moment of the whole thing to me. Blanchett was fine as always, but the movie was a disappointing slog. Least rewatchable movie in recent memory.
by Anonymous | reply 284 | November 18, 2022 11:26 PM |
cate should have 3 oscars already but "poop" stole one.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | November 18, 2022 11:36 PM |
sorry "goop".
by Anonymous | reply 286 | November 18, 2022 11:37 PM |
I thought it was phenomenal. I except best picture, actress, director, screenplay, and cinematography.
by Anonymous | reply 287 | November 19, 2022 12:02 AM |
I meant "expect," obviously. One too many mezcals inhibited my proofreading…
by Anonymous | reply 288 | November 19, 2022 12:11 AM |
omg so boring!
by Anonymous | reply 289 | November 19, 2022 12:43 AM |
Ishtár
by Anonymous | reply 290 | November 19, 2022 12:46 AM |
R62=Viola
by Anonymous | reply 291 | November 19, 2022 2:50 PM |
Pauline Kael would hate this film.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | November 21, 2022 3:17 AM |
Loved it. Fucking good film. Hope she wins.
by Anonymous | reply 293 | November 21, 2022 3:29 AM |
R293 Yeah. A Razzie.
by Anonymous | reply 294 | November 21, 2022 4:06 AM |
She’s not winning an Oscar for this. It’s a flop, a boring art film, and her character is unlikable.
by Anonymous | reply 295 | November 21, 2022 4:10 AM |
Blanchett doesn't need a third Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | November 21, 2022 5:15 AM |
I speak German why didn’t I get this role. Cate is guilty of cultural appropriation - cancel her.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | November 21, 2022 10:59 PM |
I thought there were only floor length stalls in Europe, not like we have in the US. Was this just so Lydia could peek under one?
by Anonymous | reply 298 | November 22, 2022 11:10 PM |
Oh but Cate was insufferable with Colbert tonight.
by Anonymous | reply 299 | November 23, 2022 5:45 AM |
R299 She knows she is going to win.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | November 23, 2022 6:27 AM |
R299, She's so guarded/phony with her answers to the Colbert questionnaire. She can't help herself.
I was afraid her wig was going to fall off while she was laying down.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | November 23, 2022 6:31 AM |
R301 I cannot watch Colbert. He is a practicing Catholic, which is a choice he makes. To continue being a part of that religion. So, I will not watch him.
So, sum it up, Is Cate really scary friendly and needy?
by Anonymous | reply 302 | November 23, 2022 6:37 AM |
R302 to be fair, with Catholicism, it's kind of a "once a Catholic, always a Catholic" sort of thing. I try not to judge people who still have some affiliation with it too greatly. It is one of the few Christian denominations that has a deep, historic, and expansive culture underpinning it; in that regard, it sort of reminds me of Judaism in some ways. Even if you aren't a practicing Catholic, it's not a religion that commonly excommunicates either. As much darkness as there is in the religious hierarchy itself, I think there are many good, reasonable Catholics out there who aren't Bible-beating nut jobs.
by Anonymous | reply 303 | November 23, 2022 7:40 AM |
Once a Catholic, always in recovery, for sure. But as mentioned above, for the average Catholic person there is no excommunication, no shunning, no disinheriting, so lots of Catholics drift in a sort of no-man's land of being slightly ex-Catholic, but still culturally Catholic, and might even identify themselves to others as being Catholic. . Most US Catholics are what are sometimes called cafeteria Catholics - and this probably true in most of the world, as the religion numbers over 1 billion. People tend to take the parts from the wide body of practices that they like and follow those, while pretty much completely discarding the rest.
Good parts (for me) - a legacy of serving others, volunteering, delivering food to the needy, clothing for the homeless, founding hospitals and schools, tending to the sick and untouchables, do-unto-others mentality, with lots of examples (saints) constantly offered up to demonstrate how ordinary humans could exemplify the best of generous and loving qualities and concern for their fellow men, etc. Bad parts would be church officials and others being dogmatic and unyielding on things like abortion, gay marriage, contraception, alternative interpretations of Biblical passages, and a hierarchical sexist power structure which reinforced and made worse the entire shuffling around of known pedaphilic priests from parish to parish. No accountability, lots of bishops and others being completely closed to dialogue. A 2000 year legacy of anti-semitism.
Lots of people raised Catholic are understandably horrified by a lot of those bad parts of Catholic legacy and try to distance themselves from those aspects. Just the fact that Fauci, Biden, Pelosi, Sotomayor and AOC are Catholic along with Alito, Kavanaugh, Paul Gosar, Steve King and Amy Coney Barret shows the huge diversity in personalities and points of view that fall under that umbrella.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | November 23, 2022 8:28 AM |
I thought it was a good European style film. It would have made a better thriller handled by someone like Roman Polanski. It definitely made me think of haneke and Isabelle huppert.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | November 23, 2022 7:19 PM |
did anyone else get faye dunaway in Network vibes? Something in her mannerisms reminded me of Faye. And then she does have an over the top mommie dearest style scene.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | November 23, 2022 7:21 PM |
Just saw it. It was good but quite heavy and depressing. Not as artsy as trailer made it to be.
by Anonymous | reply 307 | November 23, 2022 7:35 PM |
Why does she puke after her “massage”? Was it because the one she chose hadn’t cleaned her snatch properly?
by Anonymous | reply 308 | November 23, 2022 10:58 PM |
Cause she had sex with a prostitute so it made her sick that she would do something like that. At least that's how I saw it.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | November 24, 2022 9:03 AM |
I didn't understood that scene where she goes running after the cello girl into that abandoned house. What was that all about? She clearly didn't live there.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | November 24, 2022 9:04 AM |
She was nosy. And she wanted to eat out the cello girl’s pussy.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | November 24, 2022 2:29 PM |
"I didn't understood that scene where she goes running after the cello girl into that abandoned house. What was that all about? She clearly didn't live there. "
That's the point, the girl didn't want the teacher to know where she lived.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | November 24, 2022 3:46 PM |
I was particularly amused by the scene with the sister and real estate people telling Lydia they’re showing the apartment upstairs and could Lydia stop with her too loud music. And then Lydia shuts the door in her face and proceeds to get very loud. The Germans have a big thing about noise. They have laws regarding them and the cops will actually show up and hand you a substantial fine.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | November 24, 2022 3:59 PM |
R310, the cellist had left her talisman/good luck charm behind with Lydia (on purpose?) and an infatuated Lydia had gone into the house to find her. Lydia, who is deceptive herself, can’t see that the cellist is lying to her. The film could have used a lot more of this kind of Lesbian Drama.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | November 24, 2022 5:35 PM |
R310 -Lydia follows Olga home to an abandoned, dilapidated apartment complex. Scared by a dog, Lydia trips and injures herself. She lies to Sharon and her orchestra, claiming the injuries were from an assault.
by Anonymous | reply 315 | November 24, 2022 5:49 PM |
The print I watched didn't have German subtitles and since I can't understand German I didn't get what she said to the girl who was supposedly bullying her adopted daughter.
by Anonymous | reply 316 | November 24, 2022 5:51 PM |
The vomiting is supposedly the result of her realization that she treated the orchestra like a smorgasbord of pussy, in that the masseuses she picked from were arranged similarly to an orchestra.
by Anonymous | reply 317 | November 24, 2022 6:17 PM |
This movie is a bomb and is not going to win any Oscar’s. For best actress, it will be Michelle Yeoh or Michelle Williams.
by Anonymous | reply 318 | November 24, 2022 6:24 PM |
R316, Tár says that she is Petra's father, that she knows what the girl is doing to Petra, and that if the girl does it again Tár will "get her." And if the girl tells a grown-up what she has said, they won't believer her, because Tár is a grown up. Then she struts off.
by Anonymous | reply 319 | November 24, 2022 6:48 PM |
R315 You just described everything what happened. I saw it, I have eyes. But don't understand what's was the story behind it. Why did that girl go to the abandoned house?
R314 Lying about what? And why would she leave it on purpose?
R312 Why didn't she wanted her to know where she lives? She didn't just go to the hall and waited for Lydia to drive away. She disappeared completely.
by Anonymous | reply 320 | November 24, 2022 7:34 PM |
Was the weird neighbor neglecting her mother?
by Anonymous | reply 321 | November 24, 2022 7:35 PM |
I think she was just mentally and emotionally unequipped to deal with an ill mother.
by Anonymous | reply 322 | November 24, 2022 8:10 PM |
It seems the company had auditions where the players are behind screens. Is that true to life?
by Anonymous | reply 323 | November 24, 2022 10:14 PM |
R323, yes, it is. Most major orchestras do this and, as a result, have hired significantly more female musicians.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | November 24, 2022 10:24 PM |
Seems bizarre.
by Anonymous | reply 325 | November 24, 2022 10:25 PM |
I didn't understand the significance of the Julliard student having a shaking leg? Was it just so that Lydia could be conveniently filmed touching it?
Also what was the thing she stole from Sebastian's desk?
by Anonymous | reply 326 | November 24, 2022 10:29 PM |
The Russian girl was fug. I couldn't understand what the fuss was about. Tar's own wife was better looking than that!
by Anonymous | reply 327 | November 24, 2022 10:43 PM |
The Juilliard kid was fucking obnoxious and a woke nightmare. Good luck with him having a career if he refuses to listen to or play the work of cis white composers. Piece of shit. He deserved the trashing he got from her.
by Anonymous | reply 328 | November 24, 2022 11:55 PM |
Yes but what was the leg shaking? Just nerves or a physical condition?
by Anonymous | reply 329 | November 25, 2022 12:11 AM |
R329 ...weakness, physicalized.
by Anonymous | reply 330 | November 25, 2022 12:21 AM |
R326, he compulsively clicked a pen and Lydia stole it from his desk.
by Anonymous | reply 331 | November 25, 2022 12:26 AM |
Yes I noticed that because in one scene she stopped him doing it. I guess that was another physicalization of weakness.
by Anonymous | reply 332 | November 25, 2022 1:00 AM |
It's such a movie trope the idea that Lydia finds incriminating evidence at Francesca's supposedly abandoned apartment as if she knew Lydia would come to find it.
by Anonymous | reply 333 | November 25, 2022 4:43 AM |
I felt the same as R284. There was something very detached and cold about the characters. Maybe that's part of the point. I don't know if I would call Blanchett's performance great or even good. She's playing a pretentious narcissist with anxiety issues and probably because she suffers from imposter syndrome. She's not an original. It's an ok film I can re-watch and pickup more things and probably have a change of assessment along the way only because so much is left out and up to viewer's speculations.
by Anonymous | reply 334 | November 25, 2022 12:17 PM |
R323: There is now a movement afoot to dispense with blind auditions, because they disadvantage brown and black musicians, supposedly. Asians are no longer considered POC in the world of Classical Music. Because they are dominating it as soloists and top orchestral players.
by Anonymous | reply 335 | November 25, 2022 12:30 PM |
r320, the girl didn't want Tar to drop her off at her actual address because she sensed that Tar is a creep/weirdo. So she had her drop her at a generic place. It's a satefy trick that women use, don't you know ?
Now did the girl leave the object behind in Tar's car on purpose, personnally I didn't believe so, but who knows.
The scene happens quickly, it looks as though the girl "disappears" but the movie is weird like that. I noted two brief moments in Tar's appartment where you can see a blonde woman standing/sitting there. Maybe the "apparition" of the girl who killed herself.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | November 25, 2022 4:53 PM |
I thought the dead girl was redhead.
Yes Olga seemed to know that Lydia was attracted to her and took advantage of that to get the solo spot but wasn't going to sleep with her. That's why she lied about not wanting to have dinner in NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 337 | November 25, 2022 5:44 PM |
R336 I only noted one "apparition" scene, that's when she came into her own house after meeting Andris. When's the other scene?
by Anonymous | reply 338 | November 25, 2022 5:48 PM |
I felt the movie took too long to get to the #MeToo stuff and those orchestra rehearsals were repetitive. I think we got the point pretty fast that Lydia was a pretentious fool based on the opening interview and the Krista Taylor plot was unnecessarily oblique. The Olga plot was enough to explore the idea that Lydia was giving favors to young women so they could have had Olga push back to show repercussions and lose the whole Krista Taytor thread. The idea that Lydia would consciously attend the live performance when she presumably agreed to step down for the night seemed ridiculous though apparently an expression of her madness. However I liked the idea of her hearing noises all the time which was said to be a sign of her intelligence but read more as autism.
by Anonymous | reply 339 | November 25, 2022 6:00 PM |
r338 the other apparition was in the background in a glimpse when Tar sits up in bed after hearing the daughter crying. Very creepy.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | November 25, 2022 6:12 PM |
I don't get why she called Sebastian a misogamist (hater of marriage). He is Andris' (her mentor, the older man) lover, but Andris is also married to a woman. I didn't get that outburst, was it just resentments rising to the surface?
by Anonymous | reply 341 | November 25, 2022 6:17 PM |
I think the scene of her following Olga shows Lydia Tar will disregard sense and even personal safety to pursue her prey and this would eventually be a main cause of her downfall. She would venture further into the dark basement when sense would tell her something's really off. All kinds of alarm bells should have gone off.
The live-streaming chats, stolen performance score, shipibo pattern scribbling are likely the work of Francesca. Who else would be on a private jet with Tar, be able to assess her hotel room and has keys to her home.
by Anonymous | reply 342 | November 25, 2022 6:19 PM |
R341 I took it that she meant he didn't respect the sanctity of marriage.
by Anonymous | reply 343 | November 25, 2022 6:46 PM |
I don't see how anyone can take "Tar" seriously...I howled with laughter when she stumbled out of the massage parlor on rubbery legs...it was like something from a comedy sketch.
by Anonymous | reply 344 | November 25, 2022 7:04 PM |
Thanks r340!
by Anonymous | reply 345 | November 25, 2022 7:07 PM |
R343, well neither does she, making her orchestra her harem. I guess it's projection.
by Anonymous | reply 346 | November 25, 2022 7:15 PM |
R336 Why would she leave it on purpose if she didn't wanted Lydia to follow her and to know where she lives. Also, who did that girl disappear when she went into that abandoned building. Wouldn't she just waited in the hall untill Lydia would drive away?
by Anonymous | reply 347 | November 25, 2022 8:33 PM |
My God r347 you're dense or what ? Read the posts and try to comprehend them.
by Anonymous | reply 348 | November 25, 2022 9:15 PM |
Another odd touch was the process of her getting fitted for a hand-made jacket and then the result was that it looked nothing special.
by Anonymous | reply 349 | November 25, 2022 9:46 PM |
R348 Look who's talking.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | November 25, 2022 9:50 PM |
The whole thing with the hillbilly brother at the end was pretty derivative. I mean, they could've at least gotten Amy Morton to play her sister.
by Anonymous | reply 351 | November 25, 2022 9:55 PM |
Or Amy Madigan as the mother.
by Anonymous | reply 352 | November 25, 2022 11:03 PM |
What was the Planet of the Apes reference she makes?
by Anonymous | reply 353 | November 26, 2022 9:25 PM |
R347, I think she slipped out a back or side exit.
R351, the whole last 15 minutes…
R353, "Oh, well, then you must be aware that Varèse once famously stated that jazz was 'a Negro product exploited by the Jews.' Didn't stop Jerry Goldsmith from ripping him off for his [italic]Planet of the Apes[/italic] score. That's kind of a perfect insult, don't you think?"
by Anonymous | reply 354 | November 26, 2022 10:05 PM |
Do you know what Varese music she is referring to?
by Anonymous | reply 355 | November 27, 2022 12:38 AM |
I don't understand why she took the pen from Sebastian, was it because she found it annoying? It was the same with the leg shaking. I found it irritatingly distracting during the Julliard scenes. What was the point? People are stressed out in her presence? It was also strange she brought home the handbag from her fling with the young woman. It seems out of character for her? When her wife says the bag suits her I was thinking no way. Sharon didn't mean what she says as she really suspects otherwise.
by Anonymous | reply 356 | November 27, 2022 3:49 PM |
r356 here. Just to add that I understand the significance of the bag but it seems an out of character thing for Lydia to do.
by Anonymous | reply 357 | November 27, 2022 3:52 PM |
No sex scenes... Bah.
by Anonymous | reply 358 | November 27, 2022 3:58 PM |
R355, some have said that the Planet of the Apes soundtrack has some similarities to Varese’s Arcana.
by Anonymous | reply 359 | November 27, 2022 5:22 PM |
r356 here. Found some comment on reddit related to my questions.
"Todd Field shared that Lydia Tár suffers from misophonia and misokinesia. She experiences emotional distress that usually includes anger, when she is exposed to certain triggering sounds & sights under conditions that she lacks control over them. It's partially why she is so anxious before the interview and why she so frustrated by Max's bouncing leg and the clicking of the pen. Lydia is stealing her wife's beta-blockers to calm down because she won't admit she needs treatment."
by Anonymous | reply 360 | November 27, 2022 6:28 PM |
In addition to their comment "Todd Field also said Lydia grew up with deaf parents which adds another interesting element to her quirks. We see an awfully contorted angry face in one of the trailers I assumed to be Lydia's mother. People do not just run away and cut ties with their families of origin when they have had happy lives. Lydia Tár left behind Linda Tarr who adored Leonard Bernstein and recorded all his appearances on VHS, and fought her way into the classical music world. Leonard Bernstein had mentored her? Not exactly. Lydia finessed her backstory so she could fit in with the upper echelons of the classical music world."
Not sure if these are assertions of what Todd Field said are accurate.
by Anonymous | reply 361 | November 27, 2022 6:32 PM |
I found her choice of the word robot as an insult interesting though I think she used moron once.
by Anonymous | reply 362 | November 27, 2022 7:12 PM |
She used the word “robot” a few times to diss people. That was odd.
by Anonymous | reply 365 | November 28, 2022 12:07 AM |
R365, I thought it was so cool! "millennial robots trading in lies" I have started using it. Instead of calling people "pigs" (lovely animals) it's something better: robots programmed by social media…
I also lived her griping toward the end about her wife's sister: "She's fringe! The worst kind! Every time I walk out of this house she's in your ear with intrigue or she's asking me about some other piece of fringe…" lmao
by Anonymous | reply 366 | November 28, 2022 12:13 AM |
There's a Nov 20 screed online by former NYT dance critic Alistair Macauley pronouncing "Tar" an "appalling" piece of "Lesbophobia." Readable at website that bears his name. The secret of linking seems to be eluding me. Also, keywording "Cate Blanchett" into the search window over at Slipped Disc, Norman Lebrecht's bitchy, dishy, daily classical music-world blog, pulls up a good half-dozen gossippy items. "Serious" classical music gatekeepers love to clutch their pearls over Lebrecht, but he's sheer DL.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | November 29, 2022 3:53 AM |
She'll be nominated for certain. But win? No.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | November 29, 2022 4:10 AM |
The use of “robot” makes me wonder if it’s meant the way that “NPC” is frequently used right now. Even if Tàr were younger and it were plausible that she’d use that word, Fielding knows the average age of his audience and wouldn’t put a needlessly confusing term in his script. Just a thought.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | November 29, 2022 4:50 AM |
Was anyone else struck by how she described herself in the Juliiard class as a U-Haul lesbian?
by Anonymous | reply 371 | November 29, 2022 5:36 AM |
That Gen Z student was a total prick. Couldn't stand him and any of his ilk. You just know there are real life imitations of him walking around pontificating about how they won't have anything to do with white cisgender men. If that's the case, they should stop driving cars, using electricity or cell phones, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 372 | November 29, 2022 5:38 AM |
The class appeared to be quite underpopulated or was it only intended for special students?
by Anonymous | reply 373 | November 29, 2022 5:42 AM |
Danielle Deadwyler should be the front runner for Best Actess. I’d be fine with Yeoh winning though.
by Anonymous | reply 374 | November 29, 2022 5:52 AM |
Would even the most naive/“woke”/immature student at Julliard really diss Bach? That startled me, even as someone fairly unsophisticated about classical music.
by Anonymous | reply 375 | November 29, 2022 2:44 PM |
Funny how that woke student used a sexist term when she called him out, and called her a bitch. So much for being woke.
by Anonymous | reply 376 | November 29, 2022 2:48 PM |
Thanks for posting that, R368.
And that review hit the nail on the head by comparing "Tar" to "Black Swan," which I also hated (and found hysterically funny to boot).
These films should be listed in the dictionary as the definition of "over the top."
by Anonymous | reply 377 | November 29, 2022 3:04 PM |
Wait, is Tár really as silly and crazy as Black Swan? I may have to see this one. Black Swan is a comedic horror thriller and if you understand that it becomes a brilliant film. If you attempt to take it seriously as a drama, you are wasting your time. One of the funniest movies of this century.
by Anonymous | reply 378 | November 29, 2022 4:26 PM |
r371 I thought it was jarring for someone like Tar to describe herself as such.
by Anonymous | reply 379 | November 29, 2022 5:35 PM |
Cate has peaked too soon and word is spreading about how reactionary and pro-privilege the film is.
Yeoh’s year.
by Anonymous | reply 380 | November 29, 2022 7:02 PM |
Cate was interviewed for the NYT saying she doesn't like to deconstruct her roles for the press but still made a few comments.
"Blanchett doesn’t watch her own work if she can avoid it. She dislikes talking about whether a role incorporates any part of herself. She is, she insists, the least entertaining subject, at least to herself. “I’m not interested in any way in a one-to-one direct comparison, or having a moment of personal catharsis in public,” she told me. “Like, ‘Oh the role meant this to me,’ or, ‘I channeled my own inner’ — no.” She looked briefly nauseated. “None of that stuff.
Blanchett plays Lydia Tár, a virtuosic conductor at the peak of her career and at the precipice of a downfall. It’s as intimate and sustained a character study as Blanchett has ever taken on: “Tár” is more than two and a half hours long, and she is onscreen for nearly every frame. The character is a kind of culmination of her interest in the mutability of the individual: Tár is a person with an obscured personal history, a consummate performer whose finely tuned sense of where power lies in any room makes her adept at shifting her own aspect to suit. One senses an instability at her center: Her core self — if there is such a thing — isn’t truly known to anyone, not even her. Frame by frame, “Tár” gives Blanchett as much change, as much weather to move through, as she has ever had.
Blanchett was fascinated by the character of Tár as a study of an artist whose pursuit of transcendence and power is both successful and ugly. “How much is permissible when you’re striving for excellence?” she asked. What can a person in Tár’s situation get away with? What should be accepted as the price of her talent? Dishonesty? Sexual indiscretion? Abuse of subordinates? Unpopular opinions? Blanchett was interested, too, in the threshold the character navigates: Tár “is about to go through a massive transition. She’s about to turn 50. She’s found a way to escape herself and to become larger than herself, and better, and bigger than herself in the making of music. But now it’s like that connection has been broken.”
by Anonymous | reply 381 | November 29, 2022 7:11 PM |
“Tár” is a thorny project even by Blanchett’s standards, one that wanders into conversations that tend to run hot: the whiteness and colonialism of classical music; the possibility of free consent between a mentor and a mentee, or teacher and student; whether an artist’s work can be separated from her conduct; whether one can be a great artist without being greatly destructive or extractive as well.
To prepare, which Blanchett did mostly on nights and weekends because she was shooting other projects during the day, she learned to play the piano, to speak German, to do her own stunt driving. She became versed in the history of orchestral music and the personal styles and biographies of the famous conductors of the past century. Most improbable, she learned to conduct an orchestra, a physical task for which most people train for years. (In terms of its complexity, conducting is comparable to dancing and doing calculus at the same time.) “She showed up on set, and she had memorized the entire script as if it were a play,” Field told me. “I’ve never heard of that. I’ve never spoken to anyone that’s ever heard of that. It’s like learning ‘Hamlet.’ It’s almost impossible to describe.”
The performance that results is assured, mercurial and physical. Something about the way Blanchett’s body occupies the frame feels familiar but hard to place, and then you recognize that posture with which the white male heads of institutions move through the spaces where they work: genial, totally at ease, dangerous. But there are cracks in the self-assurance, seen in the horror with which she reacts to the clicking of a pen, or the breath she needs to take before she touches the piano key. “Tár” can be a difficult viewing experience, especially for those resistant to extended consideration of the psychology and humanity of a person who is brilliant but also a predator. (News coverage and real life afford plenty of opportunities for that exercise.) But Blanchett infuses a recognizable character type with so much unpredictability and self-estrangement that the movie takes on the volatile feeling of a thriller. She is both the shadow and the person running from it."
by Anonymous | reply 382 | November 29, 2022 7:13 PM |
Blanchett is said to be funny, easy and warm on sets. Noémie Merlant, who plays Tár’s assistant, talked about how Blanchett would dance between takes and make the orchestra laugh, even though it was a grueling, nerve-racking shooting day for her most of all. There are similar stories about her clowning to rally spirits on the set of “Mrs. America.”
Still, her work ethic is legend. Nearly everyone ever interviewed about working with her mentions her preparedness, her focus, her rigor. “She is nonstop,” says Nina Hoss, who plays Tár’s wife, the concert master of the philharmonic. “Preparing. For everything. Thinking about the parts, making her choices there, really practicing, practicing, practicing, concerning the conducting and the piano pieces.”
by Anonymous | reply 383 | November 29, 2022 7:16 PM |
Tar is NOTHING like Black Swan. Jees, what an utterly brain dead comparison.
by Anonymous | reply 384 | November 29, 2022 7:17 PM |
"Lately, Blanchett told me, she had been feeling “a massive urge to be quiet.” She was concerned that anything she might say about herself or about “Tár” would muddle the audience reaction to the film, which felt like a transformative experience for her. “Something moved through us all collectively. And I don’t know what that is, and I don’t want to tell an audience what it is, but I know it’s something.” She promised me she wasn’t trying to obfuscate.
“I feel like it’s a genuine quest that I’m on, which I don’t fully understand myself. But there’s something that I connect with on a deep level with the character Lydia. Not that I’m at all like her.” The look of anxiety and near-nausea returned. “But she seems to be at the end of a cycle. She’s completing this lifelong quest or ambition to match the classical greats, to match Mahler, to leave a legacy. You know, to prove to those bullies in primary school that she is someone and that she can break through those ceilings and realize her full potential. And when you get to that point as an artist, as a human being, you have to risk exploding it all and leaving it behind.”
She described the artist as a person climbing a mountain peak in the hope of reaching something at the top — who then realizes, as she nears her goal, that all along she has been chasing a chimera. The real prize is on the next mountain, which may itself simply be illusory, “constructed by what you thought you wanted, or an external sense of what a peak was,” but which nevertheless now demands her energies. “I didn’t even know I was thinking about it, but it, just, all of this stuff came up, you know. It drew a lot of things together for me.” The movie was about many things, she hedged, but this was a strand of what had drawn her to it, some recognition of the path Tár was on. “Just that sense of continual sense of risk.”
by Anonymous | reply 385 | November 29, 2022 7:20 PM |
Miss McCauley also hates Datalounge fave "Notes on a Scandal," so I think DL can disregard his lofty opinions.
by Anonymous | reply 386 | November 29, 2022 8:28 PM |
R385? "She described the artist as a person climbing a mountain peak in the hope of reaching something at the top — who then realizes, as she nears her goal, that all along she has been chasing a chimera."
Doesn't that sound a little familiar to you?
by Anonymous | reply 387 | November 29, 2022 8:50 PM |
R371 and R379, it was one of the cringe moments in the film. Landed with a thud.
by Anonymous | reply 388 | November 30, 2022 3:08 AM |
One of the best damning reviews on Letterboxd said that the movie felt like it was the director's Pinterest board.
by Anonymous | reply 389 | November 30, 2022 3:13 AM |
Also since she kept her own apartment Lydia is not the U-Haul type.
by Anonymous | reply 390 | November 30, 2022 4:25 AM |
R382 Whoever wrote that review sounds exactly like the tone-deaf Gen Z student that Lydia schools. Can't even deign to mention classical music without having to apologize for whiteness and colonialism (how in the world is classical music connected to colonialism anyway??)
by Anonymous | reply 391 | November 30, 2022 6:42 AM |
And interestingly enough, conservatives are loving that scene with the student and now consider Cate Blanchett and Todd Field personal heroes as being the only ones standing up to cancel culture in a mainstream Hollywood film.
by Anonymous | reply 392 | November 30, 2022 6:44 AM |
[quote]how in the world is classical music connected to colonialism anyway??
r391 The concert halls were build with the wealth that came from the exploitation of the colonies. Those attending the concerts were mostly the rich and the powerful and the privileged who benefitted the most from colonialism. I'm not even a fan of this line of thinking, but let's not fool ourselves, classical music has never been close to the ordinary working man, it's been a thing for the elites since the start and is in that way connected to colonialism more than just about any other art form.
by Anonymous | reply 393 | November 30, 2022 7:43 AM |
r393, you would be incorrect as regards Bach in particular, who wrote the majority of his music for the Lutheran church where he as employed. He worked several years for someone in the lesser nobility, but as the Germans in that century were not colonizing, his employer would not have been enriched by that sort of enterprise. In fact, most of the German composers that are revered in classical music circles predated any German colonizing impulses which revved into high gear in 1884. However, in the larger sense, you are correct that much of classical music as "entertainment" was written for employers and patrons who were from the noble class. In the middle of the 19th century, enough of a middle class had grown up to support the arts and to attend concerts, but prior to that, the common person's exposure to composed music would have been primarily in churches. I would argue that opera became a more democratic art form in the 19th century and even people who couldn't afford to attend would listen to the tunes and whistle them in the street. In fact, even at the time of Mozart in the late 18th century, some of his opera tunes quickly became widely sung ditties on street corners throughout the German-speaking parts of Europe.
The composers and performers of classical music almost invariably sprang from the middle class, or even lower middle class - often they were part of family dynasties of musicians. So just as some people were millers, shoemakers, brewers, or blacksmiths, following in their families' footsteps, so many musicians were born into families that supplied the music for the churches and for whatever local nobility could offer them steady work. Often, like Bach, they were educated enough to also offer lessons in other fields. Bach for instance, taught Latin as well as music.
We cannot really know what went on in the minds of composers long dead. We know that many of them despised the nobility and were bitter that they had to bow down to them. Bach was jailed for taking leave from one of his noble composers to go study with an organist in another town. Mozart was kicked to the curb by the footmen of the Archbishop who employed him. Beethoven refused to bow when the nobility drove by in their carriages, unlike all the common people around him. So my gut feeling is that they didn't share the world view of the nobility who regarded themselves as very special, and all non-nobles as lesser human beings.
by Anonymous | reply 394 | November 30, 2022 8:35 AM |
R393 is so dumb and ignorant.
by Anonymous | reply 395 | November 30, 2022 9:11 AM |
That interview fails to mention the giant elephant in the room: that they chose to make Tar an aggressive and sexually assaulting lesbian conductor, something that literally has never existed in classical music. The aggressive sexual predators in the business are straight men, and to a much lesser extent, gay men. There is precisely ONE existing lesbian conductor of major ensembles, Marin Alsop, and she is pretty much horrified by this movie. Why did Field choose to make her a lesbian, and why did Cate go along with it? It’s a huge problem that is only going to become more of a problem as she continues to campaign, though they’re doing all the tap dancing they can to avoid touching the subject.
by Anonymous | reply 396 | November 30, 2022 11:18 AM |
R396 Her being a straight woman sexually exploiting her male subordinates wouldn't be very realistic.
by Anonymous | reply 397 | November 30, 2022 12:59 PM |
And I explained why the current plot is not realistic at all R397.
by Anonymous | reply 398 | November 30, 2022 1:35 PM |
R397, that’s true, but that just raises more questions. Lydia appears to have been exploiting young women for years, but would any woman, gay or straight, have the kind of institutional protections that men can take for granted? And how realistic is it to have a lesbian be this kind of nonstop serial predator?
by Anonymous | reply 399 | November 30, 2022 1:41 PM |
Danielle Deadwyler is not getting an Oscar nomination. Till has not been a box office success and her performance is getting zero buzz.
by Anonymous | reply 400 | November 30, 2022 1:42 PM |
R383, Ever since very early 2022 reports came in of Austin Butler’s intensive preparations for "Elvis"---including Denzel Washington's cold-call to Baz Luhrmann recommending AB based on his impressive work ethic on "The Iceman Cometh"---every other actor now speaks of theirs (Cate, Ana, e.g.).
by Anonymous | reply 401 | November 30, 2022 2:58 PM |
"Deadwyler" is the kind of name that a movie studio in the 40s would've changed.
by Anonymous | reply 402 | November 30, 2022 3:00 PM |
What about a giant elephant in the room, r396?
by Anonymous | reply 403 | November 30, 2022 3:03 PM |
R399 Why would it be unrealistic to have a lesbian serial predator? I don't follow. She was a gay woman in power who seduced younger women and had sex with them in exchange for helping their careers.
by Anonymous | reply 404 | November 30, 2022 5:50 PM |
I have worked with a lot of lesbians and let me tell you, sexual predators among them abound just like they abound among men.
by Anonymous | reply 405 | November 30, 2022 6:00 PM |
"Why did Field choose to make her a lesbian, and why did Cate go along with it? It’s a huge problem that is only going to become more of a problem as she continues to campaign"
Ssoooo...that means there will never be a lesbian predator conductor so its heresy to portray such a character? That's specious reasoning at best. Lesbians and gays can be predators in ALL walks of life just like heterosexuals. They don't get a pass in art for the sake of optics and feelings. The human condition is way more complex than that.
by Anonymous | reply 406 | November 30, 2022 6:08 PM |
The lesbophobes and misogynists here are trying hard. Failing, but trying.
by Anonymous | reply 407 | November 30, 2022 7:01 PM |
I mustn't have been paying attention and didn't connect the new bag bit from the gal thanking Lydia for the interview to Lydia coming home and her wife commenting on her new bag.
by Anonymous | reply 408 | November 30, 2022 8:44 PM |
I think someone said early on (maybe the director of the film) that he used a lesbian person in power, because having a man as the focus changes the dynamic to one of sex, whereas he wanted to clearly show the dynamic to be the disparity in power. That still exists in male/female predation situations, but often when depicted, it quickly changes to "she was attracted to his masculine assertiveness and only later realized he was controlling and manipulating her". In this scenario, our minds don't necessarily go THERE instantly.
by Anonymous | reply 409 | December 1, 2022 2:40 AM |
There are female teachers who have sex with female students, so I don't see what's so unrealistic about a world famous conductor sleeping with women in the business.
by Anonymous | reply 410 | December 1, 2022 4:41 PM |
She will get a Oscar nomination but no way will she get an award. She's basically playing female Harvey Weinstein. No way Hollywood will reward her for that.
by Anonymous | reply 411 | December 1, 2022 4:42 PM |
I'm so slow. I thought Krista killed herself because she was in love with Lydia. Reading the messages she sent to Lydia's assistant, on a screenshot photo, it's because she couldn't get a job anywhere, because Tar badmouthed her to all the people in power.
by Anonymous | reply 412 | December 1, 2022 4:47 PM |
Lydia and her assistant talked about the summer the three of them (Lydia, assistant and Krista) spent together, I don't remember when. Did that mean that they were a throuple or that only Lydia and Krista were together and the assistant was always just the assistant?
by Anonymous | reply 413 | December 1, 2022 6:58 PM |
R412 - don't feel bad. I found all that backstory presented obliquely. For me the strongest representation of Lydia's power play was the Olga plot.
by Anonymous | reply 414 | December 1, 2022 9:48 PM |
I just happened to watch The Simpsons episode that Cate voiced - The Way of the Dog. There is something hard about her voice that is unattractive.
by Anonymous | reply 415 | December 1, 2022 9:51 PM |
Tár and Blanchett will probably clean up in the critics’ awards.
by Anonymous | reply 417 | December 2, 2022 9:26 PM |
Interesting interview with Todd Field, including his explanation as to why the full credit sequence is in the beginning of the film, not the end.
by Anonymous | reply 418 | December 3, 2022 4:44 PM |
While this is not a film for everyone (anyone?), I absolutely adored it… Cate is literally onscreen for 99% of the 160 minute runtime and caresses each shot (I know, MARY!). A masterful performance, not even to mention the actual musicianship she exhibits throughout. Dicey subject matter and ultra high brow pretensions may preclude this from serious award consideration beyond her performance as a truly literate, adult film in every way.
by Anonymous | reply 419 | December 4, 2022 2:12 AM |
R418, maybe Todd put the credits at the beginning because he realized the audience might not last until the end of the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 420 | December 4, 2022 4:09 AM |
Exactly R420. The ego…
by Anonymous | reply 421 | December 4, 2022 11:58 AM |
I agree, R419. I can see how many might hate this movie but I found it very compelling and have thought about it often since I saw it a month or more ago. Cate’s performance was amazing.
by Anonymous | reply 422 | December 4, 2022 1:49 PM |
The Spectator's take . sorta paywalled but if you give them a junk email address you should be able to read it
by Anonymous | reply 423 | December 4, 2022 7:10 PM |
R418 - this is the second film i have seen recently with the full credits at the front. I thought maybe this is a new trend. I just can't remember the name of the other film. Maybe The Power of the Dog?
by Anonymous | reply 424 | December 4, 2022 7:21 PM |
Who are all of these Hollywood's lackeys pushing Tar on us? We will still not see this.
by Anonymous | reply 425 | December 4, 2022 7:26 PM |
Smell YOU, R425.
by Anonymous | reply 426 | December 4, 2022 10:41 PM |
Cate said she was harassed by Harvey Weinstein. Why then would she want to play a sexual predator?
by Anonymous | reply 427 | December 11, 2022 6:34 AM |
That's basic psychology 101. You take a role playing a sexual predator because in the film the predator is caught and punished. Something that didn't happen to Weinstein for decades. Playing the role allows you a certain measure of catharsis of the experience. You relieve it in a controlled and safe environment where the right things happen.
by Anonymous | reply 428 | December 11, 2022 7:05 AM |
^ relive it (although relieve it also sort of works).
by Anonymous | reply 429 | December 11, 2022 7:06 AM |
R247 Harvey's standards must be really low if that is true.
by Anonymous | reply 430 | December 11, 2022 7:19 AM |
R430 Why? Cate is gorgeous and intriguing.
by Anonymous | reply 431 | December 11, 2022 10:30 AM |
R431 = Andrew Upton.
by Anonymous | reply 432 | December 11, 2022 11:35 AM |
Kate is too domineering in this interview, in the same way that Faye Dunaway used to be during her heyday. Her personality and masculine energy reminds me a lot of Jamie Lee Curtis.
by Anonymous | reply 433 | December 11, 2022 2:41 PM |
R432 No, that's the opinion of most people on this planet. Ask any straight man, lesbian or a bi person if they find Kate hot.
by Anonymous | reply 434 | December 11, 2022 3:00 PM |
*Cate
by Anonymous | reply 435 | December 11, 2022 3:01 PM |
Oh, honey @ R431 -- she's not hot.
Trust me.
by Anonymous | reply 436 | December 11, 2022 3:13 PM |
R436 Why would I trust you? I have eyes.
by Anonymous | reply 437 | December 11, 2022 3:22 PM |
Ladies, despite all of your bickering, Cate is still not winning an Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 438 | December 11, 2022 3:27 PM |
i thought it sucked
by Anonymous | reply 439 | December 11, 2022 3:34 PM |
Michelle isn’t fit to lick Cate’s feet. All of her line readings are stiff as fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 440 | December 11, 2022 9:12 PM |
Yeoh isn’t a good actress. She was average as a stunt actress in action flicks. The Oscars have been and will continue to be a joke.
by Anonymous | reply 441 | December 11, 2022 9:37 PM |
If Cate wins the Golden Globe, she’ll join other film legends:
Being named this year’s Best Film Drama Actress would make Blanchett the category’s fourth triple champion. Those already on this list are Ingrid Bergman (“Gaslight,” 1945; “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” 1946; “Anastasia,” 1957), Jane Fonda (“Klute,” 1972; “Julia,” 1978; “Coming Home,” 1979), and Meryl Streep (“The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” 1982; “Sophie’s Choice,” 1983; “The Iron Lady,” 2012). Blanchett would also be only the sixth woman to receive half a dozen nominations for this award, after Katharine Hepburn, Geraldine Page, Faye Dunaway, Streep, and Nicole Kidman.
Blanchett is already one of 14 women with at least three film acting Golden Globe wins to her name, with the first entrant on that general list being Bergman. She has since been followed chronologically by Rosalind Russell (1959), Fonda (1979), Julie Andrews (1983), Streep (1983), Shirley MacLaine (1984), Julia Roberts (2001), Sissy Spacek (2002), Kidman (2003), Renée Zellweger (2004), Blanchett (2014), Jennifer Lawrence (2016), Kate Winslet (2016), and Jodie Foster (2021).
by Anonymous | reply 442 | December 11, 2022 10:00 PM |
Haven't the Globes been cancelled for being openly racist and misogynist?
Why are they getting a second chance.
by Anonymous | reply 443 | December 12, 2022 5:13 AM |
Does anyone take the Golden Globes seriously?
by Anonymous | reply 444 | December 12, 2022 5:16 AM |
in that interview Cate lost me when she said Everything Everywhere was one of the greatest films ever made.
by Anonymous | reply 445 | December 12, 2022 5:21 AM |
R445, Cate is the queen of hyperbole. Everything is profound, extraordinary, transformative, amazing, greatest, singular...
She's become quite the drone lately, repeating the same stories or tweaking them to fit whatever movie she's promoting. She follows her script and her long-winded "word of the day calendar" responses say very little.
by Anonymous | reply 446 | December 12, 2022 11:56 AM |
This movie wasn't tweaked to please the most people. I have a feeling that the director was able to release it with little or no testing and was able to keep his original vision largely intact. I have to say that it's one of the few films lately that I have been able to sit through from beginning to end and watch it again right away. I wasn't able to see the movie in a theatre so I paid $25 to rent it for 48 hours. I think that I watched it 4-5 times in 48 hours and was still thinking about it weeks later. I have ordered the blu-ray, this one is a keeper for me. I hope that they release a Criterion version with lots of extras in the future, I will add it to my collection. And yes this is worthy of best actress Oscar but I haven't seen any of the other contenders. I hope that Cate wins, I know what it takes to do a 1 minute scene without fuckups and problems, the 10 minute "oner" in this movie is amazing and must have been nerve wracking for all involved.
by Anonymous | reply 447 | December 12, 2022 12:22 PM |
The narratives might be stronger for either Michelle, but having seen their performances which I enjoyed, I still think Cate was easily the best. She deserves to be a 3-time Oscar winner for this. Far more deserving than Meryl for her gargoyle impersonation in The Iron Lady.
by Anonymous | reply 448 | December 12, 2022 11:21 PM |
what's the 10 minute oner?
by Anonymous | reply 449 | December 13, 2022 2:22 AM |
For Cate, a third win comes down to (1) do they want to award her a third now, over someone who has never won before, and (2) do they want to award her for Tar, which is challenging and frankly not a lot of people will like it or watch it. Most people will not sit through it or even bother.
This is why I think Michelle Yeoh will win. People actually like that movie and she has never won before. Her winning would send a big message to the world that film is diverse and the Oscars are not out of touch with audiences. Cate could win a third later in her career, just like Streep did.
by Anonymous | reply 450 | December 13, 2022 3:03 AM |
I don't know. My feeling is that the genre of Everything will work against Michelle, since it is not viewed as real acting. I think Cate will get it because she is in a drama and because it is a #MeToo subject.
by Anonymous | reply 451 | December 13, 2022 3:32 AM |
R451, #metoo for better or worse is OVER. No one cares anymore. I don’t think the zeitgeist has settled on one issue at the moment just yet but it’s not that anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 452 | December 13, 2022 4:40 AM |
R452 Agreed, if MeToo was still a thing, then She Said would have done much better instead of basically coming and going without even a whimper.
by Anonymous | reply 453 | December 13, 2022 4:44 AM |
I think Michelle Yeoh has it. Tar is one of those tough sells that not everyone will watch, that largely gets a nom based on the actor's prestige and critical acclaim (Huppert, Riva, Ullman in Face to Face, etc.). The 'screeners' model of voting will hurt her because many voters won't sit through all 3 hours.
The voters are probably going to love that Everything Everywhere All At Once is a true original that got people back into the cinemas. Even my friends who are not cinephiles loved it. Yeoh is not a massive name, and it's not a 'typical' Oscars role, but she's worked with so many people in the industry and been a part of some big franchises (Marvel, 007, Crazy Rich Asians, the Mummy), so producers and execs will be happy. It's also an easy win for some diversity brownie points, and I'm sure her speech will go viral and give them a lot of press. Jamie Lee Curtis has really been working her puss trying to get her famous voter friends to watch it.
by Anonymous | reply 454 | December 13, 2022 9:57 AM |
R454 Add Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years to that list. All the names mentioned were the most deserving winners but their films were too European for Academy voters to digest.
by Anonymous | reply 455 | December 13, 2022 7:01 PM |
R447, I watched it then when I was done I watched it again. I agree with some of the criticisms but still I just love this film. It's refreshing to see an actual "adult" movie.
by Anonymous | reply 456 | December 13, 2022 7:08 PM |
Michelle Yeoh's narrative and campaign is flawless. It just feels like her year. She is the most in-demand actress over 50 in Hollywood right now.
Jamie Lee Curtis is the frontrunner in the supporting category for the same movie, but Janelle Monae is coming on strong. I think Jamie is still the favorite, but it will be close. Did Janet Leigh or Tony Curtis ever win an Oscar?
by Anonymous | reply 457 | December 13, 2022 7:50 PM |
Janelle Monae for The Glass Onion? I haven't heard of any Oscar buzz for her in that.
by Anonymous | reply 458 | December 13, 2022 7:53 PM |
I've been streaming the movie. I've watched one hour each day for the past two days. Still have more than a half hour to go.
It's very well acted by Blanchett (yes, she deserves a nom - but the woman who played Mamie Till deserves the Oscar), but the film itself - as much as I like it - is very slow. I will probably watch it again when I finish. It's refreshing to see a film like this. Just wish it would move a bit faster.
by Anonymous | reply 459 | December 13, 2022 7:55 PM |
Saw Glass Onion last night. Monae is gorgeous but her acting skills are quite questionable. At times she’s fine and at others she’s amateurish.
by Anonymous | reply 460 | December 13, 2022 9:10 PM |
R460, without giving away too much about Glass Onion, I thought Monae seemed amateurish, but eventually realized that it was a deliberate choice that made perfect sense, and it seemed even better on a second viewing.
by Anonymous | reply 461 | December 13, 2022 9:15 PM |
I loved it. Solid 7.5 from me. I loved that some things were subtley touched upon leaving the viewer to decide.
Not a fan of Cate generally, but I cannot deny how great she was and the film was almost as good.
My god how I hated that cunt that she pushed on the stage. I learned that he was modeled after the brother of a real piece of shit. (All names are escaping me right now)
by Anonymous | reply 462 | December 13, 2022 9:27 PM |
Funny how some people cannot get through Tar when I could not get through Everything Everything. And I am not a fan of Cate.
by Anonymous | reply 463 | December 13, 2022 10:00 PM |
In the interview with Michelle Yeoh and Cate, Michelle claimed that the romantic scenes between her character and Jamie Lee Curtis' character were influenced by Cate's Carol.
by Anonymous | reply 464 | December 14, 2022 1:01 AM |
The Oscars are really a mess ever since Jada took them over a few years ago when Slappy wasn't nominated for something. Prior to that they were starting to recover from the Weinstein years. I haven't watched them for years and I'm surprised that Oscar is still the holy grail. Cate has won most of the awards that she has been nominated for so far for TÁR, I think that the point has been made and most people who have seen the movie agree that she is stunning in it (even if they aren't keen on the movie itself). But I think that Oscar these days is awarded to more than performance excellence, it has to do with spreading the glory to others who have been overlooked for years and who are increasingly influential both on box office and the politics of movie distribution globally.
by Anonymous | reply 465 | December 14, 2022 12:46 PM |
This would have been also great with Julianne Moore, Laura Linney or maybe Winslet. Anyone feel the same?
by Anonymous | reply 466 | December 14, 2022 1:16 PM |
Moore and Linney would have been all kinds of wrong for the role.
by Anonymous | reply 467 | December 14, 2022 5:07 PM |
I'd like to see what Linney and Winslet would do with the role.
by Anonymous | reply 468 | December 14, 2022 5:31 PM |
Winslet could have pulled it off. Laura Linney is so American. I’m not sure it would have worked. But I think she can usually do anything.
by Anonymous | reply 469 | December 14, 2022 5:34 PM |
Kate could easily do it. I can buy Julianne in the role but not Laura. I've never found her believable as European when she plays those roles.
Others who could do it are Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, and Nicole Kidman.
by Anonymous | reply 470 | December 14, 2022 6:18 PM |
As European? Wasn't Lydia an American?
by Anonymous | reply 471 | December 14, 2022 7:28 PM |
If Winslet had done it she would have had her boobs out a-plenty and maybe a splash of fanny for your viewing pleasure!
by Anonymous | reply 472 | December 14, 2022 7:36 PM |
Lydia is definitely American, R471. She was from Staten Island.
by Anonymous | reply 473 | December 14, 2022 7:37 PM |
I think you have to take the age factor into consideration. Tar is still young enough to be desirable to a younger woman. If she was in her 60s it would be harder to believe and the manipulation factor would be more obvious.
by Anonymous | reply 474 | December 14, 2022 10:11 PM |
My memory is a little fuzzy but isn’t there a bit where Tár takes a cab into midtown and she stops where there’s construction going on and goes back into the cab? I think maybe it was where her first apartment in Manhattan was?
by Anonymous | reply 475 | December 15, 2022 1:14 AM |
R473 Then why does an Australian accent keep coming through when she talks?
by Anonymous | reply 476 | December 19, 2022 8:00 AM |
She’s a bit like Maria Callas then, someone American-born who seems foreign.
by Anonymous | reply 477 | December 19, 2022 8:03 AM |
So r465, BA is Tom Cruise's, then?
by Anonymous | reply 478 | December 19, 2022 8:13 PM |
Michelle Yeoh would be the first Bond girl to win an Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 479 | December 20, 2022 3:59 AM |
R479 What about me. I was in the middle of filming Die Another Day when I won my Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 480 | December 20, 2022 4:02 AM |
R479, Kim Basinger was in Never Say Never Again.
by Anonymous | reply 482 | December 20, 2022 4:11 AM |
R475 I think in that scene Lydia was visiting her management company to discuss crisis management. I'm not sure what the construction was about, maybe symbolic of her beginning to rebuild her image. At the meeting she was handed off to a junior employee and told that the best plan would be a new narrative, begin again.
by Anonymous | reply 483 | December 20, 2022 7:37 AM |
R481 , the Tar album is already out. It features some of Cate's "conducting."
by Anonymous | reply 484 | December 20, 2022 12:06 PM |
Cate interviewed 3 weeks ago.
The stars of “Tár” including Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss discuss their film in this interview with CinemaBlend's Sean O’Connell. They discuss their opinion on their protagonist, the online reaction to the film, creative inspirations and much more!
0:00 Intro 0:34 How Cate Blanchett's opinion of Lydia Tár changed throughout 'Tár' 2:10 Nina Hoss on audiences' reactions to the film’s characters 3:13 Cate Blanchett discusses her creative inspirations 4:17 The parallels of a composer and musician vs. a director and an actor.
by Anonymous | reply 485 | December 21, 2022 11:04 AM |
Cate's "conducting" and musicianship in Tar are as real as ghosts or the sky fairy.
by Anonymous | reply 487 | December 21, 2022 11:51 PM |
This whole "Cate is a genius" and "nobody worked harder than her" narrative is ridiculous.
I would guess that the Academy would give the Oscar to anyone but Cate and her enormous ego.
In interviews or articles, you can feel her testiness as Lydia Tar is described as a predator or how she frames the me-too/cancel culture questions as reductive.
by Anonymous | reply 489 | December 23, 2022 8:06 PM |
The winner will be Asian.
by Anonymous | reply 490 | December 27, 2022 7:52 PM |
Are we talking Asian Asian or Asian-American?
by Anonymous | reply 491 | December 29, 2022 10:11 AM |
Cate Blanchett's Tar Movie Getting A Short Film Spinoff Next Year
TÁR is scheduled to hold a special screening at the 2023 edition of the Berlin Film Festival on February 23, 2023. There, a new short titled The Fundraiser will be premiered to accompany a public talk with its writer and director Todd Field, Blanchett, co-star Nina Hoss, and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker). No further details were disclosed at this point, so it’s unclear if Blanchett will reprise her role in some form in The Fundraiser.
by Anonymous | reply 492 | December 29, 2022 10:49 AM |
Cate and Todd's closet picks. What's with her Woody Allen glasses?
by Anonymous | reply 493 | December 29, 2022 11:05 AM |
^ man, that was pretentious.
by Anonymous | reply 494 | December 29, 2022 11:57 AM |
Cate Blanchett’s New Movie ‘Tár’ Is About So Much More Than Cancel Culture.
by Anonymous | reply 495 | December 30, 2022 10:00 PM |
Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula
Todd Field’s film “Tár” imagines its own parallel #MeToo universe, one in which the figure of the perpetrator is transferred to a beguiling new host. She is the fictional conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), and she rules atop the rarefied world of classical music. By making his art monster a woman, when her real-life analogues are almost exclusively men, Field makes it impossible to recoil at her in pre-emptive, familiar disgust. He grants us permission to inspect her up close.
by Anonymous | reply 496 | December 31, 2022 6:56 PM |
Huh, R496?
by Anonymous | reply 497 | January 8, 2023 11:27 AM |
Pretentious movie , pretentious acting by a pretentious actress I am so sick of reading about cate blanchett
by Anonymous | reply 498 | January 8, 2023 12:27 PM |
Tár’s real achievement is not conducting but self-mythologizing. The film’s most revelatory scenes show her leveraging her power to lift people or crush them, masterfully coercing artists and philanthropists into submission. But when Tár schools a Juilliard class that a conductor’s job is to “sublimate yourself” into the canon of white male composers, the young musicians do not bend to her will. And when Tár’s power trips can no longer be sublimated into her work, her self-image splinters. The film itself seems to warp under the weight of her anxiety and self-pity. Dark satire sinks into gothic horror. Tár tries to follow a comely cellist into her apartment, but instead encounters a dank basement and a hulking black dog that recalls the maybe-supernatural Hound of the Baskervilles. Later, she finds the strewn pages of her memoir manuscript floating around a former assistant’s empty room, its title transposed to “RAT ON RAT.” This is the stuff of nightmares, where the accused dreams up a version of her comeuppance so overt, it tips into wish fulfillment.
The other anagram of “Tár” is, of course, “ART,” and as real-life art monsters disappear from view, “Tár” offers up a work into which we can sublimate our own Schadenfreude and sympathy for abusers. Thanks to Blanchett’s luminous performance and Field’s puzzle-box storytelling, we are freed to obsess. “Tár” has inspired its own bizarro-world discourse, one with pleasingly low stakes, because Lydia Tár is (despite a meme suggestion to the contrary) not a real person. She now circulates as an internet-culture fixation, edited into a fan video set to Taylor Swift’s “Karma” and splashed onto a spoofed cover of Time magazine as a “Problematic Icon.” When the groaning What about the men? question became, instead, What about this one strange woman?, I found that I wanted to discuss little else.
by Anonymous | reply 499 | January 8, 2023 1:47 PM |
R446 mte
by Anonymous | reply 500 | January 8, 2023 2:25 PM |
I fell asleep watching it.
by Anonymous | reply 501 | January 8, 2023 2:44 PM |
I could not get through it. Right from the get go, Cate seems overly theatrical and robotic.
by Anonymous | reply 502 | January 8, 2023 3:16 PM |
R501 For whatever reason, I couldn’t fall asleep while watching it even though I tried. So I was forced to endure it all the way through in the cinema. Halfway through I went to get some wine and the guy asked me what movie I’m seeing. I told him “Tar”. He said “how is it?” I said, “I’m getting wine to get through it, you tell me.” He laughed. He then laughed the next three times I came back for refills. I ended with “Tar needs the whole bottle.”
by Anonymous | reply 503 | January 8, 2023 3:18 PM |
[quote]I ended with “Tar needs the whole bottle.”
R503 used the same excuse for me, too!
by Anonymous | reply 504 | January 8, 2023 3:45 PM |
Watched it last night. I liked it - mainly for all the internal politics and processes of elite symphonies. All the wordy descriptions and theories and rumination about classical music - I liked that since it put me in a world I'm not familiar with. Cinematography was great. It was all rather bleak and plodding. And in the end, it's just a #metoo movie with a lesbian sex pest. Lol.
I enjoyed when Lydia took down her student at Julliard and he called her a bitch. He was insufferable, she was bitchy but I agreed with her. The edited/reconstructed social media post made me laugh. As did her attacking the replacement conductor. Girl, go have a drink.
by Anonymous | reply 505 | January 8, 2023 4:26 PM |
She is working overtime for that oscar , appearing at every red carpet, awards show, ribbon cutting ceremony.
by Anonymous | reply 506 | January 8, 2023 4:38 PM |
I haven't read the entire thread. Would you say the performance is Oscar-worthy, whether you like the movie or not? I thought it was good. She was very Cate Blanchett in her delivery, but that's to be expected. Lydia Tar isn't a real person, so there's no quirks, mannerisms, or speech that she had to get "right."
by Anonymous | reply 507 | January 8, 2023 4:41 PM |
R503 You tried to fall asleep while watching a movie in a theater? Give me a fucking break.
by Anonymous | reply 508 | January 8, 2023 4:57 PM |
Won’t we all be happy when Michelle Yeoh wins and makes history ? Cate can console herself with all her certificates.
by Anonymous | reply 509 | January 8, 2023 5:03 PM |
Yes r509. Blessed be the day
by Anonymous | reply 510 | January 8, 2023 6:09 PM |
There is no way Yeoh will win over Blanchett.
by Anonymous | reply 511 | January 8, 2023 6:33 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 512 | January 8, 2023 7:21 PM |
Have you watched the two movies? Cate’s film is insufferable.
by Anonymous | reply 513 | January 8, 2023 7:25 PM |
Has that ever mattered in terms of who wins the best actor/actress? Plus, it's insufferable in the way Hollywood loves.
by Anonymous | reply 514 | January 8, 2023 7:28 PM |
R502 - overly theatrical and robotic seems a contradiction.
by Anonymous | reply 515 | January 8, 2023 7:29 PM |
R515 have you watched the film?
by Anonymous | reply 516 | January 8, 2023 8:03 PM |
We all know, they never give the Oscar to who truly deserves it. And who really watches them anymore anyways. Especially after last year’s classy show.
by Anonymous | reply 517 | January 8, 2023 10:15 PM |
Slapgate was the most exciting thing that happened on this snoozefest awards show in years
I hope there's more slapping this year
by Anonymous | reply 518 | January 8, 2023 10:56 PM |
What would be your preferred slap, R518 - the slapper and the slapee?
by Anonymous | reply 519 | January 8, 2023 11:00 PM |
R519 I want to see Tilda Swinton slap Cate Blanchett
by Anonymous | reply 520 | January 9, 2023 12:12 AM |
Tilda beat Cate (I’m Not There) the year she won for Michael Clayton.
by Anonymous | reply 521 | January 9, 2023 12:24 AM |
It can be like Monday Night Raw. Make them fight for the Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 522 | January 9, 2023 2:33 AM |
Female Conductor Mentioned in ‘TÁR’ Slams Film as ‘Anti-Woman’
by Anonymous | reply 523 | January 9, 2023 7:28 PM |
Why does she think this song is about her?
by Anonymous | reply 524 | January 9, 2023 9:28 PM |
Marin Alsop is a robot.
by Anonymous | reply 525 | January 9, 2023 11:39 PM |
Comparing Cate Blanchett to Michelle Yeoh is like comparing Meryl Streep to Sharon Stone. Blanchett/Streep are great actresses and Yeoh/Stone are mediocrities at best.
by Anonymous | reply 526 | January 12, 2023 11:09 PM |
I'll probably see this -- intrigued -- but Jesus, there's just something so eminently annoying about the Artist and ActOR Cate Blanchett, with that voice, and all the adulation directed her way. I've seen her in art projects and installations and the like and... enough already! It borders on parody. Loved her in Blue Jasmine, but why does everything else about her have to be wrapped up in so much pompous, pretentious artifice and adulation? Every interview I've read is stomach-turning in its feigned dramatic importance and revelation.
by Anonymous | reply 527 | January 12, 2023 11:20 PM |
I’d rather sleep than watch that shit
by Anonymous | reply 528 | January 12, 2023 11:23 PM |
Cate Blanchett Disagrees With Conductor Who Slammed ‘Tár’ as Anti-Woman: It’s About Power and ‘Power Is Genderless’
by Anonymous | reply 529 | January 12, 2023 11:28 PM |
R526 - did you see Streep opposite Sharon Stone in The Laundromat? Sharon's charisma wiped Meryl off the screen.
by Anonymous | reply 530 | January 12, 2023 11:30 PM |
I saw Blue Jasmine over the holidays after having not seen it in a few years, and my God that woman is brilliant. She is an incredible actress.
by Anonymous | reply 531 | January 12, 2023 11:32 PM |
R531, I love it when Jasmine has already been drinking in her Ginger’s apartment and then Sally Hawkins comes home and Jasmine pretends to find the bottle of vodka even though she knows exactly where it is. It really is a brilliant performance.
by Anonymous | reply 532 | January 13, 2023 12:28 AM |
Hope not. She's becoming as tiresome as Meryl.
by Anonymous | reply 533 | January 13, 2023 2:38 AM |
Cate Blanchett cut a glamorous figure as she attended the premiere of her film Tár at Picturehouse Central Cinema in London on Wednesday.
The actress, 53, who plays the lead role in the film, arrived to the red carpet in a purple shimmering gown.
The garment featured a shimmering detail and long sleeves while Cate cinched her waist with a matching strap.
The star styled her blonde locks into loose curls and added height to her frame with a pair of black heels.
by Anonymous | reply 534 | January 13, 2023 2:43 AM |
If Cate can’t attend the Oscars, I will happily accept on her behalf!
by Anonymous | reply 535 | January 13, 2023 5:51 AM |
Cate Blanchett says playing conductor Lydia Tar was 'once in a career' moment
by Anonymous | reply 536 | January 13, 2023 10:43 PM |
This book is a revelation to me, and gives me more insight into Baz and his direction of/collaboration with Austin Butler.
And might do the same for fans of Cate Blanchett, cover subjec.
by Anonymous | reply 537 | January 14, 2023 11:43 PM |
"subject"
by Anonymous | reply 538 | January 14, 2023 11:44 PM |
So the last act of Tár is actually all in her head? It never occurred to me, I must admit.
by Anonymous | reply 539 | January 15, 2023 3:32 AM |
I never got that. When do you think it turned into fantasy?
by Anonymous | reply 540 | January 15, 2023 3:34 AM |
Just watched it. What a bore. They spend two hours building her up and twenty minutes tearing her down, fairly ludicrously and unbelievably. And boy is Blanchett a ham.
by Anonymous | reply 542 | January 15, 2023 3:45 AM |
Cate wins Critics Choice Award.
“Best actress … I mean, it is extremely arbitrary considering how many extraordinary performances there have been by women, not only in this room,” said Blanchett, name-dropping Decision to Leave and To Leslie stars Tang Wei and Andrea Riseborough, respectively, neither of whom were nominated for their lead roles. “You don’t stand here unless … [a] director asks you to do something that you think is impossible, and you’re terrified to do,” she added while thanking Todd Field, who wrote and directed the Focus Features drama.
by Anonymous | reply 543 | January 16, 2023 3:02 AM |
She’s winning the Oscar. No way Michelle Yeoh is. Yeoh isn’t respected like Blanchett is and EEAAO is not necessarily loved by everybody who votes. It’s just a highly overrated media darling.
by Anonymous | reply 544 | January 16, 2023 5:37 PM |
Michelle is winning. Her film is more popular and will win more Oscars.
by Anonymous | reply 545 | January 16, 2023 5:59 PM |
Uh huh, R545. Whatever you say. (rolls eyes)
by Anonymous | reply 546 | January 18, 2023 9:53 PM |
I think Yeoh as a shot, but certainly not because her movie was more popular. We've seen many winners from popular films, but just as many from smaller movies that not many people see.
by Anonymous | reply 548 | January 19, 2023 1:05 AM |
Her accent always sounds different Here CB says it's always nice to get recognized, Sunday CB was branding awards as a " televised horserace ' between women Which is it CB?
by Anonymous | reply 549 | January 19, 2023 4:02 AM |
I just saw this movie. I can't say it was Good.
by Anonymous | reply 550 | January 20, 2023 5:51 PM |
But did you think it was Bad, R550?
by Anonymous | reply 551 | January 21, 2023 2:25 AM |
Piano forte: Cate Blanchett strikes a chord with power chic fashion in Tár
by Anonymous | reply 552 | January 21, 2023 2:30 AM |
She's beginning to look like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
by Anonymous | reply 553 | January 21, 2023 8:31 AM |
I could play that part.
by Anonymous | reply 554 | January 21, 2023 9:41 AM |
Ha, r551, no idea why the g was capitalised. It isn't bad, or even Bad, but it just didn't hang together properly. Cate is brilliant, but the story isn't told well or coherently. That's the fault of Todd Field, however.
There are also many stylistic issues. For example, the full credits are at the beginning of the film...
by Anonymous | reply 555 | January 21, 2023 9:48 AM |
One of the most frequently asked questions about “ Tár ” is why the film begins, rather than ends, with a lengthy credit sequence. Writer-director Todd Field finally cleared the air in a Wednesday interview, explaining that he “wanted to recalibrate the viewer’s expectations about hierarchy” both on- and off-screen.
by Anonymous | reply 556 | January 21, 2023 9:52 AM |
But why are the credits blurred, r556? I thought it was because of my crappy local cinema, which cancelled the showing I'd initially booked for due to "technical issues", but it turns out others had the same experience. There were sound problems too, with a lot of dialogue hard to hear.
by Anonymous | reply 557 | January 21, 2023 10:03 AM |
Here's a theory about Tár especially its ending, which if true I think indicates how the film doesn't hang together as it should.
by Anonymous | reply 558 | January 21, 2023 10:35 AM |
R555 Why would credits are at the beginning of the film be a stylistic issue?
by Anonymous | reply 559 | January 21, 2023 4:33 PM |
R555 has never seen a film made before 1972.
by Anonymous | reply 560 | January 21, 2023 4:35 PM |
She is so full of shit
by Anonymous | reply 561 | January 21, 2023 5:16 PM |
R559, r560 - the entire credits, on a black background, for several minutes, in hard-to-read font.
by Anonymous | reply 562 | January 21, 2023 5:19 PM |
Who the hell reads all those end credits anyway unless you are in the crew?
by Anonymous | reply 563 | January 21, 2023 9:19 PM |
R556, Todd Field is so far up his own arse -- he wanted to "recalibrate the viewer's expectations about hierarchy..."
In another interview, he said "the pachyderm in the room..." WTF
He's a phony intellectual boob.
by Anonymous | reply 564 | January 21, 2023 9:46 PM |
Cate jokes that Todd Field wanted to cast Kate Winslet.
by Anonymous | reply 565 | January 21, 2023 9:57 PM |
My friend who worked on it finally saw it in Berlin. She liked it but added there were many scenes that they shot that didn’t make it into the movie. One was a huge birthday party at a castle and also all the scenes of Lydia getting fired by the board. They showed her entering the conference room but none of the actual dialogue they shot take after take. She agrees that Cate is going to win the Oscar because she is amazing in it.
by Anonymous | reply 566 | February 5, 2023 12:03 AM |
R566. I'm watching right now and distracted by Cate's squinting eyes. Were her eyes always this squinty?
by Anonymous | reply 567 | February 5, 2023 12:11 AM |
Michelle Yeoh is the best example of growing old gracefully in Hollywood. She's still such a bad ass at 60. It's inspiring to see her living her best life at this age. She deserves the Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 568 | February 5, 2023 2:05 AM |
She deserves the Oscar because she's the best example of growing old gracefully in Hollywood, and because she's still such a bad ass at 60 and because it's inspiring to see her living her best life at this age?
by Anonymous | reply 569 | February 5, 2023 2:14 AM |
She’s sort of a bitch. I saw her being interviewed on one of the entertainment shows after her Golden Globe win. They asked her about winning and her 4th one and she’s like ‘is it?’ She said ‘I must have the others packed up in a box somewhere.’ I know the GG has fallen out of favor, but be a little grateful, bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 570 | February 5, 2023 2:40 AM |
R570 bitter much?
by Anonymous | reply 571 | February 5, 2023 3:33 AM |
Michelle Yeoh is gonna win and y’all gonna cry.
by Anonymous | reply 572 | February 5, 2023 3:59 AM |
I thought Cate was very good in Tar. I'd have no problem with her winning.
But, while I won't say Tar is "bad," it's just not enjoyable. It's a slog. A semi-interesting slog, but still a slog.
by Anonymous | reply 573 | February 5, 2023 5:02 AM |
You summed it up perfectly, r573. It does give food for thought and discussion afterwards, and I'd like to see it again on TV at home so I can look out for some things I've read about since seeing it at the cinema, but it's not an enjoyable movie. From what r566 says, a lot that was originally intended to be in the movie was left out. I can't imagine what the Director's Cut would be like.
by Anonymous | reply 574 | February 5, 2023 10:00 AM |
I know that one thing cut out (though I don't know if it was filmed; it was definitely scripted) was a scene with Tar and her mother, who is deaf. Blanchett talked about it with Michelle Yeoh in the A-on-A interview.
I loved the movie, personally. I found it fascinating, I wondered about things that are left enigmatic in it, I watched scenes over again when it was over (because I was able to do that), etc. I got everything from it that I go to movies to see. I thought Cate Blanchett was as good as she's ever been, so I can't be too salty about it if she wins #3, but Yeoh has my heart in that Best Actress race.
by Anonymous | reply 575 | February 5, 2023 11:07 AM |
R569, those are not reasons to give her an Oscar.
by Anonymous | reply 576 | February 5, 2023 1:05 PM |
Yes, R576, they really aren’t. I laid into one of those Gold Derby bitches via the YT comments section when he went on and on about Yeoh deserving her “moment.” Gee, silly me, I thought the Oscar was for whoever got the most votes for their performance.
by Anonymous | reply 577 | February 5, 2023 4:56 PM |
Exactly, R577--otherwise it's merely a personality contest. It frequently is, anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 578 | February 5, 2023 4:58 PM |
Cate won the London Film Critics Best Actress, Todd won for Director and Tar won Best Film.
Cate will have the most Oscar votes.
by Anonymous | reply 579 | February 5, 2023 6:08 PM |
Yass bitch! Go Cate
by Anonymous | reply 580 | February 5, 2023 6:53 PM |
Only Cate Blanchett could get away with playing a female Casanova. I don't see any other actress in Hollywood ace-ing this role. Give her all the awards
by Anonymous | reply 581 | February 6, 2023 11:11 PM |
Did she get cheek implants?
by Anonymous | reply 583 | February 13, 2023 11:59 PM |
Cate explaining Aussie slang is sort of fun but you can tell she totally looks down her nose at bogans.
by Anonymous | reply 584 | February 14, 2023 12:04 AM |
Hopefully not. Once these bitches get three Oscars they become truly insufferable: Meryl, Frances... Plus, Blanchett puts the b in bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 585 | February 14, 2023 12:06 AM |
Vid @ 584 its almost like Cate is making fun of Australians and their vocab/ accent. She is explaining the different Australian lingo with so much disdain. Am I missing something here? Isn't she Australian? What was the point of this video?
by Anonymous | reply 586 | February 14, 2023 12:26 AM |
R583 I'm thinking the same thing. Something is off about her face. It doesn't even look like Cate Blanchett
by Anonymous | reply 587 | February 14, 2023 12:26 AM |
R585 = Guy Pearce.
by Anonymous | reply 588 | February 14, 2023 1:07 AM |
R588 What?
by Anonymous | reply 589 | February 14, 2023 1:10 AM |
Interesting R590. How bold of Miss Guy Fierce! Why did he go for Cate's neck like that?
by Anonymous | reply 591 | February 14, 2023 1:59 AM |
Cate looks like the type you don't mess with. All nicey nicey on the outside, however she will not hesitate to cut a bitch if they cross her. Guy and Cate most likely have beef.
by Anonymous | reply 592 | February 14, 2023 2:10 AM |
R590 Really, he wanted Ana de Armas to win? Jeez, I guess Guy really is straight.
by Anonymous | reply 593 | February 14, 2023 2:11 AM |
Cate Blanchett Is Wary of ‘Reductive’ Comparisons Between ‘TÁR’ and ‘Carol’
by Anonymous | reply 594 | February 14, 2023 11:58 PM |
Cate is a flip flopper, pick a side already bitch. Why is she so offended about comparisons between Carol and her Tar character? But hitting back at those who are offended??
by Anonymous | reply 595 | February 15, 2023 12:01 AM |
The comparisons are justified and she deserves to lose for playing the icy lesbian card for the third time now. Notes on a Scandal was still her best sapphic turn. Should've let Dench chomp on her muff.
by Anonymous | reply 596 | February 15, 2023 12:06 AM |
R584 - compare Naomi to Cate. I find Naomi more likeable.
by Anonymous | reply 597 | February 15, 2023 12:09 AM |
R595/R596, her character in "Carol" was not a predatory lesbian. In "Notes on a Scandal," she wasn't even playing a lesbian. Judi Dench was the predatory lesbian in that.
by Anonymous | reply 598 | February 15, 2023 12:26 PM |
Agreed, R598. There are some similarities between Carol Aird and Lydia Tár (both lesbians, both co-parenting a little girl, both drawn to a young woman), but they are superficial similarities. Carol isn't predatory or cold, nor is she a public figure. Lydia has a career and an image that are major focuses. Notes from a Scandal is okay but the least of these three movies, possibly because Richard Eyre isn't as good a filmmaker as either of the Todds (Haynes and Field).
by Anonymous | reply 599 | February 15, 2023 12:35 PM |
Agree R597. I smiled throughout the Naomi vid. I found myself frowning while watching Cate
by Anonymous | reply 600 | February 15, 2023 2:16 PM |