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“Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield is so uplifting, a great example of faithfulness to the spirit of a very famous book and story combined with a certain irreverence that makes it more relevant to the time we are living in now. The ideas in David Copperfield are universal; the treatment in this instance, and conversely, is particular – idiosyncratic. Almost polar opposite: Clemency which is painful to watch and intensely moving.” The Personal History of Davi...

Evie here, bovine star of the New York Film Critics Circle award-winning Best Picture, First Cow. I have briefly taken over Odie’s post as per our agreement, which said if he liked my movie, I could join the Movie Club and berate him. There’s just one small problem: Odie didn’t like First Cow. Granted, he found it “remotely interesting” and thought the scenes with me and John Magaro’s Cookie were “kinda sweet.” But after hearing him mutter something about “half-assed zeppole...

Stress, chess and mounting dread: how 2020 was the year of anxie-TV Rachel Aroesti © 2020 Bauer-Griffin HOLLYWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 21: General views of the HBO skyscraper billboard above the Sunset Strip promoting HBO Maxs critically acclaimed show I May Destroy You on December 21, 2020 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent t...

The People Who Ruled 2020 In Movies and TV Celebrating the awesome performers and creatives who gave us hope in the dumpster-fire year that was 2020. We’re obliged to open any 2020 retrospective with the acknowledgment that this was a monumentally awful year. And it was. But there were a bunch of talented performers and creators who managed to make it slightly less awful with their awards-caliber performances, game-changing creations, and, in one case, by contributing to the cure of the very...

They include additional Covid-related production awards for BFI-backed projects interrupted at the start of pandemic such as Benediction (£341,182), Pirates (£360,000). Nearly all 10 titles, with the exception of Earwig, also received £20,000 as part of pilot initiative BFI Step-up, which enabled productions to provide opportunities for production crew from under-represented groups to work on BFI-funded features 1. Source: Lupus Films ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murp...

Every Performance We Loved On Screen In 2020 Were thankful these funny, fearless and fierce Black actresses kept us sane with good screen time. THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION: RADHA BLANK | Netflix For Black women in Hollywood this year, we might not have seen many of their great performances on the big screen but that didn’t stop their work from being impactful. Take for instance Nicole Beharie as a former beauty queen desperate for her daughter to break their family’s generatio...

100 Best Movies of 2020, According to Audiences By Madison Troyer, Stacker News On 12/27/20 at 10:00 AM EST When the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, movie theaters were among the first places to close. In many states, including New York, they have yet to reopen. With many national chains reporting devastating losses quarter after quarter—the countrys three largest chains reported $1 billion worth of losses in Q3—many have begun to fear that the theater experienc...

Posted: Dec 24, 2020 7:01 AM ET | Last Updated: December 25, 2020 Here are the ten best movies of 2020 CBC News4 months ago 5:04Eli Glasner looks back at the best from the world of film in a year where movie magic mostly happened at home in front of the small screen thanks to a global pandemic.5:04

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Welcome to a special pre-holiday edition to jump-start your viewing lists. This newsletter will be taking next week off, so we’ll meet again in the new year. This is a very unusual awards season, given its oddly elongated calendar, but accolades are being handed out nonetheless. This past weekend the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (of which I’m a member) voted on its 2020 awards, s...

“ Thank you for the days / those endless days, those sacred days you gave me” So begins the classic 1968 single by the Kinks, and Tsai Ming-Liang has an apposite poster tagline here if he needs it. But altering any one element of this immaculate comeback feature––say, putting this very track against the closing credits––would be heresy, especially when it already contains a beautiful use of diegetic music in the theme from Chaplin’s Limelight. I was lucky enough to see his tender...