Last night, the list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards was released.
Because of the severe blow of the epidemic and other factors, this year's Oscars have become the most boring year in the past 20 years, and the boring is not only reflected in the quality of the film, but also in some limitations of the Oscars. Although "Young You" was surprised to be nominated for Best International Foreign Language Film, steven Yuan and Yin Ruzhen were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress with "Minari", but because of the decline in the overall film quality, this Oscar is very small.
Duke still made a prediction list as usual:
Best Film: "The Land of No One"
Breaking Bad: The Trial of the Seven Gentlemen of Chicago
Best Director: Zhao Ting, "The Land of No Man"
Blockbuster: David Finch, "Mank" (but unlikely)
Best Actor: Chadwick Bosman, "Queen of the Blues"
Alternative: Antonio Hopkins, "Father Trapped in Time"
Best Actress: Kerry Mulligan, "Girl with a Bright Future"
Alternative: The remaining four are all possible, the most chaotic one
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kalua, "Judas and the Black Messiah"
Alternative: Sarah Byron Cohen, The Trial of the Seven Gentlemen of Chicago (with bonus from Borat 2)
Best Supporting Actress: Yoon Ru-jeong, "Minari" (really good acting!) ）
Alternative: Glenn Cross (compensation votes should also be given)
Best International Film: "The Alcohol Project" or "What Happened to Ida"
As we all know, the Oscar has its certain influence, and the general audience will generally express their affirmation of the Oscar-winning films, but for fans, the credibility of the Oscar does not represent anything, and its political factors and public relations games have long been common. One sentence can be summed up: the Oscars do not mean that this movie is the best! In fact, all movies are like this, not everyone will like it!
Some of the nominated films for this year's Oscars have been written, and interested friends can check it out in previous articles.
The world produces so many movies every year, good movies account for a minority, but some directors watch one less film, yes, the 86-year-old Woody Allen is still creative, he promises to make a movie every year, so as a fan of his films, there is more than enough joy and more worry.
There are already talk about Woody Allen's artistic display and film personality, and after watching so many of his films, I have already seen his creative ideas at a glance, literary, humorous, philosophical, and indifferent.
He naturally does not care how many people will watch his films, at this stage, he makes movies purely to pass the time, compared with many directors who are wrapped up in politics and financial interests, he has enough voice and enough creative space.
Although many critics have scoffed at the new film "Rifkin's Film Festival", saying that the film is too formal, saying that the film is old and old," and some saying that this film is just woody Allen's obscenity.
Of course, they are all right, different angles, different views, but one thing I don't agree with, Woody Allen never plays the sentiment card, and his creative attitude is still optimistic and pertinent. Compared with other directors, he has jumped out of the shackles of how to narrate, thinking about how to express his own concept of the world in the film.
Filming location of Rifkin's Film Festival
So "Rifkin's Film Festival" also had a lot of praise, the most striking of which was: Woody Allen's best film in the past five years.
Is this the case? Not necessarily, as I am concerned, different angles, different views. Even if I agree, you may not be able to do so.
At first glance, "Rifkin's Film Festival" has a lot of Woody Allen-esque style, narration, polyamorous relationships, and black humor.
Take a closer look, but it is very different, playing fan terriers, mocking the current film environment, and the dialogue with the self.
Then the various fan film segments embedded in it are to some extent very testing the endurance of ordinary audiences.
If you're a fan, you'll naturally correspond to the film clips he recreated with his dreams, namely Orson Wells's Citizen Kane, Fellini's Eight and a Half, Godard's Exhausted, Truffaut's Zu and Cham, Bergman's Wild Strawberries and Masquerade, Buñuel's Angels of Annihilation, Leluche's A Man and a Woman, and so on.
Can you tell which films he pays homage to?
Finally, in Bergman's The Seventh Seal, the male protagonist Rivkin plays the final game of chess with the black-clad Grim Reaper, who talk about the definition of death and nothingness, and explore the morphological evolution of life.
This is not the first time that Woody Allen has paid tribute to various films in the film, but it is the first time to superimpose so frequently, in the end, it is related to the background environment in which this film takes place, Rifkin and his wife as the popular director's assistant went to the San Sebastian Film Festival, this film festival may not be well known to many people, as a Spanish international A-category film festival, founded in 1953, discovered a lot of filmmakers who are very famous in the film industry today, such as Bong Joon-ho, Coppola, Chabrol, etc., and Chinese directors Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yang, Lu Chuan and Xu Jinglei have both won awards at this film festival.
Although it is not as popular and gold as the three major international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice), it is very inclusive and influential in the film industry because of the promotion and long history of Spanish culture.
"Rifkin's Film Festival" takes the San Sebastian Film Festival as the starting point, but there is not a single fragment of the film festival, but only through the dialogue and emotion of the characters to convey Woody Allen's own views on the current film environment.
The film festival is actually an illusory cover to develop the relationship and the change of the situation of the characters, the male protagonist Rifkin is not proud, short, but a fanatic of film, once taught film knowledge in college, which is a very Woody Allen role setting, most of his films will put himself into the role.
Friends who know him well know that he is a big fan of European art films and the French New Wave, and he is completely dismissive of many Hollywood films in his own country.
This is a lot of his personal preferences and opinions on movies, in the past he would not have any response, but now he is very frank, through various movies to express his true attitude.
The line in the film says: "Movies are dreams on film!" ”
This is also the reason why he uses dreams to render the atmosphere of the film, and every dream fragment of the film is linked to reality, the wife and the director have a love reaction, and the husband turns his eyes and the doctor to have a spiritual exchange.
Such a sudden feeling is not unusual in woody Allen films, where the male protagonist Rivkin creates the beginning and end of dreams due to the breakdown of marriage and the nothingness of life.
In the end, he still maintained an open-minded attitude to his life, and in the rules of self-examination, no one was more sober than Woody Allen.
Rifkin's Film Festival was always somewhat expressionist, but it was all overshadowed by Woody Allen's laid-back narrative style, a film he made for film as a fan.
But if you are not a fan, you may make the only connection with the emotional changes of men and women, or use moral and romantic feelings as self-criticism and expression, and even regard Camus's Sisyphus myth as the value embodiment of existentialism.
But looking at Woody Allen's later creations, you will find that he has extended the current state of life into the background of creation, his self-form is not only reflected in the form of film, but also reflects his most simple and hot heart as a film fan, the film is filmed every year, but it is not commercial or artistic, it is just the film itself, and it has nothing to do with anything else.