Werner Herzog and Sabrina Carpenter. Together.

Hey @jasondashbailey.com and @thehighsign.bsky.social, you’re big in Rotterdam.

Palestinian-American actor-director Cherien Dabis talks to @guylodge.bsky.social about family grief, Gaza and her shattering new movie www.thenerve.news/p/cherien-da...

Just saw someone say he was surprised Jafar Panahi didn’t get a Best Director nomination because “he has such a great narrative,” and guys, the world is bigger than awards season.

Seeing a lot of posts asking how THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE could be so overlooked when THE BRUTALIST did so well last year, and I admire both films, but the Corbet-Fastvold connection doesn’t mean they’re like for like. Both are big swings, but one is stately and classical, and the other is wild.

My now-annual awards season reminder: just because the Academy decided on the term “international film” as a euphemism for “non-English-language film” to make themselves sound less parochial, doesn’t mean we all have to follow suit. “International film” means pretty much nothing at all.

Mescal was good in HAMNET, but attempting to pass him off as a supporting actor in that film was ridiculous, so I’m not mad he missed while Lindo, a film-enhancing asset in a genuinely supporting role, got the nod instead. (Yes, Elordi and Skarsgard are leads too, but one small victory at a time.)

I had quite a good time with F1, but it is one of the more arbitrary popcorn blockbusters ever to find its way into the Best Picture category — it’s extremely well-made but not exactly artistic, popular but not exactly a pop-culture phenomenon, liked by many but adored by… who?

That we now every year have multiple films scoring double-digit nomination tallies does suggest to me that voters are watching fewer films than they did before — in an odd way, I think expanding the Best Picture field has narrowed the prospects for films that aren’t in that discussion.

Nominations I’m happiest for that weren’t a given: - SIRAT in Sound - ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in Production Design - UGLY STEPSISTER in Makeup - Kate Hudson in Actress - Fanning in Supporting Actress - SINNERS MVP Lindo in Supporting Actor - SECRET AGENT in Casting - WICKED: FOR GOOD in nowhere

May we all move through life with the confident entitlement of Jeff Wells scolding his readers for only giving him $3000 for a free jolly to Cannes

Melissa Leo is forever a queen, but “I never wanted the Oscar”? Um.

There is going to be full-on murder at the Barbican’s box office

Instagram shows this home makeover to me approximately 20 times a day, and I mutter “arrest them” under my breath each time

Just caught up with THE HOUSEMAID, and it’s a good enough time, but 131 minutes? Sorely needs some snap, and a director with at least half the lurid B-movie rizz that Amanda Seyfried brings to it.

The Globes aren’t in the habit of shaming other awards shows, but SAG looks really, really dumb tonight.

Did they just say Ludwig Goransson won Best Score earlier tonight? Was a single category booted off the telecast? What?

I miss when the Golden Globes could be reliably counted on to give their TV awards to the newest thing with the most famous person. What’s the point of just xeroxing the Emmys?

Enjoyed the Globes red carpet interviewer’s look of faintly panicked bafflement when Paul Mescal said the person he’s most excited to meet tonight is Jafar Panahi

How is Delroy Lindo, who’s both long due some industry recognition and the ensemble MVP of SINNERS, getting so stiffed this season?

On the upside, sincerely delighted to see the SAG nod for Kate Hudson, who powers an old-school, pure-hearted crowdpleaser with both the sparky charisma we all already knew about, and a gentle, creased humanity that the industry seems to forget about a lot of the time. Hope the Academy follows.

Anyway, congrats to the deep and absolutely uniformly excellent ensemble of FRANKENSTEIN!

At a time when pretty much every awards institution is turning more than ever to non-English-language cinema to elevate the field, the stubborn parochialism of SAG is almost endearing.

How many more crushingly sad stories must we read about ChatGPT fatally enabling the worst impulses and addictions of vulnerable people before there’s real pushback? AI chatbots aren’t helpful, fun or even correct most of the time. They aren’t friends to the friendless. Cut them out of your life.

Thrilled that THE SECRET AGENT won the Critics Choice award for Best International Film but so disheartened and angry at how it happened. Mendonça Filho and producer Emilie Lesclaux were ambushed on the red carpet, no briefing, no chance of giving a speech, the whole thing an insulting disaster.

Late to this, but what thrilling recognition for an astonishing performance — Chalfant deserves to be at the forefront of an “awards conversation” that has never let her in, but this is rather more meaningful.

Special Award for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: LANDMARKS (Lucrecia Martel)

Fascinating to see the range of filmmakers picking SIRAT: Pedro Almodóvar, Michael Mann, Luca Guadagnino, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Gints Zilbalodis, Karyn Kusama, Fede Álvarez, Ana Lily Amirpour, Andrew DeYoung, Pascal Plante. (It gets as many mentions here as SINNERS!) www.indiewire.com/gallery/dire...

2020 - First Cow 2021 - What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? 2022 - Tár 2023 - The Zone of Interest 2024 - April 2025 - Sirāt

Blast of Silence is available as a @criterion.bsky.social Blu-ray with cover art by me! observer.co.uk/culture/film... @guylodge.bsky.social

My @sightsoundmag.bsky.social top 10, with a few additional notes. All world premieres since November 2024 (the deadline for last year’s list), so not in line with any release calendar. Browse all the individual lists here: www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

People always say these lists are just PR-created, but what publicist would choose GOOD FORTUNE, and why

Taken back for a second by the Year in Review on my fitness app

Good.

Sirat! Sirat! Sirat! Sirat! Sirat! (One exclamation for each shortlist mention.) press.oscars.org/news/98th-os...

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One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.

Thrilled with this year’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards nominations, a nice rangy selection that runs the gamut from ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER to SIRĀT to SINNERS to WEAPONS. Full list here: criticscircle.org.uk/one-battle-a...

Here’s my Film Comment ballot — it’s going by the US release calendar, so several of these were on my personal best-of-2024 list, but whatever: great films for any year.

As per usual, a great @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy list of the year’s best. www.filmcomment.com/best-films-o...

My review of Kate Winslet’s directorial debut GOODBYE JUNE, the latest of several 2025 releases to be missing a comma (see also: DIE MY LOVE, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU), though this one’s missing other things too. variety.com/2025/film/re...

Congratulations to promising ingenue Rose Byrne on her breakthrough, just 25 years after winning Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

Reviewed JAY KELLY, which is ungood.

Chalamet is very good as an exasperatingly hubristic narcissist in Marty Supreme, and let’s just leave it there!

What happens when most of the viable contenders for Best Actor in a Drama are either dubiously classified as being in comedies, or even more dubiously classified as supporting actors.

Nominating a Netflix movie for “Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” is top-tier trolling by the Globes, well done

Laxe!

YES

Hometown advantage, sure, but incredible choice either way.

From the replies and retweets here, it’s clear Brazilian Film Twitter has another dog in the hunt.