I suspect that I've read the same Puck pieces on Andrea Riseborough and "To Leslie" that PGage has. I believe the film got a very limited UK release back in October, but it completely passed me by at the time. But Riseborough isn't an unknown in any way, at least in the UK. For instance, she has a part in David O Russell's Amsterdam which came out around the same time (that film was a disappointment for me...) and has won various smaller awards over the years.
The film seems to be available to rent on the usual streaming services, so I'll check it out too. Of the Best Picture noms, I've only seen four of the ten so far. In the UK, three are on streaming platforms - The Banshees of Inisherin on Disney+, Everything Everywhere All At Once on Prime Video and All Quiet on the Western Front on Netflix. Elvis and Triangle of Sadness are available to rent. Avatar: The Way of Water and Tar are in cinemas now (Tar only came out a week or so ago), and The Fabelmans and Women Talking have yet to be released here! The Fabelmans comes out this Friday, and I think Women Talking a couple of weeks later. Personally I hate the winter rush to release all the good stuff at once. It seems self-defeating, but there you go. In tangentially related news, the BAFTA film awards are partially fixing something they've not managed to do for years - and be broadcast live on TV... a bit. For unknown reasons, the BBC has not shown the awards live for years now, instead showing them on a delay. But in a time of social media, it means every single award is "spoiled" if you stray near your phone or laptop. This year, they'll still be on a delay until they aren't. The final four awards will be live. I assume that some editors somewhere will be judiciously removing animated short awards and so on for a package at the end, meaning that a three hour live show that starts at 6pm and finishes at 9pm will be compressed into a TV show that has to hit a live point at about 8.30pm or something to hand out the final four awards live. I'm sure there'll be some kind of in-room 15 minute intermission to cover over the gap. Adam On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 3:31 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > At first glance I am most interested in the best actress nomination for > Andrea Riseborough. I can’t remember if this has been discussed here; she > is a little know actress in an extremely low budget and little noticed film > (“To Leslie”), whose non-existent Oscar chances suddenly blew up in late > December when a gaggle of A-List actors began tweeting superlative praises > for her performance, seemingly spontaneously, culminating in Cate Blanchett > name checking her in a gush during her acceptance speech for her Critics > Choice Award last week. I first noticed this on my own Twitter feed with a > tweet from Ed Norton, which seemed peculiar enough that I searched for, and > found, many more. > > > I have not yet seen the film (but will, as I try to see all films > nominated in major categories every year), perhaps the social media > blizzard is justified solely on the merits, though if so this would have to > be the most impressive acting performance in history. More likely it is a > good enough performance (I have seen it described as rather showy by less > effusive reviewers) that got the social media celebrity supercharge > treatment via Riseborough’s representation by CAA, which also reps a number > of the Tweeting stars. The film had zero budget, and could not afford a > single ad, and it doesn’t require too much imagination to picture CAA > asking it’s top talent to watch the film and post something ice, and then > initiating a perfect storm of romantic crusade for the poor underdog plus > Puckish delight at pulling one over on the public and big studios, with > perhaps some old AIDS ribbon era Hollywood conformity leading some fearful > of being left out for jumping on board. > > > Even so there was widespread speculation that the push was too little too > late, and now that she actually got the nomination I wonder if some are > sorry, as it must have pushed some established actress out of the > nominations, perhaps a friend to some of the social media amplifiers. > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 6:09 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023 (link) >> >> Reactions here. >> >> B >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/08cc7e08-d3c3-41d4-a3fe-77ae545d7badn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/08cc7e08-d3c3-41d4-a3fe-77ae545d7badn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJtaOGuYu7%2BX05a_Q05Y_G6fTP6YiVd5n_kwc1wJjVcaw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYJtaOGuYu7%2BX05a_Q05Y_G6fTP6YiVd5n_kwc1wJjVcaw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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