Well, here's where you can see the Best Picture nominees in the US right now:
ALL QUIET--Netfilx AVATAR 2--theaters, IMAX preferred--coming to both HBO Max and Disney+ BANSHEES--HBO Max ELVIS--HBO Max EVERYTHING--Showtime, which does stream for cord-cutters FABELMANS--Theaters and PPV, will probably play on Peacock before the Oscarcast TAR--PPV now, on Peacock Friday TOP GUN 2--Paramount+ and MGM+, the former Epix TRIANGLE OF SADNESS--PPV now, but Hulu seems to get most arthouse titles WOMEN TALKING--Theaters now, but will end up on MGM+ and Amazon On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 10:21:43 AM UTC-6 Adam Bowie wrote: > 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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