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Monday February 27.

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2023.

Because if there is one thing actors love, it is other actors. And who can blame them, when that particular list of actors includes the likes of, say, Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Fraser, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Colin Farrell, Austin Butler, and the one and only titan of entertainment: Jennifer Coolidge? 

Only that, friends, is only to scratch the surface. Because the #sag awards 2023 awards had it all: actors looking their Sunday best, awkward moments, awards, and more glamour than you know what to do with. Dive into the dash here to immerse yourself in all the glammy goodness, and gifs, pix, and shitposts galore. 

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George Clooney, Ving Rhames, and Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)

Cast: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Catherine Keener, Dennis Farina, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks, Luis Guzmán, Isaiah Washington, Keith Loneker, Viola Davis, Nancy Allen, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton. Screenplay: Scott Frank, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Cinematography: Elliot Davis. Film editing: Anne V. Coates.

When George Clooney left ER in 1999, there were some who thought it was a case of David Caruso Syndrome: a TV star whose ego had led him to think he had outgrown the medium that made him famous and was ready for movie stardom. There was evidence to support this premise: Clooney had done a disastrous turn as Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin (1997), a film that Clooney himself has disowned, and his forgettable appearances as a leading man with Michelle Pfeiffer in the romantic comedy One Fine Day (Michael Hoffman, 1996) and with Nicole Kidman in the thriller The Peacemaker (Mimi Leder, 1997) had done little to establish his credibility as a film actor. The one exception was Out of Sight, and among other things it cemented a working relationship with the director who had brought out the best in Clooney, Steven Soderbergh. The two have since worked together numerous times, with Soderbergh serving as director and/or producer, as well as mentoring Clooney's own directing and producing career. What Soderbergh found in Clooney was a kind of puckishness and vulnerability that has been further developed into broad comedy by directors like Joel and Ethan Coen in such films as O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) and Hail, Caesar! (2016). But at the same time, Soderbergh helped Clooney figure out how to be a romantic leading man: His scenes with Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight have a kind of heat that Clooney never generated even with Pfeiffer or Kidman. That said, the romantic scenes in Out of Sight are probably the least entertaining part of the film. Much better are the scenes in which Clooney plays off against such wizardly character actors as Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Steve Zahn, and Albert Brooks. Out of Sight puts such superb actors as Catherine Keener and Viola Davis in tiny roles, and also supplies unbilled cameos for Michael Keaton -- as Ray Nicolette, the character he played in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997) -- and Samuel L. Jackson. It's wittily put together, with such teases as the opening sequence in which Clooney's Jack Foley angrily dashes his necktie to the ground before going across the street to rob a bank -- an action that isn't explained until halfway through the film, after numerous flashbacks and setting changes. It includes audacious surprises, such as the macabre-comic death of White Boy Bob (Keith Lonaker), whose klutziness has been subtly hinted several times before he brains himself with a slip on the staircase. (Clooney's reaction to the death is priceless.)

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*   𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐃   :   Hello! Could you please give me some fc suggestions for Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout and Aurora Sinistra? Thank You!

first of all - they’re all so wanted, so i had a lot of fun finding fc suggestions for you and i hope you’ll bring one of them to our dash ! for minerva : viola davis, lucy liu, halle berry, angela bassett, eva longoria, taraji p henson, ming na wen, michelle yeoh, octavia spencer, jada pinkett smith or salma hayek ! pomona : gillian anderson, gina torres, mariska hargitay, michelle gomez, sela ward, indira varma, alex kingston, nicole kidman, susanna thompson, lauren graham or renee zellweger ! & last but not least, for aurora : renee elise goldsberry, tamara taylor, tessa thompson, freema agyeman, issa rae, gugu mbatha raw, christina milan, t’nia miller, danai gurira, lupita nyong’o, gabrielle union, bianca lawson or kerry washington ! 

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8th Annual Cristal Connors Film Awards: BEST ACTRESS

WINNER-

Toni Collette as “Annie” in Hereditary

A shattering journey through grief that explodes into something more frantic, more desperate, and ultimately more moving. Collette is a raw nerve, using her whole body to embody emotions so big you can hardly handle them, and makes gutsy choices that invariably work (those faces!) amounting to what is probably, as of now, a career peak for an undeniable legend. 

NOMINEES-

Olivia Colman as “Queen Anne” in The Favourite

A daring blend of style and substance, playing Lanthimos’s signature, bizarre flavor of comedy wickedly and expertly, deftly shading in insecurity, desire, incompetence, and perhaps a dash of fear. A monumental comedic creation that haunts.

Maggie Gyllenhaal as “Lisa Spinelli” in The Kindergarten Teacher

A quietly devastating rumination on ambition, struggling to reconcile the life Lisa imagined for herself and the one she’s got, beautifully charting her tricky path to an imagination of an escape from the disappointment, fearlessly and compassionately embracing the most troubling sides of her character.

Regina Hall as “Lisa” in Support the Girls

Exudes generosity and warmth even through tears, fighting through frustration and sorrow to shine light into any dark corner she comes across. Hall is finally given a proper vehicle for her uniquely varied talents- one that is deliciously nuanced and complex- and she hits it out of the ballpark.

Emma Stone as “Abigail” in The Favourite

Sharpens her already well-established comedic chops, delivering something decidedly bolder than she ever has, delighting in the rougher edges of Abigail and not shying away from the more vulnerable ones, painting a portrait of a detestably selfish, manipulative rat that somehow endears herself to you.

Honorable Mentions: Helena Howard- Madeline’s Madeline, Michelle Pfeiffer- Where is Kyra?, Viola Davis- Widows, Joanna Kulig- Cold War, Rachel Weisz- The Favourite, Charlize Theron- Tully, Olivia Cooke- Thoroughbreds, Elsie Fisher- Eighth Grade, and Julia Roberts- Ben is Back

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Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado Love and Anarchy por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado Cidade Invisível por una segunda temporada

CBS ha renovado The Equalizer por una segunda temporada

Apple TV+ ha renovado Central Park por una tercera temporada

Amazon ha rescatado la tercera temporada de Loudermilk que no llegó a emitir Audience Network

Cancelaciones

La segunda temporada de Special (Netflix) será la última

La quinta temporada de Queen of the South (USA Network) será la última

Fichajes

Claire Foy (The Crown) y Paul Bettany (WandaVision) protagonizarán la segunda temporada de A Very English Scandal. Serán los duques de Argyll, cuyo divorcio fue muy sonado en los años 60.

Josh Holloway (Lost, Colony) protagonizará Duster. Será el valiente conductor de las escapadas de una banda criminal en el suroeste de Estados Unidos en los años 70.

Dakota Fanning (The Alienist, I Am Sam) será Marge Sherwood, americana viviendo en Italia que sospecha de las motivaciones de Ripley (Andrew Scott), en Ripley.

Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars, How I Met Your Mother) será Lake Edmunds, nueva agente de policía, en Ragdoll.

Chloe Bennet (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nashville), Dove Cameron (Liv and Maddie, Descendants) y Yana Perrault serán The Powerpuff Girls en The CW.

Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin, Kajillionaire), Jake Johnson (New Girl, Stumptown) y Kesler Talbot (50 States of Fright) protagonizarán Lost Ollie, la serie de Netflix híbrido entre acción real y animación. Serán Sharon y  James, los padres de Billy; y Billy, el niño que ha perdido a su conejo Ollie. Jonathan Groff (Mindhunter, Looking) pondrá voz a Ollie, que ha acabado en una tienda de segunda mano sin poder volver a casa. Mary J. Blige (The Umbrella Academy, Power Book II: Ghost) y Tim Blake Nelson (Watchmen, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) pondrán voz a Rosy y Zozo, una osita de peluche y un muñeco payaso que ayudan a Ollie a encontrar a Billy. La serie de cuatro episodios ha sido creada, escrita y producida por Shannon Tindle (Coraline, Kubo and the Two Strings). Será dirigida por Peter Ramsey (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rise of the Guardians). La animación corre a cargo de Industrial Light + Magic (The Mandalorian).

Famke Janssen (How to Get Away with Murder, X-Men) será recurrente en Long Slow Exhale como la doctora Melinda Barrington, la rectora de la universidad.

Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek, Kevin Can F*** Himself) y Carolyn Michelle Smith (House of Cards, Colony) se unen a la segunda temporada de Russian Doll. No se conocen detalles.

Connor Swindells (Sex Education, Emma.) protagonizará SAS: Rogue Heroes. Será David Stirling, un excéntrico soldado aburrido. Hospitalizado tras un ejercicio de entrenamiento que sale mal y convencido de que los comandos tradicionales no funcionan, decide crear otra forma de ataque y reclutar a los soldados más duros, valientes e imprudentes para una unidad encubierta. Le acompañarán Jack O'Connell (Skins, Godless), Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones, Jojo Rabbit), Sofia Boutella (Modern Love, Atomic Blonde), Dominic West (The Wire, The Affair), Amir El-Masry (Industry, Jack Ryan), Theo Barklem-Biggs (The First Team, Carnival Row), Corin Silva (The Bay), Jacob Ifan (Bang, Cuffs), Dónal Finn (Cursed, The Witcher), Jacob McCarthy (A.P. Bio), Michael Shaeffer (Bodyguard, The Salisbury Poisonings) y Miles Jupp (The Durrells, Rev.).

Leslie Bibb (Popular, Nobodies) y Kevin Dunn (Veep, Samantha Who?) serán Satán y Gene, el padre de Clark (Ben Falcone), que es el mensajero de Dios, en God's Favorite Idiot.

Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow, Watchmen) participará en la segunda temporada de See.

Katrina Law (Arrow, Hawaii Five-0) se une como recurrente a la decimoctava temporada de NCIS con posibilidad de convertirse en regular en la decimonovena. Será la agente especial Jessica Knight, experta en negociación en secuestros.

Snoop Dogg (Dolemite Is My Name), La La Anthony (Power, The Chi) y Serayah (Empire) serán recurrentes en Black Mafia Family como el pastor Swift, consejero espiritual de la familia Flenory; Markaisha Taylor, esposa de un traficante de drogas; y Lori Walker, novia de Demetrius Flenory (Lil Meech).

Mark Pellegrino (Supernatural, 13 Reasons Why) se une como regular a American Rust. Será Virgil Poe, marido de Grace (Maura Tierney).

Michelle Gomez (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Flight Attendant) se une como regular a la tercera temporada de Doom Patrol. Será Madame Rouge, excéntrica con una misión muy específica pero que no recuerda.

Lexi Underwood (Little Fires Everywhere) será recurrente como Malia, la hija de Michelle Obama (Viola Davis), en The First Lady. Aya Cash (The Boys, You're the Worst), Jake Picking (Hollywood), Cayden Boyd (Heathers, Awkward), Marc Hills (Snatchers), Ben Cook (Paterno), Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Bridge and Tunnel), Thomas E. Sullivan (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Roswell, New Mexico) y Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Chambers) serán Esther Liebowitz, secretaria de prensa de Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer); la versión joven de Jerry Ford (Aaron Eckhart); Michael, Jack y Steven, los hijos de Betty Ford; Martha Graham, profesora de baile de Betty en 1939; Bill Warren, el primer marido de Betty y Clara Powell, la niñera de los Ford; en The First Lady.

Shar Jackson (Moesha) participará en los episodios finales de Shameless como Constance, una prima de Veronica (Shanola Hampton) que vive en Louisville.

Adelayo Adedayo (Timewasters, Origin), Ian Hart (My Mad Fat Diary, The Last Kingdom), MyAnna Buring (Ripper Street, The Salisbury Poisonings), Kerrie Hayes (The English Game, Tin Star), Warren Brown (Strike Back, Luther), Josh Finan y Emily Fairn protagonizarán The Responder junto a Martin Freeman.

Lizzie Broadway (Here and Now, The Rookie) y Jaz Sinclair (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) se unen al spin-off de The Boys que Amazon estaría a punto de encargar.

Barrett Carnahan (Cobra Kai, Alexa & Katie), Andrea Anders (Joey, Ted Lasso), Benjamin J. Cain Jr. y Nicole Bilderback (Dawson's Creek, Dark Angel) se unen como recurrentes a Cruel Summer.

Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock, Mare of Easttown) sustituye a Cailee Spaeny en el papel de Kit, la hermana melliza del príncipe secuestrado, en Willow.

Midori Francis (The Birch, Dash & Lily), Gavin Leatherwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Christopher Meyer (Tell Me a Story, The Affair), Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (Queenpins), Lauren "Lolo" Spencer (Give Me Liberty) y Renika Williams (Over-the-Rhine) se unen como regulares a The Sex Lives of College Girls. Serán Alicia, Nico, Canaan, Lila, Jocelyn y Willow, estudiantes de Essex College.

Babs Olusanmokun (The Defenders, The Widow), Christina Chong (Line of Duty, Bulletproof), Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill), Jess Bush (Playing for Keeps) y Melissa Navia (Dietland) se unen a Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Uyoata Udi será Inspectah Deck en la segunda temporada de Wu-Tang: An American Saga.

Joshua Caleb Johnson (The Good Lord Bird, Snowfall) se une como recurrente a Women of the Movement. Será Wheeler Parker Jr., el primo y mejor amigo de Emmett Till (Cedric Joe).

Dominique Fishback (The Deuce, Judas and the Black Messiah) será Robyn, amiga de la familia que ayuda a Ptolemy (Samuel L. Jackson), en The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.

Sarah Catherine Hook (NOS4A2) y Imani Lewis (Star, The Get Down) protagonizarán First Kill. Serán Juliette Fairmont, una tímida y amable vampira adolescente; y Calliope Burns, una adolescente vulnerable y valiente cazadora de monstruos.

Pósters

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Natalie Portman (Black Swan, Jackie) y Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, Us) protagonizarán Lady in the Lake, limited series de Apple TV+ ambientada en Baltimore en los años 60 y adaptación de la novela de Laura Lippman (2019). Serán Maddie Schwartz, un ama de casa y madre que se reinventa como periodista de investigación tras un asesinato sin resolver; y Cleo Sherwood, una mujer muy trabajadora que combina la maternidad con varios trabajos y la meta de ayudar con el progreso de la comunidad negra en Baltimore. Escrita por Dre Ryan (Colony, The Man in the High Castle) y Alma Har'el, dirigida por Har'el (Honey Boy) y producida por Ryan (The Man in the High Castle, The Exorcist), Har'el, Portman y Nyong'o.

Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory, The Flight Attendant) protagonizará y producirá una limited series sobre Doris Day. Basada en su biografía 'Doris Day: Her Own Story' escrita por A.E. Hotchner (1976). Producida por Warner Bros TV y Greg Berlanti (The Flight Attendant, Brothers & Sisters). Aún no hay cadena asociada.

Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth, Saturday Night Live) protagonizará y producirá Expiration Date, drama de Peacock sobre un hombre roto que considera suicidarse para que su familia pueda cobrar el dinero del seguro y planea qué hacer en el año que todavía debe permanecer con vida. Escrito y producido por Harry y Jack Williams (The Missing, Liar).

Peacock encarga Langdon, serie precuela de The Da Vinci Code y adaptación de la novela de Dan Brown 'The Lost Symbol' (2009) en la que Robert Langdon (Ashley Zukerman; Succession, A Teacher) deberá resolver una serie de rompecabezas mortales para salvar a su mentor y frustrar una escalofriante conspiración global. Completan el reparto Valorie Curry (The Following, The Tick), Rick Gonzalez (Arrow), Eddie Izzard (Hannibal, Powers) y Sumalee Montano (This Is Us, Scandal). Escrita y producida por Dan Dworkin y Jay Beattie, guionistas de Criminal Minds y Revenge y creadores de Scream y Matador. Producida por Dan Brown, Brian Grazer y Ron Howard, que ya produjeron las adaptaciones cinematográficas de The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons e Inferno.

FX ha encargado nueve episodios de Fleishman Is in Trouble, limited series sobre un cuarentañero recién separado y con hijos cuya esposa desaparece sin dejar rastro y deberá afrontar qué pasó con su matrimonio para saber qué le ha ocurrido a ella. Escrita y producida por Taffy Brodesser-Akner y basada en su novela (2019).

ITV encarga tres episodios de The Tower, thriller criminal en el que un policía veterano y una adolescente mueren al caer desde lo alto de un edificio en Londres mientras quedan vivos en la azotea un niño de cinco años y una agente novata que desaparece horas después. Adaptación de 'Post Mortem' (2015), la primera novela de la saga de Kate London, antigua agente de la Policía Metropolitana en la unidad de homicidios y delitos graves. Escrito y producido por Patrick Harbinson (Homeland, Person of Interest) y dirigido por Jim Loach (Save Me, Victoria).

Amazon desarrolla Women of the Year, antología adaptación del proyecto 100 Women of the Year de Time. Cada episodio se centrará en una mujer. Creada y producida por Alma Har'el (Honey Boy).

OWN ha encargado The Kings of Napa, drama sobre una familia afroamericana cuyo patriarca abandona la empresa de viñedos dejando a sus tres hijos luchando por el control. Escrita por Janine Sherman Barrois (Claws, Criminal Minds) y producida por Oprah Winfrey. Matthew A. Cherry (Hair Love) dirigirá los dos primeros episodios.

Amazon desarrolla The Wives, thriller sobre una mujer localmente enamorada de su marido, aunque sepa que tiene dos esposas más que ella no conoce, que un día entabla una relación con la más joven y comienza a preguntarse quién es su marido exactamente. Adaptación de la novela de Tarryn Fisher (2019). Escrita y producida por Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Ally McBeal).

Searchlight Television ha adquirido la saga de novelas fantásticas The Inheritance Trilogy, donde los dioses moran entre los mortales y una familia poderosa y corrupta gobierna la Tierra, para su adaptación televisiva. Producida por Will Smith y Jada Pinkett Smith.

Bradley Walsh (Doctor Who, Coronation Street) y Joanna Scanlan (No Offence, Hold the Sunset) serán Pop y Ma en The Larkins, dramedia adaptación de la novela 'The Darling Buds of May' (1958) de H.E. Bates para ITV. Sabrina Bartlett (Bridgerton, Victoria) será Mariette Larkin, una de los seis hijos de esta familia de clase obrera. Tok Stephen (Grantchester, Holby City) será Cedric 'Charley' Charlton. Escrita por Simon Nye (The Durrells, Finding Alice). Producida por Bradley Walsh. Seis episodios.

Peacock desarrolla Wild Cards, adaptación de las novelas de George R.R. Martin que desarrolló previamente Hulu.

ITV encarga seis episodios de The Ipcress File, adaptación de la primera novela de la saga de Len Deighton (1962) protagonizada por el espía Harry Palmer (Joe Cole; Gangs of London, Peaky Blinders). Completan el reparto Lucy Boynton (The Politician, Sing Street), Tom Hollander (The Night Manager, The Missing), Ashley Thomas (Them, Top Boy), Joshua James (Industry, Life), David Dencik (Top of the Lake, Genius) y Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Dublin Murders, Love/Hate). Escrita y producida por John Hodge (Trainspotting, The Beach). Dirigida y producida por James Watkins (McMafia, Black Mirror).

HBO Max desarrolla Enjoy Your Meal, comedia que examina satíricamente la cultura tóxica de la industria food media. Inspirada en los escándalos del verano de 2020 en adelante, se centrará en un grupo de jóvenes asistentes negros que se alzaron para destrozar la cultura corporativa. Escrita y producida por Amy Aniobi (Insecure). Ryan Walker-Hartshorn (Bon Appétit) servirá como consultora.

ABC Signature y Searchlight Television han adquirido City of Ghosts, la novela de Victoria Schwab (2018) que sigue a una adolescente que se ve inmersa en una épica batalla entre fantasmas y humanos, para su adaptación. Escrita por David Lowery (A Ghost Story, Pete's Dragon) y Sehaj Sethi (Two Sentence Horror Stories) y dirigida por Lowery (A Ghost Story, Pete's Dragon). Producida por Schwab y Gerard Butler.

ALLBLK ha encargado seis episodios de Lace, que sigue a una prolífica y exitosa abogada de Los Ángeles (Maryam Basir) que no respeta los límites entre el bien y el mal al proteger a su rica y poderosa clientela. Completan el reparto Skyh Black (Sistas), Tanyell Waivers (Queen Sugar), Antoine Harris (Ballers, The Breaks), Terrell Carter (Empire), Leonard Roberts (Heroes, American Crime Story), Kellita Smith (The Bernie Mac Show, Z Nation), Shanti Lowry (Family Time, The Game), Chris Attoh (A House Divided), Nate Walker, Jordan T. Johnson, Taylor Bynoe, Mollie Dolcimascolo y Isaac Stephen Montgomery. Creada, escrita y producida por Katrina Y. Nelson y Michelle Ebony Hardy y dirigida por Jamal Hill (Deuces, Brotherly Love).

 Fechas

Grace se estrena en ITV el 14 de marzo

La tercera temporada de Family Reunion llega a Netflix el 5 de abril

La quinta y última temporada de Queen of the South se estrena en USA Network el 7 de abril

Them llega a Amazon el 9 de abril

La quinta y última temporada de Van Helsing se estrena en Syfy el 16 de abril

La segunda temporada de Bigger se estrena en BET+ el 22 de abril

La segunda y última temporada de Special llega a Netflix el 20 de mayo

Tráilers y promos

Line of Duty - Temporada 6

Them

Family Reunion - Temporada 3

Van Helsing - Temporada 5 y última

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LOT Chat Summaries (Sep-Oct)

Sorry this took so long! Find below the LOT Chat Summaries for the chats held on 16 September and 1 October. Includes the song recs and fanfic/fanart etc moments we’d like to see, as mentioned in the chats :-)

Episode 1

A gifset of Kendra flying, a flashback to a sepia-toned image, and then her saying “not another flashback

Gifset of Kendra saying she dumped Carter

One with Mick and Nate, with nate realising he’s travelling on his own

Something of Nate waving his pencil in Oliver’s face and complaining about his thesis

Run Boy Run by Woodkid

Don’t Let ‘Em Grind You Down by motörhead for Nate

Dust in the Wind by Kansas for Mick

Centuries by FOB just in general

Do it like a Dude for Queen Bee

Europa - Globus should be for WWII

40s music! There’s Torched Song from the L.A. Noire soundtrack and it’s so good for Mick

You Turn Me Right Round for the Lichtenstein anomaly Hello by Adele for Coldwave

Postmodern Jukebox

for the 40s in France music, there should definitely be Le Temps des Cerises

Legendary by Welshly Arms for the rewrite in general

Welshly Arms - Legendary for the whole season 

"Look What you made me do” theme for the Legion

 Our Corner of the Universe by KS Rhoads for Team Legends

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiupe-odRQ Goldberg Variations

“Sexual Healing” for Queen Anne/Sara…

“House of Memories” by Panic at the Disco for 2 or 3

way to the future by kate herzig

Episode 2

Bambi

Bambi and Ray eating together

Ratigan riding bambi at one point

Bambi meeting Ratigan

Bambi in the remains of the other raptors

Ratigan standing on Bambis head, pointing one paw: ONWARDS, Waverider in the background, Ray and Mick screaming of screen “Come back you little shits!”, “Join the Legends of Tomorrow” text above, “Save the Timeline” underneath, think like an old style Soviet propaganda poster, Waverider in the background, Ratigan and Bambi up front, “Join the Legends of Tomorrow” text above, “Save the Timeline” underneath

Coldwave song idea- Whispers by Dave Baxter)

Angel with a shotgun (for song choices)

gregorian monks chanting modern songs?

Pull the monks from Monty Python

For Ray: “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts”

Gregorian version of “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”

“I walk a lonely road” = Ray having a moment

We are the monks from the Galavant soundtrack

I’m a different kind of princess from the galavant soundtrack for Sara

Mick telling Jax to fly because he’s already had whiskey

Jax and Stein in the infirmary

More of Kendra’s incarnation’s story

Hotblooded for Mick

Fireball

arsonist’s lullaby

Sir Patrick Stewart played the Lionheart once

coldwave - fate don’t know you by desi valentine

a version of friar tuck as one of the monks 

Jurassic Park theme

Jon Bernthal’s character would be good for Peter

“Istanbul not Constantinople” by They Might Be Giants

“Jerusalem of Gold” by Ofra Haza

“Lanercost” by Steeleye Span

Episode 3

Ginnifer Goodwin as Nancy wake?

Melanie Lynskey for Nancy

Amaya and Sara’s conversations

The moment where Nate shouts “NANCY WAKE?!?”

le temps des cerises europa

fanart of that fight scene with everyone

Edith Piaf

Europa by Globus

“Le Temps des Cerises”

“La Vie En Rose” by Edith Piaf

In the Mood" by Glen Miller

la marsaillaise by edith piaf

The jukebox version of Seven Nation Army

Sentimental Journey by Doris Day for Amaya

Cover of paper planes done in a '40s style by jukebox

Hitler Has Only Got One Ball to the Colonel Bogey’s March

Nancy Wake’s song is Witness by Mindless Self Indulgence 

Episode 4

Watch Your Back by Sam Tinnesz for the second half with Eobard

Fanart of the moment Eo brings back Laurel

Sara and Laurel in the med bay

Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, possibly some ominous cover version, for the villains’ evil wall related schemes

Sara and Eobard drinking together

Every Breath You Take by Chase Holfeder. He does great minor covers of songs in major keys

99 Luftballoons by Nena

Something with Stein giving Marty his talking to, in the middle of the crowds in Berlin

Kim Weston – You hit Me Where It Hurts

The Ramones – Never Should Have Opened That Door

It’s So Easy when you’re evil

Rotten to the Core Disney movie descendants

When You’re Evil" by Voltaire for the Legion

Episode 5

Faroese Valravn or German Faun’s music

Mick Rory with the viking horns

Lisa

Wagner

Gunlod singing at the battle

ride of the valkyries

Looking too Closely by Fink for the end

Faun’s Walpurgisnacht would fit

fanart (gifset if possible) of Jax and Gunlod, being all flirty

Valravn has a version of Drømte mig en drøm

Jakob Oftebro for King Sweyn

Never Forget by Greta Salome

the fires

Mick headbutting the viking with his horned helmet

Paprika Steen or Hella Joof for Adisla

everybody talking to Lisa about their memories of Len, like one of those pics, with the bonfire and everyone around it, in the centre of the page, and then everyone’s memories in a circle around it

Eivør Pálsdóttir for Gunlød

“For the Love of a Princess "James Horner https://youtu.be/fckH2P0KK14

Episode 6

Uh, all of it

fancasts for our robot gangster

brent spiner

THE VOICE OF K2-SO whatshisname

Alan Tudyk

James Spader

we should just have ALL the famous robot actors hanging out

C3PO too

R2D2 and BB8

something frank sinatra

mission impossible theme

Robot Parade

"Mr Roboto”

A mix of Mission Impossible and the LoT theme

There’s a french revolution documentary with a song called rise of robespierre that sounds very steampunk and mechanical

Mick in his fireman clothes

the song from anything goes where she’s singing about her gangsters

Lisa kneeing Ray in the balls? like, I love Ray

like, every moment of lisa

“Weird Science” for the Stein/Dr Metcalf argument by Oingo Bongo

The Last of the Real Ones by FOB

Episode 7

Cisco getting thumbs up from Felicity and Winn when Lisa winks at him as she’s walking off

X-files theme somewhere along the way

seven nation army the original version would be good there

“Space Girl” for all the girls

salute by little mix for the girls

“Science Fiction Double Feature”

Episode 8

it’s a kind of magic

Lupita Nyong'o for Queen Bee

Magic Man" by Heart

Angela Basset

Taraji P Henson

viola davis

jada pinkett smith

Constantine interacting with the Legends

Something with the legends standing outside Zatanna’s place, looking frustrated at her “I’m not here” sign

Episode 9

Mick and Georgie, anything and everything with them

Is Anybody There from 1776

One of those things that fly across your dash with Ray and his rocket boot

Battle of Yorktown

fanart of that first confrontation when they meet Rip for the first time

Fanart of Washington’s ridiculous height

Georgie and Mick towering over everyone

Sara realising she just knocked back Martha’s eggnog and is actually talking to George Washington

Joke suggestion for Rip: I knew you were trouble, Taylor Swift

For Georgie storyarc, the Too Late to Apologize cover

mama look sharp from 1776

for Mick and Len and the hallucination arc, “Drumming Song” Florence and the Machine

“White Rabbit” Jefferson Airplane for Ray’s shrinking arc

 "The Battle of New Orleans"

Episode 10

black sails intro

pirates OST

Ray’s costume trials need “Sharp dressed man”

There’s a lovely cover by Jo Dee Messina

“Yo Ho A Pirate’s Life for Me”

Wolves of the Sea by Pirates of the Sea, the Eurovision version

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag music

I’m a Modern Major General for Stein in disguise

Heroes by Måns Zelmerlöw for the legends at some point in some episode

Ray’s montage fanart

something from crouching tiger hidden dragon maybe

Ray dressing as blue beetle and everyone looking thoroughly unimpressed

Ray trying to be Cold, and Mick of taking back the cold gun

Mick and Ray arguing about pirates vs ninjas and Len in the back, very very frustrated

Fanart of what would happen if Len COULD change outfits at will, mick looks over and has to try not laughing if len could change outfits, Len shows up in a terrible pirate outfit, Mick spit-takes, Ray says “we have to re-shoot that”, Sara (from offscreen): “Where did you even GET that?”

Ming-Na Wen for Ching, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Fan Bingbing

Episode 11

Mick in shorts

“Down Under” by Men at Work, maybe for the sequence where Mick is being mistaken for an Aussie

fanart of that scene and also of everybody in their clothes

Everybody Wants To Rule the World by Tears for Fears

all the bad fashion

lost boys soundtrack

fanart of the intro scene of bby Mick and Len

people are strange by the doors; don’t cry little sister

Weird Al’s “Smells Like Nirvana” for the section that goes

we didn’t start the fire

Ngaire - Keisha Castle-Hughes

Episode 12

the alien theme

Sort of atmospheric background music

skittering noises

Space Girl

Ziggy Stardust

Lost in Space theme

Thus Spake Zarathusa

cold as ice for Len

AIDA from Agents of Shield in part inspired Grace, but she’s not the fancast

major tom 

sigourney weaver as the engineer

for fanfic, something about Mick as Chronos, or Rip and Miranda hearing the story of the Mosaic

The moment with the Captain is saving Mick

Len and Gideon

The ghost behind Sara, and of Medusa!Grace

scaredy cat Stein

Sara and Mick sharing the quiet moment next to the graves

From Space girl: “Travelled through the time warp in the Psycho Plan”

Len shouting at Mick not to go on the other ship

Episode 13

Some ironic/dark use of something from the Evita musical

Don’t cry for me, Argentina

Mercedes Sosa

Solo le pido a dios

Churros. Any pic set of this episode must include churros.

Saved the world by eurythimics

copa la vida by ricky martin, maybe for the sequence with the soccer reference

under my umbrella aka, “Bus Stop” by the Hollies

The Legion surrounded by umbrellas

when Mick and the others are in the bakery

Fanart of Len, Thawne and Dahrk replicating the Singing In The Rain poster

Episode 14

fanart of Amaya dancing while Jax looks on like a proud brother

Greensleeves

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry

Pasttime in Good Company

Brian Blessed

Eric Bana 

Sean Astin

Mick sitting alone in the garden with his lighter while len looks at him sadly

the globe burning

Sara dancing with Henry, and amaya in the back like….oh shit

Burning Down The House

Talking Heads

Royals by Lorde

Sons of Serendip

Fanart of Sara and Amaya trying to get dressed

Natalie Dormer as Ann, Natalie Portman

prison themed music for the dungeon scene

Johnny Cash

lone blues harmonica 

Mood board for henry and anne (+sara)

Episode 15

New york new york

All the old Irish songs about New York

Streets of New York

Pogues and Flogging Molly 

Wolfe Tones

the legion in their “hq”

Queen Been in a barbershop chair

Amaya carrying Sara with spirit wings behind her.

Legion!Len being pissed at racists

Some dramatic baroque-layout style picture of the mob about to start, and the only points of colour in the pic are Sara, Amaya, and Darhk

Lily fanart

her and Rip working together to guide the team from the Waverider

Stein helping a tiny Lily make her first atom model

Episode 16

annoying game show background music

A montage set to the actual Legends of the Hidden Temple, or art with the Legends and Legion wearing those dorky outfits

Benny Hill theme song

The Chicken Dance song played in slow mo 

theme from Gremlins

Someone who does podcasts needs to do some lines from the announcers

Fanart of the renegades first appearance

Fan art of affronted Mick and Len

Those (song) in Minor Key posts, Maybe the Benny Hill theme in minor key for dramatic parts

Stephen Fry would probably be perfect for Ethelred

Some of the challenges in the labyrinth should come with really annoying early computer game sounds

Art of the game in the style of one of those old crappy text RPGs and at one point, there’s a sign off to the side that says “don’t go this way - you will be eaten by a grue”

The whole Legends in The Future, yelling at a computer

16 or 32-bit version of the characters

 in the year 2525 (song)

Episode 17

it's gotta be cassette quality 90's music

Green Day

Aqua barbie girl

drunk Legends

Spice Girls

lots of Madonna and Prince and Maria Carey

Jax and Jessica duke it out at the whack a mole

all the home alone sequences

Sound of Silence for the “Hello Darhk-ness my old friend” part

O!Len realising L!Len can see him

Jessica - Gina Rodriguez

“I put a spell on you” for the final sequence with Queen Bee

Any Jax/Jessica photoset would need their respective dolls

Episode 18

music rec: we will rock you. Nothing else will do for Sara’s gladiator appearance

the woman who played Lucilla in Gladiator for Fulvia

Centuries 

Marc Antony, the guy who played him in Rome did it

Is Anybody There from 1776 musical

Rome, Spartacus, The Gladiator soundtracks

Sara fighting Darhk

EVERYONE in ancient Rome outfits

Legionnaire!Len

Kendra and Fulvia, lounging on their seats

Legion!Len in his toga

Having scenes from this episode using dialogue from Life Of Brian.

Kendra in Rome getup

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Episode 19

Camelot from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Len’s ice ramp

Old school superhero comic style fan art of the knights

Joan (song)

everyone dressed up for dinner

Mick and Mordred

Colin Farrell for Jason Blood

Merlin - Taika Waititi

Eva Green for Morgana

Sofia Boutella for Nimue

Ivana Baquero ystina

Faun's Tanz mit mir for the party scene

Doomworld 1 & 2

crossover fan art of a certain Victor von Doom being angry with the Legion

It’s the End of the World as We Know It

Eurythmics "Sweet dreams are made of this"

Walking on the Ground

for Batman, Batfleck, Jason O’Mara

B: TAS theme

Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny"

Nathan Fillion - Hal

Don’t Mess With Me by Temposhark

Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant

Ted - Danny Pudi

Everyone decked out in their doomworld versions

The fight between Mick, L!Len, and then the lanterns show up

all by myself to be playing in the background at the very end when Mick is left alone

Land of Confusion by Genesis, or the Disturbia version

Uprising by Muse

Believer by Imagine Dragons

Last Episode

Fan art of Bambi leaping joyfully into Ray’s arms

A gif set of Mick and Len hugging

fanart, specifically, of Ray and Bambi skipping through a field of flowers towards each other as “So Happy Together” plays in the background

everyone hugging Len, then Len and Mick hugging

A sweet piece of Sara and Laurel talking through the inter-dimensional skype

O!Len holding the spear, with the team in the back yelling at him not to do it 

The sequence where the jump ship explodes in the middle of the time stream

we are the champions

Legendary

[weekendwarriorblog]

The Weekend Warrior’s Top 25 Movies of 2018!

What a year we’ve been having with all the politics and internet craziness and my own personal life, struggling to survive without a job and very little work, and YET, it was an absolutely fantastic year for movies. There is no arguing that fact when a good percentage of my annual top 25 came from movies I saw at Sundance way back in January. While there may be a few noticeable omissions that appear on many other top 10s, as well as a few movies I liked that were obvious awards fodder, I’m pretty happy with what turned out to be one of my more eclectic top 25 lists with a mix of smaller indies and big budget blockbusters. (In case you’re interested, I saw 248 movies in 2018, and that is only counting the new movies released during the year and not dozens more movies I saw at film festival and hundreds of older films.)

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it…. Or rather, I hope you enjoy reading this because it took me a long time to write it.

25. Stan and Ollie  (Sony Pictures Classics) – One of the recurring trends I saw happening during what was a relatively sucky year was that many of my favorite things from childhood were brought to the big screen. In this case, it’s the story of Laurel and Hardy, as ably played by Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, as it covers the last few years of their partnership as they’re struggling to fill theaters during a UK tour. The performances by the duo were splendid, as were the two actors playing their respective wives (a hilarious Nina Arianda and Shirley Henderson), the script by Jeff Pope really putting you into the comedy duo’s world and mindset. Kudos to Jon S. Baird for this fantastic biopic, which opens next week in New York and L.A.

24. Annihilation  (Paramount) – Alex Garland’s sophomore film, his follow-up to the excellent Ex-Machina, was a fantastic adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer’s sci-fi novel that should have been as accepted as Arrival, especially with the fantastic premise and performance by Natalie Portman, as well as Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson and Oscar Isaac. Sadly, I didn’t rewatch it on Netflix when I had the chance but this is definitely something I’d buy on blu-ray.

23. Mary Poppins Returns  (Walt Disney Pictures) – Continuing the theme from Stan and Ollie, Disney finally made a sequel to one of my favorite movies as a kid with the wonderful Emily Blunt stepping into the shoes of Julie Andrews, and I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it, especially since I wasn’t a fan of Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods… or Chicago, for that matter. For this one, Marshall perfectly captured the magic I felt first watching Mary Poppinsand listening to the album over and over as a kid, with really fun songs, including some co-written by Lin Manuel Miranda, I believe.

22. Aquaman  (Warner Bros.) – While Aquaman has never been my favorite DC superhero, I had high hopes for director James Wan’s first foray into superheroics, and I wasn’t disappointed. Granted, there was a lot to keep up with, since he fit a lot of story into one movie… I mean, who wouldn’t, considering the chances of there ever being an Aquaman sequel? But yeah, Jason Momoa really sold me on the character, and the way the movie remained faithful to the Aquaman lore and mythos made in the comics, and there was just so much to enjoy that I can’t wait to see it again.

21. Boy Erased (Focus Features) – Another second feature, this one from Joel Edgerton, who adapted, directed and co-starred in this adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir of growing up with a preacher father and religious mother who sent him to participate in a gay conversion program run by a zealous fanatic (played by Edgerton).  I thought Lucas Hedges was just fantastic in the lead in this as well as in his father Peter Hedges’ movie Ben is Back, so this year finally put me on the Lucas Hedges wagon despite him appearing in multiple Best Picture-nominated movies over the last couple years. (I also want to point out the Honorable Mention The Miseducation of Cameron Post, which was also quite good as it looked at the problems caused by these gay conversion programs.)

20. Crazy Rich Asians (New Line/Warner Bros.) – I fought tooth and nail against buying into the hype for this all-Asian cast adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, but I’m a total sucker for romance, especially the romantic comedy genre, and this was a fine one for the ages. My worries about this being seen as Asian wealth porn was somewhat off-base – although there was some of that in there – and this ended up being the perfect movie for one of my fave directors, Jon M. Chu, to finally be taken seriously in Hollywood. Granted, I already loved Constance Wu from Fresh Off the Boat and Michelle Yeoh from a million movies, but I loved what newcomers Henry Goulding and Awkwafina brought to the mix, and I even liked Ken Jeong in this, so yeah, a pleasant surprisw, and one I probably will rewatch again soon.

19. Roma  (Netflix) – Likewise, I finally saw this movie at New York Film Festival after tons of hype out of Telluride, Toronto and Venice, but I immediately was able to relate to the love the kids in the film have for their maid, something similar to my own childhood living in Brazil in the early ‘70s. There’s no denying that director Alfonso Cuaron makes stunning films that leaves your jaw agape in every scene, and what an amazing coup for first-timer Yalitza Aparicio, an indigenous woman who might have had a hard time getting roles if not for Cuaron’s brilliance in casting her. This movie hit me even harder emotionally a second time, although I still wouldn’t place it higher on my year-end list since I thought some of it was noticeable directorial wanking i.e. Cuaron could do these big set pieces merely because he had the ability and money to do so.

18. On the Basis of Sex and RBG (Focus Features / Magnolia) – I’m cheating here a little bit just because this year saw two fantastic films about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, first in the doc by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, which created a beautiful portrait of the amazing woman.  Later in the year, Felicity Jones portrayed Ginsburg in a pivotal point in her career where she goes before the Supreme Court to fight for gender equality. It’s an important case but also an important turning point in our country, and I love how Ginsburg’s relationship with her husband, played by the dashing Armie Hammer, was portrayed.

17. Monsters and Men (Neon) – A movie that was seemingly missed by anyone who didn’t see it at Sundance, and even by many who went to Sundance was Reinaldo Marcus Green’s drama about a shooting by a Brooklyn policeman and how it’s viewed by three different people from the neighborhood. Two of those people are Anthony Ramos’ Manny and John David Washington (from BlackKklansman) as a fairly young policeman dealing with the corruption and racism in the force. It also deals with a young baseball prodigy (Christopher Jordan Wallace) who wants to get involved with the protests against the killing even if it might hurt his chances at getting into a good college. If you have a chance to see this movie, you’re likely to be impressed by Green’s storytelling abilities and how it’s used.

16. Searching (Sony/Screen Gems) – Aneesh Chaganty’s directorial debut was an amazing thriller starring John Cho as a man whose daughter has disappeared and using only what can be viewed on a computer screen. Sure, it sounds like a gimmick, and it’s one that’s been used in films like Nacho Vigalondo’s Open Windows and the Unfriended series, but Cho’s performance is a career-best, and Chaganty finds a way to create a plausible thriller that keeps you invested in Cho finding his daughter. (And I loved the hint I discovered to the movie’s big twist on watching a second time.)

15. Widows (20thCentury Fox) – While I liked 12 Years a Slave just fine, Steve McQueen really blew me away with his foray into the heist genre, starring Viola Davis as the wife of a criminal (Liam Neeson), who dies in an attempt to steal millions from a local Chicago mob boss… and political candidate (Brian Tyree Henry – one of this year’s major MVPs). It seems like a fairly simple plot, but McQueen finds a way to integrate the local politics (incl. amazing performances by Colin Farrell and Robert DuVall), surround Davis with some amazing women (including Cynthia Erivo and Elizabeth Debicki) and create a heist film unlike any you would have seen before, as it was far more unconventional than other heist films, as one might expect.

14. Mary, Queen of Scots  (Focus Features) – Fantastic performances by Saoirse Ronan as the title character and Margot Robbie as her cousin and rival Queen Elizabeth made Josie Rourke’s feature directorial debut quite an amazing film. It wasn’t just another costume drama, and as much as it sadly is being overshadowed by The Favourite, the material told this fascinating story about two feuding queens in such an interesting and exciting way, including an impressive battle sequence, making this very different from other period pieces, including the many that have been directed by men.

13. Instant Family (Paramount) – Another one of this year’s surprises was seeing Sean Anders, the director behind Daddy’s Home and its sequel, take on a more serious comedy based on his own real life. Apparently, he and his wife adopted three kids, so in this very funny, sweet and warm comedy, it’s Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg as a couple who take in three Latino kids, including the amazing Isabela Moner, who I think is going to be amazing as Dora the Explorer. But there was so much to enjoy about this film from the easy laughs to some of the sweeter and more touching human emotions on display.

12. Hereditary  (A24) – Another film that premiered out of Sundance (that I missed there) was Ari Aster’s directorial debut, an absolutely horrifying film about a mother (Toni Collette) dealing with all sorts of strange supernatural occurrences after the death of her own mother. A24’s marketing for the film was such a brilliant bit of Red Herring creation that you might go in thinking that Collette’s daughter Charlie (played by Milly Shapiro) was gonna be the main antagonist/conflict… nope! Colette’s amazing performance was countered by a similar one from Alex Wolff, and if you weren’t totally creeped out by this movie’s ending, there’s probably something wrong with you. Aster proves himself to be a fascinating visual storyteller, so I can’t wait to see his next movie.

11. The Citizen (ArtMattan Productions) – Roland Vranik’s Hungarian film that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival all the way back in 2016 finally got a U.S. release thanks to New York’s Metrograph where it played for a number of weeks. After seeing the trailer a bunch of times, I ended up checking it out, and I was blown away by how timely and prescient the story of an African immigrant trying to become a Hungarian citizen related to what was going on in this country over the past year. It’s a wonderful indie film that sadly didn’t get the attention it deserved.

10. Eighth Grade (A24) – Yet another Sundance “discovery” was comedian Bo Burnham’s debut, which featured newcomer Elsie Fisher as 13-year-old Kayla, who is trying to deal with puberty, her last year in middle school and a pesky but lovable father, played by Josh Hamilton. This is just such an enjoyable even if you went to middle school so long ago that you barely remember it. Even so, Burnham found a way to tap into those feelings to create an extremely enjoyable comedy. I’m convinced Elsie Fisher is gonna be a superstar.

9. The Hate U Give (20thCentury Fox) – Probably one of the most underrated films of the year, which thankfully has gotten some critical love in the past few weeks.  I thought this adaptation of Angie Love’s Y.A. novel about a teenager named Starr, played by Amandla Stenberg, fighting with the two sides of her life with the advent of #BlackLivesMatter after watching her childhood friend killed by a white police officer. The cast that producer George Tillman Jr. built around Stenberg was quite impressive, including Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Anthony Mackie and Common, with many powerful emotional moments that did a good job explaining what young black people in urban areas must deal with daily. It’s a fine return to form from the director of Notorious and Soul Food.

8. Ant Man and the Wasp  (Marvel Studios) – I bet you didn’t expect to see THIS Marvel Studios rank so high while a couple others didn’t even place in my list (or even Honorable Mentions), huh? Maybe I’ve just gotten sick of the whole thing where every movie is basically set-up for the next movie, which has been the case for a while now. Sure, Ant-Man and the Wasp is a sequel to Ant-Man and there was a post-credits Avengers: Infinity War tie-in, but otherwise, this was the Ant-Man movie I had been hoping for after the rather disappointing first movie. Obviously, having Paul Rudd involved in the writing and not working from a previous plot (as was the case with the first movie) helped the characters from the first movie shine. (Also, loved the Ghost as an antagonist.)

7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse  (Sony) – It was a fairly tight race for my favorite superhero movie of the year, but after seeing this animated take on Marvel’s webbed wonder a second time, it was obvious to me that this was indeed one of the best feature film iterations of Spider-Man outside the comics. Sure, I was a fan of what Brian Bendis had done in the Ultimate comics, maybe not some of the Spider-Verse stuff introduced by Dan Slott, but taking those two disparate things and turning it into a true story about Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore, who should be cast as Miles in a live action MCU movie) and then having Jake Johnson voicing the older “mentor” Spider-Man just made for a fun movie that exemplified all of the previous films directed and produced by Lord and Miller including The LEGO Movie and 21 Jump Street. I’m looking forward to more big-screen animated superhero movies, and yeah, I liked Incredibles 2 just fine but I was never that attached to the Pixar movie.

6. Love, Simon  (20thCentury Fox) – After blowing up the DC Universe via his many CW TV shows, Greg Berlanti returned to the movies with this coming-out coming of age romantic comedy starring Nick Robinson as Simon Spier, a closeted gay teen who discovers that there might be another gay teen in the closet at his high school. This simple plot led to a wonderful high school coming-of-age rom-com that really brightened me up on a miserable day I was having (the first of many this year), and I loved how relatable Berlanti made the story.

5. Bad Times at the El Royale  (20thCentury Fox) – Possibly one of the most underrated films of the year, Drew Goddard’s second film as a director after the similarly excellent Cabin in the Woods, featured a cadre of individuals converging on a mostly-abandoned hotel on the border of California and Nevada. Jeff Bridges plays a priest, Jon Hamm plays a travelling salesman and Broadway star Cynthia Erivo (also in Widows) is a singer who all show up at the same time, as we quickly discover, very little about the El Royale is as it seems. I almost don’t want to reveal too much more, because it’s the way the story unfolds which had many comparing it to Tarantino (both positively and negatively). I felt that so many filmmakers have tried to ape Tarantino and not understood what makes his storytelling style work so well, but Goodard figured it out, and delivered a rich film full of many surprises. I can’t recommend the film more, since I know very few people had a chance to see it in theaters.

4. Mission: Impossible – Fallout   (Paramount) – Considering how much I was disappointed by Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, I expected its direct sequel to be more of the same, and boy, was I wrong. Tom Cruise and McQuarrie pulled out all the stops to create a viable conclusion to the four movies that had been produced along with JJ Abrams and Bad Robot, which included the extraordinary 4thmovie directed by Brad Bird. I was impressed the first time I saw this in IMAX… but then I saw it again… and again… and again. I just couldn’t get enough of the amazing action scenes and the intricate plot (even though I found a few holes in it). I’m so psyched to see what McQuarrie does next, and it successfully reminded everyone why Cruise is the star that he is.

3. Juliet, Naked  (Lionsgate / Roadside Attractions) – The fact that filmmaker Jesse Peretz was able to adapt one of my favorite Nick Hornby novels in a way that’s faithful but not to a fault made this one of my favorite movies of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. If you couldn’t tell from my love for Instant Family, I absolutely love Rose Byrne, and she killed it as Annie, a woman living in a seaside English town with her boyfriend Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) as an avid fan of musician Tucker Crowe. When Annie posts something negative about a newly-discovered Crowe rarity on Duncan’s blog, they break up, but she also ends up having a long-distance relationship with the actual Crowe, played by Ethan Hawke. There’s just something so spot-on about Hornby’s book and this adaptation was just as enjoyable, genuinely warm and very, very funny. I wish more people went to go see it.

2.  A Star is Born  (Warner Bros.) – Believe me, there may be no one more surprised by how far this movie has placed in my year-end list than myself. I’m not a huge Bradley Cooper fan, nor do I particularly like Lady Gaga or her music, but this is a great old Hollywood story that’s perfectly modernized with Cooper playing rock star Jackson Mane who sees Gaga’s Ally performing at a cabaret club and falls for her just as he tries to help her career. It’s a story that’s been told a number of times before, and sure, I can understand why some women might not like the implications that a man might help the woman have success in the movie industry, but Gaga killed it playing a character possibly not too removed from herself. I’ll be thrilled with any and all Oscars this movie earns, especially for Bradley Cooper, making a stunning directorial debut. (And I always love Sam Elliot in anything he does. He’s so deserving of an Oscar here, too.)

1A. Won’t You be My Neighbor  (Focus Features) – As always, I separate the docs from my overall year’s best list just because I tend to like the genre so much that my entire top 10 would be docs if I didn’t separate them into their own category. But yeah, Morgan Neville has done it again with another 10/10 doc following his Oscar-winning 20 Feet to Stardom. Barring some major push by one of the other docs that made the shortlist (and my top 12 below), there’s a very good chance that Neville’s doc about beloved PBS host Fred (Mister) Rogers will win him a second Oscar. Rogers is beloved by adults who grew up watching his show and getting a chance to look behind the scenes made many adults cry, mainly for joy but also for sadness that these trying times doesn’t have a Mister Rogers to help us through it.

1. Green Book (Universal) – Yes, I’m well aware of the controversy and backlash from many black film critics (most of them who write for ShadowAndAct.com, oddly enough) who hate this movie for one reason or another. By the time all that controversy had reared its ugly head, I had already seen the Peter Farrelly historic buddy comedy twice, and I loved it both times I saw it.  If you’re unaware, it stars Viggo Mortensen as Italian stereotype club bouncer Tony Lip, who is hired to drive and safeguard Mahershala Ali’s jazz pianist Dr. Don Shirley on a tour of the Deep South during the early ‘60s when racism still was running rampant.  The growing chemistry built by these two actors through the situations they find themselves in made me far more interested in Shirley and the Green Book of the title, so anyone complaining about the movie should realize that through entertaining humor, Farrelly has opened a conversation that I hope will continue through next year.

Honorable Mentions:

There were so many good movies this year that all of these fine films ended up just outside my top 25…

A Private War (Aviron) Operation Finale (MGM) First Reformed (A24) Lean on Pete (A24) The Rider (Sony Pictures Classics) Collette (Bleecker Street) Cold War (Amazon Studios) The Miseducation of Cameron Post (FilmRise) Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street) Suspiria (Amazon)

TWELVE GREAT DOCS

This was most definitely the year of the theatrical doc, even though, yeah, there’s still a few Netflix docs on here… okay, one. Otherwise, it was important to see most of these movies in a theater, which culminated in Peter Jackson’s 3D WWI doc They Shall Not Grow Old, which just missed my top 12. Sorry, this feature has gotten a little too long or otherwise, I’d write more about each of these, but most of them I wrote about in the weekly column.

1. Won’t You be My Neighbor (Focus Features) 2. Free Solo (National Geographic) 3. Hal (Oscilloscope) 4. Three Identical Strangers (Neon) 5. Minding the Gap (Hulu) 6. RBG (Magnolia) 7. Rock Rubber 45s (Saboteur Media) 8. Crime + Punishment (Hulu/IFC Films) 9. Shirkers (Netflix) 10. Fahrenheit 11/9 11. Far from the Tree (IFC Films) 12. Whale of a Tale (Giant Pictures)

STUDIO OF THE YEAR:

Every year I like rewarding a studio that goes above and beyond both in terms of releasing great, entertaining movies and also being generally decent to deal with. While Universal has the top movie and Warner Bros. is #2 and Fox has a lot of movies on the above list, I think I’ll have to give this year’s award to Paramount Pictures, not only for making the best Mission: Impossible yet, but also with two wonderful surprises in Instant Family and Overlord, which both were far better than their trailers. (They also released A Quiet Place, which didn’t make my list but was still a solid thriller.) But most importantly, they’re the most improved in terms of press/critical outreach, and I greatly appreciate that, especially in the tough year I had.

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

I always like sharing some of the music I’m listening to each year and though my music budget has been cut rather drastically this year, my favorite album of the year was Metric’s “Art of Doubt,”followed by Buffalo Tom’s “Quiet and Peace”and The Fratellis’ “In Your Own Sweet Time.” I also dug Monster Magnet’s “Mindf*cker,” Ash’s “Islands” and James’ “Living in Extraordinary Times,” but none of this gets me more excited as the prospect for a new Cure album in 2019!

Oh, fine.. I’ll tack on my Terrible 10 for the year, but I don’t feel like revisiting any of these: 10. Kin  9. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich  8. The Spy Who Dumped Me  7. Before I Wake  6. Truth or Dare? 5. London Fields  4. Head Full of Honey  3. Mandy  2. Aardvark  1. Assassination Nation 

That’s it for this year. Hopefully, I’ll have more to come soon.

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Three (+1) Movies You Ought to Catch This Week!

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Widows #### Steve McQueen has really begun to whet his appetite on fare that is directly in tune with things people need or want to see at the time of release. After his last film Twelve Years a Slave swept the Oscar a few years back, the industry sat on its laurels while Trump took office and the British McQueen took to work on this stellar heist film.  In this case, we are going to take a look into the deeper side of inner-city Chicago, fusing ward life, a quatrain of husbands’ deaths, politics and a smidgen of church and family…life, that is to say. What you see and what you get is sure fire suspense and a feeling that the gals behind Ocean’s 8 some months back may have preferred being in this caper. Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Carrie Coon make up the ‘widows’ of this film, whose hubbies are knocked off during a heist gone awry in an incredible action sequence which commences the film, truly brilliant. When Veronica Rawlings (Davis) is accosted at home, she discovers her husband’s original plans by searching their private bank vault and, as well as, finding nudie pics of a hotshot politician, she takes it upon herself to contact the ladies of the men who were killed along with her husband, played by Liam Neeson incidentally, if even but for a moment. On the other hand runs a political theme, which finds such skilled hands under the direction of McQueen, whose mastery of highlighting the linear aspects of the characters truly identify the black vs. white drama which ensues even today in the USA. The fact that he uses its most violent city as its backdrop is perfectly poignant. Robert Duvall and Colin Farrell play politicos who want to get the black vote stabilised under their control throughout the wards of Chicago, and though Farrell is slightly annoying, the fact that their surname is Mulligan says it all, frankly. There are some moments of lull and formulaic scenes once the heist plans are laid bare and set in to action, but one can NOT help feel a sense of internal “Hell Yeah, baby!” when the going gets tough towards the film’s end. McQueen has found a perfect recipe to fuse important elements that will attract modern US society and Lawd knows the masses are likely to show up in droves. (Now playing across Catalonia and Spain)

Fantasic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald ###  The last time I critiqued J.K. Rowling’s last big production, I was writing for the local English magazine, and I recall sitting in the screening thinking, “Did I shave my legs for this trite shite?” That said, it is a good thing that director David Yates has returned from his Harry Potter daze to take the reins of this saga…or is that me being too kind? With a running theme that implies the horrid nature of racism, which is at least one positive about the film, and decent performances by Johnny Depp and Eddie Redmayne are quite well done to be sure, the film does not turn into a total snore-fest, but it is still no way near the bravado of Rowling’s original efforts with Harry and his mates. This time around, we find the oddly-named Newt Scamander (I mean, honestly!), played by Redmayne, seeking a way to re-instate his passport availability, and when he is charged with the task of protecting Credence Barebone (again with these bloody names!), the child with an obscurial, which harnesses his rage and can turn it into a ghastly and scary power force, he gets to move on and travel to Paris. All of this is to thwart the malevolent advances of a dark villain known as Gellert Grindelwald (Depp). Ugh…we all still together here? Well then comes the unknown myths and history explained in flashbacks, as well as, the dubious nature of this young Barebone, who is adopted, and this is when Rowling’s famed sociological study comes out referencing bloodlines and the nature of family. I actually started to enjoy the film as this corner was turned….but so long into an already long film also serves to show us what is coming up short. That would be  that when telling such a daunting tale with oh-so-many back stories, there needs to be a stronger semblance of coherence. What we had with the Potter series (which was an aide) was that we could always turn to the books to remember and recall scenes and background. We don’t have that with Fantastic Beasts, and the fact that there could be more of this makes me less than desirous to see what happens with Newt and his admirable cronies-in-good. (Now playing across Catalonia and Spain)

Bad Times at the El Royale ###-1/2   Starring a host of insanely good actors in a mondo bizarro film, Bad Times takes one on a trip fuelled by 90s indie darlings like Tarantino mixed with a dash of Bates Motel depression and a tinge of the crazy claustrophobia of Oliver Stone’s U-Turn, and it is a wild ride, trust; so those attending should be duly noted and not be too sober. The name comes from a Lake Tahoe-based hotel set in kitsch 60s decor, with on e wing of the hotel in California and another in Nevada, therefore permitting casino-style slots and action. Told in notable-titled chapters, director Drew Goddard tells us the story of singer Darlene Sweet (the amazing Cynthia Ervio), who arrives at the hotel with a contract to sing at some Reno dive. Jeff Bridges plays a priest, Jon Hamm a vacuum cleaner salesman, and Dakota Johnson as a sociopathic-leaning hippie. Throw in Chris Hemsworth as a hippie-like action cult leader, and you get some good Hollywood acting fodder. Erivo shines (she also is brilliant in the aforementioned Widows, reviewed above!) as Darlene, and her vocals throughout the film, which itself is infused with 60s soul tunes, make the death scenes and splatter ones all the more so palatable if still creepy and gruesome. The film begins with someone undoing a room in the tacky-ass hotel and burying a case full of money, only to then re-put the room into proper order. Thereby, time apparently passes and the motley crew that assemble at the cursed hotel find that hey are in for the pounding of a lifetime. This film would have been much relished had it come out 20 years ago, and so I’m curious to see how audiences and other critics react to and interpret Goddard and cast’s thrilling kill-fest because nothing is quite what it seems, and the intensity behind what may or may not come is hauntingly spooky yet oddly familiar somehow. (Now playing select theatres in parts of Catalonia and Spain)

Our New President ###-1/2   Premiering in Spain at L’Alternativa a couple of weeks back, this little-seen but oh so well-done documentary focuses on something many of us have not seen or heard…the Russian news outlet view of the Presidential elections of 2016. Director Maxim Pozdorovkin has taken scores of scenes from Russian news, as well as, detailing many of the minds behind the production and presentation of said “news,” thrown it in a blender and then methodically played out all these scenes to us, the stunned and often enraged viewer. What makes this doc so spellbinding is that there are no (virtually none, anyway) inklings to the US and its view of the campaigns. Within 20/25 minutes, we see that everything we presumed about Russian interference and aid to Trump for his election were quite obviously happening. It is a true mind fuck, and I do not use that word-phrase lightly! Some of the newscasts and reports that were so staunchly in favour of The Orange One and hyping Hillary as Killary. What starts off as a rather odd, even unmotivated doc, soon turns into a full assault of the political senses, and I urge everyone reading this to check it out. (Now available VOD)

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Two weeks left before the Milano Design Week, the most important week of the year for all design blogger and design professionals.

For the third year WEBLOGsaloni project is back, but this year with something new: each one of us will be the voice of a different area of Salone and Fuorisalone. You can find all the design districts at the end of the post

I will be in the Brera Design District, in the heart of Milan Fuorisalone.

Nothing new for me however, since Brera has always been one of my must-sees: this is where you can find the top brand and the news both of Italian and Scandinavian design, and for me there is no Fuorisalone without  Brera. Not just for me.

“Brera has the charm of the art district of Milan and has a bohemian, and even Parisian personality. It is an area full of creativity hosting the well-known Pinacoteca and the Academy of Fine Arts, many fashion and design stores and food from all over the world. When walking through its streets, especially in April during the Fuorisalone, you feel an extravagant, young and international atmosphere” Michele De Lucchi

  “Brera is an iconic place. It has always been the bohemian place of Milan by definition, a place where you feel an artsy atmosphere also thanks to the Academy and the studios of painters and photographers. Now Brera is more and more linked to design and we believe this change has preserved the special and creative soul of the district, while actually bringing new life in it” Studiopepe

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Meno due settimane alla Milano Design Week, la settimana più importante dell’anno per noi design blogger e addetti del settore.

Per il terzo anno consecutivo torna anche il progetto WEBLOGsaloni, ma quest’anno con una novità: ognuna di noi si occuperà di una zona differente di Salone e Fuorisalone. Trovate tutte le zone alla fine del post

Io sarò al Brera Design District, il cuore del Fuorisalone di Milano.

Per me non è una novità visto che Brera non è mai mancata nella mia Design Week: è qui che si trovano i brand e le grandi novità di design italiano e scandinavo, e per me non è Fuorisalone senza Brera. Non solo per me.

“Brera ha il fascino del distretto artistico di Milano e possiede una personalità un po’ parigina, bohémien. È un quartiere brulicante di creatività dove si trovano la famosa Pinacoteca e l’Accademia di Belle Arti, tanti negozi di moda e design, e cibo da tutto il mondo. Quando si passeggia per le sue strade, soprattutto in aprile durante il Fuorisalone, si respira un’atmosfera stravagante, giovane e internazionale” Michele De Lucchi

“Brera è un luogo icona. È sempre stato il luogo bohémien di Milano per eccellenza, in cui si respira quell’atmosfera artsy, grazie anche all’Accademia e agli studi di fotografi e pittori. Ora Brera è sempre più legata al design e questo passaggio troviamo che abbia rispettato l’anima creativa e speciale del quartiere, anzi ha portato una nuova linfa.” Studiopepe

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Brera Design District 2017 | the theme

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The theme of the 2017 edition of Brera Design District is Designing is a game, playing is a project.

The theme is a quote by Bruno Munari and strongly refers to his imaginary and design approach.

Whenever you fail you improve yourself.

Clear objectives and immediately visible results justify the effort.

Simulating is better than recounting.

Even the most brilliant game system can be confirmed or contradicted only by using it.

Playing simplifies complexity.

The more the game is abstract, the more the packaging is the key for selling it.

If you play, you learn.

Even the smallest change to a rule might disrupt the game.

Every game has a life span, let’s accept it.

Playing is a free choice.

In such a view, the 2017 Lezioni di Design award was given to Fabio Viola: among the world’s TOP 10 gamification designers

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Il tema dell’edizione 2017 di Brera Design District è Progettare è un gioco, giocare un progetto.

Una citazione di Bruno Munari e una riflessione sulla pratica del gioco come occasione di progettualità

Ogni volta che fallisci, migliori.

Obiettivi chiari e risultati immediatamente visibili giustificano la fatica.

Simulare è meglio che raccontare.

Anche il più geniale sistema di gioco viene confermato o smentito solo quando lo si usa.

Giocando semplifichi la complessità.

Più il gioco è astratto più il packaging è la chiave della vendita.

Se giochi, impari.

Anche la minima variazione di una regola potrebbe stravolgere il gioco.

Ogni gioco ha un ciclo di vita; accettiamolo.

Giocare è una libera scelta.

Obiettivo è quello di esplorare le sovrapposizioni tra gioco e design. Per questo motivo il premio Lezioni di Design 2017 viene attribuito a Fabio Viola,  tra i top 10 gamification designer al mondo.

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Brera Design District 2017 | special projects

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THE VISIT

location | Via Palermo, 1 ( ore 10.00 - 18.00)

The project was custom-made on the Brera Design Apartment by Studiopepe. A space designed with real dimensions, an intimate place with a strong memory located in an urban context with a dense social fabric historically linked to the world of art that is now moving more and more towards the design one.

Un progetto costruito su misura del Brera Design Apartment realizzato da Studiopepe. Uno spazio che è stato abitato dalle dimensioni reali, intimo, con una forte memoria, ubicato in un contesto urbano, quello di Brera, dal tessuto molto fitto storicamente legato al mondo dell’arte e che ora si sta muovendo sempre più verso quello del design. L’esperienza è ciò che sta alla base di The Visit. 

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location | The Mall, Porta Nuova

Da martedì 4 aprile a sabato 8 aprile 2017 presso The Mall Porta Nuova, nel Brera Design District di Milano, superfici, pavimenti, porte e finiture d’interni saranno presentati in un innovativo allestimento a cura dello studio Migliore+Servetto Architects. Grazie a un’area lounge interamente dedicata agli Archicocktails personalità del mondo del design e dell’architettura dialogheranno con i visitatori sui trend della progettazione e della realizzazione, e alla mostra Absolute lightness che approfondirà il tema della leggerezza in architettura

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TIMBERLAND SENSOR FLEX E MATTEO CIBIC

Timberland chooses the appointment of the Milan Design Week to launch the new Boat Shoe, characterised by a highly flexible sole thanks to the SensorFlex technology. They decided to involve a top, internationally-known designer, Matteo Cibic, who reinterpreted the iconic boat shoe giving life to an original installation that describes a new way of walking in the landscape of the contemporary metropolis.

Timberland sceglie l’appuntamento della Design Week per lanciare la nuova Boat Shoe che si caratterizza per la flessibilità della suola grazie alla tecnologia SensorFlex. Decide di farlo con un designer d’eccezione conosciuto e apprezzato in tutto il mondo, Matteo Cibic, il quale reinterpreta l’iconica scarpa da barca dando vita ad un’originale installazione che racconta di un nuovo modo di camminare nel paesaggio della metropoli contemporanea.

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TISSOT OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER

Tissot will be the Official Timekeeper of the 2017 edition of Fuorisalone.it and of Brera Design District. This year Tissot targets the whole public of the Fuorisalone, that will be directly involved in the Milan Design Week through activities dedicated to innovation in design.

Tissot sarà Official Timekeeper di Fuorisalone.it e Brera Design District dell’edizione 2017. Tissot si rivolge quest’anno a tutto il pubblico di Fuorisalone, che sarà direttamente coinvolto durante la Milano Design Week attraverso attività dedicate al tempo dell’innovazione nel design. 

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SPACES LA BUSINESS COMMUNITY DI BRERA

location | Bastioni di Porta Nuova 21

Spaces, company founded in Amsterdam and pioneer in the making of creative work environments, chose the Brera district as a location to create its business community in Milan. The spaces of the new venue in Bastioni di Porta Nuova 21 will open on April 4th 2017 offering creative talents and professionals a huge space of over 5,000 sqm built around the concept of community and networking.

Spaces, azienda nata ad Amsterdam e pioniera nella creazione di ambienti di lavoro creativi, ha scelto il distretto di Brera come location per creare la sua business community di Milano. La location risponde alle diverse esigenze lavorative che vanno dall’accesso al business club, ai coworking, dalle sale conferenze a uffici di design.

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POESIE DI NEON, LUCA TRAZZI DESIGN

location | Gallerie D’Italia (entrance from via Manzoni, 10)

Anguissola and in Alessandro’s Garden, house of Manzoni, precious treasure chests full of memory and timeless words. Luca Trazzi’s light installations, made with neon pipes, are designed in a game of full and empty spaces, colours, lights and shades, quotes of shapes and promises, “an allegorical tribute” to a lost love, guiding the viewer’s mind to the other historical symbol of the city, the façade of Palazzo Carminati in Piazza del Duomo.

Le installazioni luminose di Luca Trazzi realizzate con tubi di neon, sono disegnate in un gioco di vuoti e pieni, colori, luci ed ombre, citazioni di forme e promesse, “dedica allegorica“ di un amore perduto, rimandano il pensiero dello spettatore all’altro storico simbolo cittadino, la facciata di Palazzo Carminati in piazza del Duomo. Dalla poesia al neon sembra rivivere il ricordo dell’epoca dei caroselli con le insegne luminose che hanno fatto la storia della grande Milano.

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INTERSEZIONI

location | liceo parini (entrance from via San Marco, 2/3 - via Goito, 4)

A new location in Milan Fuorisalone. The project INTERSECTIONS will come true in the spaces of the school facing via San Marco, on an overall surface area of more than 1,000 sqm. The fil-rouge guiding the visitors to discover these spaces will be an installation featuring real examples of application of outdoor materials and furniture. The event has also a social purpose: the contribution of companies will help satisfy the school requirements through the transfer of materials and pieces of furniture that will become part of the architectural environment of the school.

Una nuova location apre i battenti al mondo del design: Liceo Parini di Milano, contenitore e promotore di cultura per le nuove generazioni. Il progetto “INTERSEZIONI” prenderà forma negli spazi del liceo, su una superficie complessiva di oltre 1000 mq. Il fil rouge che condurrà i visitatori alla scoperta degli spazi sarà quello di un allestimento dove trovare esempi concreti di applicazione di materiali ed arredi per esterni. Le aziende che parteciperanno, inoltre, faranno fronte alle esigenze scolastiche attraverso la cessione di materiali e arredi.

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ALDO ROSSI E MILANO 1955-1995

location | Architects Institute PPC of the Province of Milan, via Solferino, 19

Aldo Rossi and his city. On the occasion of the 2017 edition of Salone del Mobile, the Architects Institute and Foundation PPC of the Province of Milan will host at its own premises an exhibition dedicated to the figure of Aldo Rossi and his relationship with Milan. The exhibition was organised in collaboration with Fondazione Aldo Rossi.

Un’antologia dei progetti immaginati, disegnati e realizzati a Milano, per raccontare Il rapporto di Aldo Rossi con la sua città. La Fondazione e l’Ordine degli Architetti PPC della Provincia di Milano ospitano presso la propria sede una mostra dedicata alla figura di Aldo Rossi e al suo rapporto con Milano. La mostra è realizzata insieme alla Fondazione Aldo Rossi. 

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LO SCRIGNO DEL CIELO, ARCHITETTURA DI UNA FINESTRA

location | Piazzetta Brera

A hollow, 7 ½ m high tower rises in front of the statue of Francesco Hayez in Piazzetta Brera. The external walls are made of a thousand wood and metal profiles that differ by colour, shape and structure: these are the ambassadors of the many different styles of doors and windows. A small yet majestic, shiny and matt architecture; enigma on which three small windows open at the eye level of a man, a woman and a child. Gambardella Architetti described in one single artwork the story of a thousand-year old culture, that of the relationship between window and building, inside and outside, threshold and crossing.

Una torre cava, alta sette metri e mezzo, si erge davanti ala statua di Francesco Hayez. Le pareti esterne sono composte da una miriade di profili di legno e metallo; diversi per colore, per foggia, per struttura: sono ambasciatori dei molti diversi stili di composizione dei serramenti. Una piccola e imponente architettura, lucida e opaca; un enigma su cui si aprono tre piccole finestre poste all’altezza dello sguardo di un uomo, di una donna e di un bambino. Gambardella Architetti ha raccontato in un’opera la cultura millenaria del rapporto tra edificio e finestra, tra interno ed esterno, tra soglia e attraversamento. 

GAETANO PESCE, FRAMMENTI MAESTÀ TRADITA

location | via Brera - via Fiori Chiari

Gaetano Pesce,  together with the anti-violence centre Artemisia Onlus, proposes the installation of a big monument to women triggering a reflection on the self-denial that is still nowadays affecting most of the world’s female population. UP 5 and UP 6, world design icons created by Pesce in 1969, are recognised as the first industrial objects bearers of a clear political message: UP 5 was inspired by the archetypical shapes of the paleolithic Venus figurine, ancestral symbol of femininity, forced to slavery by a ball on her foot.

Gaetano Pesce, insieme al centro anti-violenza Artemisia Onlus propone l’installazione di un grande monumento alla donna, che imponga la riflessione sull’abnegazione subita dalla gran parte della popolazione mondiale femminile ancora oggi. UP 5 e UP 6, icone del design mondiale create da Pesce nel 1969, sono riconosciute come i primi oggetti industriali portatori di un esplicito messaggio politico: l’UP 5 ispirata alle forme archetipe delle veneri paleolitiche è simbolo ancestrale di femminilità, costretta come da una palla al piede alla schiavitù.

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#10 PIANOS STREET EATALY

location | front of Eataly Smeraldo - Piazza XXV Aprile

On 9th April in Piazza XXV Aprile, in front of Eataly Smeraldo, Brera Design District in partnership with Eataly will promote the installation-concert #10 Pianos Street, a suite for ten pianos composed by Yae. The installation will be open to the public from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. The show will take place at 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. All the pianos, made by street artists such as Acme 107, Fungo, Zoow24 and others, will be sold to the best bidder and the funds raised will be given to a charity.

Suite Spaziale Concreta Coreografica Etica e Colorata per dieci pianoforti Brera Design District, in collaborazione con Eataly, promuove l’installazione-concerto #10 Pianos Street, una suite per dieci pianoforti composta da Yae, il 9 aprile presso Piazza XXV aprile davanti a Eataly Smeraldo. Tutti i pianoforti, elaborati da street artists tra i quali Acme 107, Fungo, Zoow24 ed altri, e sono in vendita al miglior offerente e il ricavato sarà devoluto ad una associazione benefica. 

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Brera Design District 2017 | brand & designers

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International brands | Atelier Oï; Atelier Vierkant; Ateljé Lyktan; Bang&Olufsen; Bellicon; Best Western; Delta Light; Fenix NTM; Fritz Hansen; Guaxs; HEAD – Genève, Haute école d’art et de design; Janus Et Cie; Kirk By Design; Lagoon; Laufen; LinBrasil; Made in Ratio; Matter Made; Melissa Shoes; Miguel Arruda per Exporlux; Misawa; Modular Lighting Instruments; Panasonic; Porcelaingres; Santa&Cole; Sanwa Company; Sollos; Toolbox; Vibia Lighting

Italian brands | Ariostea; Black Tie; Carma Design; Carraro; Cartabianca; Cassina; Colombo Design; D-Table; Editions; Edizioni Design; Extendo; Fusione (MFStudio & Pau Design Container); Gruppo Pozzi; Incipitlab; Internoitaliano; Istituto dell’Imballaggio; Lea Ceramiche; Mingardo; Mmairo; MVK+ Italia; Myop; Nartist; Ornamenta; Pirelli; PolarisLife; Seven Salotti; Space&Interiors; Studioart Leather; VG crea; Ynterior; Zerododici; Zucchetti

Top Designers |  Patricia Urquiola, Federico Pepe, David and Nicolas, Bethan Gray, Germans Ermics, Cristina Celestino, Lorenza Bozzoli, Chiara Andreatti per Editions presso Spazio Pontaccio; Piero Lissoni per Golran presso Golran; Raw Edges per Golran presso Golran Showroom; Miguel Arruda Architetto per Exporlux presso Spazio RT; Giulio Iacchetti, Davide Fabio Colaci e Mario Scairato per Internoitaliano presso Palermo 5; Eley Kishimoto per Kirk By Design presso Appartamento da Sophie; Faye Toogood, Pedro Paulo Venzon, Philippe Malouin e Oeuffice per Matter Made presso Galleria Il Milione; Philippe Nigro, Zaven, Matteo Zorzenoni, Zanellato/ Bortotto, e Makoto Kawamoto per Novamobili presso Novamobili Showroom; Studiopepe per The Visit presso Brera Design Apartment e per Ceramiche Refin; Davide Groppi per Sanwa Company presso Solferino LAB.

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Brera Design District 2017 | other facts

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The graphic illustration of the 2017 edition of the Fuorisalone was curated by Stefano Marra, young graphic designer and illustrator who created the district map and the game of the goose – homage to the theme of this edition – and a series of iconic places and characters of the district.

The Nuit Blanche of the district, the Brera Design Night will take place Friday April 7th with the all-night opening of the showrooms and a series of special events that will liven up the district.

Brera Design District will have its own official playlist thanks to the Media Partnership with Spotify. This will be available during the Fuorisalone on the Fuorisalone.it streaming music platform

L’immagine grafica illustrata dell’edizione Fuorisalone 2017 è stato curata da Stefano Marra, giovane graphic designer e illustratore che ha rappresentato oltre alla mappa del distretto anche il gioco dell’oca – omaggio al tema dell’edizione – e una serie di personaggi e luoghi iconici del distretto.

La notte bianca del quartiere, la Brera Design Night si svolge venerdì 7 aprile con l’apertura prolungata degli showroom e una serie di eventi speciali che animeranno il distretto.

Brera Design District avrà la sua playlist musicale ufficiale grazie alla Media Partnership con Spotify: sarà disponibile durante il Fuorisalone sulla piattaforma per lo streaming musicale, all’interno del canale di Fuorisalone.it

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Milan Design Week 2017 | hashtags to follow

#BreraDesignDistrict #Fuorisalone2017 #WEBLOGsaloni

Milan Design Week 2017 | the districts

Maisonlab | Salone del Mobile e Satellite

Design Outfit | Euroluce e Wokplace

Unprogetto | 5vie + Sant’Ambrogio

meetyourMOOD | Ventura + Lambrate

Home Refresh | Tortona

Bagni dal Mondo | WEBLOGsaloni 2017

    WEBLOGsaloni | Brera Design District 2017 – Milan Fuorisalone Two weeks left before the Milano Design Week, the most important week of the year for all design blogger and design professionals.

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2017 Oscar Winners Predicted

Emma Thrower   If Leo was last year’s big Oscar news, this year’s is La La Land tying with Titanic and All About Eve for the most nominations of all time – 14, if you’re asking. So, before you decide to base your final Oscar predictions on the Golden Globe winners (Best Supporting Actor winner Aaron Taylor-Johnson wasn’t even nominated by the Academy), well, don’t. For, if you take a closer look at the science behind the Academy Awards, you’ll know that matching the Golden Globes to the Oscars is about as simple as Leo’s hunt for that second golden statue.

Here’s how we see it playing out in 2017:

1. Manchester By The Sea won’t win Best Picture

Kenneth Lonergan’s family weepy may have Casey Affleck leading the Best Actor race (with Denzel Washington nipping at his heels), but the film itself won’t fare as well in the Oscars’ biggest category. Why? Because you need an editing nomination to win the grand prize. (This also dashes the Best Picture chances of Hidden Figures, Lion and Fences.)

However this isn’t completely set in stone. In fact as recently as 2015 Birdman broke with convention by winning Best Picture without an editing nomination. Before that? You’d have to head back to 1981’s Ordinary People to find the last Best Picture winner to achieve such a feat.

Something Manchester By The Sea absolutely should be applauded for, however, is being the first film backed by a streaming company to crack the Best Picture race. Kudos, Amazon Studios.

2. Mel Gibson may have slipped in, but Hacksaw Ridge won’t win the top prize either

Of this year’s nine Best Picture nominees, eight have a screenplay nomination – except Hacksaw Ridge. Only one film in five decades has won Best Picture without a writing nod. The film in question? A tiny indie called Titanic.

3. You’re not meant to win Best Picture without a Best Ensemble nomination from the Screen Actors Guild

History suggests you can’t win Best Picture without a Best Ensemble nomination from the Screen Actors Guild. So has La La Land pirouetted itself into trouble by not receiving said SAG nomination?

If Chazelle’s film takes the big prize come next month – which at this point seems 99.9% likely – it will be the first film to do so since 1996, when Mel Gibson’s Braveheart unconventionally marched its way to Best Picture glory without a SAG Best Ensemble nod of its own.

But La La Land fans needn’t worry. The film is a definite two-hander as opposed to an ensemble effort (hence the nomination omission), and, with Hidden Figures surprisingly beating Moonlight to SAG’s top prize, La La Land’s Best Picture hopes are now even brighter.

(SAG deemed Captain Fantastic, Fences, Hidden Figures, Manchester By The Sea and Moonlight fit for their Best Ensemble category – all of which are nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, except Captain Fantastic.)

4. Acting nominations boost your Best Picture chances

Question: what was the last film to win Best Picture without a single acting nomination? Answer: Slumdog Millionaire. Alright, so the 2009 Oscars weren’t all that long ago, but it’s incredibly rare to take the grand prize without at least one actor in contention.

It’s worth remembering that actors make up the majority of the Academy’s members – that’s a powerful bunch you want on side. So, while Arrival may be up for Best Picture, it would help if it had an acting nomination, too. Here’s looking at you, La La Land (Emma Stone; Ryan Gosling), Manchester By The Sea (Casey Affleck; Lucas Hedges; Michelle Williams) and Moonlight (Mahershala Ali; Naomie Harris).

Hacksaw Ridge, Hidden Figures, Lion, Fences and Hell Or High Water also boast acting nominations, but, for the reasons explained above and here we’re placing them well outside the Best Picture frame.

5. Meryl Streep won’t win this year...

This is Streep’s twentieth Oscar nomination. (Twentieth!) But her mantelpiece isn’t in any danger of gaining a fourth Oscar this year. The pair battling it out for Best Actress in 2017? Emma Stone (La La Land) and Natalie Portman (Jackie).

6. But we will see our first non-white acting double win in 12 years

Mahershala Ali. Viola Davis. Place your bets now.

7. Critics’ groups tend to show us where the acting love lies

La La Land Remember when we said the Critics’ Choice Awards had a pretty great track record for forecasting the bigger Oscar categories (and that their Best Picture prediction rate was better than that of SAG, BAFTA and the Golden Globes)? Last year they ‘wrongly’ handed Mad Max Best Picture (Spotlight went on to win the Oscar), but their shiny acting prizes went to Leonardo DiCaprio, Brie Larson, Sylvester Stallone and Alicia Vikander – a motion the Academy replicated, apart from Stallone (Mark Rylance won). This time around, they’ve opted for La La Land, Casey Affleck, Natalie Portman, Mahershala Ali and Viola Davis. Will Portman beat Emma Stone to Best Actress on the night? Will Denzel take Best Actor? We’ll have to wait and see.

8. It doesn’t look like Lin-Manuel Miranda will be getting his EGOT just yet

Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. Only 12 people (including Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Audrey Hepburn and Whoopi Goldberg) have won all four. With the ‘EGT’ part already under his belt – and a Pulitzer to boot – it looks like Hamilton creator, Moana songmeister, and all-round musical wizard Miranda will have to hold on for at least another year before he can secure that elusive ‘O’.

9. The guilds hold the answer

Apollo 13 It’s hard to predict which way Best Picture will swing before two specific guilds – and SAG – have their say. Receiving critical buzz and regional awards in the earlier parts of Oscar season is all well and good, but while they may be a handy indicator, critics’ awards (besides the Critics’ Choice, as mentioned above) and the Golden Globes mean diddly squat in the grand scheme of things.

It’s all about the choices of the DGA (Directors Guild of America – Best Director), PGA (Producers Guild of America – Best Producer) and SAG (Screen Actors Guild – Best Ensemble). Win all three and you’re positively golden. But if the trio find themselves split? Well, things might just get a little complicated: see the 1996 Oscars where the SAG, PGA and DGA-winning Apollo 13 lost Best Picture to Braveheart (the last film to win the holy trifecta and not go on to take the Academy’s top prize, fact fans).

This is also how 2015’s big Boyhood v. Birdman face-off was easy to settle. Birdman took the SAG, DGA and PGA’s top honours. It was never going to lose.

As mentioned earlier, La La Land’s lack of a SAG Best Ensemble nom makes things that little bit more interesting, but it took the PGA’s big award this year. The DGAs aren’t held until 4 February – but we’re thinking it’s safe to assume a La La Land victory there, too.

10. But we’re putting our money on La La Land

La La Land Taking the above and our more comprehensive Oscar science into account, La La Land should come out on top this year. We still need to wait and see which film the DGA award before 100% deciding on who will take that most coveted of Oscars, but it’s been a pretty clearcut race so far with La La Land still a big step ahead of Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight.

Last year was harder. The DGA awarded The Revenant. SAG opted for Spotlight. The PGA then decided to mess it all up by giving their top prize to The Big Short which confused things, as, prior to last year the PGA and eventual Best Picture winners had matched since 2008. However Spotlight came out victorious, as we rightly predicted.

11. Here’s how we see it panning out on 26 February

PICTURE: La La Land

DIRECTOR: Damien Chazelle, La La Land

ACTOR: Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea

ACTRESS: Emma Stone, La La Land

SUPPORTING ACTOR: Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Viola Davis, Fences

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Manchester By The Sea

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Moonlight

DOCUMENTARY: O.J.: Made In America

ANIMATION: Zootropolis

FOREIGN: Toni Erdmann (Elle wasn’t eligible for nomination)

EDITING: La La Land

CINEMATOGRAPHY: La La Land

PRODUCTION DESIGN: La La Land

SCORE: La La Land

VISUAL EFFECTS: The Jungle Book

COSTUME: La La Land (Even if we did tell you never to bet against Colleen Atwood…)

HAIR AND MAKEUP: Star Trek Beyond

SOUND EDITING: Hacksaw Ridge

SOUND MIXING: La La Land

SONG: City Of Stars, La La Land

SHORT: Ennemis Interieurs

ANIMATED SHORT: Piper (Pixar’s short film, which preceded Finding Dory)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT: Extremis