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Triangle of Sadness (2022) | dir. Robert Östlund

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Triangle of sadness (2022), dir. Robert Östlund

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Everything Everywhere's The Daniels Win Best Director at DGAs

Everything Everywhere All at Once’s recognition during awards season has been nothing short of big. Between its GLAAD nomination, and pair of twins during the Golden Globes, the film seems poised to have some kind of triumph when the Oscars roll around, particularly since it 11 nominations, Last night, the Directors Guild of America held its own awards ceremony, and directors Daniel Kwan and…

[filmaticbby]

Aries: Tarantino, F. F. Coppola, Andrea Arnold, Eric Rohmer, Edgar Wright, Ruben Östlund, Josh Safdie, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michael Haneke, Martin McDonagh

Taurus: Wes Anderson, Orson Welles, Sofia Coppola, Lars von Trier, Terry Zwigoff, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, John Waters, Frank Capra

Gemini: Fassbinder, Hideaki Anno, Makhmalbaf, Agnès Varda, Alex Garland, Clint Eastwood, Yorgos Lanthimos, Aaron Sorkin, Ken Loach, Alexander Sokurov, Giuseppe Tornatore

Cancer: Abbas Kiarostami, Wong Kar-wai, P. T. Anderson, Mike White, Ari Aster, Ingmar Bergman, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Eggers, Béla Tarr, Mel Brooks, Ken Russell, Sidney Lumet, Kinji Fukasaku

Leo: Alfred Hitchcock, Greta Gerwig, Alain Robbe-grillet, Kubrick, Wes Craven, Taika Waititi, Luca Guadagnino, Christopher Nolan, Polanski, Sam Mendes, Richard Linklater, Nicolas Roeg, James Cameron, Pablo Larraín, M. Night Shyamalan, Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders, Maurice Pialat

Virgo: Tom Ford, Joe Wright, Paul Feig, Dario Argento, David Fincher, Brian De Palma, Baz Luhrmann, Tim Burton, Friedkin, Takashe Miike, Noah Baumbach, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, E. Coen

Libra: Julie Dash, Almodóvar, Jacques Tati, Ang Lee, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ti West, Walerian Borowczyk, Nicolas Winding Refn, Satoshi Kon, Kenneth Lonergan, Michael Powell, Jacques Tati, Steve McQueen, Denis Villeneuve

Scorpio: Mike Nichols, Barry Jenkins, Charlie Kaufman, Céline Sciamma, Tsai Ming-liang, Jean Rollin, Scorsese, Louis Malle, Luchino Visconti, François Ozon, Julia Ducournau

Sagittarius: Sion Sono, Cassavetes, Raj Kapoor, Steven Spielberg, Eliza Hittman, Terrence Malick, Ozu, Alfonso Cuarón, Gregg Araki, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, Kathryn Bigelow, Lenny Abrahamson, J. Coen, Jean Luc Godard, Diane Kurys, Ridley Scott, Lynne Ramsay, Woody Allen, Fritz Lang

Capricorn: Larry Clark, David Lynch, Harmony Korine, Damien Chazelle, David Lowery, Mary Harron, Sergio Leone, Todd Haynes, Pedro Costa, Gaspar, Noe, Fellini, Joseph Losey, Miyazaki, John Carpenter, Steven Soderbergh, Michael Curtiz, John Singleton, Vertov

Aquarius: Jim Jarmusch, John Hughes, Darren Aronofsky, Jodorowski, Michael Mann, Derek Cianfrance, Alex Payne, Truffau, Eisenstein, Tone Hooper

Pisces: Pasolini, Sean Baker, Paul Schrader, Bernardo Bertolucci, Benny Safdie, Jacques Rivette, Bunuel, Luc Besson, David Cronenberg, Spike Lee, Rob Reiner, Mike Mills, Sebastián Lelio, Jordan Peele, Ron Howard, Robert Altman

[joeygoeshollywood]

Oscars 2023: My Fantasy Winners and Nominees

Here are my fantasy winners and nominees of this year’s Oscars. And I encourage you all to share yours!

Best Picture

Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nominees:

The Banshees of Inisherin Barbarian Emergency The Fabelmans Good Luck to You, Leo Grande The Northman RRR Top Gun: Maverick Triangle of Sadness

Best Actor

Winner: Brendan Fraser - The Whale

Nominees:

Austin Butler - Elvis Nicholas Cage - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Colin Farrell  - The Banshees of Inisherin Paul Mescal  - Aftersun

Best Actress

Winner: Michelle Yeoh - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nominees:

Cate Blanchett - TÁR Viola Davis - The Woman King Danielle Deadwyler  - Till Emma Thompson  - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Ke Huy Quan -  Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nominees:

Paul Dano - The Fabelmans Brandon Gleeson - The Banshees of Irisherin Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Irisherin Rory Kinnear - Men

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Dolly De Leon -  Triangle of Sadness

Nominees:

Hong Chau - The Whale Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Irisherin Jamie Lee Curtis - Everything Everywhere All at Once Stephanie Hsu - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director

Winner: The Daniels -  Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nominees:

Robert Eggers - The Northman Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Irisherin Ruben Östlund - Triangle of Sadness Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans

Best Original Screenplay

Winner: The Banshees of Irisherin

Nominees:

Everything Everywhere All at Once Good Luck to You, Leo Grande TÁR Triangle of Sadness

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Women Talking

Nominees:

All Quiet on the Western Front Emergency She Said The Whale

Best Cinematography

Winner: The Batman

Nominees:

All Quiet on the Western Front Empire of Light The Northman Top Gun: Maverick

Best Editing

Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Nominees:

Elvis The Fabelmans The Northman Top Gun: Maverick

Best Production Design

Winner: Babylon

Nominees:

The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Costume Design

Winner: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Nominees:

Babylon Elvis Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris The Woman King

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Winner: Elvis

Nominees:

The Batman Blonde Crimes of the Future The Whale

Best Score

Winner: The Batman

Nominees:

Babylon The Banshees of Irisherin Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Women Talking

Best Original Song

Winner: “Naatu Naatu” - RRR

Nominees:

“Ciao Papa” - Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio "Hold My Hand” - Top Gun: Maverick "Lift Me Up” - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever “Still Holding My Hand” - Ronald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical

Best Sound

Winner: Top Gun: Maverick

Nominees:

All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Visual Effects

Winner: Avatar: The Way of Water

Nominees:

The Batman Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Nope Top Gun: Maverick

Best International Feature

Winner: RRR (India)

Nominees:

All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany) Close (Belgium)  Petite Maman (France)

Best Animated Feature

Winner: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio

Nominees:

The Bad Guys Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Minions: The Rise of Gru Turning Red

ORIGINAL CATEGORIES

Best Ensemble

Winner: Triangle of Sadness

Nominees:

Babylon Everything Everywhere All at Once The Menu Women Talking

Best Comedy

Winner: Emergency

Nominees:

Bodies Bodies Bodies Brian and Charles Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Triangle of Sadness Vengeance 

Best Stunts

Winner: RRR

Nominees:

The Batman Bullet Train Everything Everywhere All at Once The Woman King

Best Breakthrough Filmmaker 

Winner: Cooper Raif - Cha Cha Real Smooth

Nominees:

Zach Cregger - Barbarian BJ Novak - Vengeance S.S. Rajamouli - RRR Charlotte Wells - Aftersun

Best Breakthrough Actor

Winner: Donald Elise Watkins - Emergency 

Nominees:

Daryl McCormick - Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Paul Mescal - Aftersun Brandon Perrea - Nope Michael Ward - Empire of Light

Best Breakthrough Actress

Winner: Alisha Weir - Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical

Nominees:

Vanessa Burghardt - Cha Cha Real Smooth Charlbi Dean - Triangle of Sadness Li Jun Li - Babylon Thuso Mbedu - The Woman King

[denimbex1986]

Hot off the critic-voted list of The Best Movies of the Last 25 Years comes the results of a 64-director tournament meant to determine who the greatest director of that same time frame is. Coming out the victor was none other than Christopher Nolan, who just made the cut thanks to his debut, Following, coming out in 1998.

The 53-man (counting duos as one), 11-woman bracket determined that Nolan had the most prestige of everyone included, particularly the six competitors he defeated: Ruben Östlund (Triangle of Sadness), Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse), Sam Mendes (1917), Jordan Peele (Get Out), and, in the finals, Denis Villeneuve (Dune). Villeneuve had his own strong competition, besting Lynne Ramsey (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Pete Docter (Up), Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant), Bong Joon-ho (Parasite), and Damien Chazelle (La La Land).

According to Rotten Tomatoes – who hosted the tournament of greatest directors – over 300,000 votes were cast in the final round, with 56% going to Nolan. That was the tightest matchup Nolan had, as he bested his other opponents with at least 87%. Of note, when Rotten Tomatoes unveiled their list of The Best Movies of the Last 25 Years, both Nolan and Villeneuve had one film represented: Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008) ranked #4 and Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) came in at the tail end.

Although he has been deemed the greatest director by fans, Nolan has yet to win a Best Director Oscar, with only one nomination so far (for Dunkirk, losing to Guillermo del Toro, who was ineligible for this tournament). However, with the massive popularity, rave reviews and support behind his latest, Oppenheimer, he is considered the frontrunner to take home the statue next year...'

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Swedish director Ruben Östlund, lead actor Claes Bang, and the team of THE SQUARE (2017) celebrate with a victory scream at the European Film Awards 2017 with Stellan Skarsgård who presented them the award for Best Film

[cinemassociations]

On The Square (2017)

1. The Square (2017) Directed by Ruben Östlund

The film is a delightful satire about the art world and mankind in general. The tableaux in this film echo Roy Anderssons. The film feels like walking into a gallery of the swedish/nordic wellfare state. It´s also a great lesson on art, the museum institution and art talk.

Here are some of the “modernist classics” referenced in the film.

2. Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: Departing in Yellow (1964) similar yellow square painting is seen on the main characters appartment

3. Robert Smithson ´ Tar Pool and a Gravel pit´ 1966

4. Robert Smithson ´Rocks and Mirror Square II´ 1971

5. Walter de Maria ´New York Earth Room´ 1977

5. Kazimir Malevich ´Black Square´ 1915

6. Marcel Duchamp ´The Fountain´ 1917 

[cinematicjourney]

Triangle of Sadness (2022) | dir. Robert Östlund

[sweetsmellosuccess]

Sundance 2020: Preview

Earlier in the month, as I frantically made my selections for the limited public tickets Sundance generously makes available for the press, I was struck by just how much of a crapshoot the whole process was. That’s the thing about this particular festival, virtually no one outside of the filmmakers and Sundance programmers have seen the films yet. It’s a great unknown (and, yes, Cannes is also similar in this way, but whereas Sundance is selecting primarily indie films, the festival on the French Riviera gets to choose anything they damn well please, from big Hollywood studio fare, to auteur International work), which leads to lots of hunch choices, based on gut feeling as much as anything else.

As you might imagine, one’s hit rate on such matters is volatile. I looked back to previous years’ selections, and found, on rough average, choosing solid (or better) films at about a 45% clip. That is to say, of the films I deemed most worthy of my attention, about half of them were less  —  or even far less  —  than I hoped. To be fair, randomly watching regular studio films opening from week to week at home in Philly, I would imagine that percentage would be a good bit lower, so there’s nothing inherently wrong with Sundance’s percentages.

Still, it does speak to the embracing-of-the-unknown ethos that this festival instills in you. We pays our money, we takes our chances, etc. Having said all that  —  and perhaps having chiseled down the enormous boulder of salt with which to read this piece  —  here are our best guesses for what looks like (on paper, at least) some of the more interesting films in this year’s fest. We’ll see how it turns out.

Downhill: The U.S. remake of Ruben Östlund’s 2014 Swedish film about a family on a skiing trip in the Alps, who experience serious disruption when a controlled avalanche terrifies the father of the clan to ditch his family in order to save himself. Normally, I would steer far clear of American remakes, but this indie remains intriguing, even if it is directed by a pair of actors (Nat Faxon and Jim Rash). Casting Will Ferrell and Julia Louis Dreyfus together as the parents is also a draw. We can only hope the film retains the razor-sharp acerbity of the original.  

Falling: Viggo Mortensen, best known for all time as Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings triad, has many talents  —  he speaks French fluently, writes poetry, and paints with some apparent aplomb  —  but we’ll see how he handles writing and directing for the first time with this film, in which he plays a gay man living with his family in L.A., whose arch-conservative farmer father (Lance Hendrickson) comes to live with him. The set up sounds on the definite hokey side, but any film that casts David Cronenberg as a proctologist has got something going for it.

Horse Girl: An awkward loner of a woman (played by Allison Brie), with a predilection for crafts, crime shows, and, yes, horses, endures a series of lucid dreams that infiltrate her day-to-day existence. Sounding just so perfectly Sundanecian, Jeff Baena’s film nevertheless holds some attraction, especially because the director (whose previous film was the well-received The Little Hours) has a solid track record. He co-wrote this effort with Brie, a collaboration that might well lead to something more compelling than its initial description.

Kajillionaire: I guess you could call writer/director/actress Miranda July something of an acquired taste. Her previous films, including Me and You and Everyone We Know, and The Future are filled with a kind of creative whimsy, along with intense character insight. Her new film is about a pair of grifter parents (Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins) who throw together a big heist at the last second, convincing a newcomer (Gina Rodriguez) to join them, only for the newbie to disrupt their relationship with their daughter (Evan Rachel Wood), whom they have been training her entire life.

The Last Thing He Wanted: Working from a novel by the resplendent Joan Didion, Dee Rees follows up her 2017 Sundance rave Mudbound with another literary adaptation. Anne Hathaway plays a journalist obsessed with the Contras in Central America, whose father (Willem DaFoe) unexpectedly bestows her with proof of illegal arms deals in the region. Suddenly, a player in a much more complicated game, she connects with a U.S. official (Ben Affleck), in order to make it out alive. It’s a particularly well-heeled cast, which at Sundance doesn’t necessarily mean a good thing, but Rees has proven herself more than up to the challenge.

Lost Girls: At this point, I will literally watch Amy Ryan in anything  —  her exquisite bitchiness absolutely stole last year’s Late Night  —  so Liz Garbus’ film would have already been on my radar, but here, with Ryan playing a Long Island mother whose daughter goes missing, my interest is sorely piqued. Based on a true-crime novel by Robert Kolker, Ryan’s character discovers her daughter was part of an online sex ring, and goes through heaven and earth to draw attention to her plight, taking on the local authorities in the process.

Never Rarely Sometimes Always: Eliza Hittman has a way of adding lustre and temporal beauty to the otherwise roughneck scenes of the teens she depicts. Her latest film is about a pair of young women living in rural Pennsylvania, who find the means to escape their repressive town after one of them becomes unexpectedly pregnant, making their way to New York City. With a storyline eerily reminiscent of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, Hittman, as is her want, has cast two relative unknowns (Talia Ryder and Sidney Flanigan) as the leads.

Palm Springs: Lightening things up a smidge, Max Barbakow’s off-beat comedy stars Cristin Milioti and Andy Samberg as reluctant wedding guests, who somehow find each other at the same time as some kind of surrealistic episode leads them to recognize that nothing really matters in the first place, allowing them to lay havoc upon the proceedings for their own amusement. Barbakow’s debut feature is stockpiled with strong castmembers, including J.K. Simmons and Peter Gallagher, and it’s always a treat to watch the continuing evolution of Samberg from mop-haired SNL performer to certified big-screen actor.  

Promising Young Woman: The #metoo movement begets this revenge thriller about a once-victimized woman (Carey Mulligan) who works by day as quiet barista, but spends her nights seducing men in order to punish the living hell out of them for trying to take advantage of her. When she runs into a seemingly sweet old classmate (Bo Burnham), it would appear as if salvation is at hand, but apparently it’s not quite that simple. Filmmaker Emerald Fennell, whose outstanding work on the series “Killing Eve,” earned her a pair of Emmy nominations, makes her feature debut with a film that sounds appropriately searing.

Shirley: There were those critics at the 2018 festival who found Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline one of the best films of the year. While I wasn’t among them, there was still much to appreciate with the writer/director’s improvisational visions. Her entry into this year’s Sundance promises to be at least somewhat more grounded, if not still effervescent. It concerns famed author Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss), writer of “The Lottery,” whose literary inspiration is stirred after she and her husband (Michael Stuhlbarg) take in a young couple to liven up their household.

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Lilz Flix

If like me you have trouble focusing and making decisions and struggling with doing anything but being horizontal and staring at a screen most days whilst convincing yourself you’re getting an education in kultcha and stuff, then behold! 

I have effortlessly compiled 10 favourite shorts, docs and features I’ve seen and loved the past year or so, so you don’t have to keep scrolling through Netflix like it’s the new Tinder.

1. Hurt By Paradise - Greta Bellamacina Directed, Co Written and performed by insanely driven and talented friend Greta Bellamacina with a brief cameo from my Son as “Boy at Underground station”. Greta’s first feature film struck such a chord with me as a non conformist, Woman and Mother living in London, I found myself bawling through most of it, but came out of the cinema fired up with pride for my friend, for myself, for women everywhere and a yearn to keep on fighting the good fight.

NB. Unfortunately this isn’t available to watch online yet, but keep an eye open for a future release...

2. Floating - Richard Heslop. Mike Leigh on Acid is how I’d describe this 40 minute masterpiece which won the director best short film at Cannes in 1992. I came across Richards work recently via the campaign to save Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, somehow we were already friends on Facebook and an instant fan girl I became! Richard directed videos for some of my favourite bands in the 80′s and 90′s, worked with Jarman frequently at the end of his life and as well as his style being madly inspirational to my amateur filmmaker self, it turns out we also have a few mutual friends so I’ll be pinning him down for a coffee as soon as we can move around again... 

https://vimeo.com/67509119

3. Parasite - Bong Joon-Ho the twists and turns in the writing gave me tingles as I watched it, a rare kind of magic. Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards this year, I need not say more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiF1dHVcqM8

4. Underneath the Silverlake - David Robert Mitchell The perfect combination of slacker-mysticism-Lynch like Hollywood classic, set all around the very neighbourhood that I am currently isolation stationed in Los Angeles and an unusual but excellent protagonist in Skins to Spiderman supernova, Andrew Garfield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fgQGqKwtA

5. Monos - Alejandro Landes One for those that ask “Have you seen Narcos?” When you tell them you’re moving to/living in Colombia, a fictional story about a very real situation, beautifully shot and scored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NxmvACQZow

6. The Square - Ruben Östlund Because I have a stonking great crush on Claes Bang who masterfully plays the lead Christian an entitled, but well meaning curator and an insight into the pageantry of the Art World, dry as fuck, perfectly Swedish and won the Palm D’Or in 2017.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaD-B0aK9aw

7. Arcadia - Paul Wright As stunning a piece of experimental filmmaking as I could ever hope to achieve, an ode to the place I call home, a history of, a story on and big fat a feeling for England, the dark and the light, scored by the dude from Portishead and the bloke from Goldfrapp.

https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-arcadia-2017-online

8. Everybody in the Place An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 - Jeremy Deller Much like the above a really interesting and original style of documentary on UK rave culture and an exploration of how it came to be, by the celebrated artist/activist Jeremy Deller, think i’ve seen it 4 times in the 8 months since it was released and intend to watch it many many more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thr8PUAQuag

9. Mid 90′s - Jonah Hill A real nostalgia trip, with attention to set and prop detail that took me straight back to being 9 in 1994. The directorial debut from the actor, who one would imagine  grew up in an entirely different World to the one portrayed in this film, a broken home, skater kids, drugs and sex in a far less hip and glamorous L.A than the one we know now, but it hit home hard, a coming of age tale for the 80′s babies, the outsiders and the inbetweeners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Vra_CT-J8

10. Catwalk - Robert Leacock A perfectly candid fly on the wall doc following several of the most famous super models around during fashion weeks in the, yes again, mid 90′s. All the glamour and the glitz seems such a far cry from the World we live in now and even todays fashion industry, but somehow also familiar, to me at least, as I was albeit never nearly as successful, thrown into that World for a brief stint a few years following, with TV camera’s documenting our daily dose of rejection, occasional teen elation n all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrISOQclg3A

[johnbonhammasterdrummer]

In Through the Out Door is the eighth and final studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded over a three-week period in November and December 1978 at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, and released by Swan Song Records on 15 August 1979.

The album is a reflection of the personal turmoil that the band members had been going through before and during its recording. Frontman Robert Plant and his wife had gone through a serious car accident, and their young son, Karac Plant, died from a stomach illness. All four band members also felt weary of dealing with record companies and other associates.

The release became a huge commercial success, particularly in the United States (sitting at the No. 1 slot on Billboard's chart in just its second week on the chart). In Through the Out Door was the band's eighth and final studio release to reach the top of the charts in America.

Tracklist

In The Evening 6:48

South Bound Saurez 4:11

Fool In The Rain 6:08

Hot Dog 3:15

Carouselambra 10:28

All My Love 5:51

I'm Gonna Crawl 5:28

Personnel:

John Bonham – drums and percussion

John Paul Jones – bass guitar, mandolin, keyboards, synthesizer, piano

Jimmy Page – electric and acoustic guitars, Gizmotron, production

Robert Plant – lead vocals

Peter Grant – executive producer

Hipgnosis – record sleeve

Leif Mases – engineering

Jeff Ocheltree – drum tech for John Bonham

Lennart Östlund – assistant engineering

[tomorrowedblog]

Friday Releases for October 7

Friday is the busiest day of the week for new releases, so we've decided to collect them all in one place. Friday Releases for October 7 include Werewolf By Night, Triangle Of Sadness, Component System with the Auto Reverse, and more.

Werewolf By Night

Werewolf By Night, the new movie from Michael Giacchino, is out today.

On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader's life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic – a hunt that will ultimately bring them face to face with a dangerous monster.

Triangle Of Sadness

Triangle Of Sadness, the new movie from Ruben Östlund, is out today.

In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam, the new movie from David O. Russell, is out today.

Set in the '30s, Amsterdam follows three friends who witness a murder, become suspects themselves, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

TÁR

TÁR, the new movie from Todd Field, is out today.

From writer/director Todd Field, starring Cate Blanchett, TÁR, set in the international world of classical music, centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.

The Visitor

The Visitor, the new movie from Justin P. Lange, is out today.

When Robert and his wife Maia move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait of his likeness in the attic - a man referred to only as ‘The Visitor’. Soon he finds himself descending down a frightening rabbit hole in an attempt to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets.

Luckiest Girl Alive

Luckiest Girl Alive, the new movie from Mike Barker, is out today.

Based on the best-selling novel, Ani FaNelli (Mila Kunis), a sharp-tongued New Yorker appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon. But when the director of a crime documentary invites her to tell her side of the shocking incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Brentley School, Ani is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

Hellraiser

Hellraiser, the new movie from David Bruckner, is out today.

In “Hellraiser,” a young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.

The Inhabitant

The Inhabitant, the new movie from Jerren Lauder, is out today.

High school can be a nightmare for any teenager. But Tara (Odessa A’zion) lives in the shadow of a harrowing family curse — she’s a descendant of ax-murderess Lizzie Borden. As Tara begins to hear voices and have paranoid visions of butchering her family, people in her small town are attacked and killed — and all evidence points to her. Gripped by her family’s past, Tara must confront the demons that possess her — both real and imaginary — and a shocking truth in this chilling psychological horror ride featuring Leslie Bibb, Dermot Mulroney, and Lizzie Broadway.

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, the new movie from Josh Gordon and Will Speck, is out today.

When the Primm family (Constance Wu, Scoot McNairy, Winslow Fegley) moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle - a singing crocodile (Shawn Mendes) who loves baths, caviar and great music-living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle’s existence is threatened by evil neighbor Mr. Grumps (Brett Gelman), the Primm’s must band together with Lyle’s charismatic owner, Hector P. Valenti (Javier Bardem), to show the world that family can come from the most unexpected places and there’s nothing wrong with a big singing crocodile with an even bigger personality.

The Midnight Club

The Midnight Club, the new TV series from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, is out today.

At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories – and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond.

Let The Right One In

Let The Right One In, the new TV series from Andrew Hinderaker, is out today.

Inspired by the original hit Swedish novel and film, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN centers on Mark (Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Baez) whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive.

Component System with the Auto Reverse

Component System with the Auto Reverse, the new album from Open Mike Eagle, is out today.

Only Built For Infinity Links

Only Built For Infinity Links, the new album from Quavo and Takeoff, is out today.

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Lausanne HC - Aufstieg in die Phalanx der Grossen vier oder der Fall ins Bodenlose?

Werden wir gerade Zeuge eines Aufstiegs des Lausanne HC oder dessen Fall in das Bodenlose und der Vernichtung von Millionen von Schweizer Franken? Egal in welche Richtung die Reise des Traditionsklub am Ufer des Genfersees gehen wird, wir werden uns köstlich unterhalten. Nicht nur auf, sondern vermehrt auch neben dem Eis. Vor allem wegen den drei Besitzern aus der Tschechischen Republik und Russlands. Vergangene Saison im Schnelldruchlauf Nach der Qualifikation war der 4. Rang gesichert und damit das Heimrecht in der Serie gegen die ZSC Lions. Konnten die beiden Teams jeweils ihre ersten Spiele zu Hause gewinnen, änderte sich dies mit Spiel drei. Zwei Mal in Folge gewannen die Zürcher ehe Lausanne im fünften Spiel wieder siegen konnte. Die Löwen aus dem Hallenstadion machten indes im sechsten Spiel der Serie zu Hause den Sack zu. Lausanne hat die Chance nicht beim Schopf gepackt aus einer guten Saison eine sehr gute zu machen. Die vielen Unruhen und Querelen während der Saison neben dem Eis sind nur die Spitze des Eisberges eines Klubs der ausser Kontrolle geraten zu sein scheint. Beispiele gefällig? Bitte sehr: Cory Conacher wurde mit hohen Versprechungen nach Lausanne geholt. Doch weder Trainer noch Spieler fanden zusammen. Dies lässt sich auch an den Punkten ablesen. "Nur" neun Tore und fünf Vorlagen gelangen Conacher in Lausanne in 21 Spielen. Als er den Vertrag mit Lausanne auflöste und zu seinem ersten Arbeitgeber dem SC Bern in der Schweiz wechselte, gelangen ihm in 19 Spielen neun Tore und 13 Assists. Und er war von Beginn an ein wichtiger Teil der Mannschaft und übernahm Verantwortung. Oder der langjährige Captain des Lausanne HC, Etienne Froidevaux. Ihn wollten die Lausanner bereits zum Ende der Saison 2019/20 nicht mehr im Kader haben, suchten einen neuen Arbeitgeber. Lausanne fand aber keinen, der den Vertrag zu gleichen Konditionen weitergeführt hätte. So war zu Beginn der Saison Froidevaux mehrheitlich auf der Medientribüne anzutreffen und schaute dem Treiben auf dem Eis von dort aus zu. Am Ende war Lausanne dann doch noch um seine Dienste froh. Spätestens als die Verletzungen zu nahmen oder Spieler wegen der Pandemie pausieren mussten.

Der ehemalige Captain des Lausanne HC geht die kommende Saison in Biel auf die Jagd nach Punkten. (Foto Wikimedia) Und dann kamen noch die Gerüchte aus der Kabine des Lausanne HC an die Öffentlichkeit, dass Mitbesitzer und Sportchef Petr Svoboda nach dem Moto wer zahlt befiehlt zu handeln gewohnt war. Einige Spieler erzählten unter vorgehaltener Hand, dass die Lohnreduktionen stets kurzfristig angesetzt wurden ohne dass die Spieler eine Möglichkeit bekamen, sich dazu zu äussern. Wenn dies nun nicht akzeptiert wurde, so landete man (mehrheitlich) auf der Tribüne. Trotz oder wegen(?) diesen Querelen belegten die Lausanner nach der Qualifikation den vierten Rang. Dies zeigt eigentlich die Qualität des Kaders auf. Was wäre wohl im Bereich des Möglichen, wenn Lausanne einmal eine Ruhige Saison bestreiten könnte`? Faceoffs/Spiel Bei den Face-Offs schaffte Lausanne eine Punktlandung des Liga Durchschnitts. Genau die Hälfte aller Anspiele gewannen die Löwen. Um an der Spitze mithalten zu können ganz klar zu wenig. PP Acht Prozentpunkte hinter Leader Fribourg, knapp 5% Punkte vor dem letztplatzierten und doch nur Rang 11 in Überzahl. Damit kann die Mannschaft nicht zufrieden sein. Es muss mehr von der blauen Linie kommen, die Aufstellung und Aufteilung der Rollen klarer sein. Oft beobachtete der Zuschauer, dass die Spieler zu lange die Scheibe am Stock hatten und nicht schnell zirkulieren liessen. Der sogenannte "Point-Man", der Mann an der blauen Linie welcher den Abschluss sucht, fehlte oder konnte nicht angespielt werden. Mehr Tempo, schnelleres zirkulieren lassen des Pucks und vor dem Tor konsequentes "Screening", also dem Torhüter die Sicht wegnehmend, fehlten im Powerplay der Lausanner. PK Der Lausanne HC nahm mit 4.10 Strafen pro Siel eine Strafe mehr als der Leader Bern. Lausanne war 341:03 Minuten in Unterzahl während Leader Bern in dieser Sparte auf 264:51 Minuten kam. Alles Klar? Mitnichten. Hätte sich zum Beispiel Mark Barberio etwas zurückgehalten und anstelle der drei fünf Minuten Strafen nur eine kassiert, wäre der Klub wieder im Mittelmass angelangt. Das Boxplay konnte standhalten. Dennoch müssen kleinere Anpassungen vorgenommen werden. Abgänge während und nach der Saison Florian Vuichard (T), Robin Grossmann (D), Vladimir Roth (D), Schneeberger Noah (D), Nathan Vouardoux (D), Benjamin Antonietti (F), Petr Cajka (F), Marco Cavalleri (F), Cory Conacher (F), Etienne Froidevaux (F), Brian Gibbons (F), Libor Hudacek (F), Charles Hudon (F), Mauro Jörg (F), Denis Malgin (F), Matthias Mémeteau (F), Rihards Puide (F), Lee Roberts (F), Neue Saison Goalies - Luca Boltshauser - Tobias Stephan - Viktor Östlund (Neu von Ambri) In der vergangenen Saison wechselten sich Tobias Stephan und Luca Boltshauser im Tor ab. In den Playoffs erhielt Tobias Stephan den Vorzug und Luca Boltshauser bestritt von den sechs Spielen nur noch eines. Der Vertrag von Tobias Stephan läuft Ende dieser Saison aus. Wird er nach dieser Saison die Torhüterausrüstung im Estrich versorgen oder wird er noch eine Saison weiterspielen? Sollte Tobias Stephan den Rücktritt vom Eishockey geben, dann wäre eine Nummer 1 Position frei. Oder hat Lausanne seine zukünftige Nummer 1 schon unter Vertrag? Luca Boltshauser könnte diese Rolle ausfüllen. Dazu müsste er von Trainer Jon Fust das Vertrauen bekommen und genügend Eiszeit in dieser Saison. In der Vergangenheit zeigte sich, dass dem nicht immer so war. Denken wir an Nicklas Schlegel oder an die Torhütersituation vor drei Jahren in Davos. Eine zukünftige Nummer eins muss langsam und behutsam Aufgebaut werden. Die Zeiten der "hüst und hott" Torhüter, welche gleich in die Fusstapfen seines Vorgängers stehen können sind vorbei. Mit Viktor Östlund haben die Lausanner eine gute Nummer 2b. Zur Zeit ist er an den HC Ajoie ausgeliehen. Er sollte aber jederzeit zurückkehren können. Wenn dies aber zu oft geschehen sollte, so würde er von der Liga gesperrt werden. (Keine B-Lizenz unter National League Klubs möglich). In jedem Fall brauchen die Lausanner noch einen weiteren Schlussmann um diese Situation im Notfall zu entschärfen. Verteidigung - Guillaume Anex - Mark Barberio (Kanada) - Lukas Frick - Joel Genazzi - Martin Gernat (Slovakei) (Neu von HC Ocelari Trinec) - Andrea Glauser (Neu von SCL Tigers) - Fabian Heldner - Justin Krueger - Aurélien Marti - Victor Oejdemark Kommt mit Martin Gernat der neue Blue Liner für das Powerplay? Der Slowake kann diese Position Problemlos einnehmen. Im allgemeinen liebt er die Offensive mehr als die Defensive. Dies zeigen seine Statistiken bei seinem letzten Klub, Ocelari Trinec. Mit 13 Toren und 28 Assists war er einer der besten Verteidiger der Liga. Wie schnell findet er sich im Schweizer Eishockey zurecht, um sich vorne in der Skorerliste zu etablieren? Kann Andrea Glauser Robin Grossmann ersetzen.? Keine leichte Aufgabe für den ehemaligen Fribourger Junior der letztes Jahr noch bei den SCL Tigers gespielt hatte. Glauser hätte diese Voraussetzungen eigentlich. Oft fehlt ihm aber noch der Zusatz Kick einen Gang zulegen zu wollen. Er hat sich in den letzten Jahren indes gut entwickelt und konnte sich in den Dunstkreis der Nationalmannschaft spielen. Er scheiterte immer im Finalen Cut um an die Weltmeisterschaften zu fahren. Vielleicht klappt es nach dieser Saison. Das Team von Patrick Fischer hat eine intensive Saison vor sich, welche als Höhepunkt die olympischen Spiele in Peking hat. Da spielt die Weltmeisterschaft in Finnland eine Untergeordnete Rolle. Gut möglich, dass er aus diesem Grund in Finnland dabei sein wird.

Andrea Glauser soll Robin Grossmann ersatzen. Kann der Ex-Tiger dies tun? (Foto: Hockeyhebdo.com) Wie so oft sagt die Papierform dem Lausanne HC eine stabile, offensiv ausgerichtet Verteidigung voraus. Zudem haben sie mit Justin Krueger einen Krieger in den eigenen Reihen. Auch wenn er im Spiel den einen oder anderen Fehler macht. Diese macht er mit seinem Körpereinsatz meistens wieder Wett. Mit Gernat kommt ein weitere offensive Verteidiger. Ist dies der eine zu viel oder gerade Richtig um die Blaue Linie zu stärken und im Powerplay erfolgreicher zu sein? Die Saison wird es zeigen. Sturm - Cody Almond - Fabio Arnold - Benjamin Baumgartner (Neu von Davos) - Christoph Bertschy - Tim Bozon - Floran Douay - Cory Emmerton (Kanada) - Jason Fuchs (Neu von Biel) - Josh Jooris - Ken Jäger - Ronalds Kenins - Robin Leone - Guillaume Maillard - Riat Damien (Neu von Hershey Bears/ AHL) - Jiri Sekac (Czech Rep) (Neu von Avangard Omsk) - Phil Varone (Kanada) (Neu von Barys Nur-Sultan/KHL) Die Lausanner konnten dem HC Davos einen wichtigen Spieler wegnehmen. Benjamin Baumgartner gilt als ausgezeichneter Stürmer und ähnelt in seiner Spielweise Dominic Zwerger vom HC Ambrì-Piotta. Der Österreicher mit Schweizer Lizenz spielt ebenfalls in der Nationalmannschaft. In den vergangenen beiden Jahren entwickelte er sich in Davos sehr gut. Mit 27 Punkten (2019/20 respektive 25 Punkte kam er definitiv in der National League an. In Lausanne wird er unter John Fust weiter gefordert. Unter Umständen könnte er in einem Jahr zu den New Jersey Devils wechseln. Von Ihnen wurde er vor einem Jahr in der sechsten Runde an der 161 Position ausgewählt. Mit dem ehemaligen Genfer Junior Damien Riat kehrt ein Prospect aus der NHL in die Schweiz zurück. Der in der Organisation der Washington Capitals spielende Stürmer kam letztes Jahr bei den Hershey Bears zu 33 Einsätzen in der AHL Riat wurde von den Capitals an Lausanne ausgeliehen um weitere Spielpraxis zu erhalten und nicht im stark besetzten Kader zu verhungern. Für Lausanne kann er zu einem wichtigen Spieler werden. Er könnte in diesem Jahr aus dem Dunstkreis der Nationalmannschaft aufsteigen um nach den olympischen Spielen in Peking an den Weltmeisterschaften in Finnland teilzunehmen. Erstaunen würde dies niemanden. Um dann in der nächsten Saison den Durchbruch in er NHL zu schaffen? Der nächste mögliche Nationalspieler im Kader der Lausanner ist Jason Fuchs. Er ist, wie Damien Riat, im erweiterten Kader der Nationalmannschaft und kam wie dieser zu einigen Internationalen Einsätzen. Mit seinen 25 Jahren ist er im richtigen Alter um den Sprung in die Nationalmannschaft zu schaffen. Er ist, wie sein Vater Régis Fuchs, ein brillanter Vorbereiter welcher den angeborenen Instinkt hat im richtigen Moment den tödlichen Pass auf seine Flügel zu spielen. Leider neigt er dazu, seine defensiven Aufgaben zu vernachlässigen. Dies kann sich indes noch ändern. Wenn die Entwicklung von Fuchs den gleichen Verlauf nimmt, so wird Jason in zwei Jahren ein Topstürmer sein. Es gilt ihm genügend Zeit zur Entwicklung zu geben.

Ist Jason Fuchs auf den Spuren seines Vaters Reégis? (Foto: planethockey.com) Mit dem Tschechen Jiri Sekac kommt ein erfahrener linker Flügel an den Genfersee. Sekac konnte sich in der NHL nicht durchsetzen und musste sein Abenteuer nach zwei Jahren abbrechen. In diesen zwei Jahren spielte er für die Canadiens, die Ducks, die Blackhawks und am Ende die Coyotes. In dieser Zeit spürte der Tscheche dass sein Spiel nicht der rauen NHL entsprach. Dies zeigte er eindrücklich in Russland. Sekac ist ein sehr erfahrener Stürmer. Zwei Jahre war er in der NHL und nun deren 8 in der KHL. In 345 Spielen verbuchte er 201 Punkte. Mit der Nationalmannschaft konnte er den Durchbruch aber nicht feiern. Mit einer Teilnahme an den olympischen Spielen in Südkorea 2018 und zwei Weltmeisterschaften blieb er mit fünf Punkten unter seinen Erwartungen. Nun will er sich über gute Leistungen in der Schweiz für das Nationalteam und die kommenden Spiele in Peking aufdrängen. Mit Phil Varone ist ein kluger Zwei-Wege Center zurück in der Schweiz. Vor sechs Jahren spielte er mit den Rochester Americans am Spengler Cup und kam dabei in drei Spielen zu vier Punkten. Dabei tingelte der 178 cm grosse Stürmer zwischen der NHL und der AHL hin und her, spielte für drei verschiedene Franchises und sechs verschiedene AHL Teams. Er liebt es mit viel Geschwindigkeit vor dem generischen Tor aufzutauchen. Um im nächsten Moment vor dem eigenen Tor auf zu räumen. Die Gegnerischen Verteidiger müssen sich warm anziehen. Die Frage ist, ob die Löwen vom Genfersee Etienne Froidevaux ersetzen können. 8 Jahre lang war Froidevaux in der Kabine bei Lausanne ein Wortführer und Captain. Könnte diese Rolle durch Damian Riat eingenommen werden? Gut möglich. Doch noch wichtiger ist die Frage ob in Lausanne nun wieder Ruhe einkehrt. Wohl kaum. Trainer - John Fust (Head Coach) - Robert Petrovicky (Assistenz Coach) - Cristobal Huet (Goalie Coach) Lausanne und John Fust gehören irgendwie zusammen. Er arbeitet die fünfte Saison bei Lausanne. Am 8. Februar 2018 ersetzte er Yves Sarault und blieb dann in verschiedenen Funktionen dem Team erhalten. Sei es als verantwortlicher für die Jugendabteilung, als Sportchef oder, wie zuletzt als Assistent Trainer. Nun übernimmt er das zweite Mal die Verantwortung an der Bande. Kann er mit Lausanne endlich in das Finale vorstossen? Oder wird er bereits vor der Nationalmannschaftspause abgelöst?

John Fust muss Ordnung und Vertrauen wiederherstellen in Lausanne. (Foto; Lausanne HC) In den letzten zwei Jahren war Robert Petrovicky zuständig für die slowakische Juniorennationalmannschaft. Nun kehrt der ehemalige Spieler von Ambrì, den ZSC Lions und den SCL Tigers wieder in die Schweiz zurück. Zusammen mit John Fust spielte er zwischen 2001 bis 2003 in der Leventina . Nach der ersten Saison in Ambrì konnte er seinen grössten Erfolg feiern. Den Weltmeistertitel mit der Slowakei. Nun führt die beiden die Wege wieder zusammen. . Der Weltmeistertitel blieb Cristobal Huet verwehrt. Dafür hat er den Stanley-Cup Sieger mit den Chicago Blackhawks gewonnen. Mit Lugano wurde er Schweizermeister und mit Grenoble gewann er zu Beginn seiner Karriere die französische Meisterschaft. Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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《抓狂美術館》克萊斯邦主演同志短片《Hotel Boy》開放線上免費觀賞（+ 克萊斯邦簡介）

《Hotel Boy》｜Michael Søndergaard｜2018｜丹麥

丹麥男演員 Claes Bang 在 2017 年因演出由《婚姻風暴》瑞典導演 Ruben Östlund 所執導的《抓狂美術館》而獲得了世界影壇高度的矚目。《抓狂美術館》是 Claes Bang 出道以來第一次飾演主角的跨國製作電影，而該作在坎城影展首映後不只獲得各界的高度評價，最後也擊敗如《BPM》與《當愛不見了》等拿下最高殊榮的「金棕櫚獎」。隨後《抓狂美術館》則被瑞典推派為國家代表出征奧斯卡外語片競賽，且順利的入圍最佳五強，可惜依然輸給了在柏林影展獲獎的智利電影《不思議女人》。而 Claes Bang 雖曾以高呼聲在坎城影展間敗給《你從未在此》（You Were Never Really Here）的波多黎各演員 Joaquin Phoenix，沒能拿下最佳男演員的殊榮，但依然在「歐洲電影獎」扳回一城，強力擊敗如《BPM》的阿根廷演員 Nahuel Pérez Biscayart 及《完美結局》的資深法國坎城影帝 Jean-Louis Trintignant 等人擒下「最佳男演員」大獎，也為他的演藝事業打上了一劑強心針。而接下來，即為各位介紹由 Claes Bang 主演，且近日開放於串流網站讓觀眾能夠免費收看的短片《Hotel Boy》。

▼ 《抓狂美術館》電影劇照

《Hotel Boy》為丹麥攝影師 Michael Søndergaard 初次執導的短片作品，並由丹麥電視劇《Thomas14》的編劇 Tomas Lagermand Lundme 執筆劇本。這位丹麥攝影師過往多意識形態的攝影作品，在他的���紹中也寫到「尋找力量的脆弱。並且總是在神秘世界的情慾流動中捉捕出某些非凡的事物。」而在他近期以半裸男性為主軸所製作的「A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH」系列攝影作品也可以看到他常將主題聚焦於「性」之上，而這也成為了他這部短片出道作品《Hotel Boy》的故事主軸。此外，值得一提的是《Hotel Boy》的攝影師由曾經參與拍攝《丹麥女孩》的攝影見習生 Jan Bastian Muñoz Marthinsen 負責掌鏡，他也曾為同年入圍奧斯卡最佳外語片的丹麥電影《A War》擔任同樣的職位。

《Hotel Boy》的劇情描述一位年輕的男子 Samir 跟著一位中年的男政客 Stefan 來到了酒店的房間內。Samir 愛上了 Stefan，並且已經準備好按照他們的計畫不顧一切的與 Stefan 離開現在的生活。然而，在一切看似風平浪靜的表面下卻藏著天大的誤解，此時的酒店外正有一位記者身在大雨中等待著明天的新聞頭條。而在短片當中即由 Claes Bang 飾演中年的政客 Stefan，年輕男子 Samir 則由曾以電視劇《Yes No Maybe》入圍丹麥電影電視最高榮譽「羅伯獎（Robert Awards）」的 Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt 飾演。

▼ 《Hotel Boy​》電影幕後側拍照

《Hotel Boy》早於 2016 年底便開始拍攝，在 2017 年初時曾釋出於當年夏天首映的訊息，但似乎沒能如期公開，一直到了今年的一月才正式於丹麥首都哥本哈根的展演場所「Musikcaféen」中放映。而在二月下旬時則陸續在丹麥的影音網站「Ekkofilm」及「C More」等網站中開放觀眾觀賞，不過可惜目前並沒有附屬英語等他國字幕，不會丹麥語的觀眾或許可以單純觀賞短片中炫麗的聲光效果與兩位男演員的演技。

《Hotel Boy》雖沒有在大型影展中首映，但如果能在網路上與影評間獲得好評的話，或許接下來仍有機會被國際間的各式影展選入放映，而我們也期待台灣每年於秋季開展的「酷兒影展」能夠選映。 

▼ 《Hotel Boy​》電影海報

最後再為各位稍微介紹這位丹麥男演員 Claes Bang。從「丹麥國家戲劇學校（National Theatre School of Denmark）」 的他早期活躍於劇場界，其中以主演瑞典作家 Jan Guillou 之小說名著《邪惡》（Evil）改編的同名舞台劇最為出名，曾演出超過 300 餘場，其中也包括在倫敦中演出的英語版本。而他至今以來雖也演出過大大小小的電視劇與電影，其中也包括丹麥知名女導演 Pernille Fischer Christensen 在柏林影展拿下評審團大獎的《肥皂》，但一直沒有特別突出的代表作，直到在《抓狂美術館》中成功演繹風度翩翩卻道貌岸然的美術館館長讓他獲得了電影事業上的高峰。

而 Claes Bang 去年在《抓狂美術館》於坎城影展放映的期間曾受到 Screen Daily 的專訪透露了不少關於電影幕後製作與拍攝的秘辛。其中他即提到他經過了三場加總長達七小時的緊張試鏡，雖成功的擠下多位一線的美英演員，但導演 Ruben Östlund 卻從沒告訴他真正選擇他的原因。此外，Claes Bang 也提到導演並不常誇獎他，且常常一顆鏡頭重複拍攝多達 50 次之多，包括劇中他在垃圾堆翻找物品以及與電視劇《使女的故事》艾美獎視后 Elisabeth Moss 爭奪保險套的場景。而面臨這種情況的 Claes Bang 在拍攝初期常常困惑導演是不是真的找對人來飾演這個角色，不過他最終依然獲得了導演的讚賞，並讓他理解到導演似乎以一種耗盡你所有力氣的方式來挖掘出最好的演出，就像是毒品一般，會讓你不斷的想重新嘗試，讓人驚豔且可以讓自己進入一種非常有機的模式當中。而除了前面提及的兩個場景之外，Claes Bang 也特別舉出《抓狂美術館》劇中一場「記者會」的場景讓他耗盡心神，他解釋導演找了大半多數真正的記者並指使他們以「最難的問題」去抨擊他，這讓他在拍攝結束後兩天中感到身心交瘁，認為比他想像中來得要棘手許多。

▼ 《抓狂美術館》電影幕後側拍照

最後，擅長多國語言的 Claes Bang 目前相當積極的發展他的演藝事業，在丹麥、德國、英國及美國都有經紀人為他接洽工作機會。而他在去年結束《抓狂美術館》在坎城影展的相關宣傳活動後則回歸劇場與電視圈內繼續演出新作品。此外，他也將跨足美國影壇參與演出由《暫時停止呼吸》導演 Fede Alvarez 執導的美國版《龍紋身的女孩》睽違多年的續集電影《The Girl in the Spider's Web》，據傳將飾演劇中的反派角色，而近期也可以看到他出席奧斯卡等活動帶著一頭金髮，似乎就是劇中角色的造型，另觀眾期待他能夠交出亮眼的表現。最後的最後，Claes Bang 則表示希望有一天他能夠與《愛‧慕》奧地利大師導演 Michael Haneke 以及《穆荷蘭大道》美國超現實主義大導 David Lynch 合作，我們也期盼著那一天的到來。

▼ Claes Bang 與 Elisabeth Moss 出席奧斯卡金像獎頒獎典禮

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Get Ready For Awards Season With FilmStruck by Marya E. Gates

Awards season is right around the corner and many of us are scrambling to catch up with the buzzed film released earlier in the year and have our calendars marked with the film release dates of those that have yet to light up the silver screen. I know when a filmmaker or actor takes me breath away, I always want to delve deeper into their filmography. With that, I give you 19+ films you can watch on FilmStruck by filmmakers and featuring actors who have buzz this awards season.

Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic DUNKIRK, which hit theaters this Summer, is a contender in many categories. Watch his first film FOLLOWING (’98), a low-budget neo-noir shot on 16mm to see how he got his start. 

Guillermo del Toro’s THE SHAPE OF WATER is looking to be a big awards favorite like his 2006 film PAN’S LABYRINTH, which won three Oscars. Watch his feature film debut CRONOS (’93) and pre-game both awards season and Christmas.

The films of Todd Haynes are no stranger to awards season from FAR FROM HEAVEN to I’M NOT THERE. to 2015′s darling CAROL. This year saw WONDERSTRUCK, an homage to both silent cinema and the 1970s American New Wave. His first feature film POISON (’91) also played with different styles to tell intercutting stories, though it may be a little less family friendly. 

Shot on an iPhone, Sean Baker’s second feature, 2015 comedy TANGERINE was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards. This year his film THE FLORIDA PROJECT has received wide critical acclaim since its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this summer. Co-directed and co-written with Shih-Ching Tsou, his film TAKE OUT was nominated for the John Cassavetes award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2009.

Speaking of THE FLORIDA PROJECT, star Willem Dafoe has received a lot of buzz for his performance as a kind manager of a sketchy motel. He also received acclaim for his performance in Lars von Trier’s ANTICHRIST (’09), which shows a very different side of the actor’s range. 

DADDY LONGLEGS from the Safdie Brothers won the John Cassavetes award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2010. Their film GOOD TIME has received wide acclaim both behind the camera and for lead actor Robert Pattinson.

This year James Franco takes on the role of cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau in THE DISASTER ARTIST.  Franco received an Oscar nomination for his performance in Danny Boyle’s biopic 127 HOURS (’10) and that same year played American poet Allen Ginsberg in HOWL. 

Earlier this Fall we lost venerable character actor Harry Dean Stanton. The titan of the silver screen only played a leading role twice in his decades-long career; This year in John Carroll Lynch’s LUCKY, for which he received wide acclaim, and in Wim Wenders’s Palme d'Or winning PARIS, TEXAS (’84).

Speaking of actors, Daniel Day-Lewis holds the record for most best actor wins at the Oscars, taking home the award for MY LEFT FOOT, THERE WILL BE BLOOD, and LINCOLN. This year he will be seen in Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE PHANTOM THREAD, after which he claims he will retire. Watch his early turn in James Ivory’s A ROOM WITH A VIEW (’85) and while you’re at it get ready for Luca Guadagnino’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, which was written and produced by Ivory.

Gary Oldman received his first Oscar nomination for TINKER TAILER SOLDIER SPY, but he’s been giving electrifying performances for decades. Before checking out his turn as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s DARKEST HOUR watch him as English playwright Joe Orton in Stephen Frears’s PRICK UP YOUR EARS (’87).

Actually, we’ve got an entire theme dedicated to Stephen Frears, whose new film VICTORIA & ABDUL stars Dame Judi Dench as Queen Victoria. Start with his second feature film, 1984 crime drama THE HIT. 

Then move on to Frears’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s THE GRIFTERS (’90), for which Annette Bening received her first of four Oscar nominations. This year Bening steps into the shoes of Gloria Grahame in Paul McGuigan’s biopic FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL. 

Also featured in our Frears theme is 1988′s DANGEROUS LIAISONS, for which Michelle Pfeiffer received her first of three Oscar nominations. She re-teamed with Frears in 2009 for an adaptation of Colette's CHÈRI. This year, her performance in Darren Aronofsky’s psychological horror film MOTHER! has received wide acclaim.

Martin McDonagh’s THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI won the People’s Choice Award earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, with its lead actress Frances McDormand receiving some of the best reviews of her career. See where she got her start: McDormand made her film debut in the Coen Brothers’s neo-noir BLOOD SIMPLE (’84).

Last year’s romantic comedy (you heard me) THE LOBSTER garnered a best screenplay nomination at the Oscars for writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos. Though his film THE KILLING OF A SCARED DEER seems to be even more polarizing, few can deny his unique world building. In 2009 his film DOGTOOTH was nominated for best foreign language film at the 83rd Oscars, representing his native country of Greece. 

Austria’s Michael Haneke has been nominated at the Oscars representing his country twice, for THE WHITE RIBBON (’09) and AMOUR (’12), the latter of which also received nominations in four additional categories: picture, director, actress, and screenplay. This year his film HAPPY END has been chosen as Austria’s official entry. You can watch THE WHITE RIBBON, AMOUR, and 7 other films by Haneke in our theme highlighting the director. 

Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s film THELMA is his country’s official submission for the Oscars this year. His films REPRISE (’06) and OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (’11) were also shortlisted to represent Norway, though they did not receive a nomination.

Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel’s ZAMA, her first film in almost a decade, has been selected as Argentina’s official submission for the Oscars this year. Her psychological film THE HEADLESS WOMAN (’08) was compared to the works of Alfred Hitchcock and Michelangelo Antonioni.

Lastly, Ruben Östlund made an international splash with his 2014 dramedy FORCE MAJEURE, which was Sweden’s entry to the Oscars that year, though it did not receive a nomination. After winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, his latest film THE SQUARE is Sweden’s official entry yet again. Get a feel for his style with INCIDENT AT THE BANK (’06), which consists of a botched bank robbery shot in one continuous 12-minute take featuring 96 expertly choreographed performers.