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Now that I have finally watched both movies I think I liked KOTFM better overall. Not just for Leo. Franz Rogowski (german actor) beating his strong american competition at NYFC awards is quite surprising. #me putting PASSAGES asap on my watchlist Best Picture Race: ‘Oppenheimer’ or ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’? With today’s Best Film win at NYFCC, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is now very much in the race to win the Oscar for Best Picture. The only film currently standing in its way also happens to be the frontrunner, and that’s “Oppenheimer.” How great is it to potentially have an awards season with Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan going head to head. Their films deserve all the love that they’re going to be getting these next few weeks. ”Killers of the Flower Moon” is richly atmospheric and character-driven to a tee. What ‘Killers’ does is hold and fascinate you in a step-by-step fashion, and it radiates profound moral grief and heartache. It’s three hours of scheming and murder, edited via multiple different genres — romance, western, whodunit. The way Scorsese tells the story is also rather unconventional. You’re never sure where the story is headed or why, nothing is obvious. What ‘Killers’ amounts to is a real and lived in world and it’s absolute fire-in-your-belly cinema. It’s also very measured and matter of fact in its clinical execution. It’s one of Scorsese’s steadiest, and most methodical depictions of morally toxic individuals. “Oppenheimer” is Nolan’s boldest, most dense film and one that comes into clearer focus on subsequent viewings. I’ve seen in three times and it only gets better as a film. Even at three hours, the amount of story that Nolan packs into “Oppenheimer” cannot enough convey everything that he has to say. “Oppenheimer” closely resembles “Dunkirk” in the way it manages to weave countless storyline structures into this magnificent whole. This is a messy, sprawling, operatic statement from Nolan. It’s also technically masterful. Incredibly exciting to behold, a mosaic of intellectual cinema drenched onto the screen. There’s so much going on, in almost every frame, that it’d be foolish for one to believe that he or she can fully grasp it in just a single viewing. I can’t wait to see it again. Here’s your chance to chime in. I gather many of you have seen both films, hopefully on the big screen — which one deserves it more? Both are 3+ hour epics with some of the finest filmmaking of the year, but what’s been the bigger achievement? I’d have to give a slight edge to Scorsese’s film. Don’t get me wrong, both ‘Killers’ and “Oppenheimer” have flaws to them, but their ambitions and the risks they take are soaringly exciting. Forget about “Barbie,” both of these films marked the year in American cinema.

Not Leo but his new bestie 🥰

Leo with fans https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0RngHzM2o5/

From Cannes

Leo being supportive of Lily again

Even the girls of Lainey seeing it LOL Another big winner is Lily Gladstone, who won Outstanding Lead Performance for The Unknown Country. Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t nominated, but as he has done all year, he showed up for Lily, and this is EASILY the most I have liked Leo outside of his performances. It’s almost endearing how willing he is to be there for Lily’s sake, if not his own. Source Although I wonder if they realize they are as dickish as Cal putting Jack/Leo down with the "almost" line.

I guess I have to watch PAST LIVES and MAY DECEMBER next. Robert De Niro Says Part Of His Speech Excised At Gotham Awards Then Lets It Rip For ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Tribute – Watch LOL ‘Past Lives’ and Lily Gladstone Win Big at the Gotham Awards Gotham Awards: “Past Lives” is Unlikely Choice for Best Feature, Best Performance Goes to Lily Gladstone

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Available on VOD January 25, 2024 A VOD release date has been set for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The film will be made available digitally on January 25, 2024. That’s just two days after the Oscar nominations get announced — Paramount/Apple clearly trying to bank on the hype. It’s also almost four months after its October 20th theatrical release.

It's probably for the best. Not every successful movie has to be turned into a freaking franchise. Margot Robbie Says A ‘Barbie’ Sequel Might Not Happen Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” grossed $1.4 billion worldwide which then led to Mattel immediately greenlighting 14 films, all now in various stages of development, this did not include an inevitable sequel for “Barbie.” Margot Robbie’s recent comments, expressing doubts about a “Barbie” sequel should not be taken seriously. Here she is speaking to the AP: I think we put everything we had into this one. We didn’t build it to be a trilogy or something. Greta [Gerwig] put everything into this movie, so I can’t imagine what would be next.

‘Napoleon’ Opens Big in France, Despite Nasty Reviews Vive la France 😄

D la Repubblica Nov 2023 for Chanel by Davit Giorgadze Source

A bit more infos about Bill Smith: https://www.shortform.com/blog/bill-smith-osage/ It doesn't sound to me like he was part of the plot (not saying he didn't marry for money but probably didn't kill for it?). Actually he found the death of his wife suspicious (and all the ones who followed) and started his own investigation. When he came to close to the truth he and his 2nd wife were killed. @LuckyGirl you have to understand how diabetes and insulin work (and also the poison of course) when you want to kill a patient (slowly). Honestly I don't think Ernest was smart enough for such a plan or just the idea of it. So when he first injected Mollie the insulin I think he wanted her to do better - at least in the movie.

Leonardo Dicaprio and Vittoria Ceretti sight-seeing with family in London with Nomandie more pics: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12787551/Leonardo-DiCaprio-low-key-girlfriend-Vittoria-Ceretti.html

Personally from someone who worked in a medical area I think like they mentioned insulin was highly new on the market back then (and highly expensive so no one could afford it) what mean no one really had experience (no doctors, no patients). When you suffer under diabetes it's not just "here you have some insulin, inject it and then you get immediately better". First of all there are different types of diabetes and different types of insulin. Then every patient need different dosis to different times. It's even important in which part of your body you inject it. Of course your personal every day life standard is a factor too. What you eat and drink (especially how much sugar and from what they said in the movie even if it sounded racist when they lectured Mollie "you have to stop to eat like a white chick" their point was true from a medical view), how much you exercise, how much you weight, your body index etc etc So it's very realistic you have to try for a while before a patient is starting to get better. Even today. To your other question: I think they were all killed by her white money hungry husbands. One of the only few decent dudes was the one whose house they blew up (he was white right?). If I remember correctly it was the same one which didn't let Ernest and his uncle in his house during one funeral what was kinda hilarious when Ernest was banned on the veranda and he was like wtf dude? lol

Cutting down a movie to please the crowd (who's still not pleased most audience reactions of Napoleon are very medicore lol) is mostly a bad idea and not helping a movie/storyline/character development at all. I think I only liked once a theatrical cut better than the director's cut. Even the unofficial extended cut of TITANIC is much better than Camerons offical version he clings on since forever while making one stupid cut after another of those god awful boring Avatar movies.

Tomorrow I'll finally watch OPPENHEIMER. I'm a bit curious I have to admit 😄 Oscars — Best Actor Has Four Locks: Murphy, Cooper, DiCaprio and Giamatti I’ve seen most of the major acting performances in contention for the Best Actor Oscar —save for “Maestro,” which I’ll be watching next Tuesday. It does look as though I’ll be pulling for either Cillian Murphy or Leonardo DiCaprio to win the Oscar. Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) and Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”) also deserve to be up there. I have 11 Best Actor contenders on my predictions list. I can’t see anyone else being added. They are as follows: Cillian Murphy — “Oppenheimer” Bradley Cooper — “Maestro” Leonardo DiCaprio — “Killers of the Flower Moon” Paul Giamatti — “The Holdovers” Colman Domingo — “Rustin” Jeffrey Wright — “American Fiction” Jamie Foxx — “The Burial” Barry Keoghan — “Saltburn” Joaquin Phoenix — “Napoleon” Andrew Scott — “All of Us Strangers” Zac Efron — “The Iron Claw” If there’s a dark horse that isn’t part of this final 11, and that could sneak up into contention in the coming weeks, it’s Teo Yoo (“Past Lives”) who I thought gave the best performance in Celine Song’s highly praised film. It’ll be hard to beat Cillian Murphy. It’s such a tour-de-force performance and he’s practically in every scene of the 3-hour “Oppenheimer.” His Robert J. Oppenheimer also turned into an unlikely meme generator this past summer with the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon. I don’t know many people who didn’t like his performance. DiCaprio’s work in ‘Killers’ isn’t being talked about enough because, well, he doesn’t have much of a narrative. He already has an Oscar. If quality is actually a factor in winning awards, then DiCaprio’s rich work in ‘Killers’ would have a major shot at Oscar gold. It’s one of his best performances. As I mentioned, I haven’t seen Bradley Cooper in “Maestro,” but those that have believe he has a clear shot at winning for his “transformative” performance as Leonard Bernstein. The film hasn’t been getting all-out raves from critics. It has a 76 on Metacritic and sits at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. Good, but not great. However, there are those that completely abide by “Maestro”, passionate supporters, which gets me very excited to finally catch it next week. Paul Giamatti is wonderful as the curmudgeon professor in “The Holdovers.” He wasn’t even nominated, and should have won, for 2004’s “Sideways.” I can’t see him getting snubbed again for this performance. He will also likely not win, but crazier upsets have occured in the past. I believe we have four locks in this category — Murphy, Cooper, DiCaprio and Giamatti. The #5 slot could be a fight between Domingo and Wright. However, watch out for Zac Efron (“The Iron Claw”) as his film as barely been seen and I’m hearing good things about his performance.

^The original post I guess.

I agree. The DC of KoH was an entirely different movie. I think Napoleon + Josephine being an "odd couple" is the heart of the movie 😄 4 1/2 hours - but people think Killers of the Flower Moon or Avatar and The Irishmen were long? lol

So NAPOLEON numbers are as medicore as KOTFM. Even if apple pretends it's not about money I really don't believe for a second they don't care. In this industry everything is about money and two massive bombs in a row is not a promising look for future projects. The only but important difference is no one seem to really like NAPOLEON. Medicore critics, medicore audience score what makes it even worse for apple because now everyone is aware they can't sell a good nor a bad movie and for sure can't win any prestige with that little french weirdo lol ‘Napoleon’ Wins Tuesday Previews With $3M in Grosses; ‘Wish’ Nabs $2.3M Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is now in theaters. It did decently well last night in Tuesday previews with a $3 million showing. The film cost Apple $200 million to produce. It’s now looking at a 5-day total of around $30 million. I know I’ve used the excuse that Apple couldn’t care less about not making money on “Napoleon” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and it does look as though both films won’t be recouping their budget and marketing cost, but it’s not really a “win” for them either. At least, ‘Killers’ will get plenty of Oscar nominations, that’s the most positive way of looking at it. “Napoleon” likely won’t.

Another upcoming KOTFM q&a I know @akatosh already posted some award news but can't remember if it was this one.

He's really great in GLADIATOR but same for Russell Crowe. Period cinema at the finest. I don't think Scotts intention of NAPOLEON is historical accuracy but more how gossip and rumors shape that history.

Not really Leo related but since it's oscar topic.... also I'm really excited for MAESTRO