With savvy promotion–and some luck–Hüller should earn two Oscar nominations this year, lead for Anatomy of a Fall, and supporting actress for Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar frontrunner, Zone of Interest
Film Theory: Beginnings of Movies–Brilliant Opening Scenes (“Trainspotting”)
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Film Theory: Beginnings of Movies–Brilliant Opening Scenes (“The Player,” “Trainspotting”)
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Film Theory: Beginnings of Movies–Best Openings–“The Player” (1992), Directed by Altman
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Director Altman has delivered many fantastic openings, but “The Player” tops them all, with its intriguing and technically brilliant beginning.
Oscars 2024: “I Coulda Be a Contender”–Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
From a screenplay by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller who both also produce, and David Callaham, the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) is set in a shared multiverse of alternate universes called the Spider-Verse.