Post by sgev1977 on Sept 28, 2021 0:39:55 GMT
People’s Choice Award: 2nd Runner Up - The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion was the second woman ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1994 for her film The Piano (1993). It’s a bit surprising that her career has fallen off since then. Despite making several critically acclaimed movies and TV series in the past 20 or so years, many see The Power of the Dog as a major comeback for Campion for its potential to be a silver screen classic.
For her newest film, Campion dives into the western genre with an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 book of the same name.
With a cast stock-full of talent who have never quite gotten the praise they deserve, The Power of the Dog seems like a comeback film in more ways than one. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst are both already getting acting award buzz, with Dunst finally seeming to achieve the honor of being perceived as a serious actor after her work in Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia (2011).
Plus, composer Jonny Greenwood, of Radiohead fame, has been a popular movie musician to follow since the positive reception of his scores for Paul Thomas Anderson films There Will Be Blood (2007) and Phantom Thread (2017). If the film misses its audience mark, it may still find luck in the technical awards.
The film debuted at Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion, but like Belfast, its performance at TIFF should be a service to it in finding a greater North American fanbase. The Power of the Dog will be released to a limited audience in mid-November, and streaming on Netflix by Dec. 1.
Jane Campion was the second woman ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director in 1994 for her film The Piano (1993). It’s a bit surprising that her career has fallen off since then. Despite making several critically acclaimed movies and TV series in the past 20 or so years, many see The Power of the Dog as a major comeback for Campion for its potential to be a silver screen classic.
For her newest film, Campion dives into the western genre with an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s 1967 book of the same name.
With a cast stock-full of talent who have never quite gotten the praise they deserve, The Power of the Dog seems like a comeback film in more ways than one. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst are both already getting acting award buzz, with Dunst finally seeming to achieve the honor of being perceived as a serious actor after her work in Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia (2011).
Plus, composer Jonny Greenwood, of Radiohead fame, has been a popular movie musician to follow since the positive reception of his scores for Paul Thomas Anderson films There Will Be Blood (2007) and Phantom Thread (2017). If the film misses its audience mark, it may still find luck in the technical awards.
The film debuted at Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion, but like Belfast, its performance at TIFF should be a service to it in finding a greater North American fanbase. The Power of the Dog will be released to a limited audience in mid-November, and streaming on Netflix by Dec. 1.
www.thepostathens.com/article/2021/09/tiff-award-winners-2021-titane-belfast
I was thinking that what he says about Dunst is the real issue with her fans. Don’t take me wrong! She is a great actress but she, until recently, wasn’t never really taken seriously as an actress. She was considered just an ex-child actor and you still can see some of that nastiness in some reviewers commenting about her body. I have seen more than one and I remember one particular pretty nasty from years ago when she was still very young but not a child. Even when she won best actress at Cannes and showed she was a major talent, I remember someone saying that only has beens in Hollywood do films with Lars Von Trier, which it’s insane because people like John Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg were in that film, too. And he had already worked with Catherine Deneuve, Laura Bacall and Nicole Kidman but they were thinking in people like Kiefer Sutherland, Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman and Dunst who aren’t has-beens but were major stars a decade or two before. In certain way, it was one of those puritanical attacks American press loves so much. Guilt by association. Von Trier is a nasty man. It’s normal that Europeans like nasty men because they are all amorals but the only reason an American actor would work with him is because he or she is a has-been. Dunst was actually very uncomfortable in that infamous press conference at Cannes but still she was there! She was one of his actors. Actually, she seemed very apologetic in one recent interview with IndieWire/Playlist. She said she practically doesn’t have any contact with him and that she rejected another of his films.
Obviously, things have changed with the time and more critics respect her but some of the prejudice are still there as some exaggerated overprotection by a few of her fans.