Turbulent Brilliance - 10/27/23 - CALL-IN - Tár and '23 Supporting Actress
Added 2023-10-27 07:00:05 +0000 UTCSURPRISE! It's our first call-in mini episode and we'll be (for now) bringing you these at random! Topics include (from our very first caller!) our thoughts on Tár and assessing the current state of the Best Supporting Actress race. And don't forget, you can send Chris and Joe your questions at 614-683-8944!
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Not alone... I actually wish I had seen it in the theater first and not on a screener. I think I might have had a different take. I do think that Lydia Tar is meant to be a caricature of herself, a creation by a woman who wanted to escape her lowbrow origins. Whether or not we are meant to make fun of her, I don't know... I'm still not sold that the film is 100% satire.
Michelle Brosius
2023-11-08 16:29:45 +0000 UTCThis seems like the place for me to air my confusions about TAR. When I walked out of the theater, I thought it was a 4/5, hilarious satire, without a single serious moment in it (and the moments that are forcibly serious without comedic bent are what held it back for me). I believe I saw it opening weekend, because me and a friend were mortified when we discovered all the serious reviews, and lauding towards it, being some sort of artistic triumph, and "about things", and not a single review mentioning comedy. When I tried to take it at face value, I dropped it to a 2/5, and have been pretty damn anti-Tar. Now, people seem to be on board with it's actually a comedic masterpiece (not saying there weren't day one people, I just maybe saw it before those others trickled in), and my feelings are torn, because I've spent so much negative energy towards Tar, it feels hard to turn back. I think if we are supposed to take her seriously as an artist at all, the movie is an abject failure, because she clearly is a talentless idiot (and I don't see a case for otherwise in the film itself), but, if we are only supposed to be making fun of her... I may be swayed to come back around. I struggle disliking it, but feel firm in it not deserving the overly lavish praise it's received (it's a bit of a try-hard Kubrick riff); though I'll always concede the final punchline is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a film. Am I alone in this? Am I being a stubborn idiot?
Frank Ritz
2023-11-08 15:52:49 +0000 UTCI saw THE IRON CLAW back in April at a test screening (but it looked basically done). IMO Maura Tierney doesn’t have enough to do for an awards push. Only the male performers (particularly Jeremy Allen White) will get consideration once people see it. As for what I thought about it…I’m looking forward to seeing it a second time.
George Wishart
2023-10-28 03:11:53 +0000 UTC
