They should go back to the old rule where you had to watch every of the nominated movies to vote. Otherwise it's unfair. Everybody have seen Emilia Perez but not all the other films. So of course Emilia Perez will win.
The only documentaries here I've seen are No Other Land, Black Box Diaries and Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, and they are all great. Black Box Diaries is very personal, since it's about a woman fighting for years to get justice after being raped by a powerful man, and it has a lot of footage taken by phones, it's similar in that way to No Other Land, very raw and real. Soundtrack is a completely different type of documentary - but the thing about is that it's incredibly well edited and entertaining and exciting, it comes at you with everything and you may have trouble picking up everything that's mentioned and seen, but you're never going to be bored during those two and a half hour. I'm not afraid for No Other Land, because I don't think most creatives in Hollywood are aligned politically with the studio bosses who make decisions such as firing people who post about Palestine. People are afraid, but voting is anonymous. Last year's reactions to Jonathan Glazer's speech were very telling - loud cheers and applause by some, silence by others, no boos - and than an orchestrated campaign of "outrage", where they clearly had the support of the big media outlets, but struggled to find prominent creatives to sign that letter.
They should go back to the old rule where you had to watch every of the nominated movies to vote. Otherwise it's unfair. Everybody have seen Emilia Perez but not all the other films. So of course Emilia Perez will win.
The only documentaries here I've seen are No Other Land, Black Box Diaries and Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, and they are all great.
Black Box Diaries is very personal, since it's about a woman fighting for years to get justice after being raped by a powerful man, and it has a lot of footage taken by phones, it's similar in that way to No Other Land, very raw and real.
Soundtrack is a completely different type of documentary - but the thing about is that it's incredibly well edited and entertaining and exciting, it comes at you with everything and you may have trouble picking up everything that's mentioned and seen, but you're never going to be bored during those two and a half hour.
I'm not afraid for No Other Land, because I don't think most creatives in Hollywood are aligned politically with the studio bosses who make decisions such as firing people who post about Palestine. People are afraid, but voting is anonymous. Last year's reactions to Jonathan Glazer's speech were very telling - loud cheers and applause by some, silence by others, no boos - and than an orchestrated campaign of "outrage", where they clearly had the support of the big media outlets, but struggled to find prominent creatives to sign that letter.
I like your take on will and harper, it didn’t even get nominated in cinema eye and ida.