James Cameron told The New York Times this weekend that his first trip to Pandora was not entirely edenic.
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EXCLUSIVE: When he comes to a film festival with his latest film, Alejandro G. Iñárritu cuts a supremely confident swath. As he premiered his film Bardo in Venice, the writer/director seemed a bit more vulnerable. This is understandable because the film is a mix of dream and reality, a deep dive into his own life tragedies, the identity conflict facing an immigrant who becomes wildly successful in their adopted country, and the inevitable need to face one’s mortality.
Pair that with the filmmaker’s wild visual imagination, and you’ve got an auteur tour de force. Wait until you see how Iñárritu visualizes the loss and grieving of an infant, for example. Here is a brief conversation with the filmmaker on why this film, his first for Netflix, was a harder undertaking than The Revenant, which put Iñárritu and his star Leonardo DiCaprio on long sabbaticals just to recover from that grueling, frozen undertaking. And which won Iñárritu his second consecutive Best Director Oscar, and DiCaprio his first for Best Actor.
Deadline: I recall you attempted to return to filmmaking after The Revenant with a big-ticket ambitious project that dealt with global warming, possibly with Leonardo DiCaprio. I recall the budget for what you wanted to do getting in the way. Did that prompt a fallback to Bardo?
Iñárritu: It is a very ambitious project, and was complicated financially. It was a film that was completely different from this. When that one came down, I felt the clock ticking, the need to look inside, instead of looking outward. Maybe it has to do with the fact I am turning 60 next year. When you are closer to death, you start thinking that maybe it is worth exploring the journey [you’ve been on]. It’s very elusive, very labyrinthian,
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upcoming John Wick: Chapter 4, but he’s also had a recent resurgence of roles that defined him early in his career. Among these are his role as Neo in The Matrix and his iconic role as Ted in the Bill and Ted films. Anytime I think about Ted or his merry compatriot Bill I think about them engaging in a round of air guitar, which is something Reeves also does in his personal life.
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his surprise, his influencer girlfriend Clementine (Madelaine Petsch, “Riverdale”) is less than impressed by the locale. So, naturally, she storms out, too. (The restaurant’s proudly prominent product placement throughout makes for a presumably unintentional but highly entertaining contrast when the characters are forced to get their coffee at “Starcups.”)A miserable and drunken Griffin soon winds up at Margot’s place, because — wait for it — they both live at 15 Maple Drive.
The rules of survival in Hollywood have always fascinated me. “Consistency is the key – always present yourself to studios as a total bitch,” Bette Davis once confided. “Never delude yourself into thinking that a star can become a loyal personal friend,” advised Billy Wilder. “Since studios always lie, a producer’s mandate is to come up with bigger lies,” said David O. Selznick.
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If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s not the only one, naturally: comparisons to “8 ½” are par for the course whenever a filmmaker comes out with a notionally autobiographical work, as with Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” in 2019.
There’s no shortage of star power on the Lido this year. The 79th Venice Film Festival boasts such boldface names as Timothée Chalamet — along with his fellow the Bones And All castmates and filmmaker Luca Guadagnino — Cate Blanchett, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Adam Driver and dozens more.
If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s not the only one, naturally: comparisons to “8 ½” are par for the course whenever a filmmaker comes out with a notionally autobiographical work, as with Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” in 2019.
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Clayton Davis It’s late summer, so it’s time to start talking about awards season. Cannes issued the first slate of contenders in the international feature Oscar race, and now Venice and Toronto are ready to screen another batch, which begs the question: What looks like the breakout pics from the festival circuit that should contend for kudos? More than 90 countries have been submitting films for Academy consideration for the past few years, in order to walk away with the coveted best international feature Oscar. Coming off the Cinderella story of Japan’s “Drive My Car” from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, which was also nominated for three other Oscars including best picture, it became the tenth film to be recognized for both best picture and international feature.