‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’: The love-it-or-loathe-it film of 2020

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticEXCLUSIVE: Add Sophia Loren to the growing list of those whose names we are likely to hear come this Oscar awards season.The legendary star and 1961 Best Actress Academy Award winner for Two Women, as well as the recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 1991 inscribed “for a career rich with memorable performances that has added permanent luster to our art form,” is returning to movies in The Life Ahead.

Jessie Buckley is having a very interesting year. Even if she started 2020 with a role in the disastrous “Dolittle,” her role in Charlie Kaufman‘s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” has been praised by critics, as is her role in the upcoming fourth season of “Fargo.” Kaufman’s film is being dissected by pretty much everyone who has watched the weird adaptation of the Iain Reid novel, and it seems not even Buckley is able to explain the film.

When the cast was announced for Olivia Wilde’s upcoming film, “Don’t Worry, Darling,” film fans were incredibly excited. Wilde was originally set to feature Florence Pugh, Chris Pine, Dakota Johnson, and Shia LaBeouf in the new thriller.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWhen “Cold War” cinematographer Łukasz Żal teamed with writer-director Charlie Kaufman on “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,” one of the earliest conversations they had was how to communicate memory visually. In Kaufman’s new film, based on the novel by Iain Reid, Jesse Plemons as Jake and Jessie Buckley (“Wild Rose”) as his meta-named Girlfriend go on a long road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm. Girlfriend questions everything.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

true story behind the Robert Zemeckis credit in i'm thinking of ending things: Kaufman never wrote a name in the script so the assistant editor used the end credit from CONTACT as a placeholder. When Kaufman saw it he burst out laughing, and asked Zemeckis’ permission to keep it.

SPOILERS AHEAD!Jessie plays an unnamed woman who reluctantly agrees to meet the parents of her new boyfriend Jake, despite not being too sure about the future of their romance.However, when she gets to their home things take a dark turn and she quickly plunges into an unsettling psychological spiral.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Netflix's haunting and unclassifiable art film from writer-director Charlie Kaufman, is not a movie that tells you exactly what it's about. It doesn't have a cause-and-effect plot, and the story moves according to dream logic.

Lately, it feels like every movie has us thinking, “What the f*ck did I just watch?” In this series, we will break down exactly what happened in all those wild, mind-bendy, and just plain strange flicks…in a way that’s much easier to understand than the actual film.Like I mentioned, the movie follows an unnamed girl (who is sometimes called "Lucy," but not all the time) when she goes to meet and have dinner with her new boyfriend Jake's parents.

I’m Thinking of Ending Things has a deceptively simple premise: Boy meets girl. Boy takes girl to meet parents.

There was an instant connection between Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. The Hollywood stars met while filming the second season of "Fargo," which aired in the second half of 2015.

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons are opening up about their romance.

Clayton Davis Netflix has given a platform to various voices in the Hollywood industry such as Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”), Dee Rees (“Mudbound”), and most recently Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”), in which filmmakers get to bring their distinct visions to life with the autonomy they wouldn’t be afforded at a traditional studio.

Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst opened up about the beginning of their relationship — and fans can’t stop swooning.The Friday Night Lights alum, 32, and Dunst, 38, got engaged in January 2017 after meeting while filming season 2 of Fargo, which aired in 2015.

“I try to imbue my work with a sort of interiority,” says Lucy (Jessie Buckley), the artists-physics student-girlfriend of Charlie Kaufman's “I'm Thinking of Ending Things.”The line could hardly describe Kaufman better, all the more so because it’s spoken by a character that may or may not be a figment of subconsciousness. No film writer has more regularly made his home inside the brain, treating the labyrinthine corridors of thought like sets to be peopled.

Charlie Kaufman is unlike any other creative force in the business. One only needs to look at his resume and you’ll see, both as a writer as well as a director, that he’s a singular talent.

Charlie Kaufman’s peculiarly inviting psychodrama “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” feels so enclosed that you could almost swear it was set inside a snow globe. With one gentle shake, gaudy conversations on vast existential notions shower its cozy, wintery mood one minute, only to somehow thin out and ephemerally disappear the next before you could luxuriate in their gloomy mystery.