Re: Categories One-by-One: Cinematography
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2019 12:06 pm
Wish I could comment on this with an opinion, but Never Look Away doesn't become accessible to me until next Friday (and even then, it's a drive to Nashville). I know people are giving Sony Classics credit for the way they've handled Close and The Wife this year, but too often they do crap like this, where they keep an Oscar contender out of reach for viewers, and then the viewers have moved on by the time the film comes to their city. Same thing happened with Call Me By Your Name last year: They kept it in about ten cities for two months, and then went wide around nominations time, and the movie sank because there was so much else to see at the time.
Cold War would have my vote hands-down, although I'm glad A Star Is Born got this nomination--I think its cinematography is a huge thing in its favor. The Favourite is a nomination I would like more if it didn't have all of those wide-angle shots. So much of it looked great (mostly shot with natural light, I believe), but those shots were a hell of a distraction. And Roma can't be faulted on a technical level, but so much of my issue with the film comes down to the too-studied and too-perfect cinematography. I agree that it will probably win the Oscar.
My longlist for the year (with a dozen or so films left to see):
A Ciambra
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Cold War
First Man
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Lean on Pete
Leave No Trace
The Mule
The Rider
A Star is Born
The Third Murder
Wildlife
Cold War would have my vote hands-down, although I'm glad A Star Is Born got this nomination--I think its cinematography is a huge thing in its favor. The Favourite is a nomination I would like more if it didn't have all of those wide-angle shots. So much of it looked great (mostly shot with natural light, I believe), but those shots were a hell of a distraction. And Roma can't be faulted on a technical level, but so much of my issue with the film comes down to the too-studied and too-perfect cinematography. I agree that it will probably win the Oscar.
My longlist for the year (with a dozen or so films left to see):
A Ciambra
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Cold War
First Man
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Lean on Pete
Leave No Trace
The Mule
The Rider
A Star is Born
The Third Murder
Wildlife