Patiently waiting for a magazine or website to show some courage and make some inspired and original picks. It’s probably going to be The Quietus…

The Twilight Saga.

Also many others of your picks were great, but I was particularly pleased to see these three here!

Sticking to one great album per year (of course it’s just a suggestion, more than an objective attempt):

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West
Ravedeath, 1972, Tim Hecker
Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Loud City Song, Julia Holter
Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial…[Read more]

Internally debating whether Ghosteen is even better than Skeleton Tree. Anyway, this “old white dude” named Nick Drake is confirming himself as one of the most essential artists of our time, decade after decade.

Beside the fact that I dislike many choices from these lists, which is perfectly debatable, I really don’t understand why publish this kind of ranking now. There are still three months left and many great albums will be undeservedly left out.

Italy goes with The Traitor, by Marco Bellocchio!

The good thing is that there’s such an amount of great performances here that it will be difficult to end up with bad nominations. At worst, we’ll have okay nominees.
Since mafro987 and Reis (two of my favourite posters here, not by chance!) already mentioned Eva Green and Gillian Anderson (for Hannibal), if you watched You’re the Worst and…[Read more]

I don’t think these awards are flawless by any mean (see the expected and sad GoT triumph in drama), but overall I think we did better than in other editions: I find Fleabag to be overrated, but still a good show; Comer is a lot of fun; two wins for The Good Place are nice; I also liked Clarkson win in Limited Supporting Actress (I don’t…[Read more]

Out of curiosity, it’s not sure that twenty-one pilots will be submitted in Alternative Album, is it? I really hope they won’t contaminate the category.

Italy has revealed the shortlist: The Traitor, Martin Eden, Piranhas (La paranza dei bambini), Romulus & Remus: The First King and The Vice of Hope. I think it’s between The Traitor and Martin Eden, with the former being more likely than the latter. Unless Piranhas surprises.

That would have been a great list as well 🙂 thanks, nice as always!

Three performances I love:

Isabelle Huppert, Things to Come
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Kim Min-hee, On the Beach at Night Alone

Three performances I love:

Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Luca Marinelli, Non Essere Cattivo

I so hope you’re right! What a dream would that be.

I tend to agree with Thatcher and FairWeatherAffair; I do not like this new tendency of Venice to be more and more mainstream, at any cost; to become what, a good Oscar predictor?

As for Polanski, he’s obviously a great director and this kind of issue deserve a better discussion than the usual “he’s a monster” or “separate the man from the…[Read more]

Delighted for Luca Marinelli and his Best Actor prize.

Hopefully Slipknot will be snubbed, although I doubt that. I don’t understand the acclaim for their new album, which is as mediocre as they are. Haven’t heard Fear Inoculum yet, but I bet it’s infinitely superior.

I think The Traitor is the likeliest. Otherwise, maybe La paranza dei bambini. It hasn’t been a particularly inspired year for Italian movies so far (how weird!).

Thanks! Have you seen it? I guess Italy might go with The Traitor by Bellocchio though.