TIFF Recap: Portrait of an Awards Race On Fire - Oscar Race Checkpoint 9/14/19
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MMO
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audio
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Awards
Movies
Oscars
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TV & Film
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TV & Film
Publication Date |
Sep 14, 2019
Episode Duration |
01:03:02
We recap the Toronto International Film Festival and analyze all of the critical reception scores & awards buzz before speculating on what it could all mean. There’s also new trailers for Waves, The Lighthouse, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire to breakdown & enjoy. RECAPPING THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: TIFF Cancels Their Awards Show - 1:01 TIFF BUZZ (REVIEWS AND SCORES OF): Hustlers - 3:30 Knives Out - 6:10 Jojo Rabbit - 7:56 The Goldfinch - 10:15 A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - 11:40 Blackbird - 14:14 Dolemite is My Name - 15:05 Just Mercy - 17:21 Harriet - 18:59 The Laundromat - 21:40 Joker - 23:13 Honeyboy - 28:02 The Aeronauts - 29:09 Motherless Brooklyn/Lucy in the Sky - 30:23 The Report - 32:45 Marriage Story/Judy - 33:45 Parasite - 35:16 Ford v Ferrari - 36:38 Portrait of a Lady on Fire - 38:19 TIFF ACQUISITION NEWS: Bleeker Street Acquires Military Wives - 39:30 Amazon Buys Sound of Metal - 40:04 IFC Buys True History of the Kelly Gang - 41:22 OTHER FF NEWS: Kristen Stewart to Receive Golden Eye Award from Zurich FF - 43:18 Final San Sebastian FF Preview - 44:14 OSCAR TRAILER REVIEW: Waves Trailer 1 - 45:48 The Lighthouse Trailer 2- 47:59 Portrait of a Lady on Fire Trailer 2 - 50:59 OTHER AWARDS NEWS: Ava DuVernay + Sam Rockwell To Be Honored @ Gothams - 53:47 Matthew Modine Loses It - 56:22 David Copperfield Will Be Released Next Year - 58:00 Your Homework/PLEASE LEAVE US 5*’S - 59:58 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 1:01:19 The Oscar Race needs a Checkpoint after all of the buzz, reviews, acquisitions, and news stories coming out of TIFF. So we break it all down with shoutouts to many of our favorite awards season & film world pundits like Scott Feinberg, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Clayton Davis, Chris Evangelista, Matt Neglia & more. We thank them for all of the great work covering the festival these past two weeks, and they gave us so much to digest. The opening segment goes film by Oscar contending film, we give you an overview of all the critical reception scores, highlight some of the overarching opinions, and speculate on what it could all mean for the upcoming Awards Season. There’s also news about the TIFF Awards that we’ll be covering on the next MMO Weekly episode, and a bunch of acquisitions to report. The San Sebastian and New York Film Festivals are next, and we’ll continue to cover those on upcoming Checkpoints here, and we include some final preview info on those great events. Do go back to previous episodes of ORC (Oscar Race Checkpoint) to hear our more thorough overviews of those film fests. Finally, we discuss the new trailers for Waves, The Lighthouse, and Portrait of a Lady on Fire before wrapping up a few more awards season news stories to end the show. If you like this weekly look at the Oscar Race, do please leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts. All you need to do is click on our show on iTunes, scroll down a few seconds, and click on that 5th star. It’s an immense help, and we thank you for your support. Stay tuned as we’ll continue our Oscar Sprint Profile movie review episodes. That playlist is growing, as it does each year, and we just covered Luce & Downton Abbey with Hustlers, Ad Astra, and Judy on the schedule. What do you make of all the buzz coming out of TIFF? Tell us! We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!

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