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The day Tár was first offered to viewers back at the Venice Film Festival is when its award session fate was sealed. Opening to an exuberant 6-minute-long standing ovation, the movie brought…
Phoenix (2014) opens at night, and we follow a car carrying two Jewish women past a military checkpoint into Berlin, Germany. It is sometime after World War II has ended, and we…
Every year, it is not possible to accommodate every deserving performances in the Oscar categories of Acting. A large number of excellent performances by Film Actors and Actresses have been ignored, overlooked, snubbed, or passed over every year, and this year is no difference. Here are the 15 Great Performances of 2015 not nominated at the 88th Academy Awards that are worth mentioning, and treat to watch on the screen.
Phoenix is not a plot driven film but it is driven by the estranged emotions that are mired by deception and yearn for true love. It is very intriguing and has subtle sense of suspense on how both the characters unfold. Their guilt, their redemption. “Phoenix” ends with a haunting performance of “Speak Low,” the Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash by Nelly that will chill us to the bone. Phoenix may seems like ‘A Separation’ in its structure of emotional labyrinth and it does asks it audience to vicariously decide the moral and emotional consequences of both the leads.