Winston T. Boogie
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Title: The Zone of Interest
Genre: Drama, History, War
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Plot: A Nazi officer stationed at Auschwitz becomes enamored with the camp commandant's wife.Genre: Drama, History, War
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Plot: A Nazi officer stationed at Auschwitz becomes enamored with the camp commandant's wife.Seems about right for Jonathan Glazer.
But Glazer probably makes it too strange and dark for that audience and for any chance of Oscars.Sounds like another period drama aimed at old people who apparently don't go to the movies anymore (or so I've heard). Though the nazi angle probably makes it Oscar-bait.
Sounds like another period drama aimed at old people who apparently don't go to the movies anymore (or so I've heard). Though the nazi angle probably makes it Oscar-bait.
Sounds like another period drama aimed at old people who apparently don't go to the movies anymore (or so I've heard). Though the nazi angle probably makes it Oscar-bait.
But Glazer probably makes it too strange and dark for that audience and for any chance of Oscars.
The truth is probably only a small number of people have seen any of Glazer's pictures and at least two (Birth and Under the Skin) of them would likely infuriate a bunch of viewers. So, yes, I would expect a small number of people see this new film. It would be cool if Glazer or his picture got nominated for an Oscar but this will probably be way too "indie" for that. So, probably a cult film for a small number of fans that either like his work or oddball cinema.
He's a great filmmaker but pretty much under the radar. I've not read the novel it is based on but may give it a shot before this comes out. As I understand it this will be "loosely" based on the novel and having seen his other pictures I am certain the movie will probably be something different than the book.
Under the Skin
The Oscar-baiting (or whatever one might call it) has apparently been thoroughly underestimated (and this will probably receive waaay more mainstream exposure than ever imagined)...
I haven't actually gotten around to seeing any of his other films though I had at least intended to see Sexy Beast and Under the Skin... but I did go see this... and well, you can find my bits of thoughts on it over in the current, ongoing, main Oscar discussion thread...
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^IF that's his goal, then I think it largely fails because most people will not want to sit thru it and just find it pretentious if they do manage to do so.
I sat thru it, understood it just fine (as such) and still feel like it's more pretentious than it probably needed to be (and have no desire to see it again)... for this particular subject matter. I had no need for this film to get me to think about such. I already often enough think about such (of course not usually specific to the Holocaust). And I suspect most who would "get" this film are also like me in that way to some extent, ie. we're probably not actually the ones who need to "get" this.
This kinda approach might work better for something else me thinks. But even then, most people simply wouldn't wanna watch something like this anyway.
American Fiction (and its source novel), for instance, also seeks to make people think some, but w/out this kind of pretentiousness. And that would succeed far more even though that's not exactly a flawless film.
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Deciding whether to go see this today free as part of AMC-A list or purchase blind for $19.99.