In this week's new releases Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel gets a distinctive and moving adaptation while a docudrama revisits the Munich Massacre from the POV of the team covering it.
I'm really pulling for Nickel Boys to do well and maybe we get to see more Whitehead adaptations on the big screen. Harlem Shuffle in particular would be fun, Zone One too.
Yeah, it rhymes with The Deuce a little - one book/season for each decade, evolution of NYC, crime. I was happy to see The Underground Railroad get a Criterion release, hopefully that keeps it in our minds more than Prime. I need to get to The Intuitionist, thanks for the reminder.
I’m out of town this week for a personal matter but I want to ditto Keith’s opinions on both of these films. NICKEL BOYS is a great as everyone’s been saying, so there’s that. But shout out to Paramount Pictures for releasing SEPTEMBER 5, the sort of no-stars/just-talent docudrama that just isn’t made anymore.
I watched SEPTEMBER 5 last night and enjoyed it immensely. It won’t supplant Kevin Macdonald’s ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER as the definitive telling of the events of that horrific day, but it gets the job done.
The Nickel Boys rollout is painfully deliberate, it's not coming to Canada until January 17th as best I can tell (likewise with The Brutalist). I get it, they need to juice post Oscar nomination hype for all its worth, but come on!!
It's easy for me to say since a) I live in Chicago and b) I get to see stuff in advance but Isn't it kind of nice to have something to look forward to in January that's not... let's check the calendar... DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA? (Could be great. Who knows? WOLF MAN definitely looks promising.)
Nickel Boys is such a fabulous novel. Can’t wait to see this — both of these, actually.
I'm really pulling for Nickel Boys to do well and maybe we get to see more Whitehead adaptations on the big screen. Harlem Shuffle in particular would be fun, Zone One too.
Between Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto, I smell a tv series. But I’d most like to see some scrappy indie auteur take a whack at The Intuitionist.
Yeah, it rhymes with The Deuce a little - one book/season for each decade, evolution of NYC, crime. I was happy to see The Underground Railroad get a Criterion release, hopefully that keeps it in our minds more than Prime. I need to get to The Intuitionist, thanks for the reminder.
I’m out of town this week for a personal matter but I want to ditto Keith’s opinions on both of these films. NICKEL BOYS is a great as everyone’s been saying, so there’s that. But shout out to Paramount Pictures for releasing SEPTEMBER 5, the sort of no-stars/just-talent docudrama that just isn’t made anymore.
I watched SEPTEMBER 5 last night and enjoyed it immensely. It won’t supplant Kevin Macdonald’s ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER as the definitive telling of the events of that horrific day, but it gets the job done.
The Nickel Boys rollout is painfully deliberate, it's not coming to Canada until January 17th as best I can tell (likewise with The Brutalist). I get it, they need to juice post Oscar nomination hype for all its worth, but come on!!
It's easy for me to say since a) I live in Chicago and b) I get to see stuff in advance but Isn't it kind of nice to have something to look forward to in January that's not... let's check the calendar... DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA? (Could be great. Who knows? WOLF MAN definitely looks promising.)
I could come around to that way of thinking if I wasn't so vain!
There’s also Soderbergh’s PRESENCE.
I'm sensing that Nickel Boys just might be better than Hardcore Harry.
So like a very serious Peep Show