Movies to Watch This Fall. After a summer of blockbuster disappointments—sour squads and bland Bournes—we’re looking forward to this fall’s slate of movies more than ever. But it’s an eclectic few months of cinema, with very few sure- thing awards hopefuls, a pair of bigger- than- bigger franchise continuations that reach back into the past, and plenty of complete unknowns.
To sift through all this stuff, let’s break things down into a few loose categories. Oscars Not So White? Every fall movie season—or, more specifically, awards season—is uncertain. Until films have screened at the late- summer and early- fall festivals, in Venice, Telluride, Toronto, and New York City, we are faced with a vast field of unknowns.
But fall 2. 01. 6, without a roster of seemingly sure things like Spotlight or The Revenant or Bridge of Spies looming, feels more unknowable than usual. Until recently, there was really only one solid bet: The Birth of a Nation (1. Nate Parker, which earned multiple standing ovations at its Sundance Film Festival premiere in January. It was bought for a fortune by Fox Searchlight, and, barring any unforeseen disaster, seemed ordained to at the very least get close to the Oscar stage come February 2.
But then, in mid- August, a disturbing rape accusation from Parker’s past resurfaced, one that brought up many issues regarding sexual assault—particularly how it’s handled on university campuses and in the court system—and disrupted the easy narrative that this was Parker’s ascendant year. Of course, Oscar hype shouldn’t really register anywhere on the spectrum of importance when talking about rape and sexual assault. But in our cynical world of awards race handicapping (of which, of course, I am an active participant), Birth of a Nation’s once sterling chances do seem hobbled. This certainly isn’t the first time an awards- y movie has been dwarfed by a larger darkness in the director’s personal life. But, well, it probably won’t.
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This type of negative association did not exactly impede Blue Jasmine’s march to Oscar, nor The Pianist’s. Download Dvd Movie I Am The Blues (2017). Those films and Birth of a Nation are bound together by a common narrative, one about our culture’s alarming forgivingness of charges of sexual violence, often dismissing them as “scandals” or “controversies” rather than, y’know, potential crimes. The case of Birth of a Nation also intersects with issues of race—many have been rooting for the film, which is strong but not a masterpiece, partially because it comes at a time when the Academy is struggling to re- assess itself, groaning and lurching in fits and starts toward progress and change. It once seemed a perfect vehicle to help carry that message to the Dolby stage. I’m most looking forward to Moonlight (1.
Medicine for Melancholy’s Barry Jenkins. The film, a triptych depicting a young man confronting both his sexuality and the drug violence of Miami at three different stages of his life, boasts one hell of a trailer and a healthy amount of pre- festival buzz, along with a promising cast: Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, Andr. After a somewhat lackluster Sundance, I have high hopes that Moonlight will be the moody, arty, haunting indie that 2. On a much bigger scale there’s Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe (9/2.
Disney’s biopic of Ugandan chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, starring Lupita Nyong’o as Mutesi’s mother, David Oyelowo as her mentor, and newcomer Madina Nalwanga as Mutesi herself. The marketing for this one is heavy, and I’ve heard good things from scattered folks who’ve been at early screenings. We’ll see what a screening at Toronto, followed quickly by a wide release, does for the movie’s awards and box- office momentum. Whatever the film’s fate, it will be good to see Nyong’o out from behind the C. G. I. Virginia Supreme Court case that made inter- racial marriage legal, received a warm reception at Cannes.
Though I wasn’t quite as bowled over by the film as some other critics were, it’s still a strong film and its star, Ruth Negga, does remarkable work. She ought to be a force in any actress race this year, even if the film she’s in is ultimately a little too reserved to set voters’ and viewers’ hearts aflame.
Hidden Figures (1. Katherine Johnson, a physicist and mathematician who worked on flight trajectories for NASA during the rush to get a man on the moon. She’s played by Taraji P.
Henson, who is joined by Oscar- winner Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae. The film wasn’t meant to come out until next year, but after its first trailer got a positive response, Fox set the film up for a small Oscar qualifying release. Hidden Figures. Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox. There are also rumblings about the film adaptation of Fences (1. August Wilson’s 1. America. With Denzel Washington directing and starring, alongside Viola Davis (who won a Tony for the same role, opposite Washington), this looking to be one of the highest- profile awards movies of the whole season—but it doesn’t look like many people will get to see it at any festivals before it opens. Other Best Picture Potential.
Fences won’t be the season’s only unknown in that regard. For example: what, exactly, is Collateral Beauty (1. The movie is described as a “surreal comedy- drama” starring Will Smith; it was directed by The Devil Wears Prada’s David Frankel. It’s got a December release, and a mega- starry cast: joining Smith are Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton, Michael Pe. Then again, her Mandela year was supposed to be big too.) It all looks good on paper, and the schmaltzy trailer is effective in its way, but no one seems to know where it came from or why on earth it’s going up against Star Wars: Rogue One (1.
At a particularly boozy post- screening party a few weeks ago (oh, those War Dogs days of summer . I think the takeaway from what little he gave me was that the film is more drama than comedy. But, again, the alcohol was flowing, so I could certainly have gotten the details mixed up. I’m eager to find out what the real story is, but cautiously so. Remember, another big, surreal comedy- drama—that kinda leaned a little more on drama—starring a major star was released in December just a few years ago: Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which didn’t go terribly well. Gold. Courtesy of The Weinstein Company. Almost equally as mysterious is Gold (1.
Traffic writer (and Syriana director—mustn’t forget Syriana!) Stephen Gaghan that’s getting a brief qualifying release on Christmas Day before going wider in January. The film, about a hunt for gold in Borneo, stars Matthew Mc. Conaughey, . Plus, Gaghan has Oscar history, winning best screenplay for Traffic, and directing George Clooney to a supporting Oscar in Syriana. But Gaghan also hasn’t made a movie since directing the latter film 1.
Can he return to form after a long hiatus? Again, we’ll have to wait a long while to find out, as Gold is not scheduled to screen at any festivals at the moment. Fest in November?)Elsewhere in the Oscar race, we have some more known quantities. Kenneth Lonnergan’s Manchester by the Sea (1.
Amazon but set to get a theatrical release, was rapturously received at Sundance, and seems destined for at least some acting nominations, for Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams. I’d love to see co- star Lucas Hedges, who plays one of the most naturally credible teenagers on screen in recent memory, in the awards hunt too, but I think this film might be a little too staid and small (and too on Amazon) to have a deep bench in the competition. My fearless forecast, though? Right now, Williams has a very strong shot at a supporting- actress win. The Actors. Beyond that, there are small chances for Clint Eastwood’s Sully (9/9), starring Tom Hanks as hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. Eastwood has had good luck securing nominations and wins for his actors in the past, but this one seems a bit too much like 2. Flight—itself inspired by the Sullenberger story—to distinguish itself.
Another biopic, Snowden (9/1.