Homecoming 2019
Beyoncé's Coachella concert film, directed and executive produced by her. Dobbins calls it a documentary that's also self-mythologizing — the footage is interlaced with her own criticism of the performance she's just given.
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The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview
April 19, 2019/ 69 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Amanda Dobbins on whether Guava Island and Homecoming count as movies, what the Oscars moving up two weeks does to the fall calendar, and a spring rundown of what's coming. Then Andrew Garfield on Under the Silver Lake, growing up in and out of L.A., and the seven-year cycle he's about to enter.
23 films across 3 segments.
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Guava Island and Homecoming: Are They Movies?with Amanda Dobbins
Guava Island 2019
Donald Glover, Hiro Murai, and Stephen Glover's 55-minute musical, premiered at Coachella and released on Amazon Prime days later. Fennessey: not developed enough to be a feature, not baked enough to be a TV show — a very well-funded web short.
The Oscars Move Up Two Weekswith Amanda Dobbins
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 2019
Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers — the one they both call an outright Oscar play.
Cats 2019
Tom Hooper's Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation, glimpsed at CinemaCon: human actors as life-sized cats in triple-sized sets. Dobbins declares it this year's answer to The Wife — a title they'll be talking about for months regardless of quality.
Ford v Ferrari 2019
Matt Damon and Christian Bale racing to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. Fennessey's pick for best trailer at CinemaCon.
Downton Abbey 2019
The TV-to-film jump. Dobbins doubts the Academy takes a costume drama seriously once it's made the leap, crowd-pleaser or not.
Bombshell 2019
Referred to here by its working title, Fair and Balanced — Jay Roach's Fox News drama with Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly, Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, and John Lithgow as Roger Ailes.
The Goldfinch 2019
Discussed on trailer alone; Dobbins admits she's still 88 pages into the novel.
The Irishman 2019
The Scorsese film they've both been waiting years for — De Niro as a man retracing whether he was involved in Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance. Fennessey doesn't know if a Scorsese movie can hit him the way A Star Is Born hit Dobbins.
The Last Thing He Wanted 2020
Dee Rees' adaptation of the Joan Didion novel, one of several Netflix titles they're not sure will get a real theatrical run.
The Laundromat 2019
Steven Soderbergh's Panama Papers docudrama, also bound for Netflix.
Little Women 2019
Greta Gerwig's follow-up to Lady Bird, with Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Timothée Chalamet. Dobbins: the most excited she's been for anything in a long time.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019
Opening on Fennessey's birthday. He expects a complicated reception, not a simple one.
The Report 2019
Adam Driver's CIA torture-report docudrama, written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, with Annette Bening as Dianne Feinstein. Debuted at Sundance.
Us 2019
Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out. Both think it'll factor into the Oscar conversation on box office and pedigree alone — they're already hearing pushback against a second Peele win.
Avengers: Endgame 2019
Mentioned mostly for its business implications; neither is emotionally invested in who Thanos takes out.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019
Fennessey predicts a Best Picture nomination as a lifetime-achievement nod for reviving the franchise's box office.
Andrew Garfield on 'Under the Silver Lake'
Andrew Garfield on
Under the Silver Lake 2018
David Robert Mitchell's neo-noir. Garfield plays Sam, an entitled drifter chasing conspiracies through Los Angeles; Garfield calls him not evil, just a victim of and participant in the city's misogyny — someone who's never gotten what he thought he was owed. He compares the film to a grown-up, one-man version of The Goonies, and says he took the part partly to shake off the discipline of Silence and Angels in America.
Andrew Garfield on
Lions for Lambs 2007
The Robert Redford film that brought Garfield to L.A. for good — he screen-tested for it after a casting director passed along tape from an unmade adaptation he'd tested for in London.
Andrew Garfield on
Free Solo 2018
His favorite film of the last several years, brought up twice — once on human limits, once as his answer to the show's closing question.
Andrew Garfield on
The Game 1997
David Fincher's paranoid-conspiracy thriller, cited as a favorite in the same breath as his craving for real-world puzzle hunts.
Andrew Garfield on
Boy A 2007
Garfield's own earlier film, referenced by Fennessey as the marker before his camera-acting education on Kavalier & Clay screen tests.
Andrew Garfield on
99 Homes 2014
With Ramin Bahrani — the small film Garfield credits, alongside a stage run of Death of a Salesman, with pulling him back from the scale of the Spider-Man movies.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Comparisons in the Guava Island / Homecoming talk The Last WaltzLemonade
Comparisons in the Oscars-calendar talk Les MisérablesViceThe Big ShortA Star Is BornThe WifeGet OutGreen BookIf Beale Street Could TalkLady BirdFighting with My FamilyThe Post
Andrew Garfield's career talk Silence
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV AtlantaGame of ThronesRussian DollGame Change
Music videos This Is America
Plays Death of a SalesmanAngels in America
Unmade The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Ads National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rail-crossing PSA