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On this week’s “Display Speak,” co-hosts Ryan Lattanzio and Anne Thompson overview new releases “The Fall Man” (Common), “Wildcat” (Oscilloscope), and “I Noticed the TV Glow” (A24). Whereas they each loved David Leitch’s newest stunt-fest, starring Ryan Gosling as a film stuntman and Emily Blunt as his director and ex-girlfriend, Thompson stated the film set in Sydney was well-mounted however a tad shallow and cartoony, whereas Lattanzio stated it was not a difficult film in any method, and {that a} collection of showdowns and battles pile on on the finish. Field workplace projections are everywhere in the map, from $25-50 million. Upbeat phrase of mouth ought to carry the day.
Regardless of lukewarm Sundance reactions to Ethan Hawke’s “Wildcat” — which the actor-director-writer (“Blaze”) crafted particularly for his daughter, actress Maya Hawke, who performs Southern author Flannery O’Connor — each Lattanzio and Thompson admired the film, which blurs actuality and fiction and understands the torment and toil of being an artist. As a director, Hawke generally errs on the aspect of edgy ugliness on the expense of accessibility.
Lattanzio raved a couple of better-reviewed Sundance debut, Jane Schoenbrun’s “I Noticed the TV Glow,” a youthful viewers image in restricted launch about our relationship with media consumption.
The recent matter on the latest, pared down San Francisco Worldwide Movie Competition, the place Thompson was on the worldwide jury, was the town’s bid for Sundance to return to San Francisco. It’s unlikely to occur in 2027, the primary yr Sundance may flip up at one other location, as a result of the competition doesn’t need to land on another person’s turf.
On the TV entrance, Thompson recommends David E. Kelley’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s sprawling 1998 novel “A Man in Full,” starring Jeff Daniels at full throttle. Regina King and Tom Schlamme direct. Lattanzio likes Netflix’s “Child Reindeer.”
Tune in subsequent week for our Cannes preview.
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