This looks like it could do some serious damage in the Oscar race, non? Via The Film Stage:
This looks like it could do some serious damage in the Oscar race, non? Via The Film Stage:
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Haha!! Nope, he can’t. 🙂
oh thank God, so Daldry can’t steal another nomination from a more deserving film like The Dark Knight or Deathly Hallows Part 2. Hallelujah!
LCBASEBALL22,
No. As of now, there is still no scheduled American release date for Daldry’s “Trash”. It has already been released in Brazil, where it was filmed. But it will come out in the United Kingdom early next year.
Is this in contention for 2014? Daldry has pulled nominations out of his ass for all his previous films, no?
Every movie that passes on the Brazil slums is told to be a City of God “remake”. This Trash has absolutely nothing to do with the Meirelles film, except ambientation. Sorry for my english.
O2, one of the biggest production companies here in Brazil, is coproducing this film. They are the same from City of God and Meirelles is a main owner. I think the brazilian movie is not only an inspiration, they may have worked in rio in a familiar way for O2 and this aesthetic and the cast choices reflects a type of contemporary brazilian cinema
Did nobody else get a whiff of Slumdog Millionaire too?
Looks rather decent though.
It could be a Best Foreign Language Film strong contender. And if it’s good and considering how the Academy loves Daldry… It would be kind of funny to see Brazil finally getting an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film less than one year after the shameful outcome of the national team at the World Cup.
Have doubts about the other categories. It’s all in Portuguese… The Academy usually doesn’t buy this kind of film.
I agree with most of the comments. Daldry has to do something really above the line to get in.
I’m not especially bullish on this one’s chances. I think it’ll get crowded out, plus the backlash from the Extremely Loud nomination can’t help (and that wasn’t helped by ill-will from The Reader getting in despite its own fairly weak reviews). This’ll have to be incredible to stand a chance.
Rooney Mara!
OT…The Immigrant is on Netflix instant play! I know what I’m watching tomorrow after work 🙂
Might the Academy’s general fear of foreign language movies distract them more than their inexplicable love of Daldry? This one will have to be great to get him in the race, I think. Rooney Mara, though…
^The titles and cutting of the trailer are a complete rip-off of City of God. That was my first hint. But, yes, it’s just a trailer, markettingfolk, etc.
I wouldn’t worry about a Stephen Daldry movie feeling too much like one by Fernando Meirelles. I also don’t see why it should be thought of as a City of God knockoff – just because it’s (partially) set in a favela?
Daldry has had the Midas touch for Oscar noms, but he seems to have been working in the wrong direction – incrementally downward – since Billy Elliott. Maybe this will be a change?
Judging from the promo, obviously the studio is counting on the masses not having seen City of God; either that, or the film really is the equivalent of a Rolex knockoff. I don’t see Daldry trying a stunt like that, though.
This does not seem like a Stephen Daldry film at all. Hmm this actually seems like a threat if it captures the Slumdog feel.
Rooney Maraaaaaa!!!
This has a very ‘City of God’ feel to it. I didn’t like either of Daldry’s last two movies so hopefully this will be something I respond to.
This will play somewhere into the Oscar race. Daldry was nominated for his first three films and his fourth one got a surprise best pic nom. All four of his films have gotten an acting nom.
“Can’t be worse than late Walter Salles’ patronizing social grasp, can it?”
Underestimate Stephen Daldry’s power to patronize at your own risk.
-Watermelons
Jesus Christ, looks like something by Iñárritu, but it’s Daldry…in Brazil…or is the GOMORRAH of Brazil? Can’t be worse than late Walter Salles’ patronizing social grasp, can it?
That music is very tough though.