I hear Natalie Portman is excellent in "Jackie" but I have to think Stone is the favorite heading into Oscar season
I'm conflicted about that performance and the film jlent. It was like listening to one long funeral dirge with accompanying, brutally depressing images (for the most part). On the one hand, I'm glad I saw it, but despite the film receiving generally fine reviews, it wasn't a remotely enjoyable experience in the least. I'm not sure if it was a great performance or more impersonation-like if you follow me. I think Emma Stone is a lock. BTW, her personal story as outlined in Rolling Stone is very interesting. I guess some people just have this powerful sense of what their destiny is going to be.
I'm caught up on everything now having even seen "Silence" a few days ago. I'm afraid Streep is going to take a slot that should belong to Ruth Negga or Jessica Chastain, but there is no use in getting worked up about how the members vote.
If her performance (Stone's) was from last year, then I could understand her being the favorite partly due to the "largeness" of the film and its box office success despite its rather modest budget. I'm certain Saoirse's largely subtle but beautiful performance would have been the underdog.
It's funny you mentioned Brie Larson because I was recently thinking about her latest trailer. Last year, thereb68 were certain events she couldn't attend resulting from her commitment to do some shooting in Thailand for the new King Kong film. God knows how many months she spent doing the shoot. When I finally saw the trailer, I was stunned because she is barely in it at all. I thought she was suppose to be the star. I'm not sure how it turned out or if the producers are simply trying to sell the special effects and fighting stuff to Joe and Jane Popcorn. Hey, I don't begrudge her a nice payday.
Almost forgot.I loved Manchester as well. It's simply a great film. It's devastating when we find out the terrible tragedy of the central character's life.

I've never liked Portman, especially don't think she should've won for Black Swan. That being said, I was extremely impressed by Stone too; I never knew she had the emotional chops in her to pull off what she did in LLL.
As far as my favorite movie of the year, I'd say Arrival beats La La Land for me. Amy Adams is incredible and she just keeps getting better and better with every film. Been waiting to see Manchester, 20th Century Women, and Hidden Figures really looking forward to all 3 of those.

I hear Natalie Portman is excellent in "Jackie" but I have to think Stone is the favorite heading into Oscar season.
To be honest, if La La Land had been made last year I still would have been pulling for Saoirse but I would have understood completely if Stone had won. She's quite extraordinary and I hadn't been that impressed with her recently.
Over on the LLL board someone asked if you could recast the leads who would you choose. Somebody wrote Brie Larson.
Gag me!
Manchester by the Sea is probably still my favorite of the year but LLL has everything Oscar is looking for. (And there is nothing from Saoirse to even test my loyalty.)

Yes, she's like Amanda Seyfried in being essentially an anime creature on screen.
In addition, I felt she was totally open with us emotionally, and this was one of many reasons why the film worked. It's not a complex narrative whatsoever, but there are terrific films like Brooklyn where the execution of the story and of course the crafts contribute to the satisfying whole.
It felt
very honest
to me. It has a magnified appeal IMO partly because of what we've been through this past year or two. We need outstanding level escapist cinema. I wonder if Poetswan has seen it yet. It just opened in Brazil yesterday.

Been frustrated with how quiet the board has been but Saoirse has been keeping a low profile since the fall, first filming Lady Bird, then OCB, now who knows why.
Yes, saw La La Land. Saw it twice. The first time it took a while to get into but the ending made me realize I needed to see it again.
By the second viewing I was totally in love with it.
Saoirse may have the most beautiful eyes in the business, Emma Stone certainly has the biggest.

Hey jlent.you've been quiet lately. I guess it's hard to manufacture news.
It's possible McEwan wrote the screenplay making it clearer since a film only has so much time to say what it wants to.
^This was my first thought when I read the article. It makes sense because otherwise the audience is questioning why this intelligent young woman has such a drastically tragic reaction to the man who she clearly loves.
Well.did you see La La Land yet?

I'm sure the screenplay is available SOMEWHERE. I haven't been able to find it, though.
After reading the book I was convinced dad had abused her but nothing was spelled out. It's possible McEwan wrote the screenplay making it clearer since a film only has so much time to say what it wants to.
It might be something like Atonement. In the movie Briony finally remembers she saw Marshall with Lola. In the book she never saw him.

Hello jj.
there was the possibly abuse, yeah. is that site reputable? i think the writer probably has not read OCB and did some lazy summarizing.
I'm not familiar with the site whatsoever, but I thought there might be something new due to her phrasing.
There will be news very soon as all her projects are in the can if not all edited yet. We're just waiting for distribution news for the most part.
The timing is probably just coincidence. Some years ago, Jessica Chastain had four or five films dropped in the sa5b4me year. Don't ask me why such a great actress wasn't able to really break into films at an earlier age, but that particular year was her true breakthrough.
Assuming there are eventually all different distributors for her projects, my guess is there isn't such a thing as coordination between the involved companies. In any event, The Seagull should be the first to have a date set unless Loving Vincent comes before it. I'm not aware of why they couldn't get it released last year. It seems like a Sony Classics type of release. I watched the Kate Beckinsale film last year where she played the central character based upon the Jane Austin novella. The Seagull will be that type of release.very limited.
I've checked the director's twitter a bunch during the last year, and he either is discussing theater stuff or politics. Just my gut, but I think the film strikes me as a spring release. More importantly, Lady Bird and especially On Chesil Beach should be ready for the fall/winter season.

there was the possibly abuse, yeah. is that site reputable? i think the writer probably has not read OCB and did some lazy summarizing.
anyway, wow. i could leave the internet for three more months and come back to still NO Saoirse news! when do you think we'll get some announcement? i think having all her films released in the fall (festivals or such) is a terrible idea. i really hope one of it goes to Cannes, since Sundance was a no go. (i'd like to think this is why Greta says she's swamped in editing work for LB)
if most of her films premiere in TIFF, then we'd most likely wait til next spring or whenever for actual release. all 4 have no distribution. they might as well have dumped the seagull. i think loving vincent may have already secured one with all the online buzz for it at least

Ronan plays Florence, a wife who is afraid of sexual intimacy because of her past sexual experiences;
The above is from an article about Saoirse seemingly not containing any new info. However, I read the novel and don't recall Florence having had any previous sexual experiences. There was a recollection by the character of her boat trips with her dad, but I never read too much into that. Apparently the author sort of leaves it up to the reader for interpretation. Looking back on the material, one wonders what might have happened in her life causing the character to exhibit such extreme revulsion to the notion of sex.
I'm I missing something here? Is there a chance the screenplay contains a revelation of so16d0rts?
http://tinyurl.com/j77rfln

I was thinking the same thing the other day PMG.
Nice find BTW. Great compliment. I very much enjoyed the film and felt her performance had a certain dignity and gr2000ace. It was lovely.no pun intended. I hope she doesn't get left out of the best actress race because of you know who.

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Like the pajamas.

I find it fascinating that she's always the one paying visits to her friends.
I guess as an only child Saoirse has been used to going out and finding company for herself.
The Players of The Game are the scum of the earth.

And now with her nice friend Scarlett Curtis, I find fascinating that she's always the one paying visits to her friends.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BO2RSevFNE_/

Happy new year to you too Steve!

Happy New Year Poetswan.
The young woman is Lucinda Dryzek, Saoirse's very close friend ever since "City of Ember."

Saoirse on New years eve with her friends:
https://twitter.com/saoirsenews/status/816047638600503296
How do they find those pictures! Looks like she is back to the weight she had before Brooklyn.

Same to you zorro, and all the very best to our posters and those close to them.

Happy New Year to all the regulars on here.
Just watched Celtic Woman's Mansion House show earlier, and along with the Boss and U2, they would definitely be on my bucket list of acts to see live.

Hopefully she doesn't worry about her weight/appearance as much as so many people on here seem to. She is a beautiful girl.

David Rooney from the Hollywood Reporter recently wrote about the top ten New York theater plays during 2016.
Director Ivo van Hove's radical reinterpretations of classic texts are the opposite of theatrical comfort food, designed to leave audiences wrung out and unsettled. He followed the thunderous opera of his A View From the Bridge the previous year with another potent Arthur Miller drama, delivering a chilling indictment of the dangers of mob-mentality rule on an impressionable populace. The 17th century Salem witch trials, originally read as an allegory for 1950s McCarthyism, proved imminently relatable, perhaps even prescient, in this timely horror story about institutional arrogance and defiled civil liberties, in which the boundaries separating politics, religion and the judiciary are trashed.
The first-rate cast included Ben Whishaw, Sophie Okonedo, Saoirse Ronan, Ciaran Hinds and Bill Camp, all at the top of their game.
http://tinyurl.com/z27j6vk

Thats true, good observation. I don't remember if I read in the book that Florence has long hair, but I definitely imagined her with long hair, althought the shorter hair in the picture looks good.

It's definitely shorter than usual. She cut it down to shoulder-length for Lady Bird (
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuxonaeWIAAdXkh.jpg
) and it's only slightly longer than that in the OCB candids (
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw3KHUuUsAAbLpS.jpg
). For comparison, here's a photo of her taken in March:
https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/the-crucible-rehearsals.jpg