We probably should've known that presidency would end with ketchup dripping down a wall, but then, Heinz sight is 2020.
Justin Chang
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Justin Chang
@JustinCChang
Film Critic, @NewYorker and @nprfreshair | 2024 @PulitzerPrizes Winner, Criticism | Chair, @NatSocFilmCrix | Secretary, @LAFilmCritics | Programmer, @TheNYFF
- My 2-year-old is now referring to the STAR IS BORN leads as "Lady Gaga and Man Gaga" so last night wasn't a total waste.
- I hope PARASITE wins the best picture #Oscar, but it has nothing left to prove at this point. The academy very much does.
- I wrote about the brilliance of the actors in PARASITE, individually and as an ensemble, and the Academy’s lousy track record when it comes to seeing, let alone recognizing, Asian actors.
- PARASITE is the first non-English-language movie to win best original screenplay since TALK TO HER 17 years ago. #Oscars
- GREEN BOOK is the worst best picture Oscar winner in more than a decade.
- "You see an openly queer woman of color, an Afro-Latina, who found her strength and life through art. And that is, I think, what we’re here to celebrate. So if anyone has ever questioned your identity, I promise you this — there is indeed a place for us.” — Ariana DeBose #Oscars
- No Greta Gerwig in director or Greta Lee in lead actress, re-Greta-bly.
- The 19 films just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:
- I wrote about the radical subjectivity of OPPENHEIMER, the expectations often placed on movies (vs. books) about history, and the integrity of Christopher Nolan’s refusal to depict the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- I was reading my 2-year-old this INSIDE OUT picture book and asked her to identify these characters. She said, “Disgust, Sad Face, Anger, Joy and Daddy.”
- Well, shit.So Dam Park, Bong Joon Ho, Song Kang Ho, and all the news that's fit to print. #SAGAwards
