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Film Independent We’ve all heard the old saying, “When life gives you COVID, make lemonade.” At least we’re pretty sure that’s how it goes. And nowhere were the limitations of our ongoing pandemic quarantine transmuted Eucharist like into a cineaste’s tart lemonade more demonstrably than at noon this Wednesday, when Film Independent kicked off its annual Directors Close-Up series with a panel featuring all five of this year’s Best Directornominees at the upcoming Film Independent Spirit Awards: Lee Isaac Chung ( Minari), Emerald Fennell ( Never Rarely Sometimes Always), Kelly Reichardt ( First Cow) and Chloé Zhao ( Nomadland.) ....
Frances McDormand likes to quote an observation made by a journalist about her performance in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, for which she won her second Oscar as best actress in 2018. They said, you know, that a close-up of Frances McDormand s face is like visiting a national park’, she says. Which I really loved, because it is about an unaltered, ageing face that gives you perspective, like a natural landscape. We pass through many landscapes while experiencing Nomadland, her latest film, not all of them as beguiling as McDormand s lively, luminous 63-year-old face. Nomadland, directed by 38-year-old Chloe Zhao, is a group portrait of an older generation of working-class Americans who live on the road, working gruelling jobs in the gig economy – picking fruit or stacking stuff in Amazon s huge desert warehouses – to supplement meagre pensions. Sometimes they will work just for a parking spot. ....
The road less traveled: McDormand is epic in instant American classic 'Nomadland' abqjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from abqjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Problem with Nomadland's Amazon Warehouse Scenes vulture.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vulture.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.