I’m thinking ahead past this awards season, and here is a list of every notable director I can think of who has a film out in 2022. Please let me know if I missed anyone!
Ali Abbasi - The Long Night
Wes Anderson - Asteroid City
Darren Aronofsky - The Whale
Ari Aster - Disappointment Blvd
Noah Baumbach- White Noise
Marco Bellocchio - The Conversion
Kenneth Branagh - Death on the Nile
James Cameron - Avatar 2
Robin Campillo - École de l’air
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - On Barren Weeds
Damien Chazelle - Babylon
Ryan Coogler - Black Panther 2
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
David Cronenberg - Crimes of the Future
Garth Davis - Foe
Claire Denis - Fire
Claire Denis - The Stars at Noon
Lukas Dhont - Close
Lav Diaz - When the Waves Are Gone
Andrew Dominik - Blonde
Robert Eggers - The Northman
Paul Feig - The School for Good and Evil
Todd Field - TÁR
David Fincher - The Killer
Stephen Frears - The Lost King
Alex Garland - Men
Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Miguel Gomes - Savagery
James Gray - Armageddon Time
Luca Guadagnino - Bones and All
Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Our Apprenticeship
Julia Hart - Hollywood Stargirl
Jessica Hausner - Club Zero
Todd Haynes - Fever
Hong Sang-soo - In Front of Your Face
Ron Howard - Thirteen Lives
Alejandro Inarritu - Bardo
Rian Johnson - Knives Out 2
Hirokazu Kore-eda - Broker
Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
Kasi Lemmons - I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Richard Linklater - Apollo 10 1/2
David Lowery - Peter Pan & Wendy
Terrence Malick - The Way of the Wind
Lucrecia Martel - Chocobar
Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisheerin
Sam Mendes - Empire of Light
George Miller - Three Thousand Years of Longing
Joshua Oppenheimer - The End
Francois Ozon - Peter van Kant
Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave
Jordan Peele - Nope
Christian Petzold - The Red Sky
Sarah Polley - Women Talking
Sam Raimi - Doctor Strange 2
Matt Reeves - The Batman
Kelly Reichardt - Showing Up
Alice Rohrwacher - La Chimera
David O. Russell - Canterbury Glass
Angela Schanelec - Music
Maria Schrader - She Said
Martin Scorsese -Killers of The Flower Moon
Henry Selick - Wendell and Wild
Makoto Shinkai - Suzume no Tojimari
Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
Olivia Wilde - Don’t Worry Darling
George C. Wolfe - Rustin
Florian Zeller - The Son
I prefer to remain anonymous for now, but I’ve gotten a script greenlit that shows in vigorous detail the horrors of an elders meeting about CSA. Think 12 Angry Men by way of the film Apostasy. We will be looking for financing soon and hope to be able to shoot the film for under $100K. The goal with the film is to raise serious awareness about the hidden database of CSA files, and challenge the “two witness rule.” I am an exJW and hope to bring real justice to this story. I’ve been in contact with the director of Apostasy and other exJW filmmakers to ensure that I really get this right. Hopefully later in the year I can share more updates. Can’t wait to shoot!
I’m going to try to watch more international films and more pre-1960 films in the new year. Anyone have any specific “challenges” for me to organize my quest? Certain directors, time periods, actors, etc. I should try to work my way though?
Anyone else trying to set specific goals like this? I’d love to hear what others are planning.
Edit: Top contenders for 2022: The Batman. Jurassic World. The Northman. Scream. Mission Impossible 7.
I never thought Peter Dinklage would be in a musical in a similar setting as GOT. (Cyrano)
The Northman gives me vibes from an anime called Vinland Saga. (The Northman)
John Wick 4 has been delayed to 2023.
I didn’t know there was going to be both another Halloween movie and Creed III.
Made a point of not including anything thats gonna get covered next year because its from a director thats been covered on this podcast.
Killers of the Flower Moon - Dir. Martin Scorsese. Based on a true story, members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Jesse Plemons. Made with a staggering $200 million budget.
The Northman - Dir. Robert Eggers. According to Focus Features, The Northman is an epic revenge thriller, that explores how far a Viking prince will go to seek justice for his murdered father. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Björk, and Willem Dafoe. Budget has been listed at $60 million which is significantly larger than anything Eggers has worked with.
Babylon - Dir Damien Chazelle. Set in Hollywood during the transition from silent films to talkies, focusing on a mixture of historical and fictional characters. It has an immense ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire, Katherine Waterston, Spike Jonze, Olivia Wilde, and Samara Weaving. Its insane and expensive cast makes it a clear blank check.
Nope - Dir. Jordan Peele. Not much is known other than its a horror film that stars Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Steven Yeun.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre - Dir. Guy Ritchie. Super spy Orson Fortune and his team of top operatives recruit Hollywood's biggest movie star, Danny Francesco, to help them on an undercover mission to stop billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds from selling a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. Stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, and Hugh Grant.
White Noise - Dir. Noah Baumbach. Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by "the Airborne Toxic Event", a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town. It stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle
Don't Worry Darling - Dir. Olivia Wilde. An unhappy housewife in the 1950s discovers a disturbing truth, while her loving husband hides a dark secret. Stars Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, and Gemma Chan.
Bullet Train - Dir. David Leitch. Five assassins find themselves on a Japanese bullet train, realizing that their individual assignments are a
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey. I have never seen this film, but I've noticed a pretty good deal for the 4K Blu-Ray of this movie, thought I may check it out.
What can you tell me about the film? Do you think it's worth seeing in 2022?
Please don't tell me the plot details, so far the only thing I know is that a character in a Metal Gear Solid game named after this film, and that it contains the line, "Gentlemen, you cam't fight in here! This is the War Room!".
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (Prime exclusive)
Morbius
Uncharted
65
Bullet Train
The Man from Toronto
Across the Spider-Verse Part One
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Eh aside from Spider-Verse I think I can pass on all of these.
One of the many 2022 horror films I'm highly anticipating is You Won't Be Alone scheduled to release in theaters on 1 April 2022.
Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is the lead star in the film. It's about a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. She kills a local villager and takes her shape to live life in her skin in order to understand what it means to be human.
There’s not a ton announced yet but there’s a few I’m very excited for personally.
“Scream 5”,
“Dark harvest”,
“Nope” (not much info on this but jordan peele is directing so it’ll hopefully be great).
Which ones are you most excited for?
Thought it was....fine back in 2010, but somewhat forgettable and paled in comparision even to the "First Flight" animated movie. Felt like rewatching after reading Blackest Night for the first time. Here's my copius amount of live notes!
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- In the first 15 minutes, we got a section in space, a plane action sequence, Hal's entire backstory, and Hal causes a mass layoff! Talk about hitting the ground running
- Oof, the CGI has not aged gracefully, and it wasnt exactly a pillar of the craft back in 2010
- Sound on the other hand, pretty impressed ngl. I have a pretty decent home theater, and even watching on HBO Max, things whoosh where they need to whoosh
- Abin Sur: "Great honor...Responsibility". *dies* Uncle Ben liked that.
- "He gave me this"...shows ring...."He proposed!?". Might be the hardest I've ever laughed in any DC movie. The friend character is pretty fun, and Reynolds pretty much hard carries this movie
- The guy playing Sinestro is perfect tbh. This film is a mixed bag, but this guy they got right. And Kilowag! The GOAT. Movie needs more Ch'p though
- Totally forgot Amanda Waller was in this. I remember not being a fan of the scientist guy though. In a world as interesting as Green Lanterns, I think using Hector Hammond probaly wasnt the most interesting choice, by a long shot. Hal standing up for Hammond in front of his dad was a nice wholesome little moment though.
- How many millions of dollars could have been used to feed straving children or save the economy, but was instead went to CGI suits when a literal green t shirt would have looked a million times better. The CGI whenever he uses the ring is suprisingly fine though, I think the mask is the only real jarring part.
- I feel like 99.99% of all Green Lantern problems everywhere could be resolved if they could dual wield
- lol at Carol immidietly recognizing Hal despite the mask.
- They put a cartridge of Pokemon Sapphire in Carols desk to foreshadow her becoming Star Sapphire. 10/10 best thing DC has ever done, is currently doing, and will ever do
- The friend kinda just disappeared didnt he
- I think the problem with Hammond is that he isnt evil enough to be evil, but not sympathetic enough to be, well, sympathetic. He's just kinda floating in the middle somewhere. Heck, even the military dad seems like a more ok guy compared to him.
- Parallax had so much potential, love it as a concept, but not hot on the execution. Him arriving on e
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’m in the middle of listening to the latest DGA podcast, which features a conversation between Lizzie Borden and Sean Baker about RED ROCKET, and Baker announces that his first three films - FOUR LETTER WORDS, TAKE OUT, and PRINCE OF BROADWAY - have been restored and will be released next year on a “nice, prestigious label” that Borden recently worked with. He then quickly mentions he bought the Blu-ray of her film WORKING GIRLS, which seems to confirm that he’s talking about Criterion.
Like Borden says in the conversation, his early work is hard to find, so I’m very glad to hear they’ll be accessible sooner rather than later. Here’s the link to the episode if anyone’s interested: https://pca.st/episode/b97466bc-1484-4b53-b6d5-6600236addf5
basically copying a post I've seen in r/photography
I wasted most of the year buying/selling gear that I didn't even use that much so my film game was pretty weak. I still struggle to go on trips bringing only film without a digital backup but it got better this year, I got one of my fav roll this summer too.
In the meantime I picked up a lens that I can use to scan film at home so hopefully I won't cry over lab expenses and I hoarded some Kodak stuff, mostly for medium format, that I would like to burn through this months.
Wby?
Octopussy (1983) vs Live and Let Die (1973)
The World Is Not Enough (1999) vs Spectre (2015)
A View to a Kill (1985) vs Dr No (1962)
Never Say Never Again (1983) vs On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Die Another Day (2002) vs Quantum of Solace (2008)
Thunderball (1965) vs You Only Live Twice (1967)
Goldfinger (1964) vs From Russia With Love (1963)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) vs Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) vs GoldenEye (1995)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) vs Licence to Kill (1989)
Moonraker (1979) vs No Time to Die (2021)
Skyfall (2012) vs The Living Daylights (1987)
Casino Royale (2006) vs Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Scream
Jackass Forever
Luck (Apple TV exclusive)
The Lost City
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Top Gun Maverick
Secret Headquarters
Mission Impossible 7
The Bee Gees bio
Spellbound (Apple TV exclusive)
Babylon
Looks to be an interesting year. They're taking more risks than WB but I don't see any records being broken.
Octopussy (1983) vs Live and Let Die (1973)
The World Is Not Enough (1999) vs Spectre (2015)
A View to a Kill (1985) vs Dr No (1962)
Never Say Never Again (1983) vs On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Die Another Day (2002) vs Quantum of Solace (2008)
Thunderball (1965) vs You Only Live Twice (1967)
Goldfinger (1964) vs From Russia With Love (1963)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) vs Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) vs GoldenEye (1995)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) vs Licence to Kill (1989)
Moonraker (1979) vs No Time to Die (2021)
Skyfall (2012) vs The Living Daylights (1987)
Casino Royale (2006) vs Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Starting a bracket spanning every 007 adventure (including Never Say Never Again so it's an even number). Fully randomised bracket, re-seeded after every round. Every day = a new poll (24 hours to vote). Vote for your favourite Bond film: which will be left standing?
(The film with the most overall votes in the first round will receive a BYE in the second round.)
Here's the first round, with today's matchup bolded:
Octopussy (1983) vs Live and Let Die (1973)
The World Is Not Enough (1999) vs Spectre (2015)
A View to a Kill (1985) vs Dr No (1962)
Never Say Never Again (1983) vs On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Die Another Day (2002) vs Quantum of Solace (2008)
Thunderball (1965) vs You Only Live Twice (1967)
Goldfinger (1964) vs From Russia With Love (1963)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) vs Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) vs GoldenEye (1995)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) vs Licence to Kill (1989)
Moonraker (1979) vs No Time to Die (2021)
Skyfall (2012) vs The Living Daylights (1987)
Casino Royale (2006) vs Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
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