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Technically, it was on the internet yesterday, but if you missed it, Taika Waititi gave a Master Class talk at TIFF and it’s likely the best thing you’ll see today. You can and should watch the whole thing above, but it’s lengthy. Luckily, TIFF grabbed the highlights in GIFs and quotes, starting with his beautiful socks:
Taika Waititi’s socks: a mood. 🔴 #TIFF18 pic.twitter.com/e6PhUfRZ03
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2018
On finding love:
“In my town, there’s probably 600 people, and I’m related to everyone…so it’s impossible to find love.” 💕 — Taika Waititi #TIFF18 pic.twitter.com/6WdfkVLDpq
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2018
How his “youthful glow” surprises even himself:
“Sometimes I walk past a mirror and I’m just like, ‘Who is that?’ And that’s something I have to deal with everyday.” — Taika Waititi on his youthful glow. #TIFF18 pic.twitter.com/AMDA8YLXoC
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2018
He also talked about the bizarre critical response to movies about marginalized communities.
Taika Waititi on early (confused) reviews of BOY: “They wanted this film to have… realms, spirits, and folklore and someone to be riding a whale. We don’t do that shit. We just try to live.” #TIFF18 pic.twitter.com/URBKGusfrd
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2018
And the importance of letting people from those communities tell their own stories.
“I think it’s vital that we [Indigenous filmmakers] put these films in the hands of the people who own those stories.” — Taika Waititi #TIFF18 pic.twitter.com/6AW8OoCWlX
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2018
If you have an hour to spare, give the whole thing a watch.
- Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness interviewed New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon and there were cats present and it was all-around wonderful. New Yorkers, don’t forget to vote this Thursday! (via Twitter)
- Black Panther is going all in for their Oscar push. (via i09)
- If you’re a My Brother, My Brother and Me fan, you’re going to want to read this incredible story of how the McElroy brothers trolled their way into roles in Trolls 2. (via Vanity Fair)
- This is canon!
Spider-Man is Queer and uses Grindr in NYC pic.twitter.com/VCXLRNhnxg
— ✨ ᶻᵃᶜʰᵃʳʸ 💦 (@Z_ninetales) September 10, 2018
Stay safe out there, East Coasters!
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The premiere of the new Universal Pictures film First Man was an incredible cinematic experience at the Toronto International Film Festival. Audiences screened the film at the dome-shaped Cinesphere on an IMAX screen — appropriate for this narrative with a setting in outer space. Filmmaker Damien Chazelle stated before the screening started, that several scenes were shot in IMAX and he was excited that we can see the film in its best form.
Chazelle teams up with the award-winning team from La La Land and has executive producer Steven Spielberg along for the ride in this groundbreaking story about the first man to ever walk on the moon, aeronautical engineer Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling). Based on James R. Hansen’s book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, the movie takes us through the decade leading up to the historic Apollo 11 flight and landing. What we uncover in this motion picture is more about Armstrong himself — including family, close friends, and colleagues as well as a series of fateful events that led to him piloting the mission.
Neil Armstrong suffered tragedy and death seemed to surround him. The film first features the death of his daughter which haunts Neil for many years after her passing. His wife Jan (Claire Foy) struggles to keep the family together and be a rock for Armstrong as he continues to work his way up through the NASA space program. However, the risks of being an astronaut come with the loss of life which Armstrong experiences throughout the years along with his wife, and the two become all too familiar with attending funerals.
First Man balances between being a docudrama about Neil’s life as an astronaut and a Discovery network narrative with impressive panoramic shots of space and the moon. The unsung hero of this film is the sound editing. The sound matches perfectly from scenes inside of the wedged compartment of the Gemini capsule to the moment when Armstrong begins his first step on the moon, indelibly placing a historical print — one that will be remembered among all nations forever.
Audiences will also learn about some of the idiosyncrasies of astronaut Buzz Aldrin (Corey Stoll) who was with mission commander Neil Armstong on that historic flight. He’s depicted as being a bit cocky and arrogant, and it appears as if Armstrong himself was annoyed by Aldrin’s eccentricities.
The opening scene of First Man is an intense POV directly through the lens of Armstrong, in his tightly spaced capsule orbiting space. We get to experience for just a moment what he endures as the camera shakes, the motors run high and fast and the dimly lit spacecraft is preparing to take us to new heights. It is also in this moment that the sound editing does its magic in preparing us for the kind of experience we will have.
Ryan Gosling delivers a performance that I don’t necessarily will think become groundbreaking or memorable but one that will give insight about Armstrong the father and family man — as opposed to Armstrong the astronaut. We get more of a gripping performance from Stoll as the super-confident Buzz Aldrin, and during the historic mission even Aldrin himself takes it down a notch to absorb the miracle of what is happening around him and is humbled. First Man also provides perspective on what the families of astronauts have to contend with since the risk of life-threatening missions is inevitable. There is one poignant scene with Jan and Neil Armstrong as she insists to her husband that he has to be the one to tell their children he may not come back from the mission.
First Man provides an experience for the viewer that goes beyond just telling the story of Armstrong but seeing and feeling it through his perspective.
First Man opens in theaters and in IMAX on October 12.
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