As per tradition, here are my predictions for the Oscars 2020!
WW: Will Win
DH: Dark Horse
Prediction Results: 20/24 (if including dark horses, 24/24)
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Author / Eternality Tan
I Lost My Body (2019)
Creative and original, this French animation meditates on personal loss with eye-popping visuals, but never quite reaches any significant emotional peak.
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Buoyancy (2019)
A gripping feature debut that explores a current social issue—slave labourers on board fishing vessels in Southeast Asia—that is both urgent and disturbing.
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Tale of Zatoichi Continues, The (1962)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Not just P.T. Anderson’s finest film to date, but one of the greatest works of the 2000s decade – this is a cinematic masterpiece in every sense of the word.
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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
This unconventional and intoxicating concoction by P.T. Anderson oozes style, rhythm, and idiosyncrasy.
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Magnolia (1999)
A masterful tapestry of interwoven stories and interconnected characters – this is one of P.T. Anderson’s finest hours.
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Lighthouse, The (2019)
Nightmarish if also baffling, Eggers’ sophomore effort is a strong one with compelling physical performances by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.
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Stray Dogs (2013)
Frustratingly deliberate in its pacing, yet one draws contemplation from the film’s unique stillness, all from one of the most formidable artists of ‘slow cinema’ of our time.
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
An elegy to the demise of the ‘cinema’—both films and spaces—of the 20th century as we had experienced it, all to the pedestrian if oddly haunting pacing of Tsai’s delicate craft.
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