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Toronto Star critic Peter Howell is providing visually alluring, easy-to-digest film reviews for those who find reading more than two sentences in tandem to be a bit challenging, but who would probably be okay with reading a comic-strip review any day of the week and twice on Sundays. As for that crazy Oscar-night ending, Barry Jenkins, the director of “Moonlight,” says: ‘“It’s messy, but it’s kind of gorgeous,” describing the instant that he, the audience at the Dolby Theatre, and 33 million viewers were stunned to learn that his movie, not Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” had actually won the best picture prize. “You have these two groups of people who came together for a second. There’s a picture with me hugging Jordan [Horowitz, a producer of “La La Land”], and Adele [Romanski, producer of “Moonlight”] has her arm on his shoulder. That’s what the moment was.” Chazelle says: “It’s weird to be friendly with someone but to feel like there’s a mano-a-mano thing, which I guess is the nature of the Oscars. So it was nice to explode that myth a little bit on a big stage.” Jenkins and Chazelle spoke in a joint interview in which, emotionally hungover, they were finally able to compare notes on their respective experiences when chaos broke out on the Dolby stage.

by Brendan Lemon | 3/1/17 | Leave a comment |