At the 77th
@FilmFestLocarno
,
@ella_kemp
presents Gaucho Gaucho filmmakers Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck with the inaugural Letterboxd Piazza Grande Award.
The award was voted for by a jury of six young film critics, celebrating a film embodying our values of community as
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer says that trans women should be banned from women-only spaces.
Asked if trans women (even those with GRCs) have the right to use women's spaces, Starmer said: "No. They don’t have that right. They shouldn’t".
(Via The Times)
KINDS OF KINDNESS is for all the girls who have been telling you how much they love KILLING OF A SACRED DEER for years. It's me, I'm girls, the movie is bloody, grisly, dry, feral, but kinda... beautiful lol. Kindness can be a horrible thing and how fun is that!!!
time to talk TWISTERS: I love TWISTERS! I had zero expectations and think the original is fine! I keep telling people it's this year's TOP GUN MAVERICK! everyone is so charming and good-looking and it's all very tense! Absolutely massive summer cinema, in the most positive way.
Lily Gladstone, Andrew Scott, Greta Lee, Celine Song, Charles Melton, Todd Haynes, Charlotte Regan, Molly Manning Walker, Raine Allen-Miller, Mica Levi, Martin Scorsese,,,,,,,
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS is so beautiful and bold and so many things I don’t even know how to process but my one request is that every person wanting to make a reboot or sequel to anything watches this five fucking billion times before writing a single word
I'm 12 minutes into a rewatch of THE SOCIAL NETWORK and just want to clarify that I did, still do, and always will urgently want to lay my life down for this specific Andrew Garfield
I'm pleased to finally confirm THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD is just *it* for me. Film of the year, of my life, no contest. Sexy and sad and clever and rich and wrong and true and just perfect
Loved BROKER, typically bittersweet from Kore-eda w/ another strange, tender family - but more complex here w/ questions of forgiveness & responsibility & choice, crucially a woman’s choice that never feels right, whatever you do. Takes a master to get that right
#Cannes2022
Every frame of THE LIGHTHOUSE is stunning, every flinch of this wonderfully weird horror is insane in the best way. Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe are completely unparalleled, how exciting it is to be living at the same time as such talent!
#Cannes2019
I reviewed Louis Tomlinson's solo debut for
@NME
– as someone who very much cares for both One Direction and Oasis, I enjoyed this, and am curious about where his own sound will go next
Now would be a really good time to strike up a nice new friendship or little flirt over the internet with someone you've always sort of had a little thing for but no reason to reach out, is all I'm saying
I’d like to formally apologise for ever doubting that Lady Gaga is absolutely out of this world. A STAR IS BORN celebrates the woman, as it should - along with every noble ambition of love and music and patience and loyalty, bursting with pain and wonder
#TIFF18
INTERSTELLAR is one of the most magnificent films I have seen (and it is every time I rewatch). It makes everything else turn to dust and it understands love like nothing else I’ve ever encountered and it’s a miraculous, unbelievable thing that it exists at all
Things I learned in the
@IFFR
masterclass with Bong Joon-ho:
- His mother didn’t let him go to the cinema because “there was a lot of bacteria there”
- The storyboards for PARASITE exist as a graphic novel, available to buy
- Park Chan-wook is a “slow but very strong drinker”
Very happy to say I am now London Editor for
@letterboxd
which means you'll be seeing more from me in writing, podcasting, red carpet-ing, photographing and more. Looking to scale up in London so publicists & distributors, reach out to plan fun things! ella
@letterboxd
.com 🧡💚💙
PIG is amazing. Quite lost for words about the film itself but it emphasises two things I've always believed deep in my bones in that 1) grief is breathtakingly isolating, more than anything else and 2) cooking for someone is the most intimate, tender thing you can do for them
Olivia Colman has officially joined the cast of Paddington 3, where her character will reportedly "run a retirement home for bears in Peru."
(Source:
@THR
)
All I want is a film that’s fun, cool, important, emotional, attractive, uplifting, powerful, hilarious, heartbreaking, and 85 minutes long I’m really not asking for much
DECISION TO LEAVE: Park Chan-wooooook! The most romantic detective thriller you’ll ever see, nobody directs films like this king. Grows and grows on you until it washes over and swallows you whole. Gorgeous!
#Cannes2022
I immediately fell hard for ON THE ROCKS and however sweet or pleasant or ultimately non-life altering it is, I’d happily spend so many more hours with it. Imperfect restless tired people trying their best to feel loved, to feel like they’re glowing - my heart swells for them all
Never say I can’t keep a secret: three months ago, Alex Turner and I met in East London to talk about The Car, Inherent Vice, Beyoncé, and I told him what fan service meant.
Our conversation is in print for my
@vogueaustralia
debut, and I still can’t quite believe this happened
Paul Thomas Anderson directing everything for HAIM is not only the best thing that’s ever happened, it also makes complete sense when you remember he basically started making MAGNOLIA because he just really loved Aimee Mann’s music
What are your favourite movies about people doing...basically nothing? Just talking. Hanging out. Living life in its most uneventful form. My vote goes to the talky talk-ness of BEFORE SUNRISE
With both ‘The French Dispatch’ and ‘Dune’ delayed until 2021, this year will be the first year without the release of a new Timothée Chalamet movie since 2014.
Oh well SHIRLEY is completely monumental - there is not a single thing about it I don’t adore. No one makes cinema so delicious, so dangerous and so fucking good as Josephine Decker and it is an all-consuming *thrill* to watch
Some ~news~: I am now the Film Editor at
@theQuietus
🤠My email address is ella
@thequietus
.com and I would love to be sent invitations, press releases, pitches, and any other nice words you can think of!
What is your favourite nightclub scene in a film? Thinking about small spaces with lots of people and ear-splitting music and blinding strobes for no reason whatsoever
Just found out that Peter Sarsgaard is not in fact a relative in any way of Stellan, Alexander or Bill Skarsgård and just can't believe you've all let me live like this
The writer (Steven Knight), director (Pablo Larraín), star (Kristen Stewart), and composer (Jonny Greenwood) of the Princess Diana fable
#Spencer
tell us how they got under the skin of a tragic icon.
Words by
@ella_kemp
.
I love Challengers so much, as much from a technical and artistic standpoint (the way Luca shoots bodies and colours is unrivalled, forever; that score makes me lose my mind) as the emotional daggers of it all—the three actors are insane, beautiful, manipulative, funny, oh my
Back in Cannes, I skipped town for the day to speak to Wes Anderson for
@letterboxd
💫
I took his photo and heard about his favourite movies, and ASTEROID CITY, for what is now one of my favourite stories ever.
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN completely blew me away. Fearless, electric filmmaking. Every time I thought I had it figured out it became something new, always exhilarating and devastating and funny and tender and strange all at once. I could burst into tears just thinking about it
Deep breath – for
@letterboxd
, I went to Oslo and got to know THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD a bit better. Featuring interviews with Eskil Vogt, Anders Danielsen Lie, &
@KarstenM
, and original photography by me. Here I am where they captured the poster 🌞
Alfonso Cuarón explains his love for Letterboxd to
@ella_kemp
, in conversation at
@FilmFestLocarno
💛
Cuarón received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, which runs August 7–17, 2024.
Last night we lost my best friend and beautiful boy Alfie. He made everything better and I feel less whole, more quiet, so sad without him. I don’t know how to talk about him in the past tense and will love him so, so very much forever
Andrea Arnold is the greatest, I loved BIRD so much, not just because Fontaines DC feature in it in many different ways. Franz Rogowski does weird and beautiful stuff that don’t need explaining but did make me cry. Love!!!!
#Cannes2024
Martin Scorsese putting the entire world to rights in the press conference right now: "As far as taking risks at my age, what else do you expect me to do? Do something comfortable?”
🚨 THE LIGHTHOUSE IS GOD-TIER CINEMA 🚨 If Robert Pattinson decided to start a religion, after watching this film I'd gladly become a person who prays.
My
#Cannes2019
review:
Looking for (1) film to watch this eve which is pure, guaranteed joy from start to finish, maybe some good looking people, maybe some nice outfits, maybe a song or two, please remember my favourite film is MOULIN ROUGE!
Edgar Wright centres women for the first time in his ode to 1960s London, but maybe he shouldn't have – this feminism is bleak and insulting, finds
@ella_kemp
Not All Men: Sex And Power In Last Night In Soho
Let me be the 100th person with perfect taste to urge you today to watch EIGHTH GRADE, one of my favourite films in recent memory/perhaps ever, on Netflix right now
For my first
@NME
cover feature, I spoke to
@phoebe_bridgers
ahead of her titanic new album 'Punisher'.
We talked about the apocalypse, astrology, Ryan Adams, love, fear, MDMA & all the other things that make Phoebe Bridgers such a hurricane presence.
JOKER is beautiful and so awful - I’m in awe of how it’s executed but also astonished that this is the nasty story being bolstered as the current conversation’s salvation. I get it! But I don’t like it. I think I preferred living in a pre-JOKER world
#TIFF19
For the past few months, I’ve been speaking to Timothée Chalamet fans around the world. They’re not ‘hysterical teenagers’ - meet the sensitive, intelligent adult stans, from 29 to nearly 60 years old, building their own communities. On
@Refinery29UK
now:
If you are a writer who might potentially be interested in writing about films for the Quietus, be it now or in future, please get in touch! I will be putting together a list and would feel awfully embarrassed to miss anyone out
Some ~news~: I am now the Film Editor at
@theQuietus
🤠My email address is ella
@thequietus
.com and I would love to be sent invitations, press releases, pitches, and any other nice words you can think of!
I reviewed PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN – a film that shocked and troubled me the first time I saw it, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. I think it's fascinating and heartbreaking, and would love for you to read:
THE IRON CLAW is really kind of spectacular, and when I've all been telling you Zac Efron is a movie star for the ages, maybe you'll finally believe me. But Sean Durkin is also such a simultaneously careful and bold director that I don't know how anybody else would have done this