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    New York Film Critics’ Best Picture: “La La Land”

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    This image released by Summit Entertainment shows Ryan Gosling, right, and Emma Stone in a scene from "La La Land." (Dale Robinette/Summit Entertainment via AP)

    "Moonlight," "Manchester by the Sea" also score impressively

    By Jake Coyle, Film Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” was named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.

    The group announced their picks Thursday on Twitter, spreading around their awards to a variety of Oscar contenders. The top award came as something of a twist after the critics’ early choices leaned toward Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age portrait “Moonlight” and Kenneth Lonergan’s grief-filled drama “Manchester by the Sea.”

    “Moonlight” won awards for best director (Jenkins), best cinematography (James Laxton) and best supporting actor (Mahershala Ali). “Manchester by the Sea” took best actor for Casey Affleck, best screenplay for Lonergan and best supporting actress for Michelle Williams. Williams was honored jointly for her performances in “Manchester by the Sea” and Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women.”

    Best film was the sole award for “La La Land,” which opens next week. Chazelle’s film, starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, also led the Critics’ Choice Awards nominations on Thursday with 12 nods.

    Those three films – “La La Land,” ‘’Moonlight” and “Manchester by the Sea”- have been the favored critics’ choices in the early going of Hollywood’s awards season. “Moonlight” led the Gotham Film Independent Awards on Monday. “Manchester by the Sea” topped the National Board of Review Awards on Tuesday.

    Each group, however, has its own quirks and other favorites – Denzel Washington’s “Fences” and Martin Scorsese’s late-arriving “Silence,” among others – are also in the mix. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association will make their picks.

    The NYFCC, a body of several dozen New York-area critics, named Isabelle Huppert best actress for her lead performances in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” and Mia Hansen-Love’s “The Things to Come.” Best first-film was a tie between Kelly Fremon Craig’s teen comedy “The Edge of Seventeen” and Trey Edward Shults’ micro-budget family drama “Krisha.”

    Special awards were also singled out for Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese’s longtime editor, and the 25th anniversary restoration of Julie Dash’s “Daughters of the Dust.”

    Here’s a full category-by-category rundown:

    2016 Awards

    Best Picture
    LA LA LAND

    Best Director
    Barry Jenkins
    MOONLIGHT

    Best Screenplay
    Kenneth Lonergan
    MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

    Best Actress
    Isabelle Huppert for both
    ELLE
    and
    THE THINGS TO COME

    Best Actor
    Casey Affleck
    MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

    Best Supporting Actress
    Michelle Williams for both
    MANCHESTER BY THE SEA 
    and
    CERTAIN WOMEN

    Best Supporting Actor
    Mahershala Ali
    MOONLIGHT

    Best Cinematographer
    James Laxton
    MOONLIGHT

    Best Animated Film
    Zootopia

    Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)
    O.J.: Made in America

    Best Foreign Language Film
    Toni Erdmann

    Best First Film (a tie)
    Kelly Fremon Craig
    THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
    and
    Trey Edward Shults
    KRISHA

    Special Awards
    Thelma Schoonmaker 

    Julie Dash’s DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (25TH ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION)

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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