Director Sean Baker started the evening with zero Oscars under his belt, and left with four — for original screenplay, film editing, director, and best picture. (Not to mention Mikey Madison’s win for best actress.) Last fall, The Verge spoke with Baker about how he made Anora’s scant $6 million budget look like a film made for $50 million.
Saturday Night Live turned 50, but the real star-studded event was the accidentally un-BCC’d promo email for Lorne Michaels’s new memoir — a “reply-all disaster” featuring the likes Rosanne Cash, Jesse Eisenberg, and Renata Adler. Eventually, Tina Fey replied with a link to a YouTube video about how to use Gmail. “Ahahahahahahah!! Thanks Tina,” replied Jon Hamm.
If you’re mourning one of America’s film greats, then maybe sooth yourself by rewatching some of his very un-soothing movies. The 2016 documentary on his work, David Lynch: The Art Life, is available on Criterion for free (no subscription required). The arthouse platform also has a strong selection of his films, including Eraserhead, Mulholland Dr., and Lost Highway.
If you want to watch Twin Peaks or Twin Peaks: The Return, it’s on Paramount Plus. Max also has a handful of Lynch titles, including Blue Velvet and Dune. NYT also has a further breakdown of where certain films are available.
That’s the kind grown specifically for football turf, and now it’ll be used for indoor golf too. According to Jacob Feldman at Sportico, the vibes of TGL — a new rival golf league to the PGA — feels a lot like professional wrestling. TGL hopes they can create a compelling new TV product with video game-like camera angles, loud sound effects, golfer entrance music, and of course, new grass.
The film won Best Motion Picture in Drama and Best Director. Hollywood’s awards season is long, but the Globes are a good signal for the 3.5-hour saga’s Oscar chances.
In the meantime, check out our Q&A with director Brady Corbet and how he got his audacious movie off the ground.
This month Criterion Channel’s new “Surveillance Cinema” series features a number of Verge reader favorites: Gattaca, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Conversation.
But Demonlover, Olivier Assayas’s underrated corporate espionage thriller, might be the pick here that’s most prescient about the internet and people’s obsession with superheroes, porn, and Japan. It received mixed reviews when it was released in 2002, but you might be shocked how well it holds up over two decades later.
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross shares his point of view with the world.
Phil Elverum fuzzy guitars and crashing cymbals don’t really conjure “remix material” in my mind, but I love that he dropped his new record Night Palace along with a folder of all the stems, in case you were ever so inclined. Since his days under the moniker The Microphones, Elverum has embodied the DIY spirit, so I guess now you can do it yourself, too.
