![]() ![]() Jonze’s first film, “Being John Malkovich,” was nominated for directing, writing and supporting actress his second, “Adaptation,” for writing and in three acting categories his last, “Where the Wild Things Are,” for nothing at all. AMPAS usually prefers its Best Picture nominees to be earnest, not quirky, so “Her” would be a thoroughly unconventional nominee – although its emotional resonance is universal, and its singularity means that it could well appeal to a passionate minority of voters, a good bloc to have given a voting system that rewards passion over consensus in the nominating round. (“I’ll go ahead and be the one who couldn’t stand ‘Her,'” tweeted In Contention’s Kris Tapley – and while there will no doubt be more than one, his math wasn’t far off on Saturday.)īut critics and bloggers and tweeters are not Academy voters, and that’s where “Her” could face a tougher fight. STEVE POND: “Her” is beautiful and touching, and its initial screenings in New York and Los Angeles resulted in a barrage of enthusiastic tweets and reviews, with almost no naysayers. ( Left to right at NYFF: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde and Spike Jonze.) Their handiwork was evident, not only in the amber-infused Alice Tully Hall, but also at the Standard, which abuts and looks out over the High Line. In an interview with New York magazine, Jonze said that members of the architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, which helped renovate Lincoln Center and New York City’s elevated walkway/park the High Line, helped him realize his futuristic vision of Los Angeles. In fact, both the location of the screening and the after party were particularly apt. However, Phoenix and Johansson were singled out for their performances, as was Jonze’s vision of the future as a place of high-waisted pants and Apple-inflected interior design. ![]() Privately, the adjective most often used to describe the picture was “interesting,” with some faulting the film for being overly long and for failing to maintain its momentum in the third act. He thanked the cast members in attendance and an absent Scarlett Johansson, who plays the disembodied voice of the operating system that Phoenix falls in love with, joking that the actress who was busy filming another picture, “is in the ether with us, as she will be in the movie.”Īt a party for the film at the rooftop bar of the Standard Hotel, guests such as Tony Kushner, Edward Norton, Paul Dano and Philip Seymour Hoffman nibbled on truffle grilled-cheese sandwiches and Asian chicken wraps, and swarmed the director and Phoenix to offer their congratulations. There was audible crying during the emotionally poignant finale, but when Jonze, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Olivia Wilde appeared on the balcony at the Alice Tully Hall after the credits rolled the applause was enthusiastic and sustained, but only a smattering of audience members rose to their feet.īefore the film rolled, Jonze confessed that editors had been working on the picture until hours before its debut. TheWrap‘s Brent Lang reports from the NYFF premiere, and Steve Pond assesses the film’s awards prospects:īRENT LANG: Spike Jonze’s “Her” was warmly received at its world premiere as the closing night film of the 2013 New York Film Festival. ![]() With Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely divorced man in a futuristic Los Angeles, and Scarlett Johansson as “Samantha,” the voice of his intuitive operating system, the film mixes the unconventional storytelling approach of previous Jonze films “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation” with a very human core it’s really a movie about intimacy, not technology.Īlso read: ‘Her’ Review: She’s Virtual, But You Can’t Have Everything ![]() An odd, touching love story about a man and his operating system, Spike Jonze’s “Her” set Twitter abuzz, won rave reviews and threatened to become a wild-card entry in the Oscar race when it premiered at the New York Film Festival and screened on both coasts on Saturday. ![]()
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