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Golden Globes Film Preview: The Current Awards Season Would Make Great Programming for an A-List Film Festival
The 2024 Golden Globes and Oscars race is a stampede of creatively ambitious film directors that would make a great A-list festival lineup.
His latest, “Juror #2” is earning the 94-year-old legend some of the strongest reviews of his career, leading many to hope his long-time studio, Warner Bros., will listen to the audiences and critics and support the film with some awards season panache. Eggers emerged as a visionary thriller filmmaker a decade ago, winning the directing prize at Sundance with his first feature, “The Witch.” Since then, his distinctive, visually inventive films have scored in festivals. Recently named to Variety ’s 28th annual Directors to Watch list, French writer-director Fargeat took home the best screenplay award in Cannes this year for her tour de force body horror provocation “The Substance.” On this side of the pond, “Substance” connected with the Toronto Festival crowd at its packed opening night slot in the fest’s “Midnight Madness” section.
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