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Saying goodbye to 2023 in film

Each year, I use the weekend of the Academy Awards to write my last official post on the previous year in film, usually predicated on the relationship with the imminent Oscar winners.

Bad romances

You wouldn’t think that the recent Oscar nominee for Best Picture (Celine Song’s “Past Lives”) has much in common with the Will Gluck romantic-comedy “Anyone But You”, but both films are an unwelcome reminder that contemporary romances keep forgetting the most important thing – a burning romance.

Michelle Williams, Keeley Karsten, Sophia Kopera, and Gabriel LaBelle in “The Fabelmans”

Up-close and (mostly) personal in “The Fabelmans”

Last month, the publicity team for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans”, a semi-autobiographical account of the filmmaker’s life from 1952 to the mid-1960s, revealed that Michelle Williams would be campaigning for awards attention as Lead Actress rather than Supporting Actress.

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