ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #6 – Nomadland Scott Wilson December 31, 2021 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Winning over 100 awards in total, Nomadland’s success at the Oscars may have seemed, ultimately, inevitable, but there was still a surge of warranted joy when...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #8 – First Cow Louise Burrell December 31, 2021 Analysis, Features, Opinion With an outpouring of festival and critics’ awards over the last 18 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations in early...
Nomadland – Review Weiting Liu April 28, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2020. Writer-director-editor Chloé Zhao’s genre experimentation within the poetic docudrama has come to technical fruition in Nomadland, elevating her to...
Why First Cow Was The Biggest Oscar Snub This Year Louise Burrell March 27, 2021 Analysis, Features, Opinion With an outpouring of festival and critics awards over the last 12 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations. But in a...
Ammonite, Nomadland and Female Freedom Alex Goldstein November 9, 2020 Analysis, Close-Up, Features So many women’s stories are about freedom: choosing it, fearing it, paying for it. At the London Film Festival this year, two of the most talked about features - Nomadland and Ammonite - had the same...
