Charles Melton at the Academy Museum Gala in custom ELR

This one?

Show us your pits, Anthony Ippolito

Went out with a high note at this year’s CIFF. “Dao” is over three hours long, at least partially improvised, and has an organic breeziness that is hard to replicate.

“Lightning” by The Wanted into “All Night Long” by Alexandra Burke

I think the premise of “Head to Head” is very promising and the film-within-a-film-within-a-film structure is very intriguing. But I don’t think the film goes beyond the surface level. The white-hot anger is palpable but there’s not much else.

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CIFF selections plus an early Oscar nominee for Best Actor

Wonho, you are truly crazy for this one

Ira Sachs’ “The Man I Love” might be his best yet. His nebulous plotting allows the ensemble vast amounts of freedom to shade in their characters. They feel fresher than they might appear on the surface. Sturridge, Ford, Hall fantastic. Malek’s inherent strangeness used well.

Need to catch up on what I’ve seen at CIFF. “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building” is another in a recent spate of documentary-fiction hybrids interrogating childhood memory. Wonderful story that integrated the documentary components in fresh ways. Great child actors.