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08 Mar

Critics Choice Awards Favor Nomadland and Promising Young Woman, Reshape Awards Race

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What a difference a week makes. Seven days ago, the Golden Globes arrived with controversy and allegedly upended the race with some major surprises (and major head scratchers). Is Jodie Foster really a contender for Best Supporting Actress? Was the support for Maria Bakalova just internet hype? There was plenty of hand-wringing, but Sunday night’s 26th annual Critics Choice Awards arrived to recalibrate the state of the awards race—and to give an interesting look at how a singular industry marches on during a pandemic. The biggest winner of the night was Nomadland, which picked up the Critics Choice Awards for…
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25 Feb

Nomadland: How Bob Wells’ Real Life Story Grounds a Quiet Depiction of Grief

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We’ve already written more generally about how director and writer Chloé Zhao used documentary techniques to blur real life and fiction in her neo-western drama Nomadland, which is now available to stream on Hulu. One of the chief filmmaking choices Zhao made was to utilize non-actors to play fictionalized versions of themselves. Characters like Linda May and Swankie are played by real-life nomads who live in their vans. Bob Wells, a vlogger and author who writes about life lived in his refurbished van, is the most famous of the actual nomads to appear in Nomadland. Wells is an older American…
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19 Feb

Why Nomadland Feels Like a True Story Documentary

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Nomadland, the Oscar-tipped feature film from Chloé Zhao, debuts on Hulu today after getting an American limited theatrical release a few weeks ago. The film stars Frances McDormand as Fern, an older woman and working class widow who travels the American west in a van, in which she also lives. Though Nomadland is not a true story or a documentary, the film often blurs the line between fiction and reality by centering real places and communities, as well as casting a number of real people who are playing fictionalized versions of themselves. To further capture the feel of the nomadic…
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27 Jan

Link Tank: Nomadland Named Annual Best Picture by The Online Film Critics Society

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The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) has named Nomadland as Best Picture in their reveal of the annual top ten films and winners of other award categories. “The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) has revealed its annual Top Ten List as well as winners of its film awards which was topped by Nomadland. In addition, The Chloé Zhao American wanderlust drama was named Best Picture. Also on the list is Pixar’s Soul which was also named Best Animated Feature.” Read more at Deadline. Acclaimed poet and writer Maya Angelou is the latest addition to Mattel’s “Inspiring Women” line of Barbie…
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11 Dec

Nomadland

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.Rated: RRelease Date: Dec 04, 2020
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14 Sep

Nomadland Review: A Modern Day Grapes of Wrath

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They don’t recognize her at first. The students who once turned to Frances McDormand’s wearied and weathered Fern for tutoring are now almost walking right by their former educator in an early pivotal scene from Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland. Fern is at the same superstore as them to buy supplies for the beat-up RV she lives in outside. In another life they were neighbors from the mining town of Empire, Nevada. But that place is gone, and today they’re practically strangers, scattered to the wind when they bump into each other. The young girls’ mother reluctantly offers Fern a place to…
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