Patti Lupone Oscar campaign thread

[sng]

Posted: 4/1/23 at 10:10pm

Patti Lupone is in the new Ari Aster movie with Joaquin Phoenix "Beau is Afraid" and apparently the best part of the film.

https://twitter.com/ryanmcquade77/status/1642291679032909824

https://twitter.com/nikonamerica/status/1642297787092987904

https://twitter.com/Lulamaybelle/status/1642292644448706561

Can we start the campaign for her nomination now please and thank you!

 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/1/23 at 11:24pm

I’d love to see it, and anything is possible…but this is a spring release of an esoteric art film. The three “critics” you cite aren’t even at the bottom of the barrel — they’re underneath it. Let’s manage expectations.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 4/1/23 at 11:48pm

sng said: "Patti Lupone is in the new Ari Aster movie with Joaquin Phoenix "Beau is Afraid" and apparently the best part of the film.

https://twitter.com/ryanmcquade77/status/1642291679032909824

https://twitter.com/nikonamerica/status/1642297787092987904

https://twitter.com/Lulamaybelle/status/1642292644448706561

 

Your enthusiasm is a bit overstated.  It makes sense for a film to get exposure and word of mouth publicity first, before clamoring for an award nomination.

Can we start the campaign for her nomination now please and thank you!

"

 

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 12:10am

Nothing is impossible, since we just saw a low budget science fiction comedy sweep the Oscars, but… asking the Academy to pay proper respect to a horror auteur like Ari Aster (especially one who mixes in a kind of sick and defiant comedy) is like asking Lucy to let Charlie Brown kick the football. 
 

I’m sure Patti is good… but is she Toni Collette good?

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 12:31am

Not sure it sounds at all like the kind of thing that gets much mainstream awards attention, even if it's less outright horror than his other work. Certainly sounds interesting though.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/ari-aster-joaquin-phoenix-beau-is-afraid-surprise-screening-3-hour-runtime-1235570894/

"Emma Stone was blunt. “Are you okay, man?” she asked Ari Aster after a surprise screening of his latest film, “Beau Is Afraid” at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse on a rainy Saturday afternoon.

Audiences around the country may be asking variations of the same question after they emerge from the occasionally creepy, often hilarious and deeply weird horror-comedy. It’s a movie about a neurotic man (Joaquin Phoenix) with serious mommy issues, who must endure a phantasmagoric odyssey as he labors to get home following a family tragedy. Over the course of his journey he will be kidnapped by a suburban couple (Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan), stalked by a hulking vet with PTSD, menaced by a paint-drinking teenage girl and embraced by an experimental theater troupe. There’s also an animated sequence, as well as a recurring gag involving Phoenix’s distended testicles, plus a sex scene with Parker Posey that may rank among the wackiest ever committed to film. Oh, and did we mention the whole thing is three hours long?"

Updated On: 4/2/23 at 12:31 AM

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 10:10am

Beau Is Afraid is my most anticipated movie of the year, and I guess anything is possible but I can’t imagine this happening. 
 

Yes, the Academy is (slowly) changing, but they still rarely nominate genre fare. The landscape is different now, though. A24 now has a ton of awards under their belt but they didn’t even do a small campaign for Toni Collette in Hereditary or Mia Goth in Pearl. 
 

I have no doubt Beau is great and Ari Aster has two masterpieces under his belt at this point and I would like nothing more than the Academy to embrace him.

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:00am

The Hereditary snub will be looked at like the Psycho snub in the future.

[fbueller]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 11:05am

Audiences around the country may be asking variations of the same question after they emerge from the occasionally creepy, often hilarious and deeply weird horror-comedy. It’s a movie about a neurotic man (Joaquin Phoenix) with serious mommy issues, who must endure a phantasmagoric odyssey as he labors to get home following a family tragedy. Over the course of his journey he will be kidnapped by a suburban couple (Nathan Lane and Amy Ryan), stalked by a hulking vet with PTSD, menaced by a paint-drinking teenage girl and embraced by an experimental theater troupe. There’s also an animated sequence, as well as a recurring gag involving Phoenix’s distended testicles, plus a sex scene with Parker Posey that may rank among the wackiest ever committed to film. Oh, and did we mention the whole thing is three hours long?""

Is this basically just a documentary about Joaquin?  LOL

Updated On: 4/2/23 at 11:05 AM

[djjd007]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 2:30pm

I’m assuming Patti is the paint-drinking girl, right?

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 3:44pm

djjd007 said: "I’m assuming Patti is the paint-drinking girl, right?"

She plays Joaquin’s mother.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 3:55pm

Reading some more Twitter comments from various critic types and it sounds perverse and now I cannot wait to see it. Living for the hyperbole that typically accompanies early media screenings.

 

“He’s sick in the head. He’s not well.” - Emma Stone (who moderated a talkback yesterday) on the titilar Beau

"BEAU IS AFRAID right at the intersection of Albert Brooks’ MOTHER and Darren Aronofsky’s MOTHER" - Alison Wilmore, NY Mag

"Albert Brooks Goes to Hell. S-tier nightmare comedy." - Sean Fennessy, The Ringer

"it’s like The Odyssey but about a Freudian basket case who REALLY needs to nut. it’s three hours long, perverse and riotously funny, and then there’s a breathtaking sequence in the middle that’s the most beautifully crafted thing of aster’s career" - David Sims, Atlantic

"There’s a usage of Mariah Carey that people are going to lose their minds over and that probably accounted for 1/35th of the budget." - IndieWire

"Epically phantasmagorical guilt trip of a film that only a Jewish mother could love...but also me! I think? If SYNECDOCHE had a Troma baby with TAXI DRIVER that was then raised by off-off-Broadway cast of INTO THE WOODS. The very worst date movie since MIDSOMMAR." - Barry Hertz, Daily Mail

"Just saw BEAU IS AFRAID at a surprise (ish) screening at Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco and it’s the funniest and most unhinged creation of Ari Aster’s career. Imagine The Truman Show about a guy with deep mommy issues who spends his entire life being too scared to come." - Erik Anderson, Awards Watch

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 5:16pm

Hmm, a film about a white cis-gender male with deep-rooted mommy issues. Nope. Sorry. Not interested. Can't relate. 

Updated On: 3/19/24 at 05:16 PM

[fbueller]

Posted: 4/2/23 at 9:29pm

Glenn Close has three films coming out in 2023, so Patti’s chances aren’t good.

Updated On: 4/3/23 at 09:29 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/3/23 at 12:21am

fbueller said: "Glenn Close has three films coming out on 2023, so Parti’s chances aren’t good."

Unfortunately the films are Hillbilly Elegy: The Prequel, Mars Attacks 2, and 2 Wife 2 Furious. 

[Impeach2017]

Posted: 4/3/23 at 5:08am

CarlosAlberto said: "Hmm, a film about a white cis-gender male with deep-rooted mommy issues who is afraid to ejaculate. Nope. Sorry. Not interested. Can't relate.

 

hmmm

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/11/23 at 8:33am

Reviews are out, and, yeah, it certainly sounds...interesting. 

Hollywood Reporter

"Three hours that definitely put the odd in odyssey, Beau Is Afraid could be said to suffer from the same bloat, wandering through bizarre detours of varying effectiveness before arriving at a wonderfully overripe operatic climax elevated by Patti LuPone as the Lydia Tár of single mothers."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/beau-is-afraid-review-joaquin-phoenix-ari-aster-1235369262/

Variety (has spoilers):

‘Beau Is Afraid’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Plays a Simpering Man-Child in Ari Aster’s Runaway Arrested-Development Epic

With its indulgent three-hour running time and telling no-festival release strategy, the A24 darling's latest reflects what happens when a technically gifted artist is given too much creative freedom.

https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/beau-is-afraid-review-joaquin-phoenix-ari-aster-1235577518/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/11/23 at 8:35am

Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/beau-is-afraid-review-ari-aster-joaquin-phoenix-horror-movie-mommy-issues-1234709421/

There is a portrait of a controlling, domineering Mom in Beau Is Afraid so outrageous that Alexander Portnoy might be moved to say, Dude, you need to chill. It’s also one that’s likely to strike a chord with a lot of moviegoers, and not just the male ones. Both Lister-Jones and LuPone know how to couch the monstrous qualities of Mona in a realistic sense of narcissism, weaponized guilt, transference, and rolling over boundaries; LuPone in particular understands Mona’s lashing out at loved ones as a defense mechanism. (She’s so spot-on in her portrayal of this difficult women that you’d have thought it was the role she was born to play, had the award-winning actor not already give us her Norma Desmond, Mrs. Lovett, and Eva Perón.)

[fbueller]

Posted: 4/11/23 at 10:03am

Let.  It.  Go…

[ColdClimateDude]

Posted: 4/11/23 at 10:57am

Well...the lead critic of Vanity Fair (no small potatoes critic) did bring up on their podcast this last week that Patti completely steals the film, and it's the kind of performance where a Best Supporting Actress campaign could easily be built around.  Joaquin Phoenix also has Napoleon coming out this year so he may find more prestige there so A24 (the distributor) could focus some effort on this LuPone campaign -- she'd be a gas to send on the campaign trail.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/20/23 at 4:04pm

There's a plot summary on Wikipedia now, and yeah, doesn't sound like the kind of thing the Academy will find remotely appealing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Is_Afraid

Also an article discussing the plot and the ending:

https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/beau-is-afraid-ending-explained.html

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/20/23 at 4:07pm

The film is bat**** crazy. Patti's excellent and it's exciting to see her get a role like this, but she doesn't enter until the last half hour of a 3-hour film. Feels like something that would be better rewarded by the NY Film Critics Circle than the Oscars, whose voters might be more offput by the film.

Nathan Lane is very good, too, but his is a more strictly comedic role.

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 4/21/23 at 2:08am

CarlosAlberto said: "Hmm, a film about a white cis-gender male with deep-rooted mommy issues who is afraid to ejaculate. Nope. Sorry. Not interested. Can't relate."

Really because this sounds just like you

[ABitOnTheSide]

Posted: 4/22/23 at 2:22am

I saw this tonight, appropriately for Patti’s birthday! Besides Patti, there are other Theatre vets like Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson and Richard Kind.

The movie takes 3 hours to tell very little story. The whole movie is just artistic folderol and filler. You wait and wait for the story to be told and it never happens, so you feel dumb for missing the story at all, if there is one. It’s also predictable and aggravating, but never boring at least. It’s the kind of movie that grabs you, shakes you and screams loudly in your ear that it is POIGNANT!!!

It is worth the wait for the 3rd act scenery devouring of Patti LuPone. The movie comes alive when she makes her star entrance and delivers some very delicious and detestable dialogue. I hope she is nominated (and wins) an Oscar. But the reviews are unkind and people didn’t seem to like it at my showing. It will fizzle out and be forgotten by Oscar season. It would be very amusing to see Patti win an Oscar before Glenn Close.

Happy birthday Patti!

[Peronista]

Posted: 4/22/23 at 12:18pm

the movie is whacked.  But hilarious if you look at it from a certain viewpoint.

But the Patti thing is cool because you see what a new take on a GYPSY movie with her could have been.  This whole Barbra GYPSY flirtation that went on... whatever.  But all the dialogue that Patti has in her big sequence in this movie is so close to the final dressing room scene in GYPSY.  There are lines that are super close to word for word.  And her inflections are identical to her revival performance.  And somehow with the camera as close to her face as it is, she never tips over into camp.  That's the real achievement IMHO

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 4/22/23 at 12:51pm

Reminder me of an even more absurd After Hours: man has singular goal to get to a location but is thwarted at every opportunity by increasingly ludicrous obstacles. If you're not on its wavelength, it's gonna be a long 3 hours. I had a good time going along on the journey, not too concerned about where I was being taken and enjoying the off-beat comedy. I'm not sure I see a world where Patti gets major awards attention, whether she deserves it or not.