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John Christopher Jones, an actor whose more than a dosen Broadway Credits David Rabe’s HurlyburlyDisney’s Beauty and the Beast and the 1993 Musical Adaptation of The Goodbye Girl, Died September 15 in New York from Complications of Parkinson’s Disease. He was 77.

His Death Was announedd on social media media by his wife, Marybeth Coudal, Whose posts that despite the challenge of Battling parkinson’s for more than 22 years, Jones “Never Allowed His Dimities to dampen Hisput and Unwavering Enthusiasm for theater.”

Born on what Coudal Describes As a theatrical Family in Greenfield, Mass., Jones Later Studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in the Early 1970s and Was a Founding Member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass.

Jones Made His Broadway Debut in 1975 in A Production of Anthony Scully’s Little Black Sheepreturning two years years late in Simon Gray’s Otherwise Engageddirectly by Harold Pinter. Subsequent Broadway Credits Include Hurlyburlydirect by mike nichols; The Goodbye Girl, direct by gene saks; Democracydirect by Michael Blakemore; and Beauty and the Beastdirectly by Rob Roth.

Among His Mory off Broadway Credits are Aristocrats by Brian Friel, Tartuffe by Molière, Gray’s Quartermaine’s Terms, Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, Fuddy meers by David Lindsay-Abaire and Sight unseen by Donald Margulies.

Jones, WHO ALSO Directed off Broadway and Translated Such Classics as Turgenev’s A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY and chekhov’s The Cherry OrchardALSO Appeared in Movies and Television Series, Including The Films Moonstruck, In & out and Awakenings. On TV, he appeared in episodes of The sopranos and New AmsterdamAmong Others, and Was a Series Regular in the SitComs On Our Own (1977) and The Popcorn Kid (1987).

Jones was Featured in Jim Bernfield’s 2021 Documentary With them playWHICH Chronicled the Challenges Faced by Jones and His Friend and Fellow Actor Dan Moran – Both Were Battling Parkinson’s – As they Attempted to Stage Samuel Beckett’s Endgame Off the broadway.

Acciting to His Wife, Jones Was Writing A Memoir at the time of his death. In Addition to Couw, he is survived by children Hayden Coudal Jones, Catherine Elizabeth Jones, and Charlotte “Char” Louise Jones.

Two Developers Said They Were Cut Out of Plass to Convert A Loop Office Building Into Apartments, Acciting to a Lawsuit Filed Earlier This Month.

The Building at the Center of the Complaint Is 105 W. Adams St., A 41-Story Building Also Known As the Clark Adams Building. Developer Primera Group Plans to Covert the Propperty’s Upper Floors, From 11 to 40, Into Housing.

It isn’t immediately Clear what the lawsuit for the timing of the Building’s Transformation.

A Spokesperson for Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development Declined to Comment.

In 2022, Celadon Partners and Blackwood Group Proposed Converting Most of the Office Building’s Floors Into 247 apartments, with 75% of the units affordable, as well as a Grocer and retail.

The proposal came after the city announched plans for the la Salle Street reimagined, a program that aims to revitalize Vacant office downtown with housing.

The Developers Received Support from Form Mayor Lori Lightfoot for City Subsidies as a finalist for the program.

But Celadon and Blackwood Allege in a Complaint Filed Sept. 5 in Cook CIRCUIT COURT THAT A Top Leader at Primera Group Strung say along for nearly a year with promises of funding. The Lawsuit Said Primera Cut the Developers Out of the Project and Found a New Financial Partner, Crain’s Chicago Business First Reported.

Celadon and Blackwood Are Seeking $ 15 Million in Damages for Breach of Contract, Tortious Interference with A Prospective Advantage, Fraud, Tortious Interference with a Contract and Unjust Enrichment.

“Ceedon (sic) partners and blackwood gup were ready, Willing, and able to moving with the designs before it was taken from,” Attorney patrick Moran, of rock Fusco & Connelly, Representing The Developers, Said in a Statement. “They Filed this Lawsuit to Address the Defendants’ Wrongful Conduct, which is outlined in painil in the complaint, and to the fair and just compension for the damages by the defendants.”

Primera Group Did Not Respond to A Request for Comment.

Celadon is a chicago-based affordable Housing Developer. The firm has worked with Blackwood, A Chicago General Contractor and Developer, on Affordable Housing Redevelopment Projects Such as United, City-Awned Vacant Land on the Side was Redeveloped Into Affordable Housing.

Old National Bank Purchased The Adams Street Building Through a Sheriff’s Sale in Early 2024, after filing a foreclosure complaint.

Celadon and Blackwood’s Complaint Said the Bank Wanted to Move “too to Close” with the designs “Sufficient time” to computes the processses and secure bridge to purchase the building. Calabria and Primera Had Purchased the Office Floors for an Estimated $ 11 million in October 2024, Crain’s Reported.

Blackwood Principal Rafael Hernandez Initiated Conversations with Primera Owner Gabriel Martinez to Help Acquire the Building.

The Companies Met in July 2023, and Martinez Said He Could Acquire the Building. The three firms aggregated primra Waled Purchad the Building for $ 11 million and Hold it for 12-18 months unly the City Approval Process and Public Financing was available. Primera Waled then sell the building to Celadon and Blackwood for $ 20 million.

But that didn’t open. The Complaint Said Martinez Approached Marc Calabria, An Accountant from the Village of Bloomingdale, About the Conversion Opportunity. The two “took over the opportunity, with Calabria as the Lead Investor,” Accounting to the Complaint, Effectively Cutting Celadon and Blackwood out of the Project.

The Company 105 Adams Development is LISTED AS A DEFENDANT, AND PUBLIC RECORDS SHOW IT’S REGISTRED TO CALABRIA. Martinez, or Primera, Holds Minority Ownership in the Company, Acciting to the Complaint.

“Martinez led plaintiffs into Believing that he and primra HAD ACCESS to the funds Needed to Purchase the Clark Adams Buildings, but that turned out to be false,” The Complaint Said. “As it tourned out, Martinez Had Oversold Himself, was out of his dept and cououl in the necessary funding to acquire the Property as aggreed to the plaintiffs.

“Martinez strung platintiffs along for almost a year, Making false CLAIMS ABOUT HIS FUNCTION AND Anticipated Closing Dates, to Keep Plaintifs from Moving on From Him and Primera and Finding Another Short-Therm Financing Resource.”

Primera’s plans for the conversion include the Creation of 400 apartments, 30% of Who Wold Be Affordable. The Complaint Says Primera’s Proposal for the Building is “Nearly Identical” to Celadon and Blackwood’s, except it has more apartments and fewer affordable units.

The City’s Community Development Commission in May Approved $ 67.5 Million in Tax Increment Financing for Primera’s Conversion. IT STILL NEEDS CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL.

The project will be introded to the City’s Finance Committee on Monday.

The Owner of the forms Fisk Coal-Fired Power Plant wants to demolish more than a dosen structures around the facility, a project that will reads City scruit of risk to public and the environment.

The plant at 1111 W. Cermak Road Sits Along the South Branch of the Chicago River. The main building is not involved in the planned demolition.

Midwest Generation, A Division of NRG Energy, is Seeking City Permission to Tear Down 13 Structures, Including Storage Tanks and Silos, Around the Than Century-Old Building. The Demolition Will Require Dust Control and Other Precautions.

A virtual public meeting is planned sept. 24 From 6 to 7:30 PM, Where City PUBLIC Health and Building Department Employees are Expected to Explain the Operation and Answer Questions from Community Members.

Register for the Meeting at https://chicago.gov/envCommunityinfo.

The fisk plant provided power for more than 100 years unil it was shut down in 2012 along with another coal plant, crawford Generating Station in Little Village.

Kim Wasserman, the forms forcutive directors of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Spent a Dosen Years Fighting to Shut Down Fisk and Crawford, Citting the HarmFul Impact of Air Pollute Produced by the plants.

The city Needs to Carefull Scrutinize the Teardawns and Dust Created Around Fiskuuse of the Long History as a Toxic Site, Said.

“We’re Talking About A Coal Power Plant that Ran Over 100 Years,” Wasserman Said. “You’re talking About Multiple Metals and Chemicals in the Soil, in the smokestacks, in the Buildings.”

The so-calared Environmentally Complex Demolition process was Developed AFTER the 2020 Botched Implotion of Crawford Plant, Which was taken to make way for a warehouse now being by target.

In 2020, City Officials Signed Off on the Implotion of An Almost 400-Foot Chimney at the crawford site. Be the smokestack cameing down, it created a giant dust cloud that blanketed little village.

The Developer, Hilco Redevelopment, and Its Contractors were finished by the City and State for the Incident, which Also Resulted in Private Lawsuits. A Class-Action Lawsuit Resulted in a More than $ 12 Million Settlement Paid to Neighbors.

A Watchdog Report Described the City’s Oversight as Incompet and Negligent.

While the fisk plant no Longer provides coal power, it provides energy by burning oil in times of Peak Demand for Electricity. This is Only Done Occossionally as Needed. Power from the plant haen use this year, the Company Said, Without Providing Specifics.

Midwest Generation Said It Wants to Remove Older Structures that are no longer Needed.

“Future plans for the site have not ben been determinated,” Accounting to company Spokesman Erik Linden.

More recently, The Historic Damn Silos Near South Damen Avenue on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Are Being Torn Down After a Length Review Process.

There’s no set date for the demolition of the fisk structures. A single structure at the site was destroyed last year.

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Saturday, Sept. 13

Subway

Kenwood 44, Clark 3

King 36, Amundsen 14

Morgan Park 40, bulls prep 0

Public North

Urban Prep 14, North Lawndale 6

Public

Good 38, South Shore 34

Difett vs. Perspectives at Gately

Nonconfertice

Ag. Science 32, Marshall 6

Aurora Central 36, Walother Christian 0

Bogan 60, uplift 0

Chicago Military 22, Pritzker 8

Collins 18, Chicago Richards 12

Crane 38, Vocational 0

Dusable 32, Golder 0

Julian 14, Back of the Yards 6

Longwood 32, Rowe-Kllar 0

Morris 35, Peoria 28

NOBLE ACADEMY 52, Chicago Academy 28

Orr 28, Dunbar 20

St. Patrick 42, Leo 8

Steinmetz 52, Noble Street 0

Uic Prep 46, Solorio 0

Von Steuben 6, Hansberry 0

Woodlawn 22, Little Village 16

Drw at marine

Rauner vs. Comer at Hanson

Schurz vs. Englewood at Winnemac

Friday, Sept. 12

Subway

Lane 30, Lincoln Park 0

Payton 3, Taft 0

Phillips 47, Johnson 0

Young 42, Westinghouse 0

Public North

Sullivan 58, Lake View 46

Public Blue Skyline

Bowen 36, Washington 8

Public

Hyde Park 30, Lindblom 7

Chicago Christian

Aurora Christian 63, St. Edward 0

Bishop McNamara 52, Christ The King 6

Hope Academy 47, Marian Central 7

Wheaton Academy 49, Chicago Christian 14

Dukane

Batavia 41, Glenbard North 13

St. Charles North 10, Geneva 7

Wheaton North 30, Lake Park 20

Wheaton-Warrenville South 37, St. Charles East 12

Fox Valley

Burlington Central 21, Jacobs 12

Cary-Grove 36, MCHENRY 23

Dundee-Crown 56, Crystal Lake Central 8

Huntley 28, Crystal Lake South 7

Prairie Ridge 52, Hampshire 21

Illinois Central Eight

Reed-Custer 28, Streator 21

Herscher 28, Mantheno 23

Wilmington 41, Peotone 13

Interstate eight

Lasalle-Peru 41, ottawa 24

Kishwaukee river

Marengo 14, Woodstock North 13

Richmond-Buron 49, Johnsburg 14

Sandwich 32, plan 30

Woodstock 27, Harvard 20

North suburban

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Stevenson 31, Libertyville 6

Warren 22, Lake Forest 6

Zion-Benton 19, beat 14

Northern Lake County

Antioch 47, Grayslake Central 0

Grayslake North 21, Round Lake 7

LAKES 20, GRANT 18

Wauconda 47, North Chicago 6

South Suburban Blue

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OAK Forest 42, TF South 7

TF North 19, Hillcrest 18

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Richards 22, Reavis 15

Southland

Crete-Monee 49, Thornton 6

Kankakee 82, Thornridge 6

Rich 19, Thornwood 12

Southwest Prairie East

Joliet West 30, Plainfield South 22

Plainfield East 55, Joliet Central 6

Romeoville 32, Plainfield Central 16

Southwest Prairie West

Oswego 42, Bolingbrook 7

Oswego East 21, Plainfield North 9

Yorkville 14, Minooka 13

Southwest Valley Blue

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LINCOLN-WAY EAST 56, Neuqua Valley 7

Naperville North 35, Metea Valley 14

Sandburg 5, Naperville Central 3

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UPSTATE EIGHT EAST

Fenton 55, Elmwood Park 6

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RIVERSIDE-BROOKFIELD 51, Ridgewood 12

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Streamwood 27, East Aurora 7

West Aurora 46, Elgin 0

Vermillion Valley

Westville 63, Momence 18

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Hinsdale South 34, Proviso East 14

Willowbrook 40, Leyden 8

West Suburban Silver

Grove North 9 downers, Hinsdale Central 7

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York 49, Proviso West 14

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Benet 52, de la Salre 0

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Buffalo Grove 27, Deerfield 24

Clements 14, Hubbard 12

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Conant 21, Vernon Hills 0

Depaul Prep 43, Marian Catholic 19

Edgar, Wis. 9, Ottawa Marquette 6

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Fenwick 43, Joliet Catholic 26

Fremd 34, Evanston 7

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IC Catholic 33, St. Ignatius 12

Kaneland 35, Dealb 7

Kennedy 18, Phoenix 14

Lena-Winslow 20, Rochelle 7

Loyola 43, St. Francis 21

Lyons 55, Morton 0

Mahomet-Seymour 45, Sycamore 16

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Marmion 28, St. Viator 0

Montin 28, Marist 21

Mount Carmel 42, Nazareth 23

Prospect 60, West Niles 7

Providence 35, Carmel 28

Rolling Meadows 55, Niles North 0

St. Laurence 15, Notre Dame 14

Schaumburg 26, Highland Park 24

Seneca 50, Clinton 0

Shelbyville 51, Dwight 48

Wheeling 46, Maine East 0

Thursday, Sept. 11

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Public North

Mather 28, Senn 0

Prosser 20, Curie 14

Public

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Nonconfertice

Fenger 16, Foreman 8

Gage Park 25, Catalyst Maria 10

Muchin 26, Speer 14

Slave riley had the sort of steady and wide-ranging ACTING CAREER THAT Colleagues Say is emblematic of chicago theater.

He studied under Famed Second City Improv Guru del Close in the 1970s.

He performed at College Auditoriums and Makeshift Barroom Stages with the Reification Company Improvisational Group Being Hirhed in 1980 As a Moinstage Cast Member for Second City, where he work with Tim Kazurinsky, Jim Belushi, George Wendt and Danny Breen.

Mr. Riley was a Writer for “Saturday Night Live” in 1984 and 1985 Alongside Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest and Martin Short.

But it was his work in chicago, the serious and customic bot, where he ultimately found his niche.

Mr. Riley Cowrote, Directed and Starred in “Wild Men,” A Musical Satire About A Group of Men on a Retreat in the North Woods That Devolves Into “A Hillary ‘Lord of the Flies’ For Yuppies,” Chicago Sun-Times Crity Hedy Weiss Wrote Therote 1992 at the body politic theater. Mr. Riley Played Stuart Penn, A Fraudulent Manhood Guru and Debauched Academic Who Leads The Retreat.

He Played President Ronald Reagan in the 2018 Goodman Theater Production, Directed by Robert Falls, of “Blind Date,” in Which Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Meet for the first at a summit in switzerland in 1985.

“The posseiries that the chicago artistic community provides, the unique new york and los angeles, where you have to specialize, and you get typecast,” Said Bj Jones, Artistic Director of the North Skokie, WHO directted Mr. Riley on Several Productions. “Here you can explore all forms of your creation, and slave did that full-throated.”

Mr. Riley Died Aug. 8 at his home in los angeles from complications from a stroke he had in 2018, accorting to his family. He was 80.

“He made a really Steady Living in Chicago Theater,” Said His Wife, Nonie Newton Riley, Also an actor. “He was a working actor for 50 Years, Including Commercial and Voicever Work. That’s a Big Deal.”

The Couple Moved from Chicago to Los Angeles, Where his Wife Was Based, in 2013, and for Years Split Time the two Cities.

Mr. Riley has a string of minor television and film Credits, Including a part in “Groudhaog Day” as one of the two Radio DISC JOCKES WHO ACTOR BILL MURRAY DAY WHEN HIS CLOCK RADIO Alarm Goes off. “Ok, campers, rise and shine! And don’t forget your booties Because is Cold Out there!” He proclaims over and over in the Movie.

Mr. Riley was Born April 6, 1945, and Gray up in Long Grove.

Robert Riley Sr., His Father, was a Salesman. Margaret Jones Riley, His Mother, Open and Ran a Montessori School.

Mr. Riley Graduated from the University of Michigan and Did Three Semeters of Law School before Dropping Out.

“I didn’t want to live my life putting mySelf in the middle of Other People’s Conflics,” he said in an interview with the sun-etes in 1990.

He lived a ski-bars lifestyle in colordo for a few years before returning to chicago, his wife said.

“I was singing in a rock band,” Mr. Riley Said in the Interview. “WE PLAYED SECOND CITY. I SAW I DOING WHAT WHAT DID. I SAID, ‘I COULD DO THAT.’ SO I TOOK The workshop. ”

“He was just such a talent,” His Wife Said. “He could write. He was a musician. He skied. He rode a motorcycle. He swam with the endurans of a polar bear.

Among His Many Jobs in His 20s was running a thrift store on the north side, his wife said.

“Rob Riley was always a hipster long before we start using expression again,” Said John Davies, who Produced a Number of Short Comdic Films Featuring Mr. Riley and Jim Belushi.

Kazurinsky Said Mr. Riley was Among the More Intellectual Members of Second City.

“He Had a Writer’s Head, Very Sharp,” Kazurinsky Said.

He pointed to one particular bit at Second City, in Which the actors were playing members of a school pta about the merit of sex education.

“Rob’s Performance Just Destroyed Me,” Kazurinsky Said of the Skene. “He was the Zero-Population-Growth Guy, and he was a very, Very pompous guy who used a lot of facts that just just nonsense.”

Mr. Riley Also is survived by his son William Riley, Stepchildren Spencer Breen and Riley Breen and Two Grandchildren.

Oh? You thought you’d see the Last of Dexter? You must be new. He’s Back – Despite Being Shot at the End of New Blood – With Dexter: Resurrection Returning Michael C. Hall to Action. The first two episodes just dropped on paramount+, and to celebrate the occision, we had the cast of Photographe Hampton in a Photo Studio at Last Week’s Premiere Inside Alice Tully Hall. We’ve gathered the evidence here.

This Summer Came and Went with decidedly Few Awards condenders, especially compared to the last few years’ yield of summer oscar at all like Oppenheimer, Barbie, Top Gun: Maverick, and Elvis. Sinners Estabished it case for Oscar Consideration Back in April, But Since That, Anyding with a pedigree – Be it celine song Materialists Or the Tiff People’s Choice Award Winner The Life of Chuck – Revealed itelf to be a nonstarer in the Awards.

Into this relative void steps paul thomas Anderson, whose films have been nominated for 28 Academy awards over the course of His crare. HIS Latest, One Battle AFTER ANOTHERis Loosely Based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 Novel, Vineland, and was described half-jokingly by the director during a post-screening q & a on monday as “an action-comedy with a dash of postpartum depression. The film, which Stars Oscar Winners Leonardo Dicaprio, Benicio del Toro, and Sean Penn, Alongside Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall, Has Enjoying An Incredibly Effusive Reception from Critics. It Holds A Score of 96/100 on the Review Aggregator Metacritic, Making It The Best-Reviewed Film of 2025 (Tied with Julia Loktev’s Documentary My UndesIrble Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow.) Headlines have touted the film as a masterpiecea triumphand a Wonder. Our Own Alison Willmore Ranks it as top-tier pta, and i’m inclinehed to aggree.

SO: An Academy-Favored Filmmaker has a new film Starring a bunch of oscar winners, and it’s burning up revix in a year Where front-Runners have been hard by. This isn’t advanced calculus. One Battle AFTER ANOTHER Is Our New Best Picture Front-Runner. Right? Well, aside from a general reticiency to hand out trophies in september, i’d point ut that a number of quests and caveats need to be aneswered on the road from the oscar podium.

If i’ve said it Once, i’ve said it a thusand Times: An Oscar Winner in Best Picture Needs a Hook; Preferbly more than one. “JUST GIVE The Award to the Best Movie” Sounds like an Incredibly Simple Task Unil you as Many as two People what they have best movie is. “Paul Thomas Anderson is Due” COULD BE A GREAT HOOK – LOOK WOW IT IT WORKED FOR CRISTOPHER JUST Two Years Ago. But the trickiest Needle to Thread Will Be How The Warner Bros. Team Bebind One Battle AFTER ANOTHER is going to market the movie in relation to the terrifying State of the events in the US Films Eras and References as it follows the members of an anti-fascist gup Called the french 75, Including Bob (Dicaprio) and Perfidia Beverly Hills (Taylor), As the Carry Carry 1960s Guerrilla Attacks on 2020s-Style Immigrant-Detection Centers. Meanwhile, the US Government is represent alternately by Macho-Pysychotic Military Types Like Sean Penn’s Colonel Stephen J. Lockjaw and an Executive regime lookily purify the Country. This Should All Sound Familiar. If you have notized, things are prepy intense out there, with the trump administration fluffy farother and farter toward Authorian fascism and activists on the groundly resisting ice raids, and that was all before the killing of Charlie kirk. With One Battle AFTER ANOTHER Presenting fascist raids on sanes and the french 75 Presenting as the Kind of Terrorist Outfit Trump Claims Antifa Is, IT’S A SAFE BET THAT THE FILM BE TOUCHING A FEW RAW NERVES.

What Anderson is Saying About This Moment, Howver, Is Bound to Be an Open Question. DOES PTA SUPPORT ARMED Revolution? What DOES IT MEAN WEN HE UNDERCUTS THAT REVOLUTION WITH COMEDY? Are the Villains Depicted Too Broadly? Based on the Q&A after Monday’s Screening – Which Gathered Anderson, DiCaprio, Del Toro, Taylor, and Infiniti – The Answers May Ultimately Be Left to Us. Anderson replied to one quesion about Current by saying by “Details of the World Become Unplayable” closing a film, chooking instead to focus on the motivation and Heart. Dicaprio at Least Twice Reference the “Polarization” in the Current Climate but Went No Further, For Now. That said, if the filmmakers choose to let One Battle AFTER ANOTHER Speak for itself, I think it Speaks Rather Loudly Against White-Supremacist fascism, while not shying away from the Costs of “Doing the Revolution,” As Dicaprio’s Character at One Point Says.

All that said, how far One Battle AFTER ANOTHER Can take it mesage About Our Political Reality Will Likely Be Up to the Awards Voterses. The Last Few Weeks Have Had Many in the mainstream media and general public calling to us down the rhetoric, and you have to wonder if a pervasive wish to de-escalate moving some skittish away a film that depicts active violent resististance.

Regardless of How Current End up Impacting One Battle‘S Awards Chances, It Feels Certain That Several Cast Members Are Going to Wind up in the mix for nominations. Dicaprio ENTERS A BEST Actor breed that isn’t uncrowded, Competing with the Likes of Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), George Clooney (Jay Kelly), Jeremy Allen White (SpringsTeen: Deliver with From Nowhere), Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine), and Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme). AFTER WINNING THE OSCAR FOR The Revenant In 2016, Dicaprio Has Only Been Nominated Once More, for 2019’s Once uppon a time… in Hollywood. That justly lauded performance HOLDS SIMILAR DNA TO WHAT’S DOING IN One Battle, with a performance that pivots freely from paranoid buffoonery to dialed-in emotion. The Lead Performance in the Best Picture Winner has won the best actor or best actress in four of the Last five years, and the academy has gotten a tears reticent to award second (or tired) oscars lately, so i’ll be slotting leo near of my list.

Speaking of Repeat Oscar Winners, Penn Hasn’t Been Oscar nominated Sine and Won HIS SECOND ACTOR TROPHY FOR Milk In 2010. In Fact, Penn Has Been More Notable for GIVING HIS OSCAR STATES AWAY than giving the kind of performance that is could earn Him a third one. Until Now. LockJaw is the Kind of Standout Supporting Villain of which Best Supporting Actor Victories Are Made. Penn’s Personality Has Never Been Cuddly (to put it quite Mildly), and he’s almost Certainly the Most Likely Cast Member to Send the Film’s Oscar Campiaign off Courses with a reckless comment to the press. But he’s also historically been popular Among Actors. And he really is a hoot in the movie, bestowing his character with a ridiculous gait and a maniacal affect that respect very difficult for award voters to resist.

One Downside of a Penn Supporting Actor Campaign is that it was to go Likely Crowd out Benicio del Toro, who is doing quieter but no lesson work as sensei Sergio st. Carlos, A Martial-ARTS Instructor and Community Leader in the Sanctanty City of Bakan Cross. Not only only is decyn to get to getrplay his character a smart and funny counter to the fantic action and paranoid flailing from the likes of Dicaprio, he a great conduit for the film Ideas About Resistance to Government Aggression.

Best Supporting Actress Offers The Most Intriguing Angle On One Battle AFTER ANOTHER and the Oscars, with Taylor, Infiniti, and Hall All Delinary Revenge that deserts to be mentioned Among the year’s best. Taylor Ouns the First Third of the Film with a Righteous Fury that Only Betrays an Inner Vulnerability at the Most Crucial Moments. IT’S A performance that lingers when she’s not onscreen, and the Only Reason She’s Not A Best Actress Contest is Screen Time. In Taylor’s Absence Steps Young Infiniti, Whose Performance Presents initially as softer and quieter, before transforming as the film barrels toward its Climax. My guests is that is that of the Odd Woman Out in this SCENARIO, as her character’s screen time and prominence is more limited, but in those small moments, she shines through with a grit and determination that remarkable gioven how she’s known for her Comedic skills.

Paul Thomas Anderson Has Only Ever Directed Two Movies that were IGNORED Completely by the Academy: His Debut Feature, Hard Eight, and his lamentably overlooked masterpiece Punch-drunk Loven. (And if you’re look for a spare oscar-season narrative, an Adam Sandler Oscar Breakthrough for Jay Kelly Coming in the sun year that paul thomas Anderson might finally win an oscar is a good one.) Despite the fact that he has never won, Anderson is a filmmaker who academy voters pay athenty much every time. And with One Battle AFTER ANOTHERhe”s delivered spreads HIS MEST ACCESSIBLE, AUDIENCE-FRIENDLY FILM SINCE Boogie Nights. IT’S A Straight-Up Action-Comedy That Doesn’t Get Bogged Down in The Excesses of Pynchon’s VinelandInstead Putting a Tight Focus on the Father-Daughter Relationship BetWeen DiCaprio’s and Infiniti’s Characters.

Intensation or swimming, Anderson’s masterpieces have carried with alienating elements, from Magnolia‘s rain of frogs to There will be blood‘s Gory denouement. “Accessible” May Be in the Eye of the Beholder with Pta, but after The master and Inherent vice Pushed as far as he’s ever pushed in the direction of formal and narrative standofffishfish, he’s been inching closer to something Friendlier to Mass audiences. Pantom thread was a romance, after all, howver comedically dark and twisted it was; Hen OPted for Pure Nostalgia with Licorice Pizza. Both Films Picked Up Best Picture and Best Director Nominations for PTA, but Both remained a bit limited in their appeal. If the academy was composed entireled which loved language was poison mushrooms and gree up in the sanry Fernando, Anderson’s Mantle Waul with oscar statues right now.

But Eight for Those Queasy About This Country’s Inexorable Turn Toward fascism, i Think One Battle AFTER ANOTHER Will Prove to be a Crowd-PleaSer: Well-Paced with action and COMEDIC Beats and with a Strong Undergirding of the Kind of Clear Emotional Through-Lines that Award Voters Go For. If i wasn’t already sold on the film’s oscar potential, its ending – which delivers CATHARSIS Over ambiguity in a way i was really expecting – convinced me. Couple that with a Campaign That Emphasizs Anderson’s Nearly Unparalleled Body of Work, and Warner has a ton to work with. YES, IT’S A LONG Road to March 15, and the Last Thing A Studio is to be saddled with the weight of too-early oscar expertations. But in a movie year that’s been yearning to take Shape, One Battle AFTER ANOTHER is what a lot of us have ben waiting for: the film to beat.