I'm Thinking of Ending Things News
Video: Check out CK's earnest defence of Ed Wood in this interview with David Ehrlich
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Here's a half-hour interview with David Ehrlich from August last year. It's an unlisted video and came up in my alerts last week. Keep an eye out for Charlie's passionate defence of Ed Wood around 12:45, probably the highlight of the conversation.
Twisted nightmare road trips = Charlie's kind of fun
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Charlie provided a blurb for the new edition of Iain Reid's novel I'm Thinking of Ednging Things, and it looks like this:
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(That sub calls itself "Being Charlie Kaufman" -- which is cool! -- but do note it's not affiliated with this here site)
Charlie interviews Jessie Buckley
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things' Jessie Buckley is currently starring in The Lost Daughter -- directorial debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal -- and none other than our pal Charlie conducted an interview with her for the occasion. It's about half an hour long and pretty sweet!
Don't get your hopes up for news of CK's future projects, though. This one's all about Buckley.
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Check out this "Ending Things" Tulsey Town tattoo!
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Redditor u/evilex_8 got themselves a Tulsey Town tatto inspired by I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Observe:
Video: watch Charlie, Jessie, Jesse and Toni break down the "Ending Things" dinner scene
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Super cool. Here you can watch Charlie, Jessie Buckley, Jesse Plemons and Toni Collette take us throught that excruciating dinner scene in I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
The video is part of the "Scene at the Academy" series on the Oscars' official YouTube channel, which seems a bit of a backhander since the film WASN'T NOMINATED FOR ANY OSCARS.
Great video, though!
Listen/watch: Ending Things' composer Wadley on The Film Scorer podcast
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Half an hour well spent: I'm Thinking of Ending Things composer Jay Wadley on The Film Scorer podcast, where he talks about his approach to the film's score, the memory of music, and what it was like working with CK. One thing Wadley talks about at length: the music in the movie is largely meant to represent what Jake remembers (or misremembers) of tunes that he has heard--the ballet, for instance, is supposed to sound almost-but-not-quite the same as ballets you (or Jake) might have heard.
There's an audio version and Youtube version. Take yer pick!
Thanks to whitebearpr1 over on Reddit.
"Ending Things" awards update
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Awards season is a bit of a mess this year, and as far as that goes I haven't heard a lot of buzz around Ending Things, but Wikipedia tells me the film hasn't done too badly at all, all things considered. Here we go:
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
- Best Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, Won
- Best Editing, Robert Frazen, Won
Chicago Film Critics Association
- Best Actress, Jessie Buckley, Nominated
- Best Supporting Actress, Toni Collette, Nominated
- Best Adapted Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, Nominated
- Best Art Direction, Gonzalo Cordoba, Nominated
- Best Use of Visual Effects, Ending Things, Nominated
- Best Editing, Robert Frazen, Won
Dublin Film Critics Circle
- Best Actress, Jessie Buckley, Won
Florida Film Critics Circle
- Best Adapted Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, Won
Gotham Independent Film Awards
- Best Actress, Jessie Buckley, Nominated
- Best Actor, Jesse Plemons, Nominated
indieWIRE Critics' Poll
- Best Film, Ending Things, 5th place
- Best Director, Charlie Kaufman, 7th
- Best Performance, Jessie Buckley, 6th
- Best Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, Won
- Best Cinematography, Lucasz Zal, 6th
London Film Critics Circle
- Film of the Year, Ending Things, Nominated
- British/Irish Actress of the Year, Jessie Buckley, Nominated
- Screenwriter of the Year, Charlie Kaufman, Nominated
National Society of Film Critics
- Best Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, 3rd Place
San Diego Film Critics Society
- Best Adapted Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, Nominated
- Best Production Design, Molly Hughes, Nominated
St. Louis Film Critics Association
- Best Picture, Ending Things, Nominated
- Best Actress, Jessie Buckley, Nominated
- Best Adapted Screenplay, Charlie Kaufman, Won
- Best Editing, Robert Frazen, Nominated
Not too shabby!
A.V. Club: Ending Things 7th best of 2020
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A.V. Club polled their contributors and put I'm Thinking of Ending Things at #7 in their best films of 2020. YAY.
7. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
It’s funny that Charlie Kaufman once lost an Oscar to Inside Out. Don’t most of his movies also plunge audiences into the mind, via magic or sci-fi or just good ol’-fashioned voice-over? I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, the third film he’s directed from one of his own ingenious scripts, has left some viewers feeling rather trapped within its oppressively interior psychodrama; it’s a disorienting nightmare reverie about a young woman who begins to lose her grip on herself during a surreal day trip to meet her boyfriend’s parents. Yet for all the slippery cerebral games Kaufman plays with his source material (including boldly abstracting the twist ending of Ian Reid’s novella), the film remains anchored to an emotional reality—the foundation of quotidian discomfort offered by a terrific Jessie Buckley, finding a personality even as the details about her character begin to shift like sand in an hourglass. She’s our guide through the dense thicket of Kaufman’s imagination: a wondrous twilight zone of existential anxieties, dream ballet, and Robert Zemeckis jokes. [A.A. Dowd] (Source)
First Cow came in at #1, followed by Nomadland, The Assistant, Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, Lovers Rock, and Never Rarely Sometimes Always.
Thanks to Jeff!
Ending Things 5th best film of 2020, says indieWIRE critics' poll
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indieWIRE conducted their annual poll of over 230 film critics to find the 50 best movies of 2020, and I'm Thinking of Ending Things came in at number 5! Nice.
Per tradition, IndieWire asked over 200 film critics around the world to rank their favorite films of the year. We tallied up the numbers and present the 50 highest rated titles below.
The 2020 IndieWire Critics Poll featured reviewers from major trade publications such as Variety and The Hollywood Reporter as well as critics from local newspapers and websites, freelancers, and contributors on film from across Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
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5. “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Cast: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
Read IndieWire’s review: If “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” feels like both an act of self-parody for its director and also a radical departure from his previous work, that’s because it takes Kaufman’s usual fixations and turns them inside out. While this leaky snow globe of a breakup movie is yet another bizarre and ruefully hilarious trip into the rift between people, it’s not — for the first time — about someone who’s trying to cross it. On the contrary, Kaufman is now telling a story about the rift itself. (Source)
Nomadland, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, First Cow, and Lovers Rock were ahead of CK's film.
Jessie Buckley one of EW's 15 best performances of 2020
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In December, EW listed their top 15 performances in film for the preceding 12 months, and Jessie Buckley's turn in Ending Things made the grade.
Jessie Buckley in I'm Thinking of Ending ThingsIt takes a special kind of performer to carry a movie like Charlie Kaufman's mind-bending psychological thriller, but Buckley does it with apparent ease. She’s the guiding light and a steady presence through the constantly shape-shifting script, flipping between long stretches of poetry recitation and scientific debate and cultural criticism but somehow always remaining coherent throughout. We'd follow her anywhere. (Well... weather permitting.) —Mary Sollosi (Source)
Well deserved.
