Greta Gerwig on Tár

[@1dbanner]

I still can't believe Cate Blanchett lost the Oscar. This is her Raging Bull.

[@ayatollahlalalola]

Oscars are all about narrative

[@ryangies4798]

Criminal

[@TechnicJunglist]

She should have won for Notes On A Scandal as well

[@pedroaugustopinheiro]

I don’t think it’s bad she lost, it’s like someone said we need to stop thinking a best actress Oscar should be won in a certain way. Yeoh didn’t deliver the highs Cate did but she was a sensational refreshing win, both are very deserving let’s not hold to this vague idea of the loudest performance needs to win everytime.

[@rics1883]

It's the best performance I have seen since Daniel day Lewis in There Will Be Blood. Two of the powerhouse performers in Hollywood

[@Garrett1240]

Misfortune and the business side of the film industry has robbed us of numerous unrealized works by Todd Field who directed Tar. He's only made three movies in 25ish years and they’re incredible. He also played the piano player in Eyes Wide Shut before he became a director.

[@looney1023]

He's also in (and very funny in) Twister!

[@rics1883]

Can't believe a masterpiece like Tar went empty handed, especially Blanchett

[@sekounk]

Aren’t you the ctown guy

[@Garrett1240]

@@sekounk hell yeah dude

[@rics1883]

Cate Blanchett gave one of the greatest performances in Tar. It goes beyond whether or not she won, which she undoubtedly should have

[@fong03]

Blanchett gave the best performance, male or female, I have seen in the last decade. I was blown away by this film. The fact that it won not a single Oscar is ridiculous.

[@THEGlassIED]

I really wish Todd Field had made more movies. He directed three movies in 20 years: All of them fantastic.

[@65g4]

He would have directed more but he had a lot of projects that just didnt quite come together sadly

[@joeyh9619]

I love this film! I watch it often, as the character of Tar is the best interpretation of 'narcissism' seen in a long time in cinema.

[@bacarandii]

Gerwig is right. It's a fully orchestrated/choreographed formalist movie that moves like a piece of music/dance, playing with colors and sound design and counterpoint. Hardly anybody makes movies with such attention to overall design anymore (Kubrick and the Coens come to mind). So much meticulous care has gone into the framing and precise movement of every shot, every gesture, every line reading. It's a creepy, Polanski-esque absurdist horror/satire about a talented, ambitious egoist and control freak trapped inside her own head. (Notice that Tar's "partner" is never even allowed to appear in the same frame with Lydia and the child they're supposedly raising together.) The timing and blocking of the mise-en-scene (another term nobody uses anymore) is thrilling to watch...

[@rics1883]

@@bacarandii it's incredibly well made movie. Sadly industry didn't care about it, but I genuinely think Tar is for the book especially Blanchett's performance

[@DanHemsath]

Tar knocked my socks off. I consider it the very best movie of 2022 and it became one of my favorite movies of all time. I may not gravitate toward Gerwig's films personally, but I have a great deal of respect for how hard working and talented she is. I'm glad to see that she and I both appreciate this monumental film. It's a movie that's one of what I call a "litmus test" movie. That is to say that how people respond to this movie generally indicates much about the person themselves. You can get wildly different responses from different people, and I think of that as a real asset of the film.

[@NoirFan84]

Blanchett is the best actress currently living imo & this performance just put the seal on it.

[@ZacharyWeaver-rc8xc]

Now that Gena Rowlands is gone, you’re probably right.

[@NoirFan84]

@ZacharyWeaver-rc8xc Haha. That was my thinking when I wrote it.

[@Garrett1240]

Isabelle Hupert is her only superior imo.

[@NoirFan84]

@@Garrett1240 Good shout.

[@SurajSingh-nf2er]

Julianne Moore is the greatest living actress

[@bb1111116]

Thank you for the commentary about Tar. I believe it is an excellent film. For my taste I don’t mind the puzzle and the mystery about the story which demands effort from the viewer. Many top notch films are like that. It is also obvious that Cate is brilliant in this.

[@TGFalk]

I kind of view Tár as a secular ghost story. Brilliantly made.

[@929bbss]

she would love michael haneke

[@seejaneread]

I have friends who are professional musicians who won’t watch this because they are offended by the material and I feel bad that they’re missing out on a masterpiece

[@KayButtonJay]

She really has trouble forming complete and coherent thoughts

[@MichaelKrasMagic]

Instantly became one of my favourite films with one of the best performances I’ve EVER seen in a movie.

[@2muchteevee]

As a classical musician who quit the field because of how gross and creeped out the business made me feel, I had to stop watching because it took me right back to the worst times of my life. Incredible filmmaking.

[@rics1883]

Really what happened that made you quit and appreciate movie?

[@2muchteevee]

@rics1883 I caught a professor not reading our writing assignments

[@WalterBurton]

There's a lot of debate about whether increased access to process is a net gain or loss for art. It is a silly debate. We're all creators.

[@WalterBurton]

The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Muriel Barbery.

[@kcmofasho9345]

Here for your run of the mill enthusiastic hipster commentary that serves nothing except that it’s just thoughts from greta

[@williambruno392]

mainlining this until the grave

[@recetasfaciles2816]

What is she talking about?

[@beqamarsagishvili6988]

Still it's shame that she lost Oscar,no1 was more deserving.

[@NiteOwl2000]

She looks like Little Cricket from Gen V

[@thomaspraisewater6101]

remember when they gave michelle yeoh the best actor award for that goofy multiverse movie instead of to cate blanchett for this role

[@turk-money]

I love Greta and loved this movie, but is it me or does Greta just say a whole lot of nothing for the first half here? Maybe she's stumbling because she's being interviewed. The bit about the movie's sound design and Tolstoy is very interesting.

[@samfilmkid]

She is a bit of a rambler, but I recognize that in myself and I can tell from listening to her that her mind goes in a million places all at once and her brain is coming up with six new sentences in the middle of one, just like me.

[@samfilmkid]

Another thing is, a lot of audio on this channel is spliced together from conversations between people to single out just one person's voice. So the audio bites don't always flow well and the transitions are a little jarring.

[@PoetryJesusY2K]

There’s a reason she made her big break in mumblecore

[@turk-money]

@@PoetryJesusY2K Actually lol'd at this, thank you.

[@JTunns]

Tár is a prime example of a VERY good movie that I will likely never watch again.

[@ChicCanyon]

Tár aside i got nothing out of Gerwigs commentary here. Not overly insightful.

[@TheProphegy]

I find her very pretentious.

[@THEGlassIED]

​@@TheProphegyBut she makes good movies.

[@ChicCanyon]

@THEGlassIED i liked Nights and Weekends. I feel like Noah is the better director of the two though.

[@petergivenbless900]

I learned something about Tolstoy!

[@botbot3698]

alright buddy

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

I love Greta’s work but THIS is painful to listen to. Is she okay here?

[@rics1883]

It's her audio interview with Todd Field. Her audio has been put together so she's sounding rambler. Great interview you should check it out

[@WalterBurton]

👍👍👍

[@mr.jack0039]

I'm sorry but I can't stand her speaking cadence :\ it's unbearable to listen to. I tried to listen rountable with directors and had to skip every single time she started to mumble. mumblecore indeed

[@peterl1981]

hard life

[@benjamindover4337]

She really is terrible.

[@hinhwood1629]

She lost to yeoh’s DEI performance, which was good not great. Facts.

[@percyweasley9301]

Can we STOP comparing different performances? She is THE FIRST ASIAN BEST ACTRESS WINNER in history, FIRST.. This is not DEI.. EEAO IS A GREAT FILM..

[@Garrett1240]

@@percyweasley9301 EEAO is anything but a great film. Putrid

[@Brolo214]

Every time a person of a minority is given something that you personally don’t feel she deserves as much as someone else it’s a DEI hire? Stop. Grow up.

[@rics1883]

IDK about DEI but Yeoh's performance is not even close to what Blanchett has done in Tar. Simply a masterclass

[@freakytea2815]

@@percyweasley9301 I strongly disagree that EEAO was a great film or any kind of meaningful art. Its message (if you can even call it that) was far too general and vague to have any real significance, and a lot of it was just silly and contrived. I really wanted to like it, but it wandered off into cheesy banality after a promising start. Wasted opportunity. It deserved MTV Movie Awards, not Oscars.

[@andrewdotjames]

Just cause someone had long monologues with big words doesn’t mean it was a great performance.

[@freakytea2815]

This is true. It's also true that Blanchett's performance was phenomenal. She deserved the Oscar, and the film deserved Best Picture.

[@Spractral]

Great movie, greta is wicked annoying though

[@Spractral]

She thinks of herself as a genius

[@crakatoot5480]

That movie stunk

[@ryanscottadkins]

Tar was boring and predictable. Blanchett was great though.

[@clanofclams2720]

Boring is subjective. Predictable is objectively incorrect.

[@Don-mp6pq]

Really dont care about these female directors that havent made a good movie and still give them money to do movies just to have a female director there

[@jamespader]

that’s literally not happening at all and is exactly how it has always been for men, I could name dozens and dozens and dozens of utterly atrocious filmmakers that got to fail upwards because they were men

[@929bbss]

how many movies have u made

[@lemonsuckingandroid2971]

what a loser lol

[@Don-mp6pq]

@@jamespader yes, thats whats "literally" (youre 15) happening, woman, and no, thats not the case with men because men gave us the best movies ever, the other comment you have is defending Tar, which is laughable

[@Don-mp6pq]

@@929bbss i have made fewer bad movies than all the female Hollywood directors, female

[@spanishbaldman]

Tar sucks.

[@THEGlassIED]

That's just like, your opinion, man.

[@SamL12345]

On a filmmaking and performance level, Tar is objectively great.

[@65g4]

​@@THEGlassIEDthe dude abides

[@Garrett1240]

Very stimulating movie to me.

[@ryanscottadkins]

@@SamL12345 on a technical level its well made, but I found it extremely boring and predictable. The opening interview put me to sleep. Great performance by Blanchett though.