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Timothée Chalamet is one of the hottest young actors right now, and on Sunday he could win his first Oscar for his performance in Marty SupremeHowever, public opinion is not entirely favorable to him, especially after his statements this weekend went viral, in which he called opera and ballet dying arts, a statement that has angered both artistic fields, which have responded to the actor through different institutions.

I'm not sure if, as Paul Schrader states, Marty Supreme and The mastermind by Kelly Reichardt They are the same film played at different speeds. But it does seem clear that their protagonists are cut from the same cloth: two sociopaths who wander the world convinced they are destined for a greatness incompatible with everyday life, and who embark on selfish crusades with catastrophic consequences. This psychological profile is not at all coincidental with the fact that the Marty Mauser embodied by Timothée Chalamet—with glasses, a little mustache, and electric gestures—is also a clear exponent of American exceptionalism; he demonstrates this every time he tries to convince his interlocutors that he deserves special treatment and that his presence as an American elevates the world ping-pong championships.

Paul Thomas Anderson emerges stronger in the Oscar race after One battle after another It won four awards at the Golden Globes ceremony held this Sunday in Los Angeles. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognized Anderson's film with awards in four categories: comedy, director, screenplay, and supporting actress (Teyana Taylor). In the television series category, Adolescence It continues to garner awards and has won four Golden Globes, one for best miniseries and three in acting categories: actor in a miniseries (Stephen Graham), supporting actress (Erin Doherty), and supporting actor (Owen Cooper). The awards in Adolescence, along with those who have received The Pitt (best drama series) and The studio (comedy series), make the most relevant list of Golden Globe awards the same as the Emmys that took place in September.

When the first rumors of a relationship surfaced, no one really believed them. Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner seemed like an unlikely couple, but they just celebrated three years together, as the actor made a point of reminding everyone at the Critics Choice Awards. During his acceptance speech for the Best Actor award for the film Marty SupremeAn elated Chalamet dedicated the award to his partner, a member of the Kardashian dynasty. "Thank you to my partner of the last three years. Thank you for our foundation. I love you. I couldn't do this without you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart," the actor said, while the influencer And the television personality looked at him with the eyes of a lover.

Suddenly, I began to cry, deeply moved by everything that the scene I was watching in the movie explained. By how filmmaker James Mangold had decided to stage the interpretation of the song. The times they are a-changin' by Bob Dylan, because of the way actor Timothée Chalamet was singing it... and because verses eroded by clichés took on new meanings at that precise moment.

The facts of the life and work of Bob Dylan that puts on stage A complete stranger They have been told so many times (for example, in Elijah Wald's book Dylan goes electric!, the starting point for Jay Cocks' script) that have ended up acquiring the mythical texture of fiction. In fact, the way in which James Mangold presents some situations – the improvised intervention of Al Kooper as organist in the recording of Like a rolling stone, or the scandal caused by Dylan and his band's over-the-top recital at the Newport festival, a bastion of folk tradition – pursues the same complicit tickling as the quotes that superhero films make in their pregnant vignettes. In other words: the realistic appearance of the film is a mirage behind which we find a fable that, in essence, is not far from the masquerade ball that Todd Haynes orchestrated in I'm not there, where the Dylanesque mystery was embodied in different forms.

An audience booing the musician they idolize because he dared to play the electric guitar. Many do not need any further information to identify the characters and the context of the scene: it is the concert of Bob Dylan at the Newport Festival in 1965, the day the musician staged his resignation from being the voice of a social movement and claimed his artistic freedom with the electric sound of the guitar and the verses of fury and spite of Maggie's farm. In the most purist temple of American folk, the patron saint of the new protest song came out to play with a rock band and the audience reacted first with stupor and then with tears and indignation. It was one of those moments about which piles of articles and books are written, a tectonic shift in popular culture and, all of it, a simple aesthetic choice: how an artist wants his music to sound.

When she was eight years old, Tilda Swinton (London, 1960) saw a film that "changed her life." In fact, at that moment she thought "it was a dream, not a movie." It is the first version of Powers of ten, a scientific short by Charles and Ray Eames that lasts only 10 minutes and begins with an everyday, almost bucolic sequence: a family having a picnic, with their basket full of food and a tablecloth on the grass. Then, the camera moves away 10 meters, 100 meters, 1,000 meters... "After a while you see the United States, the Earth, the galaxy, and then it comes back to the picnic and the camera enters the man's hand and you see the bloodstream, the nervous system, which I have with Mark Cousins"because it is a film that makes you fall in love with cinema and makes you realise that cinema has no borders," he explained.