Ink

Oh.

Another person kind of in the conversation for Best Actor is Jack O'Connell in the film Ink.

Uh, directed by Danny Boyle, which I s- was my last film of Telluride.

Yep.

I just wanna reevaluate it again.

I wanna mention we both saw Ink and The Liberation.

Mm-hmm.

Why don't we talk about these two real quick? [laughs]

Yeah.

Ink is a, a fascinating one 'cause I, I will admit I was a little tired by this movie.

But-

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Breaking Bad, which ran for five seasons between 2008 and 2013, is routinely acclaimed as groundbreaking television and was named by the New York Times as the best TV show of the 21st century.

Danny Boyle and his starry cast have attended the UK premiere of Ink at the London Film Festival around a month after it opened in Venice.

The film's adapted from James Graham's stage play.

Guy Pearce plays Rupert Murdoch as he entered the British newspaper scene, acquiring the then failing tabloid The Sun in 1969.

But he's an Oscar-winning filmmaker.

He directed one of my favorite films of all time, Slumdog Millionaire, which is an amazing business story as much as a creative story, considering that film was left for dead and then resurrected and grossed hundreds of millions of dollars and won Best Picture, which is still one of the best stories in Hollywood history.

He has directed many, many films that you love, including a new film called Ink, which I very much enjoyed.

And I think you will, too, if you haven't seen it.

It's especially topical these days, which, of course, I love.

So please welcome Danny Boyle.

So I want to start with a question because we'll get into the film.

We'll get into ink and what drew you to that.

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense as a pairing.

It's definitely, especially where Ink goes, which is why you're trying not to spoil it, is very, very similar terrain.

And both are based on true stories.

So even the fact of us not wanting to spoil it is kind of funny.

And I felt gross that I was watching a movie that was building towards this as if it was some like big surprise twist that it was going for.

And I was like, I know this.

the reality and you're doing the thing you're criticizing and I get it you're being intentional about that and you're implicating me but I still feel weird about how much fun you're having like there's something about this movie that made me feel like conflicted and I can't decide if that is me criticizing the movie as a flaw or just me like feeling gross for how much I had fun when I but something kept me a little bit at bay And I did also feel a little of what I felt with Ink, which was like, this is a whole lot of style and a whole lot of, like, strong performances and style papering over the fact that maybe a point is being lost somewhere.

Like, I don't know.

This week, I want to throw a shout out for Stephen David Miller's Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival at decodingeverything.com, a website you can subscribe to for free.

He's at the Toronto International Film Festival, and he is reviewing movies like Ink, the new Danny Boyle movie that's supposed to win Best Picture this year from Netflix.

Can't wait for that.

And also the newest Martin McDonagh movie, Wild Horse 9, which is apparently also quite good.

And I also didn't know it was going to be that heartfelt.

And then I think third, I personally visually really liked Ink.

But it teeter-totters with Josephine.

Because Josephine had a well-told story and really good acting.

I think I'm just so drawn to the visuals behind Danny Boyle's Ink story.

But yeah, Josephine and Ink are battling for number three.

Well, I don't think I can just choose three.

I have, I'm going to choose five out of my list because I want to include these films.

And it looked like a really potent and fun lineup this year as well.

I mean, you know, it kicked off with this movie, Ink, which is Danny Boyle's movie about basically tabloid journalism, the creation of modern tabloid journalism in 1969 when Rupert Murdoch bought the Star.

Or no,

the Sun.

Where all the papers were.

And it is a really electrifying take on that whole scene.

It was based on a play, of course, also called Ink, which did very well.

I think it was 2017 or 2019 that played the West End and it played Broadway as well.