New York Film Critics Circle Awards: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Tár’ Rave; Surprise Appearances By Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, David Byrne
deadline.comThe New York Film Critics Circle Best Picture Winner Tár by Todd Field has drawn accolades since its Venice premiere, the latest a major rave by Martin Scorsese last night: “The clouds lifted when I experienced Todd’s film.” “For so long now, so many of us see films that pretty much let us know where they’re going.
I mean, they take us by the hand,” said Scorsese introducing NYFCC’s Best Picture at the Tao Downtown awards ceremony. “The very fabric of the movie you created doesn’t allow this…We don’t know where the film’s going.
We just follow the character on her strange, upsetting road to her even stranger, final destination.” He admired “controlled, precise, dangerous, precipitous angles, the frame compositions, the shifts in locations, measured long takes “and edges geometrically kind of chiseled into a wonderful 2:3:5 aspect ratio of frame compositions reflecting the brutal architecture of her soul — Tár’s soul.” The movie, Field’s first return to the camera in 16 years, also saw star Cate Blanchett win Best Actress.
In a surprise appearances, her award was presented by Stephen Colbert. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert host recalled Blanchett’s “intensely feverish fight with the Dark Lord Sauron” as Lady Galadriel in Lord of the Rings. “I think we can both agree that Lydia Tár would have taken that f-cking ring.” Seth Meyers introduced Colin Farrell, who tied himself with Best Actor for The Banshees of Inisherin and After Yang but couldn’t attend. “He is not here tonight.
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