Also produced and directed by Franco,
The Disaster Artist feels like a perfect fit for this hyper - prolific jack - of - all - trades; he must understand more than most the drive to create and the pleasure / pain of the creation's ultimate completion and exhibition.
It's telling, I think, that so many of the people I know who skipped The Room but liked
The Disaster Artist feel no strong urge to watch the Wiseau film after.
Not exact matches
Since the release of «The
Disaster Artist,» I
feel very openly about it.
Though 34 - year - old Brie
feels like she's been playing catch - up her entire career, she's now a Golden Globe - nominated actor — for her role as a female wrestler in Glow — has a starring role in James Franco's The
Disaster Artist and will soon appear in Spielberg's new drama The Post.
The
Disaster Artist's eagle - eyed view of the phenomenon and the forces behind it sort of solidified my
feeling of being an outsider to the cult.
THE
DISASTER ARTIST: I don't think I laughed harder during a film this year — or ever
felt more empathy towards eccentric auteur Tommy Wiseau.
I
feel like on The
Disaster Artist I was sort of the opposite; what I learned on this movie was how to collaborate, as opposed to what I've been doing with my very artsy, literary projects, like my Cormac McCarthy and William Faulkner projects.
Good thing Hollywood didn't bite, because if they'd made it big, Tommy and Greg wouldn't have
felt put - out and desperate enough to make their own movie, in which case there'd be no cult of The Room to speak of and, thus, no excuse for James Franco to do whatever the hell it is he's is doing in The
Disaster Artist.
The actual movie - making scenes in The
Disaster Artist are remarkable examples of how egotism functions on a movie set — meaning, they're funny until they start to
feel dangerous.
After seeing an early cut of The
Disaster Artist, Sestero was
feeling sympathy for his old friend.
For one, The
Disaster Artist's attention to detail can only be fully appreciated with knowledge of the references; it
feels like a spiritual sequel to The Room, only with more coherent dialogue.
The
Disaster Artist screened at SXSW as a work in progress, even though it
felt like a completed projected just waiting for a release date.
What surprised me the most about The
Disaster Artist is the fact that the film
feels like a love letter to dreamers while celebrating friendship, drive, and passion.
Before SAG announced their nominations, there was a
feeling of a conventional five that floated on the internet: Timothee Chalamet («Call Me by Your Name «-RRB-, Daniel Day - Lewis («Phantom Thread «-RRB-, James Franco («The
Disaster Artist «-RRB-, Tom Hanks («The Post «-RRB-, and Gary Oldman («Darkest Hour «-RRB-.
Both movies view their subjects sympathetically, but only The
Disaster Artist wants to leave you
feeling good about it.
The
Disaster Artist offers up a failure we're all invited to
feel good about; I, Tonya presents one that we can share.
A sense of gnawing inadequacy is a universal
feeling, and The
Disaster Artist certainly mines the notion that there's a little bit of the outsider in everybody — which is exactly the kind of magnanimity you'd expect.
Well before the market crash, political art was
feeling omens of
disaster, while such
artists as Amy Wilson and Rashid Johnson were turning from politics to cryptic meditations on personal identity.
• Rachel Jones, 24: «Trying to second - guess what other people want is a recipe for
disaster» • Laure Prouvost, 37: «I
feel I have lived many lives» • George Shaw, 49: «Every second, every ounce of time has to be accounted for» • Rachel Whiteread, 52: «In my 50s, I'm clearer about what I'm trying to do» • Susan Hiller, 75: «Self - doubt is always present for
artists» • Paula Rego, 80: «Painting is not a career.