Nomadland” Has Garnered Significant Awards Buzz
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Page B2 Wyoming Tribune Eagle Saturday, February 13, 2021 NEW RELEASES New DVDs Tribune News Service Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: Feb. 9 “Freaky” “Sputnik” “Greenland” “Monster Zone” “The Little Prince” “The Right One” “Wander Darkly” Feb. 16 “The Informer” “A Call to Spy” “Archenemy” “Bordertown Season 2” “Fear of Rain” “Harley Quinn: The Complete Second Season” “Horizon Line” “Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season” “Random Acts of Violence” “The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee” Following screenings at the Venice, Toronto and New York film festivals, and a special-event presentation from Telluride in Los Angeles, the Frances McDormand-led dra- ma “Nomadland” has garnered significant awards buzz. Searchlight Pictures/courtesy Feb. 23 “The Croods: A New Age” “Last Call” “Redemption Day” “Scooby-Doo! The Sword and McDormand perfect as a house-less woman the Scoob” “Silk Road” “The Last Vermeer” “Wrong Turn: The Foundation” making her way through life in “Nomadland” New games The following is a list of video By Moira Macdonald and where she can, discovering the watch Fern in her various jobs, in games scheduled for release The Seattle Times ”Nomadland” American West along the way. She’s Amazon warehouses and tired res- next week, according to not homeless, Fern corrects an ac- taurant kitchens and rest-stop bath- www.ign.com. Release dates Watching Frances McDormand HHHH quaintance – she’s house-less. And rooms; she’s focused, hardworking, are subject to change. in a movie is like watching someone she’s not particularly unhappy; content. (“I like work,” she matter- Cast: Frances McDormand, David “Azur Lane: Crosswave” (PC, you know, an old friend, maybe drifting, like in the lake where we of-factly tells a caseworker.) This is Strathairn PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch. someone who knew you when you see her briefly floating blissfully, a woman of remarkable strength, Genre: Shooter, SHMUP. Rating: were a kid, someone with whom Director: Chloé Zhao seems to suit her. making a new plan on the fly after Teen) you can feel completely at ease. “Nomadland,” based on a nonfic- her old life floated away. She’s the kind of actor who seems to Writer: Chloé Zhao, based on the book “My Universe: Pet Clinic, by Jessica Bruder tion book by journalist Jessica Zhao shows us the difficulty of bring home with her, and therefore Cats & Dogs” (PC, Nintendo Bruder, is primarily about Fern’s this life – the endless laundromats, Switch, PlayStation 4. Genre: she’s perfect as Fern in Chloé Running time: 107 minutes journey, but we also meet a host of the cramped bed in the van, the Simulation. Rating: Everyone) Zhao’s wondrous “Nomadland”: Rating: Rated R for some nudity other people in similar straits, cold, the possessions left behind – This is a character for whom home many of whom are played by nonac- but also its beauty and freedom. I “TinyShot” (PG. Genre: Action, isn’t a place, but something you Streaming on: Hulu (Feb. 19) tors who are themselves nomads. wished I could have seen “Nomad- Shooter, Platformer. Rating: Not carry. (Watch, though, for the great David land” on a theater screen, to see the available) Like Zhao’s previous film “The leaves her longtime home in rural Strathairn as a gentle loner who’s horizons and pale-peach sunrises “Shores Unknown” (Nintendo Rider,” “Nomadland” has a haunt- Nevada, in a former company town drawn to Fern.) It’s a movie about stretching endlessly in Joshua Switch, PC. Genre: RPG. Rating: ing, dreamlike quality; also like that’s now an empty shell after the people who are often invisible; James Richards’ beautiful cinema- Not available) “The Rider,” its drama takes place plant that employed Fern and her older people, without much money, tography. And I wished I could have “Speed Limit” (PC, PlayStation in the face and voice of its main husband closed years ago. She be- who’ve chosen – or had chosen for seen McDormand’s face as big as a 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch. character, who’s figuring out a new comes a nomad, living in her van them, when the social safety net house, looking wonderingly out- Genre: Action, Racing, Platform- kind of life. Fern, a recent widow, and finding seasonal work when fails – an alternative way of life. We ward, finding possibility. er, Flight. Rating: Not available) “Cardaclysm” (PC. Genres: RPG, Card, Card Collecting Game ALBUM REVIEWS (CCG). Rating: Not available) “Capcom Arcade Stadium” The Philadelphia Inquirer (Nintendo Switch. Genre: Compilation. Rating: Pending) “Little Nightmares II” (Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S. Genre: Adventure. Rating: Teen) New music The following is a partial list of titles released Friday. Compiled by Keith Coombes of Ernie November The Band, “Stage Fright” 50th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue Bbno$ ,“Good Luck, Have Fun” Black Sabbath, “Vol. 4” Super “VERTIGO DAYS” “AT THE MOONBASE” “BOOTS NO. 2: THE LOST Deluxe 4-CD/5-LP Box Set Tommy Bolin, “Shake The HHH SLAUGHTER BEACH, DOG (LAME-O) HHH SONGS” THE NOTWIST (MORR MUSIC) Devil-The Lost Sessions 1976” The Notwist perfected the blend of indie-rock The last song on the fourth album by Slaughter GILLIAN WELCH (ACONY) HHH ½ Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, guitars and glitchy electronics on their Beach, Dog is called “Notes From A Brief When Gillian Welch debuted with the aptly “New Fragility” influential “Neon Golden,” which occupies a Engagement (At The Boot & Saddle).” titled “Revival,” her sepia-toned narratives similar place in the German band’s discography Yes, the song is in part an ode to the South Philly drawing deeply from bluegrass and Appalachian Claud, “Super Monster” that “Kid A” does in Radiohead’s. They continue club that became the most prominent folk exerted a hypnotic pull. She and partner Dio, “Holy Diver-Live 2008” to explore the possibilities of synthesis on Philadelphia venue lost amid COVID-19 David Rawlings eventually expanded their 2-CD/3-LP & “Evil Or Divine- “Vertigo Days,” their eighth studio album shutdowns when it closed permanently in musical palette, but they remain at their best Live 2005” 2-CD/3-LP Deluxe (several soundtracks and other experiments November. when they’re performing by themselves and Reissues notwithstanding). making the old sound astoundingly fresh. But the poignant spoken-word-with-beats piece Emptiness, “Vide” It’s the most collaborative album yet from the by Jake Ewald evokes more than just the Broad That’s what you get on “The Lost Songs,” a three- band fronted by brothers Markus and Micha Street rock room the songwriter played so often CD feast of 48 previously unreleased recordings, Florida Georgia Line, “Life Rolls On” Acher, with a globe-hopping array of guest in Lame-O Records showcases. all but one of them by Welch or Welch-Rawlings, vocalists (Japan’s Saya, Argentina’s Juana and all performed by just the two of them. The song also captures the nervous energy at a God Is An Astronaut, “Ghost Molina, Chicago’s Ben Lamar Gay) plus American Tapes #10” jazz clarinetist Angel Bat Dawida. Still, Markus hometown gig as it circles back on itself. “It’s They touch on folk, country, bluegrass, gospel Acher’s resigned, understated vocals anchor hard to sing when I’m holding my breath,” Ewald and blues, with Rawlings’ guitar, dobro and Love & Death, “Perfectly most tracks. talk-sings on the track. “I look at the drums, I other instruments punctuating Welch’s acoustic Preserved” look at the crowd, adjust my frames and they strum and enhancing the emotional punch of the The Lox, “Living Of Xperience” As on 2016s superb live set “Superheroes, slide back down. It’s hard to sing when I’m songs, whether they’re happy, or, as is the case Ghostvillains & Stuff,” songs flow into one holding my breath.” most often, sad. Chico Mann, “Double Life” another. The two-part “Into Love / Stars,” which moves from placid introspection to propulsive It conjures the vibe of being out among friends, “More hard times than I can endure,” Welch Pentatonix, “Lucky Ones” cacophony, is one example. But all the tracks too – a simple pleasure long taken for granted confesses on “Johnny Dear,” the forlorn ballad and now so distant. that opens the set. Pretty Reckless, “Death By could have a slash mark between them. Rock And Roll” It’s immersive stuff, and stronger as a whole “At the Moonbase” is the best Slaughter Beach, While the characters can be ancient archetypes Dog album yet, with closely observed songs of – ramblers, convicts, cowboys, dreamers, jilted Rammstein, “Herzeleid” 25th than in its individual parts. Some tracks work Anniversary Deluxe 2-CD/3-LP best as bridges or abstractions before the next quarantine couplings like “My Girl” and “Are You lovers – the duo invest them with universal one snaps into focus with a lovely melody (“Sans There.” There’s also a nod to another Philly dive resonance. “It seems a lot of people are getting Sacred Reich, “Ignorance”, Soleil”) or a sharp, motoric beat (“Exit Strategy bar, in “Song For Oscar’s.” bad news,” Welch sings on the relatively jaunty “Surf Nicaragua” “American to Myself.”) It’s a shape-shifting album, with an “How’s About You.” “Well I used to have a dollar/ Way” Deluxe Reissues Ewald plays most of the instruments himself, but I’m gonna have a dime someday.” underlying tone of foreboding anxiety. the arrangements are more filled out and self Sia, “Music: Songs From And confident, with saxophone player Will Schade Resilience and optimism also course under these Inspired By The Motion Picture” – Steve Klinge classing up the proceedings and providing plainspoken but incisive songs, as in “One Little wistful grace notes that make the songs stick.