These include Linda May and Swankie, two women whom Fern bonds with early on, who were both featured in Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book, But the movie is also a further refinement of Zhao’s techniques, of the rough-hewn yet strikingly seamless weave of fiction and nonfiction that she achieved with her 2015 debut, “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” and came close to perfecting in 2017’s McDormand was last at TIFF in 2017 with the small-town comic thriller It’s fun if fruitless to speculate about what these events might have looked like under normal circumstances, but it seems safe to say that “Nomadland” would have been in the thick of it. It also imposes an arbitrary, potentially misleading narrative on an experience that, even at its most carefully programmed, is destined and perhaps even designed to frustrate your sense of order.That would seem especially true of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, one of the first major film events of the COVID-19 pandemic era. Some of the great pleasures of festival-going — the thrill of nabbing one of the last seats at a hot-ticket screening, the charge that pulses through an audience that has just made a thrilling cinematic discovery — are pleasurable because of the presence, and proximity, of other people. We take in that beauty through the eyes of Fern (McDormand), a widow in her 60s who saw her small, economically depressed Nevada town and her entire way of life suddenly collapse — and decided that, rather than pick up the pieces, she would forge a new way of life altogether.And so she packs up her white van and heads out across the U.S., with no particular direction or destination in mind. Forgive us, but we just can’t help ourselves: It’s a convenient way of organizing our thoughts on deadline and placing different films in conversation with one another. Some of these are friends and colleagues. This article originally appeared on AlterNet. E produzida pelo produtor musical Jay Kay. Obra composta e interpretada por Predella e Nog. But as movies like “Nomadland” and “Ammonite” remind us, there is consolation in the prospect of reunion. But as Charlotte’s spirits improve, so do Mary’s. These are the kinds of things you have to consider, after all, when you’ve decided to permanently embrace the thrill of the open road — or, as the case may be, the beauty of the RV park at dusk. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the book “FilmCraft: Editing” and serves as chair of the National Society of Film Critics and secretary of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.The other shoe is always about to drop in Luca Guadagnino’s films, from the Oscar-nominated “Call Me by Your Name,” the last of his “Desire Trilogy,” to his latest HBO series, “We Are Who We Are.”As moviegoing has a slow revival amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Warner Bros. keeps a lid on “Tenet” details and “Mulan” underwhelms for Disney in China.Feelings of loneliness, isolation and magical possibility permeate ‘The Hole,’ an early triumph from Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang.Premiering as part of the Toronto International Film Festival, “Ammonite” brings together director Francis Lee, Kate Winslet and Saoirse RonanForecasts suggest that bad smoke from fires will worsen Saturday and Sunday, forcing more people to give up what they love about California: the outdoors.The Bobcat fire burning in the Angeles National Forest continues to send thick, unhealthful smoke into the Los Angeles Basin.A study of patients who came to UCLA clinics and hospitals to be treated for coughs suggests the coronavirus may have been in Los Angeles by Christmas.The air around Southern California feels like smoke soup because of wildfires.