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When Cate Blanchett was a nine-year-old attending music classes in suburban Melbourne, it was her teacher, Mrs McCall, who first noticed where her talents lay. “I remember one day, I was playing the piano,” she recalls, “and Mrs McCall put her hand on my hand and said, ‘You haven’t practised, have you?’ I just burst into tears and said, ‘No, I haven’t.’ And she said, ‘I think we should stop, because I don’t think you want to be a pianist, you want to be an actor.’”Though she was disappointed at the time, Blanchett now…

Critics Choice Awards 2023: Cate Blanchett Bags ‘Best Actress’ Honour For Her Film ‘Tar’ – Deets Inside ( Photo Credit – Movie Still ) Critics Choice Awards 2023: Australian actress Cate Blanchett was awarded the winner of Best Actress trophy at the 28th edition of the Critics’ Choice Awards for her work in the psychological drama film ‘Tar’. A tweet from the handle of the 28th Critics’ Choice Awards read: “Congratulations to #CateBlanchett, winner of the #CriticsChoice Award for Best Actress”. ‘Tar’ charts the…

CCA2023: Cate Blanchett’s advice to awards shows: ‘Stop the televised horse race’ ( Photo Credit – IMDb ) The two-time Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett has some notes about awards season. The ‘Tar’ star won the Best Actress award at the recently concluded 28th annual Critics Choice Awards for her performance in ‘Tar’. She began her speech by joking, “I’ve got gum in my mouth. I really didn’t expect to be standing here,” and, “This is actually the second award of the evening: Julia Roberts, earlier, presented me…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCate Blanchett called out “patriarchal” awards shows while accepting a trophy for her new film Tár.The Australian actor called for a shake-up after being named Best Actress in a Drama at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday (15 January).Her victory came days after she won a Golden Globe for the role of fictional composer Lydia Tár in the latest film from director Todd Field. She did not…

Cate Blanchett’s new film role as an imposing orchestral conductor is earning her a shot at another top acting award. But it has already given the Oscar-winner the skills to lead a real orchestra through a score.The actor, who plays fictional American conductor Lydia Tár in the film, Tár, mastered the complexities of the job by training with Natalie Murray Beale, an established star in the field who lives in London and who spent weeks coaching Blanchett for the part.Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár. Photograph: Courtesy of…

The genius of Todd Field’s superb Tár comes from the way the film-making echoes the treacherously seductive and mercurial nature of its central character. Lydia Tár (an electrifying Cate Blanchett) is a dazzling talent: a world-class conductor and composer with a towering ego to match her formidable professional reputation. She describes herself, in a rare, entirely insincere moment of self-deprecation, as “a U-haul lesbian”, but in fact she is one half of a Berlin Philharmonic power couple: her partner is the lead…

Actor Cate Blanchett reacted to the response for work in Todd Field's Tár, for which she scooped her fourth Golden Globe, this time winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama). In the film, Cate plays a queer conductor Lydia Tár, whose career comes spiraling down after several accusations come to light. Cate Blanchett reacted to the 'lesbian icon' status given by several queer fans. (Also read: Cate Blanchett's Tár wins best film at National Society of Film Critics, scores rare hattrick at major critics awards)The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCate Blanchett has defended her new film Tár over claims that it is “anti-woman”.The 53-year-old actor won a Golden Globe award earlier this week for her portrayal of fictitious orchestra conductor Lydia Tár in the film, which is also tipped to be a major Oscar contender. Tár follows Blanchett’s character at the peak of a successful music career, before accusations about her behaviour…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCate Blanchett swallows Tár whole and spits out bullets in return. The role, of a fictional classical conductor somersaulting into her own downfall, was written by director Todd Field solely with her in mind. It’s a performance that functions as a total culmination, the crystallised form of all the women Blanchett’s played in the past – from Elizabeth I to Lilith in Nightmare Alley –…

A second viewing has swept away – with hurricane force – the obtuse worries I had at the Venice film festival about Todd Field’s entirely outrageous, delirious and sensual psychodrama starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the orchestra conductor starting to unravel and unhinge. I had misgivings then about the climactic element of melodrama – which I now see as a deliberate and brilliant stab of dissonance, brilliantly cueing up the film’s deeply mysterious and surreal final section.No one but Blanchett could have…