Nomadland is one of the best films of 2020 that almost nobody has seen. But that will change soon, as distributor Searchlight Pictures has set a Nomadland launch in both theaters and streaming next month, just before the Oscars.
Searchlight Pictures may have waited a long time to be released Nomadland to theaters, but at least they’re rolling out the red carpet for Chloé Zhaoacclaimed road drama. Variety reports that Nomadland is set to debut in some IMAX cinemas in January 29, 2021, before debuting in traditional cinemas and drive-ins in February 19, 2021. And on the same day of its broad theatrical release in February, Nomadland will debut on Hulu.
IMAX seems like a strange choice for an intimate character drama, like Nomadland, as the format is usually reserved for big box office hits. But the breathtaking images of the film from the American countryside, in all their raw and untouched glory, certainly deserve to be seen on the largest screen possible.
The path to the big screen was marked by delays for Nomadland, which took the film festival circuit by storm, winning top prizes at the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, with Searchlight initially planning a theatrical release in December 2020. It had an exclusive virtual display of a week at the Lincoln Center in New York that month, but it has been omitted from the public in another way – even if it has fallen on the list of the best of the year for many critics, including / Film and his real.
Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: surviving America in the twenty-first century by Jessica Bruder, the stars of the film Frances McDormand how Fern, a woman who makes her life after the great recession causes the economic collapse of her business town in rural Nevada, and takes the road, joining a community of nomads who roam the country. David Strathairn co-star in Nomadland along with real-life nomads Linda May, Charlene Swankie and Bob Wells. Zhao’s tremendous film, which follows his last critic darling The pilot 2017, is a shoo-in in this year’s Oscar race – which makes its launch in the final stage a bit curious (although the pandemic has messed up any sense of time or schedule). But maybe like last year 1917 he will become a late-entry underdog who ends up becoming the unlikely favorite for Best Picture. I hope so, because this painfully beautiful and tender film deserves to be hailed as the best of the year.
In addition to the US launch in February, Searchlight is also planning to debut Nomadland internationally during the spring, starting in March 4, 2021 (if the pandemic allows).
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