{"id":108992,"date":"2025-08-31T02:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108992\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:59:08","slug":"ballad-of-a-small-player-colin-farrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108992\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ballad of a Small Player&#8217; Colin Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFew people in the film industry have had a more impressive last few years than Edward Berger, who directed 2022\u2019s All Quiet on the Western Front, for which he was Oscar-nominated, and 2024\u2019s Conclave, for which he should have been, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/colin-farrell-0\/\" id=\"auto-tag_colin-farrell-0_1\" data-tag=\"colin-farrell-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Farrell<\/a>, who starred in 2022\u2019s The Banshees of Inisherin, which brought him a long-overdue first Oscar nom, Thirteen Lives and The Batman, to say nothing of the 2024 limited series The Penguin, for which he is currently Emmy-nominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTherefore, it was rather exciting to learn that the two had joined forces for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ballad-of-a-small-player\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ballad-of-a-small-player_1\" data-tag=\"ballad-of-a-small-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballad of a Small Player<\/a>, a film about a self-destructive gambling addict and con artist in present-day Macao who grows increasingly desperate as his luck runs out. Adapted by Rowan Joffe from Lawrence Osborne\u2019s 2014 novel of the same name, and also featuring Fala Chen and Tilda Swinton in supporting roles, Ballad had its world premiere at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/telluride\/\" id=\"auto-tag_telluride_1\" data-tag=\"telluride\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Telluride<\/a> Film Festival\u2019s Werner Herzog Theater on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tI\u2019m pleased to report that it is a funny, sad, stylish and altogether entertaining time at the movies. It\u2019s also completely different from the two aforementioned Berger films, in terms of size and tone. Those were large-scale epics about matters of social consequence, and became across-the-board Oscar contenders, landing nine and eight noms, respectively. This one is more of an intimate character study and, for me, evoked memories of 2015\u2019s Mississippi Grind, 2019\u2019s Uncut Gems and, of course, 1974\u2019s and 2014\u2019s The Gambler. As far as awards, I suspect attention will largely center on Farrell\u2019s tour-de-force turn and Joffe\u2019s colorful screenplay, both of which could well be Oscar-nominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNetflix will release the film in theaters on Oct. 15 and then on its streaming platform on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people in the film industry have had a more impressive last few years than Edward Berger, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[51579,49,48,49090,75,60913],"class_list":{"0":"post-108992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ballad-of-a-small-player","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-colin-farrell","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-telluride"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}