Talk:All Too Well: The Short Film/GA1

Conception and production

• Swift has stated via her social media accounts that All Too Well: The Short Film was shot on 35 mm film by Japanese-Korean-British cinematographer Rina Yang. This should be in past tense
• Swift cited "Barbara Stanwyck films, particularly 1937's Stella Dallas," John Cassavetes, and Noah Baumbach, especially his film Marriage Story (2019), as artistic influences for All Too Well: The Short Film. -> Swift cited "Barbara Stanwyck films, particularly 1937's Stella Dallas", as artistic influences upon her film in addition to those of John Cassavetes and Noah Baumbach, especially his drama film Marriage Story (2019).
• noting that she is a fan of O'Brien's works We're chronicling a past event, so the verb should be was
• I like working with friends or people who I think would be excited about working with me. I've never made a short film before. I needed to reach out to people who would maybe believe that I was capable with it. I'm just blown away by what [Sink and O'Brien] did—they went out and left it all on the field This is long enough to be
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• everything was planned to be to music. But then when we played out that scene [with dialogue]. [Swift] immediately marched over and was just like, 'This is it. I’m going to play this in the video.' The confidence to just identify that in the moment on set and take in what we were bringing to it [shows how] she’s so sound with relationships and her instincts. Ditto

Release and promotion

• The film is about "an effervescent, curious young woman who ends up completely out of her depth", stated Swift. She described the film as an expression of her gratitude to her fans for their reception to the song "All Too Well" over the years. it
• with an audience that included Swift, Sink, O'Brien, journalists, film and music critics, and handpicked fans. -> with handpicked fans among those who attended. World premieres are customarily attended by filmmakers, stars, and critics, something not unique to this particular movie.
• In an interview with American director Mike Mills, Swift discussed her filmmaking process, while Sink and O'Brien talked about their characters in the film. Paula Weinstein, the chief content officer of the festival, said in a statement regarding Swift: "We are very excited and enthusiastic to present a compelling slate of Reunions, Master Classes and Talks from one of the most leading and well-known storytellers from all across art, comedy, music, television and film." Remove undue content; fact of the matter is that filmmakers and their actors inevitably discuss their works right after the screening, and I see little educational value in that Paula Weinstein remarks
• Swift was interviewed by the festival's CEO, Cameron Bailey, regarding "[her] filmmaking and visual aspects of her music." Ditto
• Swift took part in the Variety Directors on Directors series opposite British-Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh in December 2022. Ramin Setoodeh, co-editor-in-chief of the publication, stated, "Since Taylor Swift premiered her short film All Too Well last winter in New York, Variety has been impressed with her vision as a director. I think we can move this to Legacy section as the second sentence of the last paragraph, since it occurred the day Searchlight announced a feature adaptation.
• A video of behind the scenes from the short film was also released on December 8.

Commercial performance

• garnering Swift's her eighth number-one song in the US

Critic reviews

• Because
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  prefer reviews from trade publications, the reviews from Steve Pulaski, Indie Short Mag, and CJ Sheu will have to go