Sean Baker’s “Anora,” a comic but devastating Brooklyn odyssey about a sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, has won the Cannes Film Festival’s top award, the Palme d’Or. Source link
It’s Hollywood in the hoosegow! The inaugural San Quentin Film Festival this fall will present movies inside the old California state prison and all the movies will be by or about convicts. The Oct. 10 festival aims to “normalize the inclusion of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in the entertainment industry,” organizers wrote on the […]
Nobody and nothing on this planet is perfect, but there are some pretty decent facsimiles of “perfection.” Movies and film, for instance, have the benefit of re-shoots, reviews, editing and computer graphics to give as “perfect” of a vision to the moviegoer as possible. Even then, however, sometimes mistakes can make it to the final […]
The roots of the Capitol incursion lie in the deep, dark depths of Facebook’s algorithms, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who is currently working on a script to bring his vision to the big screen. Sorkin wrote “The Social Network,” a 2010 hit about the founding of Facebook. His concepts for another look at the […]
PARIS — French actor Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults in 2021 of two women on the set of a film, prosecutors announced Monday. The 75-year-old actor, who previously has denied any wrongdoing, was detained for questioning by police in Paris for several hours earlier Monday. The […]
NEWS AND OPINION: A round of applause please for the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services — the first organized U.S. effort to implement a centralized system of strategic intelligence, and the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Special Operations Command, and the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. A round […]
When news first broke that film auteur Quentin Tarantino was abandoning his largely materialized 10th and final film, tentatively titled “The Movie Critic,” Hollywood-watchers were both surprised and not surprised at all. To the ones who weren’t surprised: Tarantino is an oddball, and that’s probably an understatement. Creative genius? Absolutely. Hardheaded, almost to a fault? […]
It’s easy to see why the hype had been building for A24’s new hit film “Civil War.” Set in a fictional not-so-distant future, the film imagines the United States split into various secessionist factions whose battles have turned the continental states into a war zone. Given the escalating state of real-life right-versus-left U.S. politics, many […]
Few minds in Hollywood are as odd and unique as film auteur Quentin Tarantino. Love him or hate him, it’s undeniable that Tarantino’s films have a certain unique flair and style to them that’s almost impossible to emulate. Of his many odd quirks, the hardheaded Tarantino has long maintained that he would be wrapping up […]
At CinemaCon, movie studios across the industry pitch their upcoming projects to theater owners. This year’s event had a bit more riding on it than usual, considering the disastrous state of the U.S. box office post-COVID and the streaming boom. Those theater owners likely hoped studios had innovative ideas for returning audiences to the cinema. […]
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