Thursday, 7 June 2018

European cinema embraces the vagina – what's taken Hollywood so long? - The Guardian


The Guardian

European cinema embraces the vagina – what's taken Hollywood so long?
The Guardian
The French film-maker Catherine Breillat, for example, out-Apatows Apatow with an explicit cervical examination and birth sequence in Romance (1999). Then, in Anatomy of Hell (2004), she got porn actor-director Rocco Siffredi (AKA “the Italian Stallion ...



Tribeca Film Institute And ESPN Offer Grants To 3 Documentary Shorts - Deadline


Deadline

Tribeca Film Institute And ESPN Offer Grants To 3 Documentary Shorts
Deadline
Each filmmaking team chosen will receive a grant ranging from $15,000 to $20,000 to use towards the development, production, or post-production of their film, as well as receive year-round consultation and mentorship. Academy Award-winning documentary ...



Mulan's New Love Interest Has Been Cast For The Live-Action Film & Damn, Sign Me Up - Elite Daily


Elite Daily

Mulan's New Love Interest Has Been Cast For The Live-Action Film & Damn, Sign Me Up
Elite Daily
We won't see the live-action version of Mulan in theaters until 2020, but Disney has given us plenty of tidbits about the new film to satisfy us during that long wait. Chinese actress Liu Yifei, who also goes by the name Crystal Liu, will play our ...
Disney Casts 'Mulan' Love Interest (Exclusive)Hollywood Reporter

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A Star is Born? Lady Gaga's feature film debut praised - BBC News


BBC News

A Star is Born? Lady Gaga's feature film debut praised
BBC News
Fans have been given their first look at Lady Gaga's debut feature film role, in the upcoming A Star is Born. The film, directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, sees Gaga in the role of Ally, an aspiring singer helped into the industry by an older ...
A Star Is Born: first trailer for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper film hits internetThe Guardian
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's new film 'A Star Is Born' finally has an official trailer, and it deserves all the OscarsINSIDER
Bradley Cooper Sings For Real in New Trailer for A Star Is BornSlate Magazine
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Maricopa colleges get complaints over showing 'The Last Temptation of Christ' in class - AZCentral.com


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Maricopa colleges get complaints over showing 'The Last Temptation of Christ' in class
AZCentral.com
Gilbert resident Christine Accurso recently complained to the district's governing board that the Martin Scorsese film is a "blasphemous video" that has no place in a college course. And Gilbert resident Susan Hicks told the board at the same public ...



Film & Television Charity names 2018 John Brabourne awardees - Screen International


Screen International

Film & Television Charity names 2018 John Brabourne awardees
Screen International
The Film & Television Charity, recently relaunched from its former incarnation as the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund, has announced the recipients of its 2018 John Brabourne Awards. The nine awardees were selected from 127 applicants from an ...



Plans Unveiled for $67 Million Film and TV Studio in Liverpool - Variety


Variety

Plans Unveiled for $67 Million Film and TV Studio in Liverpool
Variety
With studio space at a premium in the U.K., a major new development is being planned for Liverpool in northern England. Twickenham Studios and property developer Capital&Centric unveiled plans Thursday for the £50 million ($67 million) project, which ...
Hollywood films to find home in Liverpool's former Littlewoods Pools HQBBC News
Film studio famous for Blade Runner and The Italian Job reveals plans for iconic Littlewoods buildingLiverpool Echo
Liverpool's Littlewoods to become film studiosITV News

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Kira Muratova, Prominent Soviet-Era Film Director, Dead At 83 - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty


RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty

Kira Muratova, Prominent Soviet-Era Film Director, Dead At 83
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Kira Muratova, an award-winning director, screenwriter, and actress whose films were celebrated and censored in the Soviet era, has died at the age of 83. Muratova died in Odesa, Ukraine, on June 6, her husband, Yevhen Holubenko, said. The cause of ...
Film Director Kira Muratova Dies at 83The Moscow Times

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'Cold War' to open 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival - Screen International


Screen International

'Cold War' to open 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival
Screen International
The film will screen simultaneously at the Raiffeisen Open Air Cinema and National Theater Sarajevo, with Pawlikowski participating in a discussion the following day in the festival's 'Coffee with…' programme. Pawlikowksi previously screened Ida at ...

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The scariest films ever – ranked! - The Guardian


The Guardian

The scariest films ever – ranked!
The Guardian
The explosion of digital movie-making 20 years ago – and the sudden availability of digital cameras at high-street prices – liberated film-makers and gave birth to the “found footage” genre. This is a movie whose cheeky viral marketing allowed people ...



Jurassic World has reached fifth-film-in-a series exhaustion - Irish Times


Irish Times

Jurassic World has reached fifth-film-in-a series exhaustion
Irish Times
Where does Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom place in its franchise? A surprising number of correspondents, anticipating the latest dinosaur extravaganza, have argued that it is the “second film” in the series. That is to say it is part of a trilogy that ...

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Kaala' Records Lowest Ever Opening For A Rajinikanth Film: Reports - NDTV


NDTV

Kaala' Records Lowest Ever Opening For A Rajinikanth Film: Reports
NDTV
Kaala recorded the lowest ever opening for a Rajinikanth film in recent times, reports news agency IANS. Shocked? As per actor activist Vishal Krishna, the first day numbers of Kaala have been affected by the film's 'ban' in Karnataka and may be even ...
Kaala: Rajinikanth film release in Karnataka delayed amid protestsBBC News
Meet 'Kaala' dog Mani, Rajinikanth's shadow in the superstar filmThe News Minute
'Kaala' review: An underwhelming film made for Rajinikanth, the politicianThe Hindu
News18 -Economic Times
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Robert F. Kennedy and Jim Whittaker's lofty friendship recounted in SIFF film - Seattle Times


Seattle Times

Robert F. Kennedy and Jim Whittaker's lofty friendship recounted in SIFF film
Seattle Times
“Return to Mount Kennedy,” a film more about families coming full circle than alpinism, memorializes that climb, employing rarely or never-seen footage and photography — some by Whittaker himself, shooting Kodachrome from a Nikon 35mm camera — that ...



Film Review: '211' - Variety


Variety

Film Review: '211'
Variety
If you count the Sundance premiere of “Mandy,” Nicolas Cage has had no less than five films released in a span of five months — and 2018 isn't half over yet. Quality doesn't usually accompany such quantity, though in fact, three of the five (“Mom and ...

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Film review : 'Hereditary' inherits a terrifying family drama birthed in hell - Denton Record Chronicle


Denton Record Chronicle

Film review : 'Hereditary' inherits a terrifying family drama birthed in hell
Denton Record Chronicle
“I used to be obsessed with horror films. I'm not so much anymore, but growing up, there were a few films that traumatized me as a kid,” Aster said when discussing what inspired him to conjure up his fiendish horror film. “There was Roman Polanski's ...
'Hereditary': Director Ari Aster Breaks Down the Film's Ominous Opening Scene — WatchIndieWire
'Hereditary' is a terrifying new movie that critics are calling this generation's 'The Exorcist'Business Insider
Hereditary Review: A Brilliant Horror Film That'll Leave You Drenched in SweatThe Portland Mercury
The A.V. Club
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JJ Abrams, Zachary Quinto producing Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins romance film - EW.com


EW.com

JJ Abrams, Zachary Quinto producing Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins romance film
EW.com
Hollywood can never get enough of itself, and in a rare change of pace, it's turning its eye to an LGBTQ romance of the Golden Age era. J.J. Abrams and Zachary Quinto are producing a film about a relationship between screen stars Tab Hunter and Anthony ...
JJ Abrams, Zachary Quinto Making Film About Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins RomanceHuffPost
Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins Forbidden Love Drama in the Works From JJ Abrams, Zachary Quinto (Exclusive)Hollywood Reporter

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Storm over India film on women who 'smoke, drink and have sex' - BBC News


BBC News

Storm over India film on women who 'smoke, drink and have sex'
BBC News
A Bollywood summer film that shows female bonding among four hard drinking, foul-mouthed friends has sparked a social media storm. Set in south Delhi, one of India's poshest neighbourhoods, Veere Di Wedding is about a group of school friends who are ...



London Film School Appoints Gisli Snaer As New Director - Deadline


Deadline

London Film School Appoints Gisli Snaer As New Director
Deadline
Filmmaker and teacher Snaer joined LFS in 2016 as Head of Studies from the Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. His filmmaker credits include Greenland-set drama Ikíngut (2000) which played at Flanders International Film ...



Wednesday, 6 June 2018

What ever happened to that film Jeremy Irons shot in Louisville? - Courier Journal


Courier Journal

What ever happened to that film Jeremy Irons shot in Louisville?
Courier Journal
Eight films in all will be screened at the festival, including five that were shot all or in part in Kentucky, a nod to the state's growing film industry. “Flyover continues to focus on premieres of films with connections to our state that were either ...



Rajinikanth's Kaala: 10 Things To Know About The Film - NDTV


NDTV

Rajinikanth's Kaala: 10 Things To Know About The Film
NDTV
Ready or not, Rajinikanth is all set to take over your weekend with his new film Kaala. Rajinikanth's film had featured in headlines for various reasons including the ban on the film's release in Karnataka, its pre-release business and some other facts ...
Ahead of film's release, Rajinikanth vouches for 'Kaala'The News Minute

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McQueen review – meticulous portrait of fashion's master of audacity - The Guardian


The Guardian

McQueen review – meticulous portrait of fashion's master of audacity
The Guardian
... Tom Ford is shown making admiring comments. It was only watching this that I realised that Ford must surely have been inspired by McQueen's Voss for the beginning of his movie Nocturnal Animals. A pity that McQueen himself never tried to make a film.
McQueen: Alexander McQueen film asks no awkward questionsIrish Times

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'Hereditary' is a terrifying new movie that critics are calling this generation's 'The Exorcist' - Business Insider


Business Insider

'Hereditary' is a terrifying new movie that critics are calling this generation's 'The Exorcist'
Business Insider
Written and directed by Ari Aster, the film is even receiving Oscar buzz for Collette's performance, along with praise for Aster's inflicting of "psychic damage" through innovations on horror genre tropes. "Hereditary" currently has a 93% "fresh ...
by Keith Uhlichslantmagazine

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Robert F. Kennedy and Jim Whittaker's lofty friendship recounted in SIFF film - Seattle Times


Seattle Times

Robert F. Kennedy and Jim Whittaker's lofty friendship recounted in SIFF film
Seattle Times
“Return to Mount Kennedy,” a film more about families coming full circle than alpinism, memorializes that climb, employing rarely or never-seen footage and photography — some by Whittaker himself, shooting Kodachrome from a Nikon 35mm camera — that ...



Los Angeles Film School Launches $1.5M Women In Entertainment Scholarship Fund To Bridge Gender Gap - Deadline


Deadline

Los Angeles Film School Launches $1.5M Women In Entertainment Scholarship Fund To Bridge Gender Gap
Deadline
In an effort to broaden the opportunity for women to find a foothold in the entertainment industry, The Los Angeles Film School has committed $1.5 million toward a Women In Entertainment Scholarship Fund Initiative. The long term goal to create parity ...



Rajinikanth's Kaala: 10 Things To Know About The Film - NDTV


NDTV

Rajinikanth's Kaala: 10 Things To Know About The Film
NDTV
Ready or not, Rajinikanth is all set to take over your weekend with his new film Kaala. Rajinikanth's film had featured in headlines for various reasons including the ban on the film's release in Karnataka, its pre-release business and some other facts ...
Ahead of film's release, Rajinikanth vouches for 'Kaala'The News Minute
Kaala: Here is how much Rajinikanth-Pa Ranjith film has earned before releaseThe Indian Express

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