Ava DuVernay To Narrate & EP ‘One Perfect Shot’ Film Auteur Docuseries For HBO Max

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsIt’s order’s up for Selena + Chef as HBO Max announced Thursday that the quarantine cooking show will return for season two. With the sophomore season, the singer can look forward to whipping up even more delicious and challenging dishes in the comfort of her home.“Learning from some of the best chefs in the world has vastly improved my cooking skills but I have a lot more to learn.

Carole Horst The struggles of an undocumented immigrant who is also a trans woman in the Brighton Beach area of New York are given a subtle, delicate and ultimately powerful treatment in “Lingua Franca,” by filmmaker Isabel Sandoval.Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing will virtually debut the film in select theaters and on Netflix Aug.

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The Toronto Film Festival has booked Hollywood A-listers Ava DuVernay, Denzel Washington, Barry Jenkins and Saoirse Ronan for candid conversations at its upcoming 20th edition. Appearing virtually as part of TIFF's In Conversation With...

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe 2020 Toronto International Film festival has unveiled its line-up of In Conversation With… events for this year.The six talks are: Halle Berry, who will discuss her new feature Bruised; Claire Denis and Barry Jenkins, speaking together about their careers, Ava DuVernay, who will discuss art, activism and Black Lives Matter; Saoirse Ronan, discussing her performances that have seen her score four Oscar nominations at the age of just 26; Barry Levinson

The 2020 Toronto International Film Festival has revealed an additional selection of films and its annual “In Conversation” roster.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFollowing a barrage of criticism that he lobbed against Justice League replacement director Joss Whedon, actor Ray Fisher made an appearance on the DC Fandome panel today for Zack Snyder’s upcoming HBO Max director’s cut of the movie, with a question from a fan: What character is Snyder excited to fully flesh out in his version of the movie next year?“The characters that I’m excited to fully flesh out? Of course it’s Cyborg.

Selena Gomez may be quarantined at home, where she’s been learning to cook on the HBO Max series,, but that doesn’t mean she’s isolated from her friends. On the latest episode of the at-home cooking show, Taylor Swift makes a virtual appearance as the two besties FaceTime each other. On episode four, chef and food personality Roy Choi is Gomez’s guest mentor, who virtually teaches the singer how to make Korean barbecue Texas breakfast tacos.

In modern American society, the threat of lawsuit looms over everything. Did you get into a car accident? Then you might get sued.

Mel Brooks film kicks off not with its opening sequence, but rather an introduction by University of Chicago professor and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart.The intro, in which the “Silent Sunday Nights” host provides social context to the 1974 Cleavon Little-Gene Wilder comedy, is similar to the disclaimer in front of “Gone with the Wind.”“This movie is an overt and audacious spoof on classic Westerns,” Stewart says in the newly added intro.

Here’s an interesting one with a semi-interesting story. Like Netflix back in the day, HBO Max has to fill its content coffers and one way the streaming service is doing that—just like Netflix and Amazon did originally—is license previously made content and repackage it as something relatively new.

and YouTube, so there’s no excuse for not watching them.Here's a list of documentaries that can educate you on how we got here, and help you take your allyship a step further: The 13th amendment officially ended slavery in the United States back in 1865, and Netflix’s 13th, named after that amendment, delves into why slavery never really ended and was basically just replaced with mass incarceration.

Ava DuVernay has set her next project — and it's inspired by a popular Twitter account. The filmmaker will executive produce and narrate at HBO Max, the streaming service announced on Friday. The new half-hour docuseries will celebrate iconic movie moments guided by Hollywood's most exhilarating cinematic voices.

Ava DuVernay will narrate a new documentary series exploring some of the most famous scenes in cinema.

Who needs to read books for creative inspiration anymore? That’s so 20th century. We’re in 2020 now and if we need inspiration for a new TV series, you have to look at Twitter, obviously.

Ava DuVernay will executive produce and narrate a new documentary series called “One Perfect Shot,” inspired by the popular Film Twitter account, for HBO Max.The “One Perfect Shot” series will be a half-hour, unscripted show produced by Warner Horizon Unscripted Television with DuVernay’s production company, Array Filmworks.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAva DuVernay is exploring what makes that one shot in your favorite film or TV show so perfect.The prolific filmmaker and her ARRAY Filmworks banner are teaming with Warner Horizon Unscripted Television to create a docuseries called “One Perfect Shot” for HBO Max.Each episode of “One Perfect Shot,” inspired by the Twitter account of the same name and narrated by DuVernay, will see a director given an array of visual tools to pull back the curtain on their most iconic

Ava DuVernay has been selected to receive the 27th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in honor of her ongoing efforts to amplify the voices of women and people of color through her film and TV work. DuVernay becomes the fourth filmmaker, and first female director, after Ingmar Bergman, Robert Redford and Spike Lee to receive the esteemed prize.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & Weekends13th and When They See Us director Ava DuVernay is the latest artist to receive the annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.With Thursday’s announcement from the Gish Prize Trust, founded by actresses Dorothy and Lillian Gish, DuVernay is the fourth filmmaker to receive the honor. The director follows past honorees Ingmar Bergman, Robert Redford and Spike Lee.