Clayton Davis Two early and critical precursors to the awards season have announced their voting dates and annual galas. First, the National Board of Review will reveal its 2021 honorees on Tuesday, Nov.
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th Century, if not of all time.
Becoming an assistant conductor for the New York Philharmonic at 25, success and fame came to him quickly, despite his resistance to Anglicize his last name; meanwhile, relationships with college professors and, later, mentors like Aaron Copland provided him with a socially acceptable outlet for homosexual instincts he could only communicate privately via personal correspondence.The film breezes by Bernstein’s blacklisting by Joe McCarthy far too quickly and fails
.Clayton Davis Two early and critical precursors to the awards season have announced their voting dates and annual galas. First, the National Board of Review will reveal its 2021 honorees on Tuesday, Nov.
Seinfeld megafan has produced a video montage of the show’s movie parodies and tributes, and it has gone viral.The montage of the New York-based sitcom, which was co-created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, begins with the show’s homage to JFK, a film which included Seinfeld‘s recurring cast member Wayne Knight.
NEW YORK -- “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn is a familiar name on bestseller lists, but her personal reading tastes run to books most haven't heard about.“I start every conversation about books with 'What's the weirdest things you've read this year? What's the book that you read and later thought, what the hell was that? What an interesting, quirkly little book,'" she told The Associated Press during a recent Zoom interview.Flynn will now be using her judgment in a more official role.
One of the few positive things the pandemic has done for movie buffs is left us with an onslaught of leftover 2020 titles held for this year’s fall festival circuit. Case in point: the 59th Annual New York Film Festival.
EXCLUSIVE: Village Roadshow Pictures has acquired rights to adapt Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South by New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger into a feature film.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe 33rd edition of the New York LGBTQ+ film festival NewFest will kick off with the east coast premiere of “Mayor Pete,” the Amazon Studios documentary about Pete Buttigieg run for president in 2020.Now Pres. Joe Biden’s secretary of transportation, the former mayor of Indianapolis had hoped to have been the youngest and first openly gay president of the United States.The 2021 hybrid edition of NewFest will take place Oct.
Back in April, New Jersey rapper Topaz Jones shared his album Don't Go Tellin' Your Mama, an LP that came with a very well-received short film of the same name. The film, co-directed Jones and rubberband, went on to win a Jury Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
NEW YORK -- After a public fallout over release strategy with Warner Bros., Christopher Nolan's next film, about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atom bomb, will be released by Universal Pictures.Representatives for the studio confirmed Tuesday that Universal has acquire the rights to finance and distribute Nolan's not-yet-titled film.
Britney’s beautiful ring? Whatever the reason, we’ve got you covered with highlights from both major events!The 2021 MTV VMAs started with an opening from Madonna paying tribute to New York and MTV, as this year marks MTV’s 40th year on the air.The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber gave the first performance of the night, singing their hit song stay for the live audience at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Deadline has hired Valerie Complex as its new Associate Editor/Film Writer. The longtime freelance writer covering the film industry arrives from Gizmodo, where she was an editor at the company’s genre vertical io9.
Linda Kahn, a children’s TV executive for more than 40 years who also was a former board president of New York Women in Film & Television, has died. She was 72. NYWIFT said she died August 30 but did not provide details.
according to New York Times, though the cause was unreported.Like many of Hollywood’s leading men of the day, Belmondo embodied an unsentimental masculinity in his characters, such as the cavalier airman in “That Man from Rio” (“L’Homme de Rio”), who sets out to rescue his kidnapped fiancée — a role for which critics praised that Belmondo “outdid Douglas Fairbanks in agility, Harold Lloyd in cliffhanging, and James Bond in indestructibility.”Comparing the actor to James Dean, The Times’ critic
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based distributor Dekanalog has added two foreign-language titels to its slate.
NYFF is working with with Anthology Film Archives (East Village), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Fort Greene, Brooklyn), Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, Westchester), and Maysles Documentary Center (Harlem) to screen a selection of films throughout the festival — complete list below. “These screenings allow filmmakers to share their work with passionate filmgoers across New York, and provide flexibility for movie lovers citywide and beyond,” FLC said.