“Cabaret” Takes Top Honors At Critics Circle Theatre Awards: Jessie Buckley, Ben Daniels, Cash Jumbo Win Acting Prizes

The line-up for the 54th Directors’ Fortnight selection was announced this morning by General Delegate Paolo Moretti and his selection committee. On top of the previously announced opening night film, Pietro Marcello‘s “Scarlet,” he being the director of the well-regarded “Martin Eden” festival film, highlights from the films announced include Alex Garland‘s much-anticipated psychological horror “Men,” starring Jessie Buckley, a woman who retreats to the English countryside following the death of her husband.

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled its line-up for 2022. Scroll down to see the full list.

Before he flew solo with his own directorial projects, filmmaker Alex Garland (“Ex Machina,” “Annihilation“) was a go-to writer for captivating genre projects. His early screenwriting work including the Danny Boyle-directed horror film “28 Days Later” which focused on a post-apocalyptic London after animal activists unleash the “rage virus” upon the United Kingdom and essentially the world.

Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler have shared an emotive new collaborative single today, ‘The Eagle And The Dove’ – watch the video for the new song below.It’s the first preview of a new album that the pair have completed together, ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’, which will arrive on June 10.The single was the first song the pair wrote together and is named after a book by the interwar proto-feminist writer Vita Sackville-West.Speaking about the new project, Buckley and Butler said in a joint statement: “The album should be discovered by the world as if they have tripped across a box of photographs in the back of their closet they didn’t know was there.”Listen to ‘The Eagle And The Dove’ here:‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’ Tracklisting 1 – ‘The Eagle & The Dove’2 – ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’3 – ’20 Years A-Growing’4 – ‘Babylon Days’5 – ‘Seven Red Rose Tattoos’6 – ‘Footnotes On The Map’7 – ‘We’ve Run The Distance’8 – ‘We Haven’t Spoke About The Weather’9 – ‘Beautiful Regret’10 – ‘I Cried Your Tears’11 – ‘Shallow The Water’12 – ‘Catch The Dust’A statement about the collaboration said: “It all started with a FaceTime call from Butler’s North London kitchen to Buckley’s mountaintop residence in County Kerry, with their friendship growing from an unlikely shared love of Killarney and the small island of Valentia where Butler would go on holiday as a boy. A mutual friend had a feeling they might spark.“Buckley had been listening to ‘Old Wow’ by Sam Lee, produced by Bernard, in the downtime between rehearsals for the National Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet.

Sasha Urban editorThe Alliance for Women in Media Foundation announced the winners of the 47th annual Gracie Awards, which will honor some of the most talented women in television, radio and digital media. This year’s winners include Melissa McCarthy, Tamron Hall, Kelly Clarkson, Melanie Lynskey, Elle Fanning, Kaitlyn Dever, Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb.The ceremony will return in-person on May 24 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles, and will also honor the best of entertainment and news programming highlighting women, including “60 Minutes,” “NBC Nightly News” and “Pose.” Local and student winners will be honored at the Gracie Awards Luncheon on June 22 in New York City.“Throughout this past year we have seen a number of remarkable projects by and about inspirational women,” said AWMF president Becky Brooks.

Naman Ramachandran “Cabaret” was the big winner at the annual Olivier Awards on Sunday with seven wins, with “Life of Pi” following with five.“Cabaret,” a revival of the 1966 Kander and Ebb musical which has transformed the West End’s Playhouse Theatre into the ‘Kit Kat Club,’ won seven of the 11 categories it was nominated in. Eddie Redmayne won best actor in a musical for his performance as the Emcee and Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles won best actress in a musical, with Liza Sadovy and Elliot Levey awarded in the supporting categories for their roles as Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz.

Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley show off their awards after winning big at the 2022 Olivier Awards held at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday (April 10) in London, England.

The momentum of WrestleMania 38 propelled Fox’s WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown ahead of the pack in last night’s demo wars. The event in Milwaukee, WI. clocked a preliminary 0.6 to easily top the field.

The New York Film Critics Circle will hold its annual Gala Awards dinner on Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at TAO Downtown. Jordan Hoffman will serve as the 2022 Chairperson of the NYFCC and Stephen Garrett will continue as the group’s General Manager.

who was nominated as Best Supporting Actress for “The Lost Daughter” — and the aforementioned spittle incident went down at the new West End production of “Cabaret” in London.It wasn’t a loogie of outrage (although me being a critic, perhaps it was), but an outgrowth of the wild unpredictability of Sally Bowles, the troubled British singer who plies her trade at Berlin’s seedy Kit Kat Club.After Sally was introduced by Eddie Redmayne’s Emcee during “Willkommen,” Buckley ran up to my balcony seat and fluttered her salivated lips like a baby who didn’t want her carrot puree. “So that’s why I had to take a COVID test to be here,” I figured.The A-list show, which is up for 11 Olivier Awards on Sunday, tries to differentiate itself with that brand of breathing-down-your-neck intimacy and immersion.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThough embattled by a staff and talent revolt over its stance on incendiary policies toward trans youth, the Walt Disney Company pulled off a significant win at the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday.The entertainment giant’s Marvel Studios division won the media watchdog’s prize for outstanding wide release film, for Chloé Zhao’s “Eternals.”  As the first Disney superhero tale to feature a same sex couple — in “Atlanta” star Bryan Tyree Henry and Haaz Sleiman — the tentpole film was widely praised for its depiction of loving queer parents.In the television space, Peacock’s unexpected comedy gem “Saved by the Bell,” a reboot of the ”90s classic, took outstanding comedy series. “Hacks,” an LGBTQ jewel box from HBO Max, took outstanding new TV series.

Sasha Urban editorPublicists for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Ted Lasso” won the top awards at the 59th annual ICG Publicists Awards luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Friday.Director Francis Ford Coppola, who recently received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was also honored with a lifetime achievement award in honor of the 50th anniversary of his film “The Godfather.” In his speech, Coppola called out Russian president Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, saying, “It breaks my heart … what is happening in the world, this absurd reality of this world today, and I can’t not speak about that.”Each year, the International Cinematographers Guild awards honors the best in film and television publicity. This year’s awards luncheon was helmed by Paramount Pictures publicist Tim Menke and unit publicist Sheryl Main.

The union publicists who worked on behalf of the publicity campaigns for Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and Apple’s Ted Lasso took home top honors today at the 59th annual International Cinematographers Guild’s Publicists Awards. See the full winners list below.

Naman Ramachandran Channel 4’s “It’s A Sin” and the BBC’s “A Very British Scandal” have won the top honors at the annual Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards.“It’s a Sin” won best drama series and its creator, Russell T. Davies won best writer. “A Very British Scandal” was voted best drama mini-series and its star Claire Foy won best actress.Stephen Graham won best actor for his performances in Channel 4’s “Help” and BBC’s “Time.” Peter Jackson’s Disney Plus series “The Beatles: Get Back” was voted best documentary mini-series.

An Ayrshire cafe has been crowned the best in Scotland.

Men, starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear, has just been released – check it out below.The film stars Buckley as Harper, a woman taking a solo holiday after a tragic incident involving her husband.An official synopsis for Men reads: “A young woman goes on a solo vacation in the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.”Watch the new trailer here:Kinnear stars as Geoffrey, the owner of the property Harper stays in – and also appears as a number of men she meets in the village.Harper’s ex-husband is played by I May Destroy You star Paapa Essiedu. No other cast members have been confirmed at the time of writing.Back in 2020, Garland described Men as a “low-budget horror movie” he was working on.“I don’t know if it’s unrealistic or not.

Jessie Buckley is taking on a frightful new role.

Newly minted Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley headlines a new psychological horror from “Ex Machina” writer-director Alex Garland.

How many heady horror movies will 2022 have once the calendar year is over? The genre is already off to a great start this year with Ti West‘s “X,” and there’s even more on the way, like Robert Eggers‘ “The Northman” and Jordan Peele‘s “NOPE.” Add Alex Garland‘s “Men” to that list, as his latest film looks like he’s leaning heavily into highbrow horror.