Niecy Nash-Betts, 53, graced the latest cover of Variety‘s Emmy Extra Edition as the face of Women of Awards Season, where she sat down for an exclusive interview to discuss her thoughts on her controversial series “Dahmer”.
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You know an artist must be doing something special when even Andrew Bujalski, the godfather of mumblecore, calls their work “excruciating and extraordinary.” But this is where Brooklyn-based director and comic-book writer Joanna Arnow is right now, after a string of darkly funny shorts that might be said to combine the sexual candor of early Chantal Akerman with the sardonic humor of Todd Solondz.
Cannes audiences, then, must brace themselves for her feature debut, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, which premieres in the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section and which she describes as “a mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.”
Surprisingly — or perhaps not, given the genesis of her best-known film I hate myself, a documentary that started to take a new direction when a bitter row with a boyfriend was accidentally recorded — Arnow was expecting to debut with a different movie. “But my previous project had gotten delayed,” she says, “and I needed to feel artistically engaged with something new.”
Similarly, she hadn’t always planned to be a director. “I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, but in college I was too nervous to audition. I didn’t quite know what to do after giving up in a big way, until I was blown away by a history of world cinema class and decided to divert my interests into film.”
As someone who thinks she shares “a lot” with George Costanza in Seinfeld, Arnow is thrilled to debut in Cannes. “I hope people think it’s funny, and that they will relate to the absurd humor of a character figuring out how to be. I’m overjoyed the film is screening at
Niecy Nash-Betts, 53, graced the latest cover of Variety‘s Emmy Extra Edition as the face of Women of Awards Season, where she sat down for an exclusive interview to discuss her thoughts on her controversial series “Dahmer”.
Kelsea Ballerini is getting real about her personal life.
book-to-screen adaptations. Really. First, we had Daisy Jones & The Six, then The Last Thing He Told Me, and now? We have The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart!Watch Below: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart trailerPrime Video have just released the teaser trailer for the Amazon Original series, which is based on Holly Ringland's best-selling novel. With an incredible storyline and an all-star cast, we can't wait to watch the first episode! Here's everything we know about The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. Adapted from the bestselling debut novel by Holly Ringland, the captivating seven-part series delves into the poignant tale of Alice Hart.Following the tragic loss of her parents in a mysterious fire when she was just nine years old, Alice is taken under the care of her grandmother June at Thornfield flower farm.
Jennifer Esposito admitted she refused to audition for "The Sopranos." The 50-year-old actor reflected on how she grew up in the center of organized crime in Staten Island and did not want to remember the harrowing times. "I chose to not go up for it when they would call me in because it was like ‘I can’t relive this,’" Esposito said during an interview with Variety. "The girls I grew up around wanted to kill me, wanted to kill me every day…it was PTSD." The "Blue Bloods" star recalled being filled with "anger and rage" during her childhood.
Marvel Studios typically hates when set photos get leaked and fans around the world get a sneak peek at one of the upcoming films or TV shows. But it’s not so bad, I suppose, when someone from Marvel is actually doing the leaking, as is the case with Anthony Mackie giving people a behind-the-scenes look at the new “Captain America” film.
Tom Hanks is getting very real while reflecting on his career.
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spinoff series,, Kim Cattrall is set to make a surprise cameo this season, and she's speaking out.Cattrall will reprise her beloved character, Samantha Jones, for the first time since the 2010 film, The main question on everyone's mind is how showrunner Michael Patrick King convinced her to return, and if she's still embroiled in drama with her former co-star and lead, Sarah Jessica Parker.While the alleged feud came to light just a few years ago, it has fascinated fans ever since and led to her character being written out of the show — although not killed off — when was picked up in 2021.In light of the unexpected casting news, ET is looking back at the years-long public drama between Cattrall and Parker to examine when things went south, and what both actresses have said about the headline-grabbing drama ever since.When was shooting its final season, Cattrall sat down for a chat on the British talk show,, and vented a bit about the financial elements that led to the show ending after six seasons. Cattrall claimed at the time, «I felt after six years it was time for all of us to participate in the financial windfall of . When they didn’t seem keen on that I thought it was time to move on.»King also claimed, in an interview in August 2018, that tensions ran high between the stars of the show — Cattrall, Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis — from early on in the series.
Bam Margera has lost all contact with his son as his legal battle with estranged wife Nikki Boyd heats up!
Well, “Sex And The City” fans, hell has frozen over. Variety reports that Kim Cattrall will reprise her role as publicist Samantha Jones in the upcoming season of “And Just Like That…” But there are a couple of caveats to Cattrall’s return: she appears in only one scene, an over-the-phone convo with series star Sarah Jessica Parker.
Sex and the City” universe will be whole again. Variety has learned that Kim Cattrall will reprise her iconic role as Samantha Jones in the Season 2 finale of “And Just Like That,” Max’s revival of HBO’s “Sex and the City.” But she will only appear in one scene. According to sources, Cattrall shot her dialogue on March 22 in New York City, without seeing or speaking with the stars of the series, including Sarah Jessica Parker, or with “And Just Like That” showrunner Michael Patrick King. In the scene, Samantha, who in the show has moved to London, will have a phone conversation with Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw. In the first season of “And Just Like That,” Carrie engaged with an estranged Samantha over text, and in the finale, the two made a plan to see each other in order to reconcile.
Rita Ora and Taika Waititi are so in love!
Jane Fonda took matters into her own hands over the weekend at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The 85-year-old veteran actress introduced the Palme d'Or Award to French director Justine Triet.Fonda introduced the historic moment, noting that seven female directors were nominated for the prestigious award for the first time and applauding the festival for its progress.She then gave Triet the award for her film.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Pan Distribution has acquired French rights to Joanna Arnow’s dark comedy “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” following its Cannes Film Festival debut. Loco Films is handling international sales on the title. The film is a major breakthrough for Arnow, who not only makes her narrative feature directing debut, but also wrote, edited and stars in the picture. Critics liked her vision, with Variety‘s Catherine Bray praising “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed” as “brilliantly sardonic” and adding that “you would hope that this is the kind of film that would lead to fame and fortune for Arnow.” The film follows the life of a thirtysomething woman named Ann, as she engages in a casual BDSM relationship, grapples with her low-level corporate job, and deals with her bickering family.
CANNES: Docudramas are inherently difficult to master. You’re attempting to meld real-life footage or people with actors and, often, fictionalized accounts that may substantially differ from the truth.
DEALSUniversal Music’s Capitol Records has signed Teo Glacier off the back of his recent viral hit ‘Too Much’. “I never imagined myself signed to a label, especially one with the history of Capitol Records”, he says. “I still can’t really believe it to be honest.
was false. And on Monday, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had fun with the whole thing, in particular Fox News primestime star Laura Ingraham.Ingraham was tasked with disclosing the mistake, saying the network “had no clue” why anyone would make that story up.
“When was the last truly f*cking nasty, nasty, bad pop girl?” This is the question posed in the teaser trailer to HBO’s The Idol, which promises the kind of lurid, adrenaline-pumping pop-culture exposé you’d see if Paul Verhoeven was ever allowed to make a film like Showgirls again. Said trailer also features copious quantities of cocaine, champagne and seriously dirty dancing, suggesting a warts-and-all drama about a super-ambitious Madonna/Lady Gaga type who has recently hit the big time in the dog-eat-dog world of showbiz.
Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International In Britain, schoolchildren learning about Tudor history are taught a handy rhyme to remember the order of King Henry VIII’s six wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.” Hollywood has for decades been transfixed by the “beheaded” and “died” bits — essentially, the stories about women suffering — but what moviegoers are rarely reminded of is the wife who outlived Henry. In Karim Aïnouz’s hotly anticipated “Firebrand,” it’s the notorious Tudor king’s final companion, Katherine Parr, who finally takes center stage. “What’s mostly been dramatized are the wives who didn’t make it,” says Swedish star Alicia Vikander, who plays the surviving queen opposite Jude Law’s ailing monarch. “[When I read the script] I immediately thought, ‘Huh, isn’t it interesting that most people know more about the other wives.’ It’s almost like people are drawn to quite grim stories.”
Catherine Bray A Jewish thirtysomething, Ann (Joanna Arnow) has never been in a conventional relationship. She engages in submissive sexual relationships with “sexfriends” and seems dimly uneasy that the most longstanding of these, with Allen (Scott Cohen), is now clocking in at around a decade, with neither one of them knowing very much about the other. She asks him about himself; it turns out he’s a Zionist. She rolls away from him. The anthropologist David Graeber has analyzed the harm caused to society and individuals by the existence of meaningless so-called “bullshit jobs.” Ann is employed in a classic example of one of these: the objectives are hazy, the prospects limited; she is given an award for having worked in her office for one year and has to tell them it’s actually been over three years — and perhaps even worse, she has to go to meetings and listen to Boomers say things like, “the iPhone was invented.”