blended-family. The film focused on the drama surrounding 12 days of the family spending Christmas together, during which time a marriage unravels.
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Russian-born director Viktor Kossakovsky says it was a monumental struggle to make his documentary Gunda, starring the title character: a sow raising her litter of piglets on a farm in Norway.
“I spent 20 years to find a producer,” Kossakovsky reveals during the panel for the Neon film at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary event. “No one believed in this idea. No one.”
The idea was to show chickens, cows and pigs as sentient beings with intellect and feelings. Kossakovsky shot in black and white,
blended-family. The film focused on the drama surrounding 12 days of the family spending Christmas together, during which time a marriage unravels.
Honestly, if someone would have said 10 years ago that Nicole Kidman would go from being an A-list film actress to become one of the most prolific TV actresses working today, you’d probably laugh. But this is the age of Peak TV and Kidman has clearly found her niche as the leading lady in prestige drama limited series.
Amazon Studios has acquired the rights to Norwegian film Hope for series adaptation, with Nicole Kidman attached to star and be executive produced under her Blossom Films banner. Kidman most recently received rave reviews for her performance in the hit HBO limited series The Undoing.Per Saari is also exec producing.
Gwyneth Paltrow is enjoying a day out to herself!
Norwegian director Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come takes her into frontier country, as two put-upon farmers wives—played by Vanessa Kirby and Katherine Waterston—unexpectedly find love in the drudgery of 1850s America, despite their strained relationships with their husbands, played by Casey Affleck and Christopher Abbott.
Celtic teen Leo Hjelde has joined Ross County on loan until the end of the season. The 17-year-old Norwegian moved to Parkhead from Rosenborg 18 months ago.
Nicole Kidman made a virtual appearance on Friday’s “Tonight Show”, and shared an awkward anecdote from the set of “Big Little Lies”.
Victoria Beckham achieve her flawless skin and toned figure? It's a question many people have been asking for years, with the 46-year-old seemingly looking more incredible as time passes (if that's even possible!).But we think we've found the secret - her diet, which consists of healthy, balanced meals that don't include any milk or cheese. Like the rest of us, Victoria is staying safe at home amidst the COVID-19 pandemic with her husband David Beckham and their children.
Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) has ruled that Julia Kogan be formally recognized as joint author of the film “Florence Foster Jenkins.”Directed by Stephen Frears and starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, the 2016 film told the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite not having the best singing voice.
The California town of Paradise was home to about 26,000 people in November 2018 when a catastrophic wildfire reduced most of the town to ash. Ron Howard’s National Geographic documentary Rebuilding Paradise begins with footage of the community in flames.
No one can say filmmaker Bryan Fogel doesn’t enjoy a cinematic challenge.
Politics and Covid-19 have been intertwined ever since the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China a year ago. But when director Hao Wu made 76 Days, his harrowing film documenting hospital workers and Covid patients in Wuhan as the city went through lockdown, he left political questions aside.
For his documentary Notturno, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi did the unthinkable—spend most of his time in the field without a camera.
The Neon documentary The Painter and the Thief begins with a surprising “meet cute.” After two paintings are stolen from artist Barbora Kysilkova in Oslo, Norway, she encounters one of the suspected thieves in court. Instead of feeling angry at the accused, Karl-Bertil Nordland, he excites her compassion, and an unlikely friendship develops between them.
Filmmaker Jeff Orlowski has become known for his environmental documentaries Chasing Ice and Chasing Coral. But with The Social Dilemma he turns his attention to another issue with major implications for humanity: the damaging impact of social media.
Dick Johnson Is Dead director Kirsten Johnson has become all too familiar with the devastating impact of dementia. In 2007, her mother died of Alzheimer’s.
Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw didn’t necessarily get much sleep when they were making their Sony Pictures Classics documentary The Truffle Hunters, about superannuated men and their dogs in Italy who search for the subterranean delicacy.