Alfred Molina was first on Broadway nearly 30 years ago in “Art,” but admits he still gets butterflies when he hears the stage manager announce on a Saturday: “Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s Saturday night on Broadway!”“You kind of go, ‘F – – k! What a dream come true,” the British actor, 70, told the New York Post with a laugh during a recent interview.The Tony nominee is back in New York starring opposite Steve Carell in a Lincoln Center production of the Chekov classic, “Uncle Vanya.”And yes, he knows that there is a segment of people who immediately think of Russians ensconced in weekend dachas endlessly moaning about their existence, when they hear the name Chekov.“I would say I know what you mean,” he shared. “There is an element about that.
‘How to Build a Truth Engine’ Review: A Sobering but Fatally Flawed Doc on Disinformation
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Siddhant Adlakha A carefully constructed and often sobering documentary about disinformation, “How to Build a Truth Engine” makes meticulous efforts to lay out its visual and thematic groundwork. However, its chilling portrait of the digital world comes up against a unique roadblock.
A fleeting scene late in the film not only plays like a last-minute addition (concerning recent real-world events), but calls the movie’s own perspective into question. That the film is so effective at building its arguments is both testament and fatal flaw.
When its narrative gives in to the same impulses it critiques, the audience has, ironically, been trained to recognize this failing. Director Friedrich Moser builds a sense of allure as he introduces his ensemble of subjects, from neuroscientists to investigative journalists, whose fields of study seem completely disparate from one another at first.
Moser, also the movie’s cinematographer, imbues each sprawling establishing landscape shot and intimate office interior with the appearance of a modern streaming procedural, bucking notions of visual realism in favor of high-contrast teals and immensely shallow focus. (That he superimposes some of these landscapes atop themselves, with a slight delay, makes the world itself feel unstable).
Melding real subjects with a dramatized visual approach grants de facto permission for mood, tone and atmosphere to become key drivers of Moser’s cinematic experience, as opposed to charging out the gate with an academic mission statement. Initially, explanations of neurons, synapses and psychological processes feel logistically disconnected from the movie’s focus on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as a team of reporters pores over satellite imagery, raw
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Ewan McGregor Charms in ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’, but Can’t Turn the Hit Novel Into a Compelling Show: TV Review
Alison Herman TV Critic The titular gentleman of “A Gentleman in Moscow” is Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian aristocrat played with sprightly joie de vivre by an enthusiastic Ewan McGregor. An aesthete with impassioned opinions about wine pairings, Rostov was born to live the life of leisure handed down to him by his landowning ancestors.
Shares In Truth Social Parent Trim Initial Gains But Still Impress In Nasdaq Debut, Boosting Value Of Donald Trump’s Majority Stake To $4.5B
Shares in Truth Social parent Trump Media & Technology Group gave back most of their initial gains but still posted a strong debut on the Nasdaq, boosting the value of Donald Trump‘s majority stake.
Dennis Quaid Starrer ‘Reagan’ Strikes North American Deal With Newly Launched ShowBiz Direct
EXCLUSIVE: Director Sean McNamara‘s Reagan, the first full-length feature on the 40th U.S. President, starring Dennis Quaid, has been picked up for North American distribution by ShowBiz Direct.
CPH:DOX Premieres ‘A Poem For Little People,’ Documentary Celebrating “Courage And Resilience Of Ordinary Ukrainians”
Less than two weeks after 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, another important film about Ukraine has bowed on the world stage.
‘How To Have Sex’ Director Molly Manning Walker Joins Cannes La Résidence Program
UK director, writer and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, who won the Cannes Un Certain Regard prize last year for How To Have Sex, has been selected for the festival’s four-and-a-half month La Résidence program in Paris.
‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Creator Says Pitch For New ‘Star Wars’ Show Was ‘Frozen’ Meets ‘Kill Bill’
After a wait that felt like years, Lucasfilm finally unveiled the first look and trailer of the new “Star Wars” mystery thriller, “The Acolyte.” With the veil on the shadowy, secretive project lifted, the show’s creator, Leslye Headland (“Russian Doll”), could finally delve into the series’ details. In A new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Headland spoke about the series’ influences, such as “Kill Bill” and “Rashomon,” and how exactly she pitched the idea to Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy.
In Political Thriller ‘8 Months,’ Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: ‘We Were Pretending That Sweden Joined NATO, And Look At Us Now’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Marta Balaga Based on the book by Magnus Montelius, Swedish series “8 Months” seemed more like a fantasy than political thriller. Not for long. “I read this book on vacation and I was intrigued by the idea that you could use a political consultant to find a new foreign minister.
He was the Dark Angel who dodged so many bullets. How did it come to this?
Three hundred and fifty people gathered to acknowledge a fearless adventurer dedicated to helping those wronged. The funeral of former British paratrooper, Daniel Burke, took place earlier this month.
Amalea Chininis Joins Artists First As Manager
EXCLUSIVE: Following a brief stint working on her own, Amalea Chininis has joined Artists First as a Manager, working out of the company’s Los Angeles office.
Vladimir Putin’s Run-In With Greenpeace & Paul McCartney To Be Spotlighted In BBC Documentary Series
EXCLUSIVE: Vladimir Putin‘s 10-year-old battle with a group of Greenpeace protestors that attracted the attention of none other than Paul McCartney is to be spotlighted in a BBC documentary series.
Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: Breaking Down An Emotional Oscars, And A True Accounting Of The True/False Festival
If Vladimir Putin was watching the Academy Awards on Sunday night from his dacha on the Black Sea, his mood may have been blackened by the Best Documentary Feature category. As Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast had predicted, the Oscar went to , Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing film about the early days of Russia’s brutal siege of the Ukrainian port city.
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‘This Is A Film About The Black Keys’ Review: Conventional, But Engaging Rock Doc Considers The Price Of Success [SXSW]
From the basement of dingy jam sessions in Akron, Ohio, to arena rock success, a multiplatinum career, and multiple Grammy wins, “This is a Film About The Black Keys” tracks the unlikely rise of one of rock’s biggest duos. Directed by Jeff Dupre (“Soundtracks: Songs That Defined History,” “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present”), the largely conventional rock doc doesn’t break the mold but engages, nonetheless, telling a captivating story of brotherhood, slow-grinding perseverance, weathering many personal storms, and the heavy tolls that success enacts.
Joe Biden Tells MSNBC He Regrets Using Term “Illegal” To Refer To “Undocumented” Immigrant In State Of The Union Address
President Joe Biden, in his first sit down interview since his State of the Union address, addressed one moment of the speech when he was responding to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival Screens ‘Navalny’ In Honor Of Russia’s Fallen Pro-Democratic Reformer
Alexei Navalny’s sacrifice for democracy is being recognized in the place where the concept of government by the people first flourished.
How building homes for people with nowhere else to go has become a controversial issue
Two new housing complexes for those at risk of homelessness have been approved in Heywood but not everyone is pleased about it.
‘A Gentleman In Moscow’ Trailer: Ewan McGregor & Mary Elizabeth Winstead Lead Showtime’s Russian Revolution Series
If Nicole Kidman, a massive movie star who pivoted to TV and became known as the “Queen of Peak TV,” perhaps someone like Ewan McGregor is quickly becoming her counterpart. McGregor, like Kidman, enjoyed much success on screen as a leading man, but as the mid-sized drama seemingly vanished in cinemas and shifted towards television, actors like the two of them, with an inclination for human stories, have pivoted right alongside the trend.
Strictly Come Dancing's Nikita Kuzmin's hidden health 'superpower' and why dance show 'changed everything'
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‘Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World’ Review: Come for the Pierogis and Goulash, Stay for the Freedom
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It’s not every day I get to review a documentary about a subject I feel personally close to, so let me put my bias right out there. “Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World” is a movie about one of my favorite New York restaurants — and, in fact, countless New Yorkers feel the same way. When you walk into Veselka, the legendary Ukrainian restaurant/diner on the corner of 2nd Ave.
‘Peaky Blinders’ Star Joe Cole on How ‘Nightsleeper’ Differs From His Past Roles: ‘I Am Usually Killing People or Stabbing Them’
Marta Balaga “Peaky Blinders” breakout Joe Cole enjoyed “little moments of levity” in his upcoming show “Nightsleeper.” “I play a lot of serious, moody characters. But I read this role and went: ‘This is close to me as a person.’ I could be free and use my life experience, everything I have been through. I try to have fun in life and bring it to the parts I play.