Julia Child Underestimated Her Own Feminist Impact, ‘Julia’ Directors Say – Contenders Documentary

Lithuanian documentary director Giedrė Žickytė was in Los Angeles a few years ago when a friend said to her, "Have you heard about the guy who jumped from a Soviet ship to an American ship?"The friend was referring to a Lithuanian sailor named Simas Kudirka who defected from the Soviet Union by jumping off a Soviet vessel and on board a U.S. Coast Guard cutter ship in November of 1970.

Clayton Davis French director Julia Ducournau, who burst onto the world filmmaking scene in 2016 with “Raw,” admits it wasn’t easy to come up with her latest film, “Titane.” “I think that it is the hardest script I’ve ever had to write, although I’m very young in my career,” she tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “But I think that I never struggled as much as I did for this one for many reasons.

First Lady Jill Biden assured Americans that President Joe Biden is completely able to handle the responsibilities of being the commander-in-chief in a new excerpt released ahead of her upcoming interview from Camp David with CBS Sunday Morning on December 12. Jill shut down the concerns when the interviewer Rita Braver mentioned a recent poll, showing that an increasing number of people are unsure about the president’s mental ability.

“And the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature goes to… My Octopus Teacher… to American Factory… to Icarus.”

Jon Burlingame editorOscar winner Rachel Portman (“Emma”) served up a delightful score for “Julia,” the documentary about cooking personality Julia Child from “RBG” filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen.Curiously, the English composer had never seen Child’s public TV series “The French Chef” and, although she loves to cook, does not own Child’s classic book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”Portman, who recently received a lifetime achievement award from Germany’s SoundTrack Cologne, spoke

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary editor Lindsay Utz is turning her attention to directing.

Stillwater director/co-writer Tom McCarthy and Matt Damon joined Deadline’s Contenders New York event today to discuss the film and what they were looking for in the Bill Baker character.

Respect director Liesl Tommy was joined by writer Tracey Scott Wilson, cinematographer Kramer Morgenthau and production designer Ina Mayhew at Deadline’s Contenders: New York award-season event Saturday to discuss their movie about legendary singer Aretha Franklin.

US video streaming service Hulu has pulled a documentary about the Astroworld tragedy that first appeared on the platform on Wednesday.Called ‘Astroworld: Concert From Hell’, the programme’s official blurb said: “Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival was supposed to be the concert of a lifetime. But it turned into a tragic nightmare.

Emilio Mayorga “Ray and Manny,” “Witch’s Business” and “Worldoscope” feature among the five animation projects chosen for the 2nd Women Animation Directors Mentoring Program, run by Ventana Sur’s Animation!Launched with the aim to boost gender parity and build a more equitable and diverse animation industry, the initiative has been launched in alliance with the Annecy Festival’s MIFA market, Argentina’s Institut Français and, for the first time, the Quirino Ibero-American Animation Awards.Five

Jill Biden has unveiled the gorgeous holiday decorations in the White House for 2021!

Taylor Swift has reacted to Billy Joel saying that she is “like that generation’s Beatles“.In a recent interview with USA Today, Joel was asked about who is favourite “current singers” were, and after praising Adele, he referred to Swift as the Fab Four of her generation.“She’s productive and keeps coming up with great concepts and songs and she’s huge,” Joel added. “You have to give her high marks.

Guy Lodge Film CriticA svelte, slinky figure in spotted silvery blond, the snow leopard is one of the great haughty glamazons of the animal kingdom — a status suitably acknowledged in the English-language title of “The Velvet Queen,” French docmaker Marie Amiguet’s lovely, unexpected screen ode to the little-seen feline.

“All About My Sisters”“All Light, Everywhere”“The Alpinist”“American 965”“Ascension”“Attica”“Aulcie”“Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness”“Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power”“Becoming Cousteau”“Beijing Spring”“Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts”“Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry”“Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster”“Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road”“Bring Your Own Brigade”“Can You Bring It: Bill T.

One of the most anticipated films of the year was already seen earlier this year: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by writer/director Joel Coen (going solo for the first time without Ethan Coen), made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival to much acclaim (read our review).

One of the most anticipated films of the year was already seen earlier this year: “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by writer/director Joel Coen (going solo for the first time without Ethan Coen), made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival to much acclaim.

Julia, a delectable documentary about the improbably tall, enchantingly boisterous woman who, at 49, produced a groundbreaking cookbook that changed the course of America’s relationship to home cooking.

The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias.

The HBO Max documentary LFG chronicles the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s fight for equal pay with the men’s team. But Team USA captain Becky Sauerbrunn and directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine appeared on a panel for the film at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event and said equal pay is about more than just money.

Sesame Street has become one of the most important and enduring television programs in American history, but there was a time, back in the mid-1960s when it was just a concept—and a bold one.