‘Laurel Canyon’ Director Alison Ellwood on Bringing L.A. Rock’s ’60s/’70s Golden Age Back to Life

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLike many Americans, David Dobkin had never heard of the Eurovision Song Contest. But when the script for “Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga” from Will Ferrell and Andrew Steele landed on his lap, the director of “Wedding Crashers” immediately fell in love with the characters.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentFilm and theater director Kirill Serebrennikov, whose film “Leto” played in competition in Cannes in 2018, was found guilty of embezzlement by a Russian court on Friday, according to news agency TASS.Serebrennikov, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, was accused of being the leader of a group that embezzled 129 million roubles ($1.87 million) in state funds, a charge he denied.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterKirill Serebrennikov, the prominent Russian filmmaker behind The Student and Leto, has been found guilty of criminal fraud by a Moscow court after a controversial trial.Supporters of Serebrennikov claim the decision is politically motivated.

Rebecca Davis editorRelaxed yet armed with a steely ambition, up-and-coming Chinese helmer Wei Shujun is thrilled to be back at Cannes this year in the First Feature section with his road trip film “Striding Into the Wind,” after his short “On the Border” won the Special Jury Distinction award in 2018.“Cannes has been my school, my teacher,” he told Variety, saying that he’s carefully watched and studied the festival’s selections from the past four years.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Reflecting the collective disappointment of the  cast of a $40 million limited series The Comey Rule after ViacomCBS gave a surprising post presidential election Showtime air date for the button drama about the clash between ex-FBI Director James Comey and President Donald Trump, writer/director Billy Ray wrote and circulated a letter of apology.When the network revealed that the series would air over two nights in late November, speculation was

They first laid eyes on each other in the Love Island villa six months ago, and now OK! magazine can exclusively reveal the exciting news that Paige Turley and Finley Tapp have officially moved in together.The couple, who won the winter edition of the show in South Africa, have made a stunning three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment in Manchester their first home together.

Russia’s best-known theater and film director, and his associates were charged with embezzling 133 million rubles (about $2 million) of state funding for a theater project. The prosecution on Monday amended the amount of allegedly embezzled funds to almost 129 million rubles (over $1.8 million) and asked the court to collect the money from the accused.

Good Morning Britain, Ross Kemp opened up about her progress.In the emotional interview, Ross told Susanna Reid that he has not been able to see Barbara since lockdown began in the UK.The British actor and filmmaker admitted that there has been a ‘marked decline’ in her health. ‘The nature of the disease is that she initially knew exactly who I was and in three minutes she turned to me and asked me who I was.

James McClain The longtime residence of the late soap opera icon Lee Phillip Bell has come up for sale, carrying an attention-grabbing, if perhaps not entirely surprising, $39 million pricetag. Well-maintained, with exquisitely curated grounds, the multi-structure estate sprawls across 2.5 acres of hilltop land in the prime lower Benedict Canyon area of Los Angeles, lording over the surrounding neighbors and offering views to the Century City and Downtown L.A.

tornadoes and bonding over antipathy for an Eric Clapton song. “There's no place like my room,” Bridgers sings on “I Know the End.” Skeletons, ghosts and other romantic wreckage make the slightly unsettling, carefully considered audio gauze an appropriately match for the lyrics.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRussian director Vladlena Sandu’s upcoming TV series “Identification,” whose pilot episode plays Tuesday at Roskino virtual market, Key Buyers Event, starts with four naked female bodies, each with the same tattoo on their neck, found by police in a refrigerator truck on the border between Russia and Finland.Cut to three years later in Moscow where a young woman named Valeria who is an immigrant from the Kyrgyz Republic, and a recent convert to Islam,

MOSCOW -- Muscovites clad in facemasks and gloves ventured into Red Square for an outdoor book market Saturday, a small sign of gradual efforts to open the Russian capital back up amid the country's coronavirus outbreak. Although the city’s ban on public gatherings continues, authorities gave permission for the market to take place with restrictions.

Rose Byrne was delighted to be able to keep some of her outfits from her TV show Mrs. America.

Alison Ellwood's two-part documentary on the L.A. rock of the late '60s and early '70s will be pure bliss for anyone who believes golden ages can take shape in woodsy bungalows.

With Laurel Canyon, Alison Ellwood goes to the source: Her stirring composite portrait of a vibrant, groundbreaking music scene is built almost entirely from archival stills and footage, much of the material rare and some of it never before viewed publicly. The voices we hear belong to people who were there, and they have stories to tell — some that will be familiar to aficionados, and some that illuminate whole new corners of a well-traveled pop-culture history.

'I Don’t Know How to Love Him' was originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in 1970

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