Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and UK director Jonathan Glazer The Zone Of Interest lead the nominations in the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards which will take place in Berlin on December 9.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Like “Testament” — the 1983 made-for-TV movie that imagined the fallout, both nuclear and psychological, after an atomic bomb is dropped on American soil — “Leave the World Behind” depicts a plausible doomsday scenario from the perspective of a handful of ordinary characters. Not military experts, not scientists, but two families obliged to shelter under the same roof out in the East Hamptons while something scary unfolds a few hours away, off-screen, in New York.
As the stress-prone matriarch of one of these families, Julia Roberts utters a line that earns a big laugh near the start, partly because America’s sweetheart isn’t supposed to say something so dismissive of everyone else on the planet, but also because many audiences can probably relate. Staring out the window of her Park Slope apartment, she pronounces, “I fucking hate people.” Roberts’ character is named Amanda Sandford, but might as well be Karen, such is the rush-to-judgment, world-revolves-around-me approach she takes to others — an attitude writer-director Sam Esmail’s film allows audiences to share, for a time.
On a whim, Amanda books a getaway with her relatively laid-back husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), teenage daughter Rose (Farrah Mackenzie) and slightly older, low-key creepy son Archie (Charlie Evans). Instead of admiring the scenery as dad drives them out of town, Rose streams “Friends” on her tablet.
But once they get to their destination — an elegant two-story mansion with private pool almost a mile from the nearest neighbor — all four manage to set aside their devices and unplug, for the most part. What happens next unfolds almost like an M.
Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves and UK director Jonathan Glazer The Zone Of Interest lead the nominations in the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards which will take place in Berlin on December 9.
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Matthew Perry was on cloud nine when his romance with Julia Roberts kicked off in the mid-’90s — and it all began via fax.“Somewhere in the world, there is a stack of faxes about two feet long — a two-foot-long courtship, filled with poems and flights of fancy and two huge stars falling for each other and connecting in a beautiful, romantic way,” Perry recalled in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”Perry reflected on their relationship nearly one year before his tragic death at age 54 on Saturday. In his autobiography, he revealed that the two initially met when “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman urged him to woo her because the actress was interested in appearing on the NBC sitcom.“Turned out Julia had been offered the post-Super Bowl episode in my season two and she would only do the show if she could be in my storyline,” he wrote.“I thought long and hard about what to say on the card.
Friends.In a joint interview on CBS’s Today show, Marta Kauffman and David Crane discussed their shock at the news of Perry’s passing at the age of 54 on Saturday (28 October).“He was happy and chipper,” Kauffman said of Perry, who played Chandler Bing for 10 seasons of the hit sitcom. “He didn’t seem weighed down by anything. He was in a really good place, which is why this seems so unfair.”Kauffman said she was in “utter shock” after hearing the news last weekend.
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Fans will remember the time Julia Roberts made a guest appearance on Friends playing the role of Chandler Bing's romantic encounter, but some may not know that this led the actress and Matthew Perry to start a relationship of their own. Matthew was one of the most loved characters from the hit American sitcom for his role as witty Chandler Bing but on Saturday, 28 October was tragically found dead at his Los Angeles home at age 54 after reportedly drowning in his hot tub.The date of his death also happens to be the birthday of his ex-girlfriend and Hollywood star Julia Roberts.
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Friends co-stars Maggie Wheeler and Morgan Fairchild have paid tribute to their co-star Matthew Perry, who has passed away at the age of 54. The actor, best known for his role as Chandler Bing in the hit US comedy Friends, died following a tragic accident at his home in Los Angeles on 28 October. Maggie Wheeler, who played Janice Hosenstein, Chandler's on-off girlfriend in the early series, shared her heartfelt tribute on Instagram.
Matthew Perry died at the age of 54 on Saturday, Oct. 28, which eerily happens to be his ex Julia Roberts’ birthday.Roberts, who turned 56 on Saturday, and Perry dated in the mid-1990s.The late actor recalled in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” how the actress reportedly wanted to do a cameo on “Friends,” but only if she was part of a storyline for his character, Chandler Bing.Even more, Perry sent Roberts three dozen roses and a witty card to encourage her even more to drop by the NBC sitcom — at the request of creator Marta Kauffman.“Thus began a three-month-long courtship by daily faxes.
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