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Kill Bill: Vol. 1.Among the upcoming lineup of nearly three dozen featured events include: The signature Blossom Kite Festival, offering a variety of competitions and demonstrations taking flight from the grounds of the Washington Monument as well as other area parks or virtually (3/26).Cherry Night, a one-night-only celebration of D.C.

This review of “Citizen Ashe” was first published on Sept. 3 after the film’s premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

The arthouse is awash with well reviewed new offerings from Danish animated doc Flee to Paulo Sorrentino’s Hand of God to IFC’s Benedetta heading into awards season and amid a paucity of new wide releases.

Arthur Ashe is an icon in the tennis world, breaking barriers to become the first Black male champion of three Grand Slams: the Australian Open; the U.S. Open; and, most famously, beating Jimmy Conners in 1975 to win Wimbledon. But on the other side of the net is Ashe’s work as an activist, which becomes the focus of CNN Films’ documentary Citizen Ashe.

Tennis legend Arthur Ashe did not have the gusto of Cassius Clay or Jim Brown, and yet when it came to his work as an activist fighting against apartheid or raising HIV awareness, Ashe quietly made noise and an impact in his own way.“Citizen Ashe,” a new documentary that explores the career of Ashe and grapples specifically with how he was viewed as an African American public figure, puts him in the context of other Black athletes who stood out for their efforts to bring change.

With “King Richard” on the release horizon later this month, tennis fans already have one movie to look forward to this Fall. However, there’s a film about another American tennis great who broke through racial barriers a generation before Venus and Serena out soon, too.

Clayton Davis Magnolia Pictures has come aboard the documentary “Citizen Ashe” from Emmy winner Rex Miller and Academy Award nominee Sam Pollard. The nonfiction awards hopeful will be heading to theaters on Dec.

Selome Hailu editorThe Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (HSDFF) has released the lineup of films and honorees for its 30th edition, which will take place Oct. 8-16.The opening night presentation will be a screening of Samuel D.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Citizen Ashe,” a new documentary about tennis star Arthur Ashe, is as interested in its subject’s political evolution as it is in his heroics on the court.Ashe was one of the top tennis players in the world for much of the 1960s and ’70s, winning the U.S. Open and the Australian Open and becoming the first and, so far only Black man to win a singles title at Wimbledon.

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Leylah Fernandez is the new teenage sensation at the US Open. Fernandez’s birthday was just this last Monday on September 6th and the Canadian ingenue’s father is from Ecuador.

Naomi Osaka on Thursday in the third round of the US Open, and then Osaka delivered some shocking news afterward. The match gave the 73rd-ranked Fernandez her first victory over a top-three player and broke the third-ranked Osaka's winning streak of Grand Slam matches at 16. Fernandez's 7-5, 6-7 (2-7), 6-4 win at Arthur Ashe Stadium was set up by a timely second-set tiebreaker, making Osaka's elimination the first among the women's draw's top-10 players.

Naomi Osaka looked over at her agent and said she wanted to tell the world what the two of them had discussed privately in an Arthur Ashe Stadium hallway after her U.S. Open title defense ended with a racket-tossing, composure-missing, lead-evaporating defeat in the third round.

Naomi Osaka clutches her tennis racket in this shot from her match against Leylah Fernandez during the 2021 US Open on Friday (September 3) in New York City.

This week many people will head to the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Flushing, New York, to attend matches of the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Telluride Film Festival programmers refer to its annual feature program, is back this year with a wide array of documentary award season contenders.Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Jacques Cousteau, Anthony Fauci, Francisco Fellove and the Velvet Underground are the subjects of various docus in this year’s lineup. The nonfiction lineup also includes films about cows, rivers, caves, and family dynamics.The secretive Telluride team unveiled the 2021 program just 24 hours before the festival begins.

Eugene Ashe’s romance drama Sylvie’s Love is a love letter to jazz, Motown music, and 1950s and 1960s Doris Day-like cinema. It is also Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Television Movie after it made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Amber Dowling In order to address the future, sometimes you need to delve into the past.

her fourth round 2019 US Open match, which she lost to Belinda Bencic. On her way out of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the defending champion walks by a plaque quoting Billie Jean King that reads, “Pressure is a privilege.” Osaka doesn’t see it that way. The current world No.

Arthur Ashe DocCNN Films and HBO Max have partnered with Dogwoof on a documentary – Citizen Ashe – that will explore the impact Arthur Ashe had on tennis and HIV activism. During his momentous tennis career, Ashe won three Grand Slam singles titles and became the first-ever Black player to join the United States Davis Cup team.

and Dogwoof CEO Anna Godas and will be presented by CNN Films and HBO Max, and it will debut in 2022. Arthur Ashe, who would have turned 78 this month, is the only Black man to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the U.S.

Antonio Ferme editorCNN Films and HBO Max have partnered with Dogwoof on a new documentary feature that will explore the impact Arthur Ashe had on tennis and HIV activism.During his momentous tennis career, Ashe won three Grand Slam singles titles and became the first-ever Black player to join the United States Davis Cup team. He retired in 1980 and died of AIDS-related complications in 1993.

tennis champion would have turned 78.Moore stepped away from her basketball career in 2019 to seek justice for Jonathan Irons, who was serving a 50-year prison sentence after being wrongly convicted of burglary and assault. Irons’ conviction was overturned last year and he was freed.

tennis icon Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, a strip commemorating those who fought for the Confederacy.The film questions the notion of adding Ashe among the slaveholders for “inclusion” purposes.“We’re not going to make the Confederacy better by adding a contextual plaque or by adding a Black tennis player nearby,” Hunt said. “None of these are good.

Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love was a gift from Amazon when the streamer released it during the December holidays. Aperiod old-school romancer starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, the film was a nod to the Douglas Sirk-style romance movies of the 1950s and ’60s with one major difference: the leads are Black, which they almost never were during the period.

Amazon flipped for Sylvie’s Love when the indie film played Sundance. In many ways it’s a throwback to the kind of romantic, sun-kissed movies Hollywood regularly once made, but with a twist. This one starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha has two Black leads doing the romancing, and outside of less than a handful of films in the 1950s and ’60s time period where it is set, that never happened in the Hollywood of that era.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorTV commercial casting director Merrill Jonas died Thursday at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, Calif. after a long illness.

Angelique Jackson Much like its “will they, won’t they” plotline, the road to release for “Sylvie’s Love” has been its own brand of love rollercoaster.

Running time: 114 min. Rated PG-13 (smoking, sexual content).Tessa Thompson radiates retro glamour in “Sylvie’s Love,” an old-Hollywood throwback with a modern twist: its predominantly black cast.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Nnamdi Asomugha doesn’t just star as a saxophone player in “Sylvie’s Love,” writer-director Eugene Ashe’s new romantic drama with Tessa Thompson. He actually knows how to play the instrument, too.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAmazon Prime Video subscribers will find “Sylvie’s Love” under their trees this year.The Tessa Thompson romance has landed a Dec.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerActress, director, and producer Eva Longoria has joined WME for representation.

Naomi Osaka is a winner!

Naomi Osaka is powerfully speaking out – even without saying anything.

Serena Williams celebrates after her big win during the 2020 U.S. Open on Monday (September 7) at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City.

Novak Djokovic was kicked out of the U.S. Open for accidentally hitting a line judge in the throat with a tennis ball after dropping a game in his fourth-round match Sunday, a stunning end to his 29-match winning streak and bid for an 18th Grand Slam title.