It’s hard to view the past year in the news business as anything other than testy and tumultuous.
Matthew Heineman Returns To Oscar Race With ‘Retrograde,’ Searing Doc On U.S. Military’s Last Months In Afghanistan, And What Happened Next
12.12.2022 - 22:39 / deadline.com
In military parlance, the term retrograde can mean several things, among them withdrawal from a war zone, “where all or part of a deployed force voluntarily disengages from the enemy.”
The U.S. exit from the Vietnam War constituted a retrograde action, a chaotic process documented in Rory Kennedy’s Oscar-nominated film Last Days of Vietnam. A much more recent example came last year in Afghanistan, when U.S. forces were pulled from the battlefield after nearly 20 years of combat. The final months of America’s military intervention there—and what happened after the withdrawal—are documented in Retrograde, the new film from Matthew Heineman.
Retrograde began streaming on Disney+ and Hulu over the weekend, after premiering on the National Geographic Channel on Thursday. It qualified for Oscar consideration with a limited theatrical release last month in New York, L.A. and other cities. Retrograde is the latest Oscar-contending documentary for the filmmaker, who launched his directing career in 2009.
“The bedrock of what I do is intimacy and access,” says Heineman, noted for his award-winning work in Cartel Land, City of Ghosts and The First Wave. The intimacy and access in Retrograde resulted from a tenacious effort to embed with U.S. Army Special Forces, better known as the Green Berets.
“Five or six years ago, I was pondering a somewhat clichéd question of why do we fight wars and began exploring different routes to examine that with the military–first with the Army Rangers, and then I got connected with my producing partner, Caitlin McNally. And she had a relationship with the Green Berets,” Heineman explains. “So, we ended up following that path. But it took years, really, to get permission both within the Green Beret
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29.12.2022 / 14:27
Rita Rusk dead: Scots hairdressing pioneer Rita Rusk dies aged 75
Scots hairdressing icon Rita Rusk has died at the age of 75.
usmagazine.com
29.12.2022 / 00:29
Celebrities Who Got the Meme Treatment in 2022: From Will Smith’s Oscar Slap to Adam Levine’s DMs
The most buzzed about. Will Smith, Julia Fox, Adam Levine and more stars got the meme treatment in 2022 after making headlines for viral moments.
usmagazine.com
27.12.2022 / 23:09
Rise and Shine With This Alarm Clock That Doubles as a Night Light With a USB Charging Port
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deadline.com
27.12.2022 / 22:57
As The Best Animated Feature Competition Heats Up, Can Netflix Or Another Newcomer Bring Home The Oscar?
Disney swept the animation category with three nominations last Oscar season, culminating in a win for Encanto. This year, Netflix is coming on strong with more than a few contenders, including Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. DreamWorks Animation is back with a few contenders of its own, while Apple, A24 and GKIDS are seeking their first Oscar win for Best Animated Feature. With only five nominations available, who will go on to compete for the prize?
deadline.com
24.12.2022 / 02:59
Meta Paying $725M To Settle Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit By Facebook Users Who Said Their Personal Data Was Improperly Accessed
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay a record $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by Facebook users who alleged that the company allowed third parties to access their personal data.
deadline.com
21.12.2022 / 23:59
‘All That Breathes’ Breathes Easier After Making Oscar Doc Shortlist, But Some Major Titles Don’t Make The Cut
Best Documentary Feature front runners All That Breathes, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and The Territory are safely through to the next round after the Academy’s Documentary Branch whittled the list of remaining contenders to a shortlist of 15 films.
deadline.com
21.12.2022 / 01:31
‘Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches’ To Be Simulcast Across All AMC Networks Channels; Companion Doc Set
AMC Networks is throwing everything it’s got at Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches.
deadline.com
21.12.2022 / 00:21
International Feature Film Oscar Race: What To Expect On This Year’s Shortlist
The shortlist of 15 films to vie for a Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination is set to be announced Wednesday. In all, films from 92 countries are eligible this year, and as we regularly see, they offer up an embarrassment of riches. For the first time in a while, however, there doesn’t appear to be a hands-down clear frontrunner.
deadline.com
20.12.2022 / 20:13
Bianca Del Rio, Thora Birch, Rachel Dratch, Willam Belli, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo & Doug Plaut Aboard For ‘Hurricane Bianca: The Roots Of All Evil’
EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio is returning for a third movie in the Hurricane Bianca franchise and will star alongside Willam Belli (A Star Is Born), Rachel Dratch (Wine Country), Thora Birch (The Walking Dead), Drag Race contestant fan favorite Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, and Doug Plaut (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).
usmagazine.com
19.12.2022 / 23:31
Blake Lively Trolls Her Pregnancy Cravings With Outrageous ‘Home Edition’ of a New Orleans Deli Sandwich: See the Photo
Eating for two! Pregnant Blake Lively revealed one of her more indulgent cravings ahead of baby No. 4.
dailyrecord.co.uk
19.12.2022 / 08:19
Displaced Ukrainians told 'Scotland is your home' by government minister
Scotland’s Ukraine minister has told those who fled to the country after the Russian invasion “Scotland is your home for as long as you’re here” ahead of the festive period.
dailyrecord.co.uk
17.12.2022 / 20:27
Ross County 1 St Johnstone 2: Super sub Ali Crawford nets quick-fire double as Saints move one point off third
Super sub Ali Crawford netted a quick-fire double to send the 398 travelling St Johnstone fans crashing from their seats in the Highlands.
deadline.com
16.12.2022 / 13:31
United Ukrainian Ballet Company The Focus Of Feature Doc ‘Front Row’ From Banijay-Backed ‘Human Playground’ Indie Scenery
EXCLUSIVE: Dutch docs indie Scenery is lining up a feature about a Ukrainian refugee ballet company.
deadline.com
15.12.2022 / 19:07
‘Klondike’ Review: Ukraine’s Oscar Submission From Director Maryna Er Gorbach
A camera pans slowly around a modestly comfortable living room. Here is the kitchen corner, with its microwave, coffee machine and jars of newly preserved tomatoes. Here are the inherited cabinets, one full of the best china, one full of books. And now, here is a wall that doesn’t exist any more. Torn plaster and broken wood frames a vast portal to the rolling steppes. There is a single road across those grasslands. It leads to Russia.
deadline.com
13.12.2022 / 17:45
Media Shares, Broader Market Rise On Data Showing Inflation Slowed In November
Shares rocketed higher in early trading as new data showed inflation slowed more than expected last month after a string of aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve meant to tamp down an overheated economy.
perezhilton.com
13.12.2022 / 03:49
Tom Brady Throws Super-Smelly Tantrum After Bucs Blowout Loss: 'F**k That, I'm Going Home'
Tom Brady was so pissed about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers getting blown out in NorCal this weekend that he didn’t even shower before leaving the stadium!
deadline.com
12.12.2022 / 23:17
PGA Awards Documentary Nominations Bring Shocks And Surprises: ‘Nothing Compares’ In, ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’ Out
The PGA Awards announced its nominees for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Pictures today, a list noted for a number of snubs and surprises.
deadline.com
09.12.2022 / 21:49
Look Back In Anger: Will Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine Set The Agenda For This Year’s International Oscar Race?
Strange as it may seem, the Oscar for Best International Feature tends to go to movies that are universal rather than geographically specific. Last year’s winner Drive My Car spoke more about mankind’s default setting to loneliness than it did about the specifics of relationship dynamics in modern Japan, just as the Danish drunks in 2021’s Another Round got hammered in a way that was relatable to boozers in every country from Albania to Zambia. Maybe the Academy feels that real life is better left to docs, but a 2015 win for the harrowing Second World War drama Son of Saul suggests that the door is always open. And after a year that saw the whole world reeling from Vladmir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, this might be one of those years that addresses the fact.