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Clint Eastwood has just released his latest film, in which he is once again star and director.

2021 Billboard Latin Music Awards.The 74-year-old Mexican icon, whose real name is Francisca Viveros Barradas, was honored with the Billboard Lifetime Achievement Award during Thursday's awards show in Miami. She became the first woman to receive the honor.Celebrating her musical career that spans 50 years, a montage of her life and career aired before she took the stage.

Johnny Depp claimed that “cancel culture” is “out of hand” during a lengthy diatribe at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The actor, who stepped down from his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts franchise after losing a domestic assault-related libel lawsuit, claimed that “no one is safe” from cancel culture, according to a report from Deadline.

Naman Ramachandran John Malone’s multinational telco Liberty Global — owners of “Fleabag” and “1917” producer All3Media and joint owners with Telefonica of the merged Virgin Media and O2 – has reached an agreement sell its Polish operations to the iliad group’s Polish mobile subsidiary Play.Liberty Global has agreed to sell UPC Poland for a total enterprise value of PLN 7.0 billion ($1.8 billion).

Naman Ramachandran Producer and European Film Academy Chair Mike Downey is being honored with the Kristián Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Prague International Film Festival – Febiofest.The award will be presented at the opening of the festival on Friday by Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning British filmmaker Stephen Daldry.

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NEW YORK -- Patricia Smith has won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement, a $100,000 honor presented by the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation.Previous winners include W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan and the current poet laureate, Joy Harjo.

Lily Moayeri When the late Michael Been of the Call was working on the soundtrack to the 1992 film “Light Sleeper,” his then-teenage son, Robert Levon Been, later of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, would hide when the film’s director, Paul Schrader, came to Been’s home to check on the music’s progress.“Everything was recorded in our house, DIY style, on analog, in the living room,” recalls Been, speaking from Vienna, Austria.

More than a year ago, it was reported that Jon Bernthal was signed to star in a new TV series inspired by the film, “American Gigolo.” At the time, not much was known about the series, specifically how involved the film’s writer-director, Paul Schrader, would be. Well, according to the filmmaker’s recent interview with GQ, he’s definitely not involved, and he honestly doesn’t know how a TV series based on the film would work in 2021.

The word “cinema” brings to mind many different thoughts and images. Some people might think of a Wong Kar-wai film.

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticI’m a sucker for card-sharp movies, and I’m not alone. The allure of films like “The Cincinnati Kid” or “California Split” or “Rounders” is that the poker games have the quality of athletic showdowns: the kind of hand-to-hand, eyeball-to-eyeball aggression we associate with a contest taking place in a gladiatorial arena.

“I don’t really feel like it’s going anywhere,” a character in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter laments at one point, and for a good long time one is inclined to feel this way about the film itself. Like the titular low-end professional gambler, Schrader here plays the long game, winning as often as not by studying patterns, conservatively abiding by carefully calculated odds and not acting on impulse.

What if you’ve paid your debt to society, but the spiritual weight of what you truly owe for your past actions can never be repaid in full? Following the terrific comeback reception to “First Reformed” and the spartan, Bresson-ian transcendental style employed within, feeling good about his chances, filmmaker Paul Schrader doubles down on austere slow cinema again in “The Card Counter,” a movie about the moral balance a man can accrue.

Roberto Benigni is feeling the love.

Manori Ravindran International EditorPaul Schrader says his movie “The Card Counter,” in which Oscar Isaac plays a former Abu Ghraib interrogator who did jail time for his actions, is “not about redoing history” but rather focusing on one soldier’s memory — a cinematic theme he predicts will recur as U.S.

Maybe it comes from having a decades-long career being considered a film legend, but Paul Schrader is unafraid to speak his mind. However, as he is quick to point out, the filmmaker is keenly aware that speaking your mind in today’s political climate can result in some serious losses in your career due to “cancel culture.” Speaking to Deadline, while promoting his new film “The Card Counter,” Paul Schrader opened up about what he perceives are the ills of cancel culture.

‘The Card Counter’ which will have its world premiere tomorrow at the Venice Film Festival. Character-driven, sexy and surprising, with plenty of intrigue one would expect from a Schrader film,” HanWay Films MD Gabrielle Stewart also said in a statement.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaJoel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver will star in “Master Gardener,” a new crime thriller from Paul Schrader, a master of the genre.Schrader is on a bit of a hot streak after scoring an Oscar nod for his screenplay for “First Reformed.” Astoundingly that marked his first nomination despite penning some of the greatest movies ever made. His new drama, “The Card Counter,” debuts at the Venice Film Festival.