Pedro Almodóvar, Aldis Hodge, Rita Moreno to Receive Tributes at Hybrid Miami Film Fest

Showtime’s Boston-based crime drama City On A Hill may take place in the 1990s, but today’s conversations about racism and police corruption will find relevance in the series’ upcoming second season, executive producer and showrunner Tom Fontana revealed.

Berlinale Executive Director Mariette Rissenbeek and Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian were determined to be in a cinema today when broadcasting the lineup for this year’s Competition program.

Eagle-eyed Harry Potter fans were delighted to have spotted Tracy Beaker actress Dani Harmer as an extra. Dani appears for a brief moment in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone which has been clocked and is doing the rounds on social media.The now 32-year-old can be seen sitting at a table near Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in one scene of the film.

Best Animated Short “Burrow” “Genius Loci” “If Anything Happens I Love You” “Kapaemahu” “Opera” “Out” “The Snail and the Whale” “To Gerard” “Traces” “Yes-People”Best Live-Action Short “Bittu” “Da Yie” “Feeling Through” “The Human Voice” “The Kicksled Choir” “The Letter Room” “The Present” “Two Distant Strangers” “The Van” “White Eye” 

death at 91 of Oscar winner and “Sound of Music” star Christopher Plummer:“The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend. I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humor and fun we shared through the years.

While the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked the film industry in ways that will likely take years to recover, the long break that filmmakers were forced into actually has sparked some creativity. We’ve seen several directors helm new projects that they conceived during this shutdown.

Top Spanish Auteur Pedro Almodovar is preparing to head into production on his next movie Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas), which will star Penelope Cruz alongside the newly-announced Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (The Machinist), Israel Elejalde (Love Above All Things) and Milena Smit.

Jamie Lang Penelope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar will team once again on the Oscar-winning director’s upcoming feature “Madres paralelas,” (Parallel Mothers), as teased when the project was announced in June.

You don't find subjects much more disarming than Rita Moreno, whose seven-decade career on stage and screen is described in Mariem Pérez Riera's celebratory documentary as both the essence of the American Dream and the tenacious attainment of it despite dispiriting obstacles. "You must never really believe anything about your fame and all that kind of bullshit," says Moreno with characteristic unfiltered charm.

Rita Moreno made history at the 1962 Academy Awards, becoming the first Latina to win an Oscar for her groundbreaking role as Anita in West Side Story, she was so overwhelmed that her acceptance speech was a mere 11 words: “I can’t believe it. Good lord.

Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Moreno, 89, opened up about her early years in Hollywood and Gene Kelly’s request to cut her hair for her role as Zelda Zanders in the 1952 film “Singin’ in the Rain.”“I did something that is so Latina because I was the shyest person on earth, and I said no,” Moreno, who is the subject of the documentary “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It.”“And he really was taken aback because nobody ever said no to Gene Kelly, and I got scared to death having

Also Read: 'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It' Film Review: Documentary Honors a Showbiz LegendMoreno, an Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress for playing Anita in 1961’s “West Side Story” as well as a rare EGOT winner for additional work on TV, theater and music, was joined by director Mariem Perez Riera, and producers Brent Miller and Ilia Velez.The film covers such painful subjects from Moreno’s past, including a sexual assault by her agent, and the heartbreak of

Peter Frampton Band have shared a new cover of Radiohead’s ‘Reckoner’ – you can listen to it below.The song will appear on a new instrumental covers album called ‘Frampton Forgets the Words’. The album, which you can see the full track-listing for below, arrives on April 23.You can listen to the cover of ‘Reckoner’ here:‘Frampton Forgets the Words’ tracklist:01. If You Want Me To Stay02. Reckoner03. Dreamland04. One More Heartache05. Avalon06. Isn’t It A Pity07. I Don’t Know Why08. Are You Gonna

Also Read: 'One Day at a Time' Star Rita Moreno on the 'Odd Resistance' to Latinx Representation on TVNonetheless, Pérez Riera smartly tames the endearing adulation and expounds the reach of the project, with honest conversations on gender violence and ethnic discrimination as they relate to Moreno’s experiences.

Chris Willman Music WriterRita Moreno’s most indelible screen moment, which had her and a “West Side Story” ensemble sizing up the pros and cons of their adopted U.S. homeland, remains an eternally clever musical argument over whether “America” is a dream or nightmare for immigrants, settling in at a 50/50 split.

"An EGOT? What good's an EGOT? An EGOT doesn't fill a deeper need to be loved and taken care of," says Rita Moreno. The 89-year-old screen icon — one of only 16 people to win a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, aka an "EGOT" — is reflecting on her doomed affair with Marlon Brando, whom she met in 1954 on the set of the historical romance Désirée.

Clayton Davis Riz Ahmed, one of the top contenders in the best actor race, is being honored by the Miami Film Festival with its inaugural Impact Award.“Sound of Metal,” co-written and directed by Darius Marder, tells the story of a heavy metal drummer (Ahmed) who begins to lose his hearing.