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Taylor Swift reveals she pulled out all the stops in keeping her "All Too Well: The Short Film" project under wraps. Last year, the singer wrote, directed and filmed the short movie, featuring actors Dylan O'Brien and Sadie Sink, in New York City. It was released last November, and little-to-no information was ever leaked prior to the airing."I'm really secret agent-y about people not finding out about what we're making while we're making it," Tayor told fans during the Tribeca Film Festival screening of "All Too Well: The Short Film." She continued, "So everything was codewords, and writing things in codes that only certain people knew … I'm so weird with stuff like that."Although the song was reportedly written about ex-boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor has never publicly confirmed it.

R.E.M. surprised fans last night by reuniting during a tribute gig celebrating their classic debut album ‘Murmur’ – see footage and images below.All four members of the band – Michael Stipe, Bill Berry, Peter Buck and Mike Mills – made an unexpected return at the 40 Watt Club venue in their home city of Athens, Georgia yesterday (February 8).The 460-capacity space was hosting the latest show of actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy’s current tour – which sees the pair play 1983’s ‘Murmur’ in full along with a handful of their favourite R.E.M.

R.E.M., Steely Dan, Timbaland and more have been announced as inductees into the 2024 class of Songwriters Hall Of Fame.Yesterday morning (January 17), the Songwriters Hall Of Fame announced five new inductees through CBS‘ Mornings programme. Leading the charge are Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Bill Berry, who formed R.E.M.

R.E.M., Steely Dan, Timbaland, and songwriters Dean Pitchford (“Footloose”) and Hillary Lindsey (“Jesus Take The Wheel”) are this year’s inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced today.

Mike Mills has revealed that R.E.M has “plenty of vault songs” yet to be released from the band’s catalogue.Mills recently appeared as a guest on LPM’s podcast Kyle Meredith With... to discuss the 25th-anniversary edition of ‘Up’, the band’s first LP following drummer Bill Berry’s departure.While on the show, the former bassist revealed that R.E.M have many vault songs waiting to be released and said: “There’s a reason you haven’t heard most of it”.

Wes Anderson has helped launch a new digital film club, alongside guest curators Ethan Hawke and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Indian Paintbrush, Anderson’s longtime producing partners, have revealed Galerie – a digital hub which gives subscribers access to original videos, in-depth essays and live events fronted by leading filmmakers.As noted on the website, Galerie will see a rotating selection of curators “be your guide as you expand and deepen your journey through film alongside a vibrant community where everyone is invited to exchange ideas and expand their knowledge”.“Great cinema is all around us, but in this ever-changing landscape it can be difficult to find when navigating algorithms,” the website’s description reads. “We envisioned Galerie as an oasis inhabited by people who value substance over abundance, where curiosity can thrive and meaningful conversation is given the space to grow.”Other confirmed contributors include Taylor Russell, Mike Mills, Ed Lachman, Karyn Kusama, Ari Wegner and Duke Johnson.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Elle Fanning will make her Broadway debut in the upcoming production of “Appropriate,” a darkly comic family drama from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The show is directed by Lila Neugebauer, the director of the acclaimed 2018 revival of “The Waverly Gallery.” Fanning, best known for her work on Hulu’s “The Great” and “Super 8,” joins a previously announced ensemble that includes Natalie Gold, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll. Jenkins is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose credits include “An Octoroon” and “Gloria.” “Appropriate” follows the Lafayette family as it returns to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate.

R.E.M have put together a playlist of their top 40 songs in their discography to celebrate their “resurgence” in FX series The Bear. Check it out exclusively on NME below.The reflection on their 15-album legacy comes following the release of the second season of the award-winning drama The Bear, which features a number of the band’s tracks – including multiple iterations of ‘Monster’ album classic ‘Strange Currencies’.Now, in an NME exclusive, frontman Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry have hand-selected their top 40 songs from their past for a playlist of their personal favourites.Of the 40-track playlist, each member of R.E.M chose their top 10 tracks, with Stipe choosing the first quarter of the playlist – which kicks off with ‘World Leader Pretend’, a track from their 1988 album ‘Green’.From there, tracks 11-20 are hand-picked by Buck, and include songs ‘All The Way To Reno’ and deep-cut ‘You’re In The Air’, while tracks 21-30 are chosen by Mills and feature fan-favourites ‘It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)’ , ‘Orange Crush’ and ‘What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?’.The final 10 songs on the playlist are the favourites of drummer Bill Berry and includes the lesser-known song ‘Rotary Ten’ – from their 1986 album ‘Lifes Rich Pageant’ – as well as hit 1992 track ‘Find The River’.

EXCLUSIVE: Argo actor Scoot McNairy is the latest to join the cast of Speak No Evil, the Blumhouse and Universal psychological horror thriller from writer/director James Watkins.

Film Festival), Swift presented the nearly 15-minute that she directed and debuted last November. The short, which boasts 67.7 million views on YouTube, opens with a quote from Pablo Neruda, stars Sadie Sink, Dylan O’Brien, Shawn Levy, and Swift herself, and concludes at a bookstore on a snowy night. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Joining Swift, Sink, and O’Brien on stage to dish about her process was Mike Mills, director of C’mon C’mon, 20th Century Women, and Beginners, as well as a slew of shorts for artists like The National, Blonde Redhead, Yoko Ono, and .

Taylor Swift is opening up about going from in front of the camera in her music videos to behind it.

Fans outside New York’s Beacon Theater were cheering for Taylor Swift before she arrived, belting her songs before she stepped onstage. That energy remained throughout her stop at the 21st Tribeca Festival Saturday, where Swift discussed transitioning into the director’s chair, the nuances of visual storytelling and the possibility of future film projects with Mike Mills, writer and director of "C’mon, C’mon" and "20th Century Women."  She then surprised fans with special guests and an acoustic performance. It wasn’t Swift’s first time on a film festival stage — her Netflix documentary "Miss Americana" premiered at Sundance in 2020 — but it was her first time as a director.

Taylor Swift delivered surprise guests and a surprise acoustic performance of All Too Well along with a thoughtful half-hour of conversation about filmmaking with writer-director Mike Mills at the Tribeca Festival.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor hundreds of Swifties in New York City, today was a fairy tale.That’s because Taylor Swift made a rare public appearance, at Tribeca Festival, to screen her short film “All Too Well” and talk with filmmaker Mike Mills (“C’mon C’mon,” “20th Century Women”) about bringing the 10-minute track to the big screen.“This is not a music video,” she informed the audience at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “We approached everything differently.”In a wide-ranging conversation, the notoriously private pop star also revealed easter eggs in the short film, discussed her ambitions to direct a movie and treated fans to a surprise performance of “All Too Well.” Seated near the stage, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were among the many in the crowd who enthusiastically sung along, clapped and took videos of Swift throughout the lengthy track.

Leave it to Taylor Swift to please fans with a few unexpected twists. During the singer’s “Tribeca Talks With Taylor Swift” event at Tribeca Festival in New York, Swift brought out surprise guests and even performed during the “talk-only” scheduled event.

Kenneth Branagh’s childhood was transformed by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Mike Mills had very eccentric parents and Cameron Crowe was a teenage rock critic — and we know these things because all three directors have made films that drew upon their own childhoods. And now it’s James Gray’s turn to offer his own look back with “Armageddon Time,” which premiered to a rousing ovation in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.And what does the film tell us about the young Gray? For starters, he was a dreamer, he was a brat, he didn’t understand the privileges he was born into and he went on his own path.

  Additionally, , written and directed by Fran Kranz and starring Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton, was selected to receive the Robert Altman Award, which is bestowed upon one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast. Here is the full list of the night's big winners, who are marked in Janicza Bravo,   Maggie Gyllenhaal,  Lauren Hadaway,  Mike Mills,  Ninja Thyberg, Nikole Beckwith,  Janicza Bravo, Jeremy O. Harris,  Maggie Gyllenhaal,  Mike Mills Todd Stephens, Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.,  Matt Fifer; Story by Sheldon D.

Clayton Davis It was a big swing for writer and director Mike Mills to cast Joaquin Phoenix in his beautiful drama “C’mon C’mon,” something he didn’t expect he would take on. “I think Joaquin is an incredibly smart and multiple layered person, who will always be surprising,” says Mills.

This story about “C’mon C’mon” director Mike Mills first appeared in the Awards Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Mike Mills’ movies strive to capture the most intimate moments, thoughts and feelings, but also to find how their gravity intersects within the wider universe of ideas and history. It’s why his latest, “C’mon C’mon,” has the warmth and familiarity of a blanket but the profundity of a much larger story—and in this case, the writer-director said, hitting that sweet spot came from his own experience of being a parent.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

At the risk of being a little gauche and starting a piece quoting your own review, to paraphrase myself regardless, with A24’s lovely black and white comedic drama “C’mon C’mon,” filmmaker Mike Mills “solidifies his position as one of our greatest cinematic humanists, filmmaking empaths, and chroniclers of emotive struggle.” It’s that good, that probing of the human condition, and deeply soulful, melancholy, funny, and affecting in the way all Mills films are.

Director Mike Mills makes movies by drawing upon his own life and the world around him. His 2011 film “Beginners” was a fictionalized portrait of his own father (played in an Oscar-winning performance by Christopher Plummer), who came out as gay at the age of 75.

Superchunk are back with a new single called ‘Endless Summer’ featuring Teenage Fanclub – you can listen to it below.The track is the first preview of the American indie band’s upcoming new album, ‘Wild Loneliness’, which is their first since 2018’s ‘What A Time To Be Alive’.Set to be released next year on February 25, it’s a guest-heavy LP that features the likes of Sharon Van Etten, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Wye Oak’s Andy Stack, Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, Owen Pallett, Kelly Pratt, and

Joaquin Phoenix can certainly be mercurial, cagey, and unpredictable in real life, depending on his mood and the kinds of questions you throw at him, but he’s also as affable and playful.

Will Tizard ContributorLife on the road and fantasy worlds held sway at the 29th edition of the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday, winning big after a week of scaled down but enthusiastic industry events, seminars and screenings celebrating cinematography.“C’mon C’mon,” shot by Robbie Ryan and directed by Mike Mills, won this year’s Golden Frog.

Lots of British actors are good at American accents. Many American actors are good at British accents.

Joaquin Phoenix hits the red carpet for a special screening of C’mon C’mon at Fine Arts Theatre on November 16, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California.

As with his past features Beginners and 20th Century Women, writer-director Mike Mills focused his latest effort, C’mon C’mon, on family—this time honing in not on his relationship with his father or mother, but instead on that between an adult and a child.

R.E.M., Yo La Tengo and the dB’s came together over the weekend to pay tribute to Big Star.The group of musicians – which included R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, the dB’s’ Chris Stamey, Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris, Charles Cleaver, Crispin Cloe and original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens – gathered at St.

Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix is a man attempting to forge a connection with his eccentric young nephew in director Mike Mills’ latest family drama, “C’mon C’mon”.

It’s unclear if it’s the type of movie that will stir up Oscar talk, which is kind of a shame since it’s so worthy, but regardless (and ultimately who cares), but one of the loveliest movies of 2021 is easily Mike Mills‘ “C’mon C’mon,” a sublime little family drama starring Joaquin Phoenix (read our review).

Joaquin Phoenix sports an interesting hairstyle at the premiere of his new movie, C’mon C’mon, during the 2021 New York Film Festival at Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center on Monday (October 4) in New York City.

Coming off the success of “Zola” and “The Green Knight,” A24 has officially set theatrical release dates in late 2021 for two upcoming dramas and awards contenders, Mike Mills‘ “C’mon C’mon” and Sean Baker‘s “Red Rocket.” READ MORE: ‘C’mon C’mon’: Joaquin Phoenix Shines & Empathy Flows In Mike Mills’ Sublime, Micro-Traumatic Family Drama [Telluride Review] Deadline has revealed that “C’mon C’mon,” starring Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix, will be released on November 19, while Baker’s next pic,

Joaquin Phoenix and Gaby Hoffmann get the black-and-white treatment in “C’mon C’mon”.

Ethan Shanfeld A24 released a trailer for “C’mon C’mon,” which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and will open in theaters later this year.Helmed by Mike Mills, the Oscar-winning director behind “20th Century Women,” the films stars Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny, a middle-aged radio journalist who, when left to take care of his nephew (Woody Norman), embarks on a trip across the country to interview kids, asking them what they think about their lives and where the world is headed.Rounding

Clayton Davis If there’s a film that screened in the mountains at the Telluride Film Festival, and grew legs with attendees, it was Mike Mills’ “C’mon C’mon” starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann and Woody Norman. The A24 feature debuted at the famous Chuck Jones theater on the fest’s opening day, which has become a bit of a good luck charm since movies like “Lady Bird” (2017) and the best picture-winning “Moonlight” (2016) played in that coveted slot.