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Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterWhat else is left to say about “Illmatic”? Nas’ 1994 debut has been included at or near the top of every credible “greatest hip-hop albums” list for as long as people have been compiling them. It’s inspired two books, countless scholarly essays, a play, and one feature-length documentary.

The Cannes Film Festival has set its lineup for this year’s Cannes Classics program, which shines a spotlight on restorations of classic movies and features contemporary documentaries about film. Kicking off the sidebar is Jean Eustache’s controversial film The Mother and the Whore, the 1973 Cannes Grand Prize winner which incited riots at the time. Also included in the program are films by Vittorio de Sica (Sciuscià), Satyajit Ray (The Adversary), Orson Welles (The Trial) and Martin Scorsese (The Last Waltz), as well as a new 4K master of Singin’ in the Rain to mark the movie’s 70th anniversary.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— The suppressed emotions and anxieties of a seemingly flawless 12-year-old girl gather monstrous proportions in Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching,” a Finnish body horror fairy tale that begins streaming Friday on Hulu. In the film, young Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), whose mother runs the artificially upbeat video blog “Lovely Everyday Life,” hides a dead bird’s egg in her bedroom that grows unusually large and hatches a very metaphorical beaked beast.

Jamie Lee Curtis has made a name for herself in showbusiness, first with 1978’s famous John Carpenter horror flick Halloween and then going on to star in numerous movies. Her most recent role, in the 2019 mystery crime romp Knives Out, garnered her critical attention, staking her claim as one of Hollywood’s best known and perhaps most beloved actresses.

Clayton Davis The final voting for Sunday’s 94th Oscars has closed. What can we expect?A two-year global pandemic, which is still in progress, changed the mindset of humankind, and the Hollywood industry. The awards season seemed to be back on track but just prior to the holiday break, events were being postponed, and a familiar dark passenger started showing its face once again, under different name variants.It’s no secret that Oscar voters have been looking for a good mood.

Debra Kaufman In Lviv, in western Ukraine, VideoGorilla senior developer/chief science officer Andrew Yakovenko is glued to his computer, not doom-scrolling but rather working on an AI-enabled software tool for a Hollywood entertainment company. The company’s senior developer Anton Linevich, holed up in a small village in the center of the country, is likewise focused on work, checking in with remote teammates via Slack.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorLast month, the Academy Museum launched “Branch Selects,” a series that screens every Tuesday night at the museum with the chosen film highlighting a distinct area of filmmaking.Bernardo Rondeau, the museum’s senior director of film programs, says the idea came from receiving a lot of recommendations and feedback across the board from its members. “We were trying to figure out a way that we could harness this amazing knowledge and passion for cinema into a program; into a series.

Eastenders fans are in mourning as actor Leonard Fenton, who played the much loved Doctor Harold Legg, has died aged 95.

EastEnders star Leonard Fenton has died at the age of 95.

Leonard Fenton, who played the tole of Doctor Harold Legg on BBC soap opera EastEnders, has died at the age of 95.The heartbreaking news was announced on the official Facebook page for EastEnders, which shared a statement from Leonard's family. It explained that the actor passed away on Saturday 29 January. They shared: "The family of the actor Leonard Fenton are heartbroken to announce his death at the age of 95 on Saturday January 29th.

Spike Lee will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction at this year’s DGA Awards, Directors Guild of America President Lesli Linka Glatter announced today.

J. Kim Murphy Spike Lee will receive the lifetime achievement award for distinguished achievement in motion picture direction from the Directors Guild of America. The group announced Lee as the recipient of the organization’s top honor on Wednesday morning.“Icon.

NEW YORK -- Steve Schapiro, a prize-winning photographer whose indelible images ranged from the March on Washington to the set of “The Godfather” and other films, has died at age 87.Schapiro died Saturday at his home in Chicago, according to spokesperson Heidi Schaeffer. The cause of death was pancreatic cancer.A New York City native who studied under the World War II photographer W.

The movie world is mourning the death of Peter Bogdanovich, the revered filmmaker behind such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask and What’s Up, Doc? Check out a photo gallery of his career by clicking on the image above.

Peter Bogdanovich, the highly influential and acclaimed director behind films such as “The Last Picture Show,” “Paper Moon,” “What’s Up, Doc?” and more, has died. He was 82. Bogdanovich died Thursday morning, his manager told TheWrap.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Mel Brooks has been set as the 2021 recipient of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award.

After sold-out performances in both London and Edinburgh, Rhum and Clay are taking their highly celebrated adaptation of The War of the Worlds on tour, and it's coming to the mainstage of HOME in Manchester.

Naman Ramachandran Mark Cousins‘ documentary “The Storms Of Jeremy Thomas,” following the legendary “The Last Emperor” and “Merry Christmas Mr.

The backstory: Orson Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane was once the 100% rated champion of Rotten Tomatoes. However, some crank added a negative review from 80 years ago, lowering its score to 99% on the website.

review that ended Paddington’s month-long reign as the best-reviewed movie of all time, at least by the review aggregator’s metric. “Citizen Kane,” the film that many consider Orson Welles’s magnum opus, previously held the honor until an 80-year-old Chicago Tribune review claiming it “failed to impress” resurfaced in April.

LOS ANGELES -- Norman Lloyd, whose role as kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St.

Norman Lloyd was a centenarian actor whose career spanned nine decades and included roles in Alfred Hitchcock films, “Dead Poets Society,” and the soap opera “St. Elsewhere.”Lloyd’s impressively long career in Hollywood led many to marvel over the history he carried in his head.

St Elsewhere star’s career began in the 1920s and, over the years, he worked with stars ranging from Orson Welles and Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese. His death was announced by his manager, Marion Rosenberg, who revealed that he died on Tuesday (1 May) at his home in Los Angeles.

Orson Welles, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Charlie Chaplin, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, producer Dean Hargrove said. His best-known roles include playing a villain in Hitchcock's 1942 spy thriller Saboteur, which ended with his character falling from the top of the Statue Of Liberty.

Hollywood actor and producer Norman Lloyd following his death aged 106. Lloyd, who worked with the likes of Orson Welles, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Charlie Chaplin, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday, producer Dean Hargrove said.

By Bill TrottLOS ANGELES (Reuters) -American actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, whose career of more than 80 years included collaborations with legends such as Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles, has died at the age of 106, Variety and Deadline Hollywood reported on Tuesday. Variety said Lloyd's friend and fellow producer Dean Hargrove confirmed the death, saying Lloyd died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.

to Deadline. He reportedly died in his sleep at his Los Angeles home.Born in New Jersey, Lloyd got his start acting in New York in the 1930s, the Wrap reported.

#RIP Norman Lloyd. https://t.co/sDCRpgeXgtGot to meet Norman Lloyd once about 20 years ago, when he was a mere pup of 86.

Deadline.The New Jersey native, born Norman Perlmutter, got his start in the New York theater scene of the 1930s, much of it federally subsidized through the Federal Theatre Project.

Laura Haefner Actor, producer and director Norman Lloyd, best known for his title role in Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” and as Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC’s “St.

weighted ranking, which also factors the number of reviews for each flick, still ranks “Citizen Kane” at No. 3 on the all-time list, behind “Black Panther” (2018) and “It Happened One Night” (1934) in the legitimate No.

All hail the marmalade-loving bear from darkest Peru! Citizen Kane has been knocked from its throne at the top of Rotten Tomatoes’ list of best reviewed films and replaced by Paddington 2.

People will think "what I tell them to think," Charles Foster Kane famously declared in Citizen Kane. And for decades, many critics and film scholars thought Orson Welles' 1941 film was hands-down the Best Movie Ever Made.

The perfect run for “Citizen Kane” is technically over.

The screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz — whose life is the inspiration for Mank, heading into the Academy Awards with 10 nominations, the most of any film — was himself an Oscar winner in 1941 for Citizen Kane, sharing the honor with Orson Welles. But Mankiewicz did not attend the ceremony.