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Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga hug it out inside the 2021 Gotham Awards on Monday night (November 29) in New York City.

*WINNER.Best Feature The Green KnightDavid Lowery, director; Toby Halbrooks, James M.

Addie Morfoot ContributorIn 2008 Rebecca Hall received a Gotham for best ensemble performance for her “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Thirteen years later she’s back with her directorial debut “Passing,” which garnered five Gotham nominations in the best feature, breakthrough director, screenplay, lead performance and supporting performance categories.Based on the eponymous novel by Nella Larsen, “Passing,” written by Hall, takes place in the 1920s and follows the lives of two Black women, one of

Gotham Awards will be the first awards body on the independent circuit to choose its winners for the year on Monday.On the film side, two Netflix features lead the tally, both from debut women filmmakers — Rebecca Hall’s “Passing” and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter.” There isn’t always an obvious blueprint to predicting this group. As we saw with last year’s two tied categories (please, God, no more ties), things could get interesting at Cipriani Wall Street.

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.

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.

Climate-conscious pupils at a Perthshire school have put their own spin on a renowned Christmas hit in the hope people will listen to their plea to protect the planet.

Devonté Hynes has shared the opener and title track from his upcoming digital album, Passing (Music From and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture), out Saturday, November 10. Hynes scored Passing, a new Netflix feature based on a 1929 Nella Larson novella and directed by Rebecca Hall.

The stars are stepping out for the 2021 LACMA Gala!

Angelique Jackson In “Passing,” Tessa Thompson stars as Irene Redfield, a Black woman living in Harlem amid the Renaissance, whose life with her doctor husband Brian (André Holland) and their two sons is turned upside down when she reconnects with Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), a childhood acquaintance who’s since begun passing for white and is married to a wealthy (and racist) businessman named John (Alexander Skarsgård).

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAs cinematographer Eduard Grau was seeking his next project after “The Way Back,” he wanted to work with a director whose vision was to elevate the material into something intellectually profound.Actor Rebecca Hall, making her directing debut with “Passing,” proved to be the ideal partner.

Rarely have the hues of black and white, cinematographically speaking, looked so beautifully lush as in “Passing,” the hugely impressive directorial debut of actor Rebecca Hall.But at its core, this film is about shades of gray.Which is to say, motivations, desires and ambitions are even more layered and textured than the visuals in this quietly compelling film, which takes place in Prohibition-era New York and explores ideas of race, identity and the toxic ripples of a painful lie.Adapted by

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter and Rebecca Hall’s Passing (both from Netflix) swept nominations for the Gotham Awards this year as the independent film honors and awards-season portal unveiled its list Thursday morning ahead of an in-person ceremony next month.

Best Feature The Green KnightDavid Lowery, director; Toby Halbrooks, James M.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorRebecca Hall’s deft directorial debut “Passing,” which competed for Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize and was acquired by Netflix, and Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature “Titane,” winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or and France’s entry in the International Feature Film Oscar race, have been selected to compete in a section devoted to up-and-coming directors at the 29th edition of EnergaCamerimage, a film festival that focuses on the art of cinematography.

EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi is launching a U.S. in-theater offering this month letting members see one film a week that it selects at participating cinemas starting in New York City. It said Mubi Go will roll out nationwide in selected markets with LA next in early 2022.

Ruth Negga and Rebecca Hall are continuing their press tour for their new movie!

Ruth Negga is pretty in pink for the premiere of Passing during the 2021 BFI London Film Festival at The Curzon Mayfair on Sunday (October 10) in London, England.

Jessica Kiang An event like the Festival Lumière, with its wide remit that sees classic films and retrospectives rub shoulders with the very latest and chic-est new titles, is always going to boast a thicket of hidden connections and surprising collisions.

The Late Late Show has announced its guests for Friday night and a star-studded line up awaits.

Jordan Moreau At a packed New York Film Festival screening, Rebecca Hall said it wasn’t easy getting her directorial debut, “Passing,” brought to screen, but her producers stuck by her throughout the long process.“My producers stood by me, even though I was a first-time filmmaker asking to make a movie in black-and-white, in 4:3 aspect ratio about controversial subject matter and a period film.

Tessa Thompson smiles in delight as a sparkler is lit to celebrate her birthday at Empire Rooftop on Sunday night (October 3) in New York City.

Tessa Thompson walks the red carpet in a chic slip dress for the premiere of her new movie, Passing, during the 2021 New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on Sunday (October 3) in New York City.

Netflix has just dropped a new trailer for “Passing”, an upcoming film that made a huge impression on attendees at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

Would someone hide in plain sight to live a better life? The answers are not so easy, especially when it comes to how society perceives status and race. Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing,” acclaimed upon its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, seeks to create a conversation about racism’s impact on personal and public identity.

Rebecca Hall is stepping out for the 2021 Met Gala!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNetflix has announced release dates for its entire fall and winter film slate, a list of buzzy films that includes “Don’t Look Up,” a dark comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Adam McKay; Jane Campion’s drama “The Power of the Dog” with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons; and Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing.”Those titles, along with Idris Elba’s Western “The Harder They Fall”; “The Starling,

Marvel, Fast & Furious and Ryan Reynolds movies aren’t the only titles that had to sit out and wait for their theatrical release during the pandemic, but also highly anticipated indie pics like David Bruckner’s The Night House.

“Don’t go into the woods,” altogether too many characters have been warned through the annals of spooky literature and cinema, only to do so anyway, but Rebecca Hall has no choice because she already lives there in The Night House. Director David Bruckner clearly relishes the tropes of the horror genre and everything that comes with them.

Rebecca Hall occupies nearly every fame of the elegant psychological thriller “ The Night House ” and you still leave wanting more of her and her character, Beth.It’s quite a feat even for someone as inherently compelling as Hall. For one, Beth not exactly likable.

Hitting theaters next week, David Bruckner’s “The Night House” is a psychological horror with all the dials cranked up to 11, an unsettling exploration of grief and mortality that matches the intensity of that subject matter with brutal jump-scares, nerve-rattling sound design, and enough menacing ambience to keep your stomach in knots.

January 2020 feels like an eternity ago, doesn’t it? Well, way back then, pre-pandemic, one of our favorite films from the Sundance Film Festival was the horror-thriller, “The Night House.” And thankfully, even though it’s been more than a year, Searchlight Pictures is prepping the release of “The Night House,” allowing for folks all around the world to experience the film that had audiences in Sundance cowering in fear.

Death, grief and recovery are hard roads to get past, but in “The Night House,” perhaps something more sinister than just shuffling off this mortal coil is on the menu.

EXCLUSIVE: Juliette Binoche is set to star alongside Toni Collette, Colin Firth and Rosemarie DeWitt in The Staircase, HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true-crime docuseries.

EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt is set to star alongside Toni Collette and Colin Firth in The Staircase, HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true-crime docuseries.

Oscar-nominated Toni Collette is set to star opposite Colin Firth in The Staircase, HBO Max’s drama limited series adaptation based on the true crime docuseries.