‘Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It’ Film Review: Documentary Honors a Showbiz Legend

Also Read: 'Nomadland': How Frances McDormand Got Amazon to Agree to Shooting in a Real WarehouseThe drama from Searchlight is the biggest awards push of this truncated fall festival season: It premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival simultaneously, along with a Los Angeles drive-in screening in collaboration with the canceled Telluride Film Festival.

love your car? And what if it loved you back?“Jumbo,” a movie inspired by the real-life woman who married the Eiffel Tower, claiming she’d fallen passionately in love with it, is Belgian writer-director Zoé Wittock’s fractured fairy tale of a feature debut about a withdrawn young woman played by “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” star Noémie Merlant, who develops deep emotional feelings for her local park’s newest passenger-spinning, brightly illuminated ride.While it’s easy to imagine filmmakers from

Ayr Hospital by ambulance almost three weeks ago after falling ill at home.He had released a new song in tribute to the NHS while he fighting a serious mystery illness in hospital.Iain Gordon, general manager at Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre said: “This is probably the hardest thing that I have ever had to announce and put on social media, this morning at 3:30am, our friend and star of the Pavilion and Scottish legend Sydney Devine has passed away.“I have worked with Sydney and the band since 1976

Sydney Devine has released a new song in tribute to the NHS while he fights a serious mystery illness in hospital.Sydney, 81, was rushed to Ayr Hospital by ambulance almost three weeks ago after falling ill at home.He is still seriously unwell with the chest and lung condition, which doctors have been struggling to diagnose.

pic.twitter.com/I75zi1fIK5— janine (@janinemas0n) February 4, 2021Appearing on The Project yesterday (February 9) to discuss her newfound internet fame, Weaver was asked by host Carrie Bickmore which actress she would like to play her in a film.“Oh! Helen Mirren. I think definitely Helen,” Weaver said.Bickmore responded saying “I would have gone with Jacki Weaver!” referring to the Australian actress who shares the British woman’s name.

The Miami Film Festival is set to go ahead with a hybrid 2021 edition in March with physical theater and online screenings amid the pandemic. The Festival's March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThere are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by “The Matrix,” that the life we’re living — the people we know, the experiences we have, what we see, touch, think, and feel — is literally an illusion, an artificial façade orchestrated by minds more developed than our own.

Also Read: CBS Hires Law Firm to Investigate Misconduct AccusationsAt her first photo shoot, Bella is fascinated by the aloof Ava (Evelyn Claire), who’s the newest “Spiegler Girl,” a vaunted group of entertainers who are the highest-paid and most respected, but who are also expected to have no limits about the kind of work they will accept.

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.

Exquisite performances from Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga provide the pulsing, emotionally heightened center to Passing, Rebecca Hall's assured move behind the camera, adapted with great sensitivity from the 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Nella Larsen. "We're all of us passing for something or other, aren't we?" muses Thompson's melancholy character Irene Redfield.

The gripping Sundance documentary Misha and the Wolves, premiering at the festival today, possesses a fairy tale-like quality, beginning with its title. Those four words evoke ancient stories of children deep in the woods, threatened by menacing animals, as in Little Red Riding Hood.

Also Read: Rodney Ascher's 'A Glitch in the Matrix' Acquired by Magnolia Ahead of Sundance PremiereAscher takes a similar approach, wandering through as many musings that’ll elicit a “What?” as much as a “Whoa.”Speaking of which, it may not surprise anyone to learn that Keanu Reeves is the icon of this ideology, just as “The Matrix” trilogy is its Bible.

spoiler warning if you don’t want to know more — that the couple we’re so invested in is, indeed, keeping secrets. And not from each other, but from us, the audience.

evolution in talking about Sparks’ early music, we’ll see one or two seconds of a butterfly coming out of a cocoon, and if we’re told that their second album was more experimental than their first, here’s a shot of a car driving off a cliff.The obvious questions aren’t addressed in the slightest.

Also Read: Sundance Preview: Documentaries Are Festival's Best Bets for AwardsWith Ailey having now served as vital inspiration for many others across decades, the film itself also plays as a testament to the life-changing power of representation. Truth in motion is what he was after, and in his expressive creations he communicated what he was unable to otherwise, from a tribute to his supportive mother, a coda for a dear friend that passed, or his anger at pervasive racism.

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: 'Sesame Street' Documentary 'Street Gang' Set for 2021 HBO DebutAgrelo, best known for 2005’s “Mad Hot Ballroom,” does an exemplary job of storytelling as she corrals this saga into about 100 minutes and sums up just how groundbreaking the show was. “We thought we were changing children’s television,” says Cerf at one point in the film.