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Steven Gaydos Executive VP of Content When first-time documentary director Leonard Manzella premieres his award-winning “Shoe Shine Caddie” at the Portobello Film Festival in London on September 16, it will represent a kind of return to the former actor’s roots in the international film scene. A professional family therapist for the past 30 years in California, Manzella’s earlier career began when the native Angeleno left Los Angeles for Rome in 1968 “when everything was burning.” In his early 20s and armed with “no contacts and about $50 bucks in my pocket,” a fortuitous introduction to American actor Brett Halsey got Manzella into movies, first as an extra and eventually as a leading man.
Halsey, who landed in Rome in the ‘60s and worked steadily in Euro crime thrillers and in the burgeoning spaghetti western scene, often toiled under the moniker Montgomery Ford and Leonard Manzella became famous as Leonard Mann. “I went to Rome to study political science, but a friend in L.A.
told me to call Halsey, and through him I got my first job in film, working ten days as an extra. On my first movie, ‘Youth March,’ there was a young cinematographer named Vittorio Storaro and we were both coming up,” recalls Manzella.
“This was 10 years before he started winning Oscars!” In his early days in Rome, Manzella also met most of the legendary Italian auteurs of the era, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, whose early Italian neo-realist masterpiece “Umberto D” would prove to have a decisive influence on Manzella. During his time on the continent, Manzella found himself starring opposite such leading Euro stars as Laura Antonelli and Marcello Mastroianni (in the torrid 1977 romantic drama
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Netflix disaster movie has shared how Barack Obama influenced its production, and even sent him script notes.READ MORE: Barack Obama shares summer 2023 playlist including Boygenius, Janelle Monaé, Ice Spice and moreThe first fictional movie to come from former US president Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground Productions, is set to release on Netflix in December. Leave The World Behind, starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke, is based on a 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam and is directed by Sam Esmail.However, it seems the former President has had more influence on the production than we might expect, with Esmail sharing that Obama actually suggested script notes for the new Netflix movie.
An online rumor recently made the rounds saying filmmaker Matthew Vaughn was next in line to take over the James Bond franchise, and it’s fitting but almost laughable. Because Vaughn, who actively sought the James Bond gig early in his directing life, has basically made an entire career of doing his own spy franchises, almost snubbing his nose at Bond in the process.
Selena Gomez loved meeting some fans while out and about in Paris!
Kylie Minogue steps out in a unique color block dress while promoting her new album, Tension, in London, on Monday (September 25).
Lenny Kravitz has joined TikTok!
Sophia Scorziello editor If you can’t take it with you when you go, then where does it end up? Daniel Brown thought a lot about this before making his upcoming film “Your Lucky Day,” which tells the ironic story of a man who wins the lottery but dies shortly after finding out his numbers hit. First created as short in 2010 starring Rider Strong, the story takes place one Christmas Eve at a corner store called Sip ‘n’ Go, where a white-haired boomer-aged wealthy man wearing a tie stops to scan his lotto tickets.
You’ll recall in 2013, one of the most anticipated movies of what would have been the next year suddenly fell apart, much to the chagrin of cinephiles everywhere. The movie was the Western “Jane Got A Gun” that was supposed to be directed by the great Lynne Ramsay (“You Were Never Really Here,” “Morvern Callar”), and it was supposed to star Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Joel Edgerton, and Jude Law.
Shawn Mendes has a scruffy new look!
As word spread of contract talks resuming between the striking Writers Guild and the AMPTP, striking SAG-AFTRA members continued with their pickets on Friday morning outside film and television studio addresses in New York City.
In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo brings back directors Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah to discuss the film “Rebel.” The dramatic musical thriller follows a Muslim Belgian family as they are slowly ripped apart by Islamic extremists through various devious radicalization techniques. The film stars Aboubakr Bensaihi, Lubna Azabal, Tara Abboud, Amir El Arbi, and more.
McConaughey’s scary-accurate figure, which is now on display at Madame Tussauds in New York City.“Wow,” McConaughey said as he approached the figure, “I feel like AI’s alive and well.”“I don’t remember when, but I did wear this suit,” McConaughey said of the stunning green look he wore on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” back in December 2021. “And I remember those shoes,” he said of the black and white loafers.
TikTok creators share videos of where to buy the best jorts or offer styling tips.I appreciate the content, but no amount of styling, posing, or adding a trucker hat can stop these long pants from looking like something your grandpa used to wear when he headed out to put a bet on at the local TAB in the summer.I was prepared to get on board with slogan T-shirts, low-rise jeans, baggy jeans, and even the return of plaid …. But the jorts, I don’t think I can embrace them, and I don’t think anyone should embrace them.We have to stop Gen Zers.I know that I can avoid jorts and just not wear them, but I also know myself.Right now, I look at jorts with horror, like when someone tells me a cake is gluten-free, but eventually, they’ll start looking normal and suddenly Cotton On will be selling a pair for under $30 and I’ll decide to give them a whirl.Enough time will have passed and I’ll think that wearing a pair of long shorts that showcase my meaty calves is actually high fashion.It’s why I’m so concerned about jorts being a trend.I know myself and I know other women.
Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, an upcoming documentary chronicling the relationship between The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In bandmates Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, has been announced.Yesterday (September 13), Cloud Hill Films released a trailer for the upcoming film, which also tells the story of both bands, explored here through footage captured by Omar Rodríguez-López over the last couple of decades.The official description for the film reads: “A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.”Watch the trailer for Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird below.Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird will premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in the UK on October 28. Further information surrounding the film’s release elsewhere has yet to be announced.The trailer and news of the documentary came ahead of The Mars Volta’s US tour kick-off in Minneapolis on Wednesday, September 13.
Fans are speculating about what happened between Megan Thee Stallion and Justin Timberlake backstage at Tuesday’s MTV Video Music Awards after cameras captured what appeared to be the rapper angrily yelling at the singer.
2023 MTV Video Music Awards has gone viral. A behind-the-scenes clip making its rounds on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, showed all five members of NSYNC — who reunited onstage at the show — walking past the “WAP” rapper while she was getting glammed up. Timberlake appeared to lean in to say something to Megan, and she waved her finger in response.
Kylie Jenner served up some PDA at the US Open over the weekend. The couple made another public appearance, which delighted their fans. During the outing, the duo watched the tennis matches among other celebrities such as Laverne Cox.
Nickelback’s Chad and Mike Kroeger open up on how “great” it was to have their mom be a part of the band’s new musical documentary.
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are taking New York City by storm.
The first trailer for Netflix’s “Pain Hustlers” is here.