Chadwick Boseman is being honored with tributes from many fellow stars, but one remembrance by a former clerk is going especially viral.
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Eli Countryman The GSA BAFTA student film awards acknowledged achievements in animation, documentary and live-action with UC Berkeley’s Lucas Guilkey taking the prize for doc “What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?,” which follows a woman’s search for justice after her son dies in a Santa Rita jail.The animation trophy went to “Sous la Glace” made by a team of from France and “Mum’s Hairpins” from Russia winning the live-action award.A special prize was also voted on by a jury made up of actors
.Chadwick Boseman is being honored with tributes from many fellow stars, but one remembrance by a former clerk is going especially viral.
Naman Ramachandran This week, French actor Juliette Binoche wins Zurich’s Icon Award, Grasshopper takes “The American Sector” for North America, “Killing Eve” writer Rob Williams creates “Screw” for the U.K.’s Channel 4, and the World Economic Forum at Davos is postponed.The 16th annual Zurich Film Festival, running from Sept. 24 to Oct.
Ben Croll Nineteen French feature films, including minority coproductions, will screen at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which runs Sept. 2-12.
Tenet was kept secret during production. And like many Christopher Nolan films – most notably Inception, which it feels like a companion piece to – its plot developments are complicated enough to make your brain ache.
Tom Grater International Film ReporterThe BFI London Film Festival has set Francis Lee’s Ammonite as its closing film.Starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, the film is set in the 1840s, following palaeontologist Mary Anning when she encounters a young woman recuperating from a personal tragedy,It is world premiering at Toronto and also took part in the 2020 Cannes Label selection at the cancelled French festival.The London screening will take place on October 17 at cinemas across the UK,
Have you ever wanted to see Colin Farrell and John Malkovich in a brutal mano a mano? Or Jessica Chastain beat up a French killer in a Boston park after dark, or get into a catfight with fierce nightclub-cum-gambling-den owner Joan Chen? Ava, directed by Tate Taylor (The Help, Ma), gives you all that and more. And yet despite those obvious highlights, it’s hard to recommend Ava as a whole.
Jimmy Fallon decided to try his hand at pancake art and it is clear he needs a bit more practice.
At a time when American moviegoers’ concerns are firmly focused on domestic issues, or on international players like Russia and China, it may seem odd to have two documentaries come out in the same week about events that happened decades ago in Iran. But Taghi Amirani’s “Coup 53” and Barbara Kopple’s “Desert One,” which open in select markets and in virtual cinemas on Aug.
before they get to the time travel.Nolan, who wrote as well as directed “Tenet,” keeps the “inverted material” as a vague McGuffin for almost two hours, concentrating instead on the Bondish battle of wits between the Protagonist and the Russian oligarch.
Acclaimed film director William Friedkin will be honored with a lifetime retrospective at this year's Oldenburg International Film Festival. The 84-year-old director of such genre classics as The Exorcist, The French Connection and To Live and Die in L.A., will not be able to attend the German independent festival but will participate in a live Q&A that Oldenburg will stream worldwide.
Netflix has issued an apology following backlash against a poster for upcoming French film Cuties deemed inappropriate for “sexualising girls”.The streaming giant has garnered criticism ahead of the release of the film, which tells the story of Amy, an 11-year-old caught between the traditional values of her Senegalese Muslim upbringing and internet culture which sexualises young girls once she joins a dance group called ‘the cuties’.A petition campaigning to remove the film received over 30,000
Over 60,000 people are repulsed at Netflix over an upcoming French film they claim sexualizes children.
Teenage Bounty Hunters is one of Netflix’s new hit shows and we caught up with Anjelica Bette Fellini, who plays Blair Wesley, to learn more about her!
French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis will head up the jury of this year's socially-distanced Deauville American Film Festival. The event, which runs in the French seaside town Sept.
A Russia-set creature feature whose intensely serious tone belies some awfully silly stuff in its plot, Egor Abramenko's Sputnik locks an Alien-inspired parasite up in the steppes of Kazakhstan and waits to see if humans can figure out how to handle it. Suffering a bit in the charisma department, the film moves sluggishly for the hour or so that it takes to get on its feet, finally giving its humans something interesting to do.
While the US festival season has been in a bit of disarray since SXSW was canceled back in March, it appears that some events will actually take place before the end of 2020, led by the New York Film Festival in September.
The New York Film Festival just now unveiled the final selection of their annual big three titles, naming Azazel Jacobs’ French Exit as the 2020 incarnation of the fest’s Closing Night pick. We now know the festival’s Opener in Lovers Rock, Centerpiece in Nomadland, and Closer, so all that’s left is the Main Slate, which should be headed our way shortly.
Also Read: Steve McQueen's 'Lovers Rock' Set as New York Film Festival Opening Night Film“We’ve been watching New York filmmaker Azazel Jacobs for more than a decade, since his film ‘Momma’s Man’ screened in our New Directors/New Films festival in 2008,” New York Film Festival director Eugene Hernandez said in a statement.