Johnny Marr has hailed the decision to have Billie Eilish sing the new Bond theme song as “really inspired”.
02.02.2020 - 21:51 / hollywoodreporter.com
Lee Isaac Chung’s coming-of-age film Minari claimed the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
The A24 film, about a 7-year-old Korean-American boy whose life is turned upside down when his father decides to move their family to rural Arkansas, also landed the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award.
As the festival handed out its trophies Saturday night in Park City, women filmmakers became perhaps the even bigger story.
Johnny Marr has hailed the decision to have Billie Eilish sing the new Bond theme song as “really inspired”.
By Mike Fleming Jr
© Getty Getty Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant have been dating for longer than fans thought.
It looks like Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant have been dating for a lot longer than fans thought.
“I remember a couple years ago, about a year and a half ago, [Alexandra Grant] said, ‘Keanu Reeves is my boyfriend’ and I’m like, ‘Wait. What? What? What?’ ” Jennifer Tilly, 61, said to Page Six at the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection on Wednesday (Feb.
Jennifer Tilly’s friendship with Alexandra Grant goes way back — as does the visual artist’s romance with Keanu Reeves.
The Head and the Heart are hitting the road this spring with special guest Margo Price. The North American tour will support the band's fourth studio album, Living Mirage, which was released last year.The 13-date trek will kick off April 20 at Von Braun Center’s Mars Music Hall in Huntsville, Alabama, following the band’s April 18 appearance at Old Settler’s Music Festival in Texas.
(photo above: Director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese of This is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection (3rd left) at Sundance. Photo: Getty Images North America.
PARK CITY, Utah — What do “Reservoir Dogs,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Clerks” and “Wet Hot American Summer” all have in common? The Sundance Film Festival.
It took four movies before Lee Isaac Chung was ready to tell the kind of story first-timers so often rush to share straight out of the gate. Not a coming-of-age movie so much as a deeply personal and lovingly poetic rendering of his Korean American childhood — specifically, how it felt for his immigrant family to adjust to life in small-town Arkansas — “Minari” benefits from the maturity and perspective Chung brings to the project.
A key moment in Residue, Merawi Gerima’s debut feature, sees a white couple allow their dog to defecate on somebody else’s front lawn. When confronted by the African-American owner, the couple state how they were going to clean it up straight after, but the owner responds with “It still leaves a residue.” This is Gerima’s central theme he explores in a tale of identity and frustration that echoes with subtlety and purposeful obviousness.
By Dino-Ray Ramos
In her feature-length debut Farewell Amor, Ekwa Msangi explores the meaning of home for an Angolan immigrant family newly reunited in New York City after almost two decades apart.According to the United Nations, the United States currently hosts 51 million international migrants (about 19 percent of the world’s population), the largest number of any country in the world.
Sony Pictures Classics has teamed with Sony’s Stage 6 Films to oversee the global release of Heidi Ewing’s feature narrative debut “I Carry You With Me (Te Llevo Conmigo),” a gay love story about two men who immigrate to the United States. The deal follows the movie’s enthusiastic reception at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The romantic drama debuted to multiple standing ovations in Park City, where it was shown in the NEXT section. It will be released later this year.