“I only knew that it didn’t feel right for McGraw’s insensitive sideshow to be the final word on her legacy,” Seth Abramovitch, who wrote the piece, said in the article. In the story, Duvall touches on her experience with the “Dr. Phil” team. “I found out the kind of person he is the hard way,” Duvall said. “My mother didn’t like him, either. A lot of people, like Dan, said, ‘You shouldn’t have done that, Shelley....
The singer-songwriter praised the comedian in a New York Times profile on the “Search Party” star, citing that Griffin was there for her in an unprecedented time of need. “I was suicidal and relapsed and went to rehab,” Sia reflected on the criticism in early 2021 following the release of her controversial film, “Music.” “She saved my life.” The musician said that Griffin helped her back to life after inviting her to dinner at a restaurant in Hollywood back in November, where Griffin knew they’d be seen by paparazzi to build better buzz for the pop star....
“I think part of it was the mindset of Billy and me getting into that mindset,” Ulrich recently told Entertainment Weekly while celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary. “I saw it as this very serious documentary about two killers in high school and I was researching serial killers and the psychology of them, so I didn’t really key into the humor of the story until take one of day one.”...
As McDormand, McKinnon nailed the jaw jutting and unblinking stare of the Oscar-winning actress-producer. “I’m here to buy, um, more gray sack dresses,” she said. “So, uh… what is this? People really watch this show?” Melissa Villaseñor also appeared as Icelandic singing sensation Björk, but Musk made a greater impression as an interrupting producer who repeatedly asks Ooli to be his girlfriend. “I have a little bit of money, but I have lots of drugs and ponies....
Part of that is due to the age difference. Lindon is a youthful 20-year-old, but the rest of her teenage cast is, well, made up of teenagers. To cover the physical differences, the filmmaker and actress often reverts to obvious acting affectations: tugging on her limp ponytail, hiding beneath long bangs, or fussing with a drink and staring off into the middle distance. We get the message that Suzanne feels weird in her own skin and disconnected from her peers, but Lindon’s delivery is too broad to feel real....
“There were people who pulled out of ’12 Years a Slave’ because they didn’t think it would make any money,” McQueen said, “but the fact of the matter is we made over virtually $150 million outside of the United States, which tells you how hungry people were for that kind of narrative. It made $57 million in the United States box office. We exceeded our DVD sales for the year in one week....
The titles for all nine episodes of Season 4 are as follows: “The Hellfire Club” “Vecna’s Curse” “The Monster and The Superhero” “Dear Billy” “The Nina Project” “The Dive” “The Massacre At Hawkins Lab” “Papa” “The Piggyback” First footage from the new season debuted back in August and included a long-haired Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown), Hopper (David Harbour) with a flamethrower, and a classic shot of a group of kids racing down a dark street on bicycles....
Sundance selected the organizations through nominations by a network of arts organizations, funders, and Sundance Institute alumni, representing a cross-section of expertise across media, arts, racial justice, theatre, humanities, philanthropic, social science, and human rights organizations. Among the recipients is the Black TV & Film Collective, which seeks to advance the careers of Black and brown artists through production support, workshops, and networking events; the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, which seeks to collect and safeguard Cambodian audiovisual archives following three decades of war; and the First Peoples Fund, which aims to support indigenous artists....
Betsy Wallace, the Sundance Institute’s managing director and CFO, appeared before the Park City city council Tuesday to get the modified plans signed off, which include a drastically reduced amount of space for parking, ticketing, and office space Sundance is planning on leasing from the city. The festival has yet to finalize any plans, but Wallace said during the meeting that the festival will be a much smaller affair than in years past....
The festival finds SXSW returning to the festival circuit one year after the gathering was canceled by Austin mayor as the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the United States. SXSW film head Janet Pierson noted that the program includes many projects made over the past year that reflect the dramatic impact of the pandemic on daily life. “We certainly saw some pandemic films that didn’t work and worried they’d all be that way,” she said....
Here’s the official synopsis from the studio: “‘Two-Faced’ follows Joy, a Black high school senior whose chances to attend the college of her dreams are threatened by her wildly popular and charismatic school principal, Jerald, after she confronts him with evidence of his racist past. With the help of her friends, Joy sets out to expose Jerald for who he truly is but quickly learns that he is not above waging all-out-war against the students trying to take him down....
“We are beyond excited to announce our dates,” said Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger. “Our position within the festival calendar gives us hope that we will be able to hold the festival this year. We are guided by science and are continuously evaluating the global pandemic in relation to health, travel, and live events. Time will tell, but in the meantime, we are busy planning for and putting together an incredible program....
“I don’t know what Chris Nolan has against dialogue,” Forbes critic Scott Mendelson writes in his “Tenet” review. “What was a glorified joke with Tom Hardy’s masked monologuing in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and a relative annoyance in ‘Interstellar’ becomes a clear and present danger in ‘Tenet.’ Yes, film is a visual medium, but ‘Tenet’ is an espionage thriller with copious amounts of exposition…Once again, the audio mix emphasizes music, key sound effects, and seemingly irrelevant background noise over dialogue....
Despite the impossible odds, this has been one of the richest years in recent memory for a wide range of movies to trickle through an uncertainty marketplace that would have been hostile to them even in pre-pandemic times. The blockbusters receded to the background, and as it turns out, film culture didn’t really need them. It has been heartening to see that some fundamental truths don’t change: As usual, anyone who thinks this was a bad year for movies simply didn’t see enough of them....
Maybe, depending who you ask (Yasper from “The Afterparty” we suspect is strongly in favor). There’s no denying the power of musical numbers, scores, opening credits, or just the right needle drop to propel a television scene from enjoyable to legendary. Moments like this were so bountiful in 2022 that IndieWire decided to pick the best ones as we comb through the best of this TV year so far. Below, in order of premiere, are the most memorable musical moments from 2022 TV....
Airing on PBS on Friday, “The Oratorio” boasts Martin Scorsese as a cheerleader for the value of not just the organ or the artform, but for the building and its place in the history of the city. The hourlong documentary details the story behind an 1826 performance, a selection of choral and orchestral works that, according to contemporaneous accounts, served as a catalyst for the burgeoning New York arts scene of the day....
After watching all 232 minutes of “The Real Thing,” however, it’s easy to appreciate why the 41-year-old “Harmonium” filmmaker gave himself a get out of jail free card: This befuddled anti-romance, about a cautious salaryman whose life unravels after he saves a reckless woman from getting hit by a train, may have its roots in a popular comic book (and in Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” before that), but it’s unmistakably a Fukada movie to its core....
Florian Zeller doesn’t make films, he makes birth control at 24fps. Adapted from his play of the same name — and adding rich cinematic dimensions to the text’s ingenious structural conceit — Zeller’s brilliant and unsparing “The Father” shook people for how it simultaneously conveyed the confusion of suffering from dementia, and the heartache of losing a loved one to it. His follow-up, which similarly originated on the stage, makes the writer-director’s shattering debut feel like a “Paddington” movie by comparison (in terms of depressiveness and quality, alike)....
The last trailer was released on Election Day and seemingly showed no footage of Fraser, who wore a prosthetic that added up to 300 pounds to the actor, from head to toe. This trailer offers more of a glimpse of actual footage, including of Hong Chau, who plays Charlie’s doting but tough-loving caretaker. Samantha Morton co-stars as Charlie’s ex-wife while Ty Simpkins plays a religious Latter Day Saints missionary who comes into his life unannounced....
The program’s opening night selection is the directorial debut of actor Frances O’Connor, “Emily,” which centers on author Emily Brontë and the years leading up to the publication of her novel “Wuthering Heights.” Notably the selection also includes two Canadian films as well as the latest movie from Maïmouna Doucouré, the director of 2020’s controversial “Cuties.” All 10 films in the program are world premieres. “We launched Platform to shine a brighter light on some of the most original films and distinct voices at our Festival,” said Cameron Bailey, the CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival....
