After being sidelined for the last two years by the coronavirus pandemic, Austin’s prestigious SXSW Film Festival plans a hybrid comeback for its 29th season on March 11-20 this year, with some of its offerings available online. This year’s hybrid lineup includes 99 features, of which 76 will be world premieres. Also screened will be…
The salacious, tumultuous marriage between Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee possessed all the fascinating qualities that instantly turned it into highly publicized tabloid fodder in the mid-1990s. Like many of the other major pop culture events of the decade, the public is nostalgically embracing the rise and fall of the union between the Baywatch actress…
This marks the first time that Panama has made the Oscar shortlist for Best International Feature, competing with fourteen other films for five slots. Plaza Catedral, the second narrative film from director Abner Benaim, is a powerful story of a grief-stricken woman, Alicia (Ilse Salas), who meets a 13-year-old boy named Chief (Fernando Xavier De…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DANCE FILMS ASSOCIATION AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCE LINEUP FOR THE 50TH DANCE ON CAMERA FESTIVAL, FEBRUARY 11-14 This year’s program will highlight the festival’s 50-year history while looking to the future of dance films and the festival’s next 50 years. New York, NY (January 10, 2022) – Dance Films Association and…
Around 5 minutes into Sharp Stick 26 year old Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) goes to put a “pre-eviction” note on the door of a tenant her mother is about to evict from the apartment complex they run. Or, so it seems it is an apartment complex. They refer to him as the tenant in 1-A, but…
The dashboard lights in paradise are dimming tonight for Meat Loaf, the 74-year-old pop icon whose musical career was jump-started in the dorky 1970s when he played the role of Eddie in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The singer, born in Dallas as Marvin Lee Aday, passed away on January 20. No…
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES JONAS MEKAS RETROSPECTIVE, FEBRUARY 17-23 New York, NY (January 20, 2022) – Film at Lincoln Center announces Jonas Mekas, a retrospective of the Lithuanian filmmaker-director-critic-poet, co-presented with the Jewish Museum from February 17-23. Few if any figures in the history of New York City film culture have…
The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, it was ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann thought they were going to change the world. Adam had a prophet-like vision for WeWork that he sold to some of…
Co-Presented byFEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 10 AT FILM FORUMFOUR-WEEK FESTIVAL OF 33 FILMS STARRINGTHE LEGENDARY JAPANESE ACTOR TOSHIRŌ MIFUNE35mm rarities and rediscoveries imported from the libraries ofThe Japan Foundation and The National Film Archive of JapanSeries includes SEVEN SAMURAI, RASHOMON, YOJIMBO, THRONE OF BLOOD, A WIFE’S HEART, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, HIGH AND LOW, DRUNKEN ANGEL,…
Is Denzel Washington poised to reprise his role of mercenary Robert McCall in Antoine Fuqua’s Equalizer series? In an interview with Steve Weintraub published this week in Collider, the Oscar-winning actor was caught waxing absolutely macho about the prospect, saying with just a whiff of Trumpian bravado: “They have written the third Equalizer, so I’m scheduled…
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