Jonathan Majors has made his first public appearance at an industry event after being found guilty of reckless assault and harassment. The Lovecraft Country alum attended the 7th Annual Aafca Special Achievement Awards luncheon with Meagan Good.
The couple walked the red carpet of the event held at the Centennial Room at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in downtown Los Angeles.
Majors’ sentencing for his domestic violence convictions is scheduled for April when he will find out if he’ll have to serve time in jail.
At the invitation-only luncheon, bestowed honors upon the feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, which received the Stanley & Karen Kramer Social Justice Award for shining a light on the true story of the infamous Osage Nation murders.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner, the producing duo behind Foxxhole Productions, were honored with Aafca’s Producers Award for their work on films like They Cloned Tyrone,...
The couple walked the red carpet of the event held at the Centennial Room at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in downtown Los Angeles.
Majors’ sentencing for his domestic violence convictions is scheduled for April when he will find out if he’ll have to serve time in jail.
At the invitation-only luncheon, bestowed honors upon the feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, which received the Stanley & Karen Kramer Social Justice Award for shining a light on the true story of the infamous Osage Nation murders.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner, the producing duo behind Foxxhole Productions, were honored with Aafca’s Producers Award for their work on films like They Cloned Tyrone,...
- 3/3/2024
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
The African American Film Critics Association (Aafca) has revealed its 2024 Special Achievement honorees, who will be celebrated at the organization’s 7th annual Aafca Special Achievement Award luncheon on March 3 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Killers of the Flower Moon will receive the Stanley & Karen Kramer Social Justice Award for “shining a light on the true story of the infamous Osage Nation murders,” according to the organization.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner, the producing team behind Foxxhole Productions, will receive the Aafca’s Producers Award for their films They Cloned Tyrone, Story Ave and The Burial, as well as Foxxhole’s continued commitment of telling inclusive stories on screen.
Choreographer Fatima Robinson will be honored with Aafca’s Salute to Excellence Award, which celebrates her contribution to choreography, including her recent work on The Color Purple.
The late Michael Latt will receive the inaugural Freedom Award, which was established in his honor,...
Killers of the Flower Moon will receive the Stanley & Karen Kramer Social Justice Award for “shining a light on the true story of the infamous Osage Nation murders,” according to the organization.
Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner, the producing team behind Foxxhole Productions, will receive the Aafca’s Producers Award for their films They Cloned Tyrone, Story Ave and The Burial, as well as Foxxhole’s continued commitment of telling inclusive stories on screen.
Choreographer Fatima Robinson will be honored with Aafca’s Salute to Excellence Award, which celebrates her contribution to choreography, including her recent work on The Color Purple.
The late Michael Latt will receive the inaugural Freedom Award, which was established in his honor,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The African American Film Critics Association (Aafca) reveals its list of 2024 Special Achievement Honorees which includes Killers of the Flower Moon, Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner at Foxxhole productions, Fatima Robinson, head choreographer on The Color Purple 2024, and others were chosen for their contributions to the entertainment industry. These honorees will be celebrated at the organization’s 7th Annual Aafca Special Achievement Awards luncheon, taking place on Sunday, March 3rd in the Centennial Room at the Los Angeles Athletic Club in downtown Los Angeles.
Recipients of the Aafca Special Achievement Awards are carefully selected by a committee and chosen based on their contributions throughout their careers. These honorees represent talent both behind and in front of the camera, including executives, journalists, actors, crafts artists, and filmmakers.
The invitation-only luncheon will bestow honors upon the feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, which will receive the Stanley & Karen Kramer Social Justice...
Recipients of the Aafca Special Achievement Awards are carefully selected by a committee and chosen based on their contributions throughout their careers. These honorees represent talent both behind and in front of the camera, including executives, journalists, actors, crafts artists, and filmmakers.
The invitation-only luncheon will bestow honors upon the feature film Killers of the Flower Moon, which will receive the Stanley & Karen Kramer Social Justice...
- 1/11/2024
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Sylvester Stallone is in a class of his own.
The “Rocky” writer-star reflects on his legacy in Netflix documentary “Sly,” which charts his rise from “underdog to icon,” per the tagline.
“What is healthier, to live under the illusion and still have a glimmer of hope that you could have been great, or blow it and realize you’re a failure?” Stallone asks in the trailer.
Directed by Thom Zimny, “Sly” is billed as “an intimate and unexpected look at the early life of the action megastar as well as a reflection on his career that spans nearly 50 years.” The doc was announced in June and comes on the heels of the Netflix three-part docuseries “Arnold” about Stallone’s competitor and acting counterpart, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Sly” closed 2023 TIFF, and charts Stallone’s “rough beginnings in New York City as a troubled kid who’d escape his angry household to watch...
The “Rocky” writer-star reflects on his legacy in Netflix documentary “Sly,” which charts his rise from “underdog to icon,” per the tagline.
“What is healthier, to live under the illusion and still have a glimmer of hope that you could have been great, or blow it and realize you’re a failure?” Stallone asks in the trailer.
Directed by Thom Zimny, “Sly” is billed as “an intimate and unexpected look at the early life of the action megastar as well as a reflection on his career that spans nearly 50 years.” The doc was announced in June and comes on the heels of the Netflix three-part docuseries “Arnold” about Stallone’s competitor and acting counterpart, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Sly” closed 2023 TIFF, and charts Stallone’s “rough beginnings in New York City as a troubled kid who’d escape his angry household to watch...
- 10/18/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Netflix releases the film on its streaming platform on Friday, November 3.
Appropriately enough, Thom Zimny’s latest star-driven documentary, “Sly,” comes out swinging. Well, its subject certainly does. Regrets? “Hell, yeah, I have regrets!” Sylvester Stallone bellows at the camera. Not only does he have them, he’s ready to tell you all about them, what they are, where they came from, how they motivate him, how often he thinks of them, and what he plans to do about them. From the start, Stallone is remarkably open and wonderfully self-aware, though as is so often the case with celebrity-driven docs, even his candid nature comes with some caveats.
For its roughly 90-minute running time, “Sly” covers plenty of ground and should please both Stallone aficionados and those interested in learning more about the iconic star beyond...
Appropriately enough, Thom Zimny’s latest star-driven documentary, “Sly,” comes out swinging. Well, its subject certainly does. Regrets? “Hell, yeah, I have regrets!” Sylvester Stallone bellows at the camera. Not only does he have them, he’s ready to tell you all about them, what they are, where they came from, how they motivate him, how often he thinks of them, and what he plans to do about them. From the start, Stallone is remarkably open and wonderfully self-aware, though as is so often the case with celebrity-driven docs, even his candid nature comes with some caveats.
For its roughly 90-minute running time, “Sly” covers plenty of ground and should please both Stallone aficionados and those interested in learning more about the iconic star beyond...
- 9/17/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Does Netflix have some sort of stealth ownership stake in Planet Hollywood?
Just a couple of months after giving Arnold Schwarzenegger a three-hour puff piece documentary, the streaming giant is set to release Thom Zimny’s feature-length Sly, a documentary in which Sylvester Stallone is exactly as candid and introspective as executive producer Sylvester Stallone wants him to be.
With Schwarzenegger, the documentary had the feeling of a quid pro quo to accompany the former California governor’s series Fubar, but Stallone’s current television series Tulsa King is on a different service and isn’t so much as mentioned in Sly. It doesn’t need to be. It’s not as if, in the big picture, Tulsa King has cemented its place as a key piece of Stallone’s resumé, but it’s just one of many little and not-so-little parts of his career and life that don’t come up in Sly.
Just a couple of months after giving Arnold Schwarzenegger a three-hour puff piece documentary, the streaming giant is set to release Thom Zimny’s feature-length Sly, a documentary in which Sylvester Stallone is exactly as candid and introspective as executive producer Sylvester Stallone wants him to be.
With Schwarzenegger, the documentary had the feeling of a quid pro quo to accompany the former California governor’s series Fubar, but Stallone’s current television series Tulsa King is on a different service and isn’t so much as mentioned in Sly. It doesn’t need to be. It’s not as if, in the big picture, Tulsa King has cemented its place as a key piece of Stallone’s resumé, but it’s just one of many little and not-so-little parts of his career and life that don’t come up in Sly.
- 9/17/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The thing about “open secrets” is: Everyone knows what the secret is, but no one wants to acknowledge or talk about it. Not really, at least — if somebody’s peers and colleagues are all privy to some forbidden or socially unacceptable facts, and bringing it up forces them to reckon with some complicated feelings, then hey, why do we need to bring any of that up? For years, it was more or less an open secret within the comedy community that Louis C.K. had done things and said things that made female comedians feel uncomfortable.
- 9/11/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
At some point in our culture, we began to see male comedians as philosophers. Invoking the legacies of George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks, comedy fans have labeled funny men as paternalistic truth tellers that we all must revere. Never mind the fact that these men are no longer alive and thus have no opportunity to challenge the way their work has been framed and which living comics they are compared to.
Louis C.K. is one such comedian who has often been spoken of in the same breath as these men, despite lacking the often political edge of their work. C.K. and comics like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are the confirmed gold standard of comedy, standing at the top of the mountain looking down at the rest of us. There’s no denying their talent and insight, but they are very much still human, despite the prevailing...
Louis C.K. is one such comedian who has often been spoken of in the same breath as these men, despite lacking the often political edge of their work. C.K. and comics like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are the confirmed gold standard of comedy, standing at the top of the mountain looking down at the rest of us. There’s no denying their talent and insight, but they are very much still human, despite the prevailing...
- 9/11/2023
- by Jourdain Searles
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On July 5, 2023, Netflix released “Wham!” Through archival interviews and footage, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley relive the arc of their Wham! career, from 70s best buds to 80s pop icons. The documentary is directed by Chris Smith and is holding fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a critics score of 83%. Fans are even more enthusiastic to walk down memory lane with the “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” hit makers, scoring it a perfect 100%. Read our full review round-up below.
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian says, ”’Wise guys realise / There’s danger in emotional ties …’ Here was one of the most artlessly, chillingly brilliant pop lyrics of the 80s, from Wham!’s ‘Young Guns (Go For It)’, something to compare with the triumph of Madonna being a material girl in a material world. You can’t help thinking again about its relevance to Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael’s emotional ties...
Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian says, ”’Wise guys realise / There’s danger in emotional ties …’ Here was one of the most artlessly, chillingly brilliant pop lyrics of the 80s, from Wham!’s ‘Young Guns (Go For It)’, something to compare with the triumph of Madonna being a material girl in a material world. You can’t help thinking again about its relevance to Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael’s emotional ties...
- 7/6/2023
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
The Crowded Room Review: Apple TV+'s Psychological Thriller Miscasts Tom Holland And Amanda Seyfried
"The comic-book franchise is where traditional movie stardom is going to die," wrote Wesley Morris in a widely-shared 2016 piece for The New York Times. "Every good young actor vacuumed up by a superhero franchise or a megahit movie series costs us a fresh star persona." The statement was relevant just weeks after Tom Holland slung his first web as Spider-Man, and it's relevant now as he plots his path forward as an actor with his fate inside the suit still uncertain.
The fresh-faced innocence he brought to the third cinematic incarnation of a comic-book character within two decades made him a fan favorite in the "Avengers" series. Any audience who saw the final two chapters can recall feeling the air sucked out of the room when he vanishes in "The Snap" — and remember cheering when he re-emerges in the grand finale battle. As arguably the only star birthed by participating in the Marvel machine,...
The fresh-faced innocence he brought to the third cinematic incarnation of a comic-book character within two decades made him a fan favorite in the "Avengers" series. Any audience who saw the final two chapters can recall feeling the air sucked out of the room when he vanishes in "The Snap" — and remember cheering when he re-emerges in the grand finale battle. As arguably the only star birthed by participating in the Marvel machine,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slash Film
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSWe’re excited to share the cover for Issue 3 of Notebook, which features a photograph of pioneering Indian actor-producer Devika Rani. Last week we sneak-previewed what will be the subscribers-only gift: a weatherproof sleeve. Subscriptions for the magazine are always open, but in order to receive Issue 3, you’ll need to subscribe by June 1. So if you haven’t yet, don’t hesitate! Some news from the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia. Notebook contributor Leonardo Goi will be organizing their Critics Campus, a four-day workshop for emerging film critics, in early July. Applications are now open: submit yours today. Recommended VIEWINGHow To With John Wilson is returning for its third, and final, season, which will premiere July 28 on "Max," the...
- 5/31/2023
- MUBI
The New York Times is being torn to shreds for its review of “The Little Mermaid,” but not for any reason you’re likely imagining. Twitter users criticized the publication and critic Wesley Morris for saying that the children’s movie lacked “kink.”
“Disney’s live-action remake of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ with Halle Bailey starring as Ariel and a diverse cast, ‘reeks of obligation and noble intentions,’ Wesley Morris writes,” the viral tweet read. “‘Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they’re missing.'”
Disney's live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid," with Halle Bailey starring as Ariel and a diverse cast, "reeks of obligation and noble intentions," Wesley Morris writes.
"Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they’re missing." https://t.co/GRE3yyIIfz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 27, 2023
Twitter users were quick to interpret Morris’ review in the most vulgar way possible, calling for the Times to “go to horny jail” and saying,...
“Disney’s live-action remake of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ with Halle Bailey starring as Ariel and a diverse cast, ‘reeks of obligation and noble intentions,’ Wesley Morris writes,” the viral tweet read. “‘Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they’re missing.'”
Disney's live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid," with Halle Bailey starring as Ariel and a diverse cast, "reeks of obligation and noble intentions," Wesley Morris writes.
"Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they’re missing." https://t.co/GRE3yyIIfz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 27, 2023
Twitter users were quick to interpret Morris’ review in the most vulgar way possible, calling for the Times to “go to horny jail” and saying,...
- 5/29/2023
- by Kayla Cobb
- The Wrap
Back in February 2020, commenting on the tumultuous “Bongslide” that saw Parasite make history as the first ever non-English Best Picture winner, the New York Times’s Wesley Morris wondered what Bong’s success would mean “for the movies going forward,” and “for American movies, in particular.” Would executives now be willing “not only to produce more original scripts,” but also “to market those movies and really stand behind them?” Three years and a pandemic later, it’s tempting to interpret Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Oscars deluge as proof that Morris was right. Swelling from underdog into uncontested front-runner, the film triumphantly ended its Oscars race on March 12 with seven trophies—including Best Picture. Surprising? Hardly. This year’s awards season so front-loaded the narratives behind each statuette that when the winners picked them up, the accolades only seemed to corroborate preexisting publicity. In a ceremony that had long...
- 3/24/2023
- MUBI
Studio executive Sherry Lansing, TriStar’s Dr. Jennifer Turner, Hallmark Media’s Wonya Lucas, Apple’s Rita Cooper Lee, and the documentary A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting will be among this year’s honorees of The African American Film Critics Association at the association’s 6th Annual Aafca Special Achievement Awards Luncheon on Saturday, April 8 at the California Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey.
The invitation-only event will honor:
Producer and studio executive Sherry Lansing with the Legacy Award for her prolific contributions to the industry as well as for her philanthropic endeavors; Executive Vice President of TriStar Television Dr. Jennifer Turner will receive the Salute to Excellence Award for her leadership and commitment to quality programming with an eye on inclusive casts and storylines; President and CEO of Hallmark Media Wonya Lucas will receive the TV Vanguard Award for her vision and leadership in guiding the...
The invitation-only event will honor:
Producer and studio executive Sherry Lansing with the Legacy Award for her prolific contributions to the industry as well as for her philanthropic endeavors; Executive Vice President of TriStar Television Dr. Jennifer Turner will receive the Salute to Excellence Award for her leadership and commitment to quality programming with an eye on inclusive casts and storylines; President and CEO of Hallmark Media Wonya Lucas will receive the TV Vanguard Award for her vision and leadership in guiding the...
- 3/20/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On January 26, 2023, Hulu began streaming “The 1619 Project,” a six-part docuseries that expands upon Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones‘ piece in The New York Times Magazine. The series seeks to reframe our country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
Critics have heaped praise on the series, resulting in a 100 freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series, hosted by Hannah-Jones, is a Lionsgate Production in association with One Story Up Productions, Harpo Films and The New York Times. It was executive produced by Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams, Caitlin Roper, Kathleen Lingo and Oprah Winfrey. The episodes focus on “Democracy,” “Race,” “Music,” “Capitalism,” “Fear,” and “Justice.” Read our review roundup below.
See ‘The 1619 Project’: Red carpet interviews from Hulu premiere include Boris Kodjoe, Jalen Rose and more … [Watch]
Dan Fienberg of the Hollywood Reporter says,...
Critics have heaped praise on the series, resulting in a 100 freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The series, hosted by Hannah-Jones, is a Lionsgate Production in association with One Story Up Productions, Harpo Films and The New York Times. It was executive produced by Hannah-Jones, Roger Ross Williams, Caitlin Roper, Kathleen Lingo and Oprah Winfrey. The episodes focus on “Democracy,” “Race,” “Music,” “Capitalism,” “Fear,” and “Justice.” Read our review roundup below.
See ‘The 1619 Project’: Red carpet interviews from Hulu premiere include Boris Kodjoe, Jalen Rose and more … [Watch]
Dan Fienberg of the Hollywood Reporter says,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
No matter how you measure it, Nikole Hannah-Jones’ The 1619 Project was an earth-shaking thing when it premiered in The New York Times in 2019. It won a Pulitzer Prize. It sparked conversation. It generated waves of backlash from people who absolutely, positively didn’t read the full 100-page collection of essays.
It also offered a reminder of how effectively legacy media can still move the needle in terms of discourse.
As a six-part Onyx Collective/Hulu series driven by Hannah-Jones and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, The 1619 Project proves something different. However provocative the connections and contexts that Hannah-Jones and company provided were within the print and online confines of The New York Times, television has been tackling the bigger-picture topic in earnest (and with some success) for years. Hulu’s The 1619 Project remains cogent, smartly argued and persuasive, but in failing to sufficiently adjust its storytelling to...
It also offered a reminder of how effectively legacy media can still move the needle in terms of discourse.
As a six-part Onyx Collective/Hulu series driven by Hannah-Jones and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, The 1619 Project proves something different. However provocative the connections and contexts that Hannah-Jones and company provided were within the print and online confines of The New York Times, television has been tackling the bigger-picture topic in earnest (and with some success) for years. Hulu’s The 1619 Project remains cogent, smartly argued and persuasive, but in failing to sufficiently adjust its storytelling to...
- 1/18/2023
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It is easy to see why Nikole Hannah-Jones so frightens her ideological adversaries.
“The 1619 Project,” the editorial franchise she created in her capacity as a journalist at The New York Times, is entering its fourth year. What began as a long-form effort in 2019 became a 2021 book and now a 2023 television series, all expanding on Hannah-Jones’ contention that our nation’s true founding occurred with the introduction of enslaved Africans in colonial America. In carrying this thesis forward, finding resonances throughout history and amplifying it across media, Hannah-Jones, who executive produces Hulu’s new “1619 Project” series and appears on-camera and in voice-over, seems both a nimble thinker and an unusually adaptable messenger.
This helps make the documentary feel novel, even as it restages for a new medium a conversation Hannah-Jones has been having for some time. Episodes toggle newsmagazine style between interviews and more general observations about history and culture,...
“The 1619 Project,” the editorial franchise she created in her capacity as a journalist at The New York Times, is entering its fourth year. What began as a long-form effort in 2019 became a 2021 book and now a 2023 television series, all expanding on Hannah-Jones’ contention that our nation’s true founding occurred with the introduction of enslaved Africans in colonial America. In carrying this thesis forward, finding resonances throughout history and amplifying it across media, Hannah-Jones, who executive produces Hulu’s new “1619 Project” series and appears on-camera and in voice-over, seems both a nimble thinker and an unusually adaptable messenger.
This helps make the documentary feel novel, even as it restages for a new medium a conversation Hannah-Jones has been having for some time. Episodes toggle newsmagazine style between interviews and more general observations about history and culture,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
The Kennedy Center Honors selections for 2022 are George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania León and U2. These veteran artists were honored Sunday, December 4, in Washington, D.C.. CBS and Paramount+ will air the ceremony tonight on Wednesday, December 28.
Clooney is an Oscar-winning producer and actor who first gained fame on the medical drama series “E.R.” Grant is a legendary contemporary Christian and pop singer. Knight is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a gospel, soul and R&b star. León is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and educator. Irish musicians U2 are also members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
SEEKennedy Center Honors: 50 entertainers who deserve to be selected
Here is the complete list of performers and presenters to be seen on the two-hour program. Producers might alter the order as presented to the in-person audience.
George Clooney
Intro by Julia Roberts...
Clooney is an Oscar-winning producer and actor who first gained fame on the medical drama series “E.R.” Grant is a legendary contemporary Christian and pop singer. Knight is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a gospel, soul and R&b star. León is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor and educator. Irish musicians U2 are also members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
SEEKennedy Center Honors: 50 entertainers who deserve to be selected
Here is the complete list of performers and presenters to be seen on the two-hour program. Producers might alter the order as presented to the in-person audience.
George Clooney
Intro by Julia Roberts...
- 12/28/2022
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSJeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.At last, Sight & Sound have released the results of the 2022 Greatest Films of All Time critics’ poll. 1,639 ballots later, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) has risen to the number-one spot, accompanied by a new piece from Laura Mulvey. The New York Times offers a useful interactive feature to unpack how the rankings have evolved over time.The American documentarian Julia Reichert—best known for Growing Up Female (1971), Union Maids (1976), and the Oscar-winning American Factory (2019)—died last week of cancer at age 76. Eric Hynes wrote an elegant appreciation of her work in a 2020 piece for Crosscuts, published by the Walker Art Center: Consistently through half a century of filmmaking, Reichert spends time with people.
- 12/6/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSUncut Gems.According to Adam Sandler in a new Vanity Fair profile, he will be shooting a new film with the Safdie brothers this winter. Not much is known about the project, but Sandler had previously mentioned that the film would take place in “the world of sports.” Artist-filmmaker Sky Hopinka has been named as one of 25 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship’s prestigious “genius grant.” (Michael Sicinski interviewed Hopinka for Notebook in 2020.)A new TV series based on Herbert Asbury’s 1927 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York has been announced. Martin Scorsese, who directed the book’s 2002 feature film adaptation, is attached as executive producer of the series and director of the first two episodes.Recommended Viewinga trailer has arrived for Laura Poitras’s latest feature All the Beauty and the Bloodshed...
- 10/21/2022
- MUBI
In what Criterion is describing as their “first collaboration” with fabled animation studio Pixar, Andrew Stanton’s “Wall•E” will be joining the collection this November (spine #1161). And, typical of Criterion releases, it will be festooned with special features, including a new essay (by Sam Wasson), a pair of audio commentaries and a new documentary called “Wall•E A to Z,” featuring co-writer/director Andrew Stanton and writer Jim Reardon.
“Wall•E,” released back in 2008, originated as an idea from “Up” director (and current Pixar chief creative officer) Pete Docter called “Trash Planet.” Soon the idea mutated, as it was passed to Stanton and the focus became squarely on a small, lonely robot inhabiting an abandoned, garbage-covered Earth. When another droid visits Earth, the sleek new Eve, Wall•E falls in love. He follows her to the Axiom, a cruise ship in space, and together they reignite the human race.
“Wall•E,” released back in 2008, originated as an idea from “Up” director (and current Pixar chief creative officer) Pete Docter called “Trash Planet.” Soon the idea mutated, as it was passed to Stanton and the focus became squarely on a small, lonely robot inhabiting an abandoned, garbage-covered Earth. When another droid visits Earth, the sleek new Eve, Wall•E falls in love. He follows her to the Axiom, a cruise ship in space, and together they reignite the human race.
- 9/8/2022
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
Brooke Adams in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.Movie-lovers!Welcome back to The Deuce Notebook, a collaboration between Mubi's Notebook and The Deuce Film Series, our monthly event at Nitehawk Williamsburg that excavates the facts and fantasies of cinema's most infamous block in the world: 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. For each screening, my co-hosts and I pick a title that we think embodies the era of 24-hour movie grinding, and present the venue at which it premiered…This month, we welcome our friend and guest writer Madelyn Sutton, whose delicious piece on naughty nuns was featured last September. Madelyn recently spoke with the enigmatic and inimitable actress Brooke Adams—who, in 1978 alone, appeared (at the same time) at both mainstream cinemas and uptown arthouses in Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Malick’s Days of Heaven. This year’s re-release of Michael Roemer’s...
- 8/30/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAnne Heche in Psycho.Anne Heche has died at the age of 53, one week after sustaining critical injuries in a car accident. At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz offers a tribute to her "elastic," unclassifiable talent over 35 years of screen roles.Best known for Half of a Yellow Sun, an adaptation of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel, Nigerian director and novelist Biyi Bandele died aged 54 last week. His second feature, Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman, is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.In New York, the Downtown Community Television Center (Dctv) will open a documentary cinema in lower Manhattan's Chinatown district, screening first-run debuts and curated programs starting on September 22.Mid-century Italian screen icon Gina Lollobrigida has said she will run for the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP...
- 8/16/2022
- MUBI
Amy Schumer, one of the three co-hosts at the 2022 Oscars (you may remember her dangling from the ceiling in a Spider-Man suit), hit Instagram late Tuesday night with what appeared, at first, to be a simple plug of her latest show, “Life & Beth” on Hulu, and a reminder that she’s taking her live act on the road this autumn. What came next, however, was Schumer’s attempt to unpack her feelings following Sunday night’s Oscars shocker: Will Smith slapping Chris Rock across the face.
“But for real,” she wrote in her caption. “Still triggered and traumatized.”
Schumer, who was not involved in any direct way with the incident, added, “I’m still in shock and stunned and sad. I’m proud of myself and my co-hosts. But yeah. Waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed.”
She also gave a shout-out to Rock,...
“But for real,” she wrote in her caption. “Still triggered and traumatized.”
Schumer, who was not involved in any direct way with the incident, added, “I’m still in shock and stunned and sad. I’m proud of myself and my co-hosts. But yeah. Waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what we all witnessed.”
She also gave a shout-out to Rock,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
It’s (still) good to be Tom Holland.
The 25-year-old actor has been all-but-singlehandedly propelling ticket sales at North American movie theaters, leading two films in the top three spots on domestic box office charts. Over the weekend, his action-adventure “Uncharted” repeated No. 1 as his comic book epic “Spider-Man: No Way Home” followed closely behind in third place.
“Uncharted,” Sony’s long-in-the-works video game adaptation, brought in $23.2 million from 4,275 domestic venues in its second weekend of release, representing a 46% decline in revenues from its $44 million debut. That brings its domestic total to $83.3 million. For big-budget tentpoles, which tend to be front-loaded in terms of box office grosses, a 50% drop is standard. But making the hold for “Uncharted” a little more impressive, the film did not enjoy the rapturous reviews that greeted “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” meaning Holland’s star-power likely had a hand in selling movie stubs. It helps that...
The 25-year-old actor has been all-but-singlehandedly propelling ticket sales at North American movie theaters, leading two films in the top three spots on domestic box office charts. Over the weekend, his action-adventure “Uncharted” repeated No. 1 as his comic book epic “Spider-Man: No Way Home” followed closely behind in third place.
“Uncharted,” Sony’s long-in-the-works video game adaptation, brought in $23.2 million from 4,275 domestic venues in its second weekend of release, representing a 46% decline in revenues from its $44 million debut. That brings its domestic total to $83.3 million. For big-budget tentpoles, which tend to be front-loaded in terms of box office grosses, a 50% drop is standard. But making the hold for “Uncharted” a little more impressive, the film did not enjoy the rapturous reviews that greeted “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” meaning Holland’s star-power likely had a hand in selling movie stubs. It helps that...
- 2/27/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Sidney Poitier holding his best actor Oscar, won for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963). The singular actor, director, and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier died last Thursday. An immigrant from the Bahamas who rose to prominence through the American Negro Theatre, then Broadway, Poitier entered Hollywood when few complex roles for Black actors were available. He became the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar in 1963 for Lillies of the Field, but also frequently received criticism for playing roles perceived as overly chaste and stately. Poitier persisted nonetheless, and later directed his own films, such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), starring his friend Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, and the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor prison break comedy Stir Crazy (1980). The prolific critic, programmer, and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich also died on Thursday.
- 1/12/2022
- MUBI
That ain’t teenage spirit you’re smelling. HBO’s Music Box documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage reeks of righteous condemnation, judicial indiscretion, and conspiratorial obfuscation. But it’s okay. This is a disaster film masquerading as a documentary, and the found footage makes it all pay off. Director Garrett Price personally opens the film in the voiceover, explaining how the 1999 celebration itself was written to be a comedy, but “played out much more like a horror film.”
Music festivals have come to represent generations. The original Woodstock: an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music concert in the summer of 1969 brought half a million people together with the artists who spoke for and to them in a communal love bond. The organizers lost money, the capacity was underestimated, but the audience came together to share what they had to make the weekend legendary. In December that year, the...
Music festivals have come to represent generations. The original Woodstock: an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music concert in the summer of 1969 brought half a million people together with the artists who spoke for and to them in a communal love bond. The organizers lost money, the capacity was underestimated, but the audience came together to share what they had to make the weekend legendary. In December that year, the...
- 7/24/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Bill Simmons, co-creator of ESPN’s documentary strand 30 for 30, is turning his attention to music documentaries for his latest project.
Music Box is a 30 for 30-style strand for HBO that encompasses a number of movies about bands and artists. It kicks off tonight with Woodstock 99: Peace, Love & Rage, a film about the chaotic festival.
The film, directed by Love, Antosha helmer Garret Price, looks at what went wrong with the 1999 event that took place 30 years on from the classic hippie fest, including the destruction of the festival’s airbase site and the deaths and sexual assaults that occurred during the weekend. It also looks at the angst of a generation encapsulated by bands such as Limp Bizkit, with its hit “Break Stuff,” and Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” as the site burned.
Featuring interviews with artists such as The Roots, Korn,...
Music Box is a 30 for 30-style strand for HBO that encompasses a number of movies about bands and artists. It kicks off tonight with Woodstock 99: Peace, Love & Rage, a film about the chaotic festival.
The film, directed by Love, Antosha helmer Garret Price, looks at what went wrong with the 1999 event that took place 30 years on from the classic hippie fest, including the destruction of the festival’s airbase site and the deaths and sexual assaults that occurred during the weekend. It also looks at the angst of a generation encapsulated by bands such as Limp Bizkit, with its hit “Break Stuff,” and Red Hot Chili Peppers, who played a cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire” as the site burned.
Featuring interviews with artists such as The Roots, Korn,...
- 7/23/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Playwright Katori Hall has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her comedy “The Hot Wing King.” The organization behind journalism’s most prestigious honor also bestowed a special citation on Darnella Frazier, the teenager who videotaped George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020.
Hall is also a showrunner and executive producer of the Starz drama “P-Valley.” “Hot Wing King” opened Feb. 11, 2020, at New York’s Signature Theater but was forced to close only weeks later by the pandemic. The Pulitzer board cited Hall’s work for its “funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition.”
Frazier’s special citation commended her “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world,...
Hall is also a showrunner and executive producer of the Starz drama “P-Valley.” “Hot Wing King” opened Feb. 11, 2020, at New York’s Signature Theater but was forced to close only weeks later by the pandemic. The Pulitzer board cited Hall’s work for its “funny, deeply felt consideration of Black masculinity and how it is perceived, filtered through the experiences of a loving gay couple and their extended family as they prepare for a culinary competition.”
Frazier’s special citation commended her “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Katori Hall’s comedy-drama play The Hot Wing King, which was given a world premiere by Off Broadway’s Signature Theatre Company just before the pandemic shutdown, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today.
Hall, a Memphis native currently Tony-nominated for writing the book for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, is also the executive producer and showrunner of Starz’s P-Valley, a drama series based on her play Pussy Valley. She won an Olivier Award for her 2009 play The Mountaintop, which starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett on Broadway.
Set in Memphis, Tennessee, just in time for the annual “Hot Wang Festival,” the play follows two Black gay men and “their culinary clique, The New Wing Order,” as they prepare their culinary entry. As described by Signature, “When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, a first place trophy isn...
Hall, a Memphis native currently Tony-nominated for writing the book for Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, is also the executive producer and showrunner of Starz’s P-Valley, a drama series based on her play Pussy Valley. She won an Olivier Award for her 2009 play The Mountaintop, which starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett on Broadway.
Set in Memphis, Tennessee, just in time for the annual “Hot Wang Festival,” the play follows two Black gay men and “their culinary clique, The New Wing Order,” as they prepare their culinary entry. As described by Signature, “When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, a first place trophy isn...
- 6/11/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“In many ways,” Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling write at The New York Times, “the 93rd Oscars amounted to a celebration of diversity.” Postponed from the usual February slot to Sunday, April 25, no longer held in the iconic Dolby Theatre but in Los Angeles’s Union Station, and helmed by director Steven Soderbergh (who co-produced the event with Jesse Collins and Stacey Sher), the 2021 Academy Awards was an edition of historic firsts. Judging by the nominations alone, Shirley Li argues at The Atlantic, “the Oscars already had enough newness this year to prove its thesis that it deserves a future.”Nine of the twenty acting noms went to people of color, who nabbed two of the four awards. Riz Ahmed was the first Muslim nominee for Best Actor; Youn the first Korean actress to get an acting nod (and the first to win). Seventy women were nominated across all categories—the largest number ever.
- 4/28/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSBest known for iconic roles in The Seventh Seal and The Exorcist, Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90. In light of increasing reports on the Covid-19 outbreak, this year's edition of SXSW has been cancelled, bringing with it the heartbreaking layoffs of one third of its employees. Recommended VIEWINGFor the entire month of March, Leilah Weinraub's Shakedown is exclusively available on Pornhub, where Weinraub hopes to reach women audiences. A chat window will be open for users to discuss the film, and Weinraub will drop in once a week to join the conversation. Read Sarah-Tai Black's review of the film upon its 2018 theatrical release here. A new trailer for Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which follows a young girl as she traverses to New York City for an abortion.
- 3/11/2020
- MUBI
A few days before the 92nd Academy Awards ended with what was possibly the most seismic Best Picture winner of this young century, over at the L.A. Times, Justin Chang wondered whether the Oscars needed a Parasite win more than Bong Joon-ho’s nominee needed the coveted statuette. “A best picture Oscar will not make 'Parasite' a greater movie than it is, and a loss will not diminish its greatness,” for the crucial question was ultimately one for the Academy to answer:Do Oscar voters want to make this kind of history? Does an academy that has made sweeping efforts to diversify its ranks and broaden its international reach over the past few years actually care about achieving the logical outcome of those efforts? Will the membership ever acknowledge that cinema is and always has been a global medium, that no national cinema has a monopoly on greatness...
- 2/14/2020
- MUBI
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is a complicated media figure to say the least, so what do critics think of “Miss Americana,” the documentary that explores the enigmatic star’s life, career and politics? It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month before debuting on Netflix on January 31.
SEETaylor Swift songs, ranked: Her top 21 greatest hits from worst to best
As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 65 based on 23 reviews counted: 16 positive, 7 somewhat mixed, none outright negative. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, which rates films on a pass-fail basis, the film is rated 91% fresh based on 58 reviews, only 5 of which are classified as negative. The Rt critics’ consensus boils down the reviews by saying, “‘Miss Americana’ provides an engaging if somewhat deliberately opaque backstage look at a pop star turned cultural phenomenon.”
Indeed, critics are somewhat divided about how revealing the film truly is. It’s “vulnerable without being invasive,...
SEETaylor Swift songs, ranked: Her top 21 greatest hits from worst to best
As of this writing the film has a MetaCritic score of 65 based on 23 reviews counted: 16 positive, 7 somewhat mixed, none outright negative. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, which rates films on a pass-fail basis, the film is rated 91% fresh based on 58 reviews, only 5 of which are classified as negative. The Rt critics’ consensus boils down the reviews by saying, “‘Miss Americana’ provides an engaging if somewhat deliberately opaque backstage look at a pop star turned cultural phenomenon.”
Indeed, critics are somewhat divided about how revealing the film truly is. It’s “vulnerable without being invasive,...
- 2/12/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe first poster for Christian Petzoldt's Undine, which will be competing at this year's Berlinale. The film (based on a fairytale about a water nymph) follows a young graduate compelled to kill a former lover, driven by a mysterious curse. Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros. have all struck new deals with film manufacturer Kodak, renewing hopes for celluloid's future. Cahiers du cinéma, which was placed on sale last year, has been sold to 20 buyers who hope to maintain the publication's position in cinema history with new "diversifications" that include a "Les Cahiers" festival, masterclasses, and podcasts. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's The Staggering Girl, a short film scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto and produced in collaboration with Valentino’s creative director, Pierpaolo Piccioli. The film, which stars Julianne Moore as...
- 2/6/2020
- MUBI
“All movies choose their moment. It’s called a release date. Some moments, however, choose their movies.” – Wesley Morris
Christmas 2019. That’s the moment Tom Hooper agreed to when he embarked on adapting Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats for the big screen to the tune of 90 or so million dollars. Cats, like most of Webber’s career, was the best-kept dirty secret of Broadway. Provided no one asked questions about intent or authorial voice, his tone-deaf and deeply embarrassing musicals could run ad infinitum on the Great White Way. Webber all but invented a new diction, a unique idiom in which new (read: post-Thatcher) musicals were allowed to exist. The bargain was simple: you provide enough spectacle to blind blue hairs and no one of note will come for you. Webber was allowed to write one dreadful musical after another because no one ever asked questions of the entire apparatus of Broadway.
Christmas 2019. That’s the moment Tom Hooper agreed to when he embarked on adapting Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats for the big screen to the tune of 90 or so million dollars. Cats, like most of Webber’s career, was the best-kept dirty secret of Broadway. Provided no one asked questions about intent or authorial voice, his tone-deaf and deeply embarrassing musicals could run ad infinitum on the Great White Way. Webber all but invented a new diction, a unique idiom in which new (read: post-Thatcher) musicals were allowed to exist. The bargain was simple: you provide enough spectacle to blind blue hairs and no one of note will come for you. Webber was allowed to write one dreadful musical after another because no one ever asked questions of the entire apparatus of Broadway.
- 12/30/2019
- by Scout Tafoya
- The Film Stage
The jury is still out on how Western parody “The Ridiculous 6” will rank, but click through to see the worst reviewed comedies Adam Sandler took the lead in.
“Sandy Wexler”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 33 percent
“There’s no way to recommend it, yet I wouldn’t ask for my two hours back (though I do wish that they could have been sped up somewhat)” New Yorker critic Richard Brody wrote.
“Little Nicky”
Critic Approval Rating: 22 percent
“Like spending 84 minutes in Hell,” critic Christy Lemire wrote when it hit theaters in 2000.
“That’s My Boy”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 20 percent
“Vulgar, trite, sexist, misogynist, hacky, tacky, gross, sentimental and stupid, with occasional flourishes of racism and veiled homophobia thrown in to boot,” TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde wrote in his 2012 review.
“Just Go With It”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 19 percent
“An early contender for worst movie of the year. If they were showing this on an airplane,...
“Sandy Wexler”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 33 percent
“There’s no way to recommend it, yet I wouldn’t ask for my two hours back (though I do wish that they could have been sped up somewhat)” New Yorker critic Richard Brody wrote.
“Little Nicky”
Critic Approval Rating: 22 percent
“Like spending 84 minutes in Hell,” critic Christy Lemire wrote when it hit theaters in 2000.
“That’s My Boy”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 20 percent
“Vulgar, trite, sexist, misogynist, hacky, tacky, gross, sentimental and stupid, with occasional flourishes of racism and veiled homophobia thrown in to boot,” TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde wrote in his 2012 review.
“Just Go With It”
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 19 percent
“An early contender for worst movie of the year. If they were showing this on an airplane,...
- 6/14/2019
- by Greg Gilman and Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSDirector John Singleton on the set of his Boyz in the HoodJohn Singleton has died at the age of 51 after suffering a stroke. In an essential overview of the filmmaker's groundbreaking career, K. Austin Collins writes "[Singleton's] black characters were flawed, often failures; his films detailed the extent to which these failures were personal, and made clear when they were systemic. Singleton’s black people were human." I was discovered by a master filmmaker by the name of John Singleton. He not only made me a movie star but made me a filmmaker. There are no words to express how sad I am to lose my brother, friend & mentor. He loved bring the black experience to the world. ..Us at Cannes ‘90 pic.twitter.com/CaRKjZtjgB— Ice Cube (@icecube) April 29, 2019A newly discovered sequel to A Clockwork Orange...
- 5/1/2019
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThanks to a donation of Dkk 300 million, the Danish Film Institute will now "digitise, study and disseminate Denmark’s entire silent film heritage, consisting of some 415 titles with a combined running time of around 350 hours." The project is the largest film dissemination effort in Danish history, as the films will be made available in an "online universe" for streaming. The iconoclastic French-Mauritanian filmmaker (and actor!) Med Hondo has died at the age of 82. Tambay Obenson provides a thorough remembrance at Indiewire, which includes this perceptive quote from the auteur: “I decided to make films to bring some black faces to the lily-white French screens, which have been ignoring us and the black contribution to the world for years.” The Tribeca Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 2019 edition, which includes films by Werner Herzog...
- 3/6/2019
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSZhang Yimou's One SecondZhang Yimou's latest One Second has been pulled from its competition slot at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film's official Weibo account cites "technical reasons," though some have speculated that the Cultural Revolution-set drama may have run into censorship troubles. Samuel L. Jackson and Giancarlo Esposito are both in talks to join Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, about African American veterans who return to Vietnam in search of a body and some hidden gold. “'I’ve done everything I need to do, I made a million films, I’ve been around the world,' she told CBS2’s Cindy Hsu. 'It’s been a pleasure to live and living has been terrific.'" One of the great pioneers of queer cinema, Barbara Hammer, speaks to CBS New York about "right to die" laws.
- 2/21/2019
- MUBI
On Wednesday night, the Aafca Awards, presented by the African American Film Critics Association, celebrated its 10th anniversary at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, where trophies were handed out to winners and special honorees.
Opening the festivities was Ava DuVernay presenting the Aafca Best Director award to Ryan Coogler.
“It really, truly is an honor,” said Coogler, tipping his hat to fellow winner Barry Jenkins, whose “If Beale Street Could Talk” picked up the Best Independent Film trophy. “A big thanks to Barry and all the filmmakers who are out there challenging audiences and challenging filmmakers.”
Hosted by actress Tichina Arnold, the event’s highlight was music icon Quincy Jones receiving the inaugural Aafca Stanley Kramer Award, which was presented to him by Karen Kramer, wife of the late director-producer.
“We’ve come a hell of a long way from the time when I was the young film composer in town,...
Opening the festivities was Ava DuVernay presenting the Aafca Best Director award to Ryan Coogler.
“It really, truly is an honor,” said Coogler, tipping his hat to fellow winner Barry Jenkins, whose “If Beale Street Could Talk” picked up the Best Independent Film trophy. “A big thanks to Barry and all the filmmakers who are out there challenging audiences and challenging filmmakers.”
Hosted by actress Tichina Arnold, the event’s highlight was music icon Quincy Jones receiving the inaugural Aafca Stanley Kramer Award, which was presented to him by Karen Kramer, wife of the late director-producer.
“We’ve come a hell of a long way from the time when I was the young film composer in town,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Every year, the New York Times Magazine gathers together the best performers from the last 12 months for a series of shorts built around a common theme. This year, everyone danced and the results are glorious.
Headlined by Julia Roberts and Toni Collette, the 2018 edition saw 10 different vignettes directed and choreographed by New York Ballet choreographer Justin Peck. Each minute-long segment features one actor or actress playing a character moved to dance while in the middle of an everyday activity.
Read More: The 16 Best Film Performances by Actresses in 2018
Some are mopping floors, some are stuck in a waiting room, and Regina Hall turns the act of getting out of bed into an elaborate wake-up routine. Established favorites like Ethan Hawke and, well, the trio from “The Favourite” are right at home alongside a few 2018 breakout stars, including Elsie Fisher (“Eighth Grade”), Yalitza Aparacio (“Roma”), and Yoo Ah-In (“Burning”).
It’s...
Headlined by Julia Roberts and Toni Collette, the 2018 edition saw 10 different vignettes directed and choreographed by New York Ballet choreographer Justin Peck. Each minute-long segment features one actor or actress playing a character moved to dance while in the middle of an everyday activity.
Read More: The 16 Best Film Performances by Actresses in 2018
Some are mopping floors, some are stuck in a waiting room, and Regina Hall turns the act of getting out of bed into an elaborate wake-up routine. Established favorites like Ethan Hawke and, well, the trio from “The Favourite” are right at home alongside a few 2018 breakout stars, including Elsie Fisher (“Eighth Grade”), Yalitza Aparacio (“Roma”), and Yoo Ah-In (“Burning”).
It’s...
- 12/6/2018
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSActor Dorothy Malone, a true original of Hollywood's golden age and beyond, has died. David Hudson is collecting tributes at Criterion.In case you missed it, the 90th Academy Awards have announced their nominations. Find them on the Notebook here.Recommended VIEWINGWe love Czech animator & filmmaker Jan Švankmajer, so naturally we're very excited for his long awaited new feature Insect, which premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this week. Here's the beautiful and disgusting first trailer: Also at this years Iffr is Austrian experimental filmmaker Johann Lurf's "★". His cinema consistently challenges and surprises with its investigations of form and time, so we can't wait to see this structuralist space epic. Trailer:recommended READINGThe BFI has compiled a comprehensive (and crushing) list of all the film talents who died in 2017, complete with stunning visual tributes.
- 1/24/2018
- MUBI
There are Oscar snubs and there are killer Oscar snubs. The absence of Martin McDonagh from the ballot for Best Director may prove to be the latter. His film, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” has been building momentum throughout the precursor awards, dominating at the Golden Globes and SAG and tallying seven other Academy Award nominations. But it hit the wall Tuesday morning.
It is rare for a movie to win Best Picture when its director is ignored, especially when it’s up against a film — “The Shape of Water” — that has nearly twice as many total nominations, including one for its director Guillermo del Toro.
Only four times in Oscar history has a movie won without a directing nomination, and just once this century. That was in 2013 for left-out Ben Affleck’s “Argo.” Prior to that, it was the 1990 “Driving Miss Daisy,” which had nine nominations but none for its director Bruce Beresford.
It is rare for a movie to win Best Picture when its director is ignored, especially when it’s up against a film — “The Shape of Water” — that has nearly twice as many total nominations, including one for its director Guillermo del Toro.
Only four times in Oscar history has a movie won without a directing nomination, and just once this century. That was in 2013 for left-out Ben Affleck’s “Argo.” Prior to that, it was the 1990 “Driving Miss Daisy,” which had nine nominations but none for its director Bruce Beresford.
- 1/23/2018
- by Jack Mathews
- Gold Derby
NEWSFilm scholar V.F. Perkins, author of the essential book Film As Film (1972), has died at the age of 80.The BFI in London has announced Black Star, the UK's largest celebration of black screen actors, to run October 17 - December 31, 2016.Consummate Hollywood director Garry Marshall, best known for Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and such television productions as Happy Days and Mork & Mindy, has died at 81.Filmmaker and Mubi team member Kurt Walker and filmmaker Isaac Goes are launching online film exhibition space Kinet, "catered to the dissemination of new and boundary pushing avant-garde cinema." Kinet's first program, which begins next week, includes Masha Tupitsyn's epic Love Sounds.Recommended VIEWINGThe feature debut of Canadian director Isiah Medina, 88:88, which received its global online premiere on Mubi last spring, is now streaming for free.An English-subtitled, behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Johnnie To's excellent thriller, Three.The teaser trailer for...
- 7/20/2016
- MUBI
Apartment Therapy Nancy Meyers movie kitchens ranked (somehow The Intern only makes it to 5th. I just saw that and it was surprisingly warm and adorable... and yes still filled with real estate porn)
The New Yorker looks back at the Cassavates classic Faces (1968)
/Film Ghost in the Shell producers are finally responding to whitewashing casting controversies. They promise they've been 'very very careful' with the beloved material even though they cast a white actress (Scarlett Johansson) in the iconic Japanese role. We love Scarlett so so much but this type of thing continues to be a huge problem.
/Film There's going to be an actual Captain America statue in Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Cinematic Corner celebrates Margot Robbie (there will be a lot of that going around soon)
Variety Animation Awards for Europe soon -- their version of the Annies
Screen Crush Thor: Ragnarok officially began production in Australia yesterday...
The New Yorker looks back at the Cassavates classic Faces (1968)
/Film Ghost in the Shell producers are finally responding to whitewashing casting controversies. They promise they've been 'very very careful' with the beloved material even though they cast a white actress (Scarlett Johansson) in the iconic Japanese role. We love Scarlett so so much but this type of thing continues to be a huge problem.
/Film There's going to be an actual Captain America statue in Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Cinematic Corner celebrates Margot Robbie (there will be a lot of that going around soon)
Variety Animation Awards for Europe soon -- their version of the Annies
Screen Crush Thor: Ragnarok officially began production in Australia yesterday...
- 7/6/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Ringer "X-Men Apocalypse Self-Loathing Index" funny stuff on which actors want to be there and which are embarassed by it
Variety Peter Shaffer the man behind the classic plays turned classic movies Amadeus and Equus has died at 90 because 2016 is the worst (The Grim Reaper must want to make his bonus this year or something)
The Playlist Splash is getting a remake (with an unnamed twist). Good luck trying to beat Daryl Hannah as Madison. They'll need it.
Seventh Row "Matthias Schoenaerts and the art of not speaking"
The Economist Why does The Shining have such cross media cultural staying power?
Variety wonders if its time for Emmys to bring back blue ribbon panels and divvy up the voting with so much acclaimed television coming from such unlikely places. Why not do it like Oscar's foreign film committees to narrow things down before final nomination voting?
Comics Alliance investigates...
Variety Peter Shaffer the man behind the classic plays turned classic movies Amadeus and Equus has died at 90 because 2016 is the worst (The Grim Reaper must want to make his bonus this year or something)
The Playlist Splash is getting a remake (with an unnamed twist). Good luck trying to beat Daryl Hannah as Madison. They'll need it.
Seventh Row "Matthias Schoenaerts and the art of not speaking"
The Economist Why does The Shining have such cross media cultural staying power?
Variety wonders if its time for Emmys to bring back blue ribbon panels and divvy up the voting with so much acclaimed television coming from such unlikely places. Why not do it like Oscar's foreign film committees to narrow things down before final nomination voting?
Comics Alliance investigates...
- 6/7/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
It would be insufficient, writes Carrie Battan, to call Beyoncé’s Lemonade an album: “The project is also a piece of spoken word, a narrative film, a map of cultural reference points, and a window into the soul of an icon whose inner life has always seemed just out of reach.” Battan’s description hints at what has so excited the Internet in the week and a half since Lemonade’s release: it’s not only a new Beyoncé album—it’s also her most personal work yet, and one that, as Ash Sarkar notes at the London Review of Books, is uniquely political:“How has this happened? How has Beyoncé engendered such a deep sense of solidarity among women and the marginalised? Most reviewers have pointed out that Lemonade is Beyoncé’s most personal and political work to date, but few have interrogated how the album moves between the two.
- 5/4/2016
- MUBI
Beyoncé’s Lemonade, a 12-track "visual album," premiered on HBO on Saturday night and is now available on iTunes. For New York Times critic at large, Wesley Morris, "what its black-female spiritualism calls to mind is Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash’s landmark tone poem from 1991, loosely—very loosely—about three generations, descended from slavery, and their migration north in 1902. The juicy immediacy of Lemonade is what this one man did to this one woman…. Its seven credited directors—Jonas Akerlund, Kahlil Joseph, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek, Todd Tourso and Beyoncé—give this project texture, mystery and life." We're gathering more critics' reactions. » - David Hudson...
- 4/25/2016
- Keyframe
Beyoncé’s Lemonade, a 12-track "visual album," premiered on HBO on Saturday night and is now available on iTunes. For New York Times critic at large, Wesley Morris, "what its black-female spiritualism calls to mind is Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash’s landmark tone poem from 1991, loosely—very loosely—about three generations, descended from slavery, and their migration north in 1902. The juicy immediacy of Lemonade is what this one man did to this one woman…. Its seven credited directors—Jonas Akerlund, Kahlil Joseph, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek, Todd Tourso and Beyoncé—give this project texture, mystery and life." We're gathering more critics' reactions. » - David Hudson...
- 4/25/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
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