Without mentioning President Trump by name, former President George W. Bush delivered a viral speech denouncing the current state of American politics and lamenting that “bigotry” now seems “emboldened.”
Speaking at the Bush Institute’s “Spirit of Liberty” forum in New York on Thursday, the 43rd president told the crowd, “In recent decades, public confidence in our institutions has declined. Our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs. The American dream of upward mobility seems out of reach for some who feel left behind in a changing economy. Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts.
Speaking at the Bush Institute’s “Spirit of Liberty” forum in New York on Thursday, the 43rd president told the crowd, “In recent decades, public confidence in our institutions has declined. Our governing class has often been paralyzed in the face of obvious and pressing needs. The American dream of upward mobility seems out of reach for some who feel left behind in a changing economy. Discontent deepened and sharpened partisan conflicts.
- 10/19/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Tagline: "The American Dream Can Be a Nighmare!" A few details have emerged, from below, for director Max Pachman's Beneath Us. The film has recently been completed. And, the film's first movie poster has been released. This title will show at the American Film Market, in Santa Monica, this November. Beneath Us stars Lynn Collins (The Hollow Point, 2016), Rigo Sanchez and James Tupper. All of the film's early details are hosted here. The story, for Beneath Us, involves a group of undocumented workers. They take a job at a remote home. Here, a wealthy couple put them to work. But, this work is bloody and hard. Will these immigrants ever be able to escape their torturers? This film was formerly titled Gringos. As well, it is expected that Beneath Us will release in 2018. Premier Entertainment is representing the film, for future distribution. And, it is expected that a trailer will be released soon.
- 10/3/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
It’s the classic hip-hop success story: Up-from-the-streets rapper proves himself through hard-fought struggle for recognition, gets his big break, becomes wildly famous, struggles with addiction, gets clean, then has his back catalog of music become part of an Ipo. The American dream!
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- 9/27/2017
- by Alex McLevy
- avclub.com
As a title for this week's episode of The Deuce, "Show and Prove" is a tough one to beat. Within its dirty world of 1971 Times Square, the phrase refers to the NYPD's demand for sex workers to produce paperwork proving they've already been arrested within the past 48 hours. This allows them a reprieve from the current night's "ho patrol" bust – a crime-stopping tactic so familiar that the police and prostitutes all order Chinese takeout and eat it in the precinct house's courtyard together.
But it's also an apt description of...
But it's also an apt description of...
- 9/18/2017
- Rollingstone.com
By William Dass
Dictators and cannibals. What do you think about on the Fourth of July? Apple pie?
The article The American Dream is Gonna Eat You, Too appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Dictators and cannibals. What do you think about on the Fourth of July? Apple pie?
The article The American Dream is Gonna Eat You, Too appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 7/8/2017
- by William Dass
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Max Covill
Chasing the American Dream can be a lonely endeavor.
The article Cinema’s Vision of The American Dream Through the Years appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Chasing the American Dream can be a lonely endeavor.
The article Cinema’s Vision of The American Dream Through the Years appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 7/6/2017
- by Max Covill
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Emily Kubincanek
Back when you could just move out to the coast and become a big star.
The article How Old Hollywood Made America Believe It Was The American Dream Factory appeared first on Film School Rejects.
Back when you could just move out to the coast and become a big star.
The article How Old Hollywood Made America Believe It Was The American Dream Factory appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 7/5/2017
- by Emily Kubincanek
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
By Danny Bowes
For five years, Kevin Costner exemplified the American Dream on screen.
The article Kevin Costner’s Peak As An Embodiment Of The American Dream appeared first on Film School Rejects.
For five years, Kevin Costner exemplified the American Dream on screen.
The article Kevin Costner’s Peak As An Embodiment Of The American Dream appeared first on Film School Rejects.
- 7/5/2017
- by Danny Bowes
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
While the Cannes Film Festival lineup is consumed by thousands of audience members over the course of 10 days, much of the dealmaking takes place elsewhere. Buyers are less likely to dig through the official selections than they are to spend time in the market, watching clips and presentations for unfinished work. As a result, it’s rare for many big deals emerge from the world’s most glamorous film festival, and the 2017 edition was no exception. Though Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project” sold to A24 after a fierce bidding war that lasted several days, it was in the minority. Still, there were plenty of first-rate movies from this year’s Cannes that have yet to land U.S. distribution. Here’s a look at some of the ones we think deserve audiences far beyond the Croisette.
“Gabriel and the Mountain”
Few outside of Brazil know about Gabriel Buchmann, the...
“Gabriel and the Mountain”
Few outside of Brazil know about Gabriel Buchmann, the...
- 5/29/2017
- by Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich and Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
You know you’re experiencing a strong year at the Cannes Film Festival when everyone has a different favorite movie. For some critics and journalists, the best was saved for the end, with Lynne Ramsay’s post-modern detective story “You Were Never Really Here” standing out in the competition; for others, the competition peaked early with Andrey Zyvagintsev’s kidnapping drama “Loveless.” And some people looked far beyond the competition for festival highlights, singling out selections from Un Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week, not to mention the out of competition screenings that were part of the Official Selection.
See MoreThe 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
In other words, Cannes is a lot of things to a lot of people, and each member of the IndieWire team attending the festival this year experienced the program in different ways. The following list...
See MoreThe 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
In other words, Cannes is a lot of things to a lot of people, and each member of the IndieWire team attending the festival this year experienced the program in different ways. The following list...
- 5/28/2017
- by Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson and David Ehrlich
- Thompson on Hollywood
You know you’re experiencing a strong year at the Cannes Film Festival when everyone has a different favorite movie. For some critics and journalists, the best was saved for the end, with Lynne Ramsay’s post-modern detective story “You Were Never Really Here” standing out in the competition; for others, the competition peaked early with Andrey Zyvagintsev’s kidnapping drama “Loveless.” And some people looked far beyond the competition for festival highlights, singling out selections from Un Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week, not to mention the out of competition screenings that were part of the Official Selection.
See MoreThe 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
In other words, Cannes is a lot of things to a lot of people, and each member of the IndieWire team attending the festival this year experienced the program in different ways. The following list...
See MoreThe 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
In other words, Cannes is a lot of things to a lot of people, and each member of the IndieWire team attending the festival this year experienced the program in different ways. The following list...
- 5/28/2017
- by Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A documentary as sprawling and brilliant and flawed as the country it traverses, Eugene Jarecki’s “The Promised Land” is a fascinatingly overstuffed portrait of America in decline. In the process, it’s also: a biography of the 20th century’s most famous musician,; a story about how a man became king of a democratic nation; a nuanced analysis of cultural appropriation in a multi-racial society; a southern-fried rock n’ roll performance piece; a horrifyingly sober look at the rise of Donald Trump; a closed-casket funeral service for The American Dream; the best recent film about how the hell we got here; and more. So much more.
It’s the latest project from a filmmaker who has always been obsessed with the forces that fuel America (watch 2005’s “Why We Fight” for a perpetually relevant dissection of the military-industrial complex) and who always returns to the same one: Money.
The...
It’s the latest project from a filmmaker who has always been obsessed with the forces that fuel America (watch 2005’s “Why We Fight” for a perpetually relevant dissection of the military-industrial complex) and who always returns to the same one: Money.
The...
- 5/20/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
When I was eight years old, I was racing my new Tonka toy truck up and down the concrete sidewalk on my block. I was doing so by bending over and pushing the truck as fast as I could with both hands.
The truck slipped out of my hand, and my momentum carried me quite a bit before I came to a stop.
I was fortunate my clothing protected most of me. Unfortunately, most of me did not include my face. My head skidded face down. As a result, the sidewalk tore much of the skin off my face.
My mother had just learned to drive and wasn’t very good at it.
I didn’t help I was screaming and crying as was my sister. She was screaming and crying not so much because my face looked like it had been through a meat grinder but because my mother was screaming and crying.
The truck slipped out of my hand, and my momentum carried me quite a bit before I came to a stop.
I was fortunate my clothing protected most of me. Unfortunately, most of me did not include my face. My head skidded face down. As a result, the sidewalk tore much of the skin off my face.
My mother had just learned to drive and wasn’t very good at it.
I didn’t help I was screaming and crying as was my sister. She was screaming and crying not so much because my face looked like it had been through a meat grinder but because my mother was screaming and crying.
- 4/5/2017
- by Michael Davis
- Comicmix.com
The American Dream isn't perfect in Katy Perry's "Chained to the Rhythm" music video. The pop star released the music video for her latest single Tuesday morning, giving fans a more in depth look at Oblivia, the theme park in which the video takes place. Perry makes her way through the "perfect" theme park, but clearly not everything is as wonderful as it seems. Roller coasters are missing large pieces of track, little houses that dangle from strings spin too fast and people run to the point of exhaustion on hamster wheels. But that doesn't stop people, who are all walking in the same step, from waiting in massive lines for the hamster wheel. The message? They're all on the same road to...
- 2/21/2017
- E! Online
Liu Jian’s Have a Nice Day won’t be mistaken for anything less than an utterly contemporary piece of Chinese filmmaking but, as the title might tell you, it’s also a film seeped in 1990s American pop culture. Channeling the Coens, Quentin Tarantino, and Cormac McCarthy, Jian’s film has the swagger, dedication to homage, and effortless cool of that decade’s cinema but with plenty of things to say about present-day China. The story revolves around a very McCarthy-esque setup: a bag of money has been stolen for decent reasons by an apparently otherwise decent guy and — as tend to be the case in McCarthy’s novels — a selection of somewhat less-decent people (each with their own motive) end up hunting him down.
We’re in a city in Southern China, in a world beautifully animated with the crisp, still detail of a graphic novel. Xiao Zhang...
We’re in a city in Southern China, in a world beautifully animated with the crisp, still detail of a graphic novel. Xiao Zhang...
- 2/18/2017
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Author: Jon Lyus
John Lee Hancock’s The Founder opens here in the UK on the 17th of February, almost a month after its Us release. For a film exploring the clash of egos and corporate machinations which took a small American fast food chain global, the distance is an important one. We have three interviews with the cast and director of The Founder set to publish this week, we begin today with Michael Keaton who plays Ray Kroc in the new film. James Kleinmann was our man asking the questions.
The film’s examination of the American Dream is central to its effectiveness. However, as Keaton told us, this theme was only picked up on by international journalists.
He said,
“That’s really what’s it about. Everyone outside the Us has referenced the American Dream…It’s a real examination of free enterprise system, capitalism, consumerism, branding, how it came to be then,...
John Lee Hancock’s The Founder opens here in the UK on the 17th of February, almost a month after its Us release. For a film exploring the clash of egos and corporate machinations which took a small American fast food chain global, the distance is an important one. We have three interviews with the cast and director of The Founder set to publish this week, we begin today with Michael Keaton who plays Ray Kroc in the new film. James Kleinmann was our man asking the questions.
The film’s examination of the American Dream is central to its effectiveness. However, as Keaton told us, this theme was only picked up on by international journalists.
He said,
“That’s really what’s it about. Everyone outside the Us has referenced the American Dream…It’s a real examination of free enterprise system, capitalism, consumerism, branding, how it came to be then,...
- 2/14/2017
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Don’t abandon hope, “Moonlight” lovers.
On Sunday, the BAFTAs shut out “Moonlight,” which had four nominations. Among them, writer-director Barry Jenkins competed in the Original Screenplay category against eventual BAFTA winner Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester By the Sea”). These two also compete at the Writers Guild. On Oscar night February 26th, when “Moonlight” has eight chances to win, it should take home at least one Oscar in another category, Best Adapted Screenplay.
The BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay went to Australian writer Luke Davies for “Lion.” But at Saturday’s USC Scripter Awards, which have accurately predicted the adapted category for the last six years, “Moonlight” beat “Lion.” On Oscar night, “Moonlight” should do that again.
Here’s how the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race shakes out.
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”)
The Academy moved two scripts, “Moonlight” and “Loving,” from Original to Adapted. Technically, the play Jenkins adapted with McCraney,...
On Sunday, the BAFTAs shut out “Moonlight,” which had four nominations. Among them, writer-director Barry Jenkins competed in the Original Screenplay category against eventual BAFTA winner Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester By the Sea”). These two also compete at the Writers Guild. On Oscar night February 26th, when “Moonlight” has eight chances to win, it should take home at least one Oscar in another category, Best Adapted Screenplay.
The BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay went to Australian writer Luke Davies for “Lion.” But at Saturday’s USC Scripter Awards, which have accurately predicted the adapted category for the last six years, “Moonlight” beat “Lion.” On Oscar night, “Moonlight” should do that again.
Here’s how the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race shakes out.
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”)
The Academy moved two scripts, “Moonlight” and “Loving,” from Original to Adapted. Technically, the play Jenkins adapted with McCraney,...
- 2/13/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Don’t abandon hope, “Moonlight” lovers.
On Sunday, the BAFTAs shut out “Moonlight,” which had four nominations. Among them, writer-director Barry Jenkins competed in the Original Screenplay category against eventual BAFTA winner Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester By the Sea”). These two also compete at the Writers Guild. On Oscar night February 26th, when “Moonlight” has eight chances to win, it should take home at least one Oscar in another category, Best Adapted Screenplay.
The BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay went to Australian writer Luke Davies for “Lion.” But at Saturday’s USC Scripter Awards, which have accurately predicted the adapted category for the last six years, “Moonlight” beat “Lion.” On Oscar night, “Moonlight” should do that again.
Here’s how the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race shakes out.
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”)
The Academy moved two scripts, “Moonlight” and “Loving,” from Original to Adapted. Technically, the play Jenkins adapted with McCraney,...
On Sunday, the BAFTAs shut out “Moonlight,” which had four nominations. Among them, writer-director Barry Jenkins competed in the Original Screenplay category against eventual BAFTA winner Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester By the Sea”). These two also compete at the Writers Guild. On Oscar night February 26th, when “Moonlight” has eight chances to win, it should take home at least one Oscar in another category, Best Adapted Screenplay.
The BAFTA for Adapted Screenplay went to Australian writer Luke Davies for “Lion.” But at Saturday’s USC Scripter Awards, which have accurately predicted the adapted category for the last six years, “Moonlight” beat “Lion.” On Oscar night, “Moonlight” should do that again.
Here’s how the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race shakes out.
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”)
The Academy moved two scripts, “Moonlight” and “Loving,” from Original to Adapted. Technically, the play Jenkins adapted with McCraney,...
- 2/13/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Changing the way Americans consume coffee wasn’t how Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made it out of the Brooklyn projects, but it was the way he achieved the American Dream.
In CNNMoney‘s new documentary series The American Dream: New York, Schultz, who grew up in the Bayview Houses, describes his road to success, specifically how he found opportunities for career advancement through hard work, determination, and initiative.
“There was no way out. My father was uneducated, my mother wasn’t working. It was just a tough time. As I got older, I just felt really bad for them,...
In CNNMoney‘s new documentary series The American Dream: New York, Schultz, who grew up in the Bayview Houses, describes his road to success, specifically how he found opportunities for career advancement through hard work, determination, and initiative.
“There was no way out. My father was uneducated, my mother wasn’t working. It was just a tough time. As I got older, I just felt really bad for them,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
This article originally appeared on Extra Crispy.
By Molly Thomson
If Gilmore Girls makes you crave Chinese take-out and Mad Men makes you want a stiff drink, Parks and Recreation will make you desperate for a waffle with whipped cream, served with bacon, coffee, and a heaping plateful of scrambled eggs. Parks and Rec is the ultimate breakfast show, and the evidence is overwhelming. From Leslie and gang fighting to save their beloved J.J’s Diner, to April and Andy eating turkey chili out of a Frisbee for breakfast because they can’t be bothered to buy plates, to...
By Molly Thomson
If Gilmore Girls makes you crave Chinese take-out and Mad Men makes you want a stiff drink, Parks and Recreation will make you desperate for a waffle with whipped cream, served with bacon, coffee, and a heaping plateful of scrambled eggs. Parks and Rec is the ultimate breakfast show, and the evidence is overwhelming. From Leslie and gang fighting to save their beloved J.J’s Diner, to April and Andy eating turkey chili out of a Frisbee for breakfast because they can’t be bothered to buy plates, to...
- 2/8/2017
- by Extra Crispy Staff
- PEOPLE.com
Katherine Johnson thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she’s been alive are “ordinary.”
But to the rest of the world, they’re anything but.
Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school at 14 years old, attended college the very next year and was the first African-American woman to desegregate the graduate school at West Virginia University.
She fell in love with math and in college took every math course possible.
“I was very happy,” says Johnson, who was named one of People’s 25 Women Changing the World last November and whose amazing life story...
But to the rest of the world, they’re anything but.
Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school at 14 years old, attended college the very next year and was the first African-American woman to desegregate the graduate school at West Virginia University.
She fell in love with math and in college took every math course possible.
“I was very happy,” says Johnson, who was named one of People’s 25 Women Changing the World last November and whose amazing life story...
- 1/30/2017
- by Caitlin Keating
- PEOPLE.com
Seed&Spark, the forward-thinking and film-focused crowdfunding platform with built-in distribution, has announced its brand new #100DaysOfDiversity initiative, billed as “a movement joining creators, audiences, brands, festivals and organizations to actively increase representation in entertainment in 100 days.” The new initiative kicks off on Friday, January 20.
Per Seed&Spark, “The goal is simple: to get more inclusive work made and watched in 100 days.”
#100DaysOfDiversity is designed to showcase America’s diversity and the power of storytelling to increase inclusion and empathy through a bevy of mediums, including curated films, crowdfunding campaigns, guest bloggers from the film community and ongoing conversation on social media using the hashtag #100DaysOfDiversity.
Read More: Seed&Spark Founder Announces Intention to Focus on Films As ‘Political Acts’ In Wake of Election
“Right now is a put up or shut up moment for all of us in the business of the arts,” said Emily Best, Seed&Spark founder and CEO of the initiative.
Per Seed&Spark, “The goal is simple: to get more inclusive work made and watched in 100 days.”
#100DaysOfDiversity is designed to showcase America’s diversity and the power of storytelling to increase inclusion and empathy through a bevy of mediums, including curated films, crowdfunding campaigns, guest bloggers from the film community and ongoing conversation on social media using the hashtag #100DaysOfDiversity.
Read More: Seed&Spark Founder Announces Intention to Focus on Films As ‘Political Acts’ In Wake of Election
“Right now is a put up or shut up moment for all of us in the business of the arts,” said Emily Best, Seed&Spark founder and CEO of the initiative.
- 1/19/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Both times that I saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in theaters I was treated to a trailer for The Founder. The film caught my attention because, well, it stars freakin' Michael Keaton, and because it seems like a great story that's pretty much never been told. So I'm in!
And today, I get to share with you three new clips from The Founder, as well as an official synopsis for the film that will show us about a key business decision that practically changed the world.
Here are the new clips from The Founder, starring Michael Keaton:
"Real Milk"
"You're In The Real Estate Business"
"Selling The American Dream"
Directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks), The Founder features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California.
And today, I get to share with you three new clips from The Founder, as well as an official synopsis for the film that will show us about a key business decision that practically changed the world.
Here are the new clips from The Founder, starring Michael Keaton:
"Real Milk"
"You're In The Real Estate Business"
"Selling The American Dream"
Directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks), The Founder features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California.
- 1/12/2017
- by Mario-Francisco Robles
- LRMonline.com
Author: Jon Lyus
A new trailer has arrived for John Lee Hancock’s The Founder which places Michael Keaton at the dark heart of The American Dream. Keaton is already lining up a standout role in the forthcoming Spider-Man Homecoming as Vulture, and director Hancock has fine form in the true life adaptations department with The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks both doing good business.
Big Fan and The Wrestler writer Robert Siegel wrote the screenplay for the Machiavellian tale of how hungry businessman Ray Kroc took control of the burgeoning McDonald’s fast food restaurant and turned it into one of the world’s largest companies.
Keaton leads as Kroc, with Laura Dern as his long-suffering wife. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch appear as Richard “Dick” and Maurice “Mac” McDonald with Linda Cardellini, B. J. Novak and Patrick Wilson complete the leading cast.
The legal and moral...
A new trailer has arrived for John Lee Hancock’s The Founder which places Michael Keaton at the dark heart of The American Dream. Keaton is already lining up a standout role in the forthcoming Spider-Man Homecoming as Vulture, and director Hancock has fine form in the true life adaptations department with The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks both doing good business.
Big Fan and The Wrestler writer Robert Siegel wrote the screenplay for the Machiavellian tale of how hungry businessman Ray Kroc took control of the burgeoning McDonald’s fast food restaurant and turned it into one of the world’s largest companies.
Keaton leads as Kroc, with Laura Dern as his long-suffering wife. Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch appear as Richard “Dick” and Maurice “Mac” McDonald with Linda Cardellini, B. J. Novak and Patrick Wilson complete the leading cast.
The legal and moral...
- 1/4/2017
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Atomizer Games' 'Heist.' . Nine Melbourne-based game developers will share in over $440,000, thanks to the latest round of Andrews Labor Government production investment funding. . The Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley said the latest round of projects demonstrated the strength and diversity of Victoria.s game developers. . .For the last two years, we.ve delivered on what matters most to people — giving them the opportunity to excel their creative career and foster Melbourne.s booming and innovative games sector,. he said. . .Congratulations to the nine companies funded to further develop their impressive and innovative projects, all of which demonstrate strong potential to engage global audiences when fully realised.. . The successful applicants through Film Victoria.s Assigned Production Investment - Games program, designed to assist companies to produce a prototype or full game, are:. . – Elden (OneRat Games) — a story-driven action adventure, with a unique visual style. – Fiend Legion (Spree Entertainment) — a...
- 12/5/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The American Dream, a term coined in 1931, essentially says that for any citizen, the possibilities for success are limitless if you work hard. That ethic was reinforced last week and today as Warner Home Entertainment releases a 75th Anniversary edition of Citizen Kane.
Orson Welles was a wunderkind, harnessing his many talents for the radio, scaring the beejezus out of the country with his adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. With his ensemble, dubbed the Mercury Players, he was a powerhouse entertaining so it was no wonder he was enticed west to try his hand at film.
At 25, he cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in the story that was inspired by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, tracing the humble beginnings and rise then spectacular fall of a great man. It was a riveting portrait of a man in search of happiness, seeking pleasure in fame, fortune, and feminine companionship,...
Orson Welles was a wunderkind, harnessing his many talents for the radio, scaring the beejezus out of the country with his adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. With his ensemble, dubbed the Mercury Players, he was a powerhouse entertaining so it was no wonder he was enticed west to try his hand at film.
At 25, he cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in the story that was inspired by publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, tracing the humble beginnings and rise then spectacular fall of a great man. It was a riveting portrait of a man in search of happiness, seeking pleasure in fame, fortune, and feminine companionship,...
- 11/15/2016
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
On Wednesday morning, after losing the presidency to Republican candidate Donald Trump in one of the most acrimonious contests in recent history, Hillary Clinton observed, as many a TV pundit did while the votes got tallied, “We have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought.
“But I still believe in America,” she continued, “and I always will.”
VideosDonald Trump Makes First Speech as President-Elect, Thanks Hillary Clinton for Her ‘Service’
Acknowledging her congratulatory phone call to Trump late Tuesday night, she said, “I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans,” later...
“But I still believe in America,” she continued, “and I always will.”
VideosDonald Trump Makes First Speech as President-Elect, Thanks Hillary Clinton for Her ‘Service’
Acknowledging her congratulatory phone call to Trump late Tuesday night, she said, “I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans,” later...
- 11/9/2016
- TVLine.com
It all started with an escalator ride — and escalated from there.
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended a golden escalator to announce his presidential bid at his own Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
The strains of “Rockin’ in the Free World” by Neil Young filled the air as the business mogul made his grand escalator entrance before taking the stage after an introduction by his daughter Ivanka Trump.
It was Day 1 of an unorthodox presidential bid that would go on to upend the Gop and roil the nation.
And there I was at the bottom of the escalator.
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended a golden escalator to announce his presidential bid at his own Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
The strains of “Rockin’ in the Free World” by Neil Young filled the air as the business mogul made his grand escalator entrance before taking the stage after an introduction by his daughter Ivanka Trump.
It was Day 1 of an unorthodox presidential bid that would go on to upend the Gop and roil the nation.
And there I was at the bottom of the escalator.
- 11/7/2016
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
In adapting Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “American Pastoral” for his directorial debut, Ewan McGregor focused on the combustible father-daughter story. It’s a metaphor for the social and political upheaval of the ’60s, but crafted with intimacy and tragedy. He shatters The American Dream and turns Jewish assimilation into a nightmare.
And the production design by Daniel B. Clancy (inspired by painter Edward Hopper) reflects that with reds, greens and muted golds that turn darker when the futility of good intentions overtakes the story.
High school football star turned glove maker “The Swede” (McGregor) has it all — a prosperous Newark factory, devoted shiksa wife (Jennifer Connelly) who runs a bucolic farm — until his teenage daughter Merry (Dakota Fanning) rebels and becomes an anarchist, bent on violent revolution. And his obsession to find her when she goes into hiding leads to self-destruction.
Crucially, Pittsburgh doubles for New Jersey. “The first...
And the production design by Daniel B. Clancy (inspired by painter Edward Hopper) reflects that with reds, greens and muted golds that turn darker when the futility of good intentions overtakes the story.
High school football star turned glove maker “The Swede” (McGregor) has it all — a prosperous Newark factory, devoted shiksa wife (Jennifer Connelly) who runs a bucolic farm — until his teenage daughter Merry (Dakota Fanning) rebels and becomes an anarchist, bent on violent revolution. And his obsession to find her when she goes into hiding leads to self-destruction.
Crucially, Pittsburgh doubles for New Jersey. “The first...
- 10/22/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
“Hidden Figures” just landed a new release date: December 25, which some of you reading at home may recognize as Christmas Day. The qualifying run will make Theodore Melfi’s film about three black women (Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe) who played a pivotal role at Nasa in the early 1960s eligible for the Academy Awards. It will then go into wide release on January 6, up a week from Twentieth Century Fox’s original date of January 13.
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The three leads play Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, respectively, who calculated the flight trajectories that allowed John Glenn to become the first American to complete an orbit around the Earth. Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell and Mahershala Ali co-star in the adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly...
Read More: Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer Tearful But Eloquent As ‘Hidden Figures’ Considers Its Oscars Options In Toronto
The three leads play Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, respectively, who calculated the flight trajectories that allowed John Glenn to become the first American to complete an orbit around the Earth. Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell and Mahershala Ali co-star in the adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly...
- 10/16/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Ever since Stagecoach clattered across the desert, Hollywood has been on a journey that’s as important as its destination. We hitch a ride on Andrea Arnold’s new film about a gang of travelling teenagers
Midway through American Honey, the film pulls in to the kerb, the action pauses for breath, and the heroine discusses her dreams with a passing trucker. The trucker tells her his dream is to visit the ocean. She tells him that hers is a home and a bundle of children. The sun sinks in the west, Bruce Springsteen plays on the stereo and this pivotal scene is almost too perfect. Make a film about gritty American life and, sooner or later, the dream will crawl in through the cracks.
I’m not even sure it has to be as gritty, restless and hungry a movie as American Honey. More likely it’s just any...
Midway through American Honey, the film pulls in to the kerb, the action pauses for breath, and the heroine discusses her dreams with a passing trucker. The trucker tells her his dream is to visit the ocean. She tells him that hers is a home and a bundle of children. The sun sinks in the west, Bruce Springsteen plays on the stereo and this pivotal scene is almost too perfect. Make a film about gritty American life and, sooner or later, the dream will crawl in through the cracks.
I’m not even sure it has to be as gritty, restless and hungry a movie as American Honey. More likely it’s just any...
- 10/14/2016
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey” has racked up critical acclaim on the festival circuit all through the year for its portrayal of youth, dreamy imagery, and for capturing the recklessness of the open road. The film follows Star (Sasha Lane), an 18-year-old girl with nothing to lose who joins a traveling magazine sales crew run. While journeying across the Midwest, Star falls for top earner Jake (Shia Labeouf) against the rules of supervisor Krystal (Riley Keough), and soon learns the harsh realities of life on the road. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
Read More: Review: ‘American Honey’ Proves Andrea Arnold is One of the Best Working Filmmakers and Finds a Breakout Star in Sasha Lane
This is Arnold’s fourth feature film. She previously directed “Wuthering Heights,” an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel; “Fish Tank,” about the life of an isolated 15-year-old girl, which won the...
Read More: Review: ‘American Honey’ Proves Andrea Arnold is One of the Best Working Filmmakers and Finds a Breakout Star in Sasha Lane
This is Arnold’s fourth feature film. She previously directed “Wuthering Heights,” an adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel; “Fish Tank,” about the life of an isolated 15-year-old girl, which won the...
- 10/11/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Let’s get this out of the way early: “The Ranch” Season 2, or Season 1: Part 2, or whatever Netflix wants to label it, remains an absolutely awful sitcom. It’s not funny. It’s extremely predictable. It feels dated in every facet — from the laugh track to the storylines — even though it’s tracking a family resolutely living in the “good ol’ days.” “The Ranch” is still a sexist, offensively stereotypical depiction of rural farmers, and there’s no reason to watch the latest 10 episodes, just as there was no reason to watch the first 10.
But accompanying the tragedy that is the show itself is a specifically depressing chronicle of a classic American rancher who’s slowly but steadily losing everything he’s grown to love, respect and understand about an identity forged by those of The Greatest Generation. As he inches closer and closer to death, he faces limitations and loss.
But accompanying the tragedy that is the show itself is a specifically depressing chronicle of a classic American rancher who’s slowly but steadily losing everything he’s grown to love, respect and understand about an identity forged by those of The Greatest Generation. As he inches closer and closer to death, he faces limitations and loss.
- 10/7/2016
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Shia Labeouf’s next project is the biopic “Borg/McEnroe,” the story about the rivalry between hot-headed tennis star John McEnroe (Labeouf) and Swedish player Björn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) in the late ’70s and early ’80s. The first image of the upcoming drama has been released which shows the actors dressed as the athletes on a tennis court.
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Considered one of the greatest tennis players of his time, McEnroe was known for his tantrums and outbursts during his career and faced off 14 times with Borg, who had a cool and emotionless personality. Back in May, Labeouf told Variety how excited he was for this project and that he deeply identified with his character.
“[McEnroe and I have] everything in common. Passionate. Perfectionist. Narcissistic. I’m a bit of a caricature also,” Shia stated. “You look for parallels in your life,...
Read More: Shia Labeouf Says He ‘Doesn’t Like the Movies’ He Made With Steven Spielberg
Considered one of the greatest tennis players of his time, McEnroe was known for his tantrums and outbursts during his career and faced off 14 times with Borg, who had a cool and emotionless personality. Back in May, Labeouf told Variety how excited he was for this project and that he deeply identified with his character.
“[McEnroe and I have] everything in common. Passionate. Perfectionist. Narcissistic. I’m a bit of a caricature also,” Shia stated. “You look for parallels in your life,...
- 10/4/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Shia Labeouf is on the cover of Variety, and nestled among his introspective comments about his personal and professional trajectory are some unexpected thoughts about Steven Spielberg. The actor, who worked with the vaunted filmmaker on the “Transformers” franchise (which Spielberg produced) and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (which he directed), says that “I don’t like the movies that I made with Spielberg.”
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“The only movie that I liked that we made together was ‘Transformers’ one,” adds Laboeuf. During his recent #AllMyMovies performance, in which the actor live-streamed himself watching every single movie he’d appeared in, he left during the second installment in the toy-based series of films directed by Michael Bay. “You get there, and you realize you’re not meeting the Spielberg you dream of,...
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“The only movie that I liked that we made together was ‘Transformers’ one,” adds Laboeuf. During his recent #AllMyMovies performance, in which the actor live-streamed himself watching every single movie he’d appeared in, he left during the second installment in the toy-based series of films directed by Michael Bay. “You get there, and you realize you’re not meeting the Spielberg you dream of,...
- 9/6/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Last month, I finished a Kickstarter campaign for my first short film: “Alpacaland,” a horror comedy inspired by a movement of late 1930s Soviet propaganda musicals set on farms. I looked at crowdfunding as a resource to help give the project funding I couldn’t otherwise offer. To cast a wide net of interest, I updated the page every day, asked a dozen friends to help with social media, and tried to make the project sound like a legitimate independent film worthy of the site I write for.
The experience was successful, buoyed by a number of supportive friends and family members. Yet for a while, it was an awkward, messy experience, bordering on obsessive and self-doubting. For weeks, our social media mark struggled to extend well beyond donors who knew a member of the team. I started asking students I knew at Wesleyan, Nyu and other schools if their experience was similarly strange.
The experience was successful, buoyed by a number of supportive friends and family members. Yet for a while, it was an awkward, messy experience, bordering on obsessive and self-doubting. For weeks, our social media mark struggled to extend well beyond donors who knew a member of the team. I started asking students I knew at Wesleyan, Nyu and other schools if their experience was similarly strange.
- 8/19/2016
- by Russell Goldman
- Indiewire
Renée Zellweger hasn’t graced American screens in six years, but she’s set to make a dual return in the coming months: first with “Bridge Jones’s Baby” and then with “Same Kind of Different as Me.” Michael Carney’s drama, in which Zellweger and Greg Kinnear play a married couple, just dropped its first trailer. Watch it below.
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“I had another dream last night,” Zellweger says with a southern twang as the trailer opens, all but ensuring that whatever she saw in that dream will soon materialize in her waking life. And it does: Djimon Hounsou as a homeless man whose backstory and insights will surely be life-altering. Based on Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent’s book of the same name (which carries the brief subtitle “A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer,...
Read More: Renee Zellweger Fires Back at ‘Exploitative’ Tabloid Journalism and Body Shaming in New Essay
“I had another dream last night,” Zellweger says with a southern twang as the trailer opens, all but ensuring that whatever she saw in that dream will soon materialize in her waking life. And it does: Djimon Hounsou as a homeless man whose backstory and insights will surely be life-altering. Based on Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent’s book of the same name (which carries the brief subtitle “A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer,...
- 8/17/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Yep, he even managed to sneak in a birth-certificate zinger.
President Barack Obama’s primetime address on Night 3 of the Democratic National Convention contained a pinch of biting criticism for Republican candidate Donald Trump, several teaspoons of recollection about his own policy successes over the last eight years, and copious amounts of praise for his party’s current nominee Hillary Clinton.
RelatedMichelle Obama’s Emotional Speech Rouses Democratic Convention Audience — Watch and Grade It
Allow me to dole out a few of the spicier slices of Potus’ DNC pie, before turning it over to you for your thoughts:
* “As I’ve traveled this country,...
President Barack Obama’s primetime address on Night 3 of the Democratic National Convention contained a pinch of biting criticism for Republican candidate Donald Trump, several teaspoons of recollection about his own policy successes over the last eight years, and copious amounts of praise for his party’s current nominee Hillary Clinton.
RelatedMichelle Obama’s Emotional Speech Rouses Democratic Convention Audience — Watch and Grade It
Allow me to dole out a few of the spicier slices of Potus’ DNC pie, before turning it over to you for your thoughts:
* “As I’ve traveled this country,...
- 7/28/2016
- TVLine.com
The film is called Make A Movie Like Spike; it stars Malcolm Goodwin and Jamil Smith, and is directed by J. Smith.
The story goes… armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, both Marines, videotape their last 36 hours before being shipped off to Afghanistan, capturing themselves, their friends, family members and places they call home.
Luis is an aspiring filmmaker and Ronald wants to see the world and start a family.
The film made its world premier last weekend, at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff), and, according to an email I received from the filmmakers, it will be also screen at the Pan African Film Festival, Cinequest, Urbanworld, Bahamas, and others, later this year.
Making good use of social media, you can find the film on Facebook, Twitter, and its own website.
Check out the trailer below:...
The story goes… armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, both Marines, videotape their last 36 hours before being shipped off to Afghanistan, capturing themselves, their friends, family members and places they call home.
Luis is an aspiring filmmaker and Ronald wants to see the world and start a family.
The film made its world premier last weekend, at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff), and, according to an email I received from the filmmakers, it will be also screen at the Pan African Film Festival, Cinequest, Urbanworld, Bahamas, and others, later this year.
Making good use of social media, you can find the film on Facebook, Twitter, and its own website.
Check out the trailer below:...
- 2/11/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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