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It was a big week across film and TV with familiar icons sharing the spotlight with fast rising names. From prestige dramas to franchise adventures and buzzy streaming hits, the lineup shows how careers can surge when a new release lands or an anticipated project gains fresh attention.

Below is a quick tour through the fifteen names making waves right now. You will see long careers with stage roots alongside breakout turns on global streaming hits, plus a few stars linked to upcoming projects that are already sparking conversation.

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Here is a friendly look at the performers everyone is searching for right now. We pulled together quick career snapshots that make it easy to place each name and remember where you have seen them. You will spot signature roles, standout credits, and a few helpful bits of background.

The countdown keeps the original lineup intact while moving from fifteen to one. Each entry includes two short paragraphs with practical details so you can connect the dots across film and television work without wading through trivia.

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Over the course of his career, Ethan Hawke has left no creative stone unturned. A versatile character actor on both screen and stage, he continues to expand his work as a director, producer, writer, and author. This year at the Telluride Film Festival, Hawke is featured in not one but two projects: Blue Moon, his latest collaboration with director Richard Linklater, and Highway 99: A Double Album, an epic documentary about country music icon Merle Haggard that Hawke helmed. In recognition of his remarkable body of work, Hawke is one of three artists receiving the festival’s prestigious Silver Medallion.

“The fact that I'm here with Richard Linklater makes it even more special,...

Every awards season brings national submission debates, but this year, France’s decision for its official entry in the international feature Oscar category has turned into a geopolitical and cinematic dilemma.

On one side is Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague,” a French-language homage to the cinematic movement that redefined global filmmaking, starring breakout Guillaume Marbeck and Zoey Deutch. On the other is “It Was Just an Accident,” Jafar Panahi’s quietly explosive French co-production — a film shot in exile and widely regarded as one of his boldest works yet.

France, which typically selects auteur-driven, culturally emblematic films, finds itself choosing between two unprecedented options: one from an American director (Linklater), the other from a revered Iranian filmmaker working under government restriction (Panahi). Further complicating matters, “Nouvelle Vague” is almost entirely in French, while “It Was Just an Accident” is in a mix of Farsi and Arabic. Both qualify under the Academy’s international feature guidelines.

Is it time for the “Hawke” to swoop in and nab his Oscar prey?

After four Academy Award nominations spanning both acting and writing, Ethan Hawke may have found the role that finally earns him an Oscar. In Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” the actor delivers a searing performance as lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the legendary Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart.

The film premiered in February at the Berlin International Film Festival, where Hawke’s co-star Andrew Scott won the Silver Bear for best supporting performance. “Blue Moon” has since screened at the Telluride Film Festival, where Hawke received one of the festival’s Silver Medallions — a distinction that has proven to be an Oscar bellwether.

Recent Silver Medallion recipients include eventual nominees Cate Blanchett for “Tár” (2022) and Adam Driver for “Marriage Story” (2019), along with eventual winners Anthony Hopkins for “The Father” (2020), Renée Zellweger for “Judy” (2019) and...

El título supone la novena colaboración entre director y actor. © Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Classics ha desvelado el primer tráiler de la película Blue Moon, del aclamado cineasta Richard Linklater (Hit Man).

Firmada por Robert Kaplow, autor de la novela Me and Orson Welles, Blue Moon se adentra en los últimos días de Lorenz Hart, célebre mitad del dúo Rodgers & Hart. La historia transcurre principalmente en el emblemático restaurante Sardi’s, durante la noche del 31 de marzo de 1943, fecha en la que se estrenó ¡Oklahoma!, musical que marcó el comienzo de la alianza entre Rodgers y Oscar Hammerstein II tras la salida de Hart.

La película reúne a un reparto de lujo, con Ethan Hawke al frente, acompañado de Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale y Andrew Scott.

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Blue Moon will mark the ninth collaboration between Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke. Starting with Before Sunrise, the pair worked together on The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, Before Sunset, Fast Food Nation, Before Midnight, and Boyhood. Sony Pictures Classics has now unveiled the trailer for Blue Moon. In addition to Hawke, the film will also feature Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra), and Andrew Scott (Ripley). Sony Pictures Classics had acquired the worldwide rights for the project, which has been scripted by Robert Kaplow.

The official synopsis reads,

“…You know how in marriage they say “for better or for worse”? I think, in terms of my life, I have entered the “for worse” part, and it happened so quietly I didn’t even recognize it.

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life...

Pacey and Joey shippers rejoice. Dawson's Creek's Joshua Jackson and Katie Holmes are set to reunite in a brand-new project for the first time in over 20 years.

Per Deadline, Jackson and Holmes will join forces for a feature film trilogy called Happy Hours.The series is described as a "story about two people navigating their relationship within the challenges of careers and family responsibilities and the pursuit of love, despite life's inevitable obstacles. It's a character-driven dramedy that explores the emotional journey of young loves who reconnect as adults, with the connective thread of shared joys, loss, and hope."

Announced as three films, the ambitious Happy Hours trilogy will be written and directed by Holmes. Additional cast members include Mary-Louise Parker, Constance Wu, Joe Tippett, John McGinty, Donald Webber Jr., Nathan Darrow, Johnna Dias-Watson and Jack Martin. Shooting begins on the first Happy Hours installment in New York this summer.

When Richard Linklater set off to direct “Nouvelle Vague,” a black-and-white tribute to Jean-Luc Godard that charts the making of his debut film “Breathless,” the Oscar-nominated American director spared no details. He recreated the 1959 classic’s Parisian setting, lighthearted mood and three-way chemistry between the two leads and their director – played by Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Godard lookalikes: Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin and Guillaume Marbeck.

While speaking about the film at Biarritz’s Nouvelle Vague Festival where his latest film played on opening night this week, Linklater and “Nouvelle Vague” producer Michele Halberstadt said that everything seen in the film — which had a rapturous world premiere in competition at Cannes — happened in real life. New Wave film buff Linklater did extensive research alongside Halberstadt, who knew Godard well throughout her career in journalism. Halberstadt one point headed Premiere magazine in France before launching her production and distribution company Arp Selection...

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Exclusive: Netflix has won out in a tug of war for Richard Linklater’s Breathless homage Nouvelle Vague after its Cannes Film Festival debut in the competition.

We understand the deal has closed for a hefty $4 million, a record domestic outlay for a French-language movie.

This is an interesting one. Breathless is viewed as a cinema classic and Nouvelle Vague a love letter to cinema. Could there be longer theatrical play either in the U.S. or overseas before it hits Netflix? At least domestically, we hear it’s likely to just be the usual awards-qualifying two-week window.

Nouvelle Vague launched to warm words at the Cannes Film Festival two weekends ago. In the right hands, the talk has been that the film could figure in the awards race.

Netflix is coming off an eventful awards season with Spanish-language movie Emilia Pérez, which scored 13 Oscar nominations and two wins. There...

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This June, Hulu is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of The Bear to the much-anticipated release of the adult animated Predator film. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Hulu this month and have an 85% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Hulu in June 2025 with an 85% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Alien (June 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – 20th Century Studios

Alien is a 1979 sci-fi horror action film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon. It revolves around the Nostromo spacecraft crew, who set out to investigate a distress signal. Soon after beginning their investigation, they are attacked by a deadly alien. Alien stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright,...

Looking for fresh content to stream this June? Well, you’re at the right place, as Hulu’s lineup is brimming with a mix of nostalgia favorites and exciting new releases. From Big Eden’s 25th anniversary celebration to the heartfelt rom-com Boy Meets Girl, there’s something for every viewer.

Moreover, along with these two, you’d also get a mix of action, drama, comedy, and maybe even a few surprises you didn’t see coming. But it would definitely be worth it, as the streaming service is bringing a plethora of projects for you to choose from. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s check out what’s landing this June!

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Multiple domestic buyers are in the mix to buy Richard Linklater’s Breathless homage, Nouvelle Vague, which launched to warm words at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.

We expect a deal to get done in the next 48 hours and it should be at the higher end for a U.S. acquisition of a French-language movie. In the right hands, there’s talk the film could figure in the awards race.

The film reconstructs the story behind Godard’s cinema classic. French actor Guillaume Marbeck portrays Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch plays Jean Seberg and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Jean Paul Belmondo. Characters in the movie include cinema legends Godard, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda and Jacques Rivette.

Following the Competition title’s world premiere at Cannes on Saturday, the audience at the Palais gave the movie an 11-minute ovation. Our critic Pete Hammond...

This month, you can find lots of new movies and shows added to Hulu. From classic hits like Alien and Big Fish to new series like Call Her Alex and The Snake, there’s something for everyone.

Don’t miss popular Hulu Originals like Predator: Killer of Killers and Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything. Plus, some favorites like Christmas with the Campbells will be leaving soon, so be sure to watch before they go!

Let’s check out the full list.

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Richard Linklater’s Cannes Competition title Nouvelle Vague had its world premiere the Palais this evening and was welcomed with a 11-minute ovation.

Quentin Tarantino was at tonight’s screening as well and helped lead the long-lasting applause. It was the second time he’d watched the film in about eight hours, having also caught a special screening late Saturday morning.

Quentin Tarantino greets Richard Linklater as Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ (‘New Wave’) has its world premiere in #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/lofs7qKWUJ

— Deadline (@Deadline) May 17, 2025

An homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 classic Breathless, the French-language film reconstructs the story behind the film starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. French actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard, Zoey Deutch is Seberg, and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Belmondo.

Five-time Oscar nominee Linklater was last in the Cannes Competition with 2006’s Fast Food Nation and played Un Certain Regard with A Scanner Darkly that same year.

It’s hard to imagine an American indie movie more suitable for a Cannes red-carpet premiere than Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague. The maverick director’s black-and-white love letter to the French New Wave premiered to a rapturous response Saturday night inside Cannes’ Palais des Festivals, drawing a 10-minute-plus standing ovation from the black-tie crowd.

“Cinema is magic,” Linklater said as the house lights came up inside the cinema and the applause finally began to dwindle.

The standing ovation even got started before the lights came on as the crowd began clapping in unison for Linklater’s moving tribute to French cinema.

Going into the night, there was considerable anticipation surrounding Linklater’s 23rd feature. The film wasn’t screened for critics in advance of the premiere, as the director was said to prefer that it be seen for the first time on the big screen at its French unveiling.

While the Max rebrand back to HBO Max has the streaming world in a tizzy, it’s worth remembering the significance of keeping diverse subscriptions. While “Hacks” and “The Last of Us” wrap up over on that side of your library, the Hulu and Disney bundle is essential for maximizing this summer’s offerings.

Disney+ continues to be the go-to streamer for family friendly viewing options; this month, they’ll add the official “Frozen” Broadway musical to that library, along with Marvel’s “Ironheart,” about Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) who was introduced in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

Hulu has everything you need for an “Alien” movie marathon, all to gear up for FX’s “Alien: Earth” which premieres in August. You could also do a “Mamma Mia!” marathon or “Bachelor” binge — we’re not here to judge.

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Exclusive: Richard Linklater’s Cannes Competition-bound Nouvelle Vague, his homage to Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 New Wave classic A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), has been boarded for international sales by Vincent Maraval’s Goodfellas.

The anticipated French-language film reconstructs the story behind Godard’s cinema classic and is a fitting addition this morning to the Cannes lineup.

Characters in the film are understood to include cinema legends Godard, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Pierre Melville, Eric Rohmer, Agnes Varda and Jacques Rivette.

French actor Guillaume Marbeck is portraying Jean-Luc Godard, Zoey Deutch plays Breathless star Jean Seberg and newcomer Aubry Dullin portrays Jean Paul Belmondo.

There are rumours the film is shot in black and white and in 4:3 ratio. Arp Selection produces and distributes in France. Screenwriters include Holly Gent, Vince Palmo, Michèle Halberstadt and Laetitia Masson.

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Exclusive: Julie Delpy is joining 2x Cannes Film Festival winner Ruben Östlund’s next movie, The Entertainment System Is Down.

The Before Sunrise actress joins an ensemble cast that includes Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun, Tobias Menzies, Connor Swindells, Daniel Webber, Wayne Blair, Dan Wyllie, Lindsay Duncan, Allan Corduner, Sofia Tjelta Sydness, Erin Ainsworth, Myles Kamwendo, Elle Piper, Thibaud Dooms, Sanna Sundqvist, Tea Stjärne, Swedish artist Benjamin Ingrosso and Sanjeev Bhaskar.

Delpy recently wrapped shooting Matt Charman’s limited series The Choice for Netflix, where she leads the series as the French President.

Östlund’s darkly satirical project is set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia where the entertainment system fails and passengers are forced to face the horror of being bored. Two-time Oscar nominee Östlund won the Palme d’Or twice in 2022 for his political comedy Triangle of Sadness as well as 2017 for The Square.

Quick LinksTwo Co-Stars Made the Before Trilogy ImpactfulRichard Linklater Is a Talented Humanistic FilmmakerThe Before Trilogy Crafts Young Love and Romance BeautifullyThe Before Trilogy Ends in a Fitting Manner

As one of the most emotionally resonant genres in cinema, romance movies have the ability to charm viewers with stories about interesting couples, allowing them to explore the innate human experience of love in a variety of facets. Through this genre, audiences can be wooed by committed actors, talented production teams and engaging environments that help bring these narratives to life with passionate vigor. However, despite the abundance of romance films that have entertained moviegoers since the inception of movies themselves, none have constructed a more seamless and nuanced depiction of a love story quite like the acclaimed Before Trilogy.

Consisting of 1995’s Before Sunrise, 2004’s Before Sunset and 2013’s Before Midnight, director Richard Linklater’s romantic drama trilogy encapsulates one...

The long and rewarding collaboration between Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater stretches back 30 years to Before Sunrise, continuing with the other two parts of that superlative romantic trilogy, filmed at nine-year intervals, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. While that project spanned 27 years, the actor and the director also spent more than a decade shooting Boyhood for a few days at a time, once or twice a year. Their intimate knowledge of artistic symbiosis adds a poignant underlay to Hawke and Linklater’s reunion on Blue Moon, a transfixing character study that X-rays the shaky skeleton of a creative partnership of comparable duration.

Written with wry humor and perspicacity by Robert Kaplow, whose novel was the basis of Linklater’s 2008 feature, Me and Orson Welles, the new film again is set in the world of Broadway and expands on theater lore in illuminating personal ways.

It unfolds in real time on...

Ethan Hawke, speaking at the Berlinale press conference for Richard Linklater’sBlue Moon,said audiences needed to care about offensive art if they wanted it to keep getting made.

“You guys, the community, has to make it important for offensive art to have a place in our conversation. It has to be cared about,” Hawke said. He plays songwriter Lorenz Hart as he battles with alcoholism and depression on the opening night of Oklaoma! whichwas co-written by his former creative partner Richard Rodgers.

“When we prioritise money at all costs, what we get is generic material that appeals to the...

“They gave up on me a long time ago,” filmmaker Richard Linklater joked this afternoon during a press conference in Berlin for his latest flick, Blue Moon.

The veteran Golden Bear winner was referring to the Hollywood film industry, and what he believes they have given up on is his ability to make traditional, commercially-minded movies.

“I don’t think I’ve compromise at all over the years. We have no pressure. We do whatever we want,” Linklater added in reference to Blue Moon. “This was a small-budget movie. There’s no test screenings or anything like that.”

Blue Moon is Linklater’s 25th film and his ninth collaboration with his longtime muse, Ethan Hawke. The pair were characteristically cool this afternoon at the press conference. They were joined by Margaret Qualley (The Substance) and Andrew Scott (Ripley), who also star in the movie.

Unlike most press conferences this year in Berlin,...

When director Richard Linklater brought his Before Sunrise to the Berlinale in 1995, little did he know that he was kicking off what would become a veritable tradition. The film starred Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as two young students who meet on a Eurail train and enjoy a romantic walk-and-talk through the streets of Vienna before day breaks.

“We knew it was a risk making this film, but that’s why we did it on a low budget,” Linklater said at a festival press conference. “I don’t think they are going to lose money on this film.” That was something of an understatement. The $2.5 million Castle Rock production not only earned Linklater the fest’s Silver Bear for best director but, released by Columbia Pictures, went on to become an indie hit, grossing $22.5 million worldwide.

And so nearly a decade later, Linklater returned to the festival in 2004 with Before Sunset,...

Ethan Hawke is giving a classic Western the remake treatment. The Moon Knight actor is reportedly on board to help develop an all-new take on the 20th Century Studios movie The Gunfighter.

Per Deadlline, Hawke has signed on to co-write the script for a new take on The Gunfighter, a 75-year-old Western with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score, for 20th Century Studios. His writing partner, Shelby Gaines, will be alongside him as a co-writer. There is said to be hope at the studio that Hawke will also direct the remake, but the current deal that is in place is for the actor to serve as a writer and producer. It's also not known if Hawke will appear in the film, which is in its very early development stages.

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The Academy Awards, more commonly known as the Oscars, is one of the most coveted awards to receive in cinema. Many actors, directors, writers, and cinemaphotographers spend their entire careers seeking one of these awards. Last year, Christopher Nolan finally won his first two Oscars. Despite winning hundreds of awards worldwide throughout his career, Nolan lacked any Academy Award wins until Oppenheimer, which earned Nolan the Oscars for Best Motion Picture of the Year and Best Achievement in Directing. While Nolan can now call himself an Academy Award winner, many of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers cannot make the same claim.

Throughout American film history, many of Hollywood's all-time great directors have gone their whole careers without winning an Academy Award. Some, like Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater, have received many Oscar nominations but never claimed victory. Others, like Fritz Lang, shockingly never managed to garner a single Academy Award nomination despite making many iconic movies.

Undistracted by smartphones in 1995, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk away one night in Vienna without resolution but with huge charm

Not a romcom, not a romantic drama, but just … a romance, a brief encounter on a train without heartache, a strange and wonderful moment-by-moment miracle that never seems cloying or absurd. Richard Linklater’s film from 1995 is now re-released for its 30th anniversary, a stretch of time that gives us a chance to ponder the characters’ time-travel musings about their future selves. The two sequels Before Sunset (in 2004) and Before Midnight (in 2013) famously reunited the leads and gave us an episodic study of their growing old as a couple welded together by that amazing moment in Vienna; it was an ambitious approach which Linklater brought to its fullest success with his time-lapse portrait Boyhood, which he was working on around the same period.

The goateed and sweetly conceited twentysomething Jesse,...

The Writers Guild of America announced the nominations for their annual awards last week and Netflix films and television shows were well-represented. The WGA, both East and West Coast chapters, are comprised of working writers across the spectrum of filmed scripted genres. It has been around for almost 100 years and has been handing out awards for excellence since 1948.

Amongst writers, it is considered the highest of honors.

Here are the Netflix programs that have been nominated for awards for the past year. Many are likely among your favorites.

Netflix gets eight Writer's Guild of America nominationsAdapted Screenplay – Richard Linklater and Glen Powell for Hit Man

Linklater has been one of the most important independent filmmakers in the USA since writing and directing Slacker in 1990. His other credits include Dazed and Confused, the Before Sunrise trilogy, and Boyhood. His screenplays for Before Sunset, Before Midnight, and Boyhood were each previously nominated...

When you think of great film trilogies, you probably think of Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" adaptation or the original "Star Wars" movies — but if Richard Linklater's "Before" trilogy doesn't immediately come to mind as well, you should definitely take some time to check out this stunning, deeply emotional, and brilliantly filmed movies centering on two lovers at various points throughout their lives.

Based on a real experience in Linklater's life (specifically, a night where he and a woman he'd just met wandered through the city of Philadelphia and talked until the sun rose), the first "Before" movie, 1995's appropriately titled "Before Sunrise," opens on a European train and introduces us to Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy). Both are leaving Budapest and, after striking up a conversation, they impulsively both leave the train in Vienna, walking through the gorgeous Austrian capital and talking about life,...

The Honorary Dragon Award will be given to the famous French-American actor, writer, and director Julie Delpy at the 2025 Göteborg Film Festival. Her important contributions to world cinema are honored at this event, Scandinavia’s biggest film and television festival.

It’s planned that Delpy will attend the event to show her newest movie, “Meet the Barbarians.” In this movie, we follow a Syrian family as they try to find safety in Northern France. In Göteborg on January 29, at the same time as the film’s premiere, the awards ceremony will occur at Cinema Draken. Delpy will take part in a Q&a session after the showing.

The festival’s artistic head, Pia Lundberg, praised Delpy for her unique voice in making movies. “Her work blends humor, depth, and sensitivity in a way that resonates with audiences worldwide,” he said. She breaks new ground and inspires us.” We are very...

Two-time Oscar-nominated French-American actor and director Julie Delpy has been unveiled as the recipient of the 2025 Honorary Dragon Award at Sweden’s upcoming Göteborg Film Festival, the biggest film-tv event in Scandinavia.

Delpy, known for her distinctive voice in international cinema, will attend the festival for the screening and to accept the prestigious award, participate in a talk and present her latest film, “Meet the Barbarians,” in which she follows the journey of a Syrian family who find refuge in a village in Northern France.

Göteborg will also celebrate Delpy’s distinguished career with a retrospective of some of her most beloved works.

Over the span of four decades, Delpy has earned recognition as both a celebrated actor and a talented director and writer. She gained early widespread acclaim with her performances in films such as “Three Colors: White” and “Before Sunrise,” in which she portrayed Céline, a role that...

January 2025 could mark a bleak month for very specific reasons, but in that month one can watch a nicely curated collection of David Bowie’s best performances. Nearly a decade since he passed, the iconic actor (who had some other trades) is celebrated with The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Linguini Incident, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and Basquiat. (Note: watch The Missing Pieces under Fire Walk with Me‘s Criterion edition for about three times as much Phillip Jeffries.) It’s a retrospective-heavy month: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Crowe, Ethan Hawke, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Paolo Sorrentino, and Sean Baker are given spotlights; the first and last bring with them To Die For and Take Out‘s Criterion Editions, joining Still Walking, Hunger, and A Face in the Crowd.

“Surveillance Cinema” brings Thx 1138, Body Double, Minority Report, and others, while “Love in Disguise” offers films by Lubitsch,...

It’s hard to believe, but four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke has celebrated almost four decades in the film business. Hawke made his film debut in Joe Dante‘s 1985 film, “Explorers.”

Although an accomplished Tony-nominated stage actor, Hawke is primarily celebrated for his work in movies. He is one of the few performers who has been a double Oscar nominee in both the acting category (“Training Day” and “Boyhood”) and writing (“Before Sunrise” and “Before Midnight”). Hawke has also been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards (“Training Day” and “Boyhood”), as well as a Golden Globe nod for “Boyhood.”

Unquestionably, Hawke’s most notable film collaborations have been with writer/director Richard Linklater, who had the ability to bring out something extra in him. In three “Before” films — “Before Sunrise” (1995), “Before Sunset” (2004) and “Before Midnight” (2013) — Hawke broke hearts all over the world as Jesse with his relationship with Julie Delpy‘s Céline.

Richard Linklater's Before trilogy, comprising 1995's Before Sunrise, 2004's Before Sunset, and 2013's Before Midnight, is a modern landmark of romantic drama. All three movies star Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as Jesse and Cline, a couple who meet by chance on a train to Vienna in 1994. The trilogy then tracks their relationship throughout the years; each movie focuses on their quickly developing bond due to their lack of time together, as they talk about art, love, sex, relationships, and the true meaning of intimacy. The idea came from a meeting Linklater had with a woman in Philadelphia in 1989; sadly, she passed away before the release of Before Sunrise due to a motorcycle accident.

Athina Rachel Tsangari, the Greek director with roots in New York and Austin, Texas, does not need any convincing when an actor or crew member proposes an offbeat idea.

Her new film “Harvest” is based on Jim Crace’s interior monologue of a novel and set in the unspecified past. It feels like the middle ages, apart from the occasional anachronism. On the ramshackle set in Scotland, most of the characters were wearing wooden clogs, but Tsangari’s lead actor Caleb Landry Jones (best known to audiences as the brother in “Get Out;” he also won a Cannes prize in 2021 for the drama “Nitram”) strolled up in contemporary hiking boots.

“I loved it,” the director tells TheWrap of Jones’ footwear. “I’m open to stuff like that. It has nothing to do with what people were wearing in medieval times, but it works. Especially in a film like this one,...

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Anora is a romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sean Baker. The 2024 film follows the story of Anora Mikheeva, a young stripper who falls in love with and marries Vanya, the son of a Russian oligarch, and finally gets her Cinderella story but once the news reaches Vanya’s parents they come to New York to get their marriage annulled by any means necessary. Anora stars Mikey Madison in the lead role with Mark Eidelstein, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, and Aleksei Serebryakov starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the intensely dramatic story, tragic romance, and compelling characters in Anora here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Pretty Woman (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Touchstone Pictures

Pretty Woman is a romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay written by J.F. Lawton.

“The Bikeriders” is taking a trip from original to adapted screenplay Oscar consideration.

Focus Features’ drama, directed and written by Jeff Nichols, will compete for the Academy Award in the best adapted screenplay category, Variety has learned exclusively.

The movie stars Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy. It premiered at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, garnering rave reviews despite the ongoing Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild strikes. Initially scheduled for release by 20th Century Studios on December 1, 2023, the film’s launch was delayed. Focus Features later acquired the project and released it in June. Before this acquisition, Variety exclusively confirmed that although the film draws inspiration from Danny Lyon’s iconic photobook, it was initially positioned as an original screenplay. However, those plans have shifted.

Read: You can see Academy Award predictions in all 23 categories on one page on the Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars.

“The Bikeriders” tells a fictionalized...

Ethan Hawke and Sterlin Harjo’s FX drama pilot has been ordered to series at FX, Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

The pilot was originally commissioned in February under the title “The Sensitive Kind” with Hawke in the lead role. Exact plot details are being kept under wraps aside from the fact it is described as a “Tulsa noir about a guy (Hawke) who knows too much.”

FX declined to comment.

The pilot was filmed in Oklahoma back in April and May. Keith David, Siena East, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Shepherd, Tracy Letts, Kyle Maclachlan, and Macon Blair all starred opposite Hawke in the pilot, with additional cast including Killer Mike, Kaniehtiio Horne, Cody Lightning, Michael Hitchcock, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong.

Harjo created the series and serves as executive producer, while he also directed the pilot. Hawke will executive produce in addition to starring, with Garrett Basch executive producing as well.

Ethan Hawke’s presidential endorsement couldn’t be more direct. “Kamala Harris is driving the bus I want to get on”.

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter Roma during the Lucca Film Festival, the actor and filmmaker says his mother gave him some particularly insightful advice about this election season: “I was talking with my mother about the upcoming elections, and she told me, ‘Voting is like taking public transit. It doesn’t drop you off exactly at your house, but it gets you close. So, you take the train, or the bus, and it brings you near home.’ In my mind, there’s no question: I want to be on the bus that Kamala is driving.”

While in Lucca, Hawke started his day running along the ancient city walls and cycling through the historic streets. In addition to a lifetime achievement honor he’ll be receiving at the fest, Hawke...

Quick Links Everybody Wants Some Is an Exploration of Male Friendships Everybody Wants Some Is About a Last Grasp at Freedom

Glen Powell is riding on a well-deserved high. With several back-to-back successes, starting with 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, continuing with Anyone but You in 2023, and sealing the deal in this year's audience beloved Twisters, the actor is proving himself a steady leading man and a charismatic talent. And now, thanks to Prime Video, audiences can check out one of Powell's earlier and most underrated films, Everybody Wants Some!!.

Taking place in the fall of 1980, Everybody Wants Some!! stars Blake Jenner as Jake Bradford, a college freshman who moves into student housing with members of his school's baseball team. Over the course of the final weekend of the summer, Jake and his teammates party, drink, and chase girls in a last grasp at a fleeting season of freedom. Directed by Richard Linklater,...

Ethan Hawke is no stranger to taking the air out of some mainstream franchises. Years ago, Hawke would criticize those who praised Logan by putting it in his perspective, “Well, it’s a great superhero movie. It still involves people in tights with metal coming out of their hands. It’s not Bresson. It’s not Bergman. But they talk about it like it is.” In an ironic twist of fate, Hawke would then go on to star with Oscar Issac in the dark superhero series Moon Knight for Marvel Studios, which streamed on Disney+. Since partaking in that project, he’s somewhat walked back on his criticisms about the superhero genre as a whole. However, Hawke continues to present that there is a clear distinction between cinema’s big fantasy films and smaller human stories.

Hawke appeared at the Venice Film Festival in a master class, and it was...

Many film enthusiasts consider Dead Poets Society as one of the most cherished movies of the late actor Robin Williams. In the film, Williams’ character English teacher John Keating is a true outlier in the strict setting of the elite boarding school. Playing one of the students in the film is a young Ethan Hawke in his breakthrough performance. However, Hawke and Williams did not get along greatly.

Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society | Credits: Touchstone Pictures

Hawke shared that he wanted to be a serious actor in the industry. However, the Jumanji actor had the habit of making jokes on set which Hawke found incredibly irritating. Though their initial relationship didn’t go smoothly, it was Williams who helped him get his first agent.

Ethan Hawke Opened Up About His Experience Working With Robin Williams In Dead Poets Society Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets Society | Credits: Touchstone Pictures

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Gen X are a funny lot. Generally acknowledged to be made up of folks born between 1965 and 1980. This means Gen Xers were teenagers between the ’80s and the late ’90s. Crucially this also means it’s a generation that grew up without any meaningful internet and no mobile phones, who were used to relying on cinema trips to watch trailers, Blockbuster Video for our weekend viewing and highlighting the TV guide at Christmas.

Streaming services, of course, did not exist so movies we watched at the cinema, recorded off the telly and even potentially owned on VHS (if you were the Queen) became very precious in a way that something you caught on Netflix while you were looking at your phone are not. Every generation has movies that are iconic to them – here’s to the ones that shaped today’s 40-somethings+.

Before Sunrise (1995)

Richard Linklater’s naturalistic romance about...

One of Hollywood’s iconic romantic dramas, the Before Sunrise trilogy is a heart-warming tale of love, hope, and self-discovery. The first installment in the trilogy, Before Sunrise (1995) stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in the lead roles. The pair made viewers swoon with their on-screen chemistry and tragic romance.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise | Columbia Pictures

A behind-the-scenes scoop revealed that actress Julie Delpy was not convinced of a major scene in the movie. Co-star Ethan Hawke had to work hard to convince the actress going as far as to invent a pick-up line for the same. This was later incorporated into the plot of the movie, which became a fan favorite.

Ethan Hawke’s famous pick-up line

One of the major plotlines of the movie Before Sunrise, includes Ethan Hawke’s character Jesse and Celine played by Julie Delpy, getting off their train in Vienna.

Richard Linklater‘s filmography is nothing if not varied, having made searing dramas to stoner comedies, from play adaptations to rock n roll movies, and even a rotoscope animated film or two. Most significantly he took experimental chances on several films, which are among the most remarkable works in the past two decades.

One of those experiments, the trilogy of “Before” films with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy brought Linklater his first two Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay, and he was nominated for three more Oscars for 2014’s “Boyhood” — for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Also for “Boyhood,” Linklater won his first two Golden Globe Awards (for Best Film Drama and Best Director) and was nominated for a third for his screenplay.

Linklater has always got some project in some form of production, and is currently working on the upcoming “Merrily We Roll Along,” which will be shot over the next 20 years.

Hey, "Dateline NBC" fans. We're back to let you know that the NBC people are delivering another repeat episode of Dateline NBC tonight, July 20, 2024. This one will just be a 1-hour event, and we do have some preview information for it for those of you who missed it when it originally aired. NBC served up a revised press release for this repeat episode. So, we're going to take a look at it for this preview session. Let's go. Tonight's repeat episode is officially titled, "Before Midnight." It originally aired way, way back on May 29, 2020. In this repeat installment, the Dateline NBC team took a deep look at a story about a successful Bloomington, Illinois businesswoman and mother of three kids who was found fatally shot in her own office. The investigation totally disrupted the lady's family. Keith Morrison handled the reporting duties for this episode and case. It featured interviews with: David,...

Watching Richard Linklater's 1995 romantic drama "Before Sunrise," it's not hard to grasp why Frenchwoman Céline (Julie Delpy) is taken with the American Jesse (Ethan Hawke), a fellow 20-something traveler she encounters on a train ride back to Paris after visiting her grandmother. With flawless, floppy hair and a sensitive, intellectual manner, he's an alluring mystery waiting to be investigated at a time in her life when she's far more inclined to imagine how chatting up an amicable stranger on a train might lead to something remarkable (as opposed to how it could go profoundly wrong).

Jesse immediately sparks to her too, and they soon find themselves drawn to one another and engrossed in their ensuing conversation. Throwing caution to the wind as only impetuous, gorgeous young people who don't realize just how carefree they really are can, they agree to hit the pause button on their respective lives and...

Glen Powell is already making an impact in Hollywood with his impeccable projects that well showcased his acting prowess. However, the actor is yet far from achieving one record that Ethan Hawke and Hitman director Richard Linklater will attain with the upcoming project that they’re set to collaborate on.

Glen Powell in Hit Man (image credit: Netflix)

It is quite a great feat as the actor-director duo have already collaborated on numerous projects that even actor-director duo, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have yet to attain.

Ethan Hawke and Glen Powell’s Hitman director Richard Linklater Will Work on the 9th Project Together

Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater have long been collaborating on projects that produced some of the most critically acclaimed films over the last three decades. From bringing innovative narratives to authentic character portrayals, their partnership has continued to expand the horizon of storytelling on the big screen cinema.