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Director Yorgos Lanthimos has made multiple films about characters who are controlled -- to mixed fates -- by their sexual appetites, and how their sexual desire will ultimately push up against their prison-like boundaries. 

In his 2009 film "Dogtooth," a weirdly tyrannical father (Christos Stergioglou) has kept his children confined in their childhood home until their young adulthood, lying to them about the nature of the world and teaching them nonsensical vocabulary. The young son is granted regular conjugal visits from a hired interloper (Anna Kalaitzidou). She, against the father's rules, begins explaining sex to the kids, and they begin thinking about the outside world. The father attempts to control his children's sex lives, but ultimately runs aground on his daughter's taste of knowledge. 

In his 2015 sci-fi fantasy film "The Lobster," uncoupled people are forced into depressing romance camps where they must artificially...

Leading European artists, including Maria Choustova (“Donbass”), Sergei Loznitsa (“Donbass”), Pawel Lozinski (“Film balkonowy”) and Radu Jude (“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”), have taken a stand to support the Israeli film community as it seeks to rally voices and help free over 220 hostages in Gaza.

These names penned a heartfelt letter addressing the resurgence of antisemitism across Europe and the significant part that European artists must play in raising the alarm. The letter will be sent to the European Film Academy with a request to circulate it among its 3,000 members ahead of the European Film Awards ceremony on Dec. 9.

In Israel, prominent filmmakers such as Ari Folman, Hagai Levi, Jasmine Kainy, Eliran Peled and Joseph Cedar (“Footnote”) have spearheaded an online campaign called Bring Them Home Now, documenting the stories of relatives whose loved ones, including children and elderly people, were abducted during the Hamas terror attack on Oct.

Joanna Merlin, original Fiddler On The Roof star and longtime Law & Order: Svu judge, has died. She was 92.

Her death was announced on the Instagram page of the New York University Tisch Graduate Acting Program, where Merlin had been on the faculty since 1998. A cause of death has not been given.

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“Joanna was an actress, master Chekhov teacher and former casting director for Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Bernardo Bertolucci and James Ivory,...

Franne Lee, a Tony-winning costumer and set designer who joined the fledgling Saturday Night Live and created the looks of some of the NBC’s late-night show’s most iconic characters, including the Coneheads, the Nerds, the Killer Bees and the Blues Brothers, died August 27 in Atlantis, Florida, following a brief illness. She was 81.

Her death was announced by her daughter Stacy Sandler.

Lee was one of the top costume designers on Broadway in the 1970s, winning Tony Awards for in 1974 and 1979 for two musicals directed by Harold Prince: Candide and the original production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She also shared a ’74 Candide Tony for Best Scenic Design with her then romantic and professional partner, the acclaimed set designer Eugene Lee.

Her work on Candide was noticed by Lorne Michaels, who was putting together the original creative team for his new comedy show Saturday Night Live.

The following contains spoilers for Season 2 of Clone High, now streaming on Max.

After a thirteen-episode season in 2003, unexpected controversy and a swift cancelation, Clone High has returned to the airwaves. The show acknowledges the 20-year jump with the clones being unfrozen in the Shadowy Board of Secret Figures' new plan, Operation Spread Eagle. Unaware of what's in store, the clones return to everyday high school life while adjusting to new friends, technology and social politics.

The one who benefits most from the transition is, inarguably, Nicole Sullivan's Joan of Arc. Originally a moody outsider who spent the first season pining for her clueless best friend, Abe Lincoln, Joan becomes one of the most popular students at the school. She makes new friends in Frida Kahlo and Harriet Tubman, buries the hatchet with her rival, Cleopatra (voiced by Mitra Jouhari), and even finds a boyfriend in JFK just as...

Twenty years after its first season aired on MTV, Clone High has returned to the airwaves to make audiences laugh, shiver and cry. Season 2 sees angst-filled teens Abe Lincoln (Will Forte), Joan of Arc (Nicole Sullivan) and JFK (Christopher Miller) revived in the modern era, facing a new world of changing social landscapes and new technology. Joining them on this journey are new clones of Frida Kahlo (Vicci Martinez), Harriet Tubman (Ayo Edibiri), Confucius (Kelvin Yu) and Christopher Columbus (Neil Young), who tries to distance himself from his controversial "clonefather" by taking the name Topher Bus.

However, not all of Clone High's main students have made the transition to 2023. Ghandi (Michael McDonald) has been written out of the series, owing to the controversial nature of the character. His absence is explained by the rest of the cast simply forgetting to unfreeze him along with the other students. Cleopatra, meanwhile, has made the jump to modernity,...

There’s a funny little irony to the very existence of Max’s Clone High. Originally created for MTV in the early aughts, the animated comedy centers around a bunch of teenagers who are genetic copies of notable historical figures, reborn for a new era. Now the series itself has been resurrected with much the same DNA (creators Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence all return, as do most of the voice cast), but in a whole new environment. But just as characters like Abe Lincoln (Will Forte), Joan of Arc (Nicole Sullivan) and JFK (Miller) adjust to their new normal, so too does Clone High, serving up a new season that feels every bit as silly and sharp as the show did the first time around.

Clone High couldn’t have known it at the time, but its first-season finale offered the perfect setup for a revival. In the 2003 episode,...

With films such as O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital, the British auteur portrayed his country as a bleak dystopia in decline – what would he make of today’s Britain?

‘No film can be too personal,” declared Lindsay Anderson in the Free Cinema manifesto of 1956. A decade later he lived up to this slogan when he shot his elegy to youth rebellion If…. at his old school, Cheltenham College. Winning the Palme d’Or at the 1969 Cannes film festival, it was the first in a loose trilogy of films that held up a mirror to a contemporary Britain that Anderson considered to be in a state of moral decline.

O Lucky Man! followed in 1973. Malcolm McDowell, who had played the chief rebel in If…., returned as a modern-day Candide who discovers that 1970s society offers very little grounds for his natural optimism. A brilliant score from Alan Price underpins the film’s bleak viewpoint.

Charles Kimbrough, the actor who portrayed Jim Dial in all 10 seasons of Murphy Brown and its 2018 revival, died on Jan. 11. He was 86.

His son, John Kimbrough, confirmed the news to the New York Times on Sunday.

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Kimbrough’s performance as Dial earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 1990. The CBS sitcom ran between 1988-1998 and followed the misadventures of Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), a famous investigative TV journalist.

In modern parlance, a jerk refers to a cruel, mean-spirited, or hateful person. In 2022, "jerk" is synonymous with "bully" or "a**hole." In 1979, however, when director Carl Reiner, Steve Martin, and screenwriters Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias were making their comedy film "The Jerk," the word referred to a fool or a buffoon, someone who was clueless. Navin R. Johnson, Martin's character in "The Jerk," is most certainly clueless, seemingly unable to fully perceive the world around him. In a long tradition of well-meaning comedic fools, Navin sees the world as a glorious place, even as he encounters crime and horror. He is a modern-day Candide, fecklessly roaming the countryside, hastily discovering success and love, then just as quickly losing them through his own hubris and idiocy. In his book "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life," Martin himself compared "The Jerk" to Dostoyevsky's novel "The Idiot."

It takes a very...