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Francis Ford Coppola has been dreaming about making "Megalopolis" for more than 40 years, and now, after decades of starts and stops, he delivers it to us and dares us to make sense of it all. A sprawling, confusing, confounding, messy extravaganza, "Megalopolis" feels like it needs an entire companion textbook to parse out its influences and meanings. Coppola has jam-packed the movie with a million different ideas, drawing on such wide-ranging sources as Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," Robert Caro's "The Power Broker," and the Catilinarian conspiracy, in which politician Lucius Sergius Catilina tried to seize control of Rome in 63 Bce. Coppola also seems to be drawing on his own work, most notably two of his biggest flops, "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" and the sort-of-musical "One From the Heart."

Having helmed some of the best movies in the history of the medium, Coppola has earned the benefit of the doubt here.

CBS Saturday Morning will feature journalist and author Robert Caro, whose book ‘The Power Broker’ is getting it’s first digital edition to celebrate it’s fiftieth anniversary. Ollie Templeton, co-founder and head chef at UK cooking hub Carousel which also features a wine bar and often hosts special events and features different well known head chef […]

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The private literary collection of late publishing tycoon and editor Robert Gottlieb will be showcased by Metrograph’s Summer Book Fair.

IndieWire can exclusively announce that the late former editor-in-chief of The New Yorker, who also served as the president of publishing powerhouse Knopf, will be posthumously celebrated by the Lower East Side theater. Gottlieb was also at the center of 2022 documentary “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,” directed by his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb.

The upcoming Summer Book Fair was organized with the support of the Gottlieb family by Metrograph Editions, the specialty boutique arm of Metrograph, and will feature more than 500 film books from Gottlieb’s personal collection. The books will be for sale and include the seal “From the Library of Robert Gottlieb.” The event will take place on Saturday, July 20.

Gottlieb died in 2023 at the age of 92. He collaborated with Joseph Heller on “Catch-22,...

Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, in Turn Every Page. Photo credit: Claudia Raschke. Courtesy of Wild Surmise Productions, LLC / Sony Pictures Classics

What a delightful documentary is Turn Every Page – The Adventures Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb. This witty, warm and insightful documentary is like a double biography of two literary giants, legendary author Robert Caro and his long-time editor, the equally legendary Robert Gottlieb.

Robert Caro is the author of “The Power Broker,” an examination of the career of New York power broker Robert Moses, considered one of the most definitive non-fiction books on political power behind the scenes, and the award-winning four volume history of Lyndon B. Johnson. Robert Gottlieb is the editor-in-chief of prestigious publishing house Knopf and heads up the renown New Yorker magazine, and has edited an astonishing list of great authors and great books, including Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 (and Gottlieb came...

The season of rambling acceptance speeches is at hand, prompting that nasty question: Why can’t award winners learn how to edit their gratitude? Or find an editor to help?

The answer is in the process itself, which Cate Blanchett, upon winning over the weekend at the Critics Choice Awards for Tár, called a “patriarchal pyramid.” She should know because the pyramid has granted her more than 120 awards for her 70 movies (including two Oscars).

Whether in speeches or the projects generating them, filmmakers and writers classically distrust their editors. There’s even a new documentary about a classically feisty editing conflict. Titled Turn Every Page, it deals with books, not film — and, predictably, it’s too long.

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In a new documentary directed by Gottleb’s daughter, the 50-year partnership between the acclaimed author and the renowned editor is examined

The director Lizzie Gottlieb was hosting a birthday party for her father, the renowned editor Robert Gottlieb at her Brooklyn brownstone when she struck up a conversation with one of the many guests. “A lovely older gentleman came up to me and said, ‘What do you think of the Barclay’s Center on Flatbush Avenue and how do you think it’ll affect the neighborhood?’ I started spouting completely uninformed, random opinions.” Mid-sentence, she came to a realization. “It was Robert Caro, and I was talking to him about New York City infrastructure.”

As one of the most respected living authors of the written word, 87-year-old Robert Caro has actually only authored six books, from The Power Broker, his 1974 opus about New York City planner Robert Moses to an epic,...

Exclusive: Ryan Heller has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Film & Documentary at Topic Studios, the award-winning studio from First Look Media.

In his new role, he will continue to lead the feature film group, while adding feature-length documentaries to his purview, formalizing an area in which he had already been operating. He will oversee the doc arena with Vice President, Nonfiction, Christine Connor, continuing to report to CEO Michael Bloom.

A key player in the launch and critical successes of Topic Studios, who has since 2018 built and managed its feature film slate through development, financing, production and distribution, Heller most recently served as Senior Vice President of Film and Acquisitions.

He has long been a champion for new directorial voices, in recent years shepherding such breakout projects as the psychological horror Nanny and the acclaimed buddy comedy, The Climb. The former title from rising star director Nikyatu Jusu was...

Karen Cooper, longtime director of New York City’s indie cinema gem Film Forum, says she’s stepping down at a good time, not just for her, but for the business. Despite all the naysayers and after slogging through Covid with the help of federal grants and weathering a slow recovery, Cooper said business is currently pretty lively at the lower Manhattan nonprofit cinema she’s run for the past 50 years.

She’s leaving her position this summer with Deputy Director Sonya Chung taking the reins July 1.

The Film Forum launched in 1970 on the Upper West Side with a 19,000 annual budget to show American independent films not playing in commercial cinemas. Cooper led it through three expansions, building it into a 6 million business with a range of programming and premieres from around the world. It’s been at its current location on West Houston Street since 1989. She counts New York...

Sony’s A Man Called Otto began the first phase of a three-step rollout this weekend in an exclusive run at four LA and NY theaters, grossing 60k, for a 15k per screen average, over the three-day weekend. The four-day estimated gross is 75K, or an 18.7k PSA.

The test for the remake of the Swedish film based on a New York Times bestseller will be when it opens wide Jan. 13.

Otto made 23k Fri., 17k, Sat. and an estimated 21k Sun. and 18k Mon.

Sony Pictures Classics presented documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb at two theaters NY and LA to a three-day debut of 12k at two locations –a 6,012 PSA. The doc explores a remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb

Also this weekend, Neon’s Broker in week two grossed 28,2k on...

Specialty film closes the book on a mixed 2022 this weekend with the limited release by Sony of Tom Hanks-starring A Man Called Otto; a literary doc by Lizzie Gottlieb from Sony Pictures Classics and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest from Neon via Cannes.

Otto, by Mark Forster, is a remake of a Swedish film based on a New York Times bestseller. It debuts on four screens in NY and LA. Sony had some early shows starting at 2pm Thursday. The film opens wide Jan. 13.

Otto’s screenplay is by David Magee. Also stars Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Truman Hanks and Mike Birbiglia. Hanks plays Otto Anderson, a grump who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife. He’s ready to end it all but turns it around when a lively young family moves in next door.

Lizzie Gottlieb on Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb: “I wanted to express that it’s a buddy movie, it’s got energy and hopefully humour.” Photo: Claudia Raschke, courtesy of Wild Surmise Productions, LLC / Sony Pictures Classics

Lizzie Gottlieb’s loving double portrait begins with Ethan Hawke (star of Robert Budreau’s Born To Be Blue) reading from Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Power Broker: Robert Moses And The Fall Of New York, edited by Robert Gottlieb, and ends with a Chet Baker recording (of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Do it the Hard Way). In-between we have Colm Tóibín, Lynn Nesbit, David Remnick, Mary Norris, Bill Clinton, Conan O'Brien, Maria Tucci, Ina Caro and many others commenting on the dynamic duo.

Lizzie Gottlieb with Anne-Katrin Titze: “I was really thrilled to be able to interview Bill Clinton.”

Gottlieb, who has been the editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster,...

How do you define a “big” movie? By impressive box office numbers? Enthusiastic critical reception? The highest-profile stars, boldest headlines, brightest debuts?

No matter which method you choose, it’s nice to note that the year’s biggest films were, overall, also among its best. So this list assumes you’ve already seen the ones that fit into all of the above categories: movies like “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” but also “The Fabelmans,” “Nope” and “Tár.” Now it’s time to look a little deeper, think a little smaller: foreign films, documentaries, indies, and even kid flicks. Turns out, 2022 was blessed with an absolute abundance of hidden gems. Here are some that shined the brightest”

“Return to Seoul“

A gorgeous portrait of a messy life, “Return to Seoul” is simultaneously dazzling and delicate, intimate and immense. First-time actor Park Ji-Min turns in a truly stunning, tour-de-force performance as Freddie,...

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Back in October, when documentary footage emerged of Nancy Pelosi from January 6, 2021 — footage whose juiciest elements included the then-speaker of the House saying she wished she could go to jail for punching the then-president of the United States — reactions from the right were predictable. And banal.

A frequent refrain around Twitter and other social media declared it mighty suspicious that on such an otherwise innocuous day, Nancy Pelosi would just happen to be followed by a documentary crew — as if this validated the idea that January 6 was a false flag operation. There was skeptical Zapruder-like analysis of what the footage did or did not show.

Let’s leave out whatever probative value the footage does or doesn’t have. Let the January 6 Committee decide. Or not. Let’s get to the first part of the conspiratorial blather: Alexandra Pelosi, not even vaguely coincidentally Nancy Pelosi’s daughter,...

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1341 Frames of Love and War (Yes Docu)

In celebrating the work of acclaimed Israeli war photographer Micha Bar-Am, director Ran Tal’s 1341 Frames of Love and War offers a meditation on photography, political violence and identity through an exclusive (and exhaustive) deep dive into Bar-Am’s expansive artistic archives over the past five decades.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Neon)

Laura Poitras (an Oscar winner for 2014’s Citizenfour) directs this portrait of renowned photographer Nan Goldin, one that offers intimate access to her suburban upbringing and experiences living among marginalized communities and artistic scenes in New York City. It also depicts the downfall of the Sackler family, a target of Goldin’s activism and whose company Purdue Pharma created and marketed OxyContin — the root cause of the American opioid epidemic.

Art & Krimes by Krimes (MTV Documentary Films)

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The National Board of Review today named the top-grossing film of 2022 as its Best Film of the year.

“Top Gun: Maverick is a thrilling crowd-pleaser that is expertly crafted on every level,” said NBR President Annie Schulhof. “Tom Cruise, Joseph Kosinski and the entire filmmaking team have succeeded in making an incredibly popular film that brought audiences back to theaters, while at the same time being a full-on cinematic achievement.”

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The news comes about an hour after the PGA announced Maverick star Tom Cruise as the 2023 recipient of its David O. Selznick Achievement Award, its highest film honor. See NBR’s list of the year’s 10 best films and its other award winners below.

The National Board of Review have announced their 2022 winners and, in a rare occurrence, the year’s top-grossing film (at least until James Cameron comes along) has picked up the top prize. Top Gun: Maverick was crowned best film along with earning best cinematography, while Steven Spielberg won best director, and Colin Farrell, Michelle Yeoh, Brendan Gleeson, Janelle Monáe, Danielle Deadwyler, and Gabriel Labelle picked up acting awards.

See the winners list below, with a hat tip to Variety.

Best Film: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Actor: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, All Quiet on the Western Front

Breakthrough Performance: Danielle Deadwyler,...

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The National Board of Review has named Top Gun: Maverick as its best film of 2022.

The Tom Cruise-starring sequel also won outstanding achievement in cinematography.

The Banshees of Inisherin won a leading three awards, including best actor (Colin Farrell), best supporting actor (Brendan Gleeson) and best original screenplay for Martin McDonagh.

Steven Spielberg won best director for The Fabelmans, with the film’s Gabriel Labelle winning breakthrough performance alongside Till star Danielle Deadwyler.

Michelle Yeoh was named best actress for her starring role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and Janelle Monáe won best supporting actress for her role in Knives Out sequel Glass Onion.

The award for best adapted screenplay went to All Quiet on the Western Front‘s Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was named best animated feature, with Close taking best international film; Sr.,...

Awards gala to take place on January 8 2023 in New York.

The National Board Of Review (NBR) has anointed Top Gun: Maverick its best film of 2022, named Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun best directorial debut, and hounoured Argentina, 1985 and All The Beauty And The Bloodshed with the NBR Freedom of Expression Awards.

Aftersun was also among a list of the top 10 films of the year alongside the likes of Indian action epic Rrr. The top five international films are All Quiet On The Western Front, Argentina, 1985, Decision To Leave, Eo, and Saint Omer.

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At the age of 87, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Robert Caro continues work on the fifth volume of his magisterial biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson. For every step of the journey on the Lbj books, and before that on his 1974 classic The Power Broker, one figure has been looking over his shoulder, as it were: the editor Robert Gottlieb. They occupy the very apex of their fields.

The relationship between the literary titans is explored in the Sony Pictures Classics documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, directed by Lizzie Gottlieb (Robert Gottlieb’s daughter). As the film reveals, the interactions between the two men can be contentious.

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“They disagree viciously about the semicolon,” Lizzie Gottlieb noted during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event. “Everything is important to them, the biggest things and the smallest details.

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Topic Studios has secured the rights to Amanda Montell’s book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism for adaptation as a television docuseries.

Published by Harper Wave in June of 2021, Montell’s second book, following Wordslut, dissects how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.

The docuseries will be a powerful and timely deep dive into how cults maintain their power, per producers. According to Montell, whose own father escaped from a cult as a teenager, “we’ve been thinking about cults in completely the wrong way. While there have long been dark, dangerous cults (such as the Manson Family), fanatical groups actually fall along a spectrum, from Heaven’s Gate all the way to SoulCycle and Taylor Swift stans. Using an incisive, compelling and often funny tone, Cultish will unpack what cult influence looks,...

"Bob cared as much about the writing as I did." Sony Pictures Classics has debuted a trailer for a doc film titled in full - Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. This first premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and also played at the Hot Springs and Middleburg Film Festival. It's also playing at AFI Fest in Los Angeles this fall before it opens in US theaters at the end of the year. "For 50 years, a unique and lovingly cantankerous professional relationship has existed between the iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and his editor, literary giant Robert Gottlieb. Beginning in the early 1970s with The Power Broker book, Caro's timeless exploration of power and NYC, via the machinations of Robert Moses, they have worked together to produce Caro’s repertoire of exhaustively researched and exquisitely edited works. Now, with Caro in the midst of...

At nearly 1,500 pages, author Robert Caro’s 1974 biography of New York City urban planner Robert Moses “The Power Broker” remains one of the most influential tomes about the city’s infrastructure. Beneath New York’s highways and bridges lie political power-brokering and corruption, a sort of real-life, East Coast “Chinatown” (albeit on dry land) mapped out across an epic tome.

But behind author Caro was also an editor, Robert Gottlieb. Now 91, he has served as editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker, and is now, along with Caro, the subject of a documentary directed by his daughter, “Turn Every Page.” Lizzie Gottlieb’s film focuses on Gottlieb and Caro’s creative collaboration across nearly half a century, with talking heads including Bill Clinton, Conan O’Brien, Maria Tucci, and many more. The movie opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 30 from Sony Pictures Classics.

J.D. Dillard’s “Devotion” was announced as the Audience Award winner for best narrative film following the conclusion of the Middleburg Film Festival. The Sony Pictures historical drama, which stars Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell, was a heavy favorite from patrons and could be a quiet dark horse contender in the Oscar race.

Dillard and actor Christina Jackson were both in attendance in Virginia for a post-screening Q&a. Written by Jake Crane and Jonathan Stewart, the film is based on Adam Makos’ novel and tells the inspirational, true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots who fought in the Korean War in the 1950s.

“We were honored to have these filmmakers join us at the festival to present their exceptional films to our audiences and engage in thoughtful conversations,” said Susan Koch, Mff executive director.

The Audience Award for best documentary went to Lizzie Gottlieb’s “Turn Every...

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There’s a very real chance that Ingrid Bergman, Meryl Streep and Frances McDormand will soon be getting company on the list of actresses awarded as many as three Oscars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. That’s how impressive Cate Blanchett, a two-time past winner, is in Tár, the first film in 16 years directed by Todd Field, whose previous efforts, In the Bedroom (2001) and Little Children (2006), each garnered multiple acting nominations and a screenplay nom (the former was also up for best picture).

Tár, which Focus Features will release Oct. 7, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last week en route to its North American premiere Saturday night at the Telluride Film Festival’s Palm Theatre, where it played like gangbusters ahead of a festival tribute to Blanchett. The 53-year-old Aussie has given a stunning number of...

Sony Pictures Classics has announced October-December release plans for The Return of Tanya Tucker; Salavatore: Shoemaker Of Dreams; The Son; Living; and Turn Every Page.

Additionally, it said, One Fine Morning, written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve and starring Léa Seydoux, and Davy Chou’s Return To Seoul, which were both acquired out of Cannes, will have one-week qualifying runs by the end of the year before their 2023 releases.

Kathlyn Horan’s The Return Of Tanya Tucker, featuring Brandi Carlile will be released on October 21, 2022 in New York and Los Angeles before expanding to additional markets. The documentary follows Tanya’s richly creative, utterly captivating, bumpy ride back to the top as Brandi encourages her to push past her fears to create a new sound and reach a new audience.

Luca Guadagnino’s documentary film, Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, which tracks Ferragamo’s life from humble beginnings to California and...

The enthralling documentary “Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” opens with white-on-black credits accompanied by the staccato pecks of a typewriter, which will be music to some viewers’ ears. Robert Caro, the author at the center of the documentary, writes towering books of nonfiction — “The Power Broker,” his 1,280-page study of how Robert Moses literally shaped the city of New York, and “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” his four-volume biography that’s currently awaiting its fifth and final volume — but taps out these imperially detailed and captivating tomes on an old electric typewriter, X-ing out passages as he goes along, backing up each page with an extra sheet and a piece of carbon paper. You can’t get much more analog than that. As “Turn Every Page” reveals, Caro is still married to the methods of the last century; the digital revolution hasn’t touched him.

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On my bookshelves, there are two gaping holes, spaces for long-awaited entries in favorite literary series. One is for The Winds of Winter, the sixth volume in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. One is for the fifth and final installment in Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

If you offered me the chance to start reading one of those books tomorrow, I would take the Caro book without hesitation.

In the interim, Lizzie Gottlieb’s new documentary Turn Every Page succeeds in further whetting that appetite instead of eliciting the, “Dammit, stop doing other things and finish your book as I petulantly demand!” response that bubbles within me whenever Martin pops up as an executive producer on a show that has nothing to do with Westeros. Subtitled “The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb,...

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Sony Pictures Classics has taken the worldwide rights to Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb.

The Topic Studios doc, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb, who worked together on The Power Broker and Caro’s Lydon B. Johnson series.

According to the doc’s logline, the duo “have worked and fought together for 50 years, forging one of publishing’s most iconic and productive partnerships. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them.”

Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert’s daughter, directed the doc and produced it with Joanne Nerenberg and Jen Small.

“I was incredibly fortunate to discover the true meaning of collaboration while making this film,...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary “Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb.” The film premiered at Tribeca Festival as part of its spotlight documentary programming.

Robert Gottlieb’s daughter Lizzie Gottlieb directed “Turn Every Page,” which explores the legendary editor’s creative collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Caro. According to a press release, “They have worked and fought together for 50 years, forging one of publishing’s most iconic and productive partnerships. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, ‘The Years of Lyndon Johnson’; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them.”

“I was incredibly fortunate to discover the true meaning of collaboration while making this film, through witnessing the extraordinary partnership of Robert Caro and my father Robert Gottlieb, who have, individually and together, brought the world...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, on the heels of its June 12th world premiere in the Spotlight Documentary section of the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film’s subjects are Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Caro and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb, who have worked and fought together for 50 years, forging one of publishing’s most iconic and productive partnerships. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them.

Directed by Gottlieb’s daughter, Lizzie Gottlieb, Turn Every Page explores Caro and Robert Gottlieb’s remarkable creative collaboration, including the behind-the-scenes drama of the making of Caro’s The Power Broker and the Lbj series. With humor and insight, the unique double portrait reveals the work habits,...

Sony Pictures Classics has secured the worldwide rights to “Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb” out of Tribeca Film Festival. The film premiered Sunday as part of the festival’s Spotlight Documentary program.

Directed by Lizzie Gottlieb, the film chronicles the 50-year partnership between her father – the legendary editor of The New Yorker and publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf – and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert Caro. “Turn Every Page” examines the contours of their prolific partnership as Caro completes his fifth and final book in his “The Years of Lyndon Johnson” series, and Gottlieb prepares to edit it.

The film will also dive into their individual accomplishments and idiosyncrasies, from Caro’s famous writing process to Gottlieb’s storied career as a ballet critic and historian. According to Tribeca’s synopsis, it will also feature commentary from the likes of Conan O’Brien,...

Doc charts lifelong friendship between Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all worldwide rights from Cinetic Media to Tribeca selection Turn Every Page – The Adventures Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb.

Lizzie Gottlieb directed the film, which premiered in Spotlight Documentary over the weekend and screens again today (June 15) and on Saturday and Sunday. Gottlieb produced alongside Joanne Nerenberg and Jen Small and Topic Studios in association with Left/Right.

Turn Every Page centres on the lifelong friendship between Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Caro and legendary editor Robert Gottlieb. Now 86, Caro is working...

Exclusive: Maria Zuckerman is stepping down from her role as President of Topic Studios, where she has led the company’s film, streaming, television and podcast slate for over three years. Where the well-respected executive will land is not yet clear.

“Maria has a fantastic creative sensibility with a keen commercial sense to match,” said First Look Media CEO Michael Bloom, to whom Zuckerman reported. “Over the past three years, she and the studio team have accelerated Topic Studios’ growth into a world-class independent studio, attracting stellar talent, exciting voices, and spear-heading award-winning films, documentaries, series, and podcasts. We are grateful for all she did and wish her the very best in the future.”

In her time at Topic, Zuckerman overhauled the studio—greenlighting, producing and selling brand-defining, profitable titles; creating four distinct content verticals; establishing a Scripted TV department in LA; elevating the...

A standard hagiography that is far less interesting than the subjects it features, “Turn Every Page” aspires to none of the depth and complexity it champions throughout its too-long 112 minutes. A serviceable accounting of both a historian and a historically important editor, the documentary makes a strong case for the importance of both, yet in so doing, demonstrates that these men need no such help.

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Director Lizzie Gottlieb explains via voice-over early on that her father, writer/editor Robert Gottlieb, has been working with writer/historian/political scientist Robert Caro for the better part of 50 years.

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For a Robert Caro fan like myself, waiting for the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s fifth volume in his monumental Lbj biography (which launched in 1982) is a condition best described as managing intense anticipation for the continuation of our greatest living storyteller’s magnum opus, and an ever-sobering grasp of mortality: Caro is 86.

True, we can’t hurry excellence, especially one committed to pencils, a typewriter, and carbon paper. But if people like me are chomping, what must his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb be thinking? He just turned 91!

The book world’s most formidable duo for more than 50 years — since they first teamed on Caro’s reputation-making political biography “The Power Broker” — is the subject of “Turn Every Page,” one of the better documentaries about researching, writing, and reading, directed by Gottlieb’s daughter Lizzie.

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While we’re all inside marathon-watching television until our eyeballs bleed and the bedsores take hold, it’s fun to imagine what certain shows might look like in the time of the coronavirus. This week, Vulture did just that, polling 37 TV writers on what their characters in series new and old might do in a pandemic.

The lineup includes Tina Fay and Mike Schur, writers from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Riverdale,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Frasier,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “One Day at Time,” “You,” and many more of your at-home comfort favorites. The standout, however, and the one that feels most inherent to the series’ established DNA, is executive producer and showrunner David Mandel’s spec take on what the world of “Veep” might look like today, and how perennially incompetent V.P. turned Potus Selina Meyer would actually… pull it off and save the day?.

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The Pulitzer At 100 director and Oscar-winner for Strangers No More, Kirk Simon, died at the age of 63 on April 14 in New York.

For his most recent documentary, Kirk assembled a grand cast plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.

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On the heels of one of last year’s most entertaining films, Logan Lucky, Steven Soderbergh is gearing up for a big 2018. Not only is his HBO show Mosaic premiering in condensed form (though now available on a special app), he’ll also have his R-rated iPhone-shot feature Unsane debuting in March and he’s producing Ocean’s 8. Before those, however, we can enter part of his mind from last year as he’s once again provided his viewing log of everything he read and watched throughout the entire year.

Along with many cuts of Logan Lucky, Unsane, and Ocean’s 8, he was an avid Twin Peaks watcher, as well as a wealth of classics from Bresson, Resnais, Kubrick, Hitchcock, and more more. Check out the full log below via his site Extension765, as well as a new teaser for his latest show.

01/01 Passengers, The Birthday Party (’68), Keeping Up With...

January brings such touchstones as the Golden Globes and the Oscar nominations announcement, but it’s also been home for the last several years to the release of Steven Soderbergh’s master list of everything he consumed the previous year. The director has released his 2017 list of all the films, TV shows, plays, and books he watched and read, and it’s full of reliable and unexpected choices that prove Soderbergh’s taste has no boundaries.

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Soderbergh posted the full 2017 list on his Extension 765 blog, and it appears his year started with a very surprising choice: “Passengers,” the maligned science fiction romance starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The director decided to end his year like many of us did: Bingeing the six new episodes of “Black Mirror” on Netflix.

Of course Soderbergh kept up with this year’s awards contenders as well.

Reading Robert A. Caro’s magisterial and minutely drawn Lyndon B. Johnson biographies — four so far, and counting — it’s not difficult to see how captivating the Texas-born giant of politics would be as a screen character. A physically imposing tornado of purpose, means, crassness and cunning, Johnson would be a feast for any actor, any screenwriter, and any director who relishes serving slabs of grandiosity with a dash of folksy humor, all in the service of a story about one of the most momentous eras in American history. And Rob Reiner’s “Lbj” is an often pedestrian, sometimes punchy,...

The Pulitzer At 100 director Kirk Simon on the man Liev Schreiber portrayed in Tom McCarthy's Oscar-winning Spotlight: "You do not mess with Marty Baron!" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Kirk Simon has assembled a grand cast (Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, John Lithgow, Martin Scorsese, Yara Shahidi, and Liev Schreiber) plus authors, journalists, composers and photographers (including Paula Vogel, Toni Morrison, David Remnick, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Kushner, John Adams, Carl Bernstein, Nicholas Kristof, Jeffrey Eugenides, Thomas Friedman, Michael Cunningham, John Adams, Michael Chabon, Martin Baron, Junot Díaz, Ayad Akhtar, Robin Givhan, Sheri Fink, John Filo, Nick Ut, and Robert A. Caro) who have won Pulitzers, to create a vivid portrait of the importance of Joseph Pulitzer's brilliant idea to establish the School of Journalism at Columbia University and award prizes.

In The Pulitzer At 100, Helen Mirren has a Long Day's Journey Into Night with Eugene O'Neill Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze...

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Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.

Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...

New York City’s annual Doc NYC festival kicks off this week, including a full-to-bursting slate of some of this year’s most remarkable documentaries. If you’ve been looking to beef up on your documentary consumption, Doc NYC is the perfect chance to check out a wide variety of some of the year’s best fact-based features.

Ahead, we pick out 13 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including some awards contenders, a handful of buzzy debuts and a number of festival favorites. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.

“Cameraperson”

Kirsten Johnson’s “visual memoir” has already completed a starry trot around the festival circuit, kicking off with a lauded debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but it still demands to be seen by a wider audience. Johnson made her bones as a cinematographer on a number of well-known (and well-loved) documentaries,...

Everyone always talks about the first season of HBO’s True Detective as part of the McConaissance, marking star Matthew McConaughey’s ascension to the top of the A-list, so it’s easy to forget that the series also featured a stunning performance from co-lead Woody Harrelson. Luckily, enough people have their heads screwed on straight that Harrelson is still landing lead roles, and today brings news that the actor has boarded a project seemingly primed for awards attention: biopic Lbj.

Rob Reiner, the veteran helmer whose best films include Stand By Me, A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally…, is sitting behind the camera for the biopic, which has been gathering steam for years. Though it was previously thought that Reiner would be adapting biography Means of Ascent by Robert Caro into a script, the latest news has it that the helmer is working from Joey Hartstone’s screenplay Lbj,...

Among the handful of controversies that swirled around "Selma," was the depiction of President Lyndon B. Johnson. In the Ava DuVernay film, the former President isn't depicted as being the most supportive figure of the civil rights movement, though some suggested that Johnson was far more integral behind-the-scenes in working with Martin Luther King Jr. Now a new movie is brewing that will once again put Johnson on the big screen. Read More: The Essentials: The Films Of Rob Reiner (Before He Forgot How To Direct Movies) Showbiz 411 reports that Rob Reiner is finally mounting his long developing biopic about Lyndon B. Johnson with Woody Harrelson in the lead role. The director has been kicking the project around for years, and at one time was said to be using Robert Caro's biography "Means Of Ascent" as source material. But this project comes from the pen of Joey Hartstone,...

Over the past month, we polled 116 culture creators, mavens, and movers and shakers about the year in movies, TV, books, music, memes, and more. The wide-ranging results showed that the respondents were just as bedazzled by their cohorts’ output as we were—and, sometimes, just as rankled, too.Respondents: Christopher Abbott, Jack Antonoff, Patricia Arquette, Michael Barker, Robert Battle, Leslie Bibb, Michael Bierut, Lisa Birnbach, André Bishop, Kate Bosworth, Katrina Bowden, Lorraine Boyle, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Brownstein, Mika Brzezinski, Gemma Burgess, Jenna Busch, Robert Caro, Wyatt Cenac, Michael Chernus, Olivia Cheng, Anna Chlumsky, Ellar Coltrane, Ruth Connell, Brady Corbet, Katie Couric, Sloane Crosley, Tyne Daly, Adam David Thompson, Lea DeLaria, Jacopo Della Quercia, Laura Dern, Anna Deavere Smith, Eamon Dolan, Jane Dystel, Scott Eastwood, Mona Fastvold, Chaz Ebert, Louise Erdrich, Julia Fierro, Rupert Friend, Cary Fukunaga, Willie Geist, Betty Gilpin, Jon Glaser, Andy Grammer, Lev Grossman, Chin Han, Jon Hamm,...

Arts Spotlight: Given the chance, what would Philip Roth change about his classic Portnoy’s Complaint? Is there something more Patti Smith wanted to say in Just Kids? How did Robert Caro feel revisiting The Power Broker for the first time in forty years?Pen America has asked 75 of America’s greatest writers and artists to annotate a first edition of one of their classic works to be auctioned by Christie’s on December 2nd. Proceeds from First Editions/Second Thoughts will benefit the mission of Pen to promote freedom of creative expression worldwide.Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Stephen […]...

Gwyneth Paltrow has been stealing literary thunder at a public event. How are plainer writers to take it back?

What's a jobbing author supposed to do when overwhelmed at a library book signing by the fragrant Gwyneth Paltrow? After an attempt to claim that she was an up-from-size-zero Gwynnie herself had failed, novelist Christina Oxenberg knew what to do: first waft "stinky steak sandwich" fumes in her direction, then take to one's blog to let off steam.

The signing in question, the ninth East Hampton Library Annual Authors Night fundraiser, had been hailed as New York's literary event of the summer and was crammed full of the great and good from literary circles including Robert Caro, Pulitzer prize-winning biographer of Lyndon Johnson, heavyweight economist Joseph Stiglitz and acclaimed New York novelist Jay McInerney.

All were eclipsed by Gwyneth's glow, and her crowds of fans, as she signed copies of It's...

Primeridian Entertainment announced yesterday that the company’s principal Arcadiy Golubovich and partner Tim O’Hair will produce and finance a television project about the postwar rocket and space race between the United States and the Ussr. The company has hired acclaimed screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan) to write the pilot and series treatment for the show, which will span from the collapse of Nazi Germany through the 1960s.

Primeridian has in conjunction optioned the rights to Matthew Brzezinski’s award-winning account of the early space race, Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age. Numerous well-known experts from both countries are in discussions to consult on the project, including Sergei Khrushchev, the son of the Soviet Premier who led the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev.

The untitled series will examine the tense competition between...

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James Wolk has joined the cast of The Crazy Ones, the David E. Kelley-written comedy about father-daughter advertising agency starring Robin Williams. I'm sorry James Wolk fans. Maybe David E. Kelley is past his self-parody stage?

Deadline reports that Miranda Otto has joined the cast of Rake, the Fox drama pilot that also stars Greg Kinnear as a "frustratingly charming" criminal defense lawyer. You know what this means, we'll be watching looking for the chance to yell "She is no man!" at the TV.

Fox's comedy pilot about a group of New York detectives has just added Stephanie Beatriz, according to The Hollywood Reporter. You'll probably recognize Beatirz for her recent Modern Family role (where she played Gloria's sister). The pilot also stars Andy Samberg and comes from Parks & Recreation's producers. This just keeps sounding better.

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