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In one of the most prominent #MeToo cases in the French film industry, director Christophe Ruggia has been found guilty of the sexual assault of Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Adèle Haenel. Ruggia was given a two-year custodial sentence to be served under house arrest with an electronic bracelet and an additional two-year suspended sentence.

The prosecution had requested a five-year prison sentence with a three-year suspended sentence. Ruggia’s lawyers called the ruling “unjustified” and said they would appeal.

Haenel first went public with her sexual assault allegation against Ruggia in 2019 in an interview with French investigative website Mediapart. She accused the director of sexually assault and molestation over the course of three years, starting when she was 12 and he was 36, and Ruggia cast her in his 2001 feature The Devils. Haenel played the lead role in the film, a story of a brother and sister who turn to incest,...

Exclusive: Corbin Bernsen (Clipped) has wrapped production on Woodstockers, an indie TV pilot for which he wrote the original draft, in which he stars opposite Stephen Tobolowsky (Nobody Wants This).

The original logline for the dark generational comedy teased the story of “two guys who went to Woodstock in ’69 and never left,” with Bernsen and Tobolowsky respectively playing friends Lenny Baker and Cal Reddick. But per Bernsen, who relocated to the Hudson Vally six years ago, “Early on I had the good fortune to connect with Michael Lang, one of the original organizers of Woodstock, and quickly discovered a deeper story about the 60’s and a generation who espoused ‘Love and Peace,’ but failed in their early attempts to ‘change the world.’ At the same time, I witnessed a new generation dusting off the “hippie” mantra and giving it their own spin.”

Woodstockers‘ cast also includes Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey...

Nicole Kidman has seen the height of fame and success. She has worked with some of the best and become one of the best, spending years to create the reputation she enjoys today. With this in mind, one would assume that she has done it all and regrets very few. However, what about the opportunities she let pass her by?

Nicole Kidman in Babygirl | Credit: A24

It would seem that when Kidman was a kid herself, she ended up letting go of a role. This would end up being one of the biggest regrets of her career because of who was directing the project.

Nicole Kidman was a very big theater buff

With the release of her recent film, Babygirl, Nicole Kidman gave an interview with W Magazine. Here, she was asked when she decided to become an actress and if she ever went into theater as a child. The actress revealed that she was,...

Christian Bale's early career was charmed with breakout opportunities, in Empire of the Sun, Newsies, The Portrait of a Lady, and Little Women. However, he became a bankable actor in American Psycho, the film that introduced one of cinema's most iconic sociopaths.

American Psycho joins Hulu's streaming offerings this January. This 2000 psychological horror showcased the full spectrum of Christian Bale's acting ability. In American Psycho, Bale leaned heavily on method acting, so much so that co-star Chloë Sevigny had difficulty working with him during filming. "It was a really challenging dynamic for me, but I don't think that I thought he was bad," she recently told Variety. "I was just kind of confused, like, 'Why aren't you being social?' I wasn't even that aware of what the Method thing was. I never had any formal training; I think I was just kind of 'fake it until you make it.

Frigid take: Nicole Kidman is one of the most gifted and flat-out watchable movie stars working today. Now in the 41st year of her film acting career, she has been nominated for five Oscars (with a Best Actress win for "The Hours"), and a staggering 15 Screen Actors Awards (with one win in 2017 for "Big Little Lies"). She feels perfectly at home in any genre, and, at 57 years old, is more prolific than ever thanks to her gleeful embrace of television films and miniseries. Kidman loves to work as much as we love watching her work!

For evidence of her versatility, you can zoom in on pretty much any four-year chunk of her career and be wowed. Take 1995 - 1999 for instance: she went from Caped Crusader love interest in "Batman Forever" to Femme Fatale weather woman in "To Die For" to doomed seeker in the costume drama "The Portrait of a Lady...

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 was 1989 when Nicole Kidman first met Tom Cruise on a beach in Florida when her career started to take off. She was promoting her movie Dead Calm when she caught the attention of screenwriter Robert Towne.

It was Towne who first showed her film to Cruise. And both he and Tom Cruise were so impressed by her performance, and rightfully so, that they went on to recruit her as the leading lady opposite the Top Gun star in Days of Thunder.

Nicole Kidman in Babygirl | Credit: A24

This began a whirlwind romance between the co-stars, and they married each other a year later in 1990, a few months after Cruise’s divorce was finalized with his first wife Mimi Rogers. However, it was during this time that Nicole Kidman almost made the worst mistake of her life, which would continue to haunt her for the rest of her life.

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Nicole Kidman has twice worked with Jane Campion, on 1996’s “Portrait of a Lady” and on the 2017 series “Top of the Lake: China Girl,” but Kidman revealed a big regret in turning down the opportunity to work with the auteur when Kidman was just a teenager.

Speaking to W Magazine, the actress revealed that Campion first tried to cast a 13-year-old Kidman while Kidman was in weekend drama school doing a production of Tennessee Williams’ play “Sweet Bird of Youth.”

“I was playing the Princess…and I had no understanding of what the actual text meant,” Kidman said. “The director Jane Campion came and sat in the back of that little theater and then cast me in one of her student films. But I didn’t do it — I didn’t want to wear a shower cap in the film and not look pretty.”

She added, “[It is a] huge regret. What a big regret!

Viggo Mortensen is a three-time Oscar nominated performer who has been very picky with his projects, appearing only in a handful of movies in a 30-plus year career. But how many of his titles hold up as classics? Let’s take a look back at 12 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1958 in New York City, Mortensen made his big screen debut with a brief performance as an Amish farmer in “Witness” (1985). Supporting roles in “Carlito’s Way” (1993), “Crimson Tide” (1995), “G.I. Jane” (1997) and many others quickly followed. He achieved stardom in middle age playing the warrior Aragorn in Peter Jackson‘s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, released in 2001, 2002 and 2003. His first Oscar bid as Best Actor came shortly thereafter for David Cronenberg‘s thriller “Eastern Promises” (2007), followed by nominations for “Captain Fantastic” (2016) and the Best Picture-winning “Green Book” (2018).

In addition to his Oscar bids, Mortensen earned Golden Globe,...

Plot: Rico fears that werewolves lurk in the nearby forest, but the danger could all be in his head.

Review: After being absent from the screen for over twenty years, Shelley Duvall made her return to acting with director Scott Goldberg’s horror film The Forest Hills – and the movie has gotten a good amount of attention for having Duvall in the cast. She was a Texas college student when she basically just fell into an acting career. She happened to meet director Robert Altman at a party while he was in Texas shooting his 1970 movie Brewster McCloud. Intrigued by her “upbeat presence and unique physical appearance,” the director and crew members talked Duvall into taking a role in the film. Suddenly she was an actress who started racking up credits: Nashville, Annie Hall, The Shining, Popeye, Time Bandits, Roxanne, The Portrait of a Lady, and fifty more, including hosting her own TV show,...

It is no secret that men dominate most industries, especially the film industry. But after a summer of Greta Gerwig 's record breaking 'Barbie', here are 24 female filmmakers that have broken the mold and succeeded in an industry of men. Lina Wertmüller Lina Wertmüller was born in Italy in 1928. She studied theater at the Faculty of Arts in Rome. At the very beginning of her career, she became close to the highly acclaimed filmmaker Federico Fellini and was his assistant on ‘8 ½’ (1963). ‘The Basilisks’ (1961) was her first feature and she made her mark with the clandestine love affair tale of ‘The Seduction of Mimi’ (1972). Not long after, her most acclaimed work, ‘Seven Beauties’ (1975), premiered. The film follows the life of a not very successful crook who essentially makes his living out of "protecting" his seven sisters, who is arrested for murder and ends up in the army...

Fans of the late Shelley Duvall will be able to see her final role in the new indie horror film, The Forest Hills, coming out in October. People reported the actress stars as Mama alongside Edward Furlong, known for his work in the Terminator movie franchise, and Chiko Mendez. The movie was written and directed by Scott Goldberg, and a trailer for it recently dropped on YouTube.

The Forest Hills focuses on the character of Rico (Chiko Mendez), the son of Duvalls character, who spirals into madness. The movie, set in the Catskill Mountains, shows Rico dealing with demons like nightmares of becoming a werewolf, while at the same time dealing with his turbulent relationship with his mother.

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Greta Gerwig's Barbie hasn't just become culturally significant for young girls around the world; it's also championed as a major step forward for female filmmakers, says acclaimed director Jane Campion. Barbie, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, gave the iconic Mattel doll a wholly original and hilarious story, where Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) must travel from Barbieland to the real world to confront the titular characters newfound fear of death. As well as upsetting far right-wing audiences over its supposed themes of 'man-hating,' the movie made a significant dent in 2023's box office, grossing well over $1 billion.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Jane Campion said that Gerwig's achievement with Barbie marks a major step forward for female filmmakers. She believes Gerwig's proven success in telling an original story with Barbie means more female directors will be "trusted with money" without being confined to the narrative...

Jane Campion will receive the Pardo d’Onore Manor Award for lifetime achievement at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Friday evening. But the New Zealand director also took time to talk to members of the press about a broad range of topics, including the success of Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie, the history of male dominance in Hollywood and her “very troubled” relationship with her own movies.

The New Zealand filmmaker called Gerwig “doing the Barbie story … fantastic. Because for once, we’ve got a film that is not Marvel hero characters, but a sort of humorous and very creative and funny take on the Barbie mental story.”

Added Campion: “She’s the first woman that has really made the historical bundle out of it, she got into the billions. It’s fantastic. It just means that women [will] be trusted with money, finally.”

Asked why some of her films,...

Jane Campion thought she had finished making films when she completed the Oscar-winning Power of the Dog; she was fixed on the next thing, which was to run a pop-up school for aspiring filmmakers in her native New Zealand.

“It was such a thrill to have a late-career success and to feel that at the end of it that I could do anything I wanted – and the idea of giving back was really fun,” she said yesterday at the Locarno Film Festival.

“Then I just wanted to do more yoga, but that didn’t really happen, even though I had the time. And now I’ve noticed some more ideas coming up. Really surprising ones I can’t really share yet. I think I’m in a good place, to be honest. I think I’m very lucky because I know there will be money for me. People in the industry believe,...

My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.In a 2022 interview with Vulture, Golden Raspberries co-founder Maureen Murphy addressed one of the odious organization’s most...

Shelley Duvall's legacy shines in Time Bandits, offering physical comedy alongside Michael Palin in standout performances. The film's episodic structure allows for Duvall's dual role to add humor and heart to an enduring love story. Duvall's comedic timing and expressive face elevate her role in the absurd-yet-epic struggle between good and evil.

The late Shelley Duvall, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 75, was known for her sunny and warm onscreen persona, beginning with her early work for director Robert Altman. It helped her Wendy Torrance become a memorable heroine in the classic adaptation of The Shining, and let her steal the show in movies like Roxanne and The Portrait of a Lady. It also grounded the ethos of her classic TV series Faerie Tale Theatre, which she executive produced and hosted, and which reflected her spirit even when she wasn't onscreen. With those credentials, it's...

The ’70s were an important period for Hollywood, which saw the rise of many auteurs, who redefined the medium, and Hollywood giants like Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, etc. Shelley Duvall was one of the prominent names that garnered traction during this period following the actor’s appearance in her frequent collaborator Robert Altman’s Nashville.

However, her biggest challenge arrived when she joined forces with auteur Stanley Kubrick, most notable for his knack for perfection, which ended up being extremely excruciating for Duvall.

Shelley Duvall’s Excruciating Experience in The Shining Shelley Duvall in The Shining | Warner Bros.

When it comes to adaptations of acclaimed novels, straying away from the source material is often a recipe for disaster. However, this doesn’t apply to Stanley Kubrick, as despite not sticking to the original book by Stephen King, 1980’s The Shining became a major critical hit, which saw Duvell delivering an iconic performance.

Shelley Duvall, who passed away on July 11 at 75, was a film icon in the ’70s and ’80s.

As previously reported on Monsters and Critics, Duvall died in her sleep due to complications from diabetes.

She starred alongside Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Robin Williams in Popeye and appeared in several acclaimed films directed by Robert Altman, including 3 Women and Nashville.

Duvall received several accolades during her Hollywood career, including a Cannes Film Festival Award.

She also received a Peabody Award and nominations for a British Academy Film Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Duvall’s personal life has been subject to speculation after her role in The Shining and her disappearance from Hollywood.

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Shelley Duvall, the beloved actress renowned for her roles in iconic films such as The Shining, Annie Hall, and Nashville, has passed away at 75.

Her longtime partner, Dan Gilroy, confirmed the news with The Hollywood Reporter.

He revealed her cause of death, stating that she died peacefully in her sleep at her home in Blanco, Texas, due to complications from diabetes.

In November 2016, Duvall made headlines with a disheveled appearance on an episode of the syndicated talk show Dr. Phil, where she opened up about her struggles with mental illness.

During the interview, she spoke about receiving messages from a “shapeshifting” Robin Williams after his death and mentioned malevolent forces she believed were out to harm her.

Shelley Duvall was born on July 7, 1949, in Houston, Texas, to Bobbie Ruth Crawford and lawyer Robert Richardson “Bobby” Duvall, not to be confused with the actor Robert Duvall.

Shelly Duvall was known for...

A true icon and legend in the world of entertainment, actress Shelley Duvall has passed away at the age of 75, her longtime partner Dan Gilroy tells The Hollywood Reporter this morning.

“Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas.”

“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said in a statement shared by the website.

Shelley Duvall is of course known here in the horror world for her all-time-great performance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, playing opposite Jack Nicholson as Wendy Torrance.

Duvall got her start in the 1970s working with director Robert Altman, making her debut in the 1970 film Brewster McCloud. She went on to work with Altman on McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), Nashville (1975) and 3 Women (1977), as well as Woody Allen in...

We have some very sad news to share today, as The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Shelley Duvall, best known for playing Wendy Torrance in the 1980 horror classic The Shining and Olive Oyl in the 1980 live-action version of Popeye, has passed away at the age of 75. According to Dan Gilroy, her life partner since 1989, died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas. Gilroy said, “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley.“

Born in Fort Worth, Texas on July 7, 1949, Duvall was a Texas college student when she basically just fell into an acting career. She happened to meet director Robert Altman at a party while he was in Texas shooting his 1970 movie Brewster McCloud. Intrigued by her “upbeat presence and unique physical appearance”, the director and crew members talked Duvall...

Shelley Duvall, the big-eyed, waifish performer who won the Cannes actress award for Robert Altman’s “3 Women” and endured Stanley Kubrick’s intense directing techniques to star in “The Shining,” died Thursday in Blanco, Texas, Variety confirmed with her partner Dan Gilroy. She was 75.

Duvall was known for working with director Altman, who cast her in “Brewster McCloud” as her first screen role. She went on to appear in his films “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” and “Thieves Like Us” before starring as part of the ensemble cast of “Nashville” in 1975. After gaining attention in “Nashville,” Altman cast her in “Buffalo Bill and the Indians,” then gave her unusual screen presence a chance to shine in “3 Women,” for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress as well as a BAFTA nomination.

Also in 1977, Duvall played a Rolling Stone journalist in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,...

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Though many thought Nicole Kidman should have been welcomed into the Academy's good graces with 1995's To Die For, it would take six years until that early promise materialized in the actress' first Oscar nomination. Curiously, the path to such success went through a return to down under cinema that started to take shape with The Portrait of a Lady by kiwi auteur Jane Campion. This was also when Kidman began to challenge herself conspicuously by collaborating with true visionaries, picking projects based on who was behind the camera. That line of thinking took the actress into the dark reveries of Kubrick's swan song and, ultimately, the musical riot of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, which started shooting shortly after Eyes Wide Shut hit theaters.

As Satine, the cabaret's star performer, Nicole Kidman is at the height of her powers, delivering a feat of such off-the-charts...

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Madame Merle: I'd give a good deal to be your age again; to have my life before me.

Isabel Archer: Your life is before you yet.

This article was originally intended to grace our "How Had I Never Seen?" series. Jane Campion's The Portrait  of a Lady (1996) has stubbornly remained on my "to see" list for nearly twenty years. I let it sit there, as a shamefully passive intent, not unlike the way Isabel Archer approached her own 'to experience' lists past the age of 24. That's when she marries Mr Osmond in Henry James "The Portrait of a Lady" and her idealism and ambition are utterly flatted by the limits of her imagination, courage, and self-possession. The novel first appeared in serialized form in 1880 and for the following century and a half, Isabel Archer has confounded and/or fascinated readers; Fellow artists, too, like auteur...

“I think it was Andy Warhol who said, “Make art and let others decide whether it is good or bad. But while they are deciding, make some more”.

That was the line with which Nicole Kidman ended her 15-minute acceptance speech after Meryl Streep had presented her with the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award.

That is something that seems entirely appropriate for Kidman, who doesn’t seem to stop “making art,” taking risks at every turn, telling stories through her power not just as an actor, but also a producer dedicated to bringing those stories to screens big and small. At 56, she is on the younger side of the previous 48 recipients of this very high honor, the first Australian to receive it. And someone very much in the middle of creating those life achievements that led to last night’s honor at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where a large...

“Film is forever.”

Nicole Kidman, the 49th recipient of the prestigious AFI Life Achievement Award, made her acceptance speech on the Dolby Theatre stage on Saturday, April 27 about the filmmakers who’ve shaped her career — and her love for movies and storytelling.

The Academy Award-winning actress was joined by presenters including her “Big Little Lies” co-stars Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep, a past AFI recipient who handed Kidman the honors at the night’s end. “Can I just say, Meryl Streep? I just loved you. I always loved you. I don’t know what it is. You’re a beacon of excellence and warmth and generosity, and you’ve been my guiding light. To see this from you, you have no idea. My husband can attest, my parents can attest, it’s always been you, and no one can touch you.”

Kidman’s opening remarks set the tone for a...

Four decades after her feature debut in 1983’s BMX Bandits, Oscar and two-time Emmy winner Nicole Kidman is set to receive a history-making honor: the AFI Life Achievement Award, which for the first time in 49 years will go to an Australian performer. But the (American-born) Kidman considers herself a part of world cinema, having worked with such renowned filmmakers as Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut), Jane Campion (The Portrait of a Lady), Park Chan-wook (Stoker), Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled), Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) and Jonathan Glazer (Birth). The actress and producer reflects on how the honor represents both a robust career and a life well traveled.

You’ve received many awards throughout your career. What is so special about this honor?

The list of honorees that have come before me. I’m floored, actually, because there are so few, and there are no Australians. I was overwhelmed by it.

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Jane Campion will be honored this year by the Locarno Film Festival, which will present the New Zealand director its Pardo d’Onore Manor Award for lifetime achievement.

Campion will receive the tribute at the 77th edition of the Swiss festival on Friday, Aug. 16.

Locarno will also screen two of Campion’s best-known films selected by the director herself for the tribute: Her 1990 feature An Angel at My Table and her 1993 Palme d’Or winning global breakout The Piano. The latter will be given a grand screening in a new 4K restoration at Locarno’s legendary Piazza Grande on the night of her award. Campion will also take part in a panel conversation at the festival on Saturday, August 17.

The Locarno Film Festival’s Pardo d’Onore Manor honor has previously been awarded to such filmmakers as Agnès Varda, Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Kelly Reichardt, and,...

This article contains major spoilers for "Drive-Away Dolls."

Genre movies have a well-earned reputation for being exploitative. Since the dawn of the "B" movie, genre films have been marketed with their exploitation elements up front, the better to entice people to stay in the theater or attend in the first place.

The more genre movies have been reappraised, studied, and eventually raised to the level of revered classics themselves, the more audiences and academics have realized that these films serve numerous important causes within the culture. They often provide the discussion of and investigation into thorny social and political issues that a straightforward drama would have trouble dealing with. They also can be utilized as a powerfully rich tool for normalization, where the marginalized can be the protagonists without having to justify or apologize for themselves, thereby bringing that group closer to the majority.

It's in that spirit that Tricia Cooke...

Daryl McCormack as Colman and Ruth Wilson as Lorna in ‘The Woman in the Wall’ (Photo Credit: Chris Barr / BBC / Showtime)

Paramount+’s January 2024 lineup includes the series premiere of Sexy Beast, a prequel to the critically acclaimed, award-winning drama released in 2000 and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone. The streaming service’s also kicking off the new year with the debut of The Woman in the Wall, a six-episode series starring Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) and Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters).

June Carter Cash is the focus of June, a feature-length documentary directed by Emmy Award-winner Kristen Vaurio (Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief) arriving on January 16. January 2024 also sees the return of SkyMed, a medical drama set in the world of medics and pilots who fly air ambulances in Canada, for its second season.

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Originally scheduled for last June, the AFI Gala celebrating Nicole Kidman will now take place on April 27, 2024, according to an announcement by the American Film Institute.

The annual gala, now in its 49th edition, was postponed due to the WGA writer’s strike, which was resolved in September after five months. The actor’s strike also ended last week, clearing the way for this rescheduled event.

“Both a powerhouse performer, spellbinding movie star and accomplished producer, Nicole Kidman has captured the imaginations of audiences throughout her prolific career, delivering complex and versatile performances onscreen,” said the AFI in an official statement.

Kidman, 56, a five-time Oscar nominee (she won Best Actress for 2002’s “The Hours”), is the first Australian to receive the AFI honor. Recent honorees have included Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg, Jane Fonda and Julie Andrews.

Her many credits in film, television, and theater have included “Dead Calm,...

Jane Campion will be honored with Next Generation Indie Film’s 2023 Luminary Award. The director will accept the award at the third annual gala, which will take place on Oct. 29 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles.

Next Generation Indie Film Awards is a non-profit organization for independent authors and publishers. It bestows the Luminary Award on a “transformative figure in the industry, an artist whose work and journey are a North Star to the filmmaking community, especially at a time when art and inspiration are much-needed.” Rian Jonhson was the inaugural recipient of the Luminary Award in 2022.

Campion’s most recent film, 2021’s “The Power of the Dog,” a searing Western drama about a hardened rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) who torments his brother’s wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), was regarded as one of the best of the year and received 12 Oscar nominations. Campion won the Academy Award for best director,...

Music plays a central role in Wolf Like Me, with the show's music supervisor Andrew Kotatko collaborating closely with director Abe Forsythe to create a unique soundtrack. Kotatko's background as a director informs his approach to music supervision, as he focuses on the tone and subtext of the music rather than just finding cool tunes. Abe Forsythe and Kotatko have a strong working relationship and share a deep understanding of the connection between music and character in the show, with some songs even being integrated into the narrative.

The compelling Peacock dramedy Wolf Like Me is back for season 2. Isla Fisher and Josh Gad return as Mary and Gary, and Fisher’s secret—that she is a werewolf—is closer than ever to being discovered. Wolf Like Me continues to be written and directed entirely by Abe Forsythe, the Australian filmmaker known in part for his 2019 zombie film Little Monsters.

Shelley Duvall was a Texas college student when she basically just fell into an acting career. She happened to meet director Robert Altman at a party while he was in Texas shooting his movie Brewster McCloud. Intrigued by her “upbeat presence and unique physical appearance”, the director and crew members talked Duvall into taking a role in the film. Suddenly she was an actress who started racking up credits: Nashville, Annie Hall, The Shining, Popeye, Time Bandits, Roxanne, The Portrait of a Lady, and fifty more, including hosting her own TV show, Faerie Tale Theatre. She retired from acting over twenty years ago (although she recently filmed a role in the horror movie The Forest Hills)… and in recent years, she has been in the news for her struggles with mental illness. Now we’ve learned that the head of the online Shelley Duvall fan club that can be found on the @shelleyduvallxo Instagram,...

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” was Céline Sciamma’s big breakout moment, but the French director was clearly a major talent in the making from the very start of her career.

In 2007, the then 29-year-old filmmaker premiered her first feature at Cannes Film Festival, after writing the movie’s script during her final year at the prestigious film school La Fémis. The story of three teen girls awakening to their sexualities during a single summer, “Water Lillies” featured Sciamma’s future romantic partner and collaborator Adèle Haenel, and established the type of female-focused and queer stories she would spend her entire career bringing to the screen.

Following the positive reception of “Water Lillies,” Sciamma chased it with 2011’s “Tomboy,” a sharply observed coming-of-age about a 10-year-old exploring their gender identity. 2014’s “Girlhood,” about four Black teen girls living in Paris, brought Sciamma further attention, thanks to a much talked...

In 2022, Jane Campion made history as the first female director to be nominated for Best Director twice. And then, for “The Power of Dog,” she followed through and won, becoming the third female director to take home the top prize.

The win was a triumphant and long overdue achievement for Campion, who has consistently been one of the best directors actively working since her 1989 feature debut “Sweetie.” The black comedy about a dysfunctional family marked the New Zealand-born director as a great talent immediately, entering the Cannes Film Festival and taking home an Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film shortly afterwards. Just a year later, Campion released her first masterpiece: the Janet Frame biopic, “An Angel at My Table.”

From there, her 1993 feature “The Piano” netted Campion her first Best Director nomination, while efforts like “The Portrait of a Lady,” “Holy Smoke,” “In the Cut,” and “Bright Star” received acclaim.

These days Jane Campion – Palme d’Or and Oscar-winning film director – is celebrated for a vein of heartfelt cinema that is aching and quirky, rather than gushing. She’s also an intelligent and determined female pioneer who has had to struggle for her present standing in a male-dominated industry.

The Sydney Film Festival this week is showcasing and contextualizing her body of work. Its screening program includes all nine of her feature works, from “Two Friends” to “The Power of the Dog,” and a selection of her short films.

“For our 70th edition, we wanted to present a retrospective commensurate with the milestone, reflecting the audacious and boundary pushing filmmaking synonymous with our festival and region. There was no one more appropriate than Jane Campion,” said Sff director Nashen Moodley in notes ahead of the event.

On Saturday, the festival screened Julie Bertucelli’s 2022 documentary “Jane Campion, the Cinema Woman...

The American Psycho episode of Wtf Happened to This Adaptation? was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian. Here is the text of Hatfield’s script:

Horror can take many forms and its high time we talked about something firmly in the psychological realm. Author Brett Easton Ellis is known to broach subjects that are uncomfortable or outright horrifying, but it is with his 3rd book that he went for the throat so to speak and tackle a more traditional genre topic in a thoroughly nontraditional way. American Psycho was quite controversial upon its release in 1991 and the film based on it in 2000 (watch it Here) was divisive then and it’s divisive now.

Take a look at the craftsmanship on that card as we find out what the f*ck happened to this adaptation.

Portrait of a Lady: Pallaoro Quietly Searches for Grace in Profound Reconciliation

There’s a relentless, nearly crushing sense of heartache girding Andrea Pallaoro’s Monica, his second film in a thematic trilogy centered on a titular woman grappling with less than ideal circumstances. It follows 2017’s Hannah, which featured a sublime Charlotte Rampling as a woman left to her own devices after her husband is imprisoned. Whereas that film was all about the essence of an absence, Pallaoro’s followup is concerned with the opposite paradigm shift through an unexpected return.

Trace Lysette leads a quiet narrative of barely whispered remonstrances in a performance balanced on intricate interiority.…...

French actress Adèle Haenel, the star of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, has announced her retirement from the movie business, saying the complacency and indifference of the French industry to the #MeToo movement is behind her decision.

In a letter published on media news site Télérama on Tuesday, Haenel she wanted to use the public declaration of her retirement from the film business as a way to call out the “general complacency” within the French industry “vis-à-vis sexual aggressors.”

Despite several high-profile examples of sexual abuse and misconduct within the French film industry, many of which came to light in the wake of the #MeToo movement, Haenel says the powers that be have chosen to ignore and ostracize women who have come forward to sound the alarm. “They join hands [to protect] the [Gerard] Depardieus, the [Roman] Polanskis, the [Dominique] Boutonnats,” she writes in her Télérama letter, referencing three of the most prominent French film figures accused of abuse.

Certain James Bond fans have clamored for a third Timothy Dalton Bond movie over the years, but not getting one was actually good for the 007 franchise. Dalton assumed the mantle of Ian Fleming's super spy in The Living Daylights in 1987 and Licence to Kill in 1989, representing a darker, more mercurial Bond in the '80s era of excess. Yet after just two movies Dalton was gone, joining George Lazenby as one of the two most short-lived Bonds. It would be six years before 007 was back on the big screen with Pierce Brosnan in 1995's GoldenEye, which resurrected the IP and made him a household name.

To this day, Dalton's Bond stands apart from other actors who have received their 007 status for being brooding and fueled by vengeance. Under John Glen's direction, his movies are stripped-down, action-packed character studies that tend to be divisive; their tone...

Exclusive: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming feature Face, based on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Square Foot of Skin.

The film penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, both comedic and dramatic, which look at women’s faces getting older, and why that makes people angry. While much of society appears to assume that women’s faces are somehow broken and need to be fixed, Face reveals some of the many ways in which women, and those around them, allow this idea to take root at all.

Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her need to use her face for her job and the pressure to not move it at all, with Moss as Mrs. Foster, a kindergarten teacher whose young students remind her of the magical functionality of the face.

Three-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte and fellow Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey (who received her nomination for The Portrait of a Lady) have signed on to star in the psychological thriller Eugene the Marine for director Hank Bedford.

Scripted by Bedford and Cesare Gagliardoni, Eugene the Marine will tell the story of

Gene, a widower and former Marine who finds his highly regimented life deteriorating after his son begins pressuring him to sell his longtime home. When a mysteriously familiar woman appears in his life, Gene starts to loosen up, until his nightmares and reality begin to blur.

Nolte is playing Gene, while Hershey takes on the role of Frances, that “mysteriously familiar woman”. The synopsis for the film on IMDb takes the story even further into thriller territory, saying that “a series of gruesome murders begin targeting the people around” Gene.

Deadline reports that Eugene the Marine is being produced by Stephen Vincent,...

Exclusive: Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey (The Portrait Of A Lady) is attached to join Nick Nolte in Hank Bedford’s feature Eugene The Marine.

Nolte will play Gene, a former marine and widower who finds his highly regimented life deteriorating after his son begins pressuring him to sell his longtime home. Hershey, well known for her work in movies including Hannah and Her Sisters, Beaches, The Portrait of a Lady and Black Swan, will play Frances, a mysteriously familiar woman who sparks a new chapter in his life.

Stephen Vincent will produce. Matthew Shreder of Concourse Media is executive-producing and selling during the TIFF market.

Hank Bedford will direct the script he co-wrote with Cesare Gagliardoni. Bedford’s 2015 feature debut, Dixieland, starred Riley Keough and Faith Hill and was released by IFC Films.

Emmy and Golden Globe winner Hershey has recently starred in hit horror franchise Insidious and TV series Paradise Lost,...

Petite Maman Review — Petite Maman (2021) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Celine Sciamma and starring Josephine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stephane Varupenne, Margot Abascal, Flores Cardo, Josee Schuller, Guylene Pean and Masoud Tosifyan. French director Celine Sciamma is most noted for the remarkable 2019 film, Portrait of a Lady on [...]

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Jane Campion has always been a film artist who’s gone her own way. With a background in art, Campion soon came to realize that she could better express herself through the medium of film and created a series of short films, one of which, “Peel,” won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. In 1989, she segued into feature film direction with “Sweetie,” the first of eight features that she would direct over the next 32 years. Scroll down to see all eight Jane Campion movies ranked from worst to best.

She explored female sexuality in “In the Cut,” “Holy Smoke!,” “Portrait of a Lady” and, most famously in “The Piano,” where Holly Hunter’s character Ada consents to an erotic affair with a frontiersman (Harvey Keitel) which allows her to fulfill her long-repressed sexual desires. (That’s also a theme of Campion’s acclaimed 2013 TV miniseries “Top of the Lake.

Jane Campion has always been a film artist who’s gone her own way. With a background in art, Campion soon came to realize that she could better express herself through the medium of film and created a series of short films, one of which, “Peel,” won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. In 1989, she segued into feature film direction with “Sweetie,” the first of eight features that she would direct over the next 32 years. Scroll through our gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see all eight Jane Campion movies ranked from worst to best.

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She explored female sexuality in “In the Cut,” “Holy Smoke!,” “Portrait of a Lady” and, most famously in “The Piano,” where Holly Hunter‘s character Ada consents to an erotic affair with a...

We’re finally seeing the “Power” of the “House of Gucci.”

“The Power of the Dog” director Jane Campion revealed who she’s rooting for the Best Actress category at the Oscars — plus who she wishes was included. Campion told The Hollywood Reporter that she’s surprised Lady Gaga was snubbed by the Academy.

“One of the actors that I thought — in the lead female actress category — who I missed being there was Lady Gaga. I thought she was extraordinary,” Campion said.

She also cited Stewart’s performance in “Spencer,” saying it was “great” to see Stewart recognized for the portrayal of Princess Diana.

“I thought she was amazing,” Campion said. “I love that film. She was incredible.”

And Campion’s longtime friend Nicole Kidman, who starred in her 1996 film, “The Portrait of a Lady,” is also a personal frontrunner for the director.

“I’ve known her since she was 14,” Campion added.

Screen Media has acquired North American rights to “9 Bullets,” a new crime thriller with “Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey and “Avatar’s” Sam Worthington. The studio is planning a day-and-date release in April.

“9 Bullets” centers on a showgirl (Headey), who risks everything when she rescues a young boy after his family is murdered by her ex-boyfriend, who also happens to be the local crime-boss (Worthington). Now on the run, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy safely to his uncle in South Dakota.

The film is directed and written by Gigi Gaston (“Rip it Off”) and also stars Dean Scott Vasquez (“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”), Cam Gigandet (“The Magnificent Seven”), La La Anthony (“Power”), Martin Sensmeier (“Westworld”) and Oscar-nominee Barbara Hershey (“The Portrait of a Lady”). Foresight Unlimited, Screen Media’s international sales division, is handling foreign sales for the picture and has successfully closed deals in many key international territories.