The 4K UHD release's new extras include two American Cinematheque discussion panels: one featuring Anderson and actor John C. Reilly, and the other with Anderson alone. Previously released bonuses include director and actor commentary, 30 minutes of deleted scenes, Michael Penn's "Try" music video, and The John C. Reilly Files, featuring an additional 35 minutes of outtakes and extended sequences.
The script by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer finds Clooney - sorry, Jay Kelly - in a sort of midlife funk. He's 60, a universally beloved, deeply earnest movie hunk who has worked his way to the top and found, well, artifice. Kelly's careful facade - the stories he tells about himself - soon gets chipped away. On his way up the hills of Hollywood, he apparently left some personal carnage behind. Jay Kelly is about those who sacrificed to get him there.
Impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare meets free-spirited Agnes, and the pair, captivated by one another, strike up a torrid affair that leads to marriage and three children. Yet as Will pursues a budding theater career in far-away London, Agnes anchors the domestic sphere alone. When tragedy strikes, the couple's once-unshakable bond is tested, but their shared experience sets the stage for the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
On this week's show, Julia, Dana, Steve are off to the dystopian races with Edgar Wright's adaptation of The Running Man. Based on a novel by Stephen King and starring movie-star-to-be Glenn Powell, the film is chockfull of adrenaline and stylish wit but does it overcome its own authoritarian bleakness? They discuss with Slate's own Sam Adams. Next, they take a look at the oft-forgotten presidency and assassination of James A. Garfield in the Netflix limited series Death By Lightning, starring Michael Shannon, Matthew Macfadyen,
"The original film centered around matriarch Sybil Stone, played by Diane Keaton, who brings her chaotic family together for one last Christmas after she's been rediagnosed with breast cancer. At the end of the film, the family reunites the next year in her memory. Now Bezucha's doing the same, honoring Keaton after her October 11 death, though he'd been planning to write a second film anyway."
With the exception of Elf and A Christmas Story, Home Alone is the funniest Christmas movie ever. The 1990 comedy about a little boy who's mistakenly left home by himself while his family goes out of town for the holidays and has to fight off two bumbling robbers is a must watch this time of year. But this isn't just a regular old viewing of the classic film.
Train Dreams, Clint Bentley's glorious rendering of Denis Johnson's elliptical novella borders on visual poetry as it profoundly observes one man's existence. It's a transcendent experience that echoes the best elements of Terrence Malick's films, particularly in how a wandering camera caresses and gazes at the awesomeness, and danger, of nature. But Train Dreams never gets manacled by arc creative pretensions, resisting the urge to surrender to opaqueness (which doesn't always happen in Malick's films).
For the filmmaker Werner Herzog, 83, the truth that matters transcends mere fact. Starting in the 1990s, he began using a term he coined himself: ecstatic truth, which refers to poetic truth, emotional truth, a stylized truth that illuminates and moves. It's not about delivering fake news, but about delivering beautiful news, he vigorously clarified before the packed auditorium of New York's 92NY cultural center, where he was presenting his seventh book, The Future of Truth.
It is a surrealist film whose surrealism resides not merely in the bizarre parched landscape of the Sierra Morena mountain range with its bleached skulls, hanged bandits, crows and mysterious inns in which seductive encounters are to be had, but also simply in the bewildering juxtaposition of individual tales and anecdotes, stories which grow out of each other. The surrealist effect (and the comedy) is in the jolt from one micro-narrative to the other, and the realisation that the overall story is thwarted and undermined.
Outfits worn by actors including Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet are to go on display in London. The costumes will be available to view in a free exhibition in Bermondsey from Wednesday until 25 November when they will be sold off during auction. The outfit expected to fetch the highest price - an estimated 45,000, is an early 19th century suit Depp wore towards the end of the 1999 film Sleepy Hollow in his role as Ichabod Crane.
The hook for Turner: the Secret Sketchbooks is meant to be that many of the 37,000 sketches left behind by the great British painter JMW Turner have rarely been seen and never been filmed; therein may be hints at the nuances of his elusive character that his main oeuvre kept hidden. Equally remarkable, though, is the documentary's bold choice of contributors. As well as the art historians and present-day British artists who would dominate a standard art film, there are famous laymen, from the obviously somewhat qualified Timothy Spall played the artist in Mike Leigh's biographical film Mr Turner; Chris Packham is well placed to comment on Turner's reverence for the natural world to the more surprising hire of Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones.
I've been Ashley French for so long at home, but I really never changed publicly. Because everyone knows me as Ashley Tisdale. But I just felt like it was time for people to know me for me, and not just a character or a celebrity.
Happy Birthday: Claim what's rightfully yours, and move forward with grace, dignity and determination. Leave no box unchecked, and your life will be productive and help you shape your future to suit your needs. A passionate approach to life, love and your future will help you gain confidence and inspire you to push forward with enthusiasm. This year is one of review, revelation and reconstruction. Your numbers are 8, 10, 23, 31, 33, 40, 46.
Get ready to embark on a construction journey through one of cinema's most recognizable spacecraft with this 921-piece set. The build process reproduces the signature features of the Falcon in LEGO form: from the forward-facing cockpit that Han and Chewie piloted through asteroid fields and Imperial blockades, to the circular satellite dish resting atop the hull and quad laser cannons positioned for defense
The industry, born in Japan in the early `990s, now accounts for about 300 businesses in the country. Ideas ping-ponged about and the screenplay underwent various changes, all as a tumultuous period of isolation and upheaval spread out across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown. Not so ironically, a primary theme in Rental Family is our need to get out there, find authentic connections and form tight-knit communities beyond bloodlines.
The first images from the movie adaptation of The Legend of Zelda have been unveiled, showing actress Bo Bragason in the lead role, not trans star Hunter Schafer. A movie based on the popular video game series was first announced in 202,3 with fans quickly rushing to the Internet to fancast Euphoria star Schafer in the lead role. However, in July, Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, who is also producing the film, shared that Bragason, a British actress, had been cast as Zelda. Meanwhile, The Haunting Of Bly Manor 's Benjamin Ainsworth, also British, has been cast as Link.
And now we live in an era in which a chatbot can write a passable sonnet, it is perhaps surprising that there hasn't been a huge shift in how film-makers approach this particular corner of sci-fi. Gareth Edwards' The Creator (2023) is essentially the same story about AIs being the newly persecuted underclass as 1962's The Creation of the Humanoids, except that the former has an $80m VFX budget and robot monks while the latter has community-theatre production values.
Wicked: For Good is Ariana Grande's movie. And the film knows it, bending toward her every chance it gets. If the first Wicked centered Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), the shy outcast whose discovery of her magical powers and the sinister machinery behind the land of Oz led to her being branded the Wicked Witch of the West, Wicked: For Good focuses intently on her opposite number and best friend, Glinda (Grande), now positioned by the powers that be as the good (but secretly powerless) witch who
and we still get those periodic, surreal pronouncements given by the city's notables to the diverse folk of Oz, those non-player characters crowding the streets. But now the focus narrows to the main players and their explosive romantic crises, essentially through two interlocking love triangles: Glinda the Good, Elphaba the Wicked and the Wizard and Glinda, Elphaba and Prince Fiyero, the handsome young military officer with whom both witches are not so secretly in love, as well as possibly having feelings for each other.
In her 1970 essay "On the Morning After the Sixties," Joan Didion described her disillusionment with the idea that political protest could "affect man's fate in the slightest." It's an opinion James Blaine "J.B." Mooney might share, if he were paying attention. He's the lead character and hapless art thief in director Kelly Reichardt's new film The Mastermind, set in 1970.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.
In a sprawling promo/sketch posted by production company A24 and shared by Chalamet Saturday morning, the actor appears to link up with the brand's creative team via Zoom call to offer his insights on how to best promote the movie. Eighteen minutes of galaxy-brain satire follows. Words don't do the video justice (you can watch it for yourself here) but highlights included Chalamet screensharing custom assets he had his visual artist work on for six months,
"She's taught us so much already. Perspective is a huge thing. The smaller things in life are so much more precious. Our days are filled with lots of cuddles and laughter and love. It's just endless joy."
It is about Bezinovic's hometown of Rijeka, a port on the Adriatic which after the first world war was the site of one of the 20th century's strangest episodes, whose key moments the director stages through re-enactments with locals. The film is in effect a protofascist Passport to Pimlico. In 1918, this city, with its significant ethnic Italian population, was known as Fiume and was formerly ruled by the recently destroyed Habsburgs.
