The 70th Cannes Film Festival took place May 17th through the 28th this year on the Boulevard de la Croisette in Cannes, France. Pedro Almodóvar was the head judge along with four male and four female judges that included Jessica Chastain, Will Smith, Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, Paolo Sorrentino, Park Chan-wook, Agnès Jaoui, Maren Ade and…
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“I’m calling to procure a hasty abortion.” -Ellen Page in 'Juno' When Juno came out in 2007 it was one of the first films to capture the millennial zeitgeist and to treat the subject of teen pregnancy with a frankness and humor that opened an important discussion for audiences across America. Fast forward ten years and…
Sunday, February 26th marked the 89th Academy Awards. First time host Jimmy Kimmel began his opening monologue with a couple choice remarks to Trump and berated him for blasting Meryl Streep on Twitter giving Streep a standing ovation. After the Oscars boycott in 2016 for the lack of racial diversity, this year was filled with…
Jackie, released in select films this past weekend, has caught the media's attention for its stylistic spin on a true story surrounding the enigma that has been Jackie Onassis Kennedy, written off by many as merely an interesting figure for a fashion plate or coffee book table. Not to be rash, the film did do an…
Cheng Ran, In Course of the Miraculous, 2015 (still). Wide-screen HD film, 5.1 surround sound, color; 468 min. Courtesy the artist, K11 Art Foundation, Erlenmeyer Foundation, and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne. This month, The New Museum opens two new exhibits from Pipilotti Rist and Cheng Ran. On view October 19th, 2016 through January 15th will…
Doug Aitken | "Electric Earth" The Museum of Contemporary Arts, LA 250 S Grand Ave, Plaza Level, Los Angeles CA September 10th - January 15th The Museum of Contemporary Arts presents "Doug Aitken: Electric Earth," Aitken’s first North American survey. From his breakthrough installation diamond sea (1997) to his most recent event-based work Black Mirror (2011), the exhibition unfolds around…
The Light Between Oceans is an upcoming drama written and directed by Derek Cianfrance and is based on the bestselling M. L. Stedman novel of the same name. The film takes place on a remote island in Western Australia and tells the tale of the lighthouse keeper, Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) and his wife, Isabel (Alicia Vikander). The two live on the island…
Liv Tyler never saw herself as a designer. But a life spent hustling between fittings, red carpet events, and cover shoots made the transition natural. Liv's intimate, varied knowledge of the fashion world is only surpassed by a sense of faute de mieux: like the multitudes of women who wonder "where have all the pockets…
The stars of the film The Neon Demon arrived to the NYC premiere of their new thriller on Wednesday night among many other celebrity guests. In attendance were actresses Elle Fanning and Abbey Lee Kershaw, writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn, model Hilary Rhoda, and designers Cynthia Rowley and Nicole Miller. Fanning looked pretty in pink in her tulle Gucci…
Charlotte Colbert: Ordinary Madness Gazelli Art House 39 Dover Street, W1S 4NN July 1 - August 13 Charlotte Colbert will have an exhibition, Ordinary Madness opening this July at the Gazelli Art House in London, exploring the relationship between technology and the twenty-first century with the use of familiar icons of instant communication, emoji’s. Ordinary…
This September marks 40 years since America was introduced to everyone's favorite female crime fighting trio. The iconic ABC television series, Charlie's Angels, focused on three beautiful women who just graduated from the Los Angeles Police Academy who were recruited by their boss, Charlie Townsend, to work as private investigators. Charlie was an elusive boss…
On March 15th, at an exclusive event, filmmaker and designer Jennifer Elster launched her pop-up shop in Tribeca. With models donning full leather masks amid projected videos of Elster with Yoko Ono and Terrance Howard, and a performance piece entitled Gender Execution, the artist created an immersive and interactive environment. The evening's guests included Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, Rosie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhI5T_NKYxc Kate Moss dances in the dark, lighting herself under a naked bulb for Massive Attack's new video "Ritual Spirit". Directed by Medium and Massive Attack's Robert "3D" Del Naja, with vocals by British singer-songwriter Azekel, the video shows a lone Moss dancing spontaneously. Shot raw, without retouching, Del Naja said of the process, "I didn't want…
The Tribeca Film Festival is coming to New York for it's fifteenth year this April. Scheduled for the 13th through the 24th, the festival provides one-of-a-kind storytelling from filmmakers for viewers. This year, the Tribeca Film Festival boats something that the Oscar's couldn't dare say for themselves: diversity. Of the features that will debut at the…
It was a night to remember at this year's 67th Annual Emmy Awards. This year's awards ceremony was filled with emotional moments, laugh-out-loud moments, firsts, and all the glamour one could expect at a red carpet event. Whether Emmy viewers were crying, laughing, or clapping with joy, one thing was clear: women dominated this year's…
This year, Marilyn Monroe would have celebrated her 89th birthday on June 1st. Even after 53 years of her passing, each day, she grows more and more into a fashion and Hollywood icon. Society deemed her "the dumb blonde" and still note her for her looks rather than her brains. Her "dumb blonde" act was just a…
New York City-based filmmaker, Leah Meyerhoff, has been utilizing her film career in order to promote gender equality. She founded "Film Fatales", which is a network for women directors. Founded in Brooklyn in 2013, is has since gained international recognition. Along with running Film Fatales, she serves as a mentor for the Tribeca Film Fellows,…
The Jury of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, presided by Joel and Ethan Coen, revealed the names of the 2015 prize-winners during the Awards Ceremony. The winner of the golden palm leaf, Dheepan, a film revolving around the lives of Tamil refugees moving to France to escape Sri Lanka's civil war, had an effective political message,…
La Jolla is home to the IFFAs - International Fashion Film Awards - which will take place July 24- 25 at the beautiful Museum of Contemporary Art. The world’s largest gathering of fashion filmmakers, La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America. With a reputation leading to…
The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is coming up May 13-24, and the film selections have been announced. 19 films will be competing in Un Certain Regard, starting on May 14. The judges' panel for the Un Certain Regard competition will include Isabella Rosellini (President), Haifaa Al-Mansour, Nadine Labaki, Panos H. Koutras, and Tahar Rahim.…