If you’ve been debating over which new movies are worth the trip to the theater, The Museum of Modern Art is bringing back its annual series to narrow down the best of the year, from blockbusters to independent critical favorites. Starting in November and running through January 22nd, MoMA has announced the 2021 lineup of…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaGmaiKRLA During a 2017 interview with Berlinale Talents, 40-year-old writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch) described the year after she had graduated from UCLA as disempowering. Amirpour was married at the time (i.e., 2009). She had written a script. She had landed an agent and a manager, both…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM9XaxZMU1U On May 2nd, Planned Parenthood celebrated 100 years with a star-studded centennial gala that featured the one-and-only Hillary Clinton and honored Shonda Rhimes. Meryl Streep, America Ferrera, Tina Fey, Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, Diane von Furstenberg, and many other PP supporters all showed up to see comedian Chelsea Handler open the event with a…
The official 2017 selection of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 17 through 28, was announced today, April 13. Keeping in vein with many cultural events following the United States election, this year’s edition of the French festival is highly politicized. Of the forty-nine films included, many focus on current issues. An Inconvenient Sequel…
This year’s official jury has been announced for the 69th edition of Cannes Film Festival, which will take place from May 11th through 22nd. Festival president and Australian director, George Miller, will be joined by Arnaud Desplechin, Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, László Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Katayoon Shahabi, Mads Mikkelsen and Donald Sutherland. The nine members will…
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…
“I wish I had cancer.” How’s that for a salvo? If it throws you for a loop, it won’t take long before your mind begins to wonder, “What fresh hell could be more harrowing than that?” The answer, both in life and in Still Alice, is a slow and steady deterioration of the brain, the…
Masters of Hollywood – from directors to actors – anticipate awards season each and every year, hoping that their work throughout the past 12 months will gain them a coveted nomination. Whether you think of the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Awards, or the prestigious Oscars when you think of the most exciting night for…
New York Film Festival Lincoln Center September 26th - October 12th From September 26th, 2014 through October 12th, 2014, New York will hold its 52nd annual Film Festival at Lincoln Center. The festival will open with the world premiere of David Fincher's (Fight Club, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) highly anticipated adaptation of Gillian Flynn's thriller novel, Gone Girl. Fincher is no…
The photos from Kristen Stewart's first Chanel campaign have finally been released after the announcement back in 2013 that she would become the new face of the brand. (The campaign was leaked via an Instagram account for a brief moment and then the entire account disappeared.) The photos, shot by Karl Lagerfeld, capture very perfectly…
Kristen Stewart, looking effortlessly fluent and delicate, poses for the new ‘Rosabotonica’ fragrance by Balenciaga. The actress, reprising her role as the face of Balenciaga scents, worked side-by-side with photographer Craig McDean for the campaign. It was speculated that Stewart was to be dropped once Alexander Wang came in as creative director, as she was a Nicholas…
