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…
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 of…
2015 GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS Motion picture, musical or comedy WINNER: “The Grand Budapest Hotel“ – Motion picture, drama WINNER: “Boyhood“ – Actor in a motion picture, drama WINNER: Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything” – Actress in a motion picture, drama WINNER: Julianne Moore, “Still Alice” – Actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy…
Hysteria, the new film by director Tanya Wexler, fictionalizes the real life story of Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville, a Victorian doctor who invented the first electric vibrator in the 1880s, which was later patented and sold in 1902 by the American company Hamilton Beach. The film examines how Dr. Granville’s invention was used to cure…
