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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Is a Murder Mystery That Puts a Marriage on Trial
For Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari co-wrote one of the most complex and intense relationships between a married couple this year — a film that already earned the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is primed to be a major Oscar contender this season. Triet and Harari are partners […]
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Daisy Ridley Talks ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter’ and Her ‘Star Wars’ Return
Daisy Ridley has a lot going on these days, but she made a point to carve out some time to support The Marsh King’s Daughter, a film that was a promotional casualty of the now-resolved SAG-AFTRA strike. The English actor has plenty of reasons to be proud of her work in Neil Burger’s thriller, as […]
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‘Hunger Games’ Director Francis Lawrence Talks That Ending and ‘Constantine 2’ Optimism
[This story contains spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.] Prequels are tough to get right. For every Better Call Saul, there are ten more stories that failed to enrich the works that came before them. However, Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes manages to not […]
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‘Barbie’ and Oscar: A Match Made in Awards Heaven?
There’s a common misconception that’s repeated nearly every Oscar season: The Academy just doesn’t go for popular movies. Sure, in the two decades since the last true blockbuster to win the award — The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2004 — the top winners have been more serious and artistic […]
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‘Past Lives’ Director Celine Song on How She Landed Her Directorial Debut: “I Knew The Things That Only I Could Know’
Celine Song has thought long and hard about how her current choices will ripple out into the future. “Who we are now cannot escape from who we were once,” says the director behind this year’s indie breakout Past Lives. To make her point, she starts to script a scene between her future self and mine. […]
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Hollywood Flashback: Abel Gance’s Silent ‘Napoléon’ Was Revolutionary
Napoleon Bonaparte has served as catnip to Hollywood almost as long as movies have existed. Next to don his funny hat is Joaquin Phoenix, who stars in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, out Nov. 22. But the best Napoleon film remains the first. Napoléon is a 1927 silent movie written, directed and produced by Paris-born cinematic pioneer […]
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“We Were Full of Faith”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With the Director of ‘Thunder’
Carmen Jaquier’s solo directorial debut may be called Thunder, but the film’s quiet power rings the loudest. Competing on behalf of Switzerland for a best international feature film nomination at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards, Jaquier’s 1900-set drama chronicles Lilith Grasmug’s Elisabeth, a 17-year-old novitiate who’s forced to delay her impending vows and return to […]
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How ‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth Turned a Fake Trailer Into His Best-Reviewed Movie
Thanksgiving filmmaker Eli Roth has been dreaming of a Thanksgiving-themed slasher movie since he was 12 years old, and he thought he’d forever scratched that itch when he made a fictitious trailer for a movie called Thanksgiving inside of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse (2007) double feature. But much to his surprise, genre fans […]
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“I Wanted to Do Something Bigger Than Life”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With Yoshiki of ‘Yoshiki: Under the Sky’
Like many entertainers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese songwriter and musician Yoshiki wanted to find a way to use his artistry to lift people’s spirits, particularly fans who wrote to him about being in a dark place during that time. “The intention was to spread love,” Yoshiki said during a taping of […]
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“If You Want to Create Chaos, You Have to Plan How to Do It”: ‘THR Presents’ Q&A With the Filmmakers of ‘Seven Blessings’
In a time of war, the Israeli brain trust behind Seven Blessings is seeking comfort the only way they know how: by sharing their art with the world. As Israel’s submission for a best international feature film nomination at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards, the Ayelet Menahemi-directed Seven Blessings focuses on Marie (Reymonde Amsellem), who, […]
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‘The Marvels’ Star Iman Vellani Talks That Final Scene and ‘Ms. Marvel’ Season 2
[This story contains spoilers for The Marvels.] If you’ve kept tabs on the conversation surrounding The Marvels, then you’ve likely noticed that Iman Vellani’s Kamala “Ms. Marvel” Khan is unanimously considered to be the scene-stealer of Nia DaCosta’s superhero team-up pic. Vellani picked up where she last left off on her Ms. Marvel Disney+ series, […]
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It’s (Finally) Oscar Season! Meet the 30 Major Players Aiming for Best Picture
Air Amazon Ben Affleck directs this corporate tale that goes behind the scenes of Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan, in which the shoe company placed a massive bet on the then-rookie basketball player to create the now-ubiquitous Air Jordan shoe line. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike exec who attempts to woo the up-and-coming […]
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Hollywood Flashback: The Egyptian Theatre Was First Reborn 25 Years Ago
More than a century after its first screening, the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard is coming back to life following a restoration process that kept it dark for three years. But this isn’t the storied venue’s first makeover. Sid Grauman’s homage to Egyptian culture — which predates his Chinese Theatre on the same street by […]
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From ‘Barbie’ to Scorsese: Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto on Nailing Different Visual Styles
Veteran cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s versatility could not be more evident than in his most recent work, which called for filming a 1920s Osage Nation in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and shooting the candy-colored Barbie Land of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Born in Mexico City to a bicultural family (his mom is an American […]
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Screenwriter Michael Kennedy Talks ‘It’s a Wonderful Knife,’ Pitching ‘Freaky Death Day’ and ‘Scream 7’
After the warm reception to Freaky in 2020, writer-producer Michael Kennedy is back with It’s a Wonderful Knife, which adds another genre twist to a classic film premise. Inspired by Christopher Landon’s Groundhog Day-esque slasher Happy Death Day (2017), Kennedy conceived Freaky as a Freaky Friday slasher that Landon himself would go on to direct. […]
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‘Terrifier 2’ Filmmaker Damien Leone Says ‘Terrifier 3’ Will Return to the First Movie’s Tone
Terrifier mastermind Damien Leone has pulled off the very rare feat of building a successful indie horror franchise from scratch. The Philadelphia native created the franchise’s star, Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton), in a 2008 short called The 9th Circle, and while he only appeared briefly, Leone received enough feedback on the disturbing character […]
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