Tag: Laura Linney
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And the Oscar nomination doesn’t go to … 20 great performances snubbed by the Academy
Ahead of the release of year’s nominations later today, here are the best acting turns not even shortlisted for an Academy Award in the 21st centuryNews: Oppenheimer sweeps Oscar nominations – while Andrew Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio snubbedKenneth Lonergan’s bittersweet study of two orphaned siblings struggling to reconnect as emotionally damaged adults was Ruffalo’s big-screen…
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Maya Hawke Duets with Ethan Hawke for Cover of Willie Nelson’s ‘We Don’t Run’ — Listen
Maya Hawke is singing a different tune alongside dad Ethan Hawke.The father-daughter duo, who recently collaborated on Flannery O’Connor biopic “Wildcat,” released track “We Don’t Run” together. Maya’s singer-songwriter career recently included 2022 album “Moss,” featuring a music video helmed by “Vox Lux” director Brady Corbet.“Listen to my new song out now ‘We Don’t Run.’…
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‘Wildcat’ Review: Ethan Hawke Builds an Imaginative but Incomplete Flannery O’Connor Biopic
Ethan Hawke’s “Wildcat” has an intriguing fixation with artistic process. The actor-turned-director casts his own daughter, Maya Hawke, as Southern Gothic author Flannery O’Connor, in another film about a real artist’s life — “Blaze” was about a country musician; “Seymour: An Introduction” followed a classical pianist — with an unconventional and alluring narrative structure. However,…
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Ethan Hawke and Maya Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Is an Even Greater Family Affair Than We Knew
Fall festival premiere “Wildcat,” a reimagining of famed author Flannery O’Connor process writing her first novel, is even more of a family affair than originally advertised.While the film, currently seeking distribution after premiering at both Telluride and TIFF, was executive produced by star Maya Hawke, co-written and directed by her father Ethan Hawke, and produced…
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Laura Linney: The SAG-AFTRA Strike Is ‘Not Just About Actors That People See and Know’
[Editor’s note: The following interview was conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14, 2023.]Laura Linney may miss the chaos of playing crime matriarch Wendy Byrde on Netflix’s “Ozark,” but her latest movie finds her yearning for the past in a decidedly less dark direction. In Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s 1960s-set Irish drama “The Miracle Club”…
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‘The Miracle Club’ Review: Laura Linney and Maggie Smith Go to Lourdes in Stale Comedy Beyond Salvation
On paper, Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s “The Miracle Club” seems like it should be a backboard-shattering slam-dunk for the sort of people whose favorite movies all share the words “and Maggie Smith” in their opening credits, but this trite Irish trifle about a girls trip to Lourdes is so chalky and underbaked that its all-star cast (Laura…
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Galway Film Fleadh unveils full 2023 programme, ‘The Miracle Club’ to open
The full line-up includes 21 world premieres, six European premieres and 60 Irish premieres.Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh (July 11-16) returns for its 35th edition with a line-up including opening night film Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s The Miracle Club, following its world premiere at Tribeca, that stars Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Agnes O’Casey.The full line-up…