Tag: The Long Goodbye
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This Andrew Garfield-Led A24 Movie Is the Perfect Film Noir For Our Time
The film noir has long been a way for filmmakers to interrogate and expose whatever anxieties are plaguing America at the time. From Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, looking at the creeping paranoia, and the growing Hollywood industry that can create and break fame at a whim, to Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, taking a more…
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Oscars 2023: The Best Live Action Shorts Nominees, Ranked
In the most prominent Oscar categories, many of the nominees are fairly established; the short film categories, and the Best Live Action short in particular, provide more room for discoveries. It was here, 18 years ago, that “The Banshees of Inisherin” writer-director Martin McDonagh won for his short “Six Shooter,” and where Andrea Arnold won…
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Oscar Winners Riz Ahmed, Aneil Karia Reteam for Modern ‘Hamlet’ Adaptation
Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia are teaming again for a modern, London-set British Indian adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”The pair won the 2022 best live action short film Oscar for “The Long Goodbye,” which they co-wrote, Ahmed starred in and Karia directed.WME Independent will launch international sales at the Cannes Film Market, while co-representing North American…
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Indian-American ‘Summer of Soul’ Producer Joseph Patel Calls Chris Rock ‘a F—ing Dick’ for Calling Him ‘White Guy’ During Oscars
Joseph Patel, a producer on the Oscar-winning documentary “Summer of Soul,” has blasted Chris Rock for his presentation of the category during Sunday’s ceremony, in which Rock introduced Patel and the producers other than Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson as a group of “four white guys.”“The reason that makes me So So Very Angry is because I…
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‘Fellowship of the Ring,’ ‘Return of the Jedi,’ ‘Wall-e,’ and 23 More Movies Join National Film Registry
The National Film Registry — known as the preservation arm of the Library of Congress — has added 25 new films to its 825 titles of culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant movies. But that’s just a small portion of the Library’s whopping 1.7 million titles.Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, the movies…
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Taiki Waititi, Jessica Chastain, Tiffany Haddish Star in HollyShorts Film Festival Selections – Film News in Brief
HollyShorts Film Festival Announces Dates and LineupShort films starring Taika Waititi, Jessica Chastain, Tiffany Haddish and those produced by Octavia Spencer and Leonardo DiCaprio are among highlights of the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, running Sept. 23-Oct. 1 at the Tcl Chinese Theatres and online.Selections include Spencer Susser’s “Save Ralph,” starring Zac Efron, Waititi and George…
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‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley
The star of M*A*S*H, The Long Goodbye – and more recently, Friends – talks about drugs, his fiery marriage to Barbra Streisand and getting his best reviews from Groucho Marx and Muhammad AliThe best review ever received by Elliott Gould – renowned actor and star of M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye; not to mention, Ross…