For all of an hour and a half. I am pretty much prepared to think only about ponies. I ask you, PopWatchers: Where are the damn ponies? I mentioned something about that yesterday, which then turned out to be the day my rhythm fell apart. For example, I didnt see a movie. Notice that nowhere in there does it say ate food. So yesterday was hard. And today, with my hour and a half of sleep,promises to be even harder....
The2020 Sundance Film Festival lineupdropped Wednesday afternoon, providing cinephiles with 118 exciting new titles to look forward to. We are diverse by design, I would say. We have a team of programmers coming from different backgrounds, different outlooks on life. Credit: Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images That makes them distinctive too. It made itself known organically that thats what is on the mind of the artists, Cooper says. You look at America different after watching that film, he says....
The director Alex Gibney now sets the gold standard for documentary muckraking. He wasnt being egotistical. ), who saw themselves as radicals out to remake America. And heres the thing, they did. And yet, in her way, she needed him too. (Her maid revealed to Galetta that Jackie scrupulously saved all the gossip magazines about her.) Theyre proof that starting in the late 20th century, art and voyeurism could no longer be separated....
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The goal was just to try and make a little delightful film with some colorful characters. And in the end the curtain closes and you go, Omigod, that was fun. Were not striving to start big debates. Credit: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images I would just like people to be watching this movie with a smile on their face. Then we went about trying to get the movie made for a good number of years....
And then there are the people who manage to do both. After the jump, my Q&A with one of Sundances big winners. * Winner here referring to Pellingtons all-around festival success, not any official Sundance awards. I keep forgetting theres an actual competition buried somewhere in this snowbank. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:Congrats on your massive, massive Sundance.MARK PELLINGTON:It was fun. Walking in, which film did you think was going to be more successful?...
The film itself… well, lets just say it leaves a great deal to be desired. So Im still excited. Ive never been here before. Credit: Amy Sancetta/AP Photo EW: Hes not around a lot.FALLON:He doesnt come by? I wanted to play Cranium with him or something! Is it not that intimate? EW: I dont think so.FALLON:Its gone commercial, hasnt it? I got these hiking boots on. EW: The films set mostly in Florida did you actually film there?...
In a moment where once-settled ideas of life and liberty no longer seem settled at all, the release of a movie likeOne Child Nation this years winner of the Documentary Grand Prize at Sundance feels more than timely. The parallels are hard to ignore, even if what Nanfu Wangs film addresses is in many ways a photo-negative of current-day America: From approximately 1979 to 2015, the Chinese government enforced a strict limit of one child per family, resulting in an epidemic not just of late-term abortions and infanticides but in generations of families (and their abandoned babies, if they survived) whose lives were radically altered by the loss....
For fans ofParks and Recreation, Amy Poehler and Adam Scott are televisions most adorable couple. (Imagine if Leslie Knope had grown up in Eagleton and you get the idea.) So what did the executive producer do on this movie? Credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images ADAM SCOTT:He got Amy Poehler to do the movie. AMY POEHLER:Adam would pick us all up in the morning, before our call time. He was in charge of getting us to set....
The night was cold and clear. Venus was bright in the sky. Thats assuming you get to see these same movies at all, distributed at lower altitude. So much for preamble. Danish director Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners) has an appropriately gentle, feminine touch. (Is it okay for me to say feminine? The movie is pretty but just a little bit square, cozy but just a little bit inert. So can I tell you my favorite Sundance film so far?...
Why, you may ask, should we give a damn if they lose their jobs? The message of the movie might be: Greedy, scum-sucking executive parasites are people too. I cant just look like another ahole with a resume! To which she replies: Youareanother ahole with a resume! And is he ever. Bobby isnt alone, either. But Wells also proves an artful director in the Tony Gilroy/Jason Reitman mode of acerbic realism....
I first heard Light My Fire when I was 14 years old, he says. I was on my way to a high school dance. And this is when I heard, for the first time, the instrumental version of Light My Fire. And I couldnt believe it. This song just went on and on, and developed, and changed. That was my introduction. The challenge was trying to come up with a concept that would unify all the material, says Manzarek....
Gina McCarthy, the next President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen. As Louis-Dreyfus said, As Ive become more of a well-known actress, Ive felt a certain responsibility. As something Norman Lear once said, Celebrity is something you spend. Kim Raff/Getty Images And, so, I thought, Well, I need to spend this on something of worth. And this seems quite worthwhile. Louis-Dreyfus also detailed some of her family history to describe how and why she became an activist....
