When Varda approached Resnais for help, he asked to see her screenplay. Immediately she delivered one to him at his place on rue des Plantes, a fifteen- minute stroll from rue Daguerre. After reading it, the future director of the classic drama Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) declined politely by letter. “Your research is too close … Read more
October 11, 1975. A day that changed television history forever. That was the Saturday night (live) when a new sketch show first debuted on NBC. Cobbled together by an inexperienced group of actors, producers, and writers, many of whom were getting their first exposure on national TV, the series was not expected to be a … Read more
The ongoing romantic Chinese drama The Best Day of My Life released episode 10 on July 29, 2024. The series tells the story of Xu Mu (Jiang Zhinan) and Xie Shi (Zhang Jiongmin), who sign a relationship contract to avoid getting married. However, in the latest episode, the two decided to part ways. Xu Mu and her colleagues set … Read more
So do the terms of the original contract mean you could make a “Repo Man” sequel but you couldn’t show it outside of the United States? We [could, but we] would have to sell it to Universal [first], because they own the foreign rights to a “Repo Man” sequel. In theory, could Universal do a … Read more
He was born in Chicago on August 18, 1943, the son of an actress and an engineer, and moved from there to Ohio with them when he was two. After relocating with his family to New Canaan, Connecticut, at 15, he studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. It’s a field in which … Read more
It’s been a rough stretch in the comedy world over the past several years as several legendary comedians have passed away. However, Gilbert Gottfried’s passing was particularly rough as the New York native had been a part of so many people’s childhoods thanks to his iconic voice roles in Aladdin, Superman, and other animated series. … Read more
Nosferatu, the iconic horror classic that is basically just Dracula with all the names of the characters changed, is getting yet another remake — this one from Robert Eggers, this talented director behind recent cult faves like The Witch and The Lighthouse. And the first trailer for the film looks just as creepy as you would expect. The original German silent Nosferatu … Read more
We’ve got LEGO movies, LEGO Batman movies, LEGO Ninjago movies. But what about a LEGO biopic? In what would seem to be a first, none other than Pharrell produced and starred in a biography of his own life made with LEGO animation. It’s called Piece By Piece. Pharrell plays himself and narrates his life story, while animation recounts the … Read more
As a doctor says in the documentary “For Life and Love: No Ordinary Campaign,” even in the case of the other most devastating diagnoses, there is still a chance to delay or reduce the effects of the disease. If pancreatic cancer has a one percent survival rate, that is still enough to give patients and … Read more
The most important moment in the opening section, possibly the most important in the movie, is fleeting: while racing downstairs from her apartment, Lola passes a young neighbor with a dog, and the film shifts into animation. This encounter will be replayed three times: the second time, the dog’s owner trips Lola and she falls, but … Read more