Review: ‘Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire,’ Portrait of an Artist in Chaos
Tony Palmer’s documentary follows this singer-songwriter in an early phase of his career, during a somewhat disordered 1972 European tour.
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Photo CreditDisney Hot on the Trail of ‘La La Land,’ Here Come More Movie Musicals
When a song-and-dance film earns $132 million this fast, others will follow — with Emma Watson, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Josh Gad, for starters.
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Photo Creditvia Tiff Glimpsing Cinema’s Northern Lights at Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival
A 16-year tradition in Canada has become a touring festival encompassing features, short films and student projects.
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Photo CreditJules Schulback, via Bonnie Siegler The Lost Footage of Marilyn Monroe
That film image of Ms. Monroe’s skirt rising high in a gust of air? It’s a reshoot of a discarded and more risqué scene seldom seen until now.
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Photo CreditStudio Ghibli and Wild Bunch/Sony Pictures Classics For ‘The Red Turtle,’ Studio Ghibli Looks West for an ‘Eastern’ Approach
Studio Ghibli turns to the Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit for its latest film, “The Red Turtle.”
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Photo CreditGuy Ferrandis/Sony Pictures Classics, via Associated Press How Movies and TV Address Rape and Revenge
Films like “Elle” and TV series like “Sweet/Vicious” and “Westworld” are depicting sexual violence and its consequences in a new light, with mixed success.
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Photo CreditFocus Features ‘A Monster Calls’: Talking Trees Are Easy. Truth Is Hard.
The writer Patrick Ness and the director J. A. Bayona discuss “Monster” and the importance of not lying to children.
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Photo CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times Is Watching a Movie on a Phone Really So Bad?
New ways of watching movies have long made film folk antsy. And for many, watching on a phone remains a line in the sand.
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Photo CreditHopper Stone/20th Century Fox Theodore Melfi Narrates a Scene From ‘Hidden Figures’
The director discusses a sequence featuring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe.
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Photo CreditJonathan Alcorn/Reuters How Working With Martin Scorsese Is Like a Religious Experience
Issey Ogata of “Silence,” in which he is a cruel inquisitor of missionaries, said the director “made me feel that I really wanted to give everything.”
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Photo CreditFox Searchlight Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox Film Directors Guild Nominates Nate Parker for Best Debut
But for the top award, the usual suspects, led by Damien Chazelle of “La La Land,” are nominated.
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Photo CreditHopper Stone/20th Century Fox On Movies and the Political Plots That Seem Made for Them
We discuss Julian Assange, Donald J. Trump and Vladimir V. Putin — and also the Golden Globes.
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Photo CreditM. Osterreicher/ESPN Films ‘O.J.: Made in America’: A Documentary Movie or a Mini-Series?
There has been grumbling over whether this work should be an Oscar contender since it made the best documentary shortlist last month.
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Photo CreditJoe Lederer/20th Century Fox ‘Deadpool’ Makes the Producers Guild List of Nominees
As expected, “La La Land,” “Manchester” and “Moonlight” also made the list. The guild’s winner closely tracks the eventual Oscar winner.
