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When Female-Directed Shows Like ‘The Deuce’ and ‘Alias Grace’ Take On Sex, They’re Not Afraid to Make It Scary
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It’s impossible to calculate how much film and television has been created on the subject of what happens when men and women interact, especially when sex enters the equation.
Three of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Primetime selections represented television being told from a distinctly female point of view, but while they all were helmed by female directors, that doesn’t mean they fit into any sort of uniform box.
The one subject none of them were afraid to tackle: How sex is much more than the act itself, and how for women in particular it creates real risk. It’s a concept that many women know instinctually, which is why it’s so important that all of these shows were brought to life by female directors.
The most sexual thing to happen in the first few episodes of “Alias Grace” is the stroking of quilts across beds, »
- Liz Shannon Miller
Tiff 2017. Correspondences #9
7 hours ago | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Third MurderDear Danny and Fern,By the time you read this I will have already arrived back home, four days before Tiff's end. Attempting to cram everything into a shortened schedule was a struggle for me, but I’m very satisfied with what I’ve seen and those few people that I’ve met. I wish I could've stayed longer, and I hope to be back soon! As a newcomer, I found Tiff to be a welcoming space that merges the many fruits of Toronto-tourism, cinephile gatherings, and late night city walks. And many, many movies! Possibly too many, but better more than less! There were a few rough patches but they were more tied to my inexperience (forgetting to charge my phone, forgetting to check my schedule, forgetting to eat, forgetting to sleep…) than anything. The sheer magnitude of the event made even the easiest tasks feel like »
Fertile Soil: Xavier Beauvois Discusses "The Guardians"
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Nathalie Baye and Xavier BeauvoisThe strength of women left alone to fend for themselves is the communal focus of actor and director Xavier Beauvois’s The Guardians. After directing Of Gods and Men (2010), Beauvois’s excellent neo-western set among French monks in Algeria, we lost sight of this under-estimated director—his next was a quasi-comedy I’m dying to see about ruffians stealing Chaplin’s corpse—though it was a delight to encounter him earlier this year before the camera as one of Juliette Binoche’s many love (and sex) interests in Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In. I am very glad indeed that Beauvois is back in the director’s seat and in the international spotlight with The Guardians, adapted from an obscure 1924 novel by Ernest Pérochon about a struggling farmstead on the home front of the First World War, and one of the exceptional films of the year. »
Tim League Apologizes: “I Am Very Sorry. I’ve Let So Many of You Down.”
10 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League posted an apology on his Facebook page Friday evening, his latest statement after days of controversy swirling around the Austin-based theater chain. The response stemmed from a firestorm of anger following the revelation that League had secretly employed Devin Faraci for several months this year. Faraci was fired as editor of Alamo’s Birth.Movies.Death site last October after accusations of sexual assault, but was employed again as recently as February.
Read More:‘Three Billboards’ Pulled From Fantastic Fest After Devin Faraci Controversy
The most recent blowback came earlier Friday, when Fox Searchlight pulled “Three Billboards In Ebbings, Missouri” from this year’s Fantastic Fest, an annual event produced by Alamo Drafthouse.
The full statement follows:
I am very sorry.
I’ve let so many of you down.
Over the past few days, I’ve realized that decisions I have made over these past months have been problematic. »
- Dana Harris
Harry Dean Stanton’s Best Performances: An IndieWire Tribute to ‘Paris, Texas,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Twin Peaks,’ and More
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Harry Dean Stanton stole more scenes than most other actors even appeared in. Over his six-decade career, the late, great actor managed the improbable feat of being as recognizable from his highbrow fare (like “Paris, Texas”) as he was from his high-school movie (“Pretty in Pink”) — and that was just in the mid-‘80s.
Stanton also worked with David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, and Monte Hellman, among many others; he left his indelible mark on all their movies, as he did on those who watched them. Here are some of our favorites.
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“Right.” Harry Dean Stanton doesn’t say much else in “Alien,” but he doesn’t need to. Along with Yaphet Kotto’s Parker, his Brett provides some much-needed levity aboard the Uscss Nostromo — it may be true that in space no one can hear you scream, »
- Michael Nordine, Kate Erbland, Anne Thompson, William Earl, Jude Dry and Chris O'Falt
‘Three Billboards’ Pulled From Fantastic Fest After Devin Faraci Controversy
13 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Many movies are screening at Fantastic Fest later this month, but “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is no longer one of them. Variety reports that Fox Searchlight has decided to pull Martin McDonagh’s new film from the Austin-based fest in light of the controversy that erupted around its parent company, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, earlier this week.
Read More:Devin Faraci Resigns From Alamo Drafthouse Following New Uproar Over Sexual Assault Allegations
It was revealed on Tuesday that Devin Faraci, who stepped down as editor-in-chief of Alamo’s Birth.Movies.Death following sexual-assault allegations last year, had quietly been rehired by the company as a copywriter months later and even written blurbs for this year’s edition of the festival. This ignited further controversy, prompting Faraci to depart Alamo once more — presumably for good this time.
Read More:Devin Faraci Was Rehired After Sexual Assault Allegations: What Was Tim League Thinking? »
- Michael Nordine
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