The film flies under the radar a bit, and I’m assuming since it’s:
The English Teacher, directed by Craig Zisk, is available On Demand and on digital platforms Apr. 16 and will have its theatrical premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26. It opens in theaters on May 17.
That makes it ineligible for Oscar, right? Either way, who cares. Any movie with Julianne Moore in it is a worldwide event. EW got the exclusive on the poster.
Oscar winning Fay Kanin, former writer and producer, died today. She was 95.
Kanin had been one of the people blacklisted by the HUAC (that’s really how you know she was cool).
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The Academy is deeply saddened by the passing of our beloved former president and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Fay Kanin.
She was committed to the Academy’s preservation work and instrumental in expanding our public programming. A tireless mentor and inspiration to countless filmmakers, Fay’s passion for film continues to inspire us daily.
Our prayers and condolences go out to her loved ones.
I have always admired the balls-out approach to cinema Baz Luhrmann dishes up. But I am bracing myself for the reaction from the chattering class. Such giants streams of social networking, hive minds and mob behavior was not yet fully engaged when Moulin Rouge opened. I suspect Gatsby will be too hot for some, too cold for others. There is one thing people can’t deny and that’s what an ambitious project it is. Here’s to hoping.
This week the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on two historic cases that seek to expand the scope and definition of equal rights in America to include gay people. In honor of The Supreme’s two rulings that most of us hope will declare Prop 8 and DOMA to be unconstitutional in a few months, it might be interesting to look at how far the depiction of LGBT characters in film has come in the last century. A couple of years ago we had a poll to let readers rank your favorite gay films of the past 30 years. That poll was deliberately restricted with a cutoff date of 1970 because frankly I didn’t see many films pre-1970 that didn’t make gays look evil, ridiculous or pathetic. I didn’t want to offer straight people an opportunity to say their favorite gay movie was the self-loathing pity-party on display in The Boys in the Band. After 1970 we finally began to see the emergence of New Queer Cinema — movies about gay people made by gay people or made by straight filmmakers more sympathetic to gay characters. The poll was intended to cover movies with gay characters that gay people could be proud to watch as role models, so movies like Compulsion and Rope didn’t qualify.
But the list I came up with last night is less about gay pride and more about actual gay history as reflected in film. The reality of perception about gay life and its portrayal in mainstream movies hasn’t always been pretty but I think it’s important to acknowledge. The evolution of that perception is a fascinating even when its repellant.
“A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world’s order.”
To find out more about this threat to the world order of Hollywood’s choke-hold on film distribution, you’ll have to sign up and suddenly be linked mentally to other Netflix subscribers around the world.
(Press Release) Netflix will bring Georgeville Television’s Sense8, a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted, exclusively to its members to watch instantly in late 2014.
The 10 episode season one of Sense8 marks the first foray into television by the Wachowskis, the creative geniuses behind Bound, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, and is the latest project from veteran show runner J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the Hugo Award-winning Babylon 5 TV series and whose film credits include Changeling, Thor and Underworld Awakening,
“Andy and Lana Wachowski and Joe Straczynski are among the most imaginative writers and gifted visual storytellers of our time,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. “Their incredible creations are favorites of Netflix members globally and we can’t wait to bring Sense8 to life.”
Remember last year’s date scramble? I certainly do. For the first time in Oscar history the Academy had to turn in their ballots before the DGA announced. The DGA was the only really significant group that didn’t announce, though the Producers Guild announced one day before ballots were turned in.
