Tag: paula schwartz
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Josh Brolin, Miles Teller and Taylor Kitsch Play Hero Firefighters in ‘Only the Brave’
“Only the Brave,” is based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a heroic unit of local firefighters that put their lives on the line to protect families and their communities. This elite firefighting team forges a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire. “Only the Brave” stars Josh Brolin,…
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‘Get Out’ Leads Gotham Awards Nominations/’Mudbound’ Gets Ensemble Award
Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” led with four nominations from the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), including for best feature and actor. Greta Gerwig, a New York favorite, received three nominations for “Lady Bird,” including for breakthrough director and best screenplay. The news came this morning from the IFP, which announced their nominees for the 27th Annual…
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Helen Mirren Will Be Honored at the 45th Chaplin Award Gala
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced that Academy Award–winning actor Helen Mirren will be honored at the 45th Chaplin Award Gala on Monday, April 30, 2018. Helen Mirren is a beloved figure of stage, screen, and television and has had an illustrious career spanning more than fifty years. The annual event will be attended…
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NYFF: Kate Winslet Turns in Oscar-Worthy Performance in Woody Allen’s ‘Wonder Wheel’
Kate Winslet is in the Oscar race with her spectacular performance in Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel,” the closing night presentation of the New York Film Festival where it will have its world premiere. (There are no less than seven screenings and tickets are still available at some of them.) An Amazon Studio release, which doesn’t…
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NYFF: Jane Goodall’s Life With The Chimps Celebrated in ‘Jane’
Beloved chimp lady and peripatetic traveler Jane Goodall was on the West Coast last night for the Los Angeles premiere of National Geographic’s documentary “Jane” about her early years in the jungle study chimpanzees. Last week the renowned humanitarian, conservationist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, was in New York for the film’s New…
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NYFF: Greta Gerwig On ‘Lady Bird’ and Stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf
Greta Gerwig is making her directing debut with “Lady Bird,” a sweetly funny coming-of-age film starring “Brooklyn” star Saoirse Ronan. She plays an angst-riddled 17 year-old in 2002 Sacramento, who dreams of escape to an East Coast college. Born Christine, this precocious and cynical teen insists on calling herself Lady Bird, to the annoyance of her mother…
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NYFF: Susan Lacy’s ‘Spielberg’ is Admiring Look at the Popular Director
The world premiere of Susan Lacy’s documentary “Spielberg,” about prolific and popular film director Steven Spielberg, was celebrated Thursday evening at the New York Film Festival. A compilation of clips from most of the director’s films — there are more than 60 — this admiring portrait is 2 hour and 27 minutes and is eye…
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Dustin Hoffman Will Be Honored at the Gotham Awards
Dustin Hoffman will receive the Actor Tribute this year at the Independent Film Project Gotham Awards. The two-time Academy Award and six-time Golden Globe winning actor stars in Noah Baumbach’s new film “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)” which had its New York premiere last Sunday at the New York Film Festival. Hoffman co-stars with…
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NYFF: Rebecca Miller On Her New Doc, ‘Arthur Miller: Writer’; also Her Acting Detour in ‘Meyerowitz Stories’
Rebecca Miller, the director of “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” (2009), “Personal Velocity” (2002) and “The Ballad of Jack and Rose” (2005), has directed a wonderful documentary for HBO about her father simply called “Arthur Miller: Writer.” The film will premiere next week at the New York Festival. Do not miss it! The film’s…
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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Season Nine: Larry David is Back
It’s been six years since we last saw Larry David on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” but now the curmudgeon is back. The “Seinfeld co-creator is reviving his hit show. Last week at the show’s premiere at the SVA Theater in Manhattan, I asked him how Larry David has changed since we last saw him. “TV…
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New York Film Festival Kicks Off with Richard Linklater’s ‘Last Flag Flying’
The 55th annual New York Film Festival kicked off Thursday night with the world premiere of Richard Linklater’s “Last Flag Flying.” This is Linklater’s third NYFF film but first opening night and this spot is a significant one. In his introductory remarks at the 6 p.m. screening at Alice Tully Hall, the director told the…
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Judi Dench is Queen Again in ‘Victoria and Abdul’
Dame Judi Dench was in Manhattan last week to promote her new film, “Victoria and Abdul.” This is the fifth movie she and director Stephen Frears have made together. Their last collaboration, “Philomena” in 2013, earned Dench her seventh Oscar nomination. Dench played Queen Victoria before, in John Madden’s “Mrs. Brown,” for which she also…