Kenneth Welsh, a prolific Canadian stage and display actor who was finest recognized for his portrayal of the murderous, unhinged villain Windom Earle on the hit early-Nineteen Nineties tv collection “Twin Peaks,” died on Might 5 at his residence in Sanford, Ontario. He was 80. His longtime agent, Pam Winter, mentioned the trigger was most […]
Vangelis, the Greek movie composer and synthesizer virtuoso whose hovering music for “Chariots of Hearth,” the 1981 film about two British runners within the 1924 Summer season Olympics in Paris, gained the Academy Award for greatest authentic rating, died on Tuesday in Paris. He was 79. The trigger was coronary heart failure, stated Lefteris Zermas, […]
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, my social media feeds full of denunciations of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, and listicles recommending how finest to assist Ukraine. This all made me really feel a bit sheepish. Immediately, Ukrainian cinema was related, and a well-recognized, woozy feeling returned: What use is any of this towards the blunt […]
There’s nothing like an enormous cameo within the second half of a film to make a wilted pageant viewers sit again up of their seats. On Friday on the Cannes Film Festival, I watched “EO,” an artwork movie a couple of Polish donkey that by some means, in its closing act, makes room for a […]
CANNES, France — On Wednesday, the seventy fifth Cannes Movie Pageant rolled out the crimson carpet for Tom Cruise whereas French fighter jets roared overhead streaming smoke trails of crimson, white and blue. As soon as once more, the pageant and Hollywood had joined forces to declare their shared values — liberté, égalité, fraternité, publicité! […]
Rosmarie Trapp, a member of the singing household made well-known by the stage musical and movie “The Sound of Music” and the final surviving daughter of Baron Georg Johannes von Trapp, the household patriarch, died on Could 13 at a nursing residence in Morrisville, Vt. She was 93. The Trapp Household Lodge, the household enterprise […]
The miracle of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Distant” is that it’s regularly absorbing, even when not a lot is going on — which is more often than not. A photographer earlier than he turned the dean of Turkish filmmakers, Ceylan is a grasp of existential angst and transfigured dailiness whose motion pictures invite contemplation. Revived for […]
CANNES, France — It has been 30 years since Tom Cruise attended the Cannes Movie Pageant, and it’s evident the pageant want to make up for misplaced time. Maybe that’s why, upfront of a dialog with the actor billed as a “Rendezvous with Tom Cruise” — which was itself occurring upfront of the night premiere […]
When Ninja Thyberg, the screenwriter and director of the porn trade drama “Pleasure,” was a young person, every thing about pornography ticked her off. “Ladies have been these intercourse dolls used to fulfill males,” she instructed me, sitting beside her star, Sofia Kappel, in an condominium in Chinatown in Manhattan. Within the early 2000s, in […]
CANNES, France — When Jeff Nichols first attended the Cannes Movie Pageant, he was a 21-year-old faculty scholar interning on the occasion’s American Pavilion. His days had been principally spent ready tables, however now and again, Nichols acquired his arms on a premiere ticket, donned a tuxedo that his mom had purchased him, and took […]