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Three firm thumps into the Arrakis sand is all you need to summon a sandworm in Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two." It's almost as easy as hailing a cab or calling for the check.
The big buggers can't resist the sound, which is a little like how I feel taking in all the vibrations of...
While a Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination for Perfect Days (Neon) is a high honor, director Wim Wenders cited another bit of recognition earlier on in the process which he found quite gratifying and unexpected. Wenders related that as a German director, he was surprised...
One cinematographer recently earned his third career Oscar and ASC Award nominations.
Another scored his second Academy Award nod and third ASC Award nom.
And our third DP became an Oscar nominee for the third time, and an ASC Award nominee for the fourth.
Here are insights...
It’s been an eventful Sundance Film Festival for directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton as their Daughters earned major distinction with not only the Festival Favorite Award, voted on by event attendees, but also the Audience Award in the U.S. Documentary competition. Furthermore,...
With the Kansas City Chiefs prevailing in overtime over the San Francisco 49ers to claim their second consecutive Super Bowl championship, Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday (2/11) held viewer interest throughout--which is a good thing for advertisers who paid some $7 million for a :30 time slot on CBS...
Even with a successful festival run which saw his narrative short directorial debut, Invincible, win awards at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, the Chicago Children’s Film Festival and Rendez-vous Quebec Cinema, director Vincent René-Lortie never dreamt that an Oscar nomination for...
"Why are you teaching us to be so rude?" the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in "The Monk and the Gun."
It's a question both poignant and biting, because the "teaching" this woman is resisting is something much of the outside world considers a basic human right:...
Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie resides, really, is Yakusho's face.
In this gently sublime film, Hirayama steps outside...
Willie D. Burton, CAS has an extensive awards history--and has contributed to industry history--in a storied ongoing career.
Burton just earned his eighth career Oscar nomination--for Best Sound as production sound mixer on Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures). He is going for his...
For women of a certain age who grew up being told that if they wore the wrong thing, drank a little too much, or gave the wrong signals that they were "asking for it," it might seem like the youths of today have it good, or at least quite a bit better. Consent seems to matter. Clothing coverage...