Twelve years after co-directing Berlinale entry “The Man of the Crowd,” renowned director Marcelo Gomes (“Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures”) is once again joining forces with filmmaker and visual artist Cao Guimarães (“From the Window of My Room”) for a new film, titled “Cape of Pleasures.” The dystopian thriller is one of the projects selected at
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Golden Globe nominee Alma Pöysti, known for “Fallen Leaves,” is now leading “Orenda.” The film, which premieres at Rotterdam and Göteborg festivals, is directed by Finnish director Pirjo Honkasalo (“Concrete Night”) and written by Pirkko Saisio. It sees Nora (Pöysti), a famous opera singer, escaping to a remote archipelago following the suicide of her husband.
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What started as a fight to restore his father’s musical legacy has evolved into an unexpectedly raw chronicle of one of Bollywood’s most enduring film dynasties in “The Roshans,” a four-part Netflix documentary series that reveals the struggles and triumphs of three generations. The project emerged from an unexpected source – a popular digital music
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Elongated noses, like wrinkly pickles or deflated balloons, protrude from the faces of the comically offbeat characters in the zany, rambling and historically relevant animated documentary “Endless Cookie” from animator Seth Scriver, a white man, and his half-brother Peter, who is an Indigenous person from the Shamattawa First Nations in northern Canada. Pete’s memories, which
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The International Emmy Award-winning Indian series “Delhi Crime” is gearing up for its third season, with acclaimed actor Huma Qureshi joining the stellar ensemble cast. The series, which took home the International Emmy for best drama series in 2020, is currently in post-production. Qureshi, fresh off her Filmfare Award win for SonyLIV’s “Maharani 3,” steps
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A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration and lament. Family farming has been endangered, but for African American farmers, the land — holding onto it, cultivating it — is even more precarious and precious. Considering recent, breakneck attempts to gut civil rights, director Brittany Shyne’s debut
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In a new video produced by the White House, the Trump administration blasted Selena Gomez for posting an Instagram video in which she filmed herself crying over deportations of undocumented immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Gomez deleted the original post within hours, after drawing criticism from conservative figureheads. “Apparently it’s not ok to show
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Unbothered, Isabelle Huppert vapes while wearing a chic dress after a night out in Paris. The actress’ requisite ferocious grace this time is lent to Sabine, an ailing French artist who refuses to waste her final days bedridden. But she is only one of the four pieces that conform “Luz,” Flora Lau’s alluring narrative diptych
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An unexpected controversy has upended the Oscar race in an awards season defined by historical milestones. Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans woman nominated for best actress, is now facing intense scrutiny after resurfaced tweets exposed years-long patterns of Islamophobic and racist rhetoric. Freelance culture writer Sarah Hagi, a Canada-based journalist and co-host of
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Khaby Lame, the most-followed creator on TikTok, has been named UNICEF’s newest Goodwill Ambassador. In his role as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Lame will use his global platforms to help raise awareness of children’s rights across the world, including education and training, empowering girls, protection from violence and abuse, and access to health, nutrition and
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“The Night Agent” has upped cast members Fola Evans-Akingbola, Ward Horton and Albert Jones to series regulars for its third season. The news comes just after the Jan. 23 release of Season 2. Per the official logline, the series follows “low level FBI Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso), whose efforts to save the president (Kari
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from Rebecca Yarros‘ “Onyx Storm,” the third book in her “The Empyrean” book series. Rebecca Yarros published No. 3 out of the five books she has planned in her “The Empyrean” series last week and has already broken the record for fasting-selling novel targeted at adults in 20 years
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+. We found love in a hopeless place? In Season 2, Episode 3 of “Severance,” the innies are kind of all doing their own thing. Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) are off exploring the goat nursery
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As he was with the 2021 Grammys and “Djesse Vol. 3,” Jacob Collier is, again, up for album of the year, this time courtesy of his spiky, soul-filled “Djesse Vol. 4.” While his first AOTY nom found the wunderkind one-man-band up against a mixed bag of female and male greats (Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” won that
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“Move Ya Body: The Birth of House” tells the story of how house music was born in the late 1970s. A history reconstructed by director Elegance Bratton (“The Inspection”) through the memories of the trailblazers who birthed it at underground clubs in racially segregated and violent Chicago, this is the story of how Black, brown
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Zoe Saldaña has spoken out for the first time since racist tweets by her “Emilia Pérez” co-star Karla Sofía Gascón resurfaced this week. “I’m still processing everything that has transpired in the last couple of days, and I’m sad. It makes me really sad because I don’t support [it], and I don’t have any tolerance
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Will Ferrell recently told People magazine that some of his fans were not too thrilled with his decision to revive Buddy the Elf as a grizzled drinker and smoker. The comedian went viral on social media after attending the Dec. 29 hockey game between the Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers in his Buddy the
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“The Librarians” begins with a quote: “It was a pleasure to see things burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder’s illuminating documentary — premiering at the Sundance Film Festival — offers a rattling look at coordinated efforts to ban books. More importantly,
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Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual
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