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What do hundreds of beavers have to do with the future of movies?
NEW YORK (AP) — Hard as it may be to believe, changing the future of cinema was not on Mike Cheslik’s mind when he was making “Hundreds of Beavers.” Cheslik was in the Northwoods of Wisconsin with a crew of four, sometimes six, standing in snow and making his friend, Ryland Tews, fall down...
At the New York Film Festival, an art form at play
NEW YORK (AP) — When you think of blockbusters, the first thing that comes to mind might not be a 215-minute postwar epic screening for the first time at Lincoln Center. But that was the scene last week when the New York Film Festival hosted a 70mm print of Brady Corbet’s “The...
‘The Room Next Door' tops Venice Film Festival. Nicole Kidman misses acting honor due to mom’s death
VENICE, Italy (AP) — “The Room Next Door,” Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, topped the Venice Film Festival and was awarded its Golden Lion award Saturday. Nicole Kidman was awarded the best actress prize, for her raw and...
Venice Film Festival debuts 3-hour post-war epic ‘The Brutalist,’ in 70mm
VENICE, Italy (AP) — “The Brutalist,” a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting to rebuild a life in America, is a fantasy. But filmmaker Brady Corbet wishes it weren’t. “The film is about the physical manifestation of the trauma of the 20th century,” Corbet...
