Aug. 28, 2024 16:26 PM EDT
VENICE, Italy (AP) — The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival is underway, with major Hollywood films and stars arriving in Italy. The festival kicked off Wednesday with the world premiere of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” before it opens in theaters worldwide next week.
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Aug. 20, 2024 15:54 PM EDT
Carol Kane’s name came to filmmaker Nathan Silver in a fever dream.
He’d come down with a case of COVID-19 while trying to get his new film together. The story he and co-writer C. Mason Wells envisioned was about an unlikely friendship between a recently widowed cantor in a...
Aug. 19, 2024 15:11 PM EDT
In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who finds a strange kinship with a much older widow ( Carol Kane ) seeking her bat mitzvah.
Yes, that old...