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'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer
NEW YORK (AP) — When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted. Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned...
In 'Ibelin' and 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' video game realms draw filmmakers with virtual cameras
NEW YORK (AP) — Film productions often wrestle with shifts in the weather, the threat of the crew going into overtime or the fading of a day’s light. Less common are concerns over the cast slipping off the top of a blimp. But that was one of the quirks of making “Grand Theft...
Christopher Reeve's kids wanted to be 'honest, raw and vulnerable' in new documentary 'Super/Man'
NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Reeve’s children say they made a point to include all the complexities of their father’s life — his strengths and weaknesses — in the new documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” — because that’s what he would have wanted. The...
Partial remains of British climber believed found 100 years after Everest ascent
LONDON (AP) — Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest, a century after their attempt on the world's highest peak, according to an expedition led by National...
Alfonso Cuarón and Cate Blanchett made a television series. 'Disclaimer' is already a triumph
VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Disclaimer” pulls the rug out from the audience before they’ve had the chance to get settled. There’s no building of empathy for its central character, Cate Blanchett’s Catherine Ravenscroft. There’s no luxuriating in her banal every day, at work...
In 'Piece by Piece,' Pharrell finds Lego fits his life story
TORONTO (AP) — When Pharrell Williams and Morgan Neville decided to embark on a movie about Williams’ life but animated in Lego pieces, they knew there would be culture shocks. But making “Piece by Piece” still led to some places that neither Williams, Neville or Lego could foresee. ...
Movie Review: 'Piece by Piece,' a very odd Lego doc about Pharrell Williams snaps together somehow
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand. “Piece by Piece” is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a...
In time for Oct. 7 anniversary, a new film documents Hamas' attack on Israel music festival
NEW YORK (AP) — Horror came with sunrise following an all-night rave near the Gaza border on Oct. 7, 2023, the Hamas attack presaged by rockets that some young people mistakenly thought were fireworks. A new documentary shows the attack unfold over the next hours in...
Barbra Streisand approves multi-part documentary that will draw upon her archives
NEW YORK (AP) — A year after telling her story in a 1,000-page memoir, Barbra Streisand has approved a multi-part documentary about her life — to be directed by fellow Oscar winner Frank Marshall. The documentary, announced Thursday by Sony Music Vision, is...
John Leguizamo reaches back in time to reclaim Latin American history for a PBS documentary series
NEW YORK (AP) — If you think Latin American history starts with Christopher Columbus, John Leguizamo would like to have a word. He points out there were great empires and civilizations during the thousands of years before 1492 — like the mighty Incas, Aztecs and Maya, whose great...
