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In the ’70s and early ’80s, the era that defined him, Stephen King came up with a whole lot of horror-story metaphors for anger. There was Carrie, the angry telekinetic nerd-turned-pranked-prom-demon, and Christine the angry car, and Cujo the angry dog, and the novel that was the greatest of King’s rage mythologies — “The Shining,” published in 1977, which was all about the hidden anger of middle-class men, with the frustrated aspiring writer Jack Torrance (not a domestic abuser but the sort of man who would have a few drinks and then yank his son’s arm too forcefully) standing in for what was at the time a new awareness of the ideology of masculine fury. Jack Torrance was a portrait in the self-justifying nature of toxic male anger, which is why the gothic tale of his descent still resonates.

And then there’s “Firestarter.” It was a novel about a...

Geoffrey Johnson, whose Johnson-Liff Casting was behind the roles for Cats, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera, Broadway’s three longest-running shows, died Friday, Nov. 26. He was 91 and passed from respiratory failure at Henry J. Carter Hospital in New York.

Johnson’s log career saw him appear on Broadway as an actor. He also worked with David Merrick as a stage manager and casting director and served as Noël Coward’s US representative.

Born in New York City on June 23, 1930, and raised in Larchmont NY, he received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an Mfa from the Yale School of Drama.

From there, he worked as an actor, appearing in Saint Joan on Broadway in 1956,

He was also the stage manager of several Broadway shows including Cactus Flower and I Do, I Do.

His work as a stage manager led him to Noël Coward, with whom...

William “Biff” McGuire, whose Broadway career spanned over seven decades and included a role in the original 1958 South Pacific, died according to a statement released on April 1. He was 94.

His death was announced by the Seattle Rep, a theater that McGuire shared a long history with. He performed in over 30 productions there, including Saint Joan (1979-80), Noises Off (1986-87), and A Flaw in the Ointment (1993-94). With dozens of films under his belt, he has appeared in scenes with Al Pacino in Serpico, Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair, and Alan Arkin in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Biff was also a regular on television from the late 1940’s to the early 2000’s. In his seventies, he was nominated for two Tony’s for his roles in The Young Man From Atlanta (1997) and Morning’s At Seven (2002).

In 1960, he was cast opposite British actress Jeannie Carson in a 1960 revival of Finian’s Rainbow.

William “Biff” McGuire, whose Broadway career spanned seven decades and included a role in the original South Pacific and Tony-nominated turns in The Young Man From Atlanta and Morning’s at Seven, has died. He was 94.

McGuire’s death was announced by the Seattle Rep, for whom he performed in more than 30 productions, including Life With Father (directed by George Abbott), Saint Joan, Noises Off and A Flaw in the Ointment, starting in the 1970s.

“Reserved, even shy in real life, Biff gained a nearly scary confidence once he stepped on a stage,” former Seattle Rep associate artistic director Doug Hughes said. “He ...

William “Biff” McGuire, whose Broadway career spanned seven decades and included a role in the original South Pacific and Tony-nominated turns in The Young Man From Atlanta and Morning’s at Seven, has died. He was 94.

McGuire’s death was announced by the Seattle Rep, for whom he performed in more than 30 productions, including Life With Father (directed by George Abbott), Saint Joan, Noises Off and A Flaw in the Ointment, starting in the 1970s.

“Reserved, even shy in real life, Biff gained a nearly scary confidence once he stepped on a stage,” former Seattle Rep associate artistic director Doug Hughes said. “He ...

Exclusive: Bedlam, the small, critically acclaimed Off Broadway theater company known for its clever, spare and unconventional stagings of classics like The Crucible and Saint Joan, is developing Bedlam: The Series, an eight-episode New Media mash-up of Shakespeare plays using the Bard’s own language.

The series, to be released on an as-yet-unannounced platform, begins filming this month in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley.

Written by Bedlam artistic director Eric Tucker and Musa Gurnis and directed by Tucker, the series will combine characters and plots from King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice and other plays in an all-new story.

“As a theatre company, most immediately, we need to adapt to our current situation and find ways of staying alive,” Tucker said, “creating content that serves our mission and vision, while assuring the well-being and livelihood of our regular artists and staff.

Producer-star Richard Widmark may have thought he was inventing a new kind of spy film but his adaptation of an Alistair MacLean novel just grinds the Cold War grist, mixing good atmosphere with unconvincing action derring-do. The handsome production makes good use of Austrian and Swiss locations and the unfamiliar cast is a big assist. German star Sonja Ziemann gets the plum role, but Hollywood’s discovery is the lovely Senta Berger.

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1961 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date October 27, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Richard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Regnier, Walter Rilla, Senta Berger, Howard Vernon, Hubert von Meyerinck, Oskar Wegrostek, Stefan Schnabel, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Ady Berber, Jochen Brockman, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Herbert Fux.

Cinematography: Max Greene

Film Editor: Aaron Stell

Original Music: Johnny Williams

Written by Jean Hazelwood from the novel by Alistair MacLean

Produced by Richard Widmark

Directed by Phil Karlson...

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Many recognize Condola Rashad from her Tony-nominated performances in Saint Joan, A Doll's House, Part 2, The Trip to Bountiful, and Stick Fly or as Kate Stacker on Showtime's Billions, but few know her music alter ego Dola. However, that's all about to change. On July 22, the 33-year-old dropped her debut EP, Space Daughter, featuring five tracks titled "Blue," "Give Up the Gold," "Running in Place," "What I Said," and "Too Fire." Along with the songs, Rashad released accompanying music videos for each track, and they're all so visually stunning. Personally, my favorite is "Blue."

Ahead of the album's release, Popsugar chatted with Rashad about everything from how Space Daughter came into fruition to what she hopes fans take away from the EP. She also explained how her collaboration with Samsung has helped her stay inspired and connected during the pandemic.

[Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for “Bunny Lake Is Missing,” but they don’t take the fun out of this movie.]

With readers turning to their home viewing options more than ever, this daily feature provides one new movie each day worth checking out on a major streaming platform.

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Otto Preminger’s “Bunny Lake Is Missing,” aside from introducing The Zombies to the moviegoing world, is probably most famous for its final 20 minutes, a cascade of nonsensical psychological hairpin turns that merge to become a quite stunning pile-up car-crash of “is this really happening?” moments. That’s the ghoulish fun of this unhinged movie, which provides the most toxic brother-sister codependency plot this side of Shakespeare or Hitchcock’s darkest nightmares.

While Preminger has at...

Pop culture creates goddesses only to offer them up for sacrifice, and over the course of her career, Kristen Stewart has no doubt gotten close enough to that pyre to smell the brimstone. So she’s a natural to play Jean Seberg in “Seberg,” about the Iowa girl who became an international movie star, only to be targeted and ultimately destroyed by the FBI because of her affiliation with the Black Panthers.

And while “Seberg” is rarely as great as its lead actress, the film does shed light on a tragic corner of American history that’s not discussed nearly enough — the U.S. citizens who had their lives shattered by J. Edgar Hoover’s secret Cointelpro (counter-intelligence program) surveillance that targeted anyone the FBI considered “subversive,” be they Vietnam War protesters, black or indigenous activists, even environmentalists.

Jean Seberg’s life comes with its own built-in metaphor: She began...

‘Tidelands’.

The nominees for this year’s Australian Production Design Guild (Apdg) Awards have been unveiled, with 140 nominees across 19 categories.

Those behind the worlds of Hotel Mumbai, Judy and Punch, Ladies in Black and Storm Boy are in contention for the best production design on a feature film award, while those who helped to put together A Place To Call Home (Season 6), Black Mirror: Striking Vipers, Bloom and Tidelands will vie for the equivalent award in TV/web series.

Overall, Netflix series Tidelands leads with four nominations, while feature films I Am Mother and Ladies In Black have three each.

Apdg president George Liddle said: ‘The guild is thrilled to represent all the talent from the diverse areas of design and to highlight and award the outstanding work produced over the last year in our annual awards.”

Hosted by Mc Adam Eliot, the Apdg Awards will be held on December...

Sneak Peek "Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart as 'French New Wave' darling and "Breathless" star, Jean Seberg, who was hounded by the FBI, directed by Benedict Andrews, co-starring Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz, Anthony Mackie and Vince Vaughn, opening December 13, 2019:

"....inspired by real events about the 'Saint Joan' actress, 'French New Wave' darling and 'Breathless' star, Jean Seberg, in the late 1960's was targeted, smeared and destroyed by the 'FBI', because of her political and romantic involvement with a civil rights activist..."

Cast also includes Yvan Attal, Stephen Root, Cornelius Smith Jr., Jade Pettyjohn, Ser'Darius Blain and James Jordan.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Seberg"...

In today’s film news roundup, Kristen Stewart’s “Seberg” is getting a prime release date from Amazon and John Simmons, Debra Kaufman and Joe Alves have been selected for guild honors.

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Amazon Studios has given Kristen Stewart’s independent political thriller “Seberg” an awards-season release date of Dec. 13.

Amazon bought the film at the Berlin Film Festival. Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Colm Meaney, Zazie Beetz, Vince Vaughn, Stephen Root, and Yvan Attal are also starring. Benedict Andrews directed from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.

Stewart stars as actress Jean Seberg who clashes with the FBI as it attempts to discredit her through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party. Those efforts included creating a false story in 1970 that the child Seberg was carrying was not fathered by her husband, but by a member of the Black Panther Party.

Amazon Studios is dating Benedict Andrews’ Jean Seberg biopic “Seberg,” starring Kristen Stewart as the Hollywood actress turned political target of the title, for award season prime time on December 13. (Deadline has the scoop.)

Poorly reviewed out of the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Andrews’ true-to-life drama about Seberg’s frantic descent into paranoia after becoming the target of an FBI counter-intelligence probe in the late 1960s faces an uphill box-office climb during the noisy awards fray; Amazon is more likely branding the title for eventual Prime availability.

“Seberg” is inspired by the real events about the French New Wave ingénue and icon discovered by Otto Preminger (who tortured her on the set of 1957’s “Saint Joan” and 1958’s “Bonjour Tristesse”) and Jean-Luc Godard (1960’s earth-shaking “Breathless”). Andrews’ film, from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (scribes behind 2010’s Halle Berry-starrer “Frankie and...

“Who is Jean Seberg?” a reporter asks the eponymous movie star midway through “Seberg,” attempting to close a puffy promotional interview for “Paint Your Wagon” with some semblance of personal insight. She doesn’t get to answer, as Seberg’s publicist swiftly calls time on the question: “Let’s just keep it about the movie,” he instructs. It’s one of many moments in Benedict Andrews’ slick, diverting portrait in which Seberg is shown to be treated as a product, a pawn or a patsy, handled by men in their own best interests rather than hers. And yet “Seberg” does something a little similar to that protective publicist: Every time it threatens to truly pierce the psyche of its subject, played with typically intriguing, elusory intelligence by Kristen Stewart, the more ordinary mechanics of the movie she’s serving get in the way.

In fairness, those mechanics are more movie-ish...

Keeping up its buying spree, Amazon Studios has acquired Kristen Stewart’s independent political thriller “Against All Enemies.”

The deal was closed Friday at the Berlin Film Festival with UTA Independent Film Group negotiating with Amazon on behalf of the filmmaking team and financiers. Amazon Studios was the most active buyer at the recently concluded Sundance Film Festival, closing deals for “Late Night,” “The Report,” “Brittany Runs a Marathon,” “Honey Boy,” and “One Child Nation.”

Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, and Colm Meaney are also starring in “Against All Enemies.” Benedict Andrews directed from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse. Stewart stars as actress Jean Seberg, and the story centers on attempts by the FBI to discredit Seberg through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party.

Jean-Luc Godard quipped that his criticism represented a kind of cinematic terrorism. Serge Daney said his writing taught him not to be afraid to see. The Parisian publishing house Post-Éditions has made available a long overdue collection of his articles in French to decide for ourselves. Jacques Rivette became a filmmaker even before he became a critic. When he came to Paris from Rouen in 1950, he had already completed a short film, unlike Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer or Chabrol, his colleagues-to-be at Cahiers du cinéma and later fellow New Wave directors. By his own admission, he never wanted to be a film critic, not in the traditional sense of the term. But, considering his own dictum that “a true critique of a film can only be another film,” he never ceased to be one. Textes Critiques as an object has the appearance of a cinephilic totem: half-a foot in size, portable,...

“The Band’s Visit” emerged as the big winner at the 72nd Annual Tony Awards, winning 10 prizes, including Best Musical.

The show, based on a 2007 movie about an Egyptian band that mistakenly finds itself in an isolated village in Israel, also earned prizes for its lead performers, “Monk” star Tony Shalhoub and Katrina Lenk, as well as supporting player Itamar Moses.

Director David Cromer, composer David Yazbek, book writer Itamar Moses were recognized in addition to the show’s orchestrations, sound and lighting design.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the two-part drama that extended J.K. Rowling’s beloved wizard franchise to Broadway, won six awards, including Best Play. The hit show, which broke the record in its London run by winning nine Olivier Awards, also won prizes for director John Tiffany, as well as for scenic, costume, lighting and sound design.

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The 72nd annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 10 at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Two previous nominees, composer Sara Bareilles (“Waitress”) and actor Josh Groban, hosted the ceremony that aired on CBS.

While the nominees for these top theater kudos were determined by 51 theater professionals, the winners were voted on by 846 members of the Broadway community. Below, is the full and complete list of 2018 Tonys winners in each of the 26 competitive categories.

See 2018 Tonys online: How to watch 72nd Tony Awards live stream without a TV

Heading into the evening, the British import “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” led among plays with a whopping 10 nominations. That is twice the haul of its closest rival for Best Play, “Farinelli and the King.” Two new musicals – “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” — earned a leading 12 Tony Awards nominations apiece while a third, “The Band’s Visit,” had to...

Vince Vaughn has come on board the independent political thriller “Against All Enemies,” starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg.

International sales have launched at the Cannes Film Festival through Memento Films International. UTA is repping U.S. rights.

Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Margaret Qualley, Zazie Beetz and Colm Meaney are also starring. Benedict Andrews is directing from a script by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse.

The story centers on attempts by the FBI to discredit Seberg through its Cointelpro program in retaliation for her support of the Black Panther Party. Those efforts included creating a false story in 1970 that the child Seberg was carrying was not fathered by her husband, but by a member of the Black Panther Party.

Vaughn will play Carl Kowalski, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation. Mackie will portray a civil rights activist, and O’Connell has been cast as an FBI agent assigned to surveil the actress.

Both Erika Henningsen and Taylor Louderman of Broadway’s Mean Girls will be Tony-eligible for the leading actress in a musical award, the Tony Awards Administration Committee determined in its fourth and final eligibility meetings for the current Broadway season.

The Mean Girls ruling was one of 10 determinations made, which are announced without explanation. Productions discussed at the meeting were Mean Girls, Children of a Lesser God, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, My Fair Lady, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Travesties, Saint Joan, Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and 1984.

Nominations will be announced Tuesday, May 1. The 72nd Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, will air Sunday, June 10, 8 Pm Et/delayed Pt on CBS.

Here are the final eligibility determinations, mostly addressing whether particular performances fall in the leading or featured categories, made the committee:

Erika...

The 84th annual Drama League Awards will herald in a particularly distinguished group of theatermakers, judging by the list of nominees announced this morning. Presented by Harriet Harris, Julie White, and Christopher Sieber at Sardi’s Restaurant, the list of 2018 nominees include both Broadway and Off-Broadway greats. Among those in contention for this year’s Tony Awards are several Broadway productions opening this spring: “Carousel,” “My Fair Lady,” “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical,” “Mean Girls,” “Frozen,” “Travesties,” “Saint Joan,” “Three Tall Women,” “Lobby Hero,” “The Iceman Cometh,” “Children of a Lesser God,” “Angels in America,” “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two.” The Drama League’s list of nominees for the Distinguished Performance Award, which annually recognize the season’s best actors, include several stars who will be eligible for 2018 Tony nominations. As the distinction can only be given once in an actor’s lifetime, the League also...

Passover and Easter week gave the Broadway box office plenty to celebrate, with the holidays — and the academic spring breaks that are often timed to them — driving up sales by a whopping 18% compared to the previous week.

The street’s overall gross shot up by more than $6.5 million to $42 million for 35 shows now playing, with attendance up 9% to 319,605, or 95% of the total capacity for all shows. An influx of holiday-weekend city visitors helps account for that spike, as does the spring’s spate of buzzy new titles turning theatergoers’ heads.

Among the new attractions inflating those numbers were two yet-to-open titles that are already drawing crowds and carving out spots in the top 10: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” ($1,589,033 for six previews), doing exactly the kind of blockbuster business everyone expected it to, and “Mean Girls” ($1,468,683), the much-anticipated adaptation of Tina Fey’s screen comedy that opens Sunday. Disney...

I am excited to be premiering Janus Films’ brand new poster for their re-release of The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of my all-time favorite films and one of the most beautiful films ever made. Designed by Eric Skillman, the new poster is simplicity itself, relying on a single still of Maria Falconetti as Joan in her most iconic pose, and although the beauty of Dreyer’s masterpiece is that almost any still from the film would be poster-worthy, this one is perfect. It’s the clarity of the image that carries the poster, and which whets the appetite for the digital restoration it heralds, but the type block below is suitably elegant and restrained.I did a previous feature on the film a few years ago, concentrating on the artwork of the great René Péron, but there are a number of other wonderful designs for the film which...

Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have announced on-sale dates for Manhattan Theatre Club's new Broadway production of Saint Joan, written by Nobel Prize in Literature and Academy Award winner Bernard Shaw and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, Proof, starring three-time Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad A Doll's House, Part 2, 'Billions'.

NoPassport Theatre Alliance and Press presents reading of Obie-winner Caridad Svich's new play Fuel starring Jo Lampert Saint Joan, the Public, Alex Esola A View From The Bridge, Broadway, Luis Vega Tell Hector I Miss Him, Atlantic Theater Company, Sofia Jean Gomez Angels In America Parts 1 and 2, Signature Theatre Company, and Charlie Pollock TV's The Good Wife on October 4,...

Manhattan Theatre Club will produce a new Broadway production of Saint Joan, written by Nobel Prize in Literature and Academy Award winner Bernard Shaw and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, Proof, starring three-time Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad A Doll's House, Part 2, 'Billions'.

Happy Birthday, Danny Burstein On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side 1992, Yakov in The Seagull 1992-93, in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse both in 1993, Paul in Company 1995, 1st Officer William Murdoch in Titanic 1997-99, Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone 2006-07, Luther Billis in South Pacific 2008-10, and Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 2010-11. He played the role of Buddy Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies, which went on to play Broadway's Marquis Theatre and La's Ahmanson Theatre. He is currently starring in the Roundabout revival of Cabaret, for which he earned a 2014 Tony nomination.

Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.NEWSFinally! New to the Criterion Collection is Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer's Day, one of the most important yet hard-to-see films of the 1990s. Also included in the recent announcement were Jacques Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us and Les Blank's A Poem Is a Naked Person.There's a new Kickstarter for "first publication on the films of Ola Balogun, the pioneer of Nigerian cinema, analysing/discovering his magical cinema."FESTIVALSThe Berlin International Film Festival Poster: The Golden Bear on the prowl! Meanwhile, more films for the Berlinale have been announced, as well as the theme—"Traversing the Phantasm"—for the essential Forum Expanded section.The 2016 Locarno Film Festival isn't until next August but we're already tantalized for their newly revealed retrospective, "Beloved and Rejected," dedicated to post-WW2 German...

Danièle Delorme and Jean Gabin in 'Deadlier Than the Male.' Danièle Delorme movies (See previous post: “Danièle Delorme: 'Gigi' 1949 Actress Became Rare Woman Director's Muse.”) “Every actor would like to make a movie with Charles Chaplin or René Clair,” Danièle Delorme explains in the filmed interview (ca. 1960) embedded further below, adding that oftentimes it wasn't up to them to decide with whom they would get to work. Yet, although frequently beyond her control, Delorme managed to collaborate with a number of major (mostly French) filmmakers throughout her six-decade movie career. Aside from her Jacqueline Audry films discussed in the previous Danièle Delorme article, below are a few of her most notable efforts – usually playing naive-looking young women of modest means and deceptively inconspicuous sexuality, whose inner character may or may not match their external appearance. Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (“Open for Inventory Causes,” 1946), an unreleased, no-budget comedy notable...

'Saint Joan': Constance Cummings as the George Bernard Shaw heroine. Constance Cummings on stage: From sex-change farce and Emma Bovary to Juliet and 'Saint Joan' (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Frank Capra, Mae West and Columbia Lawsuit.”) In the mid-1930s, Constance Cummings landed the title roles in two of husband Benn W. Levy's stage adaptations: Levy and Hubert Griffith's Young Madame Conti (1936), starring Cummings as a demimondaine who falls in love with a villainous character. She ends up killing him – or does she? Adapted from Bruno Frank's German-language original, Young Madame Conti was presented on both sides of the Atlantic; on Broadway, it had a brief run in spring 1937 at the Music Box Theatre. Based on the Gustave Flaubert novel, the Theatre Guild-produced Madame Bovary (1937) was staged in late fall at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre. Referring to the London production of Young Madame Conti, The...

Most plays about religion are really about politics or psychopathology. In Saint Joan, Agnes of God, and Doubt, for instance, it’s not dogma that gets dramatized — how could it be? Theology is glacial. Instead, we are shown real-world consequences of intense belief, including damage done to innocent bystanders. But in his extraordinary new play The Christians at Playwrights Horizons, Lucas Hnath grapples directly with dogma itself. There’s no pedophilia, no stigmata, no financial shenanigans with the collection plate; the fate of France is not involved. There’s just a question for a congregation to answer: How do we change and yet remain faithful?The question arises when Pastor Paul, the leader of a middle-American megachurch that’s just finished paying off the debt on its new building, announces a new policy to go with it: “We are no longer a congregation that believes in Hell.” In the 20-minute...

Child actor Dickie Moore: 'Our Gang' member. Former child actor Dickie Moore dead at 89: Film career ranged from 'Our Gang' shorts to features opposite Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper 1930s child actor Dickie Moore, whose 100+ movie career ranged from Our Gang shorts to playing opposite the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck, and Gary Cooper, died in Connecticut on Sept. 7, '15 – five days before his 90th birthday. So far, news reports haven't specified the cause of death. According to a 2013 Boston Phoenix article about Moore's wife, MGM musical star Jane Powell, he had been “suffering from arthritis and bouts of dementia.” Dickie Moore movies At the behest of a persistent family friend, combined with the fact that his father was out of a job, Dickie Moore (born on Sept. 12, 1925, in Los Angeles) made his film debut as an infant in Alan Crosland's 1927 costume drama The Beloved Rogue,...

Happy Birthday, Danny Burstein On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side 1992, Yakov in The Seagull 1992-93, in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse both in 1993, Paul in Company 1995, 1st Officer William Murdoch in Titanic 1997-99, Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone 2006-07, Luther Billis in South Pacific 2008-10, and Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 2010-11. He played the role of Buddy Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies, which went on to play Broadway's Marquis Theatre and La's Ahmanson Theatre. He is currently starring in the Roundabout revival of Cabaret, for which he earned a 2014 Tony nomination.

The Egot is great. There’s no denying that. It’s the American entertainment grand slam, and the rarity with which it’s earned (12 people) only adds to its elite status. Tracy Jordan was right. But there’s another award mash-up that’s so elite only one person has ever done it. That award combo is the Onk, and that person is George Bernard Shaw. Shaw is the only person to win an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, and he was offered a Knighthood for good measure. Shaw earned the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 for — as is the case with many recipients — his overall body of work up to that point, which included a healthy amount of vibrant novels and plays that explored the human capacity for hope within a twisting satirical viewpoint of social norms. The award came on the heels of his “Saint Joan,” a moving play based on the life of Joan of...

Above: a sultry new poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice. Dumb and Dumber To has opened to unsurprisingly mixed reviews, but Farrelly brothers champion R. Emmet Sweeney makes a case for the long awaited sequel for Film Comment:

"Dumb and Dumber To is about a deep, abiding friendship that can survive any indignities. After Harry and Lloyd’s journey is over, they’ve tossed away fortunes and frittered away kidneys, but they need each other to survive. As each momentary acquaintance slinks, or runs, away, it’s up to Harry and Lloyd to forget and move on. Or as is the case for Lloyd, to think about ninjas and wake up licking the grill of a big rig. Either way they can’t live without each other. And though they could never admit it, or even form the words in their desiccated cortexes, what they have is something like love.

In some of the first moments of Mark Rappaport’s winsome exploration From the Journals of Jean Seberg you see Jean Seberg’s first screen test. She’s seventeen and auditioning for Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan. The film was the actress’s screen debut and a highly publicized one at that. Preminger was known for buzz-making and the director had launched a public casting call half America’s actresses attended with crosses and pixie cuts. In the screen test, Seberg says she wants to be an actress “very badly,” and smiles with tangible charm. It’s bittersweet to see her hopeful, because you know in years to come, that seventeen year old will age and struggle to find work. Her philanthropy will get her on the FBI’s Cointelpro list. And, one day, in Paris, she’ll take too many sleeping pills and be found dead in her car...

In some of the first moments of Mark Rappaport’s winsome exploration From the Journals of Jean Seberg you see Jean Seberg’s first screen test. She’s seventeen and auditioning for Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan. The film was the actress’s screen debut and a highly publicized one at that. Preminger was known for buzz-making and the director had launched a public casting call half America’s actresses attended with crosses and pixie cuts. In the screen test, Seberg says she wants to be an actress “very badly,” and smiles with tangible charm. It’s bittersweet to see her hopeful, because you know in years to come, that seventeen year old will age and struggle to find work. Her philanthropy will get her on the FBI’s Cointelpro list. And, one day, in Paris, she’ll take too many sleeping pills and be found dead in her car...

Happy Birthday, Danny Burstein On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side 1992, Yakov in The Seagull 1992-93, in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse both in 1993, Paul in Company 1995, 1st Officer William Murdoch in Titanic 1997-99, Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone 2006-07, Luther Billis in South Pacific 2008-10, and Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 2010-11. He played the role of Buddy Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies, which went on to play Broadway's Marquis Theatre and La's Ahmanson Theatre. He is currently starring in the Roundabout revival of Cabaret, for which he earned a 2014 Tony nomination.

With the run-up to The 50th Anniversary Episode of Dr. Who on Saturday, The Day of the Doctor has been dominating our Twitter and Facebook timelines but it’s taken those clever people at PR agency Way to Blue some time to compile a list of all this data to reveal some rather interesting stats, not least that during it’s broadcast, the show received over 1 million Twitter mentions.

Please note, spoilers are contained below so if you havne’t seen the episode yet, be warned!

They’ve collated a list of all media mentions of the show across the biggest Social Media platforms used today and their findings are below including working out which moments in the show caused the biggest stir. They have worked out which of the Dr. Who actors had the most mentions, and which countries were most involved. If you missed our top ten wish...

Happy Birthday, Danny Burstein On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side 1992, Yakov in The Seagull 1992-93, in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse both in 1993, Paul in Company 1995, 1st Officer William Murdoch in Titanic 1997-99, Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone 2006-07, Luther Billis in South Pacific 2008-10, and Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 2010-11. He played the role of Buddy Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies, which went on to play Broadway's Marquis Theatre and La's Ahmanson Theatre.

The New York premiere of Tina Packer's Women of Will - a groundbreaking exploration of Shakespeare's canon - written by Ms. Packer and directed by Eric Tucker 'Saint Joan' will begin preview performances on January 27 prior to an official press opening of February 3 and running through June 2 Off-Broadway at The Gym at Judson 243 Thompson Street, it has been announced by the show's producer Sarah Hancock and its creatorstar Tina Packer.The cast just met the press and you can check out photos from the festivities below...

Happy Birthday, Danny Burstein On Broadway, Burstein's appearances have included A Little Hotel on the Side 1992, Yakov in The Seagull 199293, in Saint Joan and Three Men on a Horse both in 1993, Paul in Company 1995, 1st Officer William Murdoch in Titanic 199799, Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone 200607, Luther Billis in South Pacific 200810, and Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 201011. He played the role of Buddy Plummer in the Kennedy Center production of Follies, which went on to play Broadway's Marquis Theatre and La's Ahmanson Theatre.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Chilean-born director Costanza Hola Chamy’s clever interpretation of Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan is currently on at The Rose Theatre and is not to be missed. In a nutshell, the play is about the life, trials and execution of Joan of Arc. Hola chose to put a modern spin on it and characterised St. Joan (Suzanne Marie) as the kind of punk chick you could see roaming the streets of Camden Town today. I found this choice to be an ingenious match for the rebellious spirit Joan has come to represent and surprisingly it didn’t clash with the 600 year old story being told on stage.

From the first scene, the hyper-energetic tone is set when we are greeted with rhythmic Brazilian music and the hilariously expressive fatigue-clad Roberta (Cornelia Baumann) who dances and jogs her way across the stage creating the minimal set of...

Ever since I first wrote about the work of Sam Smith, back in 2009, I have been wanting to work with him in my capacity (in my other life) as the design director for Zeitgeist Films. In the two and a half years since then, Sam Smith has become one of the most sought-after designers on the independent film circuit with his refreshingly simple, witty and indelibly striking hand-drawn designs (it doesn’t hurt that he also has a great knowledge of both film history and the history of movie poster design). A few months ago I finally got the chance when we decided that we wanted something out of the ordinary to promote our new release of Andrey Zvyagintsev's Elena.

Zvyagintsev’s dark and beautiful film premiered at Cannes last year where it won the Special Jury Prize. For our release this May (it opens next week in the U.

Saint Joan (at the Access Theater at 380 Broadway through May 13)Do you have three-plus hours for Joan of Arc, i.e., the George Bernard Shaw liberal-individualist version? Believe me, you do. And I have four actors for you: Andrus Nichols (as Joan), Tom O’Keefe, Ted Lewis, and Eric Tucker (who also directs). This doughty quartet, armed with minimal costume and light and no set to speak of, burn like meteors through Shaw’s meta-historic epic. Oh, for a muse of muslin! Without a flat or a caster, the Bedlam theater company works genuine miracles. Can the unworthy scaffold of the Access Theater bring forth so great an object? Can a cockpit that looks like it’s hosted actual cockfights hold the vast fields of France? You bet it can.In this brisk, lucid, and (for once, appropriately) declamatory production, Shaw’s uncompromising humanism and unshakeable faith in the power...

9 Great Posters for 9 Not-So-Great Movies (that I Haven't Seen) If you missed it, yesterday I explored 11 great posters from 11 not-so-great movies, and I promised today I would take a slightly different angle at the same idea. Yesterday's 11 posters were for films I had seen, today's collection come from nine films I have never seen and I can't take full credit for this list. After I had compiled a list of my own I reached out to a few friends and one of them provided me a Ton of suggestions, several of which I had never seen. David Frank, who used to provide content on a regular basis for me, is a big poster buff and of the nine posters here, he suggested seven of them. As for the other two, well, I'll explain below and perhaps in too much detail on one of them. This list also differs from my...

The Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Falk has passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 83. Although no cause of death has been released, the screen veteran, who was best known for his portrayal as the TV detective Columbo, had been battling dementia and Alzheimer's disease for some time.

Born in New York City in 1927, Falk began his career as a stage actor in community theatre and by the mid 1950s he was building a reputation with well-received performances in Broadway plays such as Diary of a Scoundrel and Saint Joan. Falk would eventually be honoured with a Tony Award for 1972's The Prisoner of Second Avenue, but it was on the screen where he would enjoy his biggest successes, beginning with an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Murder Inc. (1960), a feat he repeated the following year with Pocketful of Miracles (1961).

On the small screen,...

While Little J has been notoriously missing in action from the latest "Gossip Girl" action, we can now sneak a peek at what she's been up to.

Taylor Momsen and her band, The Pretty Reckless, physically released their debut album in the Us on Tuesday (Apr. 12). "Light Me Up" has garnered some rave reviews over in the UK, where it spent 6 consecutive weeks at the top of their rock chart. Now, rockers on this side of the pond are starting to take notice of the band.

"Not since Saint Joan of Jett first grabbed a guitar has hard rock sounded this sexy," writes the New York Post. Interested yet?

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Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2010.

How in the world did director Szabolcs Hajdu convince investors to give him the money to make his new film, "Bibliotheque Pascal?" Given its highly unconventional style and incredibly horrific subject matter, I can only assume Hajdu is one of the most charming and persuasive salesmen in the entire world. Oh to be a fly on the wall of that pitch meeting:

Investors: So what do you have for us?

Szabolcs Hajdu: I want to make a film about people who can project their dreams into other people's minds.

I: Oh great. That's interesting. So where does the story go?

Sh: To an underground sex club in England where women are kept as slaves.

I: Um, wow. Ok. I don't know that I see the connection to the dream projection but --

Sh: And there's also some fairy tale stuff in there as well.

I: That's fine.