USC cancels filmmaker’s keynote amid controversy over canceled valedictorian speech
USC announced the cancellation of a keynote speech by filmmaker Jon M. Chu just days after making the choice to keep the student valedictorian, who expressed support for Palestinians, from speaking.
Remembering documentary filmmaker Eleanor Coppola
Coppola, who died April 12, was an assistant art director on the 1963 film Dementia 13 when she met, and soon married, its director, Francis Ford Coppola. Originally broadcast in 1992.
‘We Grown Now’ imbues hope in a coming-of-age story in a Chicago housing project
A gently poetic coming-of-age story, We Grown Now chronicles an adolescent friendship in Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing project in the early 1990s.
What makes a good courtroom drama
With former president Trump’s real-life legal drama unfolding in New York, here are some of Hollywood’s best courtroom dramas for some low-stakes intrigue.
Journalist says we’re ‘basically guinea pigs’ for a new form of industrialized food
Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser says mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated and sometimes dangerous. His new documentary is Food, Inc. 2.
‘The Beast’ jumps from 1910, to 2014, to 2044, tracking fear through the ages
This wildly original adaptation of the Henry James novella The Beast in the Jungle follows human alienation and anxiety, asking why, in every era, we disengage from life and the people around us.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM, celebrates its 100th anniversary
The Hollywood Heritage Museum is showcasing the studio’s history. Highlights include personal items and costumes worn by Golden Age stars including Humphrey Bogart, Mae West and Clark Gable.
‘The Long Game’: Story of Mexican American high schoolers who became golf champs
In 1957, a group of Mexican American high school students overcame racist barriers to win the Texas state golf championship. The story is told in the new film The Long Game.
Why Patricia Highsmith’s most famous creature, Tom Ripley, continues to fascinate
Sinister and visually stunning, the new Netflix series Ripley reminds us why Patricia Highsmith’s book The Talented Mr. Ripley continues to influence popular culture.
‘Rust’ armorer, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in March, faces sentencing
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of the movie Rust, is to be sentenced Monday for her role in the accidental shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
David and Nathen Zellner on their absurdist film ‘Sasquatch Sunset’
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks with David and Nathen Zellner about their new, absurd film “Sasquatch Sunset,” which is about a family of sasquatches.
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