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Here, then, are a few of the upcoming dates for new movies on DVD and Blu-ray that may not yet have been officially announced. Note...
Here, then, are a few of the upcoming dates for new movies on DVD and Blu-ray that may not yet have been officially announced. Note that all dates are for the UK.
Also: We’ve started adding affiliate links. If you click on those, we benefit, and can spend more money paying more people to write more things for this website. No pressure, just hugely obliged.
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Just released
First Time On UK Blu-ray: No Way Out (Film Stories Blu-ray #2)
First Time On UK Blu-ray: Bull Durham (Film Stories Blu-ray #3)
Here, then, are a few of the upcoming dates for new movies on DVD and Blu-ray that may not yet have been officially announced. Note...
- 6/8/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Marlon Brando – the man whom Time magazine crowned the greatest actor of the 20th century back in 1998 – would be celebrating his 100th birthday today had he not died 20 years ago. Born on April 3, 1924, Brando was a fascinating if divisive character, a perpetually enigmatic figure whose impact not only on the acting profession but on American popular culture itself can’t be overstated. He starred in numerous iconic roles, from Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Desire” to Terry Malloy in “On the Waterfront” to Julius Caesar in “Julius Caesar” to Vito Corleone in “The Godfather.”
While he wound up nominated for eight Academy Awards and six Golden Globes and won two of each, it was the one honor Brando rejected, of course, that came to define his awards legacy: his Best Actor win for “The Godfather” in 1973 in which he sent actress and purported Native American representative Sacheen Littlefeather (a.
While he wound up nominated for eight Academy Awards and six Golden Globes and won two of each, it was the one honor Brando rejected, of course, that came to define his awards legacy: his Best Actor win for “The Godfather” in 1973 in which he sent actress and purported Native American representative Sacheen Littlefeather (a.
- 4/3/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
On what would be his 100th birthday, Marlon Brando remains synonymous not with acting, but great acting — even if this ranked list of all his performances represents what may be the most wildly uneven filmography for any talent of his caliber. But that’s the power of Brando: A handful of his performances are so great and influential they shook up the art of acting forever. Even among his lesser performances, there’s compelling work deserving of rediscovery.
In order to best exemplify what made him such a singular onscreen presence, we ranked all 39 of his films (and one TV appearance), reflecting a spectrum as wide as the man’s broad shoulders. Based on the quality of Brando’s performances rather than the overall films themselves, there are some placements that may surprise you; for example, as great as Brando is in “The Godfather,” it’s still just the fourth-best...
In order to best exemplify what made him such a singular onscreen presence, we ranked all 39 of his films (and one TV appearance), reflecting a spectrum as wide as the man’s broad shoulders. Based on the quality of Brando’s performances rather than the overall films themselves, there are some placements that may surprise you; for example, as great as Brando is in “The Godfather,” it’s still just the fourth-best...
- 4/3/2024
- by Wilson Chapman and Noel Murray
- Indiewire
Italy’s Torino Film Festival will celebrate the centennial of Marlon Brando’s birth with a 24-title retrospective of films featuring the groundbreaking two-time Oscar winner, known for his naturalistic acting style and rebellious streak.
The Brando retro will be “the backbone” of the fest, according to its new artistic director, Italian actor/director Giulio Base. Accordingly, an image of Brando – photographed when he was shooting Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” – is featured on the poster for the fest’s upcoming 42nd edition, which will run Nov. 22-30.
Torino is Italy’s preeminent event for young directors and indie cinema, and is where Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino screened their first works. The festival’s lineup will be announced at a later date.
“As an actor, Brando has always been my guiding star and I had been wondering for a while – since way before being appointed at Torino...
The Brando retro will be “the backbone” of the fest, according to its new artistic director, Italian actor/director Giulio Base. Accordingly, an image of Brando – photographed when he was shooting Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” – is featured on the poster for the fest’s upcoming 42nd edition, which will run Nov. 22-30.
Torino is Italy’s preeminent event for young directors and indie cinema, and is where Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino screened their first works. The festival’s lineup will be announced at a later date.
“As an actor, Brando has always been my guiding star and I had been wondering for a while – since way before being appointed at Torino...
- 2/27/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Over the course of her career, Gina Prince-Bythewood has proven she can do it all. Across five films and roughly 20 years, she had made an enduring romantic sports story, a southern family drama, a pop star star-crossed romance, a superhero fantasy action film, and a feminist historical epic. And with every new genre the filmmaker has ticked off her list, Prince-Bythewood has shown a mastery for its particularities every time.
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Pacific Grove, California, Prince-Bythewood attended University of California in Los Angeles, where she studied film and graduated in 1991. After several years as a writer on TV shows like “A Different World” and “South Central,” her first film, 2000’s “Love and Basketball,” was released to critical acclaim. The story of two childhood best friends with a shared love for basketball — and a chronicle of their tumultuous relationship through the years as they both seek...
Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Pacific Grove, California, Prince-Bythewood attended University of California in Los Angeles, where she studied film and graduated in 1991. After several years as a writer on TV shows like “A Different World” and “South Central,” her first film, 2000’s “Love and Basketball,” was released to critical acclaim. The story of two childhood best friends with a shared love for basketball — and a chronicle of their tumultuous relationship through the years as they both seek...
- 2/2/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here – today – we talk about movie Editors! Not the movies they edited that were legendary but the less legendary ones in between.
Today we speak with the great editor Darrin Navarro about the lauded editor Sam O’Steen, who worked on such masterpieces as The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, and Chinatown. The O’Steen-edited films we cover today are: The Day of the Dolphin, Straight Time, Nadine, and A Dry White Season.
Navarro talks about the editing process with William Friedkin (and how it changed a bit with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), how knowing when not to cut is as important as knowing when to cut when editing a film, O’Steen’s essential book Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favourite Movies (written with his wife Bobbie O’Steen), and what a gem of a film Nadine is.
Highlights include...
Today we speak with the great editor Darrin Navarro about the lauded editor Sam O’Steen, who worked on such masterpieces as The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, and Chinatown. The O’Steen-edited films we cover today are: The Day of the Dolphin, Straight Time, Nadine, and A Dry White Season.
Navarro talks about the editing process with William Friedkin (and how it changed a bit with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), how knowing when not to cut is as important as knowing when to cut when editing a film, O’Steen’s essential book Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favourite Movies (written with his wife Bobbie O’Steen), and what a gem of a film Nadine is.
Highlights include...
- 12/28/2023
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Director Euzhan Palcy is speaking out about the reversal of a ban on her 1998 Disney film Ruby Bridges in a St. Petersburg, Florida, elementary school.
“Truth will out!” Palcy, 65, says in a statement issued to The Hollywood Reporter. “I commend the seven Florida teachers for standing up for truth by unanimously clearing Ruby Bridges for screening in the public schools”
“This is a victory for hope as portrayed in my film by the courage of children to turn their backs on bigotry, hatred and racism,” Palcy continues. “The teachers’ action sticks a thorn in the bubble of ignorance in which the enlightened parents wish to surrounded their children. Guess what will happen to those children when that bubble bursts?”
The controversy around Ruby Bridges began last month, when a parent at North Shore Elementary School complained that the film — about the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a New Orleans in...
“Truth will out!” Palcy, 65, says in a statement issued to The Hollywood Reporter. “I commend the seven Florida teachers for standing up for truth by unanimously clearing Ruby Bridges for screening in the public schools”
“This is a victory for hope as portrayed in my film by the courage of children to turn their backs on bigotry, hatred and racism,” Palcy continues. “The teachers’ action sticks a thorn in the bubble of ignorance in which the enlightened parents wish to surrounded their children. Guess what will happen to those children when that bubble bursts?”
The controversy around Ruby Bridges began last month, when a parent at North Shore Elementary School complained that the film — about the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a New Orleans in...
- 4/14/2023
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filmmaker Dee Rees made history on June 29 when her debut feature “Pariah” joined the Criterion Collection, making the Oscar and Emmy nominee the first Black American woman to have her work included. Before Rees, Euzhan Palcy, who is from Martinique, was the lone Black woman to have a film (1989’s “A Dry White Season”) selected.
“It feels like a formal acknowledgment of the film’s impact to the canon and being a part of the culture,” Rees tells Variety of having her movie chosen. “Even though artists have to try to find your validation from inside, it’s nice to be seen.”
And as a Black filmmaker in particular, Rees adds, “it’s important to be included for future generations of filmmakers, if [Criterion] is the thing that’s being taught in schools.”
“When they’re absent, then the assumption is there’s none in existence,” she explains. “There’s no Black filmmakers here,...
“It feels like a formal acknowledgment of the film’s impact to the canon and being a part of the culture,” Rees tells Variety of having her movie chosen. “Even though artists have to try to find your validation from inside, it’s nice to be seen.”
And as a Black filmmaker in particular, Rees adds, “it’s important to be included for future generations of filmmakers, if [Criterion] is the thing that’s being taught in schools.”
“When they’re absent, then the assumption is there’s none in existence,” she explains. “There’s no Black filmmakers here,...
- 7/2/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
With 1989’s A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy became a pioneer: The Martinique-born filmmaker was the first Black woman to direct a studio film; the first Black director to make an Oscar-nominated film; and the only woman to direct Marlon Brando, who emerged from retirement to play a South African civil rights litigator, earning him his eighth and final Oscar nomination (the film’s sole nomination).
It was on the strength of her first movie, 1983’s Sugar Cane Alley, that Afrikaner author André Brink agreed to let Palcy adapt his novel about the crusade for justice of a white man ...
It was on the strength of her first movie, 1983’s Sugar Cane Alley, that Afrikaner author André Brink agreed to let Palcy adapt his novel about the crusade for justice of a white man ...
- 5/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With 1989’s A Dry White Season, Euzhan Palcy became a pioneer: The Martinique-born filmmaker was the first Black woman to direct a studio film; the first Black director to make an Oscar-nominated film; and the only woman to direct Marlon Brando, who emerged from retirement to play a South African civil rights litigator, earning him his eighth and final Oscar nomination (the film’s sole nomination).
It was on the strength of her first movie, 1983’s Sugar Cane Alley, that Afrikaner author André Brink agreed to let Palcy adapt his novel about the crusade for justice of a white man ...
It was on the strength of her first movie, 1983’s Sugar Cane Alley, that Afrikaner author André Brink agreed to let Palcy adapt his novel about the crusade for justice of a white man ...
- 5/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Leading Black filmmakers, producers and writers opened up about what inspired them to enter cinema and the importance of capturing the Black diasporic experience on screen during a virtual panel co-hosted by the American Cinematheque and the African American Film Critics Association.
In celebration of Black History Month, the “Black Identity Through Cinema” panel featured Cynthia Erivo, Philippe Lacôte, Franklin Leonard, Ekwa Msangi and Euzhan Palcy, as well as Shaka King and Kemp Powers, both of whom were named Variety’s 2020 “Screenwriters to Watch.” The conversation, moderated by Aafca president Gil Robertson, explored the diversity of Black identity in film and how the panelists’ works delve into core themes of freedom and justice in relation to their own personal identities.
The panelists discussed how the lack of Black creatives in front of and behind the camera and the first Black-led films they saw, such as “The Color Purple” for Erivo...
In celebration of Black History Month, the “Black Identity Through Cinema” panel featured Cynthia Erivo, Philippe Lacôte, Franklin Leonard, Ekwa Msangi and Euzhan Palcy, as well as Shaka King and Kemp Powers, both of whom were named Variety’s 2020 “Screenwriters to Watch.” The conversation, moderated by Aafca president Gil Robertson, explored the diversity of Black identity in film and how the panelists’ works delve into core themes of freedom and justice in relation to their own personal identities.
The panelists discussed how the lack of Black creatives in front of and behind the camera and the first Black-led films they saw, such as “The Color Purple” for Erivo...
- 2/20/2021
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
by Cláudio Alves
One of the Criterion Channel's most enticing July releases is A Dry White Season by Caribbean director Euzhan Palcy. Her record-breaking career is a fascinating, often frustrating, piece of cinema history, full of fearless political artistry and a will to challenge the Hollywood machine. While her name isn't very well known, Palcy should be famous for all the risks she took and the astounding quality of her features. They might be few, but they are excellent. With that in mind, we invite you to explore the filmography, the story, and the genius of Euzhan Palcy…...
One of the Criterion Channel's most enticing July releases is A Dry White Season by Caribbean director Euzhan Palcy. Her record-breaking career is a fascinating, often frustrating, piece of cinema history, full of fearless political artistry and a will to challenge the Hollywood machine. While her name isn't very well known, Palcy should be famous for all the risks she took and the astounding quality of her features. They might be few, but they are excellent. With that in mind, we invite you to explore the filmography, the story, and the genius of Euzhan Palcy…...
- 7/30/2020
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
“At the end of the small hours these countries whose past is uninscribed on any stone, these roads without memory, these winds without a log. Does that matter? We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout. Full voice, great voice, you shall be our good and guide.”Aimé Césaire conveys the colonialists' need to keep African history from their canon in Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. This is Négritude’s provenance, the philosophical, cultural and political revolution of Black consciousness that Césaire co-founded. Black history resounds and survives internally, verbally, before it is accurately accounted for from the outside. A protégé of Césaire, filmmaker Euzhan Palcy unearths suppressed Black voices and logs them to film canon. For A Dry White Season (1989), she interviewed the victims and combatants of the Special Branch (the unit of the South African police that lethally destabilized anti-apartheid groups) while undercover in Soweto and...
- 7/27/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The poster for Venice Critics' Week, illustrated by Fabiana Mascolo.The latest festival update comes from Venice Critics' Week, which has announced a lineup of seven debut features, including The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini, the grandson of Roberto Rossellini. Until August 3, you have the opportunity to donate to the Online African Film Festival's crowdfunding campaign, which will help improve the festival's streaming platform and host new films of the African diaspora all year long. Recommended Viewing For those in the UK, Jonathan Glazer's short Strasbourg 1518 (about the hysteria-induced "dancing plague" that gripped the city) is now available on the BBC iPlayer.Between July 21 to August 18, Kino Klassika Foundation and the Centre of Contemporary Arts Tashkent are co-presenting Tashkent Film Encounters, an online program of classic films from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
- 7/22/2020
- MUBI
Marlon Brando would’ve celebrated his 96th birthday on April 3, 2020. The Oscar-winning thespian both delighted and perplexed his fans with his Method-inspired performances and disdain for his profession, marked by increasingly bizarre behavior on and off set. Yet several of his movies remain classics despite his many career ups-and-downs. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 20 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1924, Brando studied the Stanislavski system under acting coach Stella Adler, who encouraged her students to explore inner and external turmoil within their characters. He shot to stardom on both the stage and screen with his performance in Tennessee Williams‘ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” in which he brought a startling naturalism and reality mixed with vulnerability, machismo, and humor to the character of Stanley Kowalski. The 1951 film version brought him his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
He picked up...
Born in 1924, Brando studied the Stanislavski system under acting coach Stella Adler, who encouraged her students to explore inner and external turmoil within their characters. He shot to stardom on both the stage and screen with his performance in Tennessee Williams‘ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” in which he brought a startling naturalism and reality mixed with vulnerability, machismo, and humor to the character of Stanley Kowalski. The 1951 film version brought him his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
He picked up...
- 4/1/2020
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
In 2019, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reported that 2018 was a historic year for black filmmakers, noting a “record high when it came to hiring black directors.” The report reflected a significant change, showing the push for diversity both behind and in front of the camera. Though the numbers are increasing, the report also proved that Hollywood still has a long way to go. But as Black History Month 2020 comes to a close, Variety highlights the black filmmakers who have left an indelible mark on the industry and those with films to come through the rest of the year.
The first African American filmmaker to produce a feature film was pioneer Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced and directed the silent movie “The Homesteader in 1919. In 1931, he went on to make “The Exile,” which was his first feature with sound. Micheaux didn’t just work in films, he also wrote novels, and...
The first African American filmmaker to produce a feature film was pioneer Oscar Micheaux, who wrote, produced and directed the silent movie “The Homesteader in 1919. In 1931, he went on to make “The Exile,” which was his first feature with sound. Micheaux didn’t just work in films, he also wrote novels, and...
- 2/27/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay and Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Barbican in London is shining a light on film-maker’s work as part of Black History Month
The first black woman to direct a Hollywood film says she was turned down repeatedly for projects because her ideas were “too black”, even after Marlon Brando earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in her film about apartheid, A Dry White Season.
Euzhan Palcy – whose work is part of Black History Month seasons at the Barbican in London and Home in Manchester – broke through in the mid-1980s with her film Sugar Cane Alley but stepped away from Hollywood in the 90s after repeated rejections.
The first black woman to direct a Hollywood film says she was turned down repeatedly for projects because her ideas were “too black”, even after Marlon Brando earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in her film about apartheid, A Dry White Season.
Euzhan Palcy – whose work is part of Black History Month seasons at the Barbican in London and Home in Manchester – broke through in the mid-1980s with her film Sugar Cane Alley but stepped away from Hollywood in the 90s after repeated rejections.
- 10/4/2019
- by Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
- The Guardian - Film News
Marlon Brando would’ve celebrated his 95th birthday on April 3, 2019. The Oscar-winning thespian both delighted and perplexed his fans with his Method-inspired performances and disdain for his profession, marked by increasingly bizarre behavior on and off set. Yet several of his movies remain classics despite his many career ups-and-downs. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at 20 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1924, Brando studied the Stanislavski system under acting coach Stella Adler, who encouraged her students to explore inner and external turmoil within their characters. He shot to stardom on both the stage and screen with his performance in Tennessee Williams‘ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” in which he brought a startling naturalism and reality mixed with vulnerability, machismo, and humor to the character of Stanley Kowalski. The 1951 film version brought him his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
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Born in 1924, Brando studied the Stanislavski system under acting coach Stella Adler, who encouraged her students to explore inner and external turmoil within their characters. He shot to stardom on both the stage and screen with his performance in Tennessee Williams‘ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” in which he brought a startling naturalism and reality mixed with vulnerability, machismo, and humor to the character of Stanley Kowalski. The 1951 film version brought him his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor.
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- 4/3/2019
- by Zach Laws and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
In 1989, Euzhan Palcy became the first black woman to direct a major studio movie when she helmed A Dry White Season for MGM. A brutal yet inspiring anti-apartheid drama, A Dry White Season remains a model of political filmmaking, as Palcy (adapting Andre Brink’s novel with co-screenwriter Colin Welland) boldly and forcefully indicts the South African government of the period with clarity, complexity and passion. Donald Sutherland plays Ben Du Toit, a schoolteacher (a surrogate for both Brink and the movie’s white audience members) who keeps his head buried in the sand when it comes to the injustices around […]...
- 2/5/2019
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In 1989, Euzhan Palcy became the first black woman to direct a major studio movie when she helmed A Dry White Season for MGM. A brutal yet inspiring anti-apartheid drama, A Dry White Season remains a model of political filmmaking, as Palcy (adapting Andre Brink’s novel with co-screenwriter Colin Welland) boldly and forcefully indicts the South African government of the period with clarity, complexity and passion. Donald Sutherland plays Ben Du Toit, a schoolteacher (a surrogate for both Brink and the movie’s white audience members) who keeps his head buried in the sand when it comes to the injustices around […]...
- 2/5/2019
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Joining the Criterion Collection at spine #953, Euzhan Palcy's 1989 apartheid drama A Dry White Season is a last-minute must-own from the label, after a preternaturally strong year (even for them). Great art has both specificity and universality, and it's hard not to be thunderstruck by the potency of Palcy's message for North American life in 2018, even as she expertly chronicles a tipping point in South Africa in 1976 with nuance and detail. A Dry White Season concerns two families -- the young sons of each are seen playing football on a grassy field over the opening credits -- who are linked together by worsening tragedy. One family is white: the Du Toits, an upper-middle-class unit with teacher Ben (Donald Sutherland) at the head....
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- 12/24/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Euzhan Palcy is a filmmaker that many cinephiles probably aren’t familiar with. Despite a string of accolades, which include multiple awards from the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals, respectively, and a Cesar Award, the director never had the massive hit that would secure her place among the best of her era. However, Palcy is now getting some much-deserved recognition as her Oscar-nominated film “A Dry White Season” is joining the Criterion Collection in December.
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- 9/18/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Thinking of gifting a home video fan a fresh new Criterion Collection release in December? Here are your options. The first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film, Euzhan Palcy made history with the blistering drama A Dry White Season (1989). White schoolteacher Donald Sutherland sees his gardener (Winston Ntshona) suffer "a wave of brutal repression" and finally takes notice of what's been going on in his country for many years. On a less serious note, Sam Fuller's Forty Guns (1957) stars Barbara Stanwyck in "the pulp maestro's most audacious Western," which is really saying something, if you know the work of Sam Fuller. Barry Sullivan also stars. "Based on a novel by Georges Simenon" always sounds...
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- 9/18/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Winston Ntshona, the South African actor and playwright who won a Tony Award and had a pivotal role in the 1989 apartheid film drama A Dry White Season, has died. He was 76.
Ntshona died Thursday morning in New Brighton, South Africa, a spokesperson from The South African State Theater told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was given.
"With the passing of beautiful Winston, I have lost a dearly beloved brother," playwright Athol Fugard said in a statement. "A big tree has fallen in the forest. Fortunately for us survivors, there are young ones now growing taller....
Ntshona died Thursday morning in New Brighton, South Africa, a spokesperson from The South African State Theater told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was given.
"With the passing of beautiful Winston, I have lost a dearly beloved brother," playwright Athol Fugard said in a statement. "A big tree has fallen in the forest. Fortunately for us survivors, there are young ones now growing taller....
Winston Ntshona, the South African actor and playwright who won a Tony Award and had a pivotal role in the 1989 apartheid film drama A Dry White Season, has died. He was 76.
Ntshona died Thursday morning in New Brighton, South Africa, a spokesperson from The South African State Theater told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was given.
"With the passing of beautiful Winston, I have lost a dearly beloved brother," playwright Athol Fugard said in a statement. "A big tree has fallen in the forest. Fortunately for us survivors, there are young ones now growing taller....
Ntshona died Thursday morning in New Brighton, South Africa, a spokesperson from The South African State Theater told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was given.
"With the passing of beautiful Winston, I have lost a dearly beloved brother," playwright Athol Fugard said in a statement. "A big tree has fallen in the forest. Fortunately for us survivors, there are young ones now growing taller....
Some of the most legendary actors in Hollywood history won their Oscars in the 1970s. The Best Actor category of this decade was stacked with some of the biggest stars of the time, many of which have lived on for generations. But which Best Actor Oscar winner of the 1970s is your absolute favorite? Take a trip down memory lane and vote in our poll below.
George C. Scott, “Patton” (1970) — Scott took home the Best Actor prize for “Patton,” which also won Best Picture. In the film he plays the titular George S. Patton, the famous hot-tempered U.S. army general who led troops during World War II. He had previously been nominated for “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959), “The Hustler” (1961), and later for “The Hospital” (1971). Scott notably declined his nomination and win for “Patton.”
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Gene Hackman,...
George C. Scott, “Patton” (1970) — Scott took home the Best Actor prize for “Patton,” which also won Best Picture. In the film he plays the titular George S. Patton, the famous hot-tempered U.S. army general who led troops during World War II. He had previously been nominated for “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959), “The Hustler” (1961), and later for “The Hospital” (1971). Scott notably declined his nomination and win for “Patton.”
SEERobert De Niro (‘Raging Bull’) knocks out all contenders to be your top Best Actor Oscar winner of 1980s [Poll Results]
Gene Hackman,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
In the late 1980s after six successful years on “St. Elsewhere,” Denzel Washington was making a successful segue into the movies. Just as that show was about to end for NBC, he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor as a South African activist in the 1987 film “Cry Freedom.” He lost the award that evening to Sean Connery (“The Untouchables”), but it would be just two years later that he would take home the gold for his performance as Private Silas Tripp in “Glory.”
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Watch his acceptance speech above from the 1990 Academy Awards ceremony as the 36-year-old actor beams in front of his mother and wife after presenter Geena Davis announces his name. He also thanks the men of the 54th from the American Civil War. In the film, Washington played an emancipated former slave...
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Watch his acceptance speech above from the 1990 Academy Awards ceremony as the 36-year-old actor beams in front of his mother and wife after presenter Geena Davis announces his name. He also thanks the men of the 54th from the American Civil War. In the film, Washington played an emancipated former slave...
- 2/17/2018
- by Jack Fields
- Gold Derby
With a best actor nomination for his tour-de-force performance in Fences, Denzel Washington is on the verge of making history — again.
Should he win, Washington would have more Oscars under his belt than any other African-American actor. He is already the most nominated, having landed his seventh nod this year for Fences, and is also the only African-American to win multiple acting Oscars.
But with Casey Affleck’s gut-wrenching turn in Manchester By the Sea wracking up best actor nominations and wins throughout awards season, this year’s Oscars will see Washington playing an unfamiliar role: the underdog.
He admitted...
Should he win, Washington would have more Oscars under his belt than any other African-American actor. He is already the most nominated, having landed his seventh nod this year for Fences, and is also the only African-American to win multiple acting Oscars.
But with Casey Affleck’s gut-wrenching turn in Manchester By the Sea wracking up best actor nominations and wins throughout awards season, this year’s Oscars will see Washington playing an unfamiliar role: the underdog.
He admitted...
- 2/23/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Ground-breaking is the word to describe the panelists at The Hollywood Reporter's 5th annual Mipcom Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch, which THR is hosting together with A+E Networks and Lifetime. Euzhan Palcy of Jmj International Pictures, who was born in France, can lay claim to being the first-ever black woman to direct a Hollywood feature — 1989's A Dry White Season, a South Africa-set thriller featuring Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman and Marlon Brando, who received an Oscar nomination for his supporting turn. Palcy will be joined by Shondaland's Betsy Beers. With ABC hits Grey's Anatomy,
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- 10/7/2016
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Colin Welland, who famously proclaimed, “The British are coming!” in his Academy Award acceptance speech for Chariots Of Fire, has died at the age of 81 following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. The actor and writer, who appeared in the TV show Z Cars and also acted in Ken Loach’s Kes and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, also wrote the Gene Hackman-starrer Twice In A Lifetime and the Marlon Brando Apartheid drama A Dry White Season. A statement released by his family via…...
- 11/3/2015
- Deadline
Ceff takes place in the heart of Paris in June. The first ever connection in Paris between French cinema and American cinema takes place during a glorious week of screenings and special events dedicated entirely to the public.
The opportunity to bring together a host of filmmakers, producers, distributors, journalists, academics, partners, around a big party every night at the top of Publicis where “Le Drugstore” made such a big splash during the 70s is also an event which reinvigorates what has become a touristic and consumer oriented Champs Elysees. Distinguished guests, film teams, young directors add up to a celebration of that most popular of all culture today, the movies.
The fourth edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival was presided by the actress Émilie Dequenne and actor Jeremy Irons, and it had more than 22, 000 attendees, accompanied all week by bright sunshine.
3 Audience Prizes were given during the closing ceremony which took place on Tuesday night at the Publicis Cinema.
• The Audience Prize for an Independent American Feature Lenght Film, given by Jeremy Irons, was awarded to the film "The Road Within" by Gren Wells, the story of a young man with Tourette’s Syndrome who embarks on a road trip. Its international sales agent is Annapurna and its U.S. distributor is WellGo.
• The Audience Prize for a French Short Film given by Émilie Dequenne and Céline Nallet, Gerenal Director of HD1 channel, was awarded to "J’aurais pas dû mettre mes Clarks" by Marie Caldera. The film will be screened on HD1.
• The Audience Prize for an American Short Film given by actress Zoë Felix and Éric Legendre from Variety was awarded to "Scheherazade" by Mehrnoush Aliaghaei.
The Student Jury Prize, given by Adrien Fallu, the marketing and communication director of TCM , the object of which is to present classics of the cinema to young adults, was given to "Shoot the Moon," by Alan Parker, presented in the section "TCM Cinéma Essentials."
The Festival was created by the Producer, Distributor and Exhibitor Sophie Dulac. More than 100 films were screened during the festival showcasing the diversity of French and American cinema in six cinemas on the most prestigious avenue in the world: The Balzac, the Gaumont Champs-Élysées, the Lincoln, the Publicis cinema, Ugc George V and MK2 Grand Palais.
Prestigious Guests This Year at the Festival:
• William Friedkin met with the public for an amazing Q&A at the end of the screening of the restored director’s cut version of "Sorcerer."
• Alan Parker, who confirmed his decision not to shoot anymore, gave a remarkable masterclass on the cult movies that have made him famous from "Fame" to "Bugsy Malone" and "Midgnight Express."
• Josh and Benny Safdie, emblematic directors of today’s New York cinema, introduced their shorts and feature movies, and premiered their new film "Heaven Knows What."
• Euzhan Palcy, director of "Sugar Cane Alley" and "A Dry White Season" gave a brilliant masterclass, sharing how she became the voice of Black People at a time when nobody wanted to hear.
• Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-winning director of photography who has worked with the greatest directors from Spielberg and Cimino to Brian de Palma, introduced the restored version of "The Rose" by Mark Rydell,
• Jeremy Irons, passionate cinephile who was present the screenings all week and who also gave a masterclass.
Professional Program in Constant Progression
• More than 50 distributors, producers, and international sales agents came from all over the world to discover six independent American films, works in progress, of which "Diverge" by James Morrisson, was awarded great help with several post-production services necessary to complete the film.
• The growing success of the second edition of the Paris Coproduction Village, organized in collaboration with Les Arcs European Film Festival took place from 10th to 12th June with a Brazilian focus and delighted the professionals who came from many different countries.
During the festival, numerous American directors in competition came from the U.S. to debate with audiences after the screenings: Hannah Fidell for "6 years," Onur Tukel for "Applesauce," Matthew Heineman for "Cartel Land," Andrew Renzi for "Franny," Sebastian Silva for "Nasty Baby," Gren Wells and his producer Brent Emmery for "The Road Within," Rachel Wolther producer of "Stinking Heaven" and Jenner Furst, producer of "Welcome to Leith," that's without mentioning all the French and American shorts films, premieres, etc…
All the best moments, interviews with distinguished guests, directors, jurors, and red carpets are available thanks to the Festival Web TV on:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CEfilmfestival/
www.champselyseesfilmfestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/champselyseesfilmfestival...
The opportunity to bring together a host of filmmakers, producers, distributors, journalists, academics, partners, around a big party every night at the top of Publicis where “Le Drugstore” made such a big splash during the 70s is also an event which reinvigorates what has become a touristic and consumer oriented Champs Elysees. Distinguished guests, film teams, young directors add up to a celebration of that most popular of all culture today, the movies.
The fourth edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival was presided by the actress Émilie Dequenne and actor Jeremy Irons, and it had more than 22, 000 attendees, accompanied all week by bright sunshine.
3 Audience Prizes were given during the closing ceremony which took place on Tuesday night at the Publicis Cinema.
• The Audience Prize for an Independent American Feature Lenght Film, given by Jeremy Irons, was awarded to the film "The Road Within" by Gren Wells, the story of a young man with Tourette’s Syndrome who embarks on a road trip. Its international sales agent is Annapurna and its U.S. distributor is WellGo.
• The Audience Prize for a French Short Film given by Émilie Dequenne and Céline Nallet, Gerenal Director of HD1 channel, was awarded to "J’aurais pas dû mettre mes Clarks" by Marie Caldera. The film will be screened on HD1.
• The Audience Prize for an American Short Film given by actress Zoë Felix and Éric Legendre from Variety was awarded to "Scheherazade" by Mehrnoush Aliaghaei.
The Student Jury Prize, given by Adrien Fallu, the marketing and communication director of TCM , the object of which is to present classics of the cinema to young adults, was given to "Shoot the Moon," by Alan Parker, presented in the section "TCM Cinéma Essentials."
The Festival was created by the Producer, Distributor and Exhibitor Sophie Dulac. More than 100 films were screened during the festival showcasing the diversity of French and American cinema in six cinemas on the most prestigious avenue in the world: The Balzac, the Gaumont Champs-Élysées, the Lincoln, the Publicis cinema, Ugc George V and MK2 Grand Palais.
Prestigious Guests This Year at the Festival:
• William Friedkin met with the public for an amazing Q&A at the end of the screening of the restored director’s cut version of "Sorcerer."
• Alan Parker, who confirmed his decision not to shoot anymore, gave a remarkable masterclass on the cult movies that have made him famous from "Fame" to "Bugsy Malone" and "Midgnight Express."
• Josh and Benny Safdie, emblematic directors of today’s New York cinema, introduced their shorts and feature movies, and premiered their new film "Heaven Knows What."
• Euzhan Palcy, director of "Sugar Cane Alley" and "A Dry White Season" gave a brilliant masterclass, sharing how she became the voice of Black People at a time when nobody wanted to hear.
• Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-winning director of photography who has worked with the greatest directors from Spielberg and Cimino to Brian de Palma, introduced the restored version of "The Rose" by Mark Rydell,
• Jeremy Irons, passionate cinephile who was present the screenings all week and who also gave a masterclass.
Professional Program in Constant Progression
• More than 50 distributors, producers, and international sales agents came from all over the world to discover six independent American films, works in progress, of which "Diverge" by James Morrisson, was awarded great help with several post-production services necessary to complete the film.
• The growing success of the second edition of the Paris Coproduction Village, organized in collaboration with Les Arcs European Film Festival took place from 10th to 12th June with a Brazilian focus and delighted the professionals who came from many different countries.
During the festival, numerous American directors in competition came from the U.S. to debate with audiences after the screenings: Hannah Fidell for "6 years," Onur Tukel for "Applesauce," Matthew Heineman for "Cartel Land," Andrew Renzi for "Franny," Sebastian Silva for "Nasty Baby," Gren Wells and his producer Brent Emmery for "The Road Within," Rachel Wolther producer of "Stinking Heaven" and Jenner Furst, producer of "Welcome to Leith," that's without mentioning all the French and American shorts films, premieres, etc…
All the best moments, interviews with distinguished guests, directors, jurors, and red carpets are available thanks to the Festival Web TV on:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CEfilmfestival/
www.champselyseesfilmfestival.com
https://www.facebook.com/champselyseesfilmfestival...
- 6/17/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Editor's Note: The following is published in recognition of tomorrow's (May 28) tribute to veteran Martinican filmmaker (and the first black woman to direct a film backed by a major Hollywood film studio), Euzhan Palcy, organized by American Cinematheque and the French Film and TV Office of the French Consulate in Los Angeles. Ms Palcy will be present for the event, which will include screenings of 2 of her films ("A Dry White Season" and "Siméon"), as well as a conversation with the revered filmmaker, moderated by director Ava DuVernay. It all begins at 7:30pm tomorrow, May 28, at the Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA....
- 5/27/2015
- by Martine Jean
- ShadowAndAct
Acclaimed filmmaker Euzhan Palcy ("Rue cases nègres," "A Dry White Season," "Les mariées de l'isle Bourbon") among other esteemed filmmakers, scholars and experts, will participate in a day long series of panels and round-tables on October 18th, on the always important topic of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, and how it fits into what today would be considered modern cinema. The event is part of "Movements: The June Givanni Pan-African Cinema Archive and the University of the Arts London program." Ms Givanni being, of course, the internationally influential film curator, archivist and international consultant in...
- 10/8/2014
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Marlon Brando in ‘A Dry White Season,’ James Earl Jones in ‘Cry the Beloved Country’: Apartheid movies (photo: Marlon Brando in ‘A Dry White Season’) (See previous post: “Nelson Mandela: Sidney Poitier and ‘Malcolm X’ Cameo Apperance.”) Besides the Nelson Mandela movies discussed in the previous two posts, South Africa’s apartheid has been portrayed in a number of films in the last few decades. Among the most notable ones are the following: Zoltan Korda’s Cry the Beloved Country (1951). Based on Alan Paton’s novel, this British-made film features Canada Lee and Charles Carson as two men struggling to deal with the disastrous consequences of apartheid. Ralph Nelson’s The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine star as, respectively, an anti-apartheid South African activist and a British engineer on the run from South Africa’s secret police, headed by racist Nicol Williamson. Chris Menges’ A World Apart...
- 12/7/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Marlon Brando is the first star in the 2011 edition of Turner Classic Movies' annual Summer Under the Stars series, which kicks off August 1. [Marlon Brando Movie Schedule.] Unfortunately, none of the 11 scheduled Marlon Brando movies is a TCM premiere; in fact, nearly all of them were shown on Brando Day three years ago. In other words, don't expect The Island of Dr. Moreau, Morituri, A Bedtime Story, Burn!, A Dry White Season, or The Appaloosa. And certainly no frolicking with Maria Schneider in Last Tango in Paris. That's too bad. But then again, those who would like to check out Julius Caesar for the 118th time will be able to do so. And perhaps they won't be sorry, as this great-looking Joseph L. Mankiewicz effort remains one of the best-liked film adaptations of a Shakespeare play. Those not into Shakespeare can take a look at The Fugitive Kind and A Streetcar Named Desire, both from Tennessee Williams' plays.
- 8/1/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
digital image, courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its film exhibition line-up for the Summer, with key retrospectives planned for Kathryn Bigelow (June 1 – August 13) and Euzhan Palcy (May 18-30).
While Palcy isn’t quite the household name, her filmography focuses acutely on life and its big ticket issues through a feministic lens. Palcy’s major works include the Venice Film Festival award-winning “A Dry White Season” (1989) and the Attica prison uprising flick, “The Killing Yard” (2001).
Bigelow, of course, took home Best Director and Best Picture honors for “The Hurt Locker,” and has worked with leading talent throughout her career. While Palcy’s work sees life from a feminist perspective, there is no doubt that Bigelow’s work (“Point Break,” “Strange Days,” “K-19: The Widowmaker,” “Blue Steel”) balances the scale, often involving doses of testosterone to rival anyone in her explosive industry.
Adding...
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its film exhibition line-up for the Summer, with key retrospectives planned for Kathryn Bigelow (June 1 – August 13) and Euzhan Palcy (May 18-30).
While Palcy isn’t quite the household name, her filmography focuses acutely on life and its big ticket issues through a feministic lens. Palcy’s major works include the Venice Film Festival award-winning “A Dry White Season” (1989) and the Attica prison uprising flick, “The Killing Yard” (2001).
Bigelow, of course, took home Best Director and Best Picture honors for “The Hurt Locker,” and has worked with leading talent throughout her career. While Palcy’s work sees life from a feminist perspective, there is no doubt that Bigelow’s work (“Point Break,” “Strange Days,” “K-19: The Widowmaker,” “Blue Steel”) balances the scale, often involving doses of testosterone to rival anyone in her explosive industry.
Adding...
- 4/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
digital image, courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its film exhibition line-up for the Summer, with key retrospectives planned for Kathryn Bigelow (June 1 – August 13) and Euzhan Palcy (May 18-30).
While Palcy isn’t quite the household name, her filmography focuses acutely on life and its big ticket issues through a feministic lens. Palcy’s major works include the Venice Film Festival award-winning “A Dry White Season” (1989) and the Attica prison uprising flick, “The Killing Yard” (2001).
Bigelow, of course, took home Best Director and Best Picture honors for “The Hurt Locker,” and has worked with leading talent throughout her career. While Palcy’s work sees life from a feminist perspective, there is no doubt that Bigelow’s work (“Point Break,” “Strange Days,” “K-19: The Widowmaker,” “Blue Steel”) balances the scale, often involving doses of testosterone to rival anyone in her explosive industry.
Adding...
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its film exhibition line-up for the Summer, with key retrospectives planned for Kathryn Bigelow (June 1 – August 13) and Euzhan Palcy (May 18-30).
While Palcy isn’t quite the household name, her filmography focuses acutely on life and its big ticket issues through a feministic lens. Palcy’s major works include the Venice Film Festival award-winning “A Dry White Season” (1989) and the Attica prison uprising flick, “The Killing Yard” (2001).
Bigelow, of course, took home Best Director and Best Picture honors for “The Hurt Locker,” and has worked with leading talent throughout her career. While Palcy’s work sees life from a feminist perspective, there is no doubt that Bigelow’s work (“Point Break,” “Strange Days,” “K-19: The Widowmaker,” “Blue Steel”) balances the scale, often involving doses of testosterone to rival anyone in her explosive industry.
Adding...
- 4/6/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Boy MoMA (The Museum Of Modern Art) here in New York City is really tugging at this writer’s heartstrings…
It was about a month or so ago when I had a conversation with some acquaintances centered on what black filmmakers we’d love to see retrospectives of their work programmed locally. Two names that were mentioned, amongst several others, were Charles Burnett, and Euzhan Palcy.
Earlier this month, we alerted you (and continue to alert you) to MoMA’s recently announced Charles Burnett retrospective, which happens next month; this evening, I learned that Euzhan Palcy will also be fetted with the same honor, in what will be the first USA retrospective of Palcy’s work ever, which will run from May 18 – 30.
Included in this retro will be a newly restored print of her 1983 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion award-winner, Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley). And that, ladies and gents,...
It was about a month or so ago when I had a conversation with some acquaintances centered on what black filmmakers we’d love to see retrospectives of their work programmed locally. Two names that were mentioned, amongst several others, were Charles Burnett, and Euzhan Palcy.
Earlier this month, we alerted you (and continue to alert you) to MoMA’s recently announced Charles Burnett retrospective, which happens next month; this evening, I learned that Euzhan Palcy will also be fetted with the same honor, in what will be the first USA retrospective of Palcy’s work ever, which will run from May 18 – 30.
Included in this retro will be a newly restored print of her 1983 Venice Film Festival Silver Lion award-winner, Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley). And that, ladies and gents,...
- 3/23/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Former "American Idol" contestant and VH1 reality-show star Fantasia Barrino is set to appear in a feature-film adaptation of the 1993 biographical book "Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel" says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story recounts the life of the late American gospel singer, a civil rights activist who was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born into abject poverty in New Orleans, she rose to become a global figure in gospel and early supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr. She died in 1972 at the age of 60.
Euzhan Palcy ("A Dry White Season") directs from a script by Jim Evering. Shooting kicks off in April in Pittsburgh and Chicago.
The story recounts the life of the late American gospel singer, a civil rights activist who was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born into abject poverty in New Orleans, she rose to become a global figure in gospel and early supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr. She died in 1972 at the age of 60.
Euzhan Palcy ("A Dry White Season") directs from a script by Jim Evering. Shooting kicks off in April in Pittsburgh and Chicago.
- 2/9/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Grammy award winning singer and American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino may soon add Oscar nominee to her list of accomplishments as she is preparing for her first feature film role in a biopic about Gospel music legend Mahalia Jackson. Barrino, who previously played herself in a TV movie and took on the role of Celie in the Broadway version of The Color Purple, has reportedly been putting on weight to portray the singer in the film based on a 1993 biography.
With the success of her fellow season 3 AI contestant Jennifer Hudson and her acclaimed Broadway performance, this is definitely a role to look out for. Jackson’s life is what Hollywood biopics are made of; she grew up poor, rose to fame, was an ardent civil rights supporter and died tragically.
The film will be directed by Silver Lion winning director Euzhan Palcy (A Dry White Season) and written by...
With the success of her fellow season 3 AI contestant Jennifer Hudson and her acclaimed Broadway performance, this is definitely a role to look out for. Jackson’s life is what Hollywood biopics are made of; she grew up poor, rose to fame, was an ardent civil rights supporter and died tragically.
The film will be directed by Silver Lion winning director Euzhan Palcy (A Dry White Season) and written by...
- 2/9/2011
- by John Luchetti
- The Film Stage
For all you Fantasia Barrino fans out there…get ready! According to Hollywoodreporter.com, she set to play Mahalia Jackson in a feature-film adaptation of the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel.
Her portrayal will cover Jackson’s journey from abject poverty in New Orleans to her rise as a global figure in gospel and early supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The film will be directed by Euzhan Palcy, known for A Dry White Season, based on a script by Jim Evering.
If you recall, Fantasia’s last two acting gigs included the Broadway play The Color Purple and the Lifetime film Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story which was a biopic based on her 2005 autobiography.
The film goes into production in April and is set for a December release.
So can she pull this off?...
Her portrayal will cover Jackson’s journey from abject poverty in New Orleans to her rise as a global figure in gospel and early supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The film will be directed by Euzhan Palcy, known for A Dry White Season, based on a script by Jim Evering.
If you recall, Fantasia’s last two acting gigs included the Broadway play The Color Purple and the Lifetime film Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story which was a biopic based on her 2005 autobiography.
The film goes into production in April and is set for a December release.
So can she pull this off?...
- 2/9/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
Thanks reader Sean for the heads-up. Read the press release below:
For Immediate Release
The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University Bloomington will welcome four acclaimed film directors for a week of free screenings and engagement with students, faculty and the community, starting tomorrow, Monday (March 1).
Most events for “From the Post Colonial to the Global Postmodern? African and Caribbean Francophone Filmmakers and Scholars in Conversation” will take place March 1-5 at the center’s new home in suite 044B of the Wells Library, 1320 E. Tenth St.
Filmmakers Gaston Kaboré, from Burkina Faso, Euzhan Palcy, from Martinique, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, from Senegal, and Jean-Marie Teno, from Cameroon, will screen and discuss their films in workshops throughout the week. Several of their films are being shown in Indiana for the first time.
All of the screenings, which will be from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. most days, are free and open to the public.
For Immediate Release
The Black Film Center/Archive at Indiana University Bloomington will welcome four acclaimed film directors for a week of free screenings and engagement with students, faculty and the community, starting tomorrow, Monday (March 1).
Most events for “From the Post Colonial to the Global Postmodern? African and Caribbean Francophone Filmmakers and Scholars in Conversation” will take place March 1-5 at the center’s new home in suite 044B of the Wells Library, 1320 E. Tenth St.
Filmmakers Gaston Kaboré, from Burkina Faso, Euzhan Palcy, from Martinique, Joseph Gaï Ramaka, from Senegal, and Jean-Marie Teno, from Cameroon, will screen and discuss their films in workshops throughout the week. Several of their films are being shown in Indiana for the first time.
All of the screenings, which will be from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. most days, are free and open to the public.
- 2/28/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon make a decent fist of South African accents in Invictus. But they are the latest in a long line of actors trying too hard
As someone who was born and brought up in South Africa, I was particularly interested to discover how Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon managed with the notoriously difficult South African accent in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Actually, there are many South African accents, so a distinction has to be made between Nelson Mandela (Freeman), an English-speaking Xhosa, and François Pienaar (Damon), an English-speaking Afrikaner. The two Americans had a fairly good shot at it, despite sometimes betraying their origins, and Freeman slipping occasionally into Dalek mode. For most audiences, however, who don't have an ear especially attuned to the nuances of South African accents, Freeman and Damon will sound authentic enough.
This follows worthy but inconsistent efforts by Denzel Washington and...
As someone who was born and brought up in South Africa, I was particularly interested to discover how Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon managed with the notoriously difficult South African accent in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Actually, there are many South African accents, so a distinction has to be made between Nelson Mandela (Freeman), an English-speaking Xhosa, and François Pienaar (Damon), an English-speaking Afrikaner. The two Americans had a fairly good shot at it, despite sometimes betraying their origins, and Freeman slipping occasionally into Dalek mode. For most audiences, however, who don't have an ear especially attuned to the nuances of South African accents, Freeman and Damon will sound authentic enough.
This follows worthy but inconsistent efforts by Denzel Washington and...
- 1/19/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
South African actor who helped break the taboos of apartheid
On a steamy evening in a rundown Johannesburg club in September 1961, two actors premiered The Blood Knot, a play about brothers with different fathers, both men black but one light enough to enter white society. For each of them, the black actor Zakes Mokae, who has died aged 75, and the white playwright Athol Fugard, the night launched their careers. Fugard's play toured South Africa for six months, and although he travelled first-class on the train while Mokae travelled third, the two had broken a taboo by being the first black and white actors to appear on a public stage in apartheid South Africa. The success of The Blood Knot brought Fugard to international attention and kickstarted Mokae's long and varied career in theatre, film and television.
Mokae was born and grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, the son of a policeman and a housemaid.
On a steamy evening in a rundown Johannesburg club in September 1961, two actors premiered The Blood Knot, a play about brothers with different fathers, both men black but one light enough to enter white society. For each of them, the black actor Zakes Mokae, who has died aged 75, and the white playwright Athol Fugard, the night launched their careers. Fugard's play toured South Africa for six months, and although he travelled first-class on the train while Mokae travelled third, the two had broken a taboo by being the first black and white actors to appear on a public stage in apartheid South Africa. The success of The Blood Knot brought Fugard to international attention and kickstarted Mokae's long and varied career in theatre, film and television.
Mokae was born and grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, the son of a policeman and a housemaid.
- 11/10/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
Marlon Brando, the legendary actor whose performances in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris made him one of the most important screen actors of all time and whose larger-than-life persona offscreen dominated his later years, died Thursday at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles; he was 80. According to Brando's attorney, David J. Seeley, the cause of the actor's death was being withheld because the actor was "a very private man." (A later report from Reuters stated that a UCLA Medical Center spokesperson said the actor died there at 6:30pm on Thursday of lung failure.) The most famous proponent of Method acting and considered by many to be America's finest actor, Brando paved the way for a new style of acting in the 40s and 50s, first working on Broadway, where he created his first signature role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. He made his screen debut in 1950's The Men, which was followed by his Oscar-nominated re-creation of Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film of A Streetcar Named Desire. Riding his sudden superstardom, roles in Viva Zapata, Julius Caesar, The Wild One and On the Waterfront followed, the latter of which won him his first Oscar. Once he became a true icon in the late 50s and 60s, he branched into directing (1961's One Eyed Jacks) and a troubled, bloated adaptation of Mutiny on the Bounty, where his need for perfection (and infatuation with the south Pacific) put the movie over budget and over schedule.
That film marked the beginning of a string of failures in the 60s, and by the early 70s the actor's star seemed to have faded. However, it was a little gangster film in 1972 called The Godfather that catapulted Brando back into the spotlight, and his phenomenal turn as mob boss Vito Corleone earned him a second Oscar . which he notoriously refused, sending an actress dressed in Native American garb to the Academy Award ceremony to reject the award with a diatribe against the wrongs done to Native Americans by the U.S. He courted even more controversy with Bernardo Bertolucci's X-rated Last Tango in Paris (though he grabbed another Oscar nomination), and appeared in both Hollywood projects (Superman, for which he received a record salary at the time) and award-winning films (appearing as Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's troubled masterpiece Apocalypse Now) through the 70s. Sporadic film appearances marked the end of his career, including The Freshman, A Dry White Season and Don Juan De Marco, and his later years were dominated by scandal when his son, Christian Brando, shot and killed the lover of his half sister, Cheyenne, at the family's home in 1990; Christian was jailed and Cheyenne committed suicide five years later. Legal fees reportedly drained the actor's fortune, and the scandal contributed to the stories of Brando's bizarre offscreen antics. He lived in seclusion for the past few years, and most recently was the target of yet more rumors to be published in an unauthorized biography (one of many). Details about funeral arrangements were not immediately forthcoming. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
That film marked the beginning of a string of failures in the 60s, and by the early 70s the actor's star seemed to have faded. However, it was a little gangster film in 1972 called The Godfather that catapulted Brando back into the spotlight, and his phenomenal turn as mob boss Vito Corleone earned him a second Oscar . which he notoriously refused, sending an actress dressed in Native American garb to the Academy Award ceremony to reject the award with a diatribe against the wrongs done to Native Americans by the U.S. He courted even more controversy with Bernardo Bertolucci's X-rated Last Tango in Paris (though he grabbed another Oscar nomination), and appeared in both Hollywood projects (Superman, for which he received a record salary at the time) and award-winning films (appearing as Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola's troubled masterpiece Apocalypse Now) through the 70s. Sporadic film appearances marked the end of his career, including The Freshman, A Dry White Season and Don Juan De Marco, and his later years were dominated by scandal when his son, Christian Brando, shot and killed the lover of his half sister, Cheyenne, at the family's home in 1990; Christian was jailed and Cheyenne committed suicide five years later. Legal fees reportedly drained the actor's fortune, and the scandal contributed to the stories of Brando's bizarre offscreen antics. He lived in seclusion for the past few years, and most recently was the target of yet more rumors to be published in an unauthorized biography (one of many). Details about funeral arrangements were not immediately forthcoming. --Prepared by IMDb staff...
- 7/2/2004
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