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Venice to screen Polanski, Woody Allen

The three filmmakers have been accused of sexual abuse and faced several cancellation campaigns

Salon

Venice film festival picks starry films despite actors’ strike

Hollywood films vying for Golden Lion include Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, with non-competition films by Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater

The Guardian - UK

Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro,” Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be making their world debuts at the Venice International Film Festival this fall

The Independent UK

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Fifteen to love: the best tennis scenes in cinema – ranked!

As Wimbledon wows the crowds in London and tennis drama Challengers is set to open the Venice film festival next month, we serve up the best on-screen matches – but who has the advantage?

The Guardian - UK

Feathers review – loutish husband turns into a chicken in elegant, witty parable

Ambiguous, Kafkaesque and with a deadpan wit, Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s debut feature explores a woman’s place in a man’s world

The Guardian - UK

Natasha Lyonne: ‘I was my high school’s pot dealer, and then I got a Woody Allen movie’

The idiosyncratic star of ‘Russian Doll’, ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’ and ‘American Pie’ talks to Adam White about gender and sexuality, surviving addiction, and solving crimes in her new TV series

The Independent UK

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is only half the problem

A new book explores why we still consume art created by ‘monsters’. It’s the wrong question, says Eloise Hendy

The Independent UK

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I Think You Should Leave: the TV show so good it beats the Succession finale hands down

This impossibly hilarious Netflix sketch show’s third season is incredible. It’s so impossibly funny that the antics of the Roy family are no longer even this week’s best television

The Guardian - UK

Paedophiles, abusers… and selfish mothers? Why cancelling artists is only half the problem

A new book explores why we still consume art created by ‘monsters’. It’s the wrong question, says Eloise Hendy

The Independent UK

The beautiful collaboration of Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Nicole Holofcener found a fast friend in Julia Louis-Dreyfus a decade ago, when she cast her as a kind of alter-ego in the 2013 romantic comedy “Enough Said.”

The Independent UK

Friday essay: cancellation or conflicted joy – grappling with the work of our 'art monsters'

Author Claire Dederer started off writing a book about the film director Roman Polanski. Forty-five years ago, Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.

The Conversation

‘Nature is great. But when it becomes real, it’s something else’: filming The Eight Mountains

Directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch took to Italy’s beautiful Aosta Valley to make their transcendental movie about male friendship – but couldn’t avoid their own personal issues

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Ted Cruz faces backlash after deadly Texas mall shooting

Senator Ted Cruz ‘should advocate for gun controls rather than invoking prayer after mass shootings’. Plus, King Charles ‘moans’

The Guardian - UK

Diane Keaton says ‘victim culture’ is a ‘horrible shame’: ‘You gotta get over it’

The star also spoke gushingly about controversial filmmaker Woody Allen

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The Independent UK

Diane Keaton defends work with Woody Allen: ‘I’m proud beyond measure’

Actor starred in multiple projects directed by the controversial filmmaker

The Guardian - UK

Cannes defends decision to pick Johnny Depp film as festival opener

Prestige slot for Jeanne de Barry, featuring Depp as Louis XV, has drawn criticism but general delegate Thierry Frémaux says it is not ‘a controversial choice’

Daily Mirror

Mia Farrow deletes tweet venting at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle amid fierce backlash

Hollywood actress Mia Farrow was forced to delete a tweet after sparking huge complaints with her comments about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

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Cate Blanchett may have missed out on her third Academy Award, but she's still one of the greatest actors of her generation

From ethereal elven queen to abusive orchestra conductor, and everything in between, our Cate has impressed in many, many roles — and she has the Oscar wins to prove it.

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Martin Schram: Fox invites Marxist punditry

This past week, it seemed like almost anywhere we surfed cable TV or internet news, we encountered a talking-head or print-pundit citing the identical quick-quip to summarize the central flaw in the newest controversy that Fox’s Tucker Carlson just ignited about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol.

The Guardian - UK

The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?

The likable new release Rye Lane bills itself as ‘a love letter to south London’. But, like Amélie in Montmartre, could it end up damaging the place it sets out to celebrate?

The Guardian - UK

Helena Bonham Carter: ‘I’ve got so many issues, but as you get older you go: whatever’

The actor on her latest role as Crossroads doyenne Noele Gordon, watching Woody Allen fire people, and the key to understanding Princess Margaret

Evening Standard

‘I was groomed’: Scarlett Johansson says she was forced to play provocative roles when young

Scarlett Johansson has said she was groomed by her former management team into taking on her famously sultry and provocative roles.

Tribune News Service

Neal Justin: Why Claire Danes is one of our all-time great TV actors

When you consider TV's greatest dramatic actors, a few names come to mind. James Gandolfini. Bryan Cranston. James Garner.

The Independent UK

Oscar, Tony-nominated writer-director Douglas McGrath dies

Stage, TV and film writer-director Douglas McGrath, who earned a Tony nomination for “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” and an Oscar nod for the “Bullets Over Broadway” screenplay he co-wrote with Woody Allen, has died

The Guardian - US

Oscar and Tony nominated writer-director Douglas McGrath dies aged 64

The multi-hyphenate was known for directing 1996’s Emma, co-writing Bullets Over Broadway and writing the book for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

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