The latest version of A STAR IS BORN staring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper has begun its festival screenings .. it was at Toronto and most recently at the Venice Film Festival, Bradley Cooper not only stars in the film, but also directed the A STAR IS BORN.
The trailer has been causing loud, positive murmuring the three times I have seen it in theaters .... and to tell the truth I am very much looking forward to seeing it, And yes both GAGA and COOPER do their own singing and album is forthcoming,
Here is a really good press conference Q&A from the Venice Film Festival
As well as the press conference from the Toronto Film Festival
A Star Is Born opens Oct 5th
I will publish my review after I see it. And for the record, Judy Garland and James Mason'sSTAR is my favorite version ,,, less said about Streisand version the better, Kris Kristofferson is a brilliant song writer, But the only thing he adds to Barbara's version is a good chin line
Here they is the OFFICAL announcement of who is in the running for the Academy Awards for the best work in film in 2017. click on link 2018 | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences I will reserve my reaction to another post. But I will say I am so thrilled abiut a few of the nominations that Octavia Spencer has been nominated again. She fills any screen frame she appears in with such an authenticity of an actual human being regardless of the character she is playing
two of my favorite docs are in contention: both were at Sundance 2017
And look who is nominated for the best original song! swoon!
It is to be hoped that not only Mireille Darc , who died on August 28 at 79 years of age, will be remembered only for her long association with Alain Delon and the beauty of her long body, which she liberally offered to the delight of the spectators. She was much better than these anecdotal provisions and for only twenty years she was an essential actress of French cinema.
We discovered first his ravishing and slightly crumpled face in one of the masterpieces of television, Hauteclaire or the happiness in the crime according to one of the news of the "Diaboliques" of Barbey d'Aurevilly , realized by Jean Prat in 1961.
A dozen films and the inscription in the collective imagination in " Les barbouzes " by Georges Lautner in 1964 when the camera, first frozen on the face of Amarante, unveiled in shift track the very small outfit of the tearful widow (!) Of the great arms dealer Constantin Benard Shah.
Followed in 1965, always from Lautner, the unknown and interesting Galia , where Mireille Darc invested a character who was going to make floures, that of the "free woman". That is to say, much more than a "liberated woman": there was no societal demand in this desire for independence and freedom.
There followed many very charming films, often made by Lautner ( Do not be angry "1966 Large grasshopper - and the nickname will him up like a glove - 1967 Sorrel Flower 1968 Let go, it ' Is a 1971 waltz , 1972 was once a cop , The 1973 suitcase , Ice breasts 1974, Death of a 1977 death ) or Édouard Molinaro ( The pink phone 1975, The man pressed 1977). Popular cinema often of quality where Mireille Darc could be by turn seductive, disquieting, murder ...
She stopped shooting in 1986, thirty-two years ago.
What image will we keep from it? Perhaps that of the Big blond with a black shoe of Yves Robert in 1972 where she wore this incredible black long dress that, however great austerity face, nevertheless revealed deliciously its sumptuous fall of kidneys. Impetuous
When the Tribeca Film Festival pulled a film that it had programed and Robert DeNiro had championed it made me wonder why the public was being denied the opportunity to see a film by a major film festival. It felt like censorship to me. I wanted to see VAXXED: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, because of the number of friends I know who have autistic children without any cause found.. and the prediction in 20 years 1 in 2 children will becoming autistic at the rate of growth we have today. .. I raised the question of censorship and as I did a firestorm of mainstream media went on the warpath and literally told people NOT to see the film. On my Facebook page a very intense discussion raged with friends from Act Up and political organizers raging against a film they had not seen. I listened and read their comments and it only made me want to see the film for myself before i decide how I felt about the film's content . I did see the film and was shocked that all most all of the discussion of what was in the film by people who had not see the film was not what I saw and heard in the film itself. I knew the role that Big Pharma and its lobbyist have played politically to protect their huge vaccine created profit. Rather than rattle on I simply want to say : see the film. A second week has been added at the Angelica and will open in Los Angeles on the 19th. Judge for yourself and if you want to comment, please refrain until you have actually seen the film . Remember my goal here is anti-censorship and in support of people making their own INFORMED choice of what they do with their own and their children's bodies. The Gnome has taught me that each of our bodies is unique. What may work for one person does not mean it will work on every other body. This is for me a huge lesson in health care. Here Del Bigtree, a very articulate producer of Vaxxed, a successful Los Angeles television producer is interviewed by WE THE PEOPLE and asked why he produced the documentary and why you should see it .. I am simply standing up for freedom of expression and against the censorship of any creative person's work.... and my right to withhold judgement on a creative work until i have actual see it .... and I just received News that the film has been pulled from a Film Festival in Houston after heavy political pressure that threatened the future of the Festival and the Editor of the Village Voice has sent out an apology for originally promoting the film .
