Posts by Kim Browne
Tobias Nölle Returns to Berlinale Panorama With Hybrid Island Portrait ‘Tristan Forever’
A decade after “Aloys” won the Fipresci Prize at the Berlin Festival’s Panorama, Swiss filmmaker Tobias Nölle returns to the section with “Tristan Forever,” a meditative, genre-elusive hybrid that tracks a French doctor’s 30-year obsession with Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most isolated inhabited island, and his bid to settle there permanently. Produced by Hugofilm…
Read MoreAI Video ‘Jia Zhangke Wishes Everyone Happy New Year’ Emerges Online
An AI-generated video titled “Jia Zhangke Wishes Everyone Happy New Year” has surfaced online and is also circulating widely across social media, featuring a digital recreation of the acclaimed Chinese filmmaker in a scripted, meta-fictional exchange about authorship, technology and artistic control. The short clip, posted on YouTube by COMA — the Chinatown Organization for…
Read MoreHillary Clinton and Kevin Spacey Attend Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin as Kaouther Ben Hania Awarded Prize for ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’: ‘I Feel Responsibility More Than Gratitude’
Kaouther Ben Hania‘s Oscar and BAFTA nominated feature “The Voice of Hind Rajab” was awarded “most valuable film” at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin on Monday night. The annual event, attended by Hillary Clinton and Kevin Spacey and hosted by Bob Geldof, also honored Noam Tibon, a former Israeli general and subject of…
Read MoreChristian Nationalists Are All in on Trump—and Vice Versa
As compared to “skeptics” or “rejecters” of Christian nationalism, adherents and sympathizers are also more likely to agree that “because things have gotten too far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” Christian nationalist beliefs were also strongly correlated with support for authoritarianism. Seventy-three percent…
Read MoreWhat’s Behind the Centrists’ Resistance to the “Resistance Liberals”?
The point of stressing Epstein isn’t merely the immediate harms to his victims (though these are not trivial). Many who feared the worst about Trump pointed to the fact that he was an abuser because, to them, it showed how he thought about power. This was the correct inference. It is not incidental to Trump’s…
Read MoreData Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For
It also shows that many of us rise to the occasion when we are given something to do. One ubiquitous complaint about climate change is that it can be hard to know, as an individual, what to do about such a global, diffuse problem. And similarly, it’s hard to know what an individual can do…
Read MoreLos Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Says Casey Wasserman Should Step Down as LA28 Chairman
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says Casey Wasserman “should step down” from his role as chairman of the LA28 Olympic organizing committee that is driving the Summer Games given the tumult stirred by his appearance in the Epstein files. Bass has been a supporter of Wasserman’s in the past. But in an interview Monday with…
Read More‘Tell Me Lies’ to End With Season 3
One of the most toxic love stories ever to be shown on TV has come to an end. Hulu’s “Tell Me Lies” will end with Season 3, creator Meaghan Oppenheimer announced on Monday, Feb. 16, ahead of what will be the series finale. “After three amazing seasons of Tell Me Lies, tonight’s episode will be the…
Read MoreFrancis Ford Coppola Remembers Robert Duvall: ‘Such a Great Actor and Such an Essential Part of American Zoetrope’
Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram on Monday afternoon to honor his longtime collaborator and friend Robert Duvall, who died on Sunday at the age of 95. “What a blow to learn of the loss of Robert Duvall,” Coppola wrote. “Such a great actor and such an essential part of American Zoetrope from its beginning:…
Read More‘Reservation Dogs’ Star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai Joins Netflix’s ‘Breakers’ With Antony Starr
“Reservation Dogs” star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, who earned an Emmy nomination for the critically acclaimed FX series, has signed on to next star in Netflix’s Australian-based series “Breakers,” opposite Antony Starr. Also joining the cast as series regulars: Oliver Edis (“Gnomes”) and Annabel Wolfe (“Surviving Summer”). As previously announced, Starr (“The Boys,” “Banshee”) is also executive…
Read MoreAl Pacino and Robert De Niro Remember ‘The Godfather Part II’ Co-Star Robert Duvall: ‘I Will Miss Him’
Al Pacino and Robert De Niro have paid tribute to Robert Duvall, who died on Monday at the age of 95. “It was an honor to have worked with Robert Duvall,” Pacino said. “He was a born actor as they say, his connection with it, his understanding and his phenomenal gift will always be remembered.…
Read MoreRemembering Robert Duvall, Whose Acting Brilliance Colored in the Light and Dark Sides of Humanity
When you think of the great actors (Brando, Streep, De Niro, Ullmann, Day-Lewis), one of the first qualities that leaps to mind is range. Robert Duvall, who died Sunday at 95 and was most assuredly one of the great actors, had that quality to the nth degree. He was a sly-dog virtuoso whose roster of…
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