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Paul Giametti said his part in “Holdovers" was written for him, "Alex Payne is a great director. I love working with him. 'Holdovers' is a story about loss, failure, it’s a funny, moving picture…set in Massachusetts at christmas time, with a great sound track."
Sandra Oh presented the icon award to Paul, “He is one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with. In “Sideways," Paul’s express...
Paul Giametti said his part in “Holdovers" was written for him, "Alex Payne is a great director. I love working with him. 'Holdovers' is a story about loss, failure, it’s a funny, moving picture…set in Massachusetts at christmas time, with a great sound track."
Sandra Oh presented the icon award to Paul, “He is one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with. In “Sideways," Paul’s express...
MARLA: LET’S TALK MOVIES…
SO DAVID, TELL ME ABOUT THIS YEARS UPCOMING FESTIVAL.
DAVID: This year we have 179 movies. the festival will be back to the size before the pandemic. We are using the Palm Springs theatre, the Regal, the Annenberg, the Mary Pickford. As you know we have always specialized in intern...
Last night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Meryl Streep said, "I am here for my friend Cary Mulligan. If you think of the dimension of all her characters, the emotion is always full and felt, and tucked away and hidden in reserve, her work in Maestro, it’s like the smaller tremors we get here in California..that scene in Maestro on Thanksgiving, we hardly see there faces, it’s hard to see her, but it shakes you with...
The 81st Golden Globes are back this Sunday on a new network CBS with some new members, always known as the best “party” of the season. The first televised Award Show of the season, for many years their picks seemed somewhat consistent with the Academy. Who will win?
Christopher Nolan made almost $1bn in box office and brought audiences back to theaters, as did "Barbie," but that didn’t help Tom Cruise last year with his box-office wonder Mission ...
Greta Gerwig will receive the DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 5, 2024.
Actress, writer, directer Greta Gerwig will be the first American woman to head the 77th Cannes jury. I remember first seeing Greta at the SXSW film festival where she appeared in a “mumblecore film”, and credits the festival for giving her, her start in the business.
Will this be the year of the woman?&nbs...
CANNES: Tom Cruise received a special award and his film, “Top Gun,” opened the festival to rave reviews. Movies are back in theaters in a big way and respect for American film at Cannes seemed to fly over the skies. It was a story of overcoming all odds after the Big Shutdown of the last several years.
VENICE: premiered “Tar,” and critical response to star Cate Blanchette’s performance has never wavered from the competition for Best Actress.&nb...
Previous award winners "The Shape of Water," and "The Green Book," went on to win the Academy Award. "The Fablemans" with Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch is a worthy selection as it exemplifies the underlying them of this year's festival celebrating the Magic of Cinema.
That’s what movies do, elevate our perceptions, thrill our senses, perhaps revealing incites we might not see on the evening news....
PSIFF is back with Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Austin Butler, Sarah Polley, and Steven Spielberg, with 35 contenders for Best International FIlm, & great documentaries like "The Grab."
I speak annually with Palm Springs Lead Programmer, and former Newsweek critic David Ansen about film.
This year he attended the New York film festival, and saw twenty-five films in Toronto—many narrative, and many wonderful document...
Laura Dern was born in 1967 to actors Diane Ladd and Bruce Dern.
She said, "She was conceived in Idlewild, California while her parents were filming, 'Wild Angels'.”
Laura went on to work with director David Lynch on films, “Wild At Heart,” “Blue Velvet,” and his television show “Twin Peaks.” She grew up hanging out with friends of her parents like Shelley Winters and Gregory Peck. In Palm Springs the family ha...
In his acceptance speach he speaks of meeting Pedro Almodovar forty years ago and then doing eight films with him. "Back in the eighties, just out of the dictatorship Pedro saw the world in new ways."
He alludes to sitting in audiences of award shows as a nominee and not winning, (like being the bridesmaid and never the bride) hardly, Antonio won the Best Actor award in Cannes last May and is nominated for the Golden Globes on Sunday. This year he may win additional awards for h...
David Ansen, former Newsweek critic and now Palm Springs Film Festival’s head of programming says this is a very strong year, featuring 180 films from around the world. Now more than ever, the film festival offers major stars at its’ gala who feel Palm Springs is a must stop on the path to the Oscars.
Chairman Harold Matzner has heralded the growth of the Gala which brings international press as well. David said, “many of the international f...
Marissa Mayer (l.), Chuck McLane, Katie Franqueira, Ruben Bravo, Jennifer Knox Photographer: Gina Long
“Dames At Sea" is a terrifically entertaining musical that is now playing at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. A great opportunity to see a good old fashioned story that still rings true today. The musical was originally taken from a short
sketch, based on Warner Bros. “Gold Diggers” movies wit...
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tom Hanks will present the SAG Life Achievement Award to renowned actor, writer, director, producer, and communicator Alan Alda during the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
The SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishmentis the union's top accolade at the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®,
Given annually to an actor who fosters the "f...
I got to speak with David Ansen formerly a major critic for many years, and Artistic Director of the LA Film Festival, and now Head of Programming for the Palm Springs Film Festival about new trends.
Marla:How has the industry and the films changed?
David: When i started everything was on film and now it is digital…There is so much more content, it is much harder to get an audiences attention. Good films can get lost in the shuffle. We used to have great film...
The Palm Springs Film International Festival kicks off today with a morning screening of “Cinema Paradiso” which it featured in its first installment 30 years ago. To celebrate the Festival’s 30 year Anniversary, 30 retrospective films that were highlighted at the festival and helped put the festival on the map as one of the top film festivals in America, and the world. Will be shown free of charge to the public.
The festival has continued to grow with its worl...
Due to the renovation of the DGA theaters, the 23rd edition of COLCOA, "A Week Of French Film And Series Premieres In Hollywood", will take place in 2019 from Sept 23 to Sept 28. Celebrate with us in our newly renovated home, the best way to start the 2019/2020 Awards Season!
#colcoa #colcoa2019 #colcoa #cityoflight #cityofangels
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The festival passes cover all 12 or more screenings during the festival, held in the ornate Virginia Theatre, a restored downtown Champaign movie palace. Related talks and panel discussions may be held at the Hyatt Place hotel in downtown Champaign and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In addition to celebrated films, the festival presents cinematic works overlooked by audiences, critics or distributors. It was founded by Ebert, an Urbana native, U. of I...
Golden Globe winner and Emmy Award nominee Robin Wright is the President of the United States in the sixth and final season of the award-winning landmark series House of Cards. Wright is joined by Academy Award® nominees Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear as well as Cody Fern this season alongside Emmy Award nominee Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Academy Award® nominee Patricia Clarks...
NEW YORK (October 23, 2018) – Rupert Friend will star in Separation, directed by William Brent Bell and written by Nick Amadeus and Joshua Braun. The film is produced by Bell together with Yale Productions’ Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, Russ Posternak and Jesse Korman, and RainMaker’s Clay Pecorin and Russell Geyser. Executive producers are Seth Posternak and Dennis Rice. Yale Productions’ Jon Keeyes serves as a Co-...
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Tom Hanks will present the SAG Life Achievement Award to renowned actor, writer, director, producer, and communicator Alan Alda during the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
The SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishmentis the union's top accolade at the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®,
Given annually to an actor who fosters the "f...
by Marla Lewin
Global Film Village
This September, Los Angeles saw two plays by John O’Keefe produced. “Don’t You Ever Call Me Anything But MOTHER”, just closed at Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Group in North Hollywood, starring Tina Preston in a tour de force performance, and “All Night Long” at the Atwater Theatre complex in Glendale.
John’s personal past is reflected in the performance piece &ldquo...
by Marla LewinJust a little more than a month away from my favorite French Film Festival in Los Angeles, The City of Lights-City of Angels film festival. Each year it gets better and better with great films and small intimate interviews with amazing legendary directors and this year will be no different as they will be honoring the acclaimed writer-director Bertrand Blier. Who could forget his film GOING PLACES starring Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, and Jeanne Moreau? This year they w...
by Marla LewinFilm Independent which sponsors the Independent Spirit Awards which honor the independent filmmaker gave its awards today.Best Feature Fox SearchlightBlack Swan Producers: Scott Franklin, Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer, Brian Oliver Best Director ...
Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones at PSIFF Tribute by Marla Lewin Michael Douglas will receive the icon award tonight at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Then on Sunday he will attend the Golden Globes, where he is nominated for his role as Gordon Grekko, in Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. Oliver Stone was here on Saturday night to give an award to Carey Mulligan at the Awards Gala, she played Michaels' daughter in the film. Palm Springs is the festival that keeps on givin...
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(Global Film Village)  Marla is a producer, playwright, screenwriter, publicist and now a journalist. She attends 12 to 20 film festivals per year. She has spoken on filmmaking at many festivals including Cannes and SXSW.
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