To say that Jennifer Lawrence is a successful actor would be a gross understatement. One could describe the trajectory of her career as a meteoric rise. From heading a massive film franchise like The Hunger Games to winning an Oscar at the age of 22, Lawrence has achieved a massive amount of success. While Lawrence took a prolonged break from Hollywood, it’s hard to picture her quitting acting completely. But the thespian had every intention of doing just that if she didn’t become successful. So what was her backup plan?
Jennifer Lawrence | Amy Sussman/Getty Images Jennifer Lawrence dropped out of middle school to pursue acting
Lawrence caught the acting bug at a very young age. But she had her sights set on a professional career rather than school plays. In fact, she was so confident that acting was her path that she dropped out of middle school. Instead of going to high school,...
Jennifer Lawrence | Amy Sussman/Getty Images Jennifer Lawrence dropped out of middle school to pursue acting
Lawrence caught the acting bug at a very young age. But she had her sights set on a professional career rather than school plays. In fact, she was so confident that acting was her path that she dropped out of middle school. Instead of going to high school,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Abeni Tinubu
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Early in Daniel Roher’s alarming and essential documentary Navalny, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sits in Germany, having recovered from being poisoned. Asked what message he might leave behind if killed, he resists and tells the director he’d rather have this film be a thriller, half-jokingly saying “If I die you can make a boring movie of remembrance.” The film is anything but––a living work of journalism made by CNN in secret, revealed as a mystery documentary premiere only after Sundance was underway this year. Putin and Sundance have a bit of history: in 2017 hackers briefly took down the festival’s box office after the premiere of the doping-scandal documentary Icarus. Thankfully no such issues were reported this year.
Similar to Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, Navalny is a living document as Navalny and his publicist team up with Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev to piece together the mystery of his 2020 poisoning.
Similar to Laura Poitras’ Citizenfour, Navalny is a living document as Navalny and his publicist team up with Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev to piece together the mystery of his 2020 poisoning.
- 1/28/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
If you've paid attention to global politics over the past few years, you already know the name Alexei Navalny. But "Navalny," the new documentary from filmmaker Daniel Roher coming to HBO Max later this year, paints a portrait that takes you beyond the headlines and showcases an impassioned, courageous, and principled man brave enough to stand up to Russia's authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin -- and who nearly died because of it.
Navalny, who became a major political figure in Russia by openly criticizing the brazen corruption in the country, has scared Putin to such a degree that Putin won't even utter his...
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Navalny, who became a major political figure in Russia by openly criticizing the brazen corruption in the country, has scared Putin to such a degree that Putin won't even utter his...
The post Navalny Review: A Riveting Portrait of Vladimir Putin's Worst Nightmare [Sundance 2022] appeared first on /Film.
- 1/28/2022
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
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