This is the latest installment of a series exploring significant films from the careers of directors showing new work at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Jane Campion doesn’t put much stock in labels — seemingly preferring to adhere to the old Groucho Marx chestnut, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member” — and has spent her career pursuing work that speaks to her sensibilities. Ask Campion for her own views of feminism, and you’re likely to get an answer like the one she gave fellow filmmaker Katherine Dieckmann in a chat for Interview Magazine back in 1992, when she was still working on “The Piano” (then known as “The Piano Lesson”): “I don’t belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism—although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism.”
Clubs,...
Jane Campion doesn’t put much stock in labels — seemingly preferring to adhere to the old Groucho Marx chestnut, “I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member” — and has spent her career pursuing work that speaks to her sensibilities. Ask Campion for her own views of feminism, and you’re likely to get an answer like the one she gave fellow filmmaker Katherine Dieckmann in a chat for Interview Magazine back in 1992, when she was still working on “The Piano” (then known as “The Piano Lesson”): “I don’t belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism—although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism.”
Clubs,...
- 5/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Friends should always look out for one another. It doesn’t matter if you have friends in real life or Cyberspace. In this week’s episode of Scorpion, Happy does whatever it takes to ensure her friend’s safety and well-being. There’s just one problem, Happy’s new friend lives in a giant bubble. Though technically it’s more of a bubble room than a round bubble. I’m glad that Happy is making emotional connections with other people in this episode. She got Ada to calm down as the rest of Team Scorpion plays Debris Jenga. The mechanical prodigy continued to keep her new friend
Scorpion: Happy Finds a New Friend. Paige and Agent Gallo get Heartbroken.
Scorpion: Happy Finds a New Friend. Paige and Agent Gallo get Heartbroken.
- 2/28/2017
- by Tiffany
- TVovermind.com
I'm going to need Ada to be one of Happy's bridesmaids.
On Scorpion Season 3 Episode 18, Happy discovered Ada was in danger after she failed to respond to one of Happy's online messages. The moral of this story is internet friends should always look out for one another.
There are so many great things about this case. Happy being in charge and bossing everyone around is one of them. Happy getting a chance to shine is always enjoyable.
She also managed to keep Ada calm while Team Scorpion did their job.
If there wasn't a personal connection between Ada and Happy, it very well could have been Paige that had that task. Instead, Happy did it, and she didn't even fully realizing that she was up until the team told her to keep it up.
This was such a huge moment for Happy. Hopefully, we continue to see Happy making new friends in the future.
On Scorpion Season 3 Episode 18, Happy discovered Ada was in danger after she failed to respond to one of Happy's online messages. The moral of this story is internet friends should always look out for one another.
There are so many great things about this case. Happy being in charge and bossing everyone around is one of them. Happy getting a chance to shine is always enjoyable.
She also managed to keep Ada calm while Team Scorpion did their job.
If there wasn't a personal connection between Ada and Happy, it very well could have been Paige that had that task. Instead, Happy did it, and she didn't even fully realizing that she was up until the team told her to keep it up.
This was such a huge moment for Happy. Hopefully, we continue to see Happy making new friends in the future.
- 2/28/2017
- by Allison Nichols
- TVfanatic
Every budding actor’s biggest dream is to find success in the city of dreams. This is no easy feat to achieve for not all of them can be the next King Khan of Bollywood. While some survive the rat race, the rest drift into oblivion..
Survival of the fittest as they rightly proclaim, there are actors who have floored the audience with their performances surpassing all expectations! Here are top 7 upcoming actors to look out for in 2016:
1. Vidyut Jamwal: Also a trained martial artist, Vidyut Jamwal is popularly known as the action hero of Bollywood. His first Bollywood outing Force opposite John Abraham got him much notice paving way for all the promising debut awards at the award galas. Having dedicated himself to the martial arts, the actor even went on to earn international acclaim with directors touting him as India’s answer to Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa.
Survival of the fittest as they rightly proclaim, there are actors who have floored the audience with their performances surpassing all expectations! Here are top 7 upcoming actors to look out for in 2016:
1. Vidyut Jamwal: Also a trained martial artist, Vidyut Jamwal is popularly known as the action hero of Bollywood. His first Bollywood outing Force opposite John Abraham got him much notice paving way for all the promising debut awards at the award galas. Having dedicated himself to the martial arts, the actor even went on to earn international acclaim with directors touting him as India’s answer to Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa.
- 6/7/2016
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
This week on The CW’s Arrow, Laurel Lance was laid to rest — but not before someone threatened to tarnish her legacy as the Black Canary.
RelatedArrow EPs Admit Flashback Woes, Say Season 5 Will Be Better
I would think — though I will be proven wrong! — that even those who went into this hour with a cynical ‘tude had to be moved, if not also impressed, by the weight of the material. The flashbacks to the time of Tommy Merlyn’s own tragic passing — he being the first one to fall under Oliver’s watch — made some salient points while...
RelatedArrow EPs Admit Flashback Woes, Say Season 5 Will Be Better
I would think — though I will be proven wrong! — that even those who went into this hour with a cynical ‘tude had to be moved, if not also impressed, by the weight of the material. The flashbacks to the time of Tommy Merlyn’s own tragic passing — he being the first one to fall under Oliver’s watch — made some salient points while...
- 4/28/2016
- TVLine.com
Perhaps a good way into reviewing Andrew Jarecki's HBO docu-mystery "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst" is through its title. Unless there's a more direct articulation later on, the title comes from a quote in the second episode. New York real estate heir Robert Durst is musing on why he didn't want to have kids with his first wife Kathleen. "Somehow I thought I might be a jinx," Durst tells Jarecki. Durst has spent three decades linked to Kathleen's disappearance, as well as several other murders, including a colorful 2001 case in Galveston, Texas that begins "The Jinx." A jinx, indeed. This brings me to Serial, the podcast that's likely to be mentioned in every single review of "The Jinx." In the final Serial episode -- Spoiler alert, but not really -- Sarah Koenig's colleague Dana Chivvis raises the specter that in order to accept the innocence of Adnan Sayid,...
- 2/7/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
The Good Wife, Season 6, Episode 10: “The Trial”
Written by Robert King and Michelle King
Directed by Frederick E. O. Toye
Airs Sundays at 9pm Et
Simon Howell: Of course this was going to happen. The Good Wife’s latest seasonal pivot point, in which a major character apparently heads to the slammer, happens to be surrounded with a whole lot of its most broadly silly material. “The Trial” is up to a lot of things – shifting perspectives, light social commentary, romantic workplace comedy, Law & Order episode – but for the most part it manages to hold together reasonably well as an episode. If nothing else, it makes clear that the Kings have no interest in signposting just where this season is meant to be heading, except that it will continue to be defined by Alicia’s campaign and her increasingly unreliable ethical compass. To ponder the episode’s developments and assess the season so far,...
Written by Robert King and Michelle King
Directed by Frederick E. O. Toye
Airs Sundays at 9pm Et
Simon Howell: Of course this was going to happen. The Good Wife’s latest seasonal pivot point, in which a major character apparently heads to the slammer, happens to be surrounded with a whole lot of its most broadly silly material. “The Trial” is up to a lot of things – shifting perspectives, light social commentary, romantic workplace comedy, Law & Order episode – but for the most part it manages to hold together reasonably well as an episode. If nothing else, it makes clear that the Kings have no interest in signposting just where this season is meant to be heading, except that it will continue to be defined by Alicia’s campaign and her increasingly unreliable ethical compass. To ponder the episode’s developments and assess the season so far,...
- 11/24/2014
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Arrow Season 2, Episode 4 “Crucible”
Written by Andrew Kreisberg & Wendy Mericle
Directed by Eagle Egilsson
Airs Wednesday nights at 8pm Et on The CW
In season one, the Lance family was a drag. Laurel and Quentin fighting all the time, Quentin drinking and lamenting his broken life, Laurel crying a lot over it while she ran back and forth between Ollie and Tommy… it really was just a mess, although the show quickly found a way to make Quentin useful as a semi-antagonist to the Hood. “Crucible” does a lot to help change these circumstances, making most of the Lance family a lot more interesting than they once were – except for Laurel of course, who continues to suffer from being the most frustrating character in the Arrow world.
There are certain pieces of Laurel’s path from working Ada to sloppy drunk that I enjoy – the parallel between her and her father’s quick-growing addictions,...
Written by Andrew Kreisberg & Wendy Mericle
Directed by Eagle Egilsson
Airs Wednesday nights at 8pm Et on The CW
In season one, the Lance family was a drag. Laurel and Quentin fighting all the time, Quentin drinking and lamenting his broken life, Laurel crying a lot over it while she ran back and forth between Ollie and Tommy… it really was just a mess, although the show quickly found a way to make Quentin useful as a semi-antagonist to the Hood. “Crucible” does a lot to help change these circumstances, making most of the Lance family a lot more interesting than they once were – except for Laurel of course, who continues to suffer from being the most frustrating character in the Arrow world.
There are certain pieces of Laurel’s path from working Ada to sloppy drunk that I enjoy – the parallel between her and her father’s quick-growing addictions,...
- 10/31/2013
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
The director has revealed she wanted the character of Ada to drown in the sea after she follows her piano overboard
It is one of the most iconic scenes from films made in the 1990s: the sequence near the end of The Piano in which Holly Hunter's mute Ada plunges into the ocean, her foot deliberately tangled in a rope, as her beloved instrument is thrown from a boat to a watery grave. Ada eventually relents and floats to the surface, to begin what the film's epilogue suggests will be a happier life: but the The Piano's Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, Jane Campion, has revealed she wishes she had gone a step further and consigned her heroine to a permanent resting place beneath the waves.
In an interview with the Radio Times to discuss her new project with Hunter, the six-part BBC2 TV series Top of the Lake,...
It is one of the most iconic scenes from films made in the 1990s: the sequence near the end of The Piano in which Holly Hunter's mute Ada plunges into the ocean, her foot deliberately tangled in a rope, as her beloved instrument is thrown from a boat to a watery grave. Ada eventually relents and floats to the surface, to begin what the film's epilogue suggests will be a happier life: but the The Piano's Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, Jane Campion, has revealed she wishes she had gone a step further and consigned her heroine to a permanent resting place beneath the waves.
In an interview with the Radio Times to discuss her new project with Hunter, the six-part BBC2 TV series Top of the Lake,...
- 7/8/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Law & Order: Los Angeles is currently on winter hiatus, but there are some very big changes in store for the show. The series debuted in the Fall of 2010 on NBC to approximately 10 million viewers and has fluctuated in the ratings. It's fluctuated enough to cause a major overhaul in the second half of the first season.
According to TV Squad, Lola creator Dick Wolf has revealed that Skeet Ulrich, Regina Hall and Megan Boone will all be leaving the show. This is curious since Ulrich is one of the main stars of the show and one of the main detectives investigating cases. Ulrich is set to depart the show in episode 14, which should air in March.
With three stars set to leave, Wolf plans to elevate the roles of Alfred Molina and Terrence Howard. Molina currently plays D.D.A. Ricardo Morales, but he'll return to his previous job as...
According to TV Squad, Lola creator Dick Wolf has revealed that Skeet Ulrich, Regina Hall and Megan Boone will all be leaving the show. This is curious since Ulrich is one of the main stars of the show and one of the main detectives investigating cases. Ulrich is set to depart the show in episode 14, which should air in March.
With three stars set to leave, Wolf plans to elevate the roles of Alfred Molina and Terrence Howard. Molina currently plays D.D.A. Ricardo Morales, but he'll return to his previous job as...
- 1/14/2011
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
"The Biggest Loser" finale brought the 10th season to a close as Patrick House earned the $250,000 prize.
At the start of the two-hour finale, the contestants were down to the final four: Patrick House (starting weight 400 lbs), Frado Dinten (367 lbs), Elizabeth Ruiz (244 lbs) and Ada Wong (258 lbs).
It was revealed right off the bat that the viewers chose Ada to continue on to the final three with Patrick and Frado, who were already in the finals. Before they got to the finals, though, they did weigh-ins with the previous contestants for the at-home prize. Adam Hurtado takes an early lead, having lost 45% of his starting weight, then Rick Deroque takes over with his 47%. But finally Mark Pinkhasovich wins the at-home prize with over 50% of his starting weight lost. That is just astounding.
The finalists finally get to have their final weigh-ins. Frado comes in at 205, for a loss of 162 lbs,...
At the start of the two-hour finale, the contestants were down to the final four: Patrick House (starting weight 400 lbs), Frado Dinten (367 lbs), Elizabeth Ruiz (244 lbs) and Ada Wong (258 lbs).
It was revealed right off the bat that the viewers chose Ada to continue on to the final three with Patrick and Frado, who were already in the finals. Before they got to the finals, though, they did weigh-ins with the previous contestants for the at-home prize. Adam Hurtado takes an early lead, having lost 45% of his starting weight, then Rick Deroque takes over with his 47%. But finally Mark Pinkhasovich wins the at-home prize with over 50% of his starting weight lost. That is just astounding.
The finalists finally get to have their final weigh-ins. Frado comes in at 205, for a loss of 162 lbs,...
- 12/15/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The father Joe is just realizing how much trouble his son Jim is in.
"He goes out to collect a football debt and maybe won't come home again. Never heard of anything like it."
Things look grim for Jim. It's because a policeman was shot, the case is going to trial. If the murder charge gets kicked. Jim can be released on bail.
Joe shares a memory of his son.
"It's funny what you can remember at times like these. Must have been twenty years ago. Before his mom ran off, the three of us would go to Arizona to see his cousins, my sister's kids. I can barely see Jim in the rear view; he was so little then. Janet and me are fighting about god knows what. I run out of gas. There was no moon that night. We were less than a mile out. The kid was 7-years-old then.
"He goes out to collect a football debt and maybe won't come home again. Never heard of anything like it."
Things look grim for Jim. It's because a policeman was shot, the case is going to trial. If the murder charge gets kicked. Jim can be released on bail.
Joe shares a memory of his son.
"It's funny what you can remember at times like these. Must have been twenty years ago. Before his mom ran off, the three of us would go to Arizona to see his cousins, my sister's kids. I can barely see Jim in the rear view; he was so little then. Janet and me are fighting about god knows what. I run out of gas. There was no moon that night. We were less than a mile out. The kid was 7-years-old then.
- 11/2/2010
- by Xindilini
Since this is my first ever review for Law & Order: Svu, I need to give you some backstory before I tell you my feelings about this episode. First, I’ve watched every single episode of Svu more than twice. For years a local channel in Canada aired it every night as I got home from work and started preparing dinner. So there’s not much about the show that surprises me anymore. Not in the sense of quality, but more in terms of the cases. In terms of quality, some Svu episodes stand out more than others in recent years, but I’m always happy to watch the show even if it’s not the best episode.
Second, I never watched Ghost Whisperer, so my knowledge of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s acting abilities comes from Party of Five, Sister Act 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
All of that being said,...
Second, I never watched Ghost Whisperer, so my knowledge of Jennifer Love Hewitt’s acting abilities comes from Party of Five, Sister Act 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
All of that being said,...
- 9/30/2010
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
"Law & Order: SVU" is getting a new assistant district attorney in the form of "Precious" star Paula Patton.
Patton will appear in multiple episodes of the veteran NBC series as Ada Mikka Von. Her character is described as a "charming and savvy" prosecutor who comes to work with the Special Victims Unit, starting with the season's fifth episode.
The character is the third Ada to sign up for extended duty with the SVU, following Alexandra Cabot (Stephanie March) and Casey Novak (Diane Neal).
"When I saw Paula Patton give that terrific performance in the multi-Oscar nominated 'Precious,' I knew she'd be perfect for 'Svu's' new assistant district attorney -- she's funny, warm and witty with a penchant for justice," executive producer Neal Baer says. "And it happened. She's starting in episode five. How cool is that?"
Baer also notes via Twitter that Patton's character's name is an anagram for Kim Novak.
Patton will appear in multiple episodes of the veteran NBC series as Ada Mikka Von. Her character is described as a "charming and savvy" prosecutor who comes to work with the Special Victims Unit, starting with the season's fifth episode.
The character is the third Ada to sign up for extended duty with the SVU, following Alexandra Cabot (Stephanie March) and Casey Novak (Diane Neal).
"When I saw Paula Patton give that terrific performance in the multi-Oscar nominated 'Precious,' I knew she'd be perfect for 'Svu's' new assistant district attorney -- she's funny, warm and witty with a penchant for justice," executive producer Neal Baer says. "And it happened. She's starting in episode five. How cool is that?"
Baer also notes via Twitter that Patton's character's name is an anagram for Kim Novak.
- 7/21/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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