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Oasis Documentary Directors on Filming the Brothers’ First Reunion in 15 Years and Why There Wasn’t Much Emotion in the Room: ‘It’s the Gallaghers, It’s Not ‘Dawson’s Creek”
The directors of the upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” have described filming Liam and Noel Gallagher’s first reunion in 15 years, revealing there was little visible emotion despite the historic nature of the moment. Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, speaking to Variety ahead of the film’s Venice premiere, said they deliberately…
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Édgar Ramírez and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart to Star in ‘Land of the Savages’ by Venice-Winning ‘Blanquita’ Director Fernando Guzzoni
Chilean director Fernando Guzzoni, whose “Blanquita” won the Silver Lion for best screenplay at Venice four years ago, is returning to the festival’s Gap-Financing Market with a new project. “Land of the Savages” will star Édgar Ramírez (“Zero Dark Thirty”) and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“120 Beats Per Minute”), and confronts Chile’s largely unacknowledged history of…
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Rodrigo Moreno and Santiago Mitre AD Felipe Solari Yrigoyen Set to Make Directorial Debut With ‘The Amateurs’
Felipe Solari Yrigoyen, a longtime assistant director for South American filmmakers including Rodrigo Moreno and Santiago Mitre, is making his own directorial debut with a crime comedy called “The Amateurs.” The project, unveiled at Venice’s Gap-Financing Market, matters as another sign of the strength of South American co-productions, particularly as Argentina’s film industry struggles under…
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Sydney entrepreneur says he proposed to his banker boyfriend to escape alleged French hotel attack: ‘I thought I was going to die’
A Sydney entrepreneur, Callum Forbes, has described how he offered to marry his banker boyfriend, David Cao, in a desperate bid to survive an alleged attack at a French hotel in July. Cao, 37, allegedly struck Forbes on the head with a saucepan and poured boiling water over him at the Château de Perreux in…
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AOC becomes latest to slam Flock cameras as mass surveillance rapidly becomes midterm sleeper issue
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has strongly criticised Flock Safety’s license plate-reading cameras, joining a growing bipartisan backlash that has turned the technology into an unexpected issue in America’s midterm elections. Speaking in a Wednesday interview, she said the cameras were “terrible” and warned they risked creating a “surveillance state” in which private companies harvest data…
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TV tonight: Joe Lycett broadcasts live from an East End pub – what could possibly go wrong?
Channel 4 airs the first episode of Joe Lycett’s new live series in which the comedian takes on the role of landlord at a brand-new East End pub, the Lycett Arms. Broadcast live for an hour every Friday at 10pm, the show sees Lycett welcome celebrity co-managers and guests alongside regular punters, with the format…
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Freddie Mercury mural unveiled at Wembley Park
A 30ft anamorphic mural of Freddie Mercury has been unveiled at Wembley Park to mark what would have been the Queen frontman’s 80th birthday. The artwork, titled “I’m Mr Mercury,” was created by street artist Frank Styles and only resolves into a clear image of Mercury’s face when viewed from a single marked spot around…
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Cédric Kahn on Immersing Himself in an Adolescent Psychiatric Ward for His Venice Competition Film ‘A Place to Heal’ (EXCLUSIVE)
French actor-director Cédric Kahn spent several weeks embedded in an adolescent psychiatric ward, while his co-writer Kahina Le Querrec spent six months in another, to research his 12th feature “A Place to Heal”, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Rather than focusing on doctors and diagnoses, Kahn chose to centre the film…
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Nvidia Extends DLSS 5 to Older GPUs as Performance Concerns Emerge
Nvidia has confirmed to The Verge that its new DLSS 5 AI rendering technology will officially extend to older RTX 40-series graphics cards, reversing an earlier plan to limit the feature to its newest RTX 50-series GPUs at launch. The reversal followed modders successfully porting a leaked version of DLSS 5 to run on a…