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Peter Brook’s ‘The Mahabharata’ Lands on BFI Blu-ray in 4K Restoration
Peter Brook’s five-hour-plus film adaptation of “The Mahabharata” is set for a BFI Blu-ray release on Aug. 10, presented in high definition from a new 4K restoration of the 1989 production. The release centres on the triptych version of the film, running 332 minutes, which sits between Brook’s three-hour cinema cut and the six-hour television…
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“Slop Face” Is Taking Over Hollywood — and Making Beauty Boring
Why do so many of today’s stars look so … same-y? You can blame casting directors, plastic surgery trends and — as with everything else these days — social media.
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The iconic movie character Emma Thompson said she’d “actually hang myself” if she saw again
Bad news on that front. The post The iconic movie character Emma Thompson said she’d “actually hang myself” if she saw again first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
George Lucas has argued that opposition to artificial intelligence in film-making is misguided, comparing sceptics to people clinging to horses and carts in the face of newer technology. In an interview, he said AI makes it easier to make films and described its spread as unavoidable progress, adding his voice to a broader industry debate…
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Turning ‘Nova’ Into a Movie Could Repeat One of Marvel’s Biggest TV Mistakes
While Nova is finally moving to the silver screen, it might run into the same issue as recent Marvel projects.
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As The Odyssey Fans Seek Out One of the 41 Cinemas in the Whole World Capable of Imax 70mm, the Boss of Imax Itself Says Building New Projectors to Meet Demand Isn’t ‘Practical’
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has sent fans far and wide to find one of the 41 cinemas in the whole world capable of projecting the Imax 70mm format it’s filmed in. So why aren’t there more theaters able to show the movie — the first ever shot entirely on 1570 cameras — in all its…
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8 Soft Sci-Fi Movies That Are Perfect From the First Scene to the Last
From rom-coms like About Time to disaster dramas like Melancholia, these soft sci-fi movies successfully remain perfectly flawless throughout their.
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‘Cowboy’ Director Nathan Grubbs on Betting the Farm to Make His Louisiana Western
Independently financed American genre films rarely arrive without scars. In the case of “Cowboy,” Nathan Grubbs’ directorial debut, which bowed at London’s Raindance Film Festival, the struggle to get the film made became almost inseparable from the story being told. Produced through Rubicon Entertainment, the contemporary Southern noir Western was constructed incrementally, with Grubbs serving…
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Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ Finally Gets a Release Date
“Jana Nayagan”, the long-delayed final film of Indian star Vijay, is now set for a worldwide cinema release on 23 July, according to KVN Productions. The announcement matters because the Tamil-language film is being positioned as Vijay’s farewell to acting after he left cinema for politics and became Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Its release…
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10 Best Movie Villains of the 2020s So Far
Bear from Obsession, Aunt Gladys from Weapons, and Remmick from Sinners are all among the greatest movie villains of the 2020s so far.