Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSStranger by the Lake.Production has begun on Alain Guiraudie’s next noir-esque feature, Miséricorde, with Dp Claire Mathon—their third collaboration after Stranger by the Lake (2013) and Staying Vertical (2016). The plot centers on a 30-year-old man named Jérémie who returns to a village in southern France, his prior home, for an old friend’s funeral, only to find himself at the center of a police investigation.Recommended VIEWINGJanus Films have shared a trailer for a new 4K restoration of Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil (1964). A virtuosic, formally experimental work of militant cinema, it tells the story of Manoel, a cowherd who, after murdering a ranch owner, flees to join a religious cult headed by a self-proclaimed saint, only to find himself back among violence. A landmark of Brazil’s Cinema Novo...
- 11/9/2023
- MUBI
He’s won prizes from the Golden Globes, Cannes, and the Directors Guild, but Ridley Scott has never won a little gold man.
The 85-year-old filmmaker, readying to unleash his Joaquin Phoenix-starring epic “Napoleon” on the world November 22, gave a characteristically gloves-off interview in The New Yorker this week. (One delightful quote? The director of the likes of “The Counselor” and “Thelma and Louise” and “Robin Hood” said “my choices tend to be random” in terms of what projects he likes to pursue.)
But the topic of how the four-time Academy Award-nominated English director feels about consistently being shunned by the Oscars came up with New Yorker writer Michael Schulman. Scott’s swords-and-sandals saga “Gladiator” won Best Picture in 2001 and revived his career, but as Scott wasn’t a credited producer on the now-classic, the win wasn’t his to take. He lost Best Director that year, as well...
The 85-year-old filmmaker, readying to unleash his Joaquin Phoenix-starring epic “Napoleon” on the world November 22, gave a characteristically gloves-off interview in The New Yorker this week. (One delightful quote? The director of the likes of “The Counselor” and “Thelma and Louise” and “Robin Hood” said “my choices tend to be random” in terms of what projects he likes to pursue.)
But the topic of how the four-time Academy Award-nominated English director feels about consistently being shunned by the Oscars came up with New Yorker writer Michael Schulman. Scott’s swords-and-sandals saga “Gladiator” won Best Picture in 2001 and revived his career, but as Scott wasn’t a credited producer on the now-classic, the win wasn’t his to take. He lost Best Director that year, as well...
- 11/7/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Orange Is the New Black helped put Netflix on the map. Now, several of the supporting stars on the trailblazing prison dramedy are looking back on the show’s breakout and continued success to ask why they weren’t fairly compensated.
Their questions, coming as the Jenji Kohan-created series celebrates the 10-year anniversary of its July 11, 2013, premiere, surfaced in a New Yorker story published ahead of SAG-AFTRA announcing an actors strike after the union failed to reach a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) group of studios and streamers. And many of the Oitnb castmembers’ woes reflect the issues at heart of the tense negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP.
Ten Oitnb recurring stars (some who were later upped to series regulars) — including Kimiko Glenn, Alysia Reiner, Beth Dover, Emma Myles, Diane Guerrero, Taryn Manning and Lea DeLaria — spoke with writer Michael Schulman about...
Their questions, coming as the Jenji Kohan-created series celebrates the 10-year anniversary of its July 11, 2013, premiere, surfaced in a New Yorker story published ahead of SAG-AFTRA announcing an actors strike after the union failed to reach a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) group of studios and streamers. And many of the Oitnb castmembers’ woes reflect the issues at heart of the tense negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP.
Ten Oitnb recurring stars (some who were later upped to series regulars) — including Kimiko Glenn, Alysia Reiner, Beth Dover, Emma Myles, Diane Guerrero, Taryn Manning and Lea DeLaria — spoke with writer Michael Schulman about...
- 7/13/2023
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Todd Field's Best Picture-nominated film "Tár" is such a compelling and realistically realized drama, that some audiences have left screenings convinced that the title character, an orchestra conductor named Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), is 100% real. The details of the classical film world were so stringent and meticulously researched for "Tár" that many simply believed they encountered a straight-up biography of a real-world celebrity that merely lay outside of their usual field of vision.
Some of the details in Field's screenplay, of course, are something of a giveaway. Lydia Tár, for instance, is an Egot, a rare achievement only gained by 18 people to date. Other details, however, were perhaps plausible. For instance, Lydia Tár is said to have studied under Leonard Bernstein, the famed conductor and composer. Bernstein's career as a lecturer and professor is long and prestigious, and the famous people he instructed are numerous. His body of work is so vast,...
Some of the details in Field's screenplay, of course, are something of a giveaway. Lydia Tár, for instance, is an Egot, a rare achievement only gained by 18 people to date. Other details, however, were perhaps plausible. For instance, Lydia Tár is said to have studied under Leonard Bernstein, the famed conductor and composer. Bernstein's career as a lecturer and professor is long and prestigious, and the famous people he instructed are numerous. His body of work is so vast,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
No mentor/mentee relationship is more iconic than the fictional one between celebrity conductors Leonard Bernstein and Lydia Tár. But in recent months, the connection between the 20th-century music legend and the (also fictional) Egot-winning Berlin Philharmonic conductor has been called into question — by none other than Lydia Tár’s creator, director Todd Field.
In interviews for publications like Variety and The New Yorker, the director of Best Picture nominee “TÁR” revealed that various references the main character Lydia Tár (played by Cate Blanchett) makes to studying under Bernstein over the course of the film are, at least in his opinion, lies she tells in order to further her own public image.
“It would be good for the Bernstein estate to let her lie about her association with Leonard Bernstein, even if she maybe never even studied with him, because the optics of that association would be very, very good,...
In interviews for publications like Variety and The New Yorker, the director of Best Picture nominee “TÁR” revealed that various references the main character Lydia Tár (played by Cate Blanchett) makes to studying under Bernstein over the course of the film are, at least in his opinion, lies she tells in order to further her own public image.
“It would be good for the Bernstein estate to let her lie about her association with Leonard Bernstein, even if she maybe never even studied with him, because the optics of that association would be very, very good,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Jeremy Strong says his buzzy 2021 New Yorker profile was a moment of shame but that he’s not planning on changing how he approaches his craft despite the online backlash or his co-stars’ responses.
In a new GQ cover story, Strong addresses the viral profile written by Michael Schulman that garnered a wave of questions (and jokes) about the impact of the actor’s chosen performance style, as well as a slew of Hollywood responses in support of the Emmy nominee.
In the New Yorker story, the intensity of Strong’s acting choices were called into question, with one particular note — about his request to be tear-gassed while filming a scene as social activist and anti-war leader Jerry Rubin in Aaron Sorkin’s Trial of the Chicago 7 — resurfacing to mixed online reactions.
The response to that profile was, for the Succession and Armageddon Time actor, “15 minutes of shame, with a long tail,...
In a new GQ cover story, Strong addresses the viral profile written by Michael Schulman that garnered a wave of questions (and jokes) about the impact of the actor’s chosen performance style, as well as a slew of Hollywood responses in support of the Emmy nominee.
In the New Yorker story, the intensity of Strong’s acting choices were called into question, with one particular note — about his request to be tear-gassed while filming a scene as social activist and anti-war leader Jerry Rubin in Aaron Sorkin’s Trial of the Chicago 7 — resurfacing to mixed online reactions.
The response to that profile was, for the Succession and Armageddon Time actor, “15 minutes of shame, with a long tail,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Oscars have always been a battleground of sorts. In recent years, the ceremony has become a public event arbitrating issues of race, gender, and privilege in cinema and society. But throughout its 94-year history, the Academy Awards mediated some very different battles. There have been attempts to square petty power plays, wars with the Academy itself, and even attempts to take down a gay Oscars producer.
“The red carpet runs through contested turf,” Michael Schulman opens his new tome on the awards, Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold,...
“The red carpet runs through contested turf,” Michael Schulman opens his new tome on the awards, Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Nathan Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Jeremy Strong has reflected on the infamous profile of him in the New Yorker, admitting he’d never “felt judged like that in a very long time”.
Titled “On Succession, Jeremy Strong doesn’t get the joke”, journalist Michael Schulman’s 2021 feature characterised the 43-year-old as an intense actor, deeply committed to his craft, who takes every role he lands as “seriously as his own life”.
It included quotes from Strong’s Succession co-stars, including Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin, both of whom commented on the actor’s serious approach to his performance.
Following its publication, the interview sparked heated conversation on Twitter, with numerous celebrities such as Anne Hathaway and Aaron Sorkin coming to Strong’s defence.
Now, just over a year since the drama, Strong spoke with British GQ and said he viewed the interview as his “15 minutes of shame, with a long tail”.
“I hadn’t felt...
Titled “On Succession, Jeremy Strong doesn’t get the joke”, journalist Michael Schulman’s 2021 feature characterised the 43-year-old as an intense actor, deeply committed to his craft, who takes every role he lands as “seriously as his own life”.
It included quotes from Strong’s Succession co-stars, including Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin, both of whom commented on the actor’s serious approach to his performance.
Following its publication, the interview sparked heated conversation on Twitter, with numerous celebrities such as Anne Hathaway and Aaron Sorkin coming to Strong’s defence.
Now, just over a year since the drama, Strong spoke with British GQ and said he viewed the interview as his “15 minutes of shame, with a long tail”.
“I hadn’t felt...
- 2/21/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
Gold Derby contributing writers Charlie Bright and Tony Ruiz co-hosted the new weekly podcast “Gold Derby Roundtable with Charlie and Tony” over the holiday weekend, featuring guests Rob Licuria (a longtime Gold Derby contributor and expert) and the site’s news and featured editor Ray Richmond. Their animated talk covered a wealth of subjects throughout the entertainment spectrum, from Bruce Willis’ tragic dementia diagnosis to Tina Fey’s and Amy Poehler’s launch of a comedy appearance tour, to the 2017 “Moonlight”/”La La Land” Best Picture envelope fiasco as described in the new Oscar book “Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears” by New Yorker staffer Michael Schulman, to debating this coming weekend’s Producers Guild Awards (Saturday the 25th) and Screen Actors Guild Awards (Sunday the 26th). Watch the video above or the audio below.
The Schulman book publishes Tuesday the 26th and features a lengthy description of,...
The Schulman book publishes Tuesday the 26th and features a lengthy description of,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Fans are freaking out about a new Amanda Seyfried musical.
On Tuesday night, “The Dropout” star won Best Actress at the 2023 Golden Globes for her performance as Elizabeth Holmes in the acclaimed limited series.
Read More: Amanda Seyfried Remembers Stripping Down For Early Role: ‘I Wanted To Keep My Job’
Unfortunately, the actress wasn’t on hand to accept the prize in-person, but the stated reason left a lot of people confused and very excited.
Accepting the award on Seyfried’s behalf, the presenter explained that she is “deep in the process of creating a new musical this week.”
Fans immediately wondered what musical Seyfried is working on.
Amanda Seyfried can't be here tonight because she is “deep in the process of creating a new musical this week” Do Go On??
— Michael Schulman (@MJSchulman) January 11, 2023
What the fuck new musical is Amanda Seyfried deep in the process of creating
— Zach Schiffman...
On Tuesday night, “The Dropout” star won Best Actress at the 2023 Golden Globes for her performance as Elizabeth Holmes in the acclaimed limited series.
Read More: Amanda Seyfried Remembers Stripping Down For Early Role: ‘I Wanted To Keep My Job’
Unfortunately, the actress wasn’t on hand to accept the prize in-person, but the stated reason left a lot of people confused and very excited.
Accepting the award on Seyfried’s behalf, the presenter explained that she is “deep in the process of creating a new musical this week.”
Fans immediately wondered what musical Seyfried is working on.
Amanda Seyfried can't be here tonight because she is “deep in the process of creating a new musical this week” Do Go On??
— Michael Schulman (@MJSchulman) January 11, 2023
What the fuck new musical is Amanda Seyfried deep in the process of creating
— Zach Schiffman...
- 1/11/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
As a member of the legendary writing staff of NBC's "Your Show of Shows" in the 1950s, Mel Brooks played a key role in pushing the formal boundaries of television comedy, so it stands to reason that he would be equally adventurous behind the lens of a film camera. Taking his cues from such pioneering entertainments as Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" and H.C. Potter's "Hellzapoppin'," Brooks played broadly to viewers, occasionally breaking the fourth wall to get them involved in the front. He does this multiple times in "Blazing Saddles:" in one instance, he has Harvey Korman's Hedley Lamarr pause his direct-to-camera scheming to ponder to the audience, "Why am I asking you?" There's also the moment where the film's climactic melee crashes into the set of a Busby Berkeley musical, prompting Slim Pickens to blurt out "P*** on you, I'm working for Mel Brooks" before...
- 12/6/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Jeremy Strong has addressed the “drama” surrounding his commitment to method acting, calling it “just noise”.
In 2021, the Succession star was profiled for The New Yorker by journalist Michael Schulman.
Titled “On Succession, Jeremy Strong doesn’t get the joke”, Schulman’s feature characterised the 43-year-old as an intense actor, deeply committed to his craft, who takes every role he lands as “seriously as his own life”.
After it was published last December, it drew mixed reactions from fans and fellow actors, with Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Aaron Sorkin, and others condemning the piece for painting a “distorted” picture of Strong.
Now, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy-winning actor has said, “It’s something I really just want to free myself from”.
“There’s a lot of mythologising about my process. But it’s very unremarkable and is really just about concentration,” he added.
“I’m...
In 2021, the Succession star was profiled for The New Yorker by journalist Michael Schulman.
Titled “On Succession, Jeremy Strong doesn’t get the joke”, Schulman’s feature characterised the 43-year-old as an intense actor, deeply committed to his craft, who takes every role he lands as “seriously as his own life”.
After it was published last December, it drew mixed reactions from fans and fellow actors, with Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Aaron Sorkin, and others condemning the piece for painting a “distorted” picture of Strong.
Now, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Emmy-winning actor has said, “It’s something I really just want to free myself from”.
“There’s a lot of mythologising about my process. But it’s very unremarkable and is really just about concentration,” he added.
“I’m...
- 9/28/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
Elisabeth Moss addressed her religious ties to the Church of Scientology in more detail than usual during an interview with The New Yorker. The “Mad Men” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” actor has been a Scientologist since before she was a teenager but has rarely spoken about her relationship to the group in press interviews.
“I don’t want to come off as being cagey,” Moss said when the topic of Scientology was first brought up. “If you and I met, just hanging out as friends, I’m, like, an open book about it. [But] I don’t want people to be distracted by something when they’re watching me. I want them to be seeing the character. I feel like, when actors reveal too much of their lives, I’m sometimes watching something and I’m going, ‘Oh, I know that she just broke up with that person,’ or, ‘I know...
“I don’t want to come off as being cagey,” Moss said when the topic of Scientology was first brought up. “If you and I met, just hanging out as friends, I’m, like, an open book about it. [But] I don’t want people to be distracted by something when they’re watching me. I want them to be seeing the character. I feel like, when actors reveal too much of their lives, I’m sometimes watching something and I’m going, ‘Oh, I know that she just broke up with that person,’ or, ‘I know...
- 4/29/2022
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
The dramatic events at Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony did not deter Best Actor winner Will Smith from attending the Vanity Fair after party, family in tow, to celebrate his first Academy Award. Earlier in the evening, Smith had stunned the audience and viewers at home when he walked on stage during the ceremony at the Dolby and smacked presenter Chris Rock after Rock made a joke at the expense of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Later, after winning the Best Actor prize for King Richard, Smith did not venture backstage to make a statement or answer questions from reporters. Based on photos from news agencies, it also does not appear that he attended the Governors Ball immediately following the ceremony. But at about midnight, he was seen entering the Vanity Fair party at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills.
Smith along with Pinkett Smith, and children Willow,...
Later, after winning the Best Actor prize for King Richard, Smith did not venture backstage to make a statement or answer questions from reporters. Based on photos from news agencies, it also does not appear that he attended the Governors Ball immediately following the ceremony. But at about midnight, he was seen entering the Vanity Fair party at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills.
Smith along with Pinkett Smith, and children Willow,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Gregory Peck was angry. As president of the Motion Picture Academy, the star announced he would veto the admission of a new voting member on grounds that he lacked professional qualifications. The Academy was becoming too populist in 1967, he argued. It must retain its elite status.
The individual he wanted to veto was me. In retrospect I wish his ban had been successful but it was soon overturned (details below).
I wonder how Peck, as a stickler for his profession, would respond to recent Academy decisions about its show, its awards and its membership. Witness the new campaign to create an #OscarFanFavorite — a popular film to be selected by Twitter and presented by an Oscar fan. In addition, eight of the 23 awards will be presented prior to the show, then edited for later use on a streamlined live Oscarcast.
With its ever-expanding list of 10,000-plus members, these moves would suggest...
The individual he wanted to veto was me. In retrospect I wish his ban had been successful but it was soon overturned (details below).
I wonder how Peck, as a stickler for his profession, would respond to recent Academy decisions about its show, its awards and its membership. Witness the new campaign to create an #OscarFanFavorite — a popular film to be selected by Twitter and presented by an Oscar fan. In addition, eight of the 23 awards will be presented prior to the show, then edited for later use on a streamlined live Oscarcast.
With its ever-expanding list of 10,000-plus members, these moves would suggest...
- 2/25/2022
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated Saturday (Originally published Friday): Aaron Sorkin posted an open letter Friday disputing what he calls the “distorted picture” of actor Jeremy Strong created by a recent New Yorker profile. Late Friday, the New Yorker responded with a statement to Deadline, which is below. Strong is currently receiving raves for his work on HBO’s Succession, to which the profile is pegged, with the series’ executive producer Adam McKay also weighing in on the controversy.
Sorkin has worked with Strong on two projects. The first is the 2017 film Molly’s Game, which also starred Jessica Chastain. The second is last year’s Trial of the Chicago 7. Sorkin wrote and directed that film in which Strong plays onetime Yippie Jerry Rubin.
“After reading Michael Schulman’s profile of Jeremy Strong — a profile in which I participated — I wanted to speak up,” wrote Sorkin. “I think I helped Mr. Schulman create what...
Sorkin has worked with Strong on two projects. The first is the 2017 film Molly’s Game, which also starred Jessica Chastain. The second is last year’s Trial of the Chicago 7. Sorkin wrote and directed that film in which Strong plays onetime Yippie Jerry Rubin.
“After reading Michael Schulman’s profile of Jeremy Strong — a profile in which I participated — I wanted to speak up,” wrote Sorkin. “I think I helped Mr. Schulman create what...
- 12/12/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Aaron Sorkin has become the latest creative to rush to actor Jeremy Strong’s defense, following a controversial profile of the “Succession” actor published in The New Yorker online last week. Written by Michael Schulman, the piece offers a detailed account of the actor’s overzealous commitment to his craft, including some extreme examples of what some might call “method acting.” (Though that term is grossly misunderstood from its original meaning.)
Sorkin, who was quoted in the article, wrote an open letter disputing the characterization of Strong. (Sorkin directed Strong in “Molly’s Game” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”) Sorkin said he believed the piece presented “a distorted picture of Jeremy [Strong] that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process.” He shared his lengthy answers to five questions which he sent to Schulman, noting that Schulman only used “one and a half of these answers.”
The letter...
Sorkin, who was quoted in the article, wrote an open letter disputing the characterization of Strong. (Sorkin directed Strong in “Molly’s Game” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”) Sorkin said he believed the piece presented “a distorted picture of Jeremy [Strong] that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process.” He shared his lengthy answers to five questions which he sent to Schulman, noting that Schulman only used “one and a half of these answers.”
The letter...
- 12/11/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Aaron Sorkin is next in the line of succession for defending Jeremy Strong. Sorkin, who worked with Strong on Molly's Game and The Trial of the Chicago 7, released a lengthy statement defending the actor following an in-depth New Yorker article about his acting philosophy and methods. Journalist Michael Schulman interviewed Sorkin for the article over email, so The West Wing alum said he wanted to "speak up" after Schulman used his written responses to create a "distorted picture of Jeremy that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process." Actress Jessica Chastain posted Sorkin's statement on social media on his behalf. In the letter,...
- 12/11/2021
- E! Online
Talk about sisterly love. On Dec. 5, Michael Schulman profiled Succession star Jeremy Strong for the New Yorker, revealing that the actor takes his performances to a level that Logan Roy would appreciate—all or nothing. The profile included quotes and details about Strong's dedication to playing Kendall Roy, and how this led to real life pain—not just the emotional kind we last saw his character in when he faced the turmoil of being ostracized by his father. Saying that Strong has sustained injuries for the role including impacting his tibia and femur in one scene and fracturing his foot in another. As if that isn't...
- 12/9/2021
- E! Online
This New Yorker article calls for a game of good tweet/bad tweet. Writer Michael Schulman profiled Succession star Jeremy Strong for the New Yorker ahead of the season three finale. In the lengthy and detailed article, Schulman reveals the actor's dedication to playing Kendall Roy, including sustaining injuries for the role—he impacted his tibia and femur in one scene and fractured his foot in another—and how his co-stars view him. One quote that has drawn a lot of attention comes from Kieran Culkin, who said, "After the first season, he said something to me like, 'I'm worried that people might think that the show is a comedy.' And I...
- 12/8/2021
- E! Online
One day after being placed on administrative leave due to a “professional conduct” investigation, Anaheim Ducks Executive Vice President/General Manager Bob Murray resigned his position, effective immediately, saying he will enroll in an alcohol-treatment program. It’s one of several high-profile sports scandals to emerge in the past week or so alleging inappropriate behavior by team executives.
“I want to apologize to anyone adversely affected by my behavior,” Murray said in a statement released by the team today. “I vow to make changes to my life, starting with enrolling in a treatment program. I want to thank (team owners) Henry and Susan Samueli, along with (CEO) Michael Schulman, as working for them has been one of the highlights of my career.
“As I step away from the Ducks, I will focus my attention on where it should be: improving my life for the betterment of my family and friends.
“I want to apologize to anyone adversely affected by my behavior,” Murray said in a statement released by the team today. “I vow to make changes to my life, starting with enrolling in a treatment program. I want to thank (team owners) Henry and Susan Samueli, along with (CEO) Michael Schulman, as working for them has been one of the highlights of my career.
“As I step away from the Ducks, I will focus my attention on where it should be: improving my life for the betterment of my family and friends.
- 11/11/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Bo Burnham got his start as a comedian, but the “Eighth Grade” writer-director doesn’t miss his time in stand-up clubs. The YouTube star–turned-filmmaker got candid during his appearance at the New Yorker Festival yesterday, according to Vulture, telling Michael Schulman that “I hated those fucking comedy clubs, fucking brick two minimum masculine bullshit places.”
In particular, Burnham has no fondness for the gender dynamics of such venues. “They self-selected one type of thing, of course women feel fucking awful to come, have you been there? Anyone that’s even vaguely not like the most masculine person in the world feels uncomfortable there,” he said. His solution is simple: “Tear them down, they’re from the goddamn ’80s.”
“Eighth Grade” has emerged as one of the most well-received films of the year, premiering to critical acclaim at Sundance before being acquired by A24; Burnham has received praise for his gentle,...
In particular, Burnham has no fondness for the gender dynamics of such venues. “They self-selected one type of thing, of course women feel fucking awful to come, have you been there? Anyone that’s even vaguely not like the most masculine person in the world feels uncomfortable there,” he said. His solution is simple: “Tear them down, they’re from the goddamn ’80s.”
“Eighth Grade” has emerged as one of the most well-received films of the year, premiering to critical acclaim at Sundance before being acquired by A24; Burnham has received praise for his gentle,...
- 10/7/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Meryl Streep is clarifying comments she made over 38 years ago.
Slate recently unearthed a Time magazine interview with the actress from 1979 where she recalls an incident when her Kramer vs. Kramer co-star, Dustin Hoffman, allegedly touched her breast. "He came up to me and said, 'I’m Dustin -- burp -- Hoffman,’ and he put his hand on my breast. 'What an obnoxious pig,' I thought," she says of their first meeting.
After multiple news outlets called out the decades-old quote, Streep's rep released a statement to Et, saying that the Time piece was not an "accurate rendering of that meeting."...
Slate recently unearthed a Time magazine interview with the actress from 1979 where she recalls an incident when her Kramer vs. Kramer co-star, Dustin Hoffman, allegedly touched her breast. "He came up to me and said, 'I’m Dustin -- burp -- Hoffman,’ and he put his hand on my breast. 'What an obnoxious pig,' I thought," she says of their first meeting.
After multiple news outlets called out the decades-old quote, Streep's rep released a statement to Et, saying that the Time piece was not an "accurate rendering of that meeting."...
- 11/7/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
In the past week, two women have publicly accused Dustin Hoffman of sexual harassment, allegations which have renewed interest in Meryl Streep’s nearly-four-decade-old claim that her “Kramer vs. Kramer” co-star introduced himself by grabbing her breast. Slate tracked down a Time article from 1979 — the year the film came out — in which Streep recalls auditioning for a play Hoffman was directing. “He came up to me and said, ‘I’m Dustin — burp — Hoffman,’ and he put his hand on my breast,” the actress told Time. “What an obnoxious pig, I thought.”
Read More: Dustin Hoffman Accused of Sexual Harassment by TV Producer Wendy Riss Gatsiounis
Per Jeff Lenburg’s 2001 book “Dustin Hoffman: Hollywood’s Antihero,” the play was “All Over Town,” which debuted on Broadway in late 1974, when Streep was 25. Later that decade, the actors notoriously battled on Robert Benson’s “Kramer vs. Kramer” set, where they played divorcing parents.
Read More: Dustin Hoffman Accused of Sexual Harassment by TV Producer Wendy Riss Gatsiounis
Per Jeff Lenburg’s 2001 book “Dustin Hoffman: Hollywood’s Antihero,” the play was “All Over Town,” which debuted on Broadway in late 1974, when Streep was 25. Later that decade, the actors notoriously battled on Robert Benson’s “Kramer vs. Kramer” set, where they played divorcing parents.
- 11/6/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Those of us who saw Sunday night’s bizarre Oscars conclusion know how weird it appeared to us in our own living room, but imagine how weird it was on set. Now, imagine no longer, as Oscar newbie and New Yorker writer Michael Schulman reports the strangeness of watching those particular events unfold in “Scenes From The Oscar-Night Implosion.” Schulman was backstage in the press corps, where Emma Stone’s enthusiasm was a bit more effusive than previously reported. “Asked about the Best Picture snafu, she smiled brightly and said, ‘I fucking love Moonlight.” One reporter was spotted trying to keep it together in the face of the biggest Oscar gaffe in history: “A reporter across the table from me banged his fists into his head and whispered to himself, ‘Ask about the two envelopes. That’s all anyone cares about.’” Some were even more shell-shocked, like Academy president Cheryl...
- 2/28/2017
- by Gwen Ihnat
- avclub.com
The 74th Golden Globe Awards are just around the corner, and Hollywood’s favorite golden girl is nominated once again!
Legendary actress Meryl Streep has scored a record-breaking 30th nod — more than any other actor in the history of the Globes. Since 1979, the actress has consistently racked up nods for her acting throughout her lengthy career. In fact, Streep has only been kept off the ballot just 12 years out of the 37 since her first nod — doubling up on nominations in 2003, 2009 and 2010.
Take a look back on her long history with the Globes, and a beginning steeped in tragedy.
Triumph Amid...
Legendary actress Meryl Streep has scored a record-breaking 30th nod — more than any other actor in the history of the Globes. Since 1979, the actress has consistently racked up nods for her acting throughout her lengthy career. In fact, Streep has only been kept off the ballot just 12 years out of the 37 since her first nod — doubling up on nominations in 2003, 2009 and 2010.
Take a look back on her long history with the Globes, and a beginning steeped in tragedy.
Triumph Amid...
- 1/6/2017
- by russiale93
- PEOPLE.com
Six police officers have been shot while on duty in Georgia in the last seven days — and two have died — capping an abnormally violent week for law enforcement in the state.
The six officers, all members of small town departments, were shot during three separate incidents beginning Dec. 7, according to authorities and multiple reports.
In the first shooting that Wednesday, in Americus, Georgia, officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr was shot responding to a domestic dispute inside a local apartment complex, an Americus police spokesman confirms. His best friend — officer Jody Smith a recent member of Georgia Southwestern University’s police force...
The six officers, all members of small town departments, were shot during three separate incidents beginning Dec. 7, according to authorities and multiple reports.
In the first shooting that Wednesday, in Americus, Georgia, officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr was shot responding to a domestic dispute inside a local apartment complex, an Americus police spokesman confirms. His best friend — officer Jody Smith a recent member of Georgia Southwestern University’s police force...
- 12/14/2016
- by chrisharristimeinc
- PEOPLE.com
This new book on Meryl's rise will be released at the end of AprilIf you haven't yet chanced upon it or been directed there by multiple excited tweets, make sure to read this excerpt / reworking of a passage from a forthcoming book by Michael Schulman on Meryl Streep's rise to fame via Kramer vs Kramer that's currently gracing Vanity Fair. We've talked about Kramer vs Kramer multiple times here at Tfe and it's been heartening to see the critical tide at least slightly turning in the blockbuster drama's favor of late. For a long time cinephiles seemed to despise it, due in no small part to its Oscars. When you beat noticeably ambitious artistic and stylized masterpieces like Apocalypse Now and All That Jazz to the Best Picture crown there's bound to be a backlash if your film is merely human-sized, no matter how resonant and superbly acted it may be.
- 3/30/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Actors have difficult moments making films all the time, but news that Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman feuded on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer is a far bigger deal. We're talking about two of the most respected actors of their generations, with 26 Oscar nominations between them (her: 19; him: 7). When you're dealing with two Hollywood and Broadway heavyweights of that caliber, it sounds like a real-life clash of the titans. But it's important to remember that in 1978, it just wasn't that way. In the adaptation of his upcoming biography, Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, published by Vanity Fair, author Michael Schulman...
- 3/29/2016
- by Alynda Wheat, @AlyndaWheat
- PEOPLE.com
Actors have difficult moments making films all the time, but news that Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman feuded on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer is a far bigger deal. We're talking about two of the most respected actors of their generations, with 26 Oscar nominations between them (her: 19; him: 7). When you're dealing with two Hollywood and Broadway heavyweights of that caliber, it sounds like a real-life clash of the titans. But it's important to remember that in 1978, it just wasn't that way. In the adaptation of his upcoming biography, Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, published by Vanity Fair, author Michael Schulman...
- 3/29/2016
- by Alynda Wheat, @AlyndaWheat
- PEOPLE.com
Meryl Streep Unauthorized Biography Claims Dustin Hoffman Slapped Her Across the Face During Filming
Dustin Hoffman may have taken his method acting to another level when working with Meryl Streep on their award-winning 1979 film, Kramer vs. Kramer. In an excerpt from Michael Schulman's unauthorized biography, Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep, in Vanity Fair, Kramer vs. Kramer director Robert Benton and producer Richard Fischoff recall a tense relationship between Streep and Hoffman during the filming of the movie. Both actors earned their first Oscars for taking on the roles of husband and wife, Ted and Joanna Kramer, who find themselves in a heated custody battle over their son, Billy Kramer (Justin Henry), after getting a divorce. Watch: Oscars Red Carpet Rewind -- '80s Oprah and Pregnant Meryl Streep! The book alleges that on the second day of shooting the opening scene of the film -- when Ted follows a crying Joanna into the hallway -- Hoffman "shocked" everyone on set when he "slapped [Streep] hard across the cheek, leaving a red mark...
- 3/29/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Long before she became the most nominated actress in Academy Awards history, Meryl Streep was just a rising star, pushing boundaries in what would become one of her most memorable roles. In an adaptation from Michael Schulman's upcoming biography Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep published by Vanity Fair, the behind-the-scenes struggle between Streep and Kramer vs. Kramer costar Dustin Hoffman is revealed. Only 29 during the 1978 filming of the divorce drama, Streep hadn't even been considered for the part of Joanna - a mother who decides to leave her husband and son behind in search for more - but managed...
- 3/29/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences purports that the Oscars honor the year's greatest achievers in cinema, the ceremony, ever since its inception, has been a form of mythmaking. Every year, the industry comes together to induct a new class of icons into its ranks. Which brings us to this week's theme. This week's edition of #Longreads contains five pieces that explore mythmaking in politics, entertainment and literature. "And Now for the Further Adventures of Rahm the Impaler" by Neil Steinberg, published by Esquire Just in time for the March 6 premiere of CNN's new series "Chicagoland," Steinberg's article is neither critical, nor complimentary of Emanuel. As the focus of the article, Emanuel's point-of-view is certainly privileged. Nevertheless, the piece provides a rich political and historical context for viewers looking to tune in for "Chicagoland.""In Drag, It turns Out, There Are Second Acts" by Michael Schulman, published.
- 3/1/2014
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
The New Yorker is known for causing a stir with their controversial covers. Some may remember their cover featuring an image of Michelle and Barack Obama that combined every smeary right-wing stereotype imaginable. Well the latest cover isn’t so much controversial as it is truthful. The January 17th issue is pretty accurate in depicting what has been happening on set of Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark broadway musical. You can see the image below and you can also click here to read Michael Schulman’s New Yorker piece on Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.
Via The Collider via The New Yorker’s Tumblr blog...
Via The Collider via The New Yorker’s Tumblr blog...
- 1/12/2011
- by Kyle Reese
- SoundOnSight
Looks like Spider-Man might be adding New Yorker mascot Eustace Tilley to his list of arch-enemies: The magazine’s Jan. 17 cover features a cartoon skewering the seemingly jinxed Broadway show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The drawing imagines a hospital wing populated by convalescing Spideys — presumably inspired by the mishaps that have injured multiple Spider-Man castmembers over the past few months, most notably Christopher Tierney, the dancer who fractured his skull and several vertebrae in a terrifying on-stage fall that became a highly watched YouTube video. Of course, the cartoon — drawn by Barry Blitt, the artist behind the infamous Obama fist-bump New Yorker cover,...
- 1/11/2011
- by Adam Markovitz
- EW.com - PopWatch
Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark continues to come under scrutiny - this time at the hands of the New Yorker.
The magazine’s Jan. 17 cover features a Barry Blitt illustration showing several Spider-Man characters in bandages in a hospital wing. The issue also contains an article by Michael Schulman, who asks of the musical's recent box office success: “[Are] people paying to see calamity?” he writes. Several theatergoers tell him they were catching previews of the $65 million show hoping to see a mishap (four cast members have been seriously injured). Last week, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was No. 1, surpassing the Wicked with $1,588,514 in sales. The musical officially opens Feb. 7.
The magazine’s Jan. 17 cover features a Barry Blitt illustration showing several Spider-Man characters in bandages in a hospital wing. The issue also contains an article by Michael Schulman, who asks of the musical's recent box office success: “[Are] people paying to see calamity?” he writes. Several theatergoers tell him they were catching previews of the $65 million show hoping to see a mishap (four cast members have been seriously injured). Last week, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was No. 1, surpassing the Wicked with $1,588,514 in sales. The musical officially opens Feb. 7.
- 1/11/2011
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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