Claire van Kampen: Rebecca Hall’s ‘Passing’ Is ‘Beautiful, Haunting’ Work

Perth city centre pubs and cafes will temporarily lose their outdoor seating areas as work on the £26 million Perth City Hall project progresses.

If you haven’t already seen it, Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing” on Netflix, is one of the most nuanced, layered, and engrossing portraits of identity of the year. Based on the book of the same name and set in 1920s New York City, “Passing” centers on a Black woman (Tessa Thompson) in Harlem who finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend (Ruth Negga) who’s passing as white.

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.

The renovation of Perth City Hall into a major new museum has taken a significant step forward as the next phase of work begins.

Actress Claire Foy is speaking out about what she considers to be a peril of performing in Hollywood. The 37-year-old star was interviewed about her role as British socialite Margaret Campbell in the limited series "A Very British Scandal." The series centers on the period around the Duchess of Argyll’s 1963 divorce that saw her publicly maimed as the "dirty duchess" after sexually suggestive photographs were published in the media.

Claire Foy got real this week about the least enjoyable part about being an actor: filming sex scenes.

2021 may have been The Pandemic: Part II for many people, as we experienced yet another year of being cautious when you leave the house, as to not get sick.

Over the past year, The Playlist has covered hundreds of prestige films and TV series. We’ve even gone ahead and broke them down and ranked them in our various Best of 2021 lists.

Great acting was everywhere in 2021. While we received the usual assortment of great performances in festival standouts and end-of-year awards contenders, we also found inspired performances in big-budget multiplex movies and no-budget horror.

Manchester Town Hall will be the star of a documentary this evening.

Javier Bardem has claimed that the allegations of sexual abuse that have been made against Woody Allen are “just gossip.”

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBarack Obama is an unapologetic cinephile who loves foreign films, documentaries and musicals.

Penélope Cruz received an honor in an in-person gala at the Museum of Modern Art’s 2021 Film Benefit. On December 14, Chanel presented and highlighted Cruz’s tremendous contributions to the entertainment industry.The 47-year-old Spanish actress gathered with actors and admirers, including Rebecca Hall, Anne Hathaway, Diane Kruger.

Penelope Cruz is radiant in a beautiful red dress while arriving at the 2021 The Museum Of Modern Art Film Benefit held at The Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday night (December 14) in New York City.

Charm for days! Austin Stowell has been acting since he was a teenager, but his latest role in The Hating Game is poised to make him a rom-com star.

Jane Campion’s “The Power Of The Dog” and Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut “Passing” top the list of nominations by the Alliance Of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ).

One of the British aristocracy’s most notorious scandals of the 20th century is forming the basis for a new BBC miniseries.