Victoria Beckham knows all too well just how awful the constant scrutiny over one’s body can be.
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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNewportFILM Outdoors has unveiled its upcoming season of award-winning documentaries. The organization showcases non-fiction features and screens them in dramatic, often opulent settings around Newport, Rhode Island, a legendary summer getaway.
This year is no exception with some of the screenings taking place at such storied venues as Rough Point, a Gilded Age mansion that was the home of Doris Duke, and Marble House, the “summer cottage” of William K. Vanderbilt.The season kicks off on Thursday, June 23rd with a Sundance favorite, Jono McLeod’s “My Old School” from Magnolia Pictures, which will open the series.
Showtime’s upcoming documentary “McEnroe,” a look at tennis great John McEnroe, has the closing night slot and will screen, quite fittingly, at the International Tennis Hall of Fame. The series runs weekly through Sept.
1. Highlights include HBO Documentary Films’ “The Princess,” a deep dive into the life of Princess Diana; “Master of Light,” the inspiring story of George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison for dealing drugs; and Becky Hutner’s “Fashion Reimagined,” which follows Mother of Pearl designer Amy Powney as she sets out to create a line of sustainable clothing.
The festival will also feature HBO Documentary Films’ “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off” and Showtime’s “Sheryl,” a look at music star Sheryl Crow.In addition, newportFILM is partnering with the Newport Jazz Festival and Newport Folk Festival and will screen D.L. Anderson and Matt Durning’s Stayed Prayed Up, a documentary about a North Carolina gospel artist and Eliane Henri’s “Hargrove,” a vérité style documentary, chronicling the last year of trumpet
.Victoria Beckham knows all too well just how awful the constant scrutiny over one’s body can be.
As the Prince's summer break looms, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will soon have all three children at home in just a few days for the school holidays. It's not long until the royal siblings go on their two-month school break. Prince George and Princess Charlotte will break up from their school Thomas' in London's Battersea on 8 July, while four-year-old Prince Louis' nursery school Willcocks finishes for the summer on 6 July.
Emmy nomination voting may end today, but Emmy season is still going strong. The nominations will be announced on June 12th and the winners of the influential TCA Awards will be revealed on August 6th.
Thania Garcia Just days before two headlining appearances at the BST Hyde Park festival in London next week, the singer took to Twitter to share the all-female lineup of artists who will perform with her for the shows on July 1 and 2. The bill will also feature Kacey Musgraves and Gabrielle, along with rising artists Mahalia, Self Esteem, Nilüfer Yanya, Tiana Major9, Chrissi, Bonnie Kemplay, Ruti and Tamzene.“The line up for my Hyde Park shows next week is going to blow your socks off!” Adele wrote, posting the flyer for the festival as well as a photo of her and her guest performers.
Over the years, we’ve seen documentary filmmakers try all sorts of stylish tricks to add a bit of flair to their films. And in the case of “My Old School,” director Jono McLeod tries for something really unique.
here and watch the video for the title track below.Taking part in a Twitter Q+A after their release, LaPlante went on to say that ‘Rotoscope’ was inspired by Garbage while ‘Sew Me Up’ has a deliberate Limp Bizkit/Wes Borland vibe.She went on to say that “these songs are taking you on a journey as I try to trace my steps and figure out why I have the issues and mental health difficulties that I do”. She also teased that the band “have more songs but I don’t know when we will keep working on them yet, might make more new ones too”.Out Now 1.
Strictly Come Dancing star Shirley Ballas was in tears as she urged people to “be vigilant and ask more questions” of their loved ones, after reflecting on the “preventable” suicide of her brother. The entertainer, 61, said she failed to spot any signs that her older brother and “protector” David was suicidal before he took his own life in 2003 at the age of 44, despite the pair of them speaking every day on the phone.
Shirley Ballas has told how she can still feel the "shock" of the news of her brother's suicide running "through her body", as she helped to launch a new campaign to raise awareness of a misunderstood aspect of suicidal behaviour. The 'Strictly Come Dancing' judge is an ambassador for suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM), which has today (22. 06.
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Professional Programs has announced the winners of its 2022 Feature Screenplay, Television Pilot and Acting for the Camera Pitch competitions.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorWarnerMedia Discovery Access has announced a new program seeking aspiring music supervisors from historically underrepresented communities.Titled the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Music Supervisor Program (naturally enough), it will provide access to training and experience within the world of TV and film music supervision.
Lise Pedersen Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”) has unveiled his first-ever animation film project at the Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival.Entitled “The Most Precious of Cargos,” it is an adaptation of the eponymous best-selling book by acclaimed French playwright and children’s books author Jean-Claude Grumberg, who is co-writing the film with Hazanavicius.Told in the form of a classic fairy tale in 2D animation, it is set during World War II, and tells the story of a poor woodcutter and his wife who live deep in the Polish forest.
Another month, another bunch of new releases from everyone’s favorite boutique home video label, Criterion Collection. In the latest batch of releases, out this September, see Henri-Georges Clouzot’s fable of suspicion in a Nazi-occupied French town “Le Corbeau,” get a Blu-ray upgrade.
Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicNandi Bushell, the teen drummer (she turned 12 in April) who became an internet phenomenon during the pandemic, will join the Foo Fighters in honoring the late Taylor Hawkins at a Wembley Stadium tribute concert in late September.Hawkins died in March in Colombia at the age of 50.The Foo Fighters — comprised of Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett and Rami Jaffe — announced performers for the London concert earlier this week. They will include a mix of Hawkins’ friends and influences: Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, Mark Ronson, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Wolfgang Van Halen, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney, veteran jazz/rock drummer Omar Hakim, Queen touring member Rufus Taylor and Hawkins’ cover band Chevy Metal will play at both shows.
Cancer campaigner Dame Deborah James shared a snap of her making drinks in the sun on Tuesday afternoon, where she confessed: "I'm working my way through old-school cocktails day-by-day until I'm gone."
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are reportedly set to move out of London in the coming months, with the couple planning to relocate to Windsor with their three children. Kate, 40, and Prince William, 39, will be moving out of Kensington Palace and into Adelaide Cottage, according to The Sun, with the pair selecting the property as it didn't need renovating and isn't "too showy", it has been claimed.The Grade II-listed home sits on the 655-acre royal estate in Windsor, Berkshire, and boasts four bedrooms, making it the perfect family home for Kate, William, and their children, Prince George, eight, Princess Charlotte, seven, and four year old Prince Louis.
“American Dreamer,” which premiered this week at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. Based on a segment from the podcast “This American Life,” MacLaine plays a lonely widow who offers a cash-strapped professor (Peter Dinklage) the chance to buy her sprawling estate for mere pennies.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt’s that time of year again. That post-July 4th period when media barons and billionaires break out the Brooks Brothers casual and don their sweater vests to hit an idyllic Idaho resort town of Sun Valley for another edition of “lets make a deal.”Many of the names expected to rub elbows next month are familiar ones. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Liberty Media’s John Malone, Comcast chairman Brian Roberts, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple pasha Tim Cook and Berkshire Hathaway guru Warren Buffett are among those who have once again made the cut for Allen & Co.’s annual media conference.