Katharine McPhee and David Foster dropped a seven-track Christmas album last year and now they’re releasing a finished version of the album this year!
17.09.2023 - 06:29 / variety.com
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic The loftier and more dangerous the goal, the finer the line that separates the Guinness Book of World Records from the Darwin Awards. At a certain point, surviving is the only real difference. Do-or-die marathon swimmer Diana Nyad dreamed of swimming from Cuba to Florida.
That’s 110 miles of unpredictable open ocean. Prior to her, the only ones to have done it used a shark cage to shield them from life-threatening aquatic predators. Diana first tried and failed when she was 28.
Decades later, she decided to go again, failing three more times. If Diana Nyad sounds stubborn, you have no idea. Directed by “Free Solo” helmers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, making the leap from documentaries to fiction with a fact-based narrative that feels perfectly suited to their skill set, the Netflix movie “Nyad” is a portrait of obsession.
It’s an almost single-minded account of Diana’s multiple attempts to swim that stretch. In a performance that feels every bit as committed as the athlete she’s depicting, Annette Bening plays a woman who braved storms, being stung by box jellyfish and even a shark attack to reach her goal. Those factors represent the obstacles in her path, but the movie hardly has room for subplots.
“Nyad” has a one-track mind, and while the experience is long and repetitive enough that you’ll probably emerge with the mental equivalent of prune fingers, feeling as if you made that 53-hour swim yourself, the takeaway is obvious: Never give up. Unlike other sports movies, “Nyad” focuses on a fighter whose adversary in achieving her goal was herself. For a few minutes, a younger swimmer comes along to give it a shot, but this is essentially a solo endeavor — albeit one that
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Ed Meza @edmezavar Zurich Avenue, headed by producers and former Zurich Film Festival execs Karl Spoerri and Viviana Vezzani, has quickly amassed an impressive slate of projects since launching last year, including Annette Bening starrer “Nyad.” Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s film, which chronicles the attempt by 64-year-old swimmer Diana Nyad to swim from Cuba to Florida, unspools at the Zurich Film Festival. Zurich Avenue co-developed the Netflix film, which was produced by Black Bear Pictures and Mad Chance.
conservative makeup Wednesday at the Row’s spring 2024 show, pairing the look with a dark-colored, pinstriped matching suit set.Anderson’s lips were tinted pink, and she sported a peachy blush on her cheeks. She brought a pop of color and fun with her nails, which were varnished in a bright, cherry red.Anderson isn’t the only star wearing notable looks at Paris fashion week.Kylie Jenner, 26, hit Schiaparelli’s show Thursday in a shimmering, beaded keyhole gown, which featured a plunging V-neck line and perfectly hugged her curves.“The Kardashians” star wore her hair in waves and accessorized her stunning look with a pair of gorgeous gold statement earrings and nude pumps.Kim Cattrall, 67, also showed off her signature sexiness while attending the Balmain presentation Wednesday.
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following the tragic death of their son’s nanny, Yadira Calito.The couple broke their silence about the incident during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Thursday.“It’s been tough for [McPhee],” Foster, 73, said. “Yeah, it’s been tough.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic “Finestkind,” the name of both Brian Helgeland’s new film and the high-line fishing boat Tommy Lee Jones captains within it, is one of those words that New Englanders find hard to define, but seem to have no trouble using in a sentence. It means quality — of fish, of people, of principles — and it sets the bar for the shaggy family portrait Helgeland crafts around two half-brothers wrestling with their place in the blue-collar New Bedford community. The movie, alas, is just so-so, tripping over its own feet for the first couple reels until such time as the siblings cross the Northern Line to (illegally) dredge for scallops in Canadian waters, and then it gets good.
There’s no doubt that, at this very moment, scores of documentary filmmakers, both those new to the game and more wizened veterans of the genre, are kicking around ideas for their next great project, one that will hopefully capture the minds of audiences, open eyes to a subject previously untouched and/or inspire society into making some sort of cultural change. It can be difficult to find that balance, as is the case with any narrative feature.
Carole Horst Oscar-winning doc makers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin chose an appropriate subject for this move into traditional narrative feature: Diana Nyad, the athlete who swam from Cuba to Florida in 2013 at the age of 64. The “Nyad” directing duo won an Oscar for rock climbing doc Free Solo in 2019, and earned much critical praise 2015’s “Mero” and 2021’s “The Rescue” (which, even though it’s not an extreme sports movie, does feature physical acts of courage and daring). Nyad burned with a passion to complete the swim, a feat that she had to abort four times before; her first time in her twenties. So at an age when most people are planning retirement, she planned a hundred-mile swim.
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Oscar-winning documentarian filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have made an entire career out of making nerve-wracking feats-of-athleticism documentaries like the incredible, Oscar-winning “Free Solo,” “Meru” and 2021’s “The Rescue,” about the death-defying race against time to rescue the boys trapped in the caves of Thailand that made international news. Naturally, given the intensity of their films, Hollywood has come knocking for them to try their hand at non-documentaries and dramas.
The first trailer for Nyad just debuted online!
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TELLURIDE – The life of Diana Nyad is the sort of true story that’s absolutely ripe for a movie biopic. A record-setting distance swimmer in her 20s, she retired at the age of 30 to pursue a career in sports journalism.
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