Mary Zophres, costume designer of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (right) Costume designer Mary Zophres had created some of the most iconic looks in modern movie history. From The Dude’s robe and sweater in The Big Lebowski to the simple but strikingly effective dresses in La La Land (for which she won a Costume Designers Guild award earned one of …
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Netflix today announced that it has entered into a multi-year overall deal with Darla Anderson (Coco, Cars, Toy Story 3), the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA award-winning producer. At Netflix, Anderson will develop and produce new animated and live action projects, both feature films and series, for family audiences around the world. Anderson joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993, …
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High art meets high horror in Velvet Buzzsaw, the new film from Dan Gilroy (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) that reunites him with his Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. Velvet Buzzsaw is a thriller set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. …
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From left: Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira in Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA (image courtesy of Netflix) Yalitza Aparicio never in her wildest dreams thought she’d be in a movie but hers is a classic Hollywood story by way of Oaxaca, Mexico. It’s not quite Rita Hayworth discovered in a malt shop but it’s a classic discovery nonetheless. Aparicio was studying …
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Jennifer Aniston in Dumplin’ Directed by Anne Fletcher (The Proposal, 27 Dresses), Dumplin’ stars Danielle MacDonald (Bird Box, Patti Cake$), the plus-size, teenage daughter of a former beauty queen (Jennifer Aniston, Horrible Bosses, Marley and Me, the upcoming Murder Mystery), who signs up for her mom’s pageant as a protest that escalates when other contestants follow her footsteps, revolutionizing the pageant and their …
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In a standoff that began at Cannes, Netflix has acquiesced and decided to give the releases of three of their fall/winter films theatrical runs before their streaming release, a first for the streaming giant and a strategic move on the everchanging Oscar landscape. Netflix made a big splash last year when Mudbound earned four Oscar nominations, all of which came …
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Netflix, which broke through the Oscars last season with above-the-line Academy Award nominations for Mudbound (and also establishing two pieces of Oscar history in the process) and a win in Documentary Feature with Icarus, is aiming much higher this year and it’s got the films to do it. From major Best Picture contenders to Foreign Language Film to Documentary, the …
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Photo: Christian Hogstedt Maggie Gyllenhaal is no stranger to playing complex women on the verge of a personal awakening or exerting strength and confidence in a male-dominated world. From her breakthrough in Secretary (for which she won the National Board of Review’s Breakthrough award and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award) to Sherrybaby (another Golden Globe nomination) …
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Director Paul Greengrass is not one to shy away from difficult material. While he’s given us blockbusters in the Bourne franchise, he’s probably most known for his riveting and Oscar-nominated direction of United 93, the docudrama of the passengers who foiled one of the many terrorist attacks that hit the US on 9/11. Greengrass’s examination of 1972 shooting in Derry, …
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In his first film since the Oscar-winning space drama Gravity, Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón’s comes down to Earth for his most personal film yet, ROMA. Set in Mexico City and inspired by the women in his life, ROMA chronicles a year in the lives of a middle-class family in 1970s Mexico City. Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker Cleo …
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