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There are as many paths to exploring queer history as there are people who have lived it, and many legends we’ve nearly forgotten about who, in a more just world, would be household names. History can provide inspiration, and can also help us to avoid making the same damn mistakes again and again—mistakes like forgetting that trans people of color were at the vanguard of gay liberation. Pride is a time to celebrate, honor, and remember all of it, whether you’re trans, bi, ace, poly, pan,...

“The Columnist” (Film Movement) turns homicidal when she becomes the subject of attack by social-media trolls; over the course of “Three Summers” (Icarus Films Home Video), a Brazilian housekeeper (Regina Casé) strives to break out of a rigid caste system; Andrei Konchalovsky’s acclaimed “Sin” (Corinth Films) examines Michelangelo as both a legendary artist and a political animal, contending with the agendas of the Medicis and the Vatican. Based on the manga series, “The Gre...

Dont show me this message again✕ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Annihilation, Dolemite Is My Name and Geralds Game are among the best original films to watch on Netflix (Netflix) H aving established itself as a power-house of binge TV, Netflix has more recently turned its attention to movies. But with dozens of Netflix original films to chose from, how to sort the gold from the feature-length dross? To help you make sense of the service’s mind-boggling viewing options here’s a countdown o...

Its about time.  On Sunday night, Chloé Zhao became the first woman of color to win best director at the Academy Awards for her haunting, meditative drama "Nomadland," about a middle-aged widow (Frances McDormand) who lives out of a van after losing her factory job.  Zhao, 39, took the stage at Los Angeles Union Station for her acceptance speech , where she thanked her "Nomadland" cast and crew. She also recalled reading and memorizing Chinese poems and texts with her dad growing up in ...

Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler will produce Brian Welk | April 22, 2021 @ 10:30 AM Getty Images John Carney, the director of “Once” and “Sing Street,” will direct an original musical film called “Fascinating Rhythm” that is inspired by the life and music of American composer George Gershwin. Martin Scorsese and Irwin Winkler will produce the film that they developed in partnership with Carney and Endeavor Content. It’s not a biopic but a drama about a young woman’s magical j...

The 100 Best Movies Written by Women Welcome to our guide of the best movies written by women: These are highly Certified Fresh films (nothing on the list falls below 94%) whose screenplay credit goes in part or fully to women. The journey begins nearly a century ago with 1925’s Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova, inspired by her own participation in Soviet uprisings. Just two years later, Metropolis, cinema’s first sci-fi feature masterpiece, emerged out of Germany, written...

“How could there be no film center in the global center of film?” That was a question Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos had when he first moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s and discovered that the entertainment capital of the world was sorely lacking, in his words, “a place to dive deeper, to learn more, to fully immerse myself in the stories behind the movies.” After more than 15 years of development, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is finally poised to open this fall and become the...

Academy Museum Unveils Programming for Virtual and In-Person Openings ©Academy Museum Foundation/Image by Why Architecture Encounters gallery in Stories of Cinema. The museum will directly address hot-button topics including #MeToo, pay equity, Black Lives Matter, climate change and labor relations. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is getting specific with its upcoming lineup. The team behind the long-gestating project at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles...

Shutterstock/Focus Features/GETTY These days, it’s easy to list off a number of respected, well-known female directors—consider Greta Gerwig, Olivia Wilde, and Ava DuVernay, to name a few. But it wasn’t so long ago that Hollywood was, by and large, a boys club. While we’ve still got a long way to go—it’s been 11 long years since a woman took home the Oscar for Best Director—we’ve certainly taken big steps toward more equitable film sets. In honor of Women’s History Month, we...

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