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This weekend’s American Cancer Society raised a record-setting $261,847, surpassing last year’s total of $254,386. Some funds from the annual two-day event at Penn’s Peak will be targeted for research...

Graeme Tuckett05:05, Apr 30 2021 FOCUS FEATURES Land (M, 89 mins) Directed by Robin Wright **** Any film that begins with The Staves’ achingly lovely interpretation of Springsteens Im on Fire, effortlessly transforming an ode to carnal lust into a tale of loss and redemption, is probably destined to contain a few narrative delights and some hard-won insights into human sadness. Land is a slight and quietly beautiful film. There is a distracting self-awareness visible here at times, but Robi...

LAND (in theaters and Amazon Prime on demand) Actress Robin Wright stars in and directs “Land,”  a provocative, compelling feature written by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam. “Land” is the story of a broken, grieving woman named Edee Mathis (Wright), who leaves the city and settles in a remote cabin in the Rockies. Although she knows nothing about living off the grid, Edee embraces the concept of being alone in her misery. Whether she lives or dies seems mostly irrelevan...

Robin Wright Gets Emotional Upon Learning About Jill Bidens Reaction to Her Directorial Debut Film Movie During her appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Land star is shown a clip from the White House interview the talk show host had with the new First Lady. Mar 3, 2021 AceShowbiz - Robin Wrights (previously Robin Wright Penn) movie directorial debut has been given a big thumbs up by Americas new First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden. The "Forrest Gump" star appeared on Kelly Clarksons U.S. talk ...

Wright also discusses the difficulties of directing herself in the wilderness.

comments Robin Wright makes an accomplished feature directorial debut with "Land," in which the actress-turned-filmmaker plays Edee Mathis, a woman whose method for coping with trauma is to go live on her own in a cabin in the woods. She struggles to survive at first, eventually befriending Miguel (Demián Bichir), who teaches her to hunt. (She dubs him "Yoda.") Even though she does not want to be around people — "Im here because I choose to be," she insists — she appreciates Miguels kindn...

While the story is thin on plot, the visuals are not. Nor is the impact on Wrights career.

Robin Wright both stars in and directs Land Credit: Sundance Dir: Robin Wright. Cast: Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Kim Dickens. Cert TBC, 89 mins When a well-known actor makes their directing debut and appears in almost every scene, you would hope to come out knowing a little more about them than you did going in. Perhaps the main problem with Land, Robin Wright’s innocuous tale of a woman braving out her bereavement in the Wyoming mountains, is that your perception of Wright is wholly una...

Watch the intense trailer for Land, Robin Wrights feature directorial debut Christi Carras © Provided by The LA Times Robin Wright as Edee in "Land," the actress feature directorial debut. (Daniel Power / Focus Features) "House of Cards" star Robin Wright is transferring her directing skills from TV to the big screen with her latest project, "Land." On Monday, Focus Features released the harrowing trailer for Wrights feature directorial debut, which stars the actress as Edee ...

“House of Cards” star Robin Wright is transferring her directing skills from TV to the big screen with her latest project, “Land.” On Monday, Focus Features released the harrowing trailer for Wright’s feature directorial debut, which stars the actress as Edee Mathis, a woman who suffers great personal loss and leaves her life behind to battle the elements in Wyoming’s unforgiving wilderness. “It’s really difficult to be around people because they just want me to be better,” Ed...