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The exhibition will explore the worlds of The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and more.

Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation Celebrates the Creative Vision of Jim Henson this summer in The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited Share Article Organized by the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), the traveling exhibition opens June 5, 2021 through Sept. 6, 2021 and is a version of MoMI’s ongoing The Jim Henson Exhibition, on permanent view in New York City. Jim Henson and his iconic creation Kermit the Frog, in front of a mural by Coulter Watt. Photo by John E. Barrett. Ke...

Bollywoods dimpled beauty Deepika Padukone on Sunday came forward to spread awareness on mental health amid the raging second wave of COVID-19. Taking ...

Before "Muppets" creator and innovator Jim Henson transformed puppeteering and television, puppets werent exactly magical. Most TV programming in the 1950s was live and often crude or serious, said Donna Braden, senior curator of public life at The Henry Ford. And puppet programs did anything but conceal that someone was literally pulling the strings. "You could see the puppeteer and you could see all the strings and see everything going on," said Braden. "From the beginning, he (Henson) thou...

India fights Covid: Deepika Padukone shares helpline numbers with fans, stresses importance of mental health ANI | Updated: May 02, 2021 20:49 IST New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI): Bollywoods dimpled beauty Deepika Padukone on Sunday came forward to spread awareness on mental health amid the raging second wave of COVID-19. Taking to her Instagram handle, Deepika shared some important mental healthhelpline numbers and insisted that her followers are not alone....

Digital future for Portuguese cinema The Ministry of Culture has announced that it wants all Portuguese cinema to be digitalised and all cinemas in the country to be equipped with digital equipment, through the funds included in the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). The intention was stated by the State Secretary for Cinema, Audiovisual and Media, Nuno Artur Silva, in a presentation session of new resources and re-launching of the National Cinema Plan, at Cinemateca, in Lisbon. Nuno Artur Sil...

arrow People watching a movie at the Queens Drive-In Rooftop Films Seeing a movie at home: kind of routine, not special. Seeing a movie at a movie theater: depends on your comfort level and whether studios start releasing decent new films again. But seeing a classic movie on a giant drive-in theater screen: pretty sweet (assuming you have a car). The popularity of drive-in movie theaters in the city during the pandemic, and it looks like theyre sticking around—and this summer, y...

Los Angeles, CA –On June 29, 2021, Shout! Factory proudly presents  Just a Gigolo  on Blu-ray for the first time. The film will also be available on DVD, on digital and on demand the same day. The drama starring David Bowie has been newly remastered from original sources, presenting the film for the first time ever in high definition. The release comes complete with a 32-page booklet and with bonus features including  The Making of Gigolo with Producer/Writer Joshua Sinclair and Assistan...

SINGAPORE - A short film by Singapore artists Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen has come out tops in a prize for young artists who create digital art. The Cup, a surreal story of a man with a brewing machine for a head, was born amid the isolation of last years circuit breaker period. Chua, 29, and Lam, 25, received US$15,000 (S$19,890) for their black-and-white video, which won in the Moving Image category of the Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize. The inaugural award by the Swiss private banking ...

Growing up in the South, you’d read in fanzines about what bands were doing in the D.C. area. Later you’d scour the local indie entertainment rag for the hopes that these bands would hope in their vans and play a basement club in your town. Whether your parents would let you see them is a different story. Those glory days are brought back in Punk the Capital: Building of a Sound Movement which delves into D.C. scene. The documentary is going to be playing theaters and virtual cinemas in May...