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Deepika Padukone Steps Down As MAMI Chairperson Citing "Current Slate Of Work" Deepika Padukone Steps Down As MAMI Chairperson Citing "Current Slate Of Work" "I depart knowing that MAMI is in the best hands possible and that my bond and connection with the academy is one that will last a lifetime," wrote Deepika Padukone Deepika Padukone made the announcement on Instagram (courtesy deepikapadukone) Highlights "I will be unable to give MAMI undivided focus," she added "My connection with the...

The Bad News Bears and Fletch. He arrived in 1969 with Downhill Racer starring Robert Redford. He followed it up with the badass gangster flick Prime Cut which pitted Lee Marvin against Gene Hackman. This led to him teaming back with Redford in The Candidate for scathing look at politics. Ritchie brought that strange critical eye to beauty pageants in Smile. The film starred Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Geoffrey Lewis, Colleen Camp, Melanie Griffith and Annette O’Toole. Smile gets a chan...

One day in 1932, Alfred Dotson Sr., and his twin brother, Wilfred, became instant musical celebrities at Kealing Junior High School. The two native Austinites sang “Painting the Clouds with Sunshine” so charmingly that teachers sent the 13-year-old duo around the building on Pennsylvania Avenue in East Austin to perform for all of the classes. “I sang it at my 75th wedding anniversary, too, with the men’s chorus at Ebenezer Baptist Church,” Dotson says in a smooth tenor voice. “I w...

Australia holidays: Melbournes best cultural experiences, from coffee to art 31 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Thanks to its abundance of art galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne has gained a reputation as the cultural capital of Australia. Photo / Robert Blackburn Thanks to its abundance of art galleries and museums, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne has gained a reputation as the cultural capital of Australia. Photo / Robert Bl...

John Thwaites is a Professorial Fellow, Monash University, and Chair of ClimateWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute. He is a consultant at Maddocks Solicitors providing advice to the firm and its clients on climate change, water, sustainability and corporate social responsibility. He also chairs the Climate Group Ltd in Australia, the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australias only cultural centre dedicated to...

April 6, 2021 A film written, directed, and produced by College of Film and the Moving Image faculty Randall MacLowry and Tracy Heather Strain explores the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of the beloved classic American narrative, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. MacLowry is assistant professor of the practice in film studies and Strain is associate professor of film studies. Together they direct the Wesleyan Documentary Project. Titled American Oz, the documentary depicts how ...

Royal Deceit (1994) Close Range (2015) / Savage Dog (2017) Pottstown, PA – March 23, 2021 – Time to fire up the Blu-ray & DVD players this summer! MVD Entertainment Group is proud to announce the addition of eight star-studded films to its Marquee Collection catalog.  The fun starts in June with the comedy ZEROVILLE (2019) starring James Franco & Megan Fox, Paul Schrader’s critically acclaimed drama ADAM RESURRECTED (2008) starring Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe, the action-adventure C...

 01 Apr 2021 - 8:17 The annual awards ceremony featured nearly 100 student projects representing Northwestern Qatar students’ scholarly and journalistic excellence. The Peninsula Northwestern Qatar has announced the 2021 Media and Research Awards, recognizing nearly 100 projects representing NU-Q students’ scholarly and journalistic excellence over the past two years. This year’s finalists, which include submissions from the academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21, featured journalistic, mul...

PHOTO PROVIDED BY GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM Edgar BArrier in "Too Much Johnson." The images are black and white, the movements of the actors are herky-jerky, which is what we’re used to seeing in silent films. The acting is hammy —Edgar Barrier twists the ends of his handlebar mustache — and the antics are slapstick, with Joseph Cotton deftly scampering across...

Originally published on March 17, 2021 5:56 am The images are black and white, the movements of the actors are herky-jerky, which is what we’re used to seeing in silent films. The acting is hammy: Edgar Barrier twists the ends of his handlebar mustache! And the antics are slapstick: Joseph Cotton deftly scampers across an endless landscape of New York City rooftops, wrestling with uncooperative ladders. But there is mystery to this antic madness. The film, “Too Much Johnson,” is not fro...