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10 Films That Keep the Holocaust Fresh in Our Memories (Guest Blog) From biopics to documentaries, Hollywood has captured the horrors and heroism of a chapter in history that is at risk of being forgotten Photo: Universal Pictures, Focus Features, Fox Searchlight The words most associated with it are “never forget.” But with the Holocaust’s disappearance from too many curriculums — some 60% of young Americans are said to either not know what it was, or they think there were “only” 2 million murdered — forget forgetting. Let’s get back to remembering, on April 8, specifically, ...

'I'm envious': Lin-Manuel Miranda watches from afar as Hamilton takes the stage in Australia Steph Harmon Last night, blockbuster musical Hamilton was seen by paying audiences in Australia for the first time. It’s the only company in the world performing the show, in one of the only countries where theatres have reopened. And a few hours before curtains rose, its star Jason Arrow – a relative newcomer – was understandably pumped. “The energy tonight is going to be indescribable and we’re absolutely going to feed off it,” he told Guardian Australia, in costume and b...

‘Long Weekend’ Film Review: Indie Romance Has Terminal Case of the Cutes Gauzy, underwritten love story is hard enough to swallow before it’s compounded with plot twistsAlonso Duralde | March 11, 2021 @ 6:00 AM Last Updated: March 11, 2021 @ 7:40 AM Sony Pictures If you ever wondered what Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy would be like without the insightful writing, sharp directing and intuitive performances, “Long Weekend” will pretty much fill the bill. The film’s aim-for-the-back-fence plot twists might have worked in a movie where audiences were investe...

The actress, 39, was just 19 when she worked with the late director for the first time in a production of The Seagull before starring for him in a film adaptation of Patrick Marber play Closer in 2004.

Mike Nichols: A Life Remembered February 4, 2021 Few directors have made a significant impact in both cinema and the theater; Mike Nichols was one of them. Like Orson Welles before him, Nichols was a triple-threat: a wunderkind actor, writer, and director treading the boards of Broadway before making in-roads in Hollywood with an impressive string of films ( Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, and Carnal Knowledge) all before he turned 40. After 21 films, 29 Broadway productions, and one of the few members of the EGOT club (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award recipien...