With the passing of Giorgio Armani, the world has lost one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. The Italian almost single-handedly redefined menswear in the 1980s with his unstructured suiting, which gave men a newfound freedom and comfort in ease. His new ideas would’ve found their audience regardless, but they exploded into the mainstream with the release …
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US indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday with Father Mother Sister Brother, a three-part meditation on the uneasy tie between parents and their adult children. Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the …
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Cate Blanchett’s newest movie, “Father Mother Sister Brother” from indie auteur Jim Jarmusch, premiered at Venice Film Festival on Sunday night to a five-minute standing ovation. Blanchett, who plays a pair of sisters with Vicky Krieps in the slice-of-life tale of three different families, positively beamed as the applause roared in the Sala Grande theater. As the credits rolled, director …
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Jim Jarmusch has made anthology films before: Mystery Train (1989), Night on Earth (1991), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In fact, he could claim to be the pre-eminent specialist in this now very unfashionable movie form. But with his new one, a deeply pleasing and gently quietist triptych on the subject of family, he is giving us something new and personal. …
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Cate Blanchett is no stranger to playing complicated, misunderstood women. But in Apple TV+’s “Disclaimer,” Alfonso Cuaron’s seven-part series about a documentarian whose deepest, darkest secrets come to light in a novel written by an unreliable narrator, the two-time Academy Award winner, and now three-time Emmy nominee, was tasked with embodying an embattled woman who loses control of her own …
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