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’s Father Mother Sister Brother finds the director in a minor key, which is sometimes his best key. A triptych built around a series of aggressively unremarkable interactions, it feels like a film that the director might have made while waiting to make a different, bigger film. It takes place in three different cities, and at times feels like …
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Jim Jarmusch has been doing his idiosyncratic thing for so long we sometimes take him for granted. But then he comes along with a film as delicate and lovely, as singular and perfectly realized as Father Mother Sister Brother and quietly floors you. What a pleasure to see a study of family relationships so entirely unconcerned with banal platitudes, emotional …
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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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Mike Norvell and the Florida State Seminoles have added another prospect to #Tribe26, and the last name should be plenty familiar to FSU fans. Jonah Winston, younger brother of Heisman Trophy-winner Jameis Winston, has decided to keep the family pipeline flowing to Tallahassee. Jonah Winston, who goes by “JP”, is a 5-foot-9, 160 pound wide receiver who plays for Hoover …
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Nintendo/The Pokemon Company Who knew that CMLL running a cross-promotion with Pokémon could prove to be so successful? The Mexican company’s upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A X CMLL event on 25 September is reportedly selling very, very well. Luchablog reports that (at time of writing), the promotion “has already sold all but 2 numbered seats”. They’ve since opened up other sections …
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All Micah Parsons wanted was “respect.” That’s the message Parsons’ brother posted Thursday night after the Cowboys traded their star edge rusher to the Packers in a blockbuster move to conclude a contentious contract saga. “This isn’t even what Micah wanted is the sickening part of all this he just wanted respect in the negotiation process and [Cowboys owner] Jerry …
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MASTODON guitarist Bill Kelliher has paid tribute to his bandmate Brent Hinds, who died last week after being injured in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta. He was 51. Earlier today (Monday, August 25),Kelliher took to his Instagram to write: “It’s been hard to get a grip on my emotions this week. “We had our good and bad times just like …
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Mark and Anthony Johnson, the father and brother of Kansas State quarterback Avery Johnson, released a statement following their brawl Saturday. It was reported Mark and Anthony got into a physical confrontation in Dublin and was allegedly caught on camera. “We sincerely apologize for our actions following yesterday’s football game in Ireland,” the statement read, via On3’s Pete Nakos. “Senseless …
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday by the same board that a day earlier rejected his brother Erik’s appeal for freedom after serving decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The reason was the same: misbehavior behind bars. A panel of two commissioners denied Lyle Menendez parole for three years after …
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