Robert Redford, who died at the age of 89 on Tuesday, will rightly be remembered as one of Hollywood’s finest leading men, a true-blue movie star and assured actor who was, to quote my mother and surely many others, “very, very handsome”. His many iconic performances – in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Way …
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Robert Redford, star of Hollywood classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, has died aged 89. In a statement, his publicist Cindi Berger said the actor died on Tuesday at his home “at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved”. “He will be …
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‘One of the lions has passed. Rest in peace my lovely friend’ – Meryl Streep pays tribute Robert Redford poses on a balcony along Main Street decorated with his Sundance Film Festival banners in 2003 Photograph: Douglas C Pizac/AP Tributes are starting to appear on social media. Meryl Streep, who starred in Out Of Africa and Lions For Lambs opposite …
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Smartphones are rapidly becoming the front line of professional filmmaking. Blackmagic Design’s new Camera ProDock accessory, built specifically for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, is the clearest signal yet that the smartphone has entered cinema territory. Blackmagic Design’s new Camera ProDock accessory For years, filmmakers experimented with smartphones as backup cameras or for creative shots. That era is …
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Fujifilm has fully announced the medium format cinema camera it has been slowly teasing over the past year. It will be called the GFX Eterna 55, will feature a huge list of recording formats and codecs, and will be priced at $16,499.95. While Fujifilm shared a huge list of upcoming features it was planning to include in the cinema camera …
Read More »Canon has announced the EOS C50, its smallest cinema camera yet with features designed to appeal to social media creators and filmmakers alike. It has an RF mirrorless mount and all-new full-frame sensor that supports up to 7K 60p internal RAW recording and 32MP photo capture, making it a do-it-all camera for working pros. Despite the small size and light …
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The BoseQuietComfort Ultra 2nd gen in Midnight Violet. (Image source: Bose) The 2nd-generation Bose QuietComfort Ultra arrives with improvements over the previous generation. From a refined design to new features and longer battery life, Bose’s new headphones are the latest entry in the premium headphones segment. Bose has announced a successor to its 2023 premium pair of headphones, the QuietComfort …
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Anna May Wong is everywhere these days. The chic Chinese-American actor who first made a splash in the silent era has been fictionalised in films and TV shows, including Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and an excellent novel, Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star. She has her face on the quarter, the first Asian-American to be …
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Read More »Terence Stamp, Luminary of 1960s British Cinema, Dies at 87 The New York Times British actor Terence Stamp, Superman star and famed figure of swinging London, dies at 87 CNN Terence Stamp, star in “Superman” films, dies at 87 CBS News Terence Stamp, Brooding Legend of British Cinema, Dies at 87 The Hollywood Reporter Terence Stamp: 1960s icon who was the ‘master of the …
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