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Returning to the Lido a year after launching The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold is back at the Venice Film Festival with her latest feature as director, the Amanda Seyfried-starring The Testament of Ann Lee. World premiering in competition Monday afternoon, the movie received a 15 1/2-minute ovation. After the screening at the Sala Grande was met with enthusiasm and more than …

The Venice Film Festival hosted a world premiere on Monday afternoon for Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, delivering something close to a religious experience. The audience responded to the film, which stars Amanda Seyfried as founder of the radical religious sect the Shakers, with raptrous applause, and a 15-minute standing ovation. Seyfried wipes back tears as the house …

Amanda Seyfried was overcome with emotion as her new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” directed by Mona Fastvold, shook Venice up with a 15-minute ovation – topping “Frankenstein” as the longest of the festival so far Co-writer Brady Corbet worked the crowd while a visibly emotional Seyfried pumped her fists in the air as the cheers and applause stretched …

Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet got candid about the challenges of independent cinema while at the Venice Film Festival with their sweeping musical drama “The Testament of Ann Lee.” Their latest collaboration — directed by Fastvold, who co-wrote the script with Corbet — explores the founding leader of the Shakers, a radical religious movement known for worshipping through ecstatic …

Amanda Seyfried tackled a tall task by stepping into the shoes and strict religious beliefs of Shakers founder Ann Lee for her new film, The Testament of Ann Lee, which is not quite a musical nor a straightforward biopic. The film’s writer and co-director Mona Fastvold fielded an obvious question during today’s Venice Film Festival press conference: Why Amanda? “Amanda …

The last time Amanda Seyfried was at the Venice Film Festival to premiere a film was in 2017 for “First Reformed,” playing a parishioner in modern day New York. For her latest trip to the Lido, she’s gone back almost 300 years but has been upped to full-blown religious leader. In “The Testament of Ann Lee,” premiering in Competition on …

Saturday marked the end of an era for ESPN’s College GameDay as Lee Corso donned the headgear for the final time. The longtime analyst went off in style. Corso’s final show averaged 3.5 million viewers across ESPN and ESPNU, ESPN announced Sunday. That made it the most-watched episode of College GameDay in the program’s storied history. SUBSCRIBE to the On3 …

Lee Corso’s final College GameDay drew a record audience for ESPN. According to Nielsen’s Fast Nationals measurement, Saturday’s episode of College GameDay, which was the final to feature legendary personality Lee Corso, averaged 3.5 million viewers on ESPN. Per ESPN, it was the most-watched edition of the iconic college football pregame show in its history. The final quarter-hour, which featured Lee …

Welcome to the sixth season of Final Thoughts, my weekly attempt to capture all of the college football weekend’s most important stories. Hopefully one day I’ll succeed. Here are 20 of them from the first three days of Week 1. (Sunday and Monday results still pending.) 1. You knew Lee Corso was going to don the Brutus Buckeye head for …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Just as it was the first time, Lee Corso’s final headgear pick was Brutus Buckeye. Corso selected the third-ranked Buckeyes to beat top-ranked Texas on his final appearance on ESPN’s “College GameDay” on Saturday. “This is one of the easiest picks I’ve ever made. Texas is loaded. Texas is number one. They have a Manning at …