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A free-spending hedge fund boss who has been sued by his own mother over unpaid bills has thrown one of his investment funds into bankruptcy — even as he faces a past-due American Express tab worth $370,000, The Post has learned. Jason Ader — a one-time Wall Street mogul who used to appear on CNBC and who helped bring down …

Indie stalwart Jim Jarmusch just unveiled his latest feature, Father Mother Sister Brother, at the Venice Film Festival, where it received a six-and-a-half-minute ovation. Built as a triptych, the movie is playing in competition — a first for Jarmusch whose Coffee and Cigarettes was here on the Lido out of competition in 2003.  In a video captured by Deadline post-screening …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

article Bryan Vasquez (New Orleans Police Department) The 12-year-old boy who was killed by an alligator after escaping his bedroom window in New Orleans had a traumatic brain injury from his mother, not autism, according to reports.  Bryan Vasquez, who is nonverbal, was first reported missing the morning of Aug. 14 after reportedly escaping through his bedroom window. Police didn’t …

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, many initially thought they had escaped the worst, that is, until the storm surge overwhelmed the levees, breaking the city’s floodwalls. As the days went on, the situation became worse and worse. Hurricane …

After decades of debauchery and an untold number of conceptions, revelers at Burning Man celebrated a rare birth at Black Rock City on Wednesday morning, after a festivalgoer unexpectedly went into labor on the Playa. “It’s an absolute miracle,” said new father Kasey, 39, of Salt Lake City, who asked that only the family’s first names be used to protect …

A woman tragically died after giving birth to her newborn son in Canada, with her grieving husband blaming the hospital for failing to recognize her symptoms or prescribe medication. Ravinder Kaur Sidhu, 40, and her husband Gurinder Sidhu, 35, had traveled to Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario and had their baby boy on June 19.  According to Gurinder, there was …