Finally, Venice Film Festival attendees can rest their hands. That’s after days of clapping and hollering at premieres, resulting in standing ovations that lasted into the double digits. But lengthy rounds of applause don’t necessarily translate to gold statues. After warm receptions in Italy, which films on the 2025 lineup will find their way into the awards race? Venice has …
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Rebecca Ma—better known as Becca Bloom due to her popular Instagram and TikTok accounts, amassing more than six million followers across the platforms since January—and software engineer David Pownall first struck up a conversation at Philz Coffee in Palo Alto on December 28, 2019. “I was home from college, and it was only David’s tenth day in the Bay Area …
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It may be oversimplifying things to say that “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” the new Olivier Assayas film starring Paul Dano and Jude Law, is “Interview with the Vampire” meets “The Apprentice,” but the comparison is probably welcome considering the latter film earned two Oscar nominations earlier this year for stars Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as …
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Oscar-winning actress Linda Hunt, best known for her groundbreaking role in “The Year of Living Dangerously,” was spotted in Los Angeles in a rare public appearance, and fans can’t stop talking. The 79-year-old Hollywood legend, who made history as the first person to win an Academy Award for portraying a character of the opposite sex, stepped out with her longtime …
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Dutch Grand Prix winner Oscar Piastri claims “there is a long way to go yet” in his quest for a maiden Drivers’ title, having taken a substantial points lead over McLaren team mate Lando Norris after his retirement. Piastri took a lights-to-flag victory at the Zandvoort Circuit, leading all 72 laps from pole but having faced constant pressure from behind …
Read More »VENICE — Anyone who loves the Oscars remembers Julia Roberts’s best actress speech for “Erin Brockovich” in 2001. At nearly four minutes, it’s legendary, iconic, joyful, unhinged, humble, a little self-centered, way too long and in the Top 5 of the 21st century — or maybe ever. Who can forget her starting off with that famous laugh and immediately turning …
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Oscar Piastri has taken victory in a hugely dramatic Dutch Grand Prix that saw McLaren team mate Lando Norris retire from the race due to a mechanical failure in the closing stages, marking a potentially seismic moment in the championship battle. Piastri had made a good start from pole when the race got underway, the Australian going on to build …
Read More »Julia Roberts has entered the Oscar hunt. This is going to be fun. The Washington Post Venice Film Festival: Julia Roberts Courts Controversy With ‘After the Hunt’ The New York Times Julia Roberts’ latest movie is stirring controversy. She argues that’s a good thing Yahoo News UK After the Hunt review — Julia Roberts will win an Oscar for this MeToo story The Times …
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Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” injected some life into Venice, earning a rapturous 13-minute standing ovation, the longest of the festival so far. Oscar Isaac, who plays the titular mad scientist, and Jacob Elordi, who embodies his monstrous creation, couldn’t hold back their tears as the crowd kept the rapturous applause going. During the lengthy ovation, del Toro waved to the …
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