“I can never quite pinpoint why I choose stories,” muses Chloé Zhao. “I think they choose me.” It’s late August and the Chinese director — renowned for her Oscar-winning Nomadland (2020) with Frances McDormand — is talking to The Hollywood Reporter over Zoom about re-entering the film world with an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet. On Sept. 7, the movie had …
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The 69th BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its 2025 program, featuring a star-studded lineup of films including Chloé Zhao‘s “Hamnet,” an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, and Bradley Cooper’s third directorial effort “Is This Thing On?” fronted by Will Arnett and Laura Dern. “Moss & Freud,” James Lucas’s biopic of supermodel Kate Moss …
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The 52nd Telluride Film Festival is barely more than a day old and already there is a strong theme running through the new films here: art as a life altering experience. In Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, depression causes the superstar musician to go deep into his writing and recording a new album in order to find his true self. …
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The first time we see Agnes (Jessie Buckley), she’s curled up asleep at the mossy base of a giant tree. Dressed in red and purple, she looks like a flower, or perhaps an organ — a heart out in the open, ready to be plucked up and held close. Next to her lies a void, a hollow beneath the roots …
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Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder series that I’m doing while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao. I’ve followed Notion for quite some time now — …
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will lead research efforts at the company’s new AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). Zhao contributed to several of OpenAI’s largest breakthroughs, including ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the company’s first AI reasoning model, o1. “I’m excited to share that Shengjia Zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence …
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