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Dead Poets Society tackles the struggles of students from an all-boys school dealing with the pressure from society by following their passion, and there are several Dead Poets Society quotes elevating the movie. 1989's Dead Poets Society stars Robin Williams as an English teacher who spreads the love of poetry to his class, many of whom are drowning under their parents' expectations. The movie is a strong drama, masterfully written and directed, and it earned Williams an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, a change of pace for the man who mostly performed as a comedic actor over his career.

The movie also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and Best Director (for Peter Weir), but it was the script by Tom Schulman that stood tall, with the screenwriter taking home an Oscar himself for Best Original Screenplay. Several inspirational lines can be found in the film that will surely ignite the writer in anyone.

It’s not the horror that makes prolific author Stephen King‘s works so compelling, though it certainly helps, but rather his talent for capturing the nuanced multitudes of the human condition. His three-dimensional characters leap off the pages and into Constant Readers’ hearts, ensuring their emotional journeys resonate with or without horror. It’s something writer/director Mike Flanagan is deeply dialed into, frequently capturing the essence of King’s horror stories without sacrificing any of the sentimentality. So it only makes perfect sense that the filmmaker would eventually explore King’s gentler side, adapting If It Bleeds‘ novella The Life of Chuck into a life-reaffirming, tender celebration of life at the end of the world.

Like the novella, The Life of Chuck begins at the end, or rather with Act Three: Thanks, Chuck. Schoolteacher Marty (Chiwetel Ejiofor) attempts to navigate his usual work routine, despite the world around...

“The Life of Chuck” is a departure for Mike Flanagan, in the sense that it’s not technically a horror movie. But it is a Stephen King adaptation, which is very much in the “Doctor Sleep” director’s wheelhouse. And it is haunted: By regret, by memories, and by the snuffing out of an entire internal universe when someone dies. If anything, “The Life of Chuck” just peels back the layer of metaphor and gets straight to the wistfulness that underpins all ghost stories.

Structured around a verse from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” — “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes” — “The Life of Chuck” is told in reverse order from the end of a man’s life to the beginning. It does so in a way that’s surprising enough that it’s best not to discuss it in...

Mike Flanagan has always undertaken cinematic confrontations with mortality, but none have ever been quite as magnificent and moving as “The Life of Chuck.”

The Tom Hiddleston-starring feature is less of a horror film than it is an existential grappling with the end — while also being a jubilant celebration of the moments that make life worth living along the way. It’s Flanagan’s vibrant equivalent of Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” that finds hope and meaning in his own way just as it is one of the best modern Stephen King adaptations one could hope for.

Building off King’s novella, the feature bursts outward like the creation of a vast galaxy while holding you close as the stars begin to fade away. It’s as frequently darkly funny as it is emotionally shattering, gently yet firmly pushing us to confront the prospect of the end along with Flanagan.

Glenn Close has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and is currently going viral for her work in Lee Daniels’ exorcism flick The Deliverance, but amongst Simpsons fans, the Fatal Attraction star is perhaps best known for voicing Homer’s mom. Mona Simpson was properly introduced in Season Seven’s “Mother Simpson,” which was easily one of the show’s most tearjerkingest episodes.

As you may recall, Homer discovers that his mom isn’t dead, as he originally believed; she’s really a fugitive from the law, due to her Weather Underground-esque activism in the 1960s.

Mona inarguably fleshed the world of The Simpsons for the better, adding emotional nuance to Homer’s character, and providing Lisa with a familial role model. And Close’s touching performance is a big reason why Mona was such a welcome addition to the show.

According to the episode’s DVD commentary, the cast...

Released in 1989, the critically acclaimed Dead Poets Society ingrained itself into pop culture memory. Its success helped launch the careers of then-newcomers Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Josh Charles, earned Robin Williams his second of four Academy Award nominations, and won writer Tom Schulman an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The latter fact is especially appropriate since Society celebrates the power of the written word. If you've heard someone recite "o captain, my captain," chances are high they're quoting Society and not the Walt Whitman poem said phrase references. It's a movie indelible enough that Taylor Swift reunited Hawke and Charles for her "Fortnight" music video accompanying the debut single from her newest album, The Tortured Poets Department.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi renewed their vows in a surprise ceremony at their new home, surrounded by friends and loved ones.

In the video, shared online Thursday, de Rossi can be seen walking into what appears to be a dining area in a white-colored dress. As she approaches DeGeneres, who is clearly in shock, Brandi Carlile serenades them.

While DeGeneres takes it all in, with those closest to them standing all around, Kris Jenner comes in to officiate the vow renewal ceremony. The Kardashians star and executive producer shares sweet words about the pair, saying, “These two are couple goals who continue to amaze me with how cute they are together. A match made in heaven, two peas in a pod. Their love and commitment to one another is amazing, and it makes me so happy that they have each other to love and cherish and grow old with.

Between the Netflix documentary “Pamela, A Love Story” and the memoir “Love, Pamela” from HarperCollins, Pamela Anderson has been spilling plenty of tea, including some embarrassing, ’90s-era anecdotes about Tim Allen and Sylvester Stallone. And while both actors have emphatically denied Anderson’s claims, director Ryan White is pushing back in defense of his leading lady.

“Of course, I totally believe Pamela because I think she’s always honest in everything — about her own shortcomings, but also about other people’s,” White tells Variety in response to Allen and Stallone’s denials. “That was our conversation at the beginning of this [process]. She was, ‘I spent so much of my life protecting other people. And I’m not I’m trying not to do that as much anymore.’”

Anderson’s candor has ruffled feathers. In the memoir, which hits shelves Tuesday, she says that Allen flashed her on the set of “Home Improvement” in 1991. “[He was] completely naked,...

Was the last rock renaissance really in New York City in the aughts? That’s the claim filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace make with their documentary adaptation of music journalist Lizzie Goodman’s book “Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011.”

This scuzzy, dreamy nonfiction greatest hits compilation prefers lyricism to reportage, with testimony told entirely in voiceover instead of talking heads. It’s also entirely a montage of on-the-fly found footage — of concerts, early interviews, Courtney Love flashing her boobs to a crowd of frothing onlookers during her 24-hour MTV takeover — and . The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Moldy Peaches, James Murphy, and Interpol all get significant play here, with the film going back to their DIY roots in Lower Manhattan — but leaves us hanging from there. In other ones, “Meet Me” is music to the ears of their...

When Titus Welliver first met over Zoom with Greg Walker to discuss the role of Lex Luthor, the Titans showrunner was bowled over by the Deadwood alum’s incredible wealth of DC Comics savvy.

“I don’t think Greg got to speak all that much,” Welliver tells TVLine with a chuckle, “because I was excitedly trying to articulate the fact that when I said I’m a big fan of the show and I read the comics, I meant it.

More from TVLinePretty Little Liars: Summer School Teased as New Title for Season 2The Penguin: Cristin Milioti Lands Role in...

Billy Eichner is not fucking around. He is a creative, comic dynamo who has played loud, proud TV characters (in Parks & Recreation, Bob’s Burgers, the vastly underrated Difficult People), voiced animated characters (The Angry Birds Movie; Timon in the live-action Lion King) and slayed all haters via 240 characters (Twitter). He has hosted the world’s greatest man-on-the-street/full-frontal assault game show (Billy on the Street). He is the only living human being to have portrayed both Walt Whitman and Matt Drudge.

And now, the 44-year-old writer-producer-actor would like to be a movie star.

David Brucker's new film "Hellraiser," based on Clive Barker's 1986 novella "The Hellbound Heart," will be released on Hulu on October 7, 2022. It will be the eleventh film in the "Hellraiser" series.

One of the more striking elements of "Hellraiser" is its particular mythology. In the original 1987 "Hellraiser" feature film, written and directed by Barker, Hell was not depicted as the sin-based, punitive, Christian version of the realm as seen in Dante's "Inferno," but as something more akin to a particularly hard-edged S&m club. In Barker's estimation, the body and the soul are intertwined, and Hell is designed for seekers of the ultimate physical and sexual experience. When a seeker opens up a mysterious puzzle box, it summons a quartet of immortal, leather-clad Cenobites whose bodies are in a constant state of mutilation. The Cenobites, using chains, hooks, and other scary cutting devices, rend their victim to shreds, showing that...

From the Oscar-winning Drive My Car to festival favourite Hit the Road, audiences and critics are relishing the recent wave of road movies. Here, Geoff Dyer delves into the roots of the genre

Four directors discuss breathing new life into the road movie

Wherever there is an actual physical journey there is inherent narrative interest. It doesn’t matter whether the journey is on foot through the Australian outback (Walkabout) or in the Antarctic (Scott of the…), on horseback (Lonesome Dove) or covered wagon, by boat, train (Von Ryan’s Express), aircraft or spaceship (take your pick), car, or some permutation of any of the above: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. With jour, journey and journal(ism) sharing the same root, we’re linguistically programmed to follow day-by-day accounts of journeys. Writing in 1849, Thomas De Quincey celebrated the unprecedented “velocity” of English mail coaches that revealed to him, first “the glory of motion: suggesting,...

Billy the Kid, the moody new drama from Vikings creator Michael Hirst, digs deep into the life of 19th Century cowboy and gunslinger Billy the Kid (Tom Blyth), painting a nuanced portrait of the notorious outlaw. There’s plenty of Old West action in the Epix series, but we also see Billy reading from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself; and caring for his loving mother (Eileen O’Higgins). It’s clear that the brutal frontier environment — and endless grief and deep poverty it brought his family — transformed Billy from the innocent son of Irish immigrants to a legendary criminal. “We think we know him as this sociopathic murderer who was good on a gun and good with a horse. But he’s someone who’s been hardened day after day by constant loss,” says Blyth, who connected with his character by taking a road trip through Billy’s old stomping grounds.

"Dead Poets Society" is one of the most emotional movies I've ever seen. Every time I watch it, I'm reduced to a puddle of tears -- especially the ending where John Keating's students stand up on their desks and salute him with a rendition of "O Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman as their beloved teacher departs Welton Academy. But believe it or not, screenwriter Tom Schulman originally had an even sadder ending in mind.

Schulman participated in a retrospective celebrating the 30th anniversary of "Dead Poets Society" for Script Magazine in 2019, alongside star Ethan Hawke and director Peter Weir. During the retrospective, Schulman...

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Based on his 1986 novel "The Hellbound Heart," Clive Barker's 1987 film "Hellraiser" is one of the best and most striking horror films of its decade. Predicated on lust, infidelity, and supernatural acts of sadomasochism, "Hellraiser" plays like a blood-soaked, myth-heavy rendition of Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric," wherein flesh is the only gauge by which one measures divinity. Or, in the case of "Hellraiser," demonic interior. "Hellraiser," and Tony Randel's 1988 sequel "Hellbound: Hellraiser II," have lost none of their visceral power over the years, and contemporary horror fans may still recoil from the films' extreme blood, open sexuality, and surreal imagery. 

"Hellraiser" is about an...

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She is the Bride of Dracula. That is what they whispered whenever Florence Balcombe Stoker stepped into public view. Once an ethereal beauty whose features could capture Oscar Wilde’s imagination, if not his true ardor, the widow of author Bram Stoker spent the final decades of her life being haunted by her husband—but not his ghost; it was his vampire that refused to give her rest.

Today, Florence is chiefly remembered as the architect behind what some might call the greatest act of attempted vandalism in cinematic history. She did, after all, pursue with the tenacity of Abraham Van Helsing a scorched earth crusade intent on having all prints of Nosferatu burned to ash. If she had succeeded, F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionist masterpiece, and one of the finest horror films ever produced, would have been lost to posterity—instead of still being watched and celebrated exactly 100 years since its Berlin premiere.

In the birthplace of Western philosophy, Bill Murray dropped some wisdom on a receptive audience.

“I swear to you,” he told the crowd in Athens, quoting Walt Whitman, “there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”

Divine things, like the music of Bach, Shostakovich and Ravel, the melodies of Gershwin and Bernstein, the songs of Stephen Foster and Van Morrison.

For one magical evening in 2018, on terrain once walked by Socrates and Plato, Murray was joined by cellist Jan Vogler, violinist Mira Wang, and pianist Vanessa Perez for a concert combining music and poetry. The film New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization captures that performance at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus near the Acropolis, the culmination of a tour that took the quartet to Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, the U.S., and across Europe to their final date in Greece.

The show grew out of a friendship between Murray and Vogler,...

"Will love always be this painful?" Madman Films in Australia has unveiled another official trailer for the indie comedy Dr. Bird's Advice For Sad Poets, made by filmmaker Yaniv Raz. This originally premiered last year and is just now getting an official release in some countries. In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, we see his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression by seeking advice from Dr. Bird - an imaginary pigeon therapist - in the wake of his sister's disappearance. Based on the book by Evan Roskos. This indie film stars Lucas Jade Zumann as James Whitman, with Taylor Russell, David Arquette, Jason Isaacs, Chase Stokes, Tom Wilkinson, and Michael Cole as Walt Whitman. This looks like it has some really creative filmmaking throughout, drifting into the fantasy realm to tell this story of loss and love. It's a really lovely, amusing trailer,...

It was just a matter of time before Kazakhstan’s poet Mukagali Makataev (1931-1976) was finally going to get his biopic. Censored, outcasted and disgraced during his lifetime, he became the symbol of Kazakh’s struggle for independence during the Soviet occupation, post-everything. “Poetry loves freedom” is something that gets repeated in Bolat Kalymbetov’s period drama “Mukagali”, a wisdom ascribed to Pushkin, one of the greatest Russian poets whose verses also inspired the eponymous hero of the film.

30 years after the dream of Kazakh freedom became true, actor/ director Kalymbetov turns to the national hero concentrating on the last three years of his life marked by traumatic events. Mukagali (Aslanbek Zhanbalayev) is introduced through a form of trial about something he had done, probably regarding his now famous poem ‘Raimbek! Raimbek!’ that was considered separatist at the time. During that life-changing event, he is still in Moscow where he...

An archival photo of an 20th century American socialists protest. part of the exploration of American socialism in the documentary The Big Scary “S” Word. Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment.

In honor of Labor Day, how about a documentary about the idea that led to labor unions? That late 19th century idea also sparked such things as taxpayer-funded fire departments, health and safety laws, rural electric cooperatives, the interstate highway system and Social Security. You know, that thing so many now find so scary: socialism, which is the subject of The Big Scary “S” Word, a documentary which focuses on the long history of American socialism.

Yeah, American socialism. While socialism inspired Karl Marx, socialism is a broad idea that sparked many beneficial changes to society, including those labor unions and the early labor movement, changes that made life better and fairer for ordinary people. Actually, old Soviet Union-style communism was...

Apple TV+ is saying goodbye to one of its most beloved series.

The streamer on Thursday revealed Dickinson, the critically acclaimed series, will make its global debut on Friday, November 5, 2021, on Apple TV+.

The news also comes with the caveat that it will be the final season.

Created, written and executive produced by Alena Smith, who also makes her directorial debut, and starring Academy Award-nominee Hailee Steinfeld, who also executive produces, the 10-episode third season will premiere with the first three episodes.

It will be followed by one new episode weekly every Friday thereafter through December 24, 2021.

"When I set out to make ‘Dickinson,' I envisioned the show as a three-season journey that would tell the origin story of America’s greatest female poet in a whole new way, highlighting Emily’s relevance and resonance to our society today," Smith shared.

"In my wildest dreams, I could never have imagined...

The third chapter of Dickinson will be its last. Apple TV+ said today that the series starring Hailee Steinfeld will wrap with the upcoming Season 3, which has been set to launch November 5. Watch a brief teaser below and see a new image above.

In Season 3, Emily Dickinson’s (Steinfeld) most productive time as an artist falls amid the raging American Civil War and an equally fierce battle that divides her own family. As Emily tries to heal the divides around her, she wonders if art can help keep hope alive, and whether the future can be better than the past.

Series regulars Toby Huss, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Anna Baryshnikov, Ella Hunt, Amanda Warren, Chinaza Uche and Jane Krakowski are returning, and Wiz Khalifa again recurs as Death. New guest stars will include Ziwe — who also joined as a writer — playing Sojourner Truth, Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman and Chloe Fineman as Sylvia Plath.

The third season of “Dickinson,” which will premiere Nov. 5, will be its final one, Apple TV Plus announced Thursday.

The third and final season welcomes new guest stars Ziwe (who also joined the writing staff this season) as Sojourner Truth, Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman and Chloe Fineman as Syliva Plath.

“When I set out to make ‘Dickinson,’ I envisioned the show as a three-season journey that would tell the origin story of America’s greatest female poet in a whole new way, highlighting Emily’s relevance and resonance to our society today,” said creator and showrunner Alena Smith in a statement. “In my wildest dreams, I could never have imagined how rich and satisfying the experience of making this show would become and the incredible joy it has been to tell Emily’s story along with Hailee [Steinfeld] and our brilliant, passionate cast and crew. I can’t wait to...

Apple TV+ comedy “Dickinson” will end with the previously announced third season, the streaming service revealed on Thursday. We also now have a debut date for Season 3 — and a first-look teaser.

Watch that via the video above.

“Dickinson” Season 3 will premiere with its first three episodes on Friday, Nov. 5, on Apple TV+. The next seven episodes will roll out one at a time, each subsequent Friday. That means the series finale is set for Dec. 24 — Merry Christmas! (Eve!)

“Dickinson” creator, writer and executive producer Alena Smith will make her directorial debut in Season 3, Apple said. Smith has an overall deal with Apple TV+, where she is currently developing a slate of TV projects.

“When I set out to make ‘Dickinson,’ I envisioned the show as a three-season journey that would tell the origin story of America’s greatest female poet in a whole new way, highlighting Emily’s relevance and resonance to our society today,...

Every great poem has to end at some point, and so does Dickinson: The upcoming third season of the Apple TV+ literary comedy will be its last, TVLine has learned.

“When I set out to make Dickinson, I envisioned the show as a three-season journey that would tell the origin story of America’s greatest female poet in a whole new way, highlighting Emily’s relevance and resonance to our society today,” series creator Alena Smith said in a statement. “In my wildest dreams, I could never have imagined how rich and satisfying the experience of making this show would become,...

Dickinson is going to end the way creator Alena Smith envisioned.

Apple said Thursday that the previously announced third season of its Peabody-winning series would officially be its last as the Hailee Steinfeld-led comedy will return with its remaining 10 episodes starting in November. Season three has also bulked up with guest stars Ziwe as Sojourner Truth, who also joined as a writer; Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman and Chloe Fineman as Sylvia Plath.

“When I set out to make Dickinson, I envisioned the show as a three-season journey that would tell the origin story of America’s greatest female poet in a whole new way, highlighting ...

Dickinson is going to end the way creator Alena Smith envisioned.

Apple said Thursday that the previously announced third season of its Peabody-winning series would officially be its last as the Hailee Steinfeld-led comedy will return with its remaining 10 episodes starting in November. Season three has also bulked up with guest stars Ziwe as Sojourner Truth, who also joined as a writer; Billy Eichner as Walt Whitman and Chloe Fineman as Sylvia Plath.

“When I set out to make Dickinson, I envisioned the show as a three-season journey that would tell the origin story of America’s greatest female poet in a whole new way, highlighting ...

Before you ask, no: not another Before film. Julie Delpy’s tried to clear that up—much as I suspect she’s literally lying and another film’s already been shot—and we are talking about one of modern American film’s more omnivorous writer-directors, always seeking new material and means to evoke it. Even by that metric, though, I’m surprised to read Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke are gravitating towards something so sui generis as transcendentalism, a literary movement that includes (allow me one moment to return to sophomore-year classes) Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Dvaid Thoreau. I imagine at least one of you is also picturing a Penguin Classics cover right this second.

Where you get the dramatic material that encourages, say, financing is beyond me, but I am not a brilliant filmmaker and Linklater is “obsessed” with the enduring radicality of their ideas—abolition,...

Val Kilmer is back in the public conversation. It’s easy to see why after the premiere of the documentary Val, a new release from Amazon Studios and A24. Melancholic and wistful, the film documents Kilmer’s eclectic career as a rising movie star in the 1980s and ‘90s, and his more recent battle (and victory over) cancer. Hence the film must must talk about his time as Bruce Wayne in 1995’s Batman Forever.

Yet as good as the doc is, its impressionistic view of the actor’s life tends to leave some of his sardonic musings and general conviviality off the screen. Relying mostly on the vast reams of camcorder footage he saved over the course of his life, the movie observes as much as it enters Kilmer’s mind. Luckily, the prodigious artist also recently released a memoir about his various exploits, Val Kilmer: I’m Your Huckleberry.

Bill Murray is without doubt one of the most loved actors in Hollywood. As well as appearing in the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Peter Venkman, a role that fans have been hoping to see him take on again for decades, the actor is never too far from screens, whether it's appearing in the latest Wes Anderson movie, or making a guest appearance at an awards show, fans of the one time Saturday Night Live regular are thankful of any opportunity to see him. So the arrival of the first trailer and official poster for his Cannes-bound concert movie, New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization, is something to shout about.

Filmed on the last performance of his New Worlds tour of Europe with world-class cellist Jan Vogler in Athens, Greece, the show is a celebration of the many types of art that have had an influence on the cultures of Europe...

Bill Murray invites the audience to travel with him as he recites Walt Whitman’s Song of the Open Road, 9 in the new trailer for New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization. The clip premiered via Variety.

The Andrew Muscato-directed film, which was culled during Murray and renowned cellist Jan Vogler’s final New Worlds European tour performance at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece during their 2018 New Worlds tour, will premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in July. The trailer shows them rehearsing for the show, as well as the night’s performance.

In 2018, Bill Murray joined famous cellist, Jan Vogler, on stage at the historic Acropolis in Athens, Greece, for a night of timeless poetry and music. Captured on film by director Andrew Muscato, the magical performance will soon become a feature film, premiering in July at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Spanning from Bach to Van Morrison, Walt Whitman to “West Side Story,” “New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization” showcases the range of art that has influenced American and European culture and helped bridge the gap between the two.

The trailer opens with Murray reading Whitman’s poem “Song of the Open Road, 9” before launching into “I Feel Pretty” from “West Side Story,” all behind a sweeping classical music trio led by world-renowned cellist Vogler and featuring Mira Wang on violin and Vanessa Perez on piano.

“New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization” captures the final performance of Murray and Vogler’s European “New Worlds” tour.

The trio Holy Hive mull blown chances and missed opportunities on their new single “Ain’t That the Way It Goes.” The track is the first taste of the group’s sophomore album, Holy Hive, due September 24.

“Ain’t That the Way It Goes” pairs lead singer Paul Spring’s gaseous falsetto with a soft, marching rhythm from bassist Joe Harrison and drummer Homer Steinweiss. While the lyrics of the chorus suggest resignation, an inability to seize control at the right moment, Holy Hive stressed that there is an undercurrent...

This coming-of-age comedy tackles family dysfunction sensitively but is unsure how to handle its hero’s mental health

Unhappy teenagers are each unhappy in their own way. But there is a movie template for the unhappiness of a certain kind of male of the species: that hypersensitive socially awkward outsider who sees right through the phoniness of the adult world and expresses himself with freakish maturity. Not wandering too far from the standard is 16-year-old James Whitman (Lucas Jade Zumann) the poet hero of this coming-of-age comedy with sad-serious bits. James has anxiety and depression, and he’s obsessed in a big way with his namesake, the poet Walt Whitman. The Dr Bird of the title is his imaginary psychiatrist, who he quirkily visualises as a pigeon (nicely voiced by Tom Wilkinson).

The movie follows James as he searches for his older sister, who mysteriously disappeared after a blazing row...

The Animated World is a regular feature spotlighting animation from around the globe.Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipel (Archipelago) is a complex and radiant meditation on the intimate and social territories we all inhabit. Premiering at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, it is a rich film that rewards multiple viewings. A poetic essay loosely structured around the metaphor of the archipelago, it combines documentation with imagination as it sifts through Québécois history and images, pondering the ways in which real events are shaped by individual perspectives, desires, and expectations. Focusing in large part on the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, the film mulls over the secularization, modernization and separatist activism of the period through the use of dialogue, archival footage, and a dynamic range of animated styles that both visualize and deconstruct these ideas. The film progresses as a meandering journey through the Hochelaga Archipelago in the St.

Nicolas Cage is a man of action even when it comes to talking that walk down the aisle.  The 57-year-old National Treasure star surprised fans on Friday, March 5, when he confirmed reports he had married girlfriend Riko Shibata, 26, in Las Vegas on Feb. 16. He told E! News in a statement, "It's true, and we are very happy." The groom wore a Tom Ford tux and the bride wore a handmade Japanese bridal kimono. Cage and Shibata exchanged traditional Catholic and Shinto vows that contained poetry from Walt Whitman and some Haiku, the actor's rep said. Cage and Shibata were first spotted out in public together in February 2020. They were seen in New Orleans, visiting a...

Nicolas Cage is officially a married man... yet again.  E! News confirms the National Treasure star wed Riko Shibata in Las Vegas on Feb. 16. He tells us, "It's true, and we are very happy." Nicolas, 56, and Riko, 26, tied the knot in Sin City's Wynn hotel on a date chosen to honor his late father's birthday. While the groom wore a Tom Ford tux, his bride wore a handmade Japanese bridal kimono.  A rep for the actor shares with E! News, "They exchanged traditional Catholic and Shinto vows with poetry from Walt Whitman and Haiku sprinkled in."  This marks the star's fifth marriage, taking place close to two years after he annulled...

CAA has signed documentarian Jamila Wignot, who recently premiered her latest Ailey at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.

As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.

Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.

CAA has signed documentarian Jamila Wignot, who recently premiered her latest Ailey at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.

Wignot previously directed the Peabody, Emmy, and NAACP award-winning PBS miniseries African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. Her prior credits include the Peabody Award-winning Triangle Fire and and the Emmy-nominated episode Walt Whitman from PBS’ American Experience series.

As a producer, she has worked on W. Kamau Bell’s Bring the Pain and Musa Syeed’s 2018 indie feature A Stray.

Ailey, which explores dancer Alvin Ailey’s life and his connection to the dance company that still bears his name, was acquired by Neon out of Sundance.

Neon has made its second acquisition of the Sundance Film Festival with Jamila Wignot’s Ailey, about dance legend Alvin Ailey.

The film debuted at the festival yesterday in the U.S. Documentary Competition section. The documentary explores Ailey’s life and his connection to the present dance company that bears his name with never-before-heard audio interviews recorded in the last year of his life and rare dance performances by the Ailey Company. Ailey found salvation through dance and he pioneered choreography centering on African American experiences. He endured racism and homophobia; addiction and mental illness.

Darcy Heusel, Neon’s Head of Impact and Audience Engagement, remarked “Ailey is a searing and inspirational account of a visionary artistic genius who used his gift of dance and movement to express the Black American experience. Jamila Wignot has created an indelible portrait of both the artist and his work and Neon is...

Video Version of this Article Photo/Video: David Letterman/Netflix/Hollywood Insider YouTube Channel My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman is a warm watch made especially for those who feel like the talk show format could do with more honesty and less artifice. It comes across as something approaching the midpoint between a typical piece of late-night and more laid-back interview platforms such as The Joe Rogan Experience. Who better to usher in this transition than David Letterman, the king of late-night. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction boasts a variety of guests and some refreshingly candid interviews, even if it dips into self-congratulatory Hollywood waffle every now and then. Related article: Ranked: Top 5 Episodes of ‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’ on Netflix Related article: Jon Stewart: 32 Facts on the Legendary Late-Night Host of ‘The Daily Show’ A Welcoming Host My Next Guest Needs No...

As the title suggests, the documentary “Queer Japan” is big and broad, not focused. A vigorous smorgasbord of sexual orientations and gender identities, Graham Kolbeins’ feature encompasses enough varieties of L, G, B, T and Q to leave you exhausted, and does so with energy, style and open-hearted appreciation.

“Right now in Japan, we’re in the middle of an LGBT boom,” says a voice over an opening shot of Tokyo’s Rainbow parade, followed by another voice talking about the importance of becoming visible but “not generating any friction with the majority.” The film celebrates the boom, but its characters aren’t too concerned about the friction; with a couple of exceptions, they’re out and proud, with any days they might have spent in the closet well behind them.

Those opening remarks, by the way, are as close as you’ll get to an overview in “Queer Japan.

In a way, there are two Deerhoofs: the killer rock band and the anything-goes experimental collective. For around 25 years, they’ve been churning out albums full of skewed yet tuneful songs (see the great new Future Teenage Cave Artists). Alongside that, together and separately, the members have joined forces with avant-garde luminaries from Ensemble Dal Niente to Matana Roberts and Anthony Braxton. On an upcoming Bandcamp-only release — To Be Surrounded By Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough, a title borrowed from Walt Whitman — we’ll get to hear a little of both,...

“I Contain Multitudes” is Bob Dylan’s second surprise new song in three weeks, making it seem increasingly likely that the Nobel Prize winner has a new album on the way — which would be his first collection of original songs since 2012’s Tempest. The Walt Whitman-referencing new song is much shorter and less overtly ambitious than his March release, “Murder Most Foul” — “I Contain Multitudes” is a delicate ballad with a minimal arrangement (harp-like guitar chords, rumbling cello, tropical steel guitar, zero percussion) and a Tin Pan Alley melody,...

Steve James has had a long and illustrious career as a documentarian. He produces and directs many documentaries focusing on social justice and American life through his non-profit production company Kartemquin Films. Over the decades, James has been nominated for two Academy Awards and Kartemquin has been nominated for two more.

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James and his production company's work brings a particular light to Chicago and, over the last 50 years, he has become one of the foremost chroniclers of the city. As a creator, he stands in league with Roger Ebert, Studs Terkel, Richard Wright, Walt Whitman, and many others in their view and influence on the city. Here are his ten best documentaries, according to IMDb.

Welcome to this week’s Mlw: Fusion review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Michael Apted is a good director, but not always the most interesting fella. On this episode of Homeland, we ask ourselves why this show is still on the f—— air. Claire Danes knows where the bodies are buried and Killer Kross is still here, because he already filmed the footage before he signed with the WWE.

Match #1: El Lindaman defeated Zenshi The following is courtesy of mlw.com:

Zenshi has his shoulder wrapped up due to his rendevous with Dominic Garrini, but it doesn’t slow the Chilean luchadore. He quickness leads to he and Lindaman running into an atheletic stalemate. The two quickly slap hands in respect, but Lindaman goes right on the attack. Zenshi is the first to get a pin attempt, but El Lindamen flies on top of Zenshi via a suicide senton,...

Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Gladys Cooper, Claude Rains, Bonita Granville | Written by Casey Robinson | Directed by Irving Rapper

The secret at the heart of the Boston social scene is Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) – a shy, repressed, mentally unstable young woman, tortured by her overbearing mother (Gladys Cooper). Charlotte’s older sister (Bonita Granville) arranges for a visit from the esteemed Dr Jaquith (Claude Rains), who recommends a stay at his hospital in Vermont. The retreat proves life changing. Charlotte’s adventurous spirit is awoken, and she takes a voyage to Brazil. En route she meets the unhappily married Jerry (Paul Henreid). The pair fall in love. Having said farewell to Jerry – apparently forever – Charlotte returns home, and finds that while she has been transformed, her increasingly ill mother hasn’t changed at all. It’s now a question of whether Charlotte’s increasing self-confidence can continue in the great yawning mansion,...

“Where have all the good guys gone?” Mika asked on his last album, 2015’s No Place in Heaven, singing about searching for heroes in everyday life while referencing many of his own, from James Dean to David Bowie and Walt Whitman to Rufus Wainwright. With the October 4th release of My Name Is Michael Holbrook, his fifth LP, he makes emphatically clear the good guys are right here among us — sometimes it just takes a bit of self-rediscovery to find them.

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On Thursday afternoon Variety partnered with Ifp for the first “10 Storytellers to Watch” event, and among the novelists, lyricists, podcasters, playwrights, graphic novelists and brand storytellers who were honored was the pioneering singer, poet and author Patti Smith. The legendary artist received the Impact in Storytelling honor not only for her formidable body of songs and poems, but also for her memoirs “Just Kids” and “M Train,” the former of which won the National Book Award and is universally regarded as one of the best books in the rock music canon.

In a 15-minute talk with Variety’s Steven Gaydos, Smith talked about the influence of the Beat poets, some favorite authors — she mentioned Roberto Bolano, Haruki Murakami and manga comics — and, perhaps most interestingly, her experiences hanging out with Bob Dylan and how she came to appear performing in the recent Martin Scorsese-helmed documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue,” which...