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Littlefeather made history as the first Native American woman to stand on the Oscars stage when she turned down the Academy Award for Best Actor on behalf of “The Godfather” winner Marlon Brando. At the time, the controversial statement incited both booing and cheering at the awards ceremony. “I focused in on the mouths and the jaws that were dropping open in the audience, and there were quite a few,” Littlefeather recalled in an interview with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences....

Super, the boutique distribution label from Neon, has officially whipped up the distribution rights to dominatrix drama “Sanctuary” starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott. Penned by “Homecoming” co-creator Micah Bloomberg and directed by SXSW “The Heart Machine” helmer Zachary Wigon, “Sanctuary” takes place over the course of one night in a hotel room where Rebecca (Qualley) seduces her elite client Hal (Abbott) to disastrous ends. Hal attempts to terminate his relationship with Rebecca, as he is poised to inherit his late father’s professional position and fortune, but Rebecca has other ideas in store for how to punish him for daring to cross her....

Sarah Polley, who starred in the movie as a child, has accused Terry Gilliam of creating unsafe conditions on the film’s set. In her recent memoir “Run Towards the Danger,” she described the director as “erratic” and claimed he made her do multiple takes of dangerous scenes involving pyrotechnics without any regard for her safety. On the opposite end of the spectrum, it was recently announced that the film is being added to the Criterion Collection in January....

The description promises you can “buy, sell, and trade popular locations like Tony Soprano’s house and Satriale’s Pork Store, before wheeling and dealing at the Bada Bing! Let tokens like The Stugots or Bobby Bacala’s toy train engine take you around the board and be the last boss standing!” All the game’s houses have been renamed “stashes,” while the hotels are now called “contraband,” and chance cards are called “AY!...

Celebrating Star Wars Day from home? Stream “The Bad Batch,” a new animated series that arrived on Disney+ on Tuesday, along with a bunch of other programming for “Star Wars” fans to binge on May the 4th and beyond. “The Bad Batch” is a sequel and spin-off of “The Clone Wars,” and follows elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (that were first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) finding their footing in a rapidly changing galaxy in the immediate aftermath of the Clone War....

Where to Watch “Stath Lets Flats”: HBO Max (the series originally aired on Channel 4) There’s something hypnotic about the opening credits for the first season of “Stath Lets Flats.” From the way that Jamie Demetriou fakes opening a door all the way through the multiple floating Stath Charalamboses at the end, that green-screen awkwardness is a pretty clear snapshot of where the title character is at the beginning of the series....

While Sundance never programs for specific themes they nonetheless emerge, creating a useful snapshot of the zeitgeist and the next wave of storytelling styles and techniques. This year offers more positive fare and a few more comedies than is typical, perhaps signaling a desire to lighten up during dark and uncertain times. Sexuality, sex work, and gender identity also emerged as a recurring theme. As the most prestigious film festival in the U....

This month will see a glut of critically embraced theatrical debuts — more than we’ve seen in three years. These include “TÁR” (Focus), “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight), “Aftersun” (A24), “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon), “Till” (United Artists), “Decision to Leave” (MUBI), and “Armageddon Time” (Focus). All will open in limited play, some will go wider, but whatever the release patterns they represent a crucial period for the specialized industry — distributors and exhibitors alike....

“I got together with Christoph before we got to the big script reading with the cast,” Tarantino said. “I told him, ‘I’m not doing this to be perverse game playing…everybody is so curious about who is playing Hans Landa. I don’t want you to be bad at the script reading, but I want you to hold a lot back. I do not want them to think that they are getting a glimpse of who you are really going to be....

Courtesy Everett Collection 2. “North By Northwest” (1959) Why Should I Watch? One of TCM’s themes this month is on movie MacGuffins, wherein an item that should hold all the significance in a movie means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Alfred Hitchcock coined the term so it’s understandable that one night of the theme is focused solely on his features. “North By Northwest” has the most fascinating use of the MacGuffin as it isn’t an object, but a person....

Whether it’s prestige drama, water cooler fodder, or the latest weekend binge, the new year is no longer complete without a heaping helping of TV on the horizon. IndieWire already picked 11 shows to look out for in 2023, but that’s hardly enough for the voracious viewer. Here are 10 new and old shows coming only to Netflix in 2023 — all of which we intend to devour. 1. “The Witcher” Season 3 “The Witcher” has always been popular, but Season 3 carries the added weight of being the last with Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, before Liam Hemsworth takes over the role....

But Brittany Galvin, the contestant in question — who says the whole ordeal was “defeating” — had the grace and presence of mind to push back on ABC’s narrative. In this week’s “The Women Tell All” episode, she respectfully denied the rumors without belittling or shaming sex workers. By deliberately using the term “sex work industry” and calling it “an occupation,” Galvin may have just become the first person to say sex work is work on national television....

It wouldn’t be the first time a larger story sprung from the artist, illustrator, and cartoonist’s lovely drawings of kindness and hope. The characters who populate “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” began appearing in posts on Mackesy’s Instagram in 2018; one sketch, in which the horse tells the boy that the bravest thing he ever said was “Help,” became a viral sensation. That led to a deal with Ebury Press and a picture book depicting a chance encounter between the titular characters....

Paramount’s “The Lost City” starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in a latter-day “Romancing the Stone” opened with $31 million, dislodging still-strong “The Batman” from #1. The $70 million production continues Paramount’s 10-month string of successful openings of mid- to lower-budget releases that prosper in theaters, most with a window of 45 days or longer. “The Lost City” is also the first COVID film to open at this level that was propelled by both females (61 percent) and older (about half over 35) viewers....

The movie plays like a hybrid of several recent variations: Like 2017’s drama “Before I Fall,” it’s a slick YA adaptation (sci-fi writer Lev Grossman wrote the screenplay off his short), it has some tonal similarities to the horror-comedy “Happy Death Day,” released that same year. Both movies used the time-loop conceit to explore the existential dread of teen life. “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things” folds that same approach into a quirky two-hander about Mark (Kyle Allen) and Margaret (Kathryn Newton), two ambling 17-year-olds who discover they’re fated to repeat the same day in their boring little town....

The conclusion that Abbott and Achbar reverse-engineered was convincing enough: Corporations are psychopaths. They don’t care about others, they’re incapable of feeling guilt, they often disregard the law out of their own insatiable self-interest, and they’re only getting worse. While the psychiatrist who Abbott and Achbar used as a human prop has since accused the filmmakers of misapplying his diagnosis, the last 17 years have provided such a constant deluge of evidence to its point that “The Corporation” now seems both impressively prescient and uselessly naïve....

Yet the intense long shots and grueling filming schedule meant that any changes — including dialogue — were confined to the editing room. So, as Eggers and Icelandic poet and novelist Sjón enlisted actors Alexander Skarsgård, Ethan Hawke, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, and Björk, to ADR certain lines, the script had to match their original mouth movements per each scene. In an interview with Vulture, Eggers explained, “You’re like, ‘Okay, we’ve got 18 syllables....

Previous uses of StageCraft for “The Mandalorian,” “The Book of Boba Fett,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” and “The Batman” excelled at contained scenes with very conducive lighting conditions and fairly shallow depth of field. Yet, because of how aggressively Waititi likes to shoot his action scenes for IMAX — with great depth of field — StageCraft was best suited as an interactive lighting tool for shooting actors in the volume with the best approximation of the environments....

“I said what I said,” Cruise told Empire in a recent interview, clarifying that he did not shout in front of the “entire crew” and only addressed the “select people” who were directly involved with the safety violation. “There was a lot at stake at that point.” “All those emotions were going through my mind,” Cruise added about the production’s two previous Covid delays adding fuel to his rant. “I was thinking about the people I work with, and my industry....

The film’s content was shocking to some viewers at the time of its release, particularly due to its excessive violence and abundant pop culture references. Both are trademarks of screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, who was a new filmmaker at the time, having only directed “Reservoir Dogs” when “True Romance was released. While the film was directed by Tony Scott and therefore does not count towards the 10 films that Tarantino plans to make, it helped introduce the world to his style before the massive success of “Pulp Fiction” a year later....