“I try to think about what it would be like to just walk through the world with blissful confidence,” explains Grace McLean when describing her portrayal of president Woodrow Wilson in “Suffs.” The actress is one of the only people in the all-female cast to portray a male character. In McLean’s case, it’s the man who constantly stood in the way of the suffragist movement. “There’s no apology ever,” says the actress of his expectations for deference, “and that’s unfamiliar for me, but I don’t think it’s unfamiliar for Woodrow Wilson and men of that type.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.
“Suffs” follows the American suffragist leader Alice Paul (Shaina Taub) in a years-long struggle to earn women the right to vote. Much effort within this movement is focused on obtaining the backing of Woodrow Wilson. But the suffragists must constantly face off...
“Suffs” follows the American suffragist leader Alice Paul (Shaina Taub) in a years-long struggle to earn women the right to vote. Much effort within this movement is focused on obtaining the backing of Woodrow Wilson. But the suffragists must constantly face off...
- 4/21/2024
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
On June 4, 2024 William Morrow is thrilled to present The Hidden History Of The White House: Power Struggles, Scandals, and Defining Moments by Corey Mead, with a foreword by bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower. Inspired by Wondery’s popular podcast American History Tellers, The Hidden History Of The White House shares the untold stories of some of the most climactic moments in American history in the rooms where they happened.
For more than two centuries, The White House in Washington, D.C., has been the stage for some of the most dramatic scenes in American history. Its walls and portraits have witnessed fierce power struggles, world-altering decisions, shocking scandals, and unforgettable meetings.
In the signature style of Wondery’s hit American History Tellers podcast featuring narrative storytelling putting listeners in the moment and blending unique perspectives from both powerful and everyday people, The Hidden History Of The White House places readers...
For more than two centuries, The White House in Washington, D.C., has been the stage for some of the most dramatic scenes in American history. Its walls and portraits have witnessed fierce power struggles, world-altering decisions, shocking scandals, and unforgettable meetings.
In the signature style of Wondery’s hit American History Tellers podcast featuring narrative storytelling putting listeners in the moment and blending unique perspectives from both powerful and everyday people, The Hidden History Of The White House places readers...
- 3/24/2024
- Podnews.net
President Joe Biden hoped to shore up a Democratic “blue wall” as he announced millions of dollars for projects in Milwaukee during his campaign stop in Wisconsin – but his new, tougher rhetoric against his opponent, Donald Trump, got most of the attention.
Biden was beginning a two-day swing through Wisconsin and Michigan in Milwaukee as he attempted to shore up a Democratic “blue wall” and build momentum for his re-election campaign after a fiery State of the Union address in early March.
To show voters that his administration has made their lives better, Biden used this campaign stop to announce $3.3 billion for infrastructure projects in underprivileged communities, including $36 million to reattach parts of Milwaukee’s 6th Street, which was divided due to highway construction in the 60s.
“We’re rebuilding the roads, we’re filling in the cracks in the sidewalk, we’re creating spaces to live and work and play safely,...
Biden was beginning a two-day swing through Wisconsin and Michigan in Milwaukee as he attempted to shore up a Democratic “blue wall” and build momentum for his re-election campaign after a fiery State of the Union address in early March.
To show voters that his administration has made their lives better, Biden used this campaign stop to announce $3.3 billion for infrastructure projects in underprivileged communities, including $36 million to reattach parts of Milwaukee’s 6th Street, which was divided due to highway construction in the 60s.
“We’re rebuilding the roads, we’re filling in the cracks in the sidewalk, we’re creating spaces to live and work and play safely,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
In a 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey, President Joe Biden was ranked the 14th best president while former president Donald Trump was last.
The ranking came from 154 historians and presidential experts. The survey was conducted from November 2023 to December 2023. Biden was in the top third along with Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. Trump was ranked at 45. Former President Barack Obama was ranked at seven.
The presidents’ successes and failures were taken into account when given ranks. Presidents were also given a rating from 0 to 100, 100 being the highest rating possible. Half of the presidents were given ratings of 50 or below. Trump was given a 10.92.
Presidential rankings have been called to be subjective. Experts have said it is difficult to maintain an objective perspective considering values have changed over the years. The survey’s main purpose is to provide an opportunity for experts and historians to compare different presidents in the...
The ranking came from 154 historians and presidential experts. The survey was conducted from November 2023 to December 2023. Biden was in the top third along with Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan. Trump was ranked at 45. Former President Barack Obama was ranked at seven.
The presidents’ successes and failures were taken into account when given ranks. Presidents were also given a rating from 0 to 100, 100 being the highest rating possible. Half of the presidents were given ratings of 50 or below. Trump was given a 10.92.
Presidential rankings have been called to be subjective. Experts have said it is difficult to maintain an objective perspective considering values have changed over the years. The survey’s main purpose is to provide an opportunity for experts and historians to compare different presidents in the...
- 2/20/2024
- by Ann Hoang
- Uinterview
Although Coup! has a small cast and unfolds mostly in a secluded mansion during the 1918 influenza pandemic, it packs a lot of flavor, suspense and droll comedy into its slim 97-minute running time, making it fun enough to deserve an exclamation point in its title. Peter Sarsgaard offers a sly, juicy performance as a shady chef who weasels his way into the home of an entitled young heir (Billy Magnussen). Soon, the upstart is turning the servants and family members against the hypocritical patriarch, who fancies himself a progressive. A collaborative effort between writer-directors Austin Stark (The God Committee, The Runner) and Joseph Schuman, this satirical work is hardly profound or subtle about the parallels with the present-day class conflict, but it wears its screw-the-rich subtext with insouciant breeziness.
In the opening minutes, Sarsgaard’s Floyd Monk is met shaving off his beard and styling his mustache, seemingly to make...
In the opening minutes, Sarsgaard’s Floyd Monk is met shaving off his beard and styling his mustache, seemingly to make...
- 9/14/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elizabeth Hubbard, who appeared 14 times on Broadway and had long runs as Dr. Althea Davis and the cutthroat Lucinda Walsh on the daytime soap operas The Doctors and As the World Turns, respectively, has died. She was 89.
Hubbard died Saturday of cancer at her home in Roxbury, Connecticut, her son, Jeremy Bennett, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Hubbard played the gynecologist girlfriend of Gene Hackman’s character in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and appeared in The Bell Jar (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Cold River (1982) and Center Stage (2000).
She portrayed Dr. Althea on NBC’s The Doctors from 1964-82 and the manipulating mogul Lucinda on CBS’ As the World Turns from 1984 until the show’s conclusion in September 2010. (Lucinda and Larry Bryggman’s John Dixon headed off to Amsterdam at the end.)
“I’ve been so lucky playing Lucinda — a character who could do anything,” she told TV Guide in 2010. “She could lie,...
Hubbard died Saturday of cancer at her home in Roxbury, Connecticut, her son, Jeremy Bennett, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Hubbard played the gynecologist girlfriend of Gene Hackman’s character in I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and appeared in The Bell Jar (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Cold River (1982) and Center Stage (2000).
She portrayed Dr. Althea on NBC’s The Doctors from 1964-82 and the manipulating mogul Lucinda on CBS’ As the World Turns from 1984 until the show’s conclusion in September 2010. (Lucinda and Larry Bryggman’s John Dixon headed off to Amsterdam at the end.)
“I’ve been so lucky playing Lucinda — a character who could do anything,” she told TV Guide in 2010. “She could lie,...
- 4/10/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives out shiny gold Oscar statuettes to actors in four categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. But believe it or not, what they don't do, anywhere in the Oscar rulebook, is clearly define what the difference is between a lead performance and a supporting performance.
In the end, they leave that decision up to the Academy voters, who can sometimes make weird calls. How the heck they thought Viola Davis was just "supporting" Denzel Washington in "Fences" is anyone's guess, for example. But the thing is, one rule the Academy does have for these categories, is that you are absolutely not allowed to be nominated for Best Lead and Best Supporting for the same performance, in the same film, in the same year.
At least, not anymore. Because someone already did get nominated for...
In the end, they leave that decision up to the Academy voters, who can sometimes make weird calls. How the heck they thought Viola Davis was just "supporting" Denzel Washington in "Fences" is anyone's guess, for example. But the thing is, one rule the Academy does have for these categories, is that you are absolutely not allowed to be nominated for Best Lead and Best Supporting for the same performance, in the same film, in the same year.
At least, not anymore. Because someone already did get nominated for...
- 1/19/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
Former President Donald Trump, who threw his nightmarish red cap back into the ring and launched a fourth bid for the White House last month, shared an article on Wednesday that suggested he run as a third-party candidate.
Posting on Truth Social, the social media platform he started after being booted from Twitter, Trump promoted an article from conservative publication American Greatness by writer Dan Gelernter. Staying true to the site’s unofficial role as a Trumpist mouthpiece, Gelernter claimed the “RNC can pretend Trump isn’t loved by the...
Posting on Truth Social, the social media platform he started after being booted from Twitter, Trump promoted an article from conservative publication American Greatness by writer Dan Gelernter. Staying true to the site’s unofficial role as a Trumpist mouthpiece, Gelernter claimed the “RNC can pretend Trump isn’t loved by the...
- 12/29/2022
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
What’s the opposite of a Confederate monument? A statue of Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott.
A man from Virginia has started a petition calling for the removal of a monument in the Olde Town area of Portsmouth and in its place, he has suggested putting one up of the rap legend — who just so happens to be from the area.
Nathan Coflin writes in his Change.org petition, “Who better to encapsulate the culture and spirit of the city enshrined in a new monument than Grammy Award winning rapper, dancer, and record producer Missy ‘Misdemeanor’ Elliott?”
Elliott, 46, was born in Portsmouth...
A man from Virginia has started a petition calling for the removal of a monument in the Olde Town area of Portsmouth and in its place, he has suggested putting one up of the rap legend — who just so happens to be from the area.
Nathan Coflin writes in his Change.org petition, “Who better to encapsulate the culture and spirit of the city enshrined in a new monument than Grammy Award winning rapper, dancer, and record producer Missy ‘Misdemeanor’ Elliott?”
Elliott, 46, was born in Portsmouth...
- 8/19/2017
- by Daniel Goldblatt
- PEOPLE.com
Few people had as complicated a relationship with Mother’s Day as Anna Jarvis did with the holiday.
Despite her tireless campaign to get the holiday recognized by the United States government, Jarvis ended up denouncing the institution she created, bankrupting herself as she fought against its perceived commercialization. How did that happen?
The roots of Mother’s Day — at least Jarvis’s involvement — date back to the 1850s. Her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, organized work clubs of mothers in their home state of West Virginia for a variety of causes. When the Civil War broke out, Jarvis senior shifted...
Despite her tireless campaign to get the holiday recognized by the United States government, Jarvis ended up denouncing the institution she created, bankrupting herself as she fought against its perceived commercialization. How did that happen?
The roots of Mother’s Day — at least Jarvis’s involvement — date back to the 1850s. Her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, organized work clubs of mothers in their home state of West Virginia for a variety of causes. When the Civil War broke out, Jarvis senior shifted...
- 5/10/2017
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
Like a tonic, Samantha Bee commended the press tonight for continuing to check the president “as if he some day may get embarrassed” – and that was hours before Donald Trump recited the lyrics to an old one-hit wonder and called it a poem. Embarrassment isn’t in the cards.
Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, taped earlier today in Washington D.C. and aired tonight as an special episode of TBS’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, was well-timed, like champagne chilled but corked until needed most.“For the longest time, I was considered the worst president of all time,” said surprise guest Will Ferrell in his George W. Bush guise. “That has changed. And it only took 100 days.”
The special kicked off with a pre-taped bit featuring Allison Janney as her West Wing press secretary C.J. Cregg, reminding everyone of that fast-talking series (and a more...
Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, taped earlier today in Washington D.C. and aired tonight as an special episode of TBS’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, was well-timed, like champagne chilled but corked until needed most.“For the longest time, I was considered the worst president of all time,” said surprise guest Will Ferrell in his George W. Bush guise. “That has changed. And it only took 100 days.”
The special kicked off with a pre-taped bit featuring Allison Janney as her West Wing press secretary C.J. Cregg, reminding everyone of that fast-talking series (and a more...
- 4/30/2017
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive screens Thursday March 9th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts at 7:30. Director Eric Stange, a visiting fellow with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will answer questions following the screening. This is a Free event!
Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.
Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...
Far more than a biography, Edgar Allen Poe: Buried Alive employs a variety of tools to create a narrative that is both visually stunning and deeply engaging. Drawn on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to help bring new understanding to his life, his place in American art and history, and the iconic position he holds in popular culture around the world. This film has received a production grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will be broadcast on the acclaimed PBS arts and culture series American Masters.
Tony-award-winning actor Denis O’Hare portrays...
- 3/6/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon mocked the media for how it “portrayed the campaign, how they portrayed the transition and now they’re portraying the administration,” saying, “it’s “always wrong,” during a speaking engagement at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. Bannon, who rarely speaks publicly, joined White House chief of staff Reince Priebus at Cpac for a panel discussion and called President Trump “the greatest public speaker” since William Jennings Bryan, who was Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1913-1915. Bannon pointed to the press assembled in the room and referred to them as the “opposition party,...
- 2/23/2017
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
New York -- Robert Vaughn, the debonair, Oscar-nominated actor whose many film roles were eclipsed by his hugely popular turn in television’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E., has died. He was 83.
Vaughn died Friday morning after a brief battle with acute leukemia, according to his manager, Matthew Sullivan.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was an immediate hit, particularly with young people, when it debuted on NBC 1964. It was part of an avalanche of secret agent shows (I Spy, Mission: Impossible, Secret Agent), spoofs (Get Smart), books (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold) and even songs (Secret Agent Man) inspired by the James Bond films.
Vaughn’s urbane superspy Napoleon Solo teamed with Scottish actor David McCallum’s Illya Kuryakin, a soft-spoken, Russian-born agent.
Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
The pair, who had put aside Cold War differences for a greater good, worked together each week for the mysterious U.N.C.L.E. (United...
Vaughn died Friday morning after a brief battle with acute leukemia, according to his manager, Matthew Sullivan.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was an immediate hit, particularly with young people, when it debuted on NBC 1964. It was part of an avalanche of secret agent shows (I Spy, Mission: Impossible, Secret Agent), spoofs (Get Smart), books (The Spy Who Came in From the Cold) and even songs (Secret Agent Man) inspired by the James Bond films.
Vaughn’s urbane superspy Napoleon Solo teamed with Scottish actor David McCallum’s Illya Kuryakin, a soft-spoken, Russian-born agent.
Photos: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
The pair, who had put aside Cold War differences for a greater good, worked together each week for the mysterious U.N.C.L.E. (United...
- 11/11/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
November 11 is Veterans Day, but it hasn’t always been. Our current conception of the day was the work of a few dedicated individuals, many of whom are not known by the general public. So let’s dive into how the holiday came about.
Though the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War I, was signed on June 28, 1919, the Allied nations and Germany actually reached an armistice — or a temporary stop to fighting — on Nov. 11, 1918. (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, by the way.)
It was President Woodrow Wilson who proclaimed the date Armistice...
Though the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War I, was signed on June 28, 1919, the Allied nations and Germany actually reached an armistice — or a temporary stop to fighting — on Nov. 11, 1918. (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, by the way.)
It was President Woodrow Wilson who proclaimed the date Armistice...
- 11/11/2016
- by alexheigl
- PEOPLE.com
At the “Adam Ruins Everything Election Special” taping earlier this month in Los Angeles, even the warmup jokes had their eyes on politics. As standup comedian Jared Logan primed both the audience and the sound technicians for the ensuing show, he invited the audience to test laugh: “Imagine if Tim Kaine just told a joke.”
After 19 episodes of the truTV show already under their belts, Tuesday night’s special represents the most ambitious “Adam Ruins Everything” project yet: an hour-long examination (and in most cases, refutation) of some of the most commonly held refrains of this election cycle.
Read More: ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ With Research, and Adam Conover Likes It That Way
It’s the culmination of weeks of nationwide touring and refining, all done during the midst of production on this year’s batch of “Adam Ruins Everything” episodes, which have been airing since late August. Conover, along with...
After 19 episodes of the truTV show already under their belts, Tuesday night’s special represents the most ambitious “Adam Ruins Everything” project yet: an hour-long examination (and in most cases, refutation) of some of the most commonly held refrains of this election cycle.
Read More: ‘Adam Ruins Everything’ With Research, and Adam Conover Likes It That Way
It’s the culmination of weeks of nationwide touring and refining, all done during the midst of production on this year’s batch of “Adam Ruins Everything” episodes, which have been airing since late August. Conover, along with...
- 10/25/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
D.W. Griffith’s 1915 black-and-white classic “The Birth of a Nation” has been colorized. Named one of the hundred best films of all time, this new updated edition, “The Birth Of A Nation: The Colorized Version,” is available in DVD format from Createspace.com, a subsidiary of the Amazon group of companies and features new colorized intertitle cards.
The film follows the lives of the northern Stoneman and southern Cameron families before, during and after the Civil War. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) petitions for his pardon. Cameron then founds the Ku Klux Klan, which makes him battle Elsie’s congressman father (Ralph Lewis) and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch (George Siegmann).
Read More: ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Premieres in Toronto, and Audiences Give Nate Parker a Second Chance
“The Birth Of A Nation” was a commercial success upon release,...
The film follows the lives of the northern Stoneman and southern Cameron families before, during and after the Civil War. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron (Henry B. Walthall) is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman (Lillian Gish) petitions for his pardon. Cameron then founds the Ku Klux Klan, which makes him battle Elsie’s congressman father (Ralph Lewis) and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch (George Siegmann).
Read More: ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Premieres in Toronto, and Audiences Give Nate Parker a Second Chance
“The Birth Of A Nation” was a commercial success upon release,...
- 9/23/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Southside With You is the latest in a long line of presidential biopics. But since it is simply an account of the Obamas’ first date, with little reference to their illustrious future, how will it rate alongside the likes of Young Mr Lincoln and Pt 109?
If Hollywood is to be believed, the most fascinating parts of a life are the rise and the fall — the ascent up the mountain and the inevitable tumble back to sea level. The middle bit — all the stuff about how one copes with the mundane reality of one’s fate — is less travelled territory. Look no further than the superhero origin story. Despite how often moviegoers have seen Batman’s parents gunned down in an alley, no shortage of films and TV shows choose to dramatise it yet again. But long before capes and masks were dominating cinemas, the film industry was giving audiences...
If Hollywood is to be believed, the most fascinating parts of a life are the rise and the fall — the ascent up the mountain and the inevitable tumble back to sea level. The middle bit — all the stuff about how one copes with the mundane reality of one’s fate — is less travelled territory. Look no further than the superhero origin story. Despite how often moviegoers have seen Batman’s parents gunned down in an alley, no shortage of films and TV shows choose to dramatise it yet again. But long before capes and masks were dominating cinemas, the film industry was giving audiences...
- 9/22/2016
- by Dave Schilling
- The Guardian - Film News
First-time director Brady Corbet’s story of a privileged, petulant 10-year-old fated to become a fascist dictator exerts a lethal grip
This steely, sinister and utterly gripping movie is the feature debut of 28-year-old actor-turned-director Brady Corbet. It’s an inspired provocation, jabbing its audience with a fictional variant on history, and loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1939 short story of the same name. Corbet has co-written the screenplay with his partner, film-maker Mona Fastvold.
The film imagines the wealthy, dysfunctional and unhappy childhood of someone fated to become a fascist leader: the action, disturbing enough in any case, is retroactively charged with this poisonous destiny. Newcomer Tom Sweet plays Prescott, the unhappy 10-year-old son of an American career diplomat (Liam Cunningham), who is in France in 1919 as part of Us president Woodrow Wilson’s retinue, there to establish postwar settlement terms to be imposed at Versailles on the defeated Germans.
This steely, sinister and utterly gripping movie is the feature debut of 28-year-old actor-turned-director Brady Corbet. It’s an inspired provocation, jabbing its audience with a fictional variant on history, and loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1939 short story of the same name. Corbet has co-written the screenplay with his partner, film-maker Mona Fastvold.
The film imagines the wealthy, dysfunctional and unhappy childhood of someone fated to become a fascist leader: the action, disturbing enough in any case, is retroactively charged with this poisonous destiny. Newcomer Tom Sweet plays Prescott, the unhappy 10-year-old son of an American career diplomat (Liam Cunningham), who is in France in 1919 as part of Us president Woodrow Wilson’s retinue, there to establish postwar settlement terms to be imposed at Versailles on the defeated Germans.
- 8/18/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
If actor-turned-director Brady Corbet’s post-World-War-i saga, The Childhood of a Leader, did little more than send American readers to Jean-Paul Sartre’s lesser known short story of the same name, one would be thanking the cinematic gods for its appearance.
The final story in his Sartre’s 1939 collection, The Wall, “The Childhood of a Leader” chronicles the life of Lucien from his rebellious potty training days as a lovely, long-haired tot, son of a rich industrialist, to his transformation into anti-Semitic murderer. There goes Holden Caulfield but for the grace of God.
When we first meet Lucien, with his lustrous blond curls and attired in a blue angel’s costume, he is mistaken by his mother’s consorts as a girl.
“What’s your name? Jacqueline, Lucienne, Margot?”
The embarrassed boy blushes and sets the record right, but “[h]e was no longer quite sure about not being a little...
The final story in his Sartre’s 1939 collection, The Wall, “The Childhood of a Leader” chronicles the life of Lucien from his rebellious potty training days as a lovely, long-haired tot, son of a rich industrialist, to his transformation into anti-Semitic murderer. There goes Holden Caulfield but for the grace of God.
When we first meet Lucien, with his lustrous blond curls and attired in a blue angel’s costume, he is mistaken by his mother’s consorts as a girl.
“What’s your name? Jacqueline, Lucienne, Margot?”
The embarrassed boy blushes and sets the record right, but “[h]e was no longer quite sure about not being a little...
- 8/14/2016
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
An allegorical tale set in the shadow of Wwi Europe, The Childhood of a Leader is a very accomplished first feature from 27 year-old American actor Brady Corbet. Considering his face has been showing up in the films of who's who in European arthouse cinema over the years -- Haneke, von Trier, Bonello, Assayas, Hansen-Løve, just to name a few -- this exclusively European production (UK/Hungary/France) seems far less surprising. The film sees an American diplomat (played by Liam Cunningham) working for President Woodrow Wilson to end the most horrific war that the world has ever experienced. His newly transplanted family consists of an educated, worldly wife (Berenice Bejo, The Artist, The Past) and an effeminate young son (the amazing Tom Sweet), complete with bobcut...
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- 7/21/2016
- Screen Anarchy
“Hillary’s America,” the third documentary from author, filmmaker and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza, begins with an undeniably fascinating premise: What if a Twitter egg made a movie? While D’Souza’s previous feature-length attacks on the Democratic Party were similarly falsified and foaming at the mouth (remember the part in 2014’s “America” when he argued that Hillary Clinton wants to use Nasa to turn the United States into her own personal panopticon of terror?), “Hillary’s America” is different — this time, it’s personal.
In January of 2014, D’Souza was indicted for violating campaign finance laws after it was discovered that he made illegal contributions to Wendy Long’s Senate bid (she wound up losing by more than 40 percentage points). He was found guilty, and accused the court of selective persecution on the basis that the Obama administration was supposedly trying to silence its dissidents.
“It all began...
In January of 2014, D’Souza was indicted for violating campaign finance laws after it was discovered that he made illegal contributions to Wendy Long’s Senate bid (she wound up losing by more than 40 percentage points). He was found guilty, and accused the court of selective persecution on the basis that the Obama administration was supposedly trying to silence its dissidents.
“It all began...
- 7/19/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
"Witness the birth of a terrifying ego." The first trailer has debuted for a film called The Childhood of a Leader, which is the feature directing debut of the talented actor Brady Corbet, who has appeared in a number of excellent indie films over the last decade. Loosely inspired by the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre and Margaret MacMillan, the film tells a coming-of-age story of a young French choirboy whose father is a diplomat assisting President Woodrow Wilson in the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Tom Sweet plays the boy, and the cast includes Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin, Yolande Moreau and Robert Pattinson. This certainly does look like something we've never seen before. Take a look below. Here's the first official trailer for Brady Corbet's The Childhood of a Leader, direct from YouTube: Independent film mainstay Brady Corbet (Mysterious Skin, Martha Marcy May Marlene) delivers one...
- 5/17/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
He can be seen in films from Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, Olivier Assayas, Mia Hansen-Løve, Noah Baumbach, Bertrand Bonello, Ruben Östlund, and more, but Brady Corbet finally got on the other side of the camera for his feature debut, The Childhood of a Leader. With a top-notch cast featuring Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin, Yolande Moreau, Robert Pattinson, and Tom Sweet, it’s been mostly quiet regarding the post-wwi drama since its Venice premiere last fall, but now a new trailer has landed along with news it’ll play at BAMcinemaFest next month.
We said in our review, “The feature debut from young actor turned screenwriter-director Brady Corbet, The Childhood of a Leader is an ambitious choice for a first project — a period piece tying together the post-wwi political climate and the upbringing of a child in a chateau outside Paris. The film, premiering in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival,...
We said in our review, “The feature debut from young actor turned screenwriter-director Brady Corbet, The Childhood of a Leader is an ambitious choice for a first project — a period piece tying together the post-wwi political climate and the upbringing of a child in a chateau outside Paris. The film, premiering in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival,...
- 5/16/2016
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
When is Mother's Day 2016? Yes, it really is this Sunday, May 8. You already have our ideas for great gifts to buy for your mom, friend or anyone else you want to celebrate on that day. Need more ideas? Well jewelry, electronics and special outings will all be tops on gift lists this year, according to the National Retail Federations' annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights and Analytics. Or you could borrow ideas from Lauren Conrad who shared gift ideas with PeopleStyle, which included flowing dresses, chic pots and bags. Sarah Jessica Parker also offered some Mother's Day gift ideas to PeopleStyle,...
- 5/6/2016
- by Nancy Dunham, @NancyDWrites
- PEOPLE.com
The last time there was a girl in Scott Underdahl's family, Woodrow Wilson was president, gas cost 15 cents a gallon and Babe Ruth had just hit his first career home run. In other words, it's been a while - 101 years to be exact. But on April 12 at 5:48 p.m., baby Aurelia entered the world at 8 pounds 3 ounces, with blonde hair and blue eyes. "I'm a little at a loss as to what to do - I grew up with three brothers and haven't spent much time around girls," Scott, 27, a manager for a lumber company in Post Falls, tells People.
- 5/2/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
The last time there was a girl in Scott Underdahl's family, Woodrow Wilson was president, gas cost 15 cents a gallon and Babe Ruth had just hit his first career home run. In other words, it's been a while - 101 years to be exact. But on April 12 at 5:48 p.m., baby Aurelia entered the world at 8 pounds 3 ounces, with blonde hair and blue eyes. "I'm a little at a loss as to what to do - I grew up with three brothers and haven't spent much time around girls," Scott, 27, a manager for a lumber company in Post Falls, tells People.
- 5/2/2016
- by Cathy Free, @cathyjfree
- PEOPLE.com
David Spade, whose acting credits include “Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser,” has called President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama undignified for their presence in popular culture. The former “Saturday Night Live” player blasted Obama’s recent appearance on “Running Wild with Bear Grylls” via Twitter, as well as his recent Men of the Year cover of GQ magazine. “I criticized Obama because I thought, ‘A president should have a little more dignity,'” the comedian told TMZ cameras in Los Angeles. “I realize that Woodrow Wilson went on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ once, but what president is doing reality shows?...
- 12/28/2015
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
It’s hard to believe that a film which advocates slavery and demeans black people could have a 100% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and yet this is a fact. Since its release in 1915, The Birth of a Nation has been lauded both as a work of genius, and as the epitome of bigotry. How can it be both? Cinelinx takes a look back at the highly controversial film, The Birth of a Nation on its 100th anniversary.
In 1915, D. W. Griffith was one of the hottest up-and-coming directors of the fledgling film industry, with a plan to create the first big budget film epic ever. He did just that, and for decades his magnum opus was considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and many still believe that. However, in modern times, it has become more renowned as the most racist film in movie history. Despite the politically incorrect content,...
In 1915, D. W. Griffith was one of the hottest up-and-coming directors of the fledgling film industry, with a plan to create the first big budget film epic ever. He did just that, and for decades his magnum opus was considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and many still believe that. However, in modern times, it has become more renowned as the most racist film in movie history. Despite the politically incorrect content,...
- 11/19/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
The playing field — and Tom Mason — were quite different as TNT’s Falling Skies unleashed its fifth and final season on Sunday night.
RelatedFalling Skies’ Final Battle: Noah Wyle Previews ‘Strong’ Finish, But Warns ‘Not Everybody Makes It’
Picking up right where Season 4 left off, Tom has a conversation with the Et (Espheni queen?) that he had woken up to after the moon mission — though he sees her as his wife Rebecca. Fashioned as a “memory” of a convo the marrieds once had about her breast cancer, Rebecca speaks in words that apply just as well to the war on Earth,...
RelatedFalling Skies’ Final Battle: Noah Wyle Previews ‘Strong’ Finish, But Warns ‘Not Everybody Makes It’
Picking up right where Season 4 left off, Tom has a conversation with the Et (Espheni queen?) that he had woken up to after the moon mission — though he sees her as his wife Rebecca. Fashioned as a “memory” of a convo the marrieds once had about her breast cancer, Rebecca speaks in words that apply just as well to the war on Earth,...
- 6/29/2015
- TVLine.com
Of all of the things I expected to be doing this week, meeting The Flash’s Danielle Panabaker did not enter my mind. I was lucky enough to have to the opportunity to meet her when she agreed to come speak to a group of high school students in Los Angeles interested in what it takes to break into the entertainment industry. During a presentation and Q&A with high school students at Woodrow Wilson High School in Los Angeles, Danielle Panabaker talked about her career, working on The Flash, and what it takes to make it in the tough world of acting. Why did you get into acting? I used to be very shy, so doing community theatre was a way to get me out of the box. I started doing community theatre at a young age, and then I was introduced to an agent in Atlanta who got me my…...
- 5/29/2015
- by Araceli Aviles
- TVovermind.com
Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to star in The Crowded Tale, the story of Billy Milligan, the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a defense in a court of law. Thing is, DiCaprio has reportedly been eying this role for the better part of 20 years and now it seems it may be coming to life as it has found a home at New Regency with Jason Smilovic (Lucky Number Slevin) and Todd Katzberg writing the screenplay. The film is an adaptation of Daniel Keyes' nonfiction "The Minds of Billy Milligan, which tells the story of Milligan and his 24 personalities as well as his court trial in the late 1970s in Ohio after being charged with robbery and raping three women on the Ohio State University campus. amz asin="0553263811" size="small"In preparation for his defense he was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder and would later become...
- 3/2/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
By winning the Best Cinematography Oscar for a second year in a row, "Birdman" director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki has joined a truly elite club whose ranks haven't been breached in nearly two decades. Only four other cinematographers have won the prize in two consecutive years. The last time it happened was in 1994 and 1995, when John Toll won for Edward Zwick's "Legends of the Fall" and Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" respectively. Before that you have to go all the way back to the late '40s, when Winton Hoch won in 1948 (Victor Fleming's "Joan of Arc" with Ingrid Bergman) and 1949 (John Ford's western "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"). Both victories came in the color category, as the Academy awarded prizes separately for black-and-white and color photography from 1939 to 1956. Leon Shamroy also won back-to-back color cinematography Oscars, for Henry King's 1944 Woodrow Wilson biopic "Wilson" and John M. Stahl...
- 2/23/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Refresh for latest… The Weinstein Co has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Eichmann Show, the feature-length drama that stars Martin Freeman and Anthony Lapaglia and charts the 1961 Trial of the Century of Adolf Eichmann. Directed by Paul Andrew Williams, the drama follows the televised trial of one of the key architects of the Holocaust in a behind-the-scenes look at how black-listed TV director Leo Hurwitz (Lapaglia) and ground-breaking producer Milton Fruchtman (Freeman) set out to capture his testimony. Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman and Nicholas Woodeson also star. Content Media is selling the Feelgood Fiction/BBC production that integrates actual footage from the trial which became the first truly global TV event — shown in 37 countries over four months — and was the first time the horror of the death camps had been heard live from the mouths of its victims. Simon Block wrote the script for the film which aired...
- 2/7/2015
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
In politics, a Presidential endorsement can be the magic touch, imbuing a candidate with exposure and voter confidence. Does the same hold true in the Oscar race? The team behind "Boyhood" hopes so. Speaking to People Magazine (via The Huffington Post), President Obama revealed that he fell hard for the Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making, coming-of-age film. And he was kind of a quote-whore about it. "'Boyhood was a great movie," Obama told the magazine. “That, I think, was my favorite movie this year.” Is it too late to send out guild screeners emblazoned with that quote? Obama is, traditionally, a softy when it comes to movies and television. When People put him on the spot with the same question in 2012, the President named "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Life of Pi" and "Argo" as his favorites. He has told the press that "Modern Family" and "Parks and Recreation" are family favorites.
- 12/18/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Hollywood — At the 6th annual Governors Awards Saturday night, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipient Harry Belafonte brought things to a sober, classy close with a lengthy speech detailing some of Hollywood's history with social rights issues. It was a pretty powerful send-off (Michael Keaton seemed particularly knocked out from my vantage point). I've included the full text of the speech (the bulk of his remarks, that is) below, as it seemed like something worth sharing. For more on the evening, be sure to read our coverage from the event. *** America has come a long way since Hollywood in 1915 gave the world the film "Birth of a Nation." By all measure, this cinematic work was considered the greatest film ever made. The power of moving pictures to impact on human behavior was never more powerfully evidenced than when after the release of this film, American citizens went on a murderous rampage.
- 11/9/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Tim here. Mother’s Day weekend is just around the corner, and not just any Mother’s Day weekend: this year marks the 100th anniversary of the proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson establishing the second Sunday in May as a national day of celebration.
In the honor of the century of mothers that have come and gone since then, and since this is the Film Experience’s dedicated animation corner, I though it might be fun to pay tribute to some of our favorite cartoon mothers. Of course, with motherhood being one of the most death-prone professions in the world of animation (all those Disney princess with just a father, if they’re not orphaned outright… and let us never forget the national childhood trauma that is Bambi), there are fewer such women than we might like. These are three of the best.
Helen Parr (voice: Holly Hunter)
The Incredibles
To me,...
In the honor of the century of mothers that have come and gone since then, and since this is the Film Experience’s dedicated animation corner, I though it might be fun to pay tribute to some of our favorite cartoon mothers. Of course, with motherhood being one of the most death-prone professions in the world of animation (all those Disney princess with just a father, if they’re not orphaned outright… and let us never forget the national childhood trauma that is Bambi), there are fewer such women than we might like. These are three of the best.
Helen Parr (voice: Holly Hunter)
The Incredibles
To me,...
- 5/9/2014
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
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Location
Situated in a leafy enclave west of Philadelphia in the heart of the main line suburbs (where Tracy Lord swanned around in The Philadelphia Story), the Bryn Mawr Film Institute is close by the college where President Woodrow Wilson taught and Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord's alter ego) took her degree.
Building
Born as the Seville in 1926, the Beaux-Artsy structure with accents of brick (most probably fired at Kelly Brickworks, owned by the father of actress Grace Kelly) was designed by architect William Harold Lee, a protégé of Frank Furness,...
• Cine-files: Errol Flynn Filmhouse, Northampton
• Cine-files: The Savoy Cinema, Heaton Moor
• Cine-files: Cine Paris, Athens
Each week a reader tells us about a place where they love to watch films. If there's a cinema you'd like to tell Guardian readers about for a future Cine-files, email adam.boult@guardian.co.uk.
Location
Situated in a leafy enclave west of Philadelphia in the heart of the main line suburbs (where Tracy Lord swanned around in The Philadelphia Story), the Bryn Mawr Film Institute is close by the college where President Woodrow Wilson taught and Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord's alter ego) took her degree.
Building
Born as the Seville in 1926, the Beaux-Artsy structure with accents of brick (most probably fired at Kelly Brickworks, owned by the father of actress Grace Kelly) was designed by architect William Harold Lee, a protégé of Frank Furness,...
- 10/1/2013
- by Guardian readers
- The Guardian - Film News
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Woodrow Wilson. He is undoubtedly the actor that chooses possibly the best and most unique roles in modern cinema and he certainly has affinity for portraying famous historical characters. The list is long: He starred as King Louis Xiv Philippe in The Man with the Iron Mask, as [...]
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- 9/19/2013
- by Deyan Angelov
- Film-Book
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to produce and star in Wilson, a biopic about President Woodrow Wilson, for Warner Bros. I like DiCaprio as an actor, and I think this is a solid role for him that he'll be able to pull off.
The movie will be based on the biography written by A. Scott Berg, and here's the description from the book:
One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson--the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President.In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently-discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson.
The movie will be based on the biography written by A. Scott Berg, and here's the description from the book:
One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson--the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President.In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently-discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson.
- 9/17/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Warner Bros. Pictures is in the midst of acquiring Scott Berg's recently released biography of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
The project is developed as a potential star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio. Dicaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran will produce alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning Berg.
Wilson was a Presbyterian and an academic by nature. Reluctant at first, he ultimately led the U.S. to join the Allies in the fight against the Germans during the first World War. He also negotiated the armistice, and helped create the League of Nations.
Source: The Independent...
The project is developed as a potential star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio. Dicaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran will produce alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning Berg.
Wilson was a Presbyterian and an academic by nature. Reluctant at first, he ultimately led the U.S. to join the Allies in the fight against the Germans during the first World War. He also negotiated the armistice, and helped create the League of Nations.
Source: The Independent...
- 9/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It seems that just about any biopic will get Leonardo DiCaprio to turn his head these days. In the last fifteen years alone he's played J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Abignale Jr., and Howard Hughes and in just a few months he'll be seen playing Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese's adaptation of The Wolf of Wall Street. Now the star is gearing up to portray yet another notable name. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the actor is now set to both star in and produce Wilson, a biopic about President Woodrow Wilson. Based on the book of the same name written by A. Scott Berg - which actually just hit stores last week - the film will look to give audiences an "intimate portrait of Wilson" as he helped bring our nation through World War I and come out the other side. THR notes that the source material offers...
- 9/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to star in and produce a biopic of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, based on the new biography by A. Scott Berg, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. DiCaprio will produce the Warner Bros. movie through his Appian Way banner along with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Berg. Putnam Adult published “Wilson” to strong reviews last week. The critical acclaim was no surprise, given that author Berg won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1998 biography of Charles Lindbergh. Wilson was voted President in 1912 after running as a third-party candidate with a progressive agenda. He was reelected in.
- 9/17/2013
- The Wrap
Leonardo DiCaprio is set to both produce and headline a Warner Bros. biopic focusing on the life of President Woodrow Wilson, says a story at The Hollywood Reporter . Serving as source material is Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg's recent biography, Wilson , officially described as follows: One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson--the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President. In addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer...
- 9/16/2013
- Comingsoon.net
If you’ve never partaken of one of The American Experience’s profiles on the presidents of the United States, then you’re missing out on some very in-depth examinations of powerful men rising from humble beginnings. We reviewed the entry on Bill Clinton a few months back, and to be honest at the time we didn’t realize it was a part of a much longer series. It turns out The American Experience has chronicled the trials and tribulations of many Us presidents and now they’ve assembled them in a 17-disc set that spans the careers of Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
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- 8/27/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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