A muse, a mother, a fashionista, an actor, a rock ‘n’ roll icon — it’s hard to describe exactly why Anita Pallenberg remains such a compelling figure more than a half-century after the captivating blonde sang backing vocals on the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” and starred in movies like “Performance” and “Barbarella.”
The new documentary “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg” delves into both the beautiful and tragic moments of her eventful life with the help of a treasure trove of home movies and interviews, as well as an unpublished memoir penned by Pallenberg and narrated by Scarlett Johansson. The footage is coupled with interviews of the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, with whom she had a significant relationship, their children Marlon and Angela Richards, director Volker Schlondorff, who cast her in some of his films, and her former friends and associates.
“I’ve been called a witch,...
The new documentary “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg” delves into both the beautiful and tragic moments of her eventful life with the help of a treasure trove of home movies and interviews, as well as an unpublished memoir penned by Pallenberg and narrated by Scarlett Johansson. The footage is coupled with interviews of the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, with whom she had a significant relationship, their children Marlon and Angela Richards, director Volker Schlondorff, who cast her in some of his films, and her former friends and associates.
“I’ve been called a witch,...
- 5/3/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
General Hospital spoilers and rumors tease there will be shock in Port Charles as two new Cassadines emerge-danger looms with their arrival! With Spencer Cassadine (Nicholas Alexander Chavez) apparently still presumed dead, the new Cassadine claiming to be the rightful heir for the first time in Cassadine history is a female!
General Hospital Spoilers – New Cassadines-Why Does No One Know Of Them?
These are distant Cassadine relatives apparently, because neither Valentin Cassadine, (James Patrick Stuart) Alexis Davis, (Nancy Lee Grahn) or Nikolas Cassadine (Adam Huss) have ever heard of them.
The older generation now all have died, and Valentin never found any reference to the new ones in the books he found on Cassadine Island after Helena Cassadine’s (Constance Towers) death.
The teenage girl arrives first with an elderly gentleman, her guardian who once served the Cassadine monarchy.
But the teenage girl isn’t the only contender for the Cassadine estate,...
General Hospital Spoilers – New Cassadines-Why Does No One Know Of Them?
These are distant Cassadine relatives apparently, because neither Valentin Cassadine, (James Patrick Stuart) Alexis Davis, (Nancy Lee Grahn) or Nikolas Cassadine (Adam Huss) have ever heard of them.
The older generation now all have died, and Valentin never found any reference to the new ones in the books he found on Cassadine Island after Helena Cassadine’s (Constance Towers) death.
The teenage girl arrives first with an elderly gentleman, her guardian who once served the Cassadine monarchy.
But the teenage girl isn’t the only contender for the Cassadine estate,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Rita Ryan
- Celebrating The Soaps
“Dom (Home in Russian),” “Quir” and “Iceman” look like potential standouts at Swiss Films Previews, the only spread of national movies at Switzerland’s Visions du Réel, the country’s leading doc festival.
Presented via excerpts at a two-hour showcase on Wednesday, three further titles – “Kalari – the Martial Art of Female Power,” “The Boy from the River Drina” and “Spheres” – underscored the strength in depth of documentary filmmaking in Switzerland and at least in this year’s Previews, a leitmotif. In an era of adverse circumstance, the doc features highlight figures who rebel, whether against Russia’s war on the Ukraine (“Dom”), climate change (“Iceman”), homophobia in Palermo, gender violence (“Kalari”), the Srebrenica massacre (“Boy”) or, in the case of Daniel Zimmermann, director of “Spheres,” stock narrative.
The films’ protagonists rebel, moreover, with courage, good humor, imagination, and above all resilience. “Quir,” for example, captures footage of gay couple Massimo Milani...
Presented via excerpts at a two-hour showcase on Wednesday, three further titles – “Kalari – the Martial Art of Female Power,” “The Boy from the River Drina” and “Spheres” – underscored the strength in depth of documentary filmmaking in Switzerland and at least in this year’s Previews, a leitmotif. In an era of adverse circumstance, the doc features highlight figures who rebel, whether against Russia’s war on the Ukraine (“Dom”), climate change (“Iceman”), homophobia in Palermo, gender violence (“Kalari”), the Srebrenica massacre (“Boy”) or, in the case of Daniel Zimmermann, director of “Spheres,” stock narrative.
The films’ protagonists rebel, moreover, with courage, good humor, imagination, and above all resilience. “Quir,” for example, captures footage of gay couple Massimo Milani...
- 4/17/2024
- by John Hopewell and Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
David Barrington Holt, longtime manager of the Jim Henson Company’s Creature Shop in L.A., died March 13 of complications from cancer, his son, Chris Holt, announced. He was 78.
After receiving a BA in industry design with honors from London’s University of the Arts in 1963, Holt began his illustrious 30-year career as a creator, quickly building his reputation as a skilled photographer, designer, engineer and model maker.
In 1986, Holt began collaborating with the Jim Henson Company, a partnership that would span over two decades. He started in the U.K. as deputy supervisor of the Creature Shop before being moved up to creative supervisor. In 1993, he moved across the world to Los Angeles to assist in starting the Henson Company’s first creature shop on the West Coast in preparation to produce the characters for Disney’s 1991 jurassic sitcom “Dinosaurs.” At the Creature Factory, Holt oversaw creative oversight of shop operations,...
After receiving a BA in industry design with honors from London’s University of the Arts in 1963, Holt began his illustrious 30-year career as a creator, quickly building his reputation as a skilled photographer, designer, engineer and model maker.
In 1986, Holt began collaborating with the Jim Henson Company, a partnership that would span over two decades. He started in the U.K. as deputy supervisor of the Creature Shop before being moved up to creative supervisor. In 1993, he moved across the world to Los Angeles to assist in starting the Henson Company’s first creature shop on the West Coast in preparation to produce the characters for Disney’s 1991 jurassic sitcom “Dinosaurs.” At the Creature Factory, Holt oversaw creative oversight of shop operations,...
- 4/6/2024
- by Jack Dunn
- Variety Film + TV
David Barrington Holt, who established and ran the first Creature Shop on the West Coast for The Jim Henson Company during his two-plus decades with the firm, has died. He was 78.
Holt died March 13 of complications from cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his son, Chris Holt, announced.
Holt started out with the Henson Co. in 1986 as deputy supervisor of its Creature Shop in the U.K. and was promoted to creative supervisor. He moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to set up a Creature Shop and produce the 1991-94 Disney-abc series Dinosaurs.
In L.A., Holt had creative oversight of shop operations including puppetry, animatronics, effects, performers, administrative matters and R&d, with developments in the field of real-time 3D CG animation.
He was instrumental in the creation of the Henson Performance Control System, which allowed a single performer to operate complex, computer-driven puppets in the same manner as though they were physical.
Holt died March 13 of complications from cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his son, Chris Holt, announced.
Holt started out with the Henson Co. in 1986 as deputy supervisor of its Creature Shop in the U.K. and was promoted to creative supervisor. He moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to set up a Creature Shop and produce the 1991-94 Disney-abc series Dinosaurs.
In L.A., Holt had creative oversight of shop operations including puppetry, animatronics, effects, performers, administrative matters and R&d, with developments in the field of real-time 3D CG animation.
He was instrumental in the creation of the Henson Performance Control System, which allowed a single performer to operate complex, computer-driven puppets in the same manner as though they were physical.
- 4/6/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tales of Babylon, an Indie dark crime comedy by Pelayo De Lario, is a testament to why I love cinema. Pelayo de Lario is not yet an established name in the industry, but I have a feeling that it’s going to happen very soon. This movie is also a reason why I like British humor. Well, I’m not going to lie, British humor can be pretty disturbing and even very contextual, but it’s also quite eccentric and deadpan nonetheless. Perhaps the most accurate word to describe this form of humor would be ‘cheeky.’ Coming back to this movie, one can’t help but draw similarities between Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, Taratino’s Pulp Fiction, and Pelayo De Lario’s Tales of Babylon. As a matter of fact, one of the characters quite openly breaks the fourth wall by referring to Pulp Fiction during...
- 2/13/2024
- by Shrey Ashley Philip
- Film Fugitives
Looking back on the horror genre throughout time, there’s always been a period where certain sub-genres have been most prominent. The 70s and 80s were all about the slasher flicks, with masked villains marauding around sleepy suburbs or high school kids having their heads chopped off, while remakes such as House of Wax and Ring dominated the early noughties. There’s another sub-genre, however, that had its roots in splatter films such as Peter Jackson’s superbly gross Bad Taste and Braindead, plus ‘video nasties’ like 1978’s I Spit on Your Grave. That’s right folk, we’re talking about ‘Torture Porn’, an exploitation horror subgenre known for its nasty, gory, and violent films. Do a quick Google search for the sub-genre, preferably with safe-search activated if you’re at work or Uni, just in case, and you’ll more than likely find several Top 10 lists of the best...
- 1/10/2024
- by Adam Walton
- JoBlo.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including All Rise, The Voice, Squid Game: The Challenge and Bass Reeves!
1 | Was there a more random on-screen death this year than Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo getting impaled shortly after making his grand entrance in Peacock’s Please Don’t Destroy movie? (And yes, that is a goateed Conan O’Brien looking on in horror!)
More from TVLineSquid Game: The Challenge Players Mull Lawsuit After Allegedly Suffering 'Hypothermia and Nerve Damage'Does Squid Game: The Challenge...
1 | Was there a more random on-screen death this year than Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo getting impaled shortly after making his grand entrance in Peacock’s Please Don’t Destroy movie? (And yes, that is a goateed Conan O’Brien looking on in horror!)
More from TVLineSquid Game: The Challenge Players Mull Lawsuit After Allegedly Suffering 'Hypothermia and Nerve Damage'Does Squid Game: The Challenge...
- 11/24/2023
- by Vlada Gelman, Matt Webb Mitovich, Andy Swift, Kimberly Roots, Ryan Schwartz, Rebecca Iannucci, Nick Caruso and Charlie Mason
- TVLine.com
Ralph Fiennes is spending time with filmmaker Svetlana Zill.
The 60-year-old two-time Oscar-nominated actor was seen going on a stroll around the West Village neighborhood with Svetlana on Saturday (September 30) in New York City.
Ralph is best known for his work in movies like Schindler’s List, The English Patient, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Menu, and for playing Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
Svetlana directed the rock ‘n’ roll documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, which was released this year.
Ralph was previously married to actress Alex Kingston, but they divorced in 1997. He later was with actress Francesca Annis for 11 years. He was most recently linked to British society figure Amelia Richards.
Browse through the gallery for 10+ photos of Ralph Fiennes and Svetlana Zill on their stroll…...
The 60-year-old two-time Oscar-nominated actor was seen going on a stroll around the West Village neighborhood with Svetlana on Saturday (September 30) in New York City.
Ralph is best known for his work in movies like Schindler’s List, The English Patient, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Menu, and for playing Voldemort in the Harry Potter series.
Svetlana directed the rock ‘n’ roll documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, which was released this year.
Ralph was previously married to actress Alex Kingston, but they divorced in 1997. He later was with actress Francesca Annis for 11 years. He was most recently linked to British society figure Amelia Richards.
Browse through the gallery for 10+ photos of Ralph Fiennes and Svetlana Zill on their stroll…...
- 10/3/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Trap House is a horror thriller film directed by Nicholas Humphries with a screenplay by Jordan Robinson. The thriller follows a detective trapped in a house equipped with all kinds of sadistic gadgets to maim and dismember uninvited guests. So, if you loved Trap House here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Escape Room (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Sony Pictures
Synopsis: An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive.
Hostel (Hulu Add-On & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Presented by Quentin Tarantino...
Escape Room (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Sony Pictures
Synopsis: An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive.
Hostel (Hulu Add-On & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lionsgate Films
Synopsis: Presented by Quentin Tarantino...
- 9/6/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
The idea for “My Mother, the Monster,” which won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award at Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Co-Production Market Thursday, came to Hungarian director Olivér Rudolf three years ago after seeing a picture of a woman walking in a dark forest in the middle of the night and wearing a scary monster mask.
“There was a tension between this harsh mask and the vulnerability of the person wearing it, so I wanted to find out who was behind that mask and examine more the mother [underneath it],” he says.
Rudolf’s debut feature comes on the heels of his graduation film “Fonica M-120,” which played in Cannes’ Cinéfondation in 2020. It tells the story of Éva, a mother in her forties who, disappointed with her life and tired of her own insignificance, finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask that eventually liberates her.
Besides looking into the age-old subject of motherhood,...
“There was a tension between this harsh mask and the vulnerability of the person wearing it, so I wanted to find out who was behind that mask and examine more the mother [underneath it],” he says.
Rudolf’s debut feature comes on the heels of his graduation film “Fonica M-120,” which played in Cannes’ Cinéfondation in 2020. It tells the story of Éva, a mother in her forties who, disappointed with her life and tired of her own insignificance, finds a new identity behind a scary monster mask that eventually liberates her.
Besides looking into the age-old subject of motherhood,...
- 8/18/2023
- by Tara Karajica
- Variety Film + TV
The podcast-to-screen pipeline is going strong, thanks in part to recent adaptations that have garnered major awards recognition and viewer interest. As part of The Hollywood Reporter’s Rights Available feature, which has highlighted books with industry appeal, we have compiled a collection of podcasts that are ripe for film or TV adaptation. The collection below are podcasts featured in the print magazine that were available for pickup at the time of publication.
Svetlana! Svetlana!
By Dan Kitrosser • Produced by iHeartMedia and The Documentary Group • Agency WME and UTA
Leaning into the chaotic and absurd, this series tells the story of Joseph Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who defected to the U.S. in 1967 during the Cold War. Her life in the West became entangled with a cult-like commune in the Arizona desert run by Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife, Olgivanna; her marriage to a Wright protégé; and...
Svetlana! Svetlana!
By Dan Kitrosser • Produced by iHeartMedia and The Documentary Group • Agency WME and UTA
Leaning into the chaotic and absurd, this series tells the story of Joseph Stalin’s only daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, who defected to the U.S. in 1967 during the Cold War. Her life in the West became entangled with a cult-like commune in the Arizona desert run by Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife, Olgivanna; her marriage to a Wright protégé; and...
- 4/13/2023
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The top Dox:Award at Cph:dox, the Copenhagen documentary festival, has gone to “Motherland” by Ukrainian-Belarussian director Alexander Mihalkovich (“My Granny From Mars”) and Ukrainian director Hanna Badziaka.
Described by Variety as “an ominous portrait of the oppressive culture of cruelty in post-Soviet Belarus,” the film follows Svetlana, whose son died during his military service as the result of violent abuse, in her quest to expose and prosecute those responsible for his death.
Dedicating the award to “all the Ukrainians fighting Russian aggression and to Belarussian political prisoners,” the directing duo thanked all those who helped them make the film, in particular the protagonists, “who were brave to stand in front of the camera and patient with us as it was a long journey of four years.”
Handing out the prize, the jury said: “This was such a cinematic and meaningful film that took its time unfolding the complexity of living...
Described by Variety as “an ominous portrait of the oppressive culture of cruelty in post-Soviet Belarus,” the film follows Svetlana, whose son died during his military service as the result of violent abuse, in her quest to expose and prosecute those responsible for his death.
Dedicating the award to “all the Ukrainians fighting Russian aggression and to Belarussian political prisoners,” the directing duo thanked all those who helped them make the film, in particular the protagonists, “who were brave to stand in front of the camera and patient with us as it was a long journey of four years.”
Handing out the prize, the jury said: “This was such a cinematic and meaningful film that took its time unfolding the complexity of living...
- 3/24/2023
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
In the motherland of Belarus, it’s the “grandfathers” who are the problem. That’s the name given to older members of the military who, this documentary suggests, are pretty much free to bully and torture young conscripts with impunity. The practice - which is sometimes deadly - is so widespread it even has a name,“dedovshchina”, which means, “the reign of the grandads”.
Filmmakers Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka set the implications of this in a wider context in this bleak documentary, infused with the chill of winter. They interweave the story of youngster Nikita, who is on the cusp of his compulsory national service with that of Svetlana, who is seeking justice for her son Sasha, who was found hanged on a military base during his training.
On a day celebrating the military and graduating cadets - a hangover from the Soviet era, which still permeates the country - the lyrics.
Filmmakers Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka set the implications of this in a wider context in this bleak documentary, infused with the chill of winter. They interweave the story of youngster Nikita, who is on the cusp of his compulsory national service with that of Svetlana, who is seeking justice for her son Sasha, who was found hanged on a military base during his training.
On a day celebrating the military and graduating cadets - a hangover from the Soviet era, which still permeates the country - the lyrics.
- 3/20/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Motherland’ Review: An Ominous Portrait of the Oppressive Culture of Cruelty in Post-Soviet Belarus
The very first words in the Belarusian national anthem, which is being sung devoutly at an army graduation ceremony as “Motherland” begins, are “We Belarusians are peaceful people.” It does not take long for the irony to bite. Grave skies heavy with snow frame the stark beauty of Siarhiej Kanaplianik’s camerawork, as Hanna Badziaka and Alexander Mihalkovich’s handsome, bitter film outlines something close to the inverse of that ideal: a culture of brutality, bullying and complicity that is fostered in the Belarusian military, and then seeps like the cold into the very bones of civilian society.
Dedovshchina, as some terse titles explain, translates to the benign-sounding “rule of Grandads.” But it describes a systematic code of psychological and physical abuse visited on new conscripts by their longer-serving colleagues, that the Belarusian military establishment, like that of other former Soviet countries, inherited from the Russian army. Most of the time,...
Dedovshchina, as some terse titles explain, translates to the benign-sounding “rule of Grandads.” But it describes a systematic code of psychological and physical abuse visited on new conscripts by their longer-serving colleagues, that the Belarusian military establishment, like that of other former Soviet countries, inherited from the Russian army. Most of the time,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Years after the word “kompromat” had its moment in the popular imagination during a certain Special Counsel investigation, Jérôme Salle’s thriller of the same name arrives as a nerve-racking reminder of just how life-ruining being targeted by the Russian government might actually be. Salle, who co-wrote the film with Caryl Férey, opens the proceedings with a helpful definition for the uninitiated — “documents used to destroy someone’s reputation” — as well as important context: “Kompromat” is based on a true story, though the principals are unnamed. The result is cold but competent, which, whether intentional or not, is ultimately apropos of the subject matter.
Mathieu (Gilles Lellouche), a French arts ambassador working in Siberia, inadvertently runs afoul of his host country’s government and is raided by the Fsb (the modern-day Kgb) as a result. His actual “crime” would appear to be dancing with the wrong woman (Joanna Kulig of...
Mathieu (Gilles Lellouche), a French arts ambassador working in Siberia, inadvertently runs afoul of his host country’s government and is raided by the Fsb (the modern-day Kgb) as a result. His actual “crime” would appear to be dancing with the wrong woman (Joanna Kulig of...
- 1/27/2023
- by Michael Nordine
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Maria Mashkova (McMafia) and Dimiter Marinov (Green Book) have joined the upcoming fourth season of Apple TV+’s space drama series For All Mankind in key recurring roles.
Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the Ussr beats the US to the moon.
The third season shifted the action to the early ’90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars. The Red Planet became the new front in the Space Race not only for the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but also an unexpected new entrant with a lot to prove and even more at stake.
Created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. The series presents an aspirational world where NASA astronauts, engineers and their families find themselves in the center of extraordinary events seen through the prism of an alternate history timeline — a world in which the Ussr beats the US to the moon.
The third season shifted the action to the early ’90s with a race to a new planetary frontier: Mars. The Red Planet became the new front in the Space Race not only for the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but also an unexpected new entrant with a lot to prove and even more at stake.
- 10/11/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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