Robin Wright and Agnes Varda will be honored at the Marrakech Film Festival, with both women set to receive the fest's Gold Star career honor.
Wright will play the president on Netflix's final season of House of Cards, which drops Nov. 6. The Marrakech award will recognize her film and television work, including The Princess Bride and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Organizers also cited her efforts for charitable organizations in the Congo.
“I’m thrilled to be visiting the country of Morocco and grateful to be given this opportunity to experience the Moroccan culture,” the actress ...
Wright will play the president on Netflix's final season of House of Cards, which drops Nov. 6. The Marrakech award will recognize her film and television work, including The Princess Bride and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Organizers also cited her efforts for charitable organizations in the Congo.
“I’m thrilled to be visiting the country of Morocco and grateful to be given this opportunity to experience the Moroccan culture,” the actress ...
- 10/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robin Wright and Agnes Varda will be honored at the Marrakech Film Festival, with both women set to receive the fest's Gold Star career honor.
Wright will play the president on Netflix's final season of House of Cards, which drops Nov. 6. The Marrakech award will recognize her film and television work, including The Princess Bride and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Organizers also cited her efforts for charitable organizations in the Congo.
“I’m thrilled to be visiting the country of Morocco and grateful to be given this opportunity to experience the Moroccan culture,” the actress ...
Wright will play the president on Netflix's final season of House of Cards, which drops Nov. 6. The Marrakech award will recognize her film and television work, including The Princess Bride and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Organizers also cited her efforts for charitable organizations in the Congo.
“I’m thrilled to be visiting the country of Morocco and grateful to be given this opportunity to experience the Moroccan culture,” the actress ...
- 10/15/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has wrapped its second edition, with Singaporean director Yeo Slew Hua’s noir title “A Land Imagined” winning the Golden Star, the fest’s top prize, awarded by a jury headed by Oscar-winning Croatian producer Cedomir Kolar (“No Man’s Land”).
The genre pic, shot mostly at night, is about a jaded Singapore cop investigating the disappearance of a Chinese construction worker. It previously won the Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard in August. The El Gouna award carries $50,000 in prize money, to be divided equally between the director and the main producer, Fran Borgia, and his Akanga Film Asia shingle.
Egyptian director A.B. Shawky’s unconventional road movie “Yomeddine” won Best Arab Narrative Feature award and split honors for the fest’s Cinema for Humanity audience prize with “Another Day of Life,” an animation-documentary hybrid about the experiences of war journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in 1970s Angola.
The genre pic, shot mostly at night, is about a jaded Singapore cop investigating the disappearance of a Chinese construction worker. It previously won the Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard in August. The El Gouna award carries $50,000 in prize money, to be divided equally between the director and the main producer, Fran Borgia, and his Akanga Film Asia shingle.
Egyptian director A.B. Shawky’s unconventional road movie “Yomeddine” won Best Arab Narrative Feature award and split honors for the fest’s Cinema for Humanity audience prize with “Another Day of Life,” an animation-documentary hybrid about the experiences of war journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in 1970s Angola.
- 10/1/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Rich Reynolds and know exactly that heart-pounding moment when the blue lights flash behind them and are forced to pull over. They also know the questions: Where are you going? Is this your car? And that’s exactly why both leant their voices for A.J. Ali’s documentary “Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. is the Answer.” The film will be part of the Maryland International Film Festival-Hagerstown’s lineup followed by a Q&A session lead by Kerry Cahill, “The Walking Dead” actress and Gold Star family member. It will be shown at 3:45 p.m. April 28, at The Maryland Theatre in downtown Hagerstown. Reynolds grew
‘Walking While Black’ Starts Conversation with Police, Community...
‘Walking While Black’ Starts Conversation with Police, Community...
- 4/27/2018
- by Crystal Schelle
- TVovermind.com
A clearly personal effort for its director/screenwriter/star, Victoria Negri's debut feature is notable for the powerful supporting turn by the late Robert Vaughn in his final screen appearance. Delivering a mostly silent performance as the stroke-afflicted father of Negri's central character, the veteran actor embodies the anguish of a once vital man reduced to pointing at words as his sole means of communication.
The semi-autobiographical Gold Star features Negri as Vicki, a twentysomething woman who once aspired to a classical music career but now makes her living, such as it is, working part-time at a health club. Her life changes...
The semi-autobiographical Gold Star features Negri as Vicki, a twentysomething woman who once aspired to a classical music career but now makes her living, such as it is, working part-time at a health club. Her life changes...
- 11/9/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s been nearly a year since Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Robert Vaughn (Aka television’s very first Napoleon Solo) passed away, but his remarkable humanity and skill on the screen will soon be on full display in Victoria Negri’s upcoming “Gold Star.” Vaughn stars alongside Negri in the film in a family drama that’s partially inspired by the filmmaker and star’s own experiences with her family.
The film follows Negri as Vicki who, after dropping out of music school, “drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.” Catherine Curtin and Jacob Heimer co-star alongside Vaughn and Negri in the film.
The film follows Negri as Vicki who, after dropping out of music school, “drifts aimlessly between her family’s house in Connecticut and an itinerant existence in New York. When her father suffers a debilitating stroke, she has to become his primary caretaker. Vicki resists connecting with him, and making peace with herself, but finds a way forward thanks to a new friend and a life-changing event.” Catherine Curtin and Jacob Heimer co-star alongside Vaughn and Negri in the film.
- 10/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– The 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival (Svff), presented by Zions Bank, has announced its film line-up for the weekend of March 15 – 19. Now in its sixth year, Svff offers five days of 30 feature film screenings, including 5 world premieres and featuring 16 documentaries and 14 narrative features.
The festival will open with the World Premiere documentary “Blood Road” starring Sun Valley local Rebecca Rusch on March 15 and close with the documentary “Big Sonia” on March 19. Additional film highlights include “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman, “Custody” with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shalhoub, and “Dina,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance. The film slate can also be viewed here.
– Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival...
Lineup Announcements
– The 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival (Svff), presented by Zions Bank, has announced its film line-up for the weekend of March 15 – 19. Now in its sixth year, Svff offers five days of 30 feature film screenings, including 5 world premieres and featuring 16 documentaries and 14 narrative features.
The festival will open with the World Premiere documentary “Blood Road” starring Sun Valley local Rebecca Rusch on March 15 and close with the documentary “Big Sonia” on March 19. Additional film highlights include “The Hero,” starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter and Nick Offerman, “Custody” with Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Ellen Burstyn and Tony Shalhoub, and “Dina,” winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at Sundance. The film slate can also be viewed here.
– Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival...
- 2/23/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Stars from the entertainment world have paid tribute to the TV and film actor who died on Friday from leukaemia. He was 83.
Vaughn was best known for playing the spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s TV spy series The Man From Uncle. His co-star David McCallum, who played Illya Kuryakin in the series, told TVLine.com that he was “devastated”.
“Robert and I worked together for many years and losing him is like losing a part of me,” said McCallum. “My deepest sympathies go out to Linda and the Vaughn family.”
Director Edgar Wright was one of many from the entertainment world to take to Twitter.
“Rip Napoleon Solo!” he wrote. “The great Robert Vaughn was the coolest guy on TV when I was a kid. Superb in Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven & many more.”
Former 007 actor Roger Moore said, “Sorry to hear the news about Robert Vaughn.”
Actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry had this to say:...
Vaughn was best known for playing the spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s TV spy series The Man From Uncle. His co-star David McCallum, who played Illya Kuryakin in the series, told TVLine.com that he was “devastated”.
“Robert and I worked together for many years and losing him is like losing a part of me,” said McCallum. “My deepest sympathies go out to Linda and the Vaughn family.”
Director Edgar Wright was one of many from the entertainment world to take to Twitter.
“Rip Napoleon Solo!” he wrote. “The great Robert Vaughn was the coolest guy on TV when I was a kid. Superb in Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven & many more.”
Former 007 actor Roger Moore said, “Sorry to hear the news about Robert Vaughn.”
Actor, writer and comedian Stephen Fry had this to say:...
- 11/11/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
I know what Victoria Negri‘s debut feature, Gold Star, is about, even if the thing never quite finds the footing to fulfill its promise. It’s about a young woman trapped in a life she never thought she’d lead — a part-time fitness club employee who’s lost the nerve to follow her dreams of becoming an internationally renowned concert pianist — her existential struggle for identity, reconciling desire with a rebelliously nihilistic streak, and coping with the unavoidable reality her birth provided. When your father is older than your mother’s parents, dealing with his depleting health and death is inevitable. Facing his mortality will either jumpstart her ambition to stop squandering obvious potential or expose perseverance’s futility in a world driven by tragic uncertainties and fate’s unyielding calculations.
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
These are the issues bearing down on Vicki (Negri playing a fictionalized version of herself going through similar...
- 10/9/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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