Click here to read the full article. Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Ukrainian director Maryna Er Gorbach’s harrowing anti-war drama “Klondike,” a powerful and timely portrait of the horrors of warfare that the company will release in theaters and on digital platforms later this year. Submitted as Ukraine ’s official entry in the best international feature film race for the 95th Academy Awards, “Klondike” had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival , where it was the first Ukrainian feature ever selected for the World Dramatic Competition and took home directing honors for Er Gorbach. The film is also playing at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in the Special Screenings section. More from Variety 'The Accidental Getaway Driver' Review: Sluggish Fact-Based Crime Drama Squanders Its Cinematic Premise Stephen Curry on Watching His Documentary, 'Underrated,' for the First Time: 'It Was an Emotional Rollercoaster' 'Landscape … [Read more...] about Samuel Goldwyn Films Acquires U.S. Rights to Harrowing Ukrainian Anti-War Drama ‘Klondike’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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Review: In ‘The Absent One,’ a Killer Confesses, and an Inquiry Ensues
“The Absent One” is part of a trilogy of films in the “Department Q” series. Read the reviews for the other films, “The Keeper of Lost Causes” and “A Conspiracy of Faith.” “It’s as much about the cop as it is about the crime.” That old Hollywood saying — O.K., I just made it up, but it sounds right — explains why “ The Absent One ” is a sturdy mystery, and also why it’s not as involving as the preceding flick in this Danish series. That first film, “The Keeper of Lost Causes,” found Detective Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) reassigned to Department Q to handle cold cases. This laconic cop quietly suffered bureaucracy, a guilty conscience and a new partner, Assad (Fares Fares), as he barreled ahead to solve an intriguing crime. “The Absent One” finds Mr. Kaas as watchable as before, though a few well-intentioned attempts to lighten up his character — an orphaned cat is brought in, a speech about his motivations is given — are clumsily executed, and instead divert from … [Read more...] about Review: In ‘The Absent One,’ a Killer Confesses, and an Inquiry Ensues
Nashville Public Library: The House In The Wood
0 Arts & Entertainment Today's story is The House in the Wood, a German tale found in Andrew Lang's Pink Fairy Book. Press Release Desk , News Partner Posted Reply Press release from Nashville Public Library: August 18, 2021 This story can be found in Andrew Lang’s Pink Fairy Book . Hello, and welcome to Family Folktales from the Nashville Public Library. I’m Susan Poulter, a Librarian at the Main Library. Today’s story is The House in the Wood, a German tale found in Andrew Lang’s Pink Fairy Book. A poor woodcutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the borders of a great forest. One morning as he was going to his work, he said to his wife, 'Let our eldest daughter bring me my lunch into the wood; and so that she shall not lose her way, I will take a bag of millet with me, and sprinkle the seed on the path.' When the sun had risen high over the forest, the girl set out with a … [Read more...] about Nashville Public Library: The House In The Wood
Sexist Fox News Guest Whines About Women, Gays Serving in Military
A novel Omicron strain of the coronavirus has started to tear through the United States, but on Friday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson and right-wing radio pundit Jesse Kelly focused on scoffing at women selflessly serving in the United States military. The segment lifted off with Carlson taking a swing at remarks made by Christopher Grady, who was confirmed on Friday by the U.S. Senate to the post of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Fox News host played a clip from the hearing in which Grady expressed support for the idea of “understanding the ecosystem” pertaining to the role of the military’s “gender adviser.” Kelly, best known for making incendiary and sexist remarks on the network, then stepped up to the plate to go on ( yet again ) another sexist tirade. Carlson asked Kelly: “Do you think the key to remaining competitive with the Chinese military is more gender advisers?” “Oh, there’s no question, Tucker,” the C-list pundit snarked. “I … [Read more...] about Sexist Fox News Guest Whines About Women, Gays Serving in Military
FILM; Even in Independent Film, A Suit Is a Suit Is a Suit
See the article in its original context from January 31, 1999 Section Page Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. WHATEVER happened to Lizzie Borden? Claudia Weill? Joyce Chopra? Donna Deitch? Whatever happened to Julie Dash, Tamra Davis, Stacy Cochran, Leslie Harris, Kelly Reichardt? What all these women share is that each directed at least one -- and, in some cases, two or more -- provocative, critically acclaimed independent films, only to essentially disappear from the scene. With the exception of Ms. Davis, who went from the sexy neo-noir ''Guncrazy'' in 1992 to directing slobbering studio comedies like ''Billy Madison,'' most of these women have spent most of the last decade relegated to near obscurity, cable television or developmental limbo. Not one of these women has the sort of sustained filmmaking career enjoyed by their male counterparts, independent directors such as John … [Read more...] about FILM; Even in Independent Film, A Suit Is a Suit Is a Suit
China Court Sentences 3 to Death Over Attack at Railroad Station
HONG KONG — A court in southwest China on Friday sentenced three people to death and another to life in prison after finding them guilty of killing 31 people in a slashing rampage at a railroad station in early March, the official news media reported. The three men sentenced to death were convicted of organizing and leading a terrorist organization and of intentional homicide for the attack, although they were captured Feb. 27, two days before the assault on March 1. That evening in March, five other members of the group went to Kunming Railway Station and carried out the stabbings. Four of them were shot and killed on the spot. The survivor, a woman named Patigul Tohti, was captured and went on trial with the three men accused of being ringleaders. The assault was among the bloodiest attacks to galvanize an intense security drive against volatile discontent among ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang, the far western region where the defendants came from. The trial, heavily reported by the … [Read more...] about China Court Sentences 3 to Death Over Attack at Railroad Station