Although the name Ballet Shoes might conjure up visions of pastel pink sweetness, there’s nothing overly sugary about the National Theatre’s gorgeous, gutsy family Christmas show. “This isn’t a school, it’s a cult,” says bolshy Pauline as she and her sisters begin their dramatic training at an institution presided over by the exacting Russian ballet teacher Madame Fidolia. We get …
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Among the more anticipated world premieres at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is an adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” which marks the filmmaking debut of author Durga Chew-Bose. Chew-Bose, who directed and wrote the screenplay for “Bonjour Tristesse,” has also been tapped to receive one of the festival’s filmmaker tribute awards at a fundraising gala on …
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Leonardo DiCaprio and veteran filmmaker Martin Scorsese have started developing their seventh feature project. The actor-filmmaker pair, who are already working on their sixth movie "Killers of the Flower Moon", are attached with the adaptation of the non-fiction book “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder”, reported Variety. The project will be directed by Scorsese and is set …