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Filmmaker Emerald Fennell set to direct feature film based on Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'
5 months, 1 week ago

Filmmaker Emerald Fennell set to direct feature film based on Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'

India TV News  

Filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to direct the feature film adaptation of Emily Bronte's 1847 novel "Wuthering Heights". Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel that follows the antihero Heathcliff, as he gets revenge on the people who kept him away from his love Cathy Earnshaw. For her 2020 directorial debut "Promising Young Woman", Fennell earned an Oscar for …

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Movie Review: Emerald Fennell chronicles a promising young man in audacious, shock-filled ‘Saltburn’
1 year, 1 month ago

Movie Review: Emerald Fennell chronicles a promising young man in audacious, shock-filled ‘Saltburn’

Associated Press  

Two years ago Emerald Fennell stood on the Oscars stage hoisting her writing trophy for “Promising Young Woman,” a scathing look at rape culture and a balancing act of wit, style, shock value, audacity, great acting and pitch-black humor — plus a timely #MeToo message. Jacob Elordi in a scene from “Saltburn.” The family includes Felix’s beautiful but unstable sister, …

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The 2024 Oscars BuzzMeter predicts the nominees — who and what makes the inner circle?
1 year, 1 month ago

The 2024 Oscars BuzzMeter predicts the nominees — who and what makes the inner circle?

LA Times  

Four of the top contenders for Oscar nominations in the category of lead actor, according to the BuzzMeter : Paul Giamatti ; Jeffrey Wright ; Cillian Murphy ; Andrew Scott. “He’s a revelation.” Claudia Puig says, “It seems probable that it will be a contest between Robert De Niro and twice-nominated Ryan Gosling as the inimitably hilarious Ken in the …

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Emerald Fennell has already conquered Hollywood. Now she wants to follow her ‘crushes’
1 year, 1 month ago

Emerald Fennell has already conquered Hollywood. Now she wants to follow her ‘crushes’

LA Times  

Speaking backstage at London’s Barbican Centre before an appearance, Emerald Fennell, the writer and director of 2020’s “Promising Young Woman” and now, the darkly comedic “Saltburn,” is leaning into her reputation. But it was “Promising Young Woman,” released at the height of the #MeToo era, that fully unleashed Fennell’s filmmaking instincts. But I like to see that stuff because it’s …

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Saltburn is 'deliriously enjoyable'
1 year, 2 months ago

Saltburn is 'deliriously enjoyable'

BBC  

Saltburn film review: 'Lurid' comedy skewers Britain's super-rich MGM Amazon Studios Emerald Fennell, the director of Promising Young Woman is back with a 'stickily sensual' black comedy full of one-liners and stand-out performances from Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike. Yes, Saltburn is the story of an envious outsider learning how the one per cent live, very much in the mould …

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Emerald Fennell on ‘Saltburn,’ class and Barry Keoghan: Fall Movie Preview
1 year, 3 months ago

Emerald Fennell on ‘Saltburn,’ class and Barry Keoghan: Fall Movie Preview

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Countless English protagonists have for decades been making their way to grand country estates where their lives are irrevocably changed. That was her as Midge, the pregnant doll, in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.” Like that film, “Saltburn,” which Fennell wrote and directs, includes Margot Robbie as a producer. Things get steamy, weird and dark as Fennell toys with …

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How 'Jennifer's Body' Bewitched 2 Queer Writers
2 years, 5 months ago

How 'Jennifer's Body' Bewitched 2 Queer Writers

Huff Post  

This is part of This Made Me, a HuffPost series paying tribute to the formative pop culture in our lives. “Jennifer’s Body,” which I first watched at 16, follows the codependent friendship between Needy, a mousy sidekick played by Amanda Seyfried, and her seductive best friend, Jennifer, played by Megan Fox. If I could condense all the reasons I love …

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Netflix's You and how 'nice guys' became the real villains
3 years, 2 months ago

Netflix's You and how 'nice guys' became the real villains

BBC  

Netflix's You and how 'nice guys' became the real villains Netflix Now returning for a third series, the hit show is part of a wave of film and TV subverting preconceptions about the men who commit violence, writes Sophie Monks Kaufman. A cultural reckoning Other recent works reckoning with toxic "nice guys'' include Emerald Fennell's Oscar-winning, zeitgeist-capturing film Promising Young …

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Connie Britton: ‘If you think you’re the one white person who can do no wrong, you’re not’
3 years, 4 months ago

Connie Britton: ‘If you think you’re the one white person who can do no wrong, you’re not’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “‘We have to do right by the women in the show.’” Before you could say …

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Promising Young Woman, The Great Indian Kitchen are both films with simmering feminism and everyday oppression
3 years, 4 months ago

Promising Young Woman, The Great Indian Kitchen are both films with simmering feminism and everyday oppression

Firstpost  

Things are not going to change in the space of one film. In Promising Young Woman, Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Thomas is a once-promising medical student who now works as a coffee-shop employee. In the opening scene of writer-director Jeo Baby’s The Great Indian Kitchen, a group of women dance joyously in a studio while an anonymous woman is preparing a smorgasbord …

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Carey Mulligan on Promising Young Woman: 'Expectations of beauty and perfection on screen has gotten out of control'
3 years, 4 months ago

Carey Mulligan on Promising Young Woman: 'Expectations of beauty and perfection on screen has gotten out of control'

Firstpost  

“It’s so embedded in our culture that so many people don’t really understand what’s wrong about this still,” Carey Mulligan says. “I wanted to have a film that shows them, that’s sneaking it in the guise of something fun.” Not every Carey Mulligan movie begins with a Charli XCX song, but maybe more of them should. Just look at seminal …

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‘I wanted to use violence in excess’: How women filmmakers reclaimed the revenge movie
3 years, 7 months ago

‘I wanted to use violence in excess’: How women filmmakers reclaimed the revenge movie

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There’s almost no dialogue in the film so every visual element …

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Oscars 2021: Best dressed stars on the red carpet
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Best dressed stars on the red carpet

The Independent  

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Oscars Latest: Anthony Hopkins wins best actor in a surprise
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars Latest: Anthony Hopkins wins best actor in a surprise

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on the Oscars : 8:20 p.m. Anthony Hopkins has won his first Oscar since he was victorious for playing Hannibal Lecter. __ A PANDEMIC ACADEMY AWARDS — ‘Nomadland’ wins best picture at a social distanced Oscars — The list of final winners at a different Academy Awards — The Oscars bring back red carpet glam …

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Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell: ‘The experience of so many victims is that everyone wants you to let it go’
3 years, 7 months ago

Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell: ‘The experience of so many victims is that everyone wants you to let it go’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “And I don’t think that goes to the appearance of the actor or your personal …

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Oscars 2021 winners: Best Actress Frances McDormand HOWLS as Nomadland wins at 93rd Academy Awards
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 winners: Best Actress Frances McDormand HOWLS as Nomadland wins at 93rd Academy Awards

Daily Mail  

Nomadland triumphed as the drama earned Best Picture in addition to a historic win for Frances McDormand as Best Actress at perhaps the wokest Academy Awards ever - which was virtually mask free amid the COVID-19 pandemic - in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Interesting: The award show - which was celebrating its 93rd annual event - broke tradition as …

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Oscars red carpet 2021: Best dressed stars arrive at Academy Awards
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars red carpet 2021: Best dressed stars arrive at Academy Awards

Daily Mail  

Hollywood’s finest assembled for an Oscars red carpet unlike any other last night, as a host of A-List stars posed on a socially-distanced red carpet – without masks – but with no crowds and fewer cameras than ever before, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Return of the Oscars red carpet: Carey Mulligan, Margot Robbie, Reese Witherspoon and Zendaya lead the …

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Oscars 2021 predictions: Who will take home top honours at 93rd Academy Awards?
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 predictions: Who will take home top honours at 93rd Academy Awards?

Firstpost  

The New York Times expert has been closely tracking the various awards races all this season. BEST PICTURE The Father Judas and the Black Messiah Mank Minari ✓ Nomadland Promising Young Woman Sound of Metal The Trial of the Chicago 7 Nomadland has won nearly every major award this season, including top honours from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild …

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Oscars 2021: Fewer stars, no audience and no Zoom appearances amid Covid-19 restrictions
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Fewer stars, no audience and no Zoom appearances amid Covid-19 restrictions

Daily Mail  

An Oscars unlike any before will get underway Sunday night with a telecast retooled for the pandemic. Covid-19 precautions: The Oscars are adapting to the coronavirus pandemic by having only 170 attendees at LA's Union Station this year, while Zoom appearances are banned; Union Station seen being prepared for the ceremony on Friday In contrast with the largely virtual Golden …

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Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners
3 years, 7 months ago

Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners

LA Times  

Chloé Zhao and “Nomadland” were the big winners at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning best picture, director and lead actress honors in a ceremony that also presented some historic firsts. And the 2021 Academy Award winners are: Lead actor Anthony Hopkins, “The Father” | WINNER Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal” Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Gary Oldman, “Mank” Steven …

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ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Lockdown's given us all multicolour hair to dye for
3 years, 7 months ago

ALEXANDRA SHULMAN'S NOTEBOOK: Lockdown's given us all multicolour hair to dye for

Daily Mail  

Finally, after all the pre-release noise, Emerald Fennell's film Promising Young Woman is available in this country, writes ALEXANDRA SHULMAN Finally, after all the pre-release noise, Emerald Fennell's film Promising Young Woman is available in this country. Nominated for Best Picture at tonight's Oscars, it features Carey Mulligan kitted out in cartoon porn-star style topped off by a wig in …

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Oscars 2021: Academy Awards amid Covid pandemic may be wokest ever, says Alison Boshoff
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Academy Awards amid Covid pandemic may be wokest ever, says Alison Boshoff

Daily Mail  

The 93rd Academy Awards tomorrow night — with crowds of A-listers making their way up the red carpet in the late afternoon Los Angeles sunshine and then celebrating late into the night at the iconic Vanity Fair party — would usually be expected to provide a much-needed shot of glamour for the world. Factor in a frazzling time-zone difference — …

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In possible Oscar preview, ‘Nomadland’ wins at Spirit Awards
3 years, 8 months ago

In possible Oscar preview, ‘Nomadland’ wins at Spirit Awards

Associated Press  

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” won best feature at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards in a ceremony that turned the annual beach soiree into a virtual, mostly pre-taped event, and, possibly, an Oscar preview. Yuh-Jung Youn, the Academy Awards favorite, won best supporting female actor for “Minari.” Paul Raci, the 72-year-old veteran working actor who’s soaked up his moment in the sun, …

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Emerald Fennell leads the British glamour at the virtual Independent Spirit Awards
3 years, 8 months ago

Emerald Fennell leads the British glamour at the virtual Independent Spirit Awards

Daily Mail  

Emerald Fennell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Carey Mulligan were among the British stars leading the glamour at the virtual 36th Independent Spirit Awards on Thursday evening. Emerald Fennell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Carey Mulligan were among the British stars leading the glamour at the virtual 36th Independent Spirit Awards on Thursday evening The best in independent film and television were recognised during …

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