Bands already spend an inordinate amount of time touring, so when I ask the Chicago indie-rock trio Dehd why they decided to turn the writing sessions for their new album into a road trip, guitarist-singer Jason Balla admits, “It’s a bit masochistic.”
Nights spent shivering under piles of blankets in the dead-of-winter desert cold in Taos, New Mexico; an avalanche blocking the roads on the way to Bainbridge, Washington; a 15-seat Chevy Express traversing the mountains of Montana in a blizzard, Buck Meek’s “Candle” blasting on repeat, making...
Nights spent shivering under piles of blankets in the dead-of-winter desert cold in Taos, New Mexico; an avalanche blocking the roads on the way to Bainbridge, Washington; a 15-seat Chevy Express traversing the mountains of Montana in a blizzard, Buck Meek’s “Candle” blasting on repeat, making...
- 5/3/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Alisha Elenz and Kaleena Bliss were eliminated from “Top Chef” last week in “The Wright Way,” leaving 10 cheftestants on the main show (and two in “Last Chance Kitchen“) competing for a chance to win a feature in Food and Wine magazine; an appearance at the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado; and $250,000 in prize money: Manny Barella, Kevin D’Andrea, Danny Garcia, Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller, Laura Ozyilmaz, Charly Pierre, Amanda Turner, Rasika Venkatesa and Michelle Wallace.
So what happened to the chefs in season 21, episode five, “Supper Club”?
The morning after getting some tough love from host Kristen Kish and guest judge Buddha Lo about their not-so-great dishes in the Frank Lloyd Wright challenge, Laura reminisces about her closeness with her sister. It sounds like their parents had the girls fend for themselves when they were just teenagers. “I had to worry about paying the bills, to buy groceries,...
So what happened to the chefs in season 21, episode five, “Supper Club”?
The morning after getting some tough love from host Kristen Kish and guest judge Buddha Lo about their not-so-great dishes in the Frank Lloyd Wright challenge, Laura reminisces about her closeness with her sister. It sounds like their parents had the girls fend for themselves when they were just teenagers. “I had to worry about paying the bills, to buy groceries,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
“Top Chef” season 21, episode 4, “The Wright Way,” tasked the chefs with cooking meals inspired by the duality of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s architectural creations. Some were more successful than others, so guest judge Buddha Lo joined “Top Chef” host Kristen Kish for the latest episode of “The Dish with Kish” to show her what he would have made if he were in the contestants’ shoes. Watch the after show above.
Of course, Lo has been in the contestants’ shoes before. He won season 19 of the cooking competition. Then he was brought back for season 20 to face “Top Chef” champions and finalists from around the world, and he won that too. Known for his impeccable technical skill, he decided to make a dessert dish inspired by the round shapes of the Guggenheim Museum, which Wright designed. His “Neapolitan Guggenheim” was a chocolate filled tart with vanilla ice cream, strawberry sorbet and gold dusted tuiles,...
Of course, Lo has been in the contestants’ shoes before. He won season 19 of the cooking competition. Then he was brought back for season 20 to face “Top Chef” champions and finalists from around the world, and he won that too. Known for his impeccable technical skill, he decided to make a dessert dish inspired by the round shapes of the Guggenheim Museum, which Wright designed. His “Neapolitan Guggenheim” was a chocolate filled tart with vanilla ice cream, strawberry sorbet and gold dusted tuiles,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Another episode of “Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen,” another opportunity for Tom Colicchio to explain to eliminated contestants who the hell the new guy is: Soo Ahn, this season’s secret 16th cheftestant. This was a triple threat match, though, since this week’s “Top Chef” episode, “The Wright Way,” ended in the double elimination of Kaleena Bliss and Alisha Elenz. This would be a single elimination match, though, with just one chef of the three being sent home at the end. So what happened in “Plates Aplenty”? Watch the episode above, or read on to find out.
Alisha and Kaleena were eliminated as a team in a challenge inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, so “Lck” brought a little more architecture to the kitchen for this redemptive cookoff. The chefs were presented with a variety of dishes and vessels with which they would plate their meals. They would choose...
Alisha and Kaleena were eliminated as a team in a challenge inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, so “Lck” brought a little more architecture to the kitchen for this redemptive cookoff. The chefs were presented with a variety of dishes and vessels with which they would plate their meals. They would choose...
- 4/11/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Kenny Nguyen was ousted from “Top Chef” last week in “Take it Cheesy,” leaving 12 cheftestants on the main show (and one in “Last Chance Kitchen“) competing for a chance to win a feature in Food and Wine magazine; an appearance at the Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colorado; and $250,000 in prize money: Manny Barella, Kaleena Bliss, Kevin D’Andrea, Alisha Elenz, Danny Garcia, Dan Jacobs, Savannah Miller, Laura Ozyilmaz, Charly Pierre, Amanda Turner, Rasika Venkatesa and Michelle Wallace.
So what happened to the chefs in season 21, episode 4, “The Wright Way”?
Well, we’re coming in hot right from the beginning of the episode, with host Kristen Kish announcing that there will be no Quickfire Challenge this week “because we’re building to something big.”
See‘Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen’ recap: Smelly Limburger cheese is the star of the show in ‘The Big Stink’ [Watch] Elimination Challenge
“Tonight you’ll have...
So what happened to the chefs in season 21, episode 4, “The Wright Way”?
Well, we’re coming in hot right from the beginning of the episode, with host Kristen Kish announcing that there will be no Quickfire Challenge this week “because we’re building to something big.”
See‘Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen’ recap: Smelly Limburger cheese is the star of the show in ‘The Big Stink’ [Watch] Elimination Challenge
“Tonight you’ll have...
- 4/11/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
There are 12 chefs left in the main competition on “Top Chef” (and Soo Ahn still waiting to pounce in “Last Chance Kitchen”), and tonight in “The Wright Way” those chefs will split up into six teams of two to create dishes that will celebrate famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. So who will exit the competition in what last week’s preview of tonight’s episode indicated will be a double elimination?
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As of this writing the consensus of Gold Derby users is that Charly Pierre will be eliminated. He hasn’t really distinguished himself in the competition thus far, flying somewhat under the radar through the first few episodes. He has mostly been safe through challenges, but he also cooked bottom dishes on two occasions. In “Living the High Life,” he was in the bottom three for the Elimination Challenge...
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As of this writing the consensus of Gold Derby users is that Charly Pierre will be eliminated. He hasn’t really distinguished himself in the competition thus far, flying somewhat under the radar through the first few episodes. He has mostly been safe through challenges, but he also cooked bottom dishes on two occasions. In “Living the High Life,” he was in the bottom three for the Elimination Challenge...
- 4/10/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
When Oscar-winning producer Jonathan Sanger was first pitched “Cabrini,” the story of the first American saint, he wasn’t quite sure he was right for the project.
“I said, ‘I think it’s a great idea. I think you should make the movie. I don’t really think I’m the right guy to produce this,’” Sanger recalls of his early conversation with executive producer J. Eustace Wolfington. “I tend to like to make stories about real people, that most people who watch these stories can relate to. And I don’t know how to relate to a saint.”
Wolfington wouldn’t take no for an answer, telling Sanger he was missing the point: Francesca Cabrini may have become a saint, but her powerful story of overcoming adversity as both a woman and an Italian immigrant takes place far before her posthumous canonization in 1946.
“The more I learned about her,...
“I said, ‘I think it’s a great idea. I think you should make the movie. I don’t really think I’m the right guy to produce this,’” Sanger recalls of his early conversation with executive producer J. Eustace Wolfington. “I tend to like to make stories about real people, that most people who watch these stories can relate to. And I don’t know how to relate to a saint.”
Wolfington wouldn’t take no for an answer, telling Sanger he was missing the point: Francesca Cabrini may have become a saint, but her powerful story of overcoming adversity as both a woman and an Italian immigrant takes place far before her posthumous canonization in 1946.
“The more I learned about her,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
In his last dramatic and interminable years, Michael Cimino spent his days in solitude rewatching old movies in the Bel-Air mansion he bought during his heyday. On the rare occasions that he ventured out, he drove a Rolls-Royce he acquired while making The Deer Hunter in 1978, his chauffeur having left long ago, as well as his success.
Even in those final moments, he did everything he could to show a winning image to Hollywood, a town that had ostracized him ever since the colossal Heaven’s Gate fiasco that had bankrupted United Artists during the early ’80s. He had a perpetually ironic, scornful smile, but he was the first to know how pointless, even miserable, that act was. The only thing he had left from his triumphant years was some money, and he would show up at the hangouts of movers and shakers like the Polo Lounge, where he often ended...
Even in those final moments, he did everything he could to show a winning image to Hollywood, a town that had ostracized him ever since the colossal Heaven’s Gate fiasco that had bankrupted United Artists during the early ’80s. He had a perpetually ironic, scornful smile, but he was the first to know how pointless, even miserable, that act was. The only thing he had left from his triumphant years was some money, and he would show up at the hangouts of movers and shakers like the Polo Lounge, where he often ended...
- 2/17/2024
- by Antonio Monda
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Whether you’re shopping for a gift for that special someone, or just upgrading your personal style, investing in a quality watch is well-worth your coin. Not only can the right timepiece be versatile enough for any occasion, but there are so many varieties to choose from. But with so many ways to adorn your wrist, how do you know which one to choose?
Enter Bulova, one of...
Whether you’re shopping for a gift for that special someone, or just upgrading your personal style, investing in a quality watch is well-worth your coin. Not only can the right timepiece be versatile enough for any occasion, but there are so many varieties to choose from. But with so many ways to adorn your wrist, how do you know which one to choose?
Enter Bulova, one of...
- 2/8/2024
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
Celebrities came out in droves to celebrate the exclusive launch of Schiaparelli‘s new shop inside the Neiman Marcus Beverly Hills.
The fashion brand’s creative director Daniel Roseberry hosted the evening on Thursday night (October 12) at Los Angeles’ John Sowden House, which was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In attendance and wearing Schiaparelli were Jennifer Lopez, Joey King, Olivia Wilde, Demi Moore (with daughter Scout Willis), Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Maya Rudolph, Angela Bassett, Natasha Lyonne, Adria Arjona, Shalom Harlow, and many more.
The venue was outfitted with surrealist touches including plinths with a replica of iconic Schiaparelli sculptures, a 10’ keyhole sculpture and assortment of women’s apparel and handbags.
“I am so excited to celebrate our expanding collaboration with Neiman Marcus in this iconic architectural house,” Daniel said in a statement. “Over the past few years, the House of Schiaparelli has fostered such a special relationship with celebrities and stylists,...
The fashion brand’s creative director Daniel Roseberry hosted the evening on Thursday night (October 12) at Los Angeles’ John Sowden House, which was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In attendance and wearing Schiaparelli were Jennifer Lopez, Joey King, Olivia Wilde, Demi Moore (with daughter Scout Willis), Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Maya Rudolph, Angela Bassett, Natasha Lyonne, Adria Arjona, Shalom Harlow, and many more.
The venue was outfitted with surrealist touches including plinths with a replica of iconic Schiaparelli sculptures, a 10’ keyhole sculpture and assortment of women’s apparel and handbags.
“I am so excited to celebrate our expanding collaboration with Neiman Marcus in this iconic architectural house,” Daniel said in a statement. “Over the past few years, the House of Schiaparelli has fostered such a special relationship with celebrities and stylists,...
- 10/13/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
In Andrea Bartz's "The Spare Room," pandemic boredom and upheaval sends Kelly fleeing from her cramped apartment in Philadelphia as her fiancé pumps the breaks on their planned nuptials, and right into the arms of her childhood friend - and that woman's husband. Reeling from her postponed wedding, Kelly takes the glamorous Sabrina up on an offer to stay in her and her husband Nathan's guest bedroom rather than cohabitate with her estranged partner.
Things quickly move away from platonic when a threesome between Kelly, Sabrina, and Nathan leads the trio into a polyamorous relationship. Unfortunately, Kelly learns that she's not the first woman to find herself in such a situation with her new lovers - and that their former paramour has disappeared. Bartz - whose suspense novel "We Were Never Here" was a Reese's Book Club pick - injects her signature shiver-inducing pacing in
"The Spare Room,"
publishing...
Things quickly move away from platonic when a threesome between Kelly, Sabrina, and Nathan leads the trio into a polyamorous relationship. Unfortunately, Kelly learns that she's not the first woman to find herself in such a situation with her new lovers - and that their former paramour has disappeared. Bartz - whose suspense novel "We Were Never Here" was a Reese's Book Club pick - injects her signature shiver-inducing pacing in
"The Spare Room,"
publishing...
- 5/22/2023
- by Lindsay Kimble
- Popsugar.com
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
Holy cave-dining Batman! Katie Maloney and Vanderpump Rules friends dined inside a luxurious cave while vacationing in Mexico.
Lala Kent, Kristina Kelly, James Kennedy, and Ally Lewber experienced the Alux restaurant, located inside a large cave in Playa Del Carmen. Their jaws dropped when they arrived at the location, insisting this was a pretty “insane” experience.
Alux is the kind of location that would definitely spark Lisa Vanderpump’s interest. Vanderpump Rules producers gave viewers a glimpse inside the restaurant, as Kennedy escorted some of the women down the staircase into the massive cave. Colorful lighting danced along the walls, accentuating the natural rock formations. The designers also took advantage of blending softness, textures, and elegance inside the restaurant.
Alux is located inside a 10,000-year-old cave
The Epicurean Traveler described the experience of “dining in a 10,000-year-old cavern in Riviera Maya.” Even walking up to the restaurant is an adventure.
Lala Kent, Kristina Kelly, James Kennedy, and Ally Lewber experienced the Alux restaurant, located inside a large cave in Playa Del Carmen. Their jaws dropped when they arrived at the location, insisting this was a pretty “insane” experience.
Alux is the kind of location that would definitely spark Lisa Vanderpump’s interest. Vanderpump Rules producers gave viewers a glimpse inside the restaurant, as Kennedy escorted some of the women down the staircase into the massive cave. Colorful lighting danced along the walls, accentuating the natural rock formations. The designers also took advantage of blending softness, textures, and elegance inside the restaurant.
Alux is located inside a 10,000-year-old cave
The Epicurean Traveler described the experience of “dining in a 10,000-year-old cavern in Riviera Maya.” Even walking up to the restaurant is an adventure.
- 4/13/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Alicia Keys kicked off a new partnership with Hennessy Paradis Tuesday, with a private concert and dinner in Joshua Tree, California.
Held at the famed Kellogg Doolittle House, the intimate event saw Keys perform a 20-minute set of her greatest hits, against a backdrop of rolling boulders and starlit desert skies. It was the perfect setting to launch her new Hennessy campaign, appropriately dubbed “Paradis(e) Is On Earth.
Alicia Keys kicked off a new partnership with Hennessy Paradis Tuesday, with a private concert and dinner in Joshua Tree, California.
Held at the famed Kellogg Doolittle House, the intimate event saw Keys perform a 20-minute set of her greatest hits, against a backdrop of rolling boulders and starlit desert skies. It was the perfect setting to launch her new Hennessy campaign, appropriately dubbed “Paradis(e) Is On Earth.
- 2/10/2023
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Los Angeles’ dining culture is as diverse as its neighborhoods and the people who inhabit them. And with each new restaurant opening, the scene becomes broadened by unique dishes, elevated cocktails and smart atmospheric design that add color and texture to the city. In a place where there’s no shortage of sunlight — and where bars and lounges close not long after midnight — a leisurely, thoughtful meal is oftentimes an afternoon or night’s main event. With this in mind, The Hollywood Reporter has compiled a list of places in L.A. (which is ongoing) that have opened in recent months and are making eating out an event again.
Casa Madera
Casa Madera
Tucked inside the Sunset Strip’s Mondrian hotel, Casa Madera, an 8,000-square-foot coastal Mexican restaurant, is the newest dining destination from Noble 33 hospitality group, and the second Casa Madera location (following Toronto’s) for the restaurant (it...
Casa Madera
Casa Madera
Tucked inside the Sunset Strip’s Mondrian hotel, Casa Madera, an 8,000-square-foot coastal Mexican restaurant, is the newest dining destination from Noble 33 hospitality group, and the second Casa Madera location (following Toronto’s) for the restaurant (it...
- 2/8/2023
- by Evan Nicole Brown
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the past decade, Atlanta has earned the moniker Hollywood of the South. The city boasts a population of around 500,000 in Atlanta proper and roughly 6 million in the greater metro area, with a rising number of full-time and part-time residents who are entertainment industry professionals. Many have been lured to work on productions like Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Walking Dead and the new Father of the Bride, or to find more stable work at the 700-acre Trilith Studios or Tyler Perry Studios in the heart of Atlanta.
Long a mecca for hip-hop artists and Black creators, Atlanta has also become increasingly popular with public figures from all walks of life. The undisputed media king of Atlanta — Tyler Perry — recently completed an astounding 100 million estate on 2,100 acres in the city of Douglasville, near his 330-acre studio complex. Celebrities who live or have had homes in Atlanta include Elton John,...
Long a mecca for hip-hop artists and Black creators, Atlanta has also become increasingly popular with public figures from all walks of life. The undisputed media king of Atlanta — Tyler Perry — recently completed an astounding 100 million estate on 2,100 acres in the city of Douglasville, near his 330-acre studio complex. Celebrities who live or have had homes in Atlanta include Elton John,...
- 1/7/2023
- by Hadley Meares
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling” is a movie that, in recent weeks, has been besieged and consumed by offscreen dramas, none of which I’ll recount here, except to note that when a film’s lead actress seems actively reluctant to publicize the film in question, that’s a sign of some serious discord. Yet it would be hugely unfair to allow this tempest in a teapot of gossipy turmoil to influence one’s feelings about the movie. If you want to talk about problems related to “Don’t Worry Darling,” you need look no further than at what’s onscreen.
The film, written by Katie Silberman, with the brilliant production design of Katie Byron, is a kind of candy-colored “Stepford Wives” in the Twilight Zone meets “The Handmaid’s Tale” for the age of torn-at-the-seams democracy. In theory, this should add up to a juicy watch. Wilde, whose first feature...
The film, written by Katie Silberman, with the brilliant production design of Katie Byron, is a kind of candy-colored “Stepford Wives” in the Twilight Zone meets “The Handmaid’s Tale” for the age of torn-at-the-seams democracy. In theory, this should add up to a juicy watch. Wilde, whose first feature...
- 9/5/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Last Friday, to escape the New York heatwave, I decided to revisit The Costume Institute’s extensive two-part exhibition, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion and In America: An Anthology of Fashion, which turned the Met’s American Wing over to nine directors: Martin Scorsese, Tom Ford, Chloé Zhao, Radha Blank, Sofia Coppola, Janicza Bravo, Autumn de Wilde, Julie Dash, and Regina King. For the exhibition, curated by Andrew Bolton, the filmmakers conjured up scenes mainly inspired by American domestic lives and installed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s period rooms ranging in time between 1805 and the teens of the 20th century.
From George Washington’s brown wool broadcloth coat to a Shaker retiring room, to the Battle of Versailles fought in the air, to the gild of the Gilded Age, and on to a delightfully elegant funeral party in the Frank Lloyd Wright room, where...
From George Washington’s brown wool broadcloth coat to a Shaker retiring room, to the Battle of Versailles fought in the air, to the gild of the Gilded Age, and on to a delightfully elegant funeral party in the Frank Lloyd Wright room, where...
- 7/24/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Colin Cantwell, the concept artist and designer credited with creating many of Star Wars’ iconic spacecrafts — including the Tie fighter, X-wing and Death Star — has died at the age of 90.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported Cantwell’s death Saturday at his Colorado home. While no cause of death was provided, his partner Sierra Dall said on his official Instagram page that he had been battling Alzheimer’s in recent years.
An animator and architect who almost studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, Cantwell gained a space background while working on educational...
The Hollywood Reporter first reported Cantwell’s death Saturday at his Colorado home. While no cause of death was provided, his partner Sierra Dall said on his official Instagram page that he had been battling Alzheimer’s in recent years.
An animator and architect who almost studied under Frank Lloyd Wright, Cantwell gained a space background while working on educational...
- 5/22/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Colin Cantwell, whose design work on the Star Wars spacecraft thrilled generations of moviegoers, died Saturday at his Colorado home. He was 90 and his death was confirmed by Sierra Dall, his long-time partner
Cantwell’s film credits include special photographic effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, technical dialogue for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and computer graphics design for WarGames. His Star Wars design and construction credis include the prototypes for the X-wing, Tie fighter, Star Destroyer, and the Death Star.
Born in San Francisco, Cantwell graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in animation. He then was personally invited by Frank Lloyd Wright to attend his School of Architecture.
Before he made his way to Hollywood, Cantwell already had an amazing career. Cantwell worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA, creating educational programs for the public to better understand space flights.
That...
Cantwell’s film credits include special photographic effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, technical dialogue for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and computer graphics design for WarGames. His Star Wars design and construction credis include the prototypes for the X-wing, Tie fighter, Star Destroyer, and the Death Star.
Born in San Francisco, Cantwell graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in animation. He then was personally invited by Frank Lloyd Wright to attend his School of Architecture.
Before he made his way to Hollywood, Cantwell already had an amazing career. Cantwell worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA, creating educational programs for the public to better understand space flights.
That...
- 5/22/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
As the Met Gala sets its return to the first Monday in May, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans for the 2022 spring exhibition themed “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.”
The Met curators, led by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu curator in charge of the Costume Institute, have enlisted eight film directors —- Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash, Tom Ford, Regina King, Martin Scorsese, Autumn de Wilde and Chloé Zhao — to help bring the exhibition to life.
“Anthology” is the second of a two-part presentation saluting designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late 20th century. It follows Part One, titled “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opened in September 2021.
“Part Two, which explores the foundations of American fashion in relation to the complex histories of the American Wing period rooms, serves as a preface...
The Met curators, led by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu curator in charge of the Costume Institute, have enlisted eight film directors —- Janicza Bravo, Sofia Coppola, Julie Dash, Tom Ford, Regina King, Martin Scorsese, Autumn de Wilde and Chloé Zhao — to help bring the exhibition to life.
“Anthology” is the second of a two-part presentation saluting designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late 20th century. It follows Part One, titled “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opened in September 2021.
“Part Two, which explores the foundations of American fashion in relation to the complex histories of the American Wing period rooms, serves as a preface...
- 2/16/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The first hint of “Loki’s” retro future look came from series creator Michael Waldron, who described it as “‘Mad Men’ meets ‘Blade Runner.'” That immediately clicked for production designer Kasra Farahani (“Captain Marvel”), especially when envisioning the Time Variance Authority (Tva), a floating series of modular workstations existing in its own world, tasked with keeping temporal order in the MCU.
However, Farahani had his own personal influence: “Brazil,” which provided a distinctive atmosphere of oppression. “For me, ‘Brazil’ was the perfect reference,” he said, “because of the anachronism, which was an important part of our show, where you’re combining [elements] from different timelines, but also the feeling of bureaucracy: this giant monolithic entity crushing the individual.”
In designing the Tva sets, Farahani combined the clean, angular American mid-century modernism of “Blade Runner” and “Mad Men” with the cold, brutalistic architecture found in Europe and the Soviet Union during the same period.
However, Farahani had his own personal influence: “Brazil,” which provided a distinctive atmosphere of oppression. “For me, ‘Brazil’ was the perfect reference,” he said, “because of the anachronism, which was an important part of our show, where you’re combining [elements] from different timelines, but also the feeling of bureaucracy: this giant monolithic entity crushing the individual.”
In designing the Tva sets, Farahani combined the clean, angular American mid-century modernism of “Blade Runner” and “Mad Men” with the cold, brutalistic architecture found in Europe and the Soviet Union during the same period.
- 7/22/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Making its European debut in International Film Festival Rotterdam’s new talent category Bright Future is “Ok Computer,” a six-part Hindi sci-fi comedy set 10 years in the future.
Featuring an AI-driven “New India” of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways, the Disney Plus Hotstar series stars Vijay Varma (“A Suitable Boy”), Radhika Apte (“Sacred Games”) and Jackie Shroff (“Criminal Justice”), and follows the capers of a hard-boiled detective (Varma) who is called out of retirement when a self-driving car gets hacked, killing a random pedestrian.
The series was produced through Mumbai-based Memesys Culture Lab and created by two of the company’s Goa-based stakeholders: first-time directors Pooja Shetty, a former production designer and architect, and Neil Pagedar, a writer and documentary filmmaker.
Fellow Memesys cofounder Anand Gandhi (“Ship of Theseus”) – an IFFR alumni – also co-wrote the script.
The directorial duo spoke to Variety about the challenge of futuristic world-building in...
Featuring an AI-driven “New India” of towering smart holograms and drone superhighways, the Disney Plus Hotstar series stars Vijay Varma (“A Suitable Boy”), Radhika Apte (“Sacred Games”) and Jackie Shroff (“Criminal Justice”), and follows the capers of a hard-boiled detective (Varma) who is called out of retirement when a self-driving car gets hacked, killing a random pedestrian.
The series was produced through Mumbai-based Memesys Culture Lab and created by two of the company’s Goa-based stakeholders: first-time directors Pooja Shetty, a former production designer and architect, and Neil Pagedar, a writer and documentary filmmaker.
Fellow Memesys cofounder Anand Gandhi (“Ship of Theseus”) – an IFFR alumni – also co-wrote the script.
The directorial duo spoke to Variety about the challenge of futuristic world-building in...
- 6/1/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
"I think there will be a day when we wish we still had many of his structures still standing." A teaser trailer is available for an intriguing documentary film titled Goff, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Britni Harris. It's not often we see films about architects, which already makes this unique. Bruce Goff was an American architect from the Midwest known as an Organic architect, best known for his eccentric designs that flew in the face of conventional architecture. His design philosophy came from the abstract term called, “continuous present,” coined by Gertrude Stein, which he described as living the past and present in one continuous stream. Goff thought that was the ideal of architecture, architecture that had no conventional beginning, middle or end but continued. Though well regarded in his time by Frank Lloyd Wright and cited as an influence by both Frank Gehry and Philip Johnson, Goff...
- 10/18/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Joan Rivers was widely considered the first female late-night host when she began hosting Fox’s The Late Show in October 1986.
However, nearly forty years before Rivers took that job, there was another woman who had, in fact, pioneered the genre and become the first late-night host: Faye Emerson.
Emerson, who was born in Louisiana in 1917, came before Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Dick Cavett or Johnny Carson and was really the figure who created an entire genre of television that thrives today with the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.
Deadline explores her story, how CBS’ Kelly Kahl was instrumental in preserving her legacy, how she paved the road for the likes of Chelsea Handler, Samantha Bee and Lilly Singh and how a scripted series about her life is now in development.
The Faye Emerson Show began airing on CBS on October 24 1949 in local East Coast markets...
However, nearly forty years before Rivers took that job, there was another woman who had, in fact, pioneered the genre and become the first late-night host: Faye Emerson.
Emerson, who was born in Louisiana in 1917, came before Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Dick Cavett or Johnny Carson and was really the figure who created an entire genre of television that thrives today with the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.
Deadline explores her story, how CBS’ Kelly Kahl was instrumental in preserving her legacy, how she paved the road for the likes of Chelsea Handler, Samantha Bee and Lilly Singh and how a scripted series about her life is now in development.
The Faye Emerson Show began airing on CBS on October 24 1949 in local East Coast markets...
- 7/1/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Larger-than-life maverick architect, WWII veteran, avid surfer and all-around Tinseltown treasure Harry Gesner is probably most famous for his iconic Wave House in Malibu. Set directly on the sand, that 1957-built home was recently immortalized in the 2019 film “Yesterday.”
That’s not to say the modernist master, now 95 and still active in his Malibu community, is a one-trick architectural pony. Gesner also designed this moody villa in Las Flores Canyon, nestled in the hills above the beachside city, that’s currently available with $14 million pricetag. Gothic wooden arches criss-cross the home’s glass-sheathed façade, which is reminiscent of a darker, more tortured Sydney Opera House.
The structure is inwardly defined by its massive central great room that visually recalls Lloyd Wright’s sublime Wayferers Chapel, a glass church in L.A.’s South Bay. (Gesner was a onetime apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.) Through its towering wall of glass, there...
That’s not to say the modernist master, now 95 and still active in his Malibu community, is a one-trick architectural pony. Gesner also designed this moody villa in Las Flores Canyon, nestled in the hills above the beachside city, that’s currently available with $14 million pricetag. Gothic wooden arches criss-cross the home’s glass-sheathed façade, which is reminiscent of a darker, more tortured Sydney Opera House.
The structure is inwardly defined by its massive central great room that visually recalls Lloyd Wright’s sublime Wayferers Chapel, a glass church in L.A.’s South Bay. (Gesner was a onetime apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.) Through its towering wall of glass, there...
- 6/26/2020
- by James McClain
- Variety Film + TV
In a good haunted-house thriller, architecture is destiny. Early on in “You Should Have Left,” when Theo (Kevin Bacon), a wealthy retired banker with a tabloid scandal in his past, shows up with his movie-actress wife, Susanna (Amanda Seyfried), and their six-year-old daughter, Ella (Avery Essex), at the vacation home they’ve rented for a getaway in the Welsh countryside, you know in your bones that you’re watching a variation on “The Shining.”
The creepy originality of the home design is part of it. Just as the fantastic, gargantuan, ski-lodge-gone-Native-American set for the Overlook Hotel was such a major dimension of Stanley Kubrick’s film, here we’re sucked in by the eccentric contours of a place that looks, from the outside, like a gray designer modernist Bauhaus Monopoly house. Inside, it’s a vast airy network of light gray brick and Scandinavian wood, with flickers of pastel, and...
The creepy originality of the home design is part of it. Just as the fantastic, gargantuan, ski-lodge-gone-Native-American set for the Overlook Hotel was such a major dimension of Stanley Kubrick’s film, here we’re sucked in by the eccentric contours of a place that looks, from the outside, like a gray designer modernist Bauhaus Monopoly house. Inside, it’s a vast airy network of light gray brick and Scandinavian wood, with flickers of pastel, and...
- 6/18/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The ladies of Riverdale aren’t just pretty faces, you know.
TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek at tonight’s episode (The CW, 8/7c), with Betty, Veronica, Cheryl and Toni teaming up to form a quiz team for Riverdale High and taking on Seaside High in a televised trivia competition. And it’s hardly a fair fight: The girls absolutely steamroll Seaside with their superior knowledge, swiftly buzzing in with correct responses about the Italian island of Murano, mitochondria and famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (Betty got that last one right, but Cheryl knew it, too. He designed Thorn Hill!
TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek at tonight’s episode (The CW, 8/7c), with Betty, Veronica, Cheryl and Toni teaming up to form a quiz team for Riverdale High and taking on Seaside High in a televised trivia competition. And it’s hardly a fair fight: The girls absolutely steamroll Seaside with their superior knowledge, swiftly buzzing in with correct responses about the Italian island of Murano, mitochondria and famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. (Betty got that last one right, but Cheryl knew it, too. He designed Thorn Hill!
- 1/29/2020
- TVLine.com
Fifty years ago this week, Simon and Garfunkel released Bridge Over Troubled Water.
It was not only their most successful album — selling millions of copies and earning them six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year — but it was also their final LP. They reformed several times over the next four decades for nostalgic tours, and even a one-off single in 1975, but the album marked the end of their creative partnership.
To celebrate the anniversary, the duo is releasing the new digital Ep Simon & Garfunkel – Live at Carnegie Hall 1969 to streaming services.
It was not only their most successful album — selling millions of copies and earning them six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year — but it was also their final LP. They reformed several times over the next four decades for nostalgic tours, and even a one-off single in 1975, but the album marked the end of their creative partnership.
To celebrate the anniversary, the duo is releasing the new digital Ep Simon & Garfunkel – Live at Carnegie Hall 1969 to streaming services.
- 1/24/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
It’s kind of interesting to learn about Anthony Quinn since if you didn’t already know he used to box to make money way back in his day. He even studied architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright, and when he got into acting after being offered a contract he had no idea what to do. When you look at someone’s career and see just how great they’ve done over the years and then learn this kind of thing about them it’s hard not to be amazed since legends can in fact be created out of next to nothing. But anyone that’s followed
The Five Best Anthony Quinn Movies of His Career...
The Five Best Anthony Quinn Movies of His Career...
- 1/6/2020
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Kcet picked up a leading six wins tonight at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, including awards for local color and culture/history. Kmex, Ktla and Kvea followed with five wins each.
Ktla’s wins included the best daily morning newscast and best daily daytime newscast categories. Kvea won the best evening newscast honor. The awards were handed out at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
Below is the complete list of winners at the 71st Los Angeles Area Emmys, including a breakdown of wins by each outlet.
L.A. Local Color
Louis & Jazz (The Migrant Kitchen) Kcet
Matthew Crotty, Producer
Juan Devis, Executive Producer
Antonio Diaz, Producer
Stef Ferrari, Producer
Ben Hunter, Director, Editor
Jacqueline Reyno, Producer
Austin Straub, Camera
Environment News Story
Plastic And Our Oceans NBC4
(NBC4 News At 7Am And 5Pm)
Shanna Mendiola, Reporter
Andres Fernando Pruna, Camera, Editor, Producer
Sports Special
Dodgermentary:...
Ktla’s wins included the best daily morning newscast and best daily daytime newscast categories. Kvea won the best evening newscast honor. The awards were handed out at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
Below is the complete list of winners at the 71st Los Angeles Area Emmys, including a breakdown of wins by each outlet.
L.A. Local Color
Louis & Jazz (The Migrant Kitchen) Kcet
Matthew Crotty, Producer
Juan Devis, Executive Producer
Antonio Diaz, Producer
Stef Ferrari, Producer
Ben Hunter, Director, Editor
Jacqueline Reyno, Producer
Austin Straub, Camera
Environment News Story
Plastic And Our Oceans NBC4
(NBC4 News At 7Am And 5Pm)
Shanna Mendiola, Reporter
Andres Fernando Pruna, Camera, Editor, Producer
Sports Special
Dodgermentary:...
- 7/28/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Univision’s Spanish-lingo station Kmex-tv leads all local TV stations for this year’s Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, scoring 22 nods overall, the Television Academy announced Monday.
Kmex is ahead of public broadcaster Kcet, which earned 19 nominations for its roster of local-geared fare. Kcet is the incumbent local Emmy leader, having won 11 last year, the most of any outlet.
New to the list is Spectrum News 1, the local cable news service launched late last fall by Spectrum Cable. The new outfit has already earned three nominations, despite launching midway through this year’s eligibility period.
This is also the first local L.A. Emmys since Kcet and Koce (“PBS SoCal”) combined operations as one central PBS entity for the market. Koce landed 3 nominations.
Spanish language fare dominated this year’s nominations, with Telemundo’s Kvea picking up 12 nods, good for third-most nominations. Among traditional English-language owned-and-operated stations, Knbc was first with 9 nominations,...
Kmex is ahead of public broadcaster Kcet, which earned 19 nominations for its roster of local-geared fare. Kcet is the incumbent local Emmy leader, having won 11 last year, the most of any outlet.
New to the list is Spectrum News 1, the local cable news service launched late last fall by Spectrum Cable. The new outfit has already earned three nominations, despite launching midway through this year’s eligibility period.
This is also the first local L.A. Emmys since Kcet and Koce (“PBS SoCal”) combined operations as one central PBS entity for the market. Koce landed 3 nominations.
Spanish language fare dominated this year’s nominations, with Telemundo’s Kvea picking up 12 nods, good for third-most nominations. Among traditional English-language owned-and-operated stations, Knbc was first with 9 nominations,...
- 6/11/2019
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish-language outlet Kmex leads with the field with 22 nominations for the 71st annual Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, topping Kcet’s 19. Read the full list below, and check out the nominations by network here.
It’s the first time since 2015 that Kmex has led the noms list outright. Last year it tied with Kcet for the most noms from the Television Academy, with the former PBS outlet, ultimately scoring the most trophies six months later.
Kvea is running third with 12 nominations, with NBC4 next with nine.
The hardware will be handed out during a July 27 ceremony at the Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
Here is the full list of nominees:
Programming & News Categories
L.A. Local Color
30 Years with Val Zavala (SoCal Connected) • Kcet
Linda Burns, Senior Producer Karen Foshay, Executive Producer
Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer
Louis & Jazz (The Migrant Kitchen) • Kcet
Matthew Crotty,...
It’s the first time since 2015 that Kmex has led the noms list outright. Last year it tied with Kcet for the most noms from the Television Academy, with the former PBS outlet, ultimately scoring the most trophies six months later.
Kvea is running third with 12 nominations, with NBC4 next with nine.
The hardware will be handed out during a July 27 ceremony at the Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
Here is the full list of nominees:
Programming & News Categories
L.A. Local Color
30 Years with Val Zavala (SoCal Connected) • Kcet
Linda Burns, Senior Producer Karen Foshay, Executive Producer
Kathy Kasaba, Supervising Producer Robert McDonnell, Supervising Producer
Louis & Jazz (The Migrant Kitchen) • Kcet
Matthew Crotty,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The key to Cate Le Bon’s dazzling new album, Reward, is a chair. Not just any chair — a strikingly minimalist piece in dark-stained oak, which she built herself after finishing a yearlong course on furniture design. “It’s not comfortable, and it’s not particularly beautiful,” says the Welsh musician, 36. “I built myself a strange little throne, really.”
Le Bon is sitting in the café of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on New York’s Upper East Side, explaining why she put her career on hold to study woodworking.
Le Bon is sitting in the café of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on New York’s Upper East Side, explaining why she put her career on hold to study woodworking.
- 5/24/2019
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
The characters come together as the mystery unfolds on I Am the Night episode 3, "Dark Flower."
This I Am the Night review contains spoilers.
I Am the Night Episode 3
I Am the Night episode 3, "Dark Flower," opens in 1945, two years before the January 15, 1947 murder of 22-year-old actress Elizabeth Short. The Black Dahlia is a conspiracy theorist's wet dream. Still unsolved, the suspects in the case all had fascinatingly perverse backgrounds. George Hodel, who came to the attention of the officers covering the gruesome death after an underage, incest-rape trial, had one of the most perverse.
Well-known to the police and well treated by them, Hodel was renowned for his Hollywood parties. They were lavish affairs held at his mansion, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's son, which was modeled after a Mayan temple. The place had its own ill repute. "Dark Flower" opens at one of the parties, in this...
This I Am the Night review contains spoilers.
I Am the Night Episode 3
I Am the Night episode 3, "Dark Flower," opens in 1945, two years before the January 15, 1947 murder of 22-year-old actress Elizabeth Short. The Black Dahlia is a conspiracy theorist's wet dream. Still unsolved, the suspects in the case all had fascinatingly perverse backgrounds. George Hodel, who came to the attention of the officers covering the gruesome death after an underage, incest-rape trial, had one of the most perverse.
Well-known to the police and well treated by them, Hodel was renowned for his Hollywood parties. They were lavish affairs held at his mansion, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright's son, which was modeled after a Mayan temple. The place had its own ill repute. "Dark Flower" opens at one of the parties, in this...
- 2/5/2019
- Den of Geek
Moby announced via Instagram this week he owns a “beautiful house” in the spectacularly scenic, semi-rural community of Pound Ridge, N.Y., — about 50 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan and a bit more than 15 miles north from where he was brought up in Darien, Conn. — that the mononymic West Coast-based electronic music pioneer quietly acquired just four months ago for $1.24 million but, after he realized he won’t spend much time there, flipped back on the market at $1.3 million. Although it seems unlikely he will turn much if any profit once carrying costs, improvement expenses and real estate fees are factored in, the avid and savvy architecture and design aficionado pledged, again via Instagram, to donate proceeds of the sale to “support progressive political candidates, support my animal rights foundation, produce documentaries, and fund scholarships.”
Designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice David Henken and built in 1956 on a sun-dappled slope...
Designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice David Henken and built in 1956 on a sun-dappled slope...
- 7/26/2018
- by Mark David
- Variety Film + TV
Owning this piece of movie history will cost a little more than admiring it on screen.
Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Ennis House — which has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Blade Runner, Rush Hour and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — is currently for sale for a whopping $23 million.
The sprawling Los Feliz, California, property has been quietly shopped around since late June, according to Curbed. However, Variety reports that since Monday, the property has become available on the open market.
The estate has made over 80 appearances on screen and is currently owned by billionaire Ron Burkle,...
Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Ennis House — which has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Blade Runner, Rush Hour and Buffy the Vampire Slayer — is currently for sale for a whopping $23 million.
The sprawling Los Feliz, California, property has been quietly shopped around since late June, according to Curbed. However, Variety reports that since Monday, the property has become available on the open market.
The estate has made over 80 appearances on screen and is currently owned by billionaire Ron Burkle,...
- 7/12/2018
- by Maria Pasquini
- PEOPLE.com
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After 18 years at New York's iconic Guggenheim Museum, Brendan Connell Jr. arrived June 20 to take up his new post as COO of the Academy Museum.
Surveying the construction site at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, he insists the move from high art to pop culture isn't that dramatic, saying, "This building in a way reminds me of the Guggenheim, which was Frank Lloyd Wright's temple of the spirit, and something about this project struck me in the same way as far as the ambition behind Renzo Piano's amazing sphere."
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After 18 years at New York's iconic Guggenheim Museum, Brendan Connell Jr. arrived June 20 to take up his new post as COO of the Academy Museum.
Surveying the construction site at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, he insists the move from high art to pop culture isn't that dramatic, saying, "This building in a way reminds me of the Guggenheim, which was Frank Lloyd Wright's temple of the spirit, and something about this project struck me in the same way as far as the ambition behind Renzo Piano's amazing sphere."
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- 7/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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After 18 years at New York's iconic Guggenheim Museum, Brendan Connell Jr. arrived June 20 to take up his new post as COO of the Academy Museum.
Surveying the construction site at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, he insists the move from high art to pop culture isn't that dramatic, saying, "This building in a way reminds me of the Guggenheim, which was Frank Lloyd Wright's temple of the spirit, and something about this project struck me in the same way as far as the ambition behind Renzo Piano's amazing sphere."
The Academy Museum,...
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After 18 years at New York's iconic Guggenheim Museum, Brendan Connell Jr. arrived June 20 to take up his new post as COO of the Academy Museum.
Surveying the construction site at Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, he insists the move from high art to pop culture isn't that dramatic, saying, "This building in a way reminds me of the Guggenheim, which was Frank Lloyd Wright's temple of the spirit, and something about this project struck me in the same way as far as the ambition behind Renzo Piano's amazing sphere."
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- 7/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
First floated with flurry of fawning publicity as a not-so-secret, off-market whisper listing several weeks ago, Frank Lloyd Wright’s expensively and comprehensively restored Ennis House in Los Angeles’s Los Feliz neighborhood officially came for sale on the open market today with a sky-high $23 million price tag.
Originally constructed with more than 27,000 patterned and perforated decomposed granite blocks, the boldly idiosyncratic, temple-like residence was built by Wright’s architect son Lloyd Wright in 1924 for retailer Charles Ennis and his wife Mabel. Badly damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the exotic residence slipped into a pitiful state of neglect and disrepair until 2011 when it was sold for $4.5 million to architecture appreciating billionaire Ron Burkle. According to marketing materials, the supermarket magnate and investor spent “nearly $17 million” to scrupulously restore the “both powerful and remarkably livable” residence.
Positioned high on a .83-acre hillside parcel with cinematic views that sweep over the city,...
Originally constructed with more than 27,000 patterned and perforated decomposed granite blocks, the boldly idiosyncratic, temple-like residence was built by Wright’s architect son Lloyd Wright in 1924 for retailer Charles Ennis and his wife Mabel. Badly damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the exotic residence slipped into a pitiful state of neglect and disrepair until 2011 when it was sold for $4.5 million to architecture appreciating billionaire Ron Burkle. According to marketing materials, the supermarket magnate and investor spent “nearly $17 million” to scrupulously restore the “both powerful and remarkably livable” residence.
Positioned high on a .83-acre hillside parcel with cinematic views that sweep over the city,...
- 7/9/2018
- by Mark David
- Variety Film + TV
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably.
It’s an interesting month for wide releases this June—a fact that results from big hitters like Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, and Solo all dropping April/May. The studios have decided audiences will be fatigued in that aftermath and are following them up with some smaller-scale sequels able to hopefully cajole families out of the house for dinosaurs (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens June 22), heists (Ocean’s 8 opens June 8), and cartels (Sicario: Day of the Soldado opens June 29). Consider these the “adult” version of the superhero...
It’s an interesting month for wide releases this June—a fact that results from big hitters like Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, and Solo all dropping April/May. The studios have decided audiences will be fatigued in that aftermath and are following them up with some smaller-scale sequels able to hopefully cajole families out of the house for dinosaurs (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opens June 22), heists (Ocean’s 8 opens June 8), and cartels (Sicario: Day of the Soldado opens June 29). Consider these the “adult” version of the superhero...
- 5/30/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
“I’ve really been obsessed with the Vietnam War my entire life,” reveals director Lynn Novick when asked about what drew her to making PBS‘s epic, 18-hour documentary “The Vietnam War.” For Novick, the divisive international conflict was “the major story of my life.” She grew up watching “reactions to it, the protests against it, and the crisis our country went through.” So it was almost inevitable that she and frequent collaborator Ken Burns would one day tackle the massive subject for television, examining the war from the perspectives of over 80 eyewitnesses who were affected by the conflict in both America and Vietnam. Watch our exclusive video interview with Novick above.
See Veterans Day: All 16 war movies that won Best Picture Oscar
The directing and producing duo began work on the immense undertaking in 2007, knowing it would come out nearly a decade later. “We couldn’t have imagined what our world would look like,...
See Veterans Day: All 16 war movies that won Best Picture Oscar
The directing and producing duo began work on the immense undertaking in 2007, knowing it would come out nearly a decade later. “We couldn’t have imagined what our world would look like,...
- 5/7/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
At Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” sneak peek earlier this month, we learned that the story picks up where it left off 14 years ago, with the Underminer (voiced by good-luck charm John Ratzenberger) terrorizing Municiberg. The big question for director Brad Bird: Why?
“I’m not interested in a college-age Jack-Jack,” he said, referring to the infant member of the Incredibles clan. “The insight into those periods of your life and those particular perspectives disappears once you age them up.”
Even so, the superhero landscape has changed considerably since Pixar released “The Incredibles” in 2004. But in keeping the focus on family dynamic first, superpowers second, Bird stays ahead of the superhero curve. He’s also elevated Holly Hunter’s Helen/Elastigirl as the lead and begun to explore baby Jack-Jack’s superpowers.
Read More: Incredibles 2’ Official Trailer: Pixar Does ‘Wonder Woman’ Proud and Lets Mom Save the World
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“I’m not interested in a college-age Jack-Jack,” he said, referring to the infant member of the Incredibles clan. “The insight into those periods of your life and those particular perspectives disappears once you age them up.”
Even so, the superhero landscape has changed considerably since Pixar released “The Incredibles” in 2004. But in keeping the focus on family dynamic first, superpowers second, Bird stays ahead of the superhero curve. He’s also elevated Holly Hunter’s Helen/Elastigirl as the lead and begun to explore baby Jack-Jack’s superpowers.
Read More: Incredibles 2’ Official Trailer: Pixar Does ‘Wonder Woman’ Proud and Lets Mom Save the World
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- 4/17/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Decades before Hollywood got serious about the need for diversity, Anthony Quinn was diversity. This month marks the birthday of the Mexico-born, L.A.-raised actor who played Bedouins, Native Americans, Soviets — and even Mexicans and Americans in his 60-year career. He was the first Mexican-American to win an Oscar, for his supporting performance in “Viva Zapata!” (1952) and won another as French painter Gaugin in “Lust for Life” (1956). His two trademark performances were in “Zorba the Greek” (another Oscar nom) and as an Italian circus strongman in Fellini’s “La Strada.”
Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 21, 1915, and began acting in 1936. His rise in Hollywood is especially remarkable considering the times. From 1929-36, the U.S.’ “Mexican Repatriation” program sent those of Mexican descent south of the border (even though many were U.S. citizens) out of fear they were taking jobs from whites. In...
Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, on April 21, 1915, and began acting in 1936. His rise in Hollywood is especially remarkable considering the times. From 1929-36, the U.S.’ “Mexican Repatriation” program sent those of Mexican descent south of the border (even though many were U.S. citizens) out of fear they were taking jobs from whites. In...
- 4/6/2018
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Ted Fendt’s fifth film—his second feature—premiered in the Berlinale Forum, rubbing shoulders with all sorts of more outwardly eccentric and ostentatious movies. Dorkiness has always been a central feature of Fendt’s cinema, as it has for his hero Luc Moullet. In his previous films, there was a gulf between the precision of the sounds, images, and edits and the relative formlessness of the dialogues. While the content of these dialogues was rarely involving, it was the de-dramatized nature of the players’ enunciation of them that was so original. Fendt’s actors are marked by a staggering lack of self-consciousness or, rather, a strange sort of freedom to be obtuse, to stand in a unphotogenic fashion, to slink around in a gawky manner reminiscent of the earliest days of the movies, when the relationship between performer and camera was decidedly less developed.But whatever geeky grace existed in the previous four movies,...
- 3/6/2018
- MUBI
One of the great beauties of art is how malleable it is. For some, a great work of art is the Mona Lisa. For others, it is the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. For others still, it is the music of Garth Brooks. Love, admiration, and appreciation are subjective traits that we ascribe to mediums […]
The post Let’s Dive Into What Many Believe to Be the Most Terrifying Painting Ever Created appeared first on Dread Central.
The post Let’s Dive Into What Many Believe to Be the Most Terrifying Painting Ever Created appeared first on Dread Central.
- 3/2/2018
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
To many people, the history of skyscrapers in these United States and particularly the work done by architect Louis Sullivan may not seem like fodder for much more than your run of the mill educational short. You know, the type that you’d watch in middle school during an art history class that has a stock jazz score and a narrator too excited about the material for his own good. However, in the hands of legendary documentarian Manfried Kirchheimer, Tall: The American Skyscraper And Louis Sullivan goes from charming historical document into a legitimate piece of experimental non-fiction cinema.
Now finally arriving in theaters after its production in 2006, Kirchheimer’s documentary introduces the viewer to architect Louis Sullivan, one of the true giants of the medium. A mentor to one Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan and rival Daniel Burnham are the central focus of this film, itself a groundbreaking meditation on...
Now finally arriving in theaters after its production in 2006, Kirchheimer’s documentary introduces the viewer to architect Louis Sullivan, one of the true giants of the medium. A mentor to one Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan and rival Daniel Burnham are the central focus of this film, itself a groundbreaking meditation on...
- 1/19/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Ed Norton has nothing but a glass wall separating him from the Pacific after dropping $11.8 million on an exquisite architectural masterpiece in Malibu. The modern 5 bedroom, 5 bath home -- called Stevens House - was built back in the late '60s by architect John Lautner, who had an apprenticeship under Frank Lloyd Wright and whose other famed work includes the Goldstein House in Hollywood. Lautner drew inspiration from an ocean wave for its design. The home,...
- 8/2/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Many know actor Anthony Quinn for his indelible portrayals ranging from the title role in Zorba the Greek to his Oscar-winning takes on artist Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life and Mexican revolutionary Eufemio Zapata in Viva Zapata! What few know is that Quinn, who died in 2001, was a prolific sculptor and painter throughout his lifetime, selling a portrait to Douglas Fairbanks Sr. when he was just a teenager and later studying with legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Even fewer are aware of the notion that Quinn was clairvoyant — at least according to his onetime art dealer, Glenn Harte, whose...
- 7/6/2017
- by Jordan Riefe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elle Fanning’s Awful Hair In ‘3 Generations’ Is Why Cisgender Actors Shouldn’t Play Trans Characters
The Weinstein Company, and Harvey Weinstein in particular, is notorious for using unconventional tactics to promote its films; he flew Daniel Day-Lewis to D.C. to support the Americans with Disabilities Act during the Oscar campaign for “My Left Foot,” and paraded Martin Scorsese around at a Women In Film luncheon to prove “Gangs of New York” wasn’t too violent.
While “3 Generations” likely won’t be earning Oscar noms, Weinstein did score (orchestrate?) a flurry of good press when the MPAA gave the transgender drama an R rating, citing language and sexual references in its decision. GLAAD sent the MPAA an angry letter; Naomi Watts gave an impassioned statement about the “beautiful and touching story,” and the MPAA changed the rating to PG-13. And for one brief and shining moment, nobody talked about how awful the movie was. (Current Rotten Tomatoes: 35%.)
Read More: ‘3 Generations’ Featurette: Susan Sarandon, Naomi Watts...
While “3 Generations” likely won’t be earning Oscar noms, Weinstein did score (orchestrate?) a flurry of good press when the MPAA gave the transgender drama an R rating, citing language and sexual references in its decision. GLAAD sent the MPAA an angry letter; Naomi Watts gave an impassioned statement about the “beautiful and touching story,” and the MPAA changed the rating to PG-13. And for one brief and shining moment, nobody talked about how awful the movie was. (Current Rotten Tomatoes: 35%.)
Read More: ‘3 Generations’ Featurette: Susan Sarandon, Naomi Watts...
- 5/11/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
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