‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Teaser Trailer: Mona Fastvold’s Musical

The last time screenwriters Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet collaborated, on the Corbet-directed “The Brutalist,” they created a bold American epic that garnered deserved critical praise and awards attention for its textured 70mm images (captured via VistaVision) and sweeping vision of 20th-century art, culture, and politics. For their new film “The Testament of Ann Lee,”…

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1497 Wraps Features Lab with Ritesh Batra, Boots Riley and More

1497, the nonprofit dedicated to boosting South Asian film and TV storytellers, has wrapped its fifth annual Features Lab. The five-day Malibu retreat presented an impressive slate of mentors, including Ritesh Batra (“The Lunchbox,” “Our Souls at Night”), Nida Manzoor (“We Are Lady Parts,” “Polite Society”), Shuchi Talati (“Girls Will Be Girls”), Danny Alexander (Independent…

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Emma Thompson Enters Streaming Era in Apple TV’s ‘Down Cemetery Road’

Worried about suffering withdrawal symptoms from “Slow Horses”? Well, in a shrewd bit of scheduling, just as its fifth series concludes, Apple TV is premiering yet another Mick Herron adaptation centered around the bumbling inner workings of British government, starring an Oscar-winning national treasure to boot. Commanding center stage in “Down Cemetery Road,” however, is…

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