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More than 400 personal effects owned by David Lynch put up for auction

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

If you are in the market for a custom-built five-necked guitar, a pair of personalised walkie-talkies, or a set of 10 (nine unopened) VHS tapes of Eraserhead, then now is your chance. More than 400 lots of personal effects from the collection of the late David Lynch, the idiosyncratic and hugely influential film-maker who died in January, are going up for auction.
‘Revelatory, magnetic, unknown’: how Frank Dillane became a star at Cannes

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

Few actors make an instant impact on their first major film festival appearance, but Frank Dillane, star of fellow actor Harris Dickinson’s directing debut Urchin, is one of them. Critics are near-unanimous in their praise, with Variety calling his performance “revelatory”, and IndieWire describing it as “magnetic”. Influential film industry publication Deadline said that Dillane “arrived in Cannes a virtual unknown, but Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut has made him a star”.
Banned film-maker Jafar Panahi says friends lost hope he would direct again

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi, who has previously been arrested and jailed and whose films have been banned in Iran on multiple occasions, has said “even my closest friends had given up hope that I would ever make films again”. Panahi was speaking at a press conference before the premiere of his new film A Simple Accident at the Cannes film festival, his first visit in 22 years since bringing Crimson Gold to Cannes in 2003.
John Singer Sargent’s Gilded Age Heiress Portraits Go on View in London

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Andrew Pulver

“In spite of my democracy / I’ve married the aristocracy / Like a true American girl.” This isn’t a line trilled in the television show Downton Abbey, but it could have been. It’s from a song by George Grossmith, the comedian, composer, and writer (The Diary of a Nobody), whose sketch shows toured England and the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, skewering the antics of the transatlantic upper classes.
Kristen Stewart says Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry is ‘terrifying’

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

Kristen Stewart has described President Donald Trump’s effect on the film industry as “terrifying” and said that “we should expect the worst”.
Joe Don Baker, tough-guy actor from Walking Tall and Bond films, dies aged 89

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

Tough-guy actor Joe Don Baker, a prolific performer in movies as varied as GoldenEye, Cape Fear and Mud, as well as the BBC TV series Edge of Darkness, has died aged 89. Born in 1936, Baker grew up in small town Texas, and studied business administration at North Texas State College. After a period in the army, Baker moved to New York and joined the Actors’ Studio in the early 1960s, where he was a contemporary of Rip Torn.
Joe Don Baker, tough-guy actor from Walking Tall and Bond films, dies aged 89

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Andrew Pulver

Tough-guy actor Joe Don Baker, a prolific performer in movies as varied as GoldenEye, Cape Fear and Mud, as well as the BBC TV series Edge of Darkness, has died aged 89. Born in 1936, Baker grew up in small town Texas, and studied business administration at North Texas State College. After a period in the army, Baker moved to New York and joined the Actors’ Studio in the early 1960s, where he was a contemporary of Rip Torn.
Sean Penn says he’d work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat’

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Andrew Pulver

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Sean Penn says he’d work with Woody Allen again ‘in a heartbeat’

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

Sean Penn has reiterated his defence of Woody Allen, saying he would “work with him in a heartbeat”. Penn was speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, and told Theroux that while he felt he didn’t know Allen well enough to know for certain that “100% this didn’t happen”, he said: “The stories are mostly told by people that I wouldn’t trust with a dime.
‘Simply unworkable’: British film industry leaders aghast at Trump’s movie tariffs

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Andrew Pulver

Leading figures in the British film industry have reacted with a mixture of wariness and bemusement at the prospect of tariffs announced by Donald Trump on movies produced in “foreign lands”. Rebecca O’Brien, producer of a string of films by Ken Loach including Palme d’Or winners The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake says that tariffs appear “simply unworkable given how intertwined and global the film industry is”.