Dan Callahan

2 months ago | communitynewspapergroup.com | Dan Callahan

All registered Democrats are invited and encouraged to attend the 2025 caucuses starting at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 17, 2025. We will meet at Denali’s, 1749 Golf Course Blvd., Independence. Many will meet at 5 p.m. for dinner. We will fill the leadership roles, and the Central Committee. We will also work to build our party to withstand the travails we see daily. We must organize and unite to protect democracy.

Oct 23, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Brogan Morris |Josh Slater-Williams |David Parkinson |Dan Callahan

The setting might be contemporary New York or civil war-era Missouri, 18th century England or a magical realist stretch of the Pacific Ocean, but for Ang Lee the approach remains constant: “Wherever I shoot my film, it is a Taiwanese film.” Lee, born and raised in Taiwan but based since the 1970s in the US – where he’s made most of his films, beginning with his debut more than three decades ago – mostly makes Hollywood films that are atypical for mid- to big-budget American cinema, the pace...

Oct 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |David Parkinson |Dan Callahan |Michal Leszczylowski

“Thanks for coming out on this really shitty day,” said moderator Amy Raphael when introducing “the singular” Mike Leigh at his Screen Talk. She was referring to the rain that hammered everyone who made their way to NFT1 at BFI Southbank, though the wet weather for the festival’s final day didn’t dampen enthusiasm for the great filmmaker on stage, in jovial form himself.

Oct 18, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | David Parkinson Obituaries |David Parkinson |Dan Callahan |Michal Leszczylowski

Canadian-born Alvin Rakoff, who has died at 97, worked at the dawn of television, helped discover Sean Connery, and directed films including the cult horror Death Ship. 18 October 2024It’s a shame that Alvin Rakoff, the Canadian director who has died at the age of 97, should have waited until his 10th decade to write his memoirs.

Sep 27, 2024 | rogerebert.com | Dan Callahan

The essence of Maggie Smith's greatness as an actor was in her timing. She could be extravagantly physically expressive, getting bold effects with the angular tilt of her head and particularly with the gesticulations of her arms and her snake-charming wrists, which seemed to have a life of their own. But what made her so lethal was her timing, the way she could emphasize a syllable of a word or take a pause to really make a barb land.