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If Ann Dowd could have explained why “The Leftovers” was important three years ago, everyone within earshot would have been watching. But she didn’t know then. She had to live it first.

“Depending on the day, if someone asks me about Patti, I can’t get through the conversation,” Dowd said, in an interview with IndieWire. “You didn’t play those parts. You lived them.”

For three seasons, Dowd portrayed the confounding antagonist-turned-hero Patti Levin. She earned the series’ first and only Emmy nomination in 2017 (her second of the year, along with “The Handmaid’s Tale”).

“I think if you were to internally poll all of us — Justin, Carrie, [director and producer] Mimi [Leder], [music supervisor] Liza Richardson, the editors, and all the actors — and say, ‘The Leftovers’ is only going to get one nomination — and we’re taking [Outstanding Drama] Series off the table’ — I think everyone would’ve written down ‘Dowd,'” co-creator Damon Lindelof said.

This story originally appeared on EW.com.

The U.S. may have already hosted their biggest night in music earlier this month, but just across the pond, the United Kingdom is gearing up for their own star-studded music awards show, the Brit Awards, set to begin Wednesday afternoon Et.

The late David Bowie and grime artist Skepta are expected to win big, as both are up for best british male and british album of the year at the ceremony, hosted by Dermot O’Leary and Emma Willis.

In addition to a tribute to British legend George Michael, the show will...

Variety is reporting that Bill Nunn—who played Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s pivotal 1989 drama Do The Right Thing, and editor Robbie Robertson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies—has died. A celebrated actor of television, stage, and screen, with more than 70 credits to his name, Nunn was 62.

Nunn got his start as an actor in 1988, when he played country boy Grady in Lee’s second feature, School Daze. The two would ultimately work together on four films, with Lee casting the large-framed Nunn in Mo’ Better Blues, He Got Game, and, most prominently, Do The Right Thing.

As the boombox-toting Radio Raheem, Nunn served as one of the engines of that film’s slowly building wave of tension, blasting Public Enemy and giving an impassioned speech about the war between Love and Hate. When conflict erupts over the “Wall Of Fame” in a local ...

Bill Nunn, best known for his role as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing has died. He was 62. Lee took to Instagram several times on Saturday to share his condolences and love for his friend. "My Dear Friend, My Dear Morehouse Brother- Da Great Actor Bill Nunn As Most Of You Know Him As Radio Raheem Passed Away This Morning In His Hometown Of Pittsburgh," he captioned an old photo of Nunn. "Long Live Bill Nunn. Radio Raheem Is Now Resting In Power. Radio Raheem Will Always Be Fighting Da Powers Dat Be. May God Watch Over Bill Nunn.

Bill Nunn, best known for his role as Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing has died. He was 62. Lee took to Instagram several times on Saturday to share his condolences and love for his friend. "My Dear Friend, My Dear Morehouse Brother- Da Great Actor Bill Nunn As Most Of You Know Him As Radio Raheem Passed Away This Morning In His Hometown Of Pittsburgh," he captioned an old photo of Nunn. "Long Live Bill Nunn. Radio Raheem Is Now Resting In Power. Radio Raheem Will Always Be Fighting Da Powers Dat Be. May God Watch Over Bill Nunn.

Bill Nunn, the actor best known for his roles as Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing and the Duh Duh Duh Man in New Jack City, died Saturday in his native Pittsburgh. He was 62.

Spike Lee, Nunn's friend from Morehouse College who cast the actor in 1988's School Daze, Nunn's first role, first announced that Nunn had died Saturday morning. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette also reported that sources close to the city's theater community and Nunn's family confirmed the actor's death. Nunn's wife told The Associated Press that the actor had been battling cancer.

Who will survive after Queen of the South Season 1 Episode 12? I don’t know, but I’m willing to make some guesses.

Certainly, Brenda appears to be the person most likely to die. What were she and Teresa thinking? That they’d find the coordinates, walk in and say, Hey we found you. Now give us $500K, like it was some giant game of hide and go seek with a jackpot prize at the end?

It's okay to be scared. The way things have been going, you should be.

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As scared as they were, and with reason after finding all of those decomposing bodies, they really needed to woman up once it became obvious their captors knew who they were.

Did they expect cartel members to play nice? How could Brenda think...

“Love and hate need no translation.”

Heralded as a daringly experimental drama, The Tribe is a Ukranian film set at a boarding school for the deaf. There is no spoken dialogue, and no subtitles for the sign language used throughout. But that doesn’t keep this first trailer from appearing any less intense. Here’s the official synopsis: “A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system.”

After first premiering at Cannes 2014 and winning three prizes, The Tribe made the festival circuit until we eventually caught up with it at the London Film Festival. In our review, John McEntee wrote “Once every few years a film comes along which immediately feels so original and vital that your preconceived expectations of the art form are challenged. Whilst that inspiring instinct is invoked by The Tribe, it is also suppressed by the film’s unrelenting brutality, on both a physical and metaphorical level.

Love and Hate Need No Translation. Drafthouse Films has debuted a trailer for their upcoming release of Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's The Tribe - an award-winning, highly-acclaimed, powerful film from Ukraine that is presented entirely in sign language without any subtitles. Wondering what that's like? Or want to get a feel for the very edgy, very dark topics the film covers? Then give this trailer a look, and hopefully you'll take a chance on seeing this film. One of the critic quotes included the trailer comes from friend of the site Raffi Asdourian of The Film Stage, who wrote in his review that "the scope and ambition of the narrative propels it to something more grandiose" and that it's a "groundbreaking, one-of-a-kind experience". Indeed. Here's the new Us trailer for Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's The Tribe, in high def originally from Apple: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy's The Tribe is an undeniably original and...

If there is one experimental film you take a risk and see, it should be this - Miroslav Slaboshpitsky's The Tribe, a powerful and mesmerizing Ukrainian film presented entirely using sign language, without any subtitles. It has been playing at festivals all over, from Cannes to Sundance to Tiff to AFI to Denver, and the Locarno Film Festival, where I saw it. In my review, I wrote "this is a film that deserves all the acclaim it's getting for being so unique, so incredible, so bold in concept and execution." While the film has had posters before, this one really goes for sign language over all else. But oh there's so much more to see in it. I also dig the tagline they're using now and seem to pushing: Love and Hate Need No Translation. See below. Here's the new poster for Miroslav's The Tribe, debuted by Indiewire. Can we expect some Mondo art,...

You’ve given me the support I needed to go forth and try to get this done. Granted, I had enough support from the beginning to actually believe there was a chance I could not just make movies, but make good movies. That is a real gift, an advantage few have. Courage, faith — those things were there, but so was doubt and fear. Love and hate. The wolves in battle.

What if it didn’t work? And then when that was true, when it did stop working, or at least start to stop working for most, what made me think I could help build something better?

What gives us the strength to make big decisions? To change our path? To take on new burdens?

Again, it was the support. So what if it wasn’t really there? At least not from those that I thought promised me? Does it really matter?...

(Charles Laughton, 1955; Arrow, 15)

One of the greatest, most influential directorial debuts in movie history, The Night of the Hunter was a major critical and commercial failure in 1955, and Charles Laughton never directed another film, which was bad for him, bad for us and bad for Norman Mailer, whose The Naked and the Dead was to be Laughton's follow-up project.

Based on Davis Grubb's gothic novel, it's a grim fairytale for adults set in poverty-stricken West Virginia during the depression and centres on a father going to the gallows for murder after concealing some stolen money in his little daughter's doll and swearing her brother to secrecy. An ogre in the form of a psychotic preacher (Robert Mitchum's best, most scary performance), who'd shared a cell with their father, is after the loot. When this monstrous figure of pure evil takes over the impoverished family, the children flee down the Ohio river,...

Director Charles Laughton’s and screenwriter James Agee’s adaptation of the novel The Night of the Hunter has become a reverently admired and extremely influential film in the 60 years since the ‘failure’ of its initial release. The film has placed very highly in many international critical polls, including Cahier du Cinema’s 2007 listing of the ‘100 Most Beautiful Films’, where it sits at #2. Many filmmakers have cited it as a key inspiration, and Steven Spielberg showed it to the crew of E.T. in order to help them understand the child’s perspective from which he wanted the film to be told. It was even re-made as a virtually unwatchable 1991 TV movie with Richard Chamberlain as Harry Powell, and a musical stage version was created in the late ‘90s for which a soundtrack CD is available.

Perhaps the most important indication of the esteem in which the film is now held...

While The Good Wife's phenomenal fourth season ended in slight ambiguity, there is no doubt when season five opens that Alicia Florrick plans to defect from Lockhart/Gardner and launch a new firm with Cary Agos. The only question remains as to when -- and how -- she can take that leave. But once she does, the fun is just getting started, according to creators Robert and Michelle King.

And I'm thrilled to report The Kings are not lying about the sheer amount of fun lying in wait if my premiere episode screening is any indication! 

To find out what else to expect from the upcoming fifth season, I sat down with Robert and Michelle King to discuss the fallout from Alicia's abdication, if Diane will be next, how they plan to eliminate Will's "puppy dog eyes" and what they're most excited for fans to experience this year!

ETonline: What would you say is the overarching...

The 1st Kolikata Independent Film Festival, a festival of Independent Short Films, Documentaries and Feature Films, will be held from September 11-13, 2013 at Derozio Hall, Presidency University, College Street, Kolkata.

Detailed Schedule of the festival:

Day I

11:30am: Inauguration

12:00pm: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa by Sankar Karmakar (Fiction, 45 mins)

1:00pm: Plus by Joydip Dam (Fiction, 10 mins)

1:25pm: Chura Liya by Saurav Chattopadhyay (Fiction, 24 mins)

Break, 10 mins.

2:15pm: Students’ Films (4 short films by the students of Presidency University)

Break, 5 mins.

4:00pm: Replica by Sriparna Dey (Fiction, 20 mins)

4:35pm: Memories of a Dead Township by Anamitra Roy (Fiction, 20 mins)

5:10pm: Discussion- Exploring the language of Independent Film.

Panelists:

Moinak Biswas (Hod of Film Studies, Jadavpur University),

Shyamal Karmakar (Hod of Editing, Srfti),

Amitava Chakraborty (Filmmaker, known for Kaal Abhirati, Cosmic Sex etc.)

& Sankar Karmakar (Filmmaker, known for documentaries like Anya Andhar & Poramatir Mukh)

Break,...

Lessons in awkward kissing, Mary Lambert flirts with love in “She Keeps Me Warm,” Glee teases Klaine proposal

We mentioned in Briefs that Pat Robertson claimed that gays in San Francisco were using special cutting rings to give people AIDS. Cbn has forced the clip down from Right Wing Watch, which seems pointless. But Robertson has doubled down on his claim. “In my own experience, our organization sponsored a meeting years ago in San Francisco where trained security officers warned me about shaking hands because, in those days, certain AIDS-infected activists were deliberately trying to infect people like me by virtue of rings which would cut fingers and transfer blood. I regret that my remarks had been misunderstood, but this often happens because people do not listen to the context of remarks which are being said. In no wise (sic) were my remarks meant as an indictment of the homosexual community or,...

Not long after I published my piece on the poster for Ozu’s Lady and the Beard a couple of weeks ago, I got a message from Nick Wrigley alerting me to this beautiful poster for a 1934 Mizoguchi film, The Mountain Pass of Love and Hate. Nick, as his twitter bio states, was the “founder and overseer of The Masters of Cinema Series” from 2004–2012 and is “now doing other things.” One of those things would seem to be digitizing some glorious ephemera of early Japanese cinema. On his Tumblr feed Enthusiam.org he recently posted 214 rarely seen photos of Ozu from a Japanese book on the director. He’s looking for translations to the captions so if I have any Japanese readers please take a look and help out if you can.

Likewise, it turned out that the Mizoguchi poster was also from a Japanese annual devoted to the director...

Love and hate stories are nothing new in Bollywood. In fact it is the part and parcel of the life in tinsel town. The new entrants to join the fray is director Madhur Bhandarkar and actor Arjun Rampal. The rumors were already doing the rounds that Arjun Rampal was not happy about the promotion and treatment of the movie ‘Heroine’. The actor felt his character in the movie was sidelined and was completely hidden in the promos. The discord grew so intense that the actor changed his hairstyle and looks even before the shooting of Heroine got concluded. However, Madhur was quick to put all the controversies below the carpet. He laughed aw...

Peter Kimpton tops up our writers' favourite film series with an ode to Charles Laughton's 1955 thriller, a tale as dark and disquieting as a half-forgotten dream

Want to write your own review of the film? Do so here – or brave the cut-throat comments section below

Motionless for 90 minutes, I could not even remove my coat. I sweated and shivered. I felt in shock. Was the film recreating scenes from my sleep? I had never seen, as far as I can recall, The Night of the Hunter. That is until a cold, wintry night in the 1990s when, working in Glasgow, I went to the city's Gft cinema to catch a new 35mm print of Charles Laughton's 1955 masterpiece. It was his only film as a director. Critics panned it on its release, consequently killing off the actor's career behind the camera, and perhaps robbing history of further works of greatness.

Most Welcome Return: The Vampire Diaries, whose writers not only continue to amaze us with their seemingly never-ending array of methods in which to extract blood from an ever-expanding cast of beautiful people, but surprise us with jaw-dropping twists following some surprisingly unexpected vampire-werewolf-hookup-hawtness.

Understatement Of The Week: Upon finding out in front of a studio audience that his former fiancé — whom he’d been hoping to win back — had gotten engaged to another man, Bachelor Pad’s Michael uttered, “I’m sorry, that’s super awkward.” He then added, “Really? Here, though, is where everyone… they find out? Even like a letter would be great, or an E-mail prior!”

Reason 5,432 We Are Jealous Of “Real” Entertainment Reporters: Oh, to be part of the annual tradition in which press corps members compete against one another on an actual Survivor challenge.

Easiest Way To Spot A Financially-Troubled TV Personality: Tune in...

Great news for fans of the classics, and I mean real classics, and that is the upcoming Blu-ray release of the Lon Chaney movie The Phantom of the Opera. Image Entertainment will be unleashing this beauty on November 1st and it will contain no less than three versions of the movie. Can you believe that this gem is 86 years old now? It’s original release being way back in 1925.

Below you can take a gander at all the specs and extras you can expect on this plush looking release.

Produced by renowned silent film authority and preservationist David Shepard, the Phantom of the Opera Blu-ray™ includes the following versions:

Brand-new HD digital transfer of the 24fps version of 1929 reissue (Academy Aspect Ratio; 16×9 pillar-boxed) from the 35mm negative, with tinted sequences including the Bal Masque sequence in two-strip Technicolor. Featuring a brand new music score by Alloy Orchestra, plus Gaylord Carter’s famous theatre organ score,...

“If I am the Phantom, it is because man’s hatred has made me so… If I shall be saved, it will be because your love redeems me.”

Image Entertainment has announced the arrival of Lon Chaney’s silent masterpiece to the High-Definition realm!

On November 1st, the makeup artistry and true cinematic pioneer that is the Phantom Of The Opera will be released for the first time on Blu-ray! The Blu-ray will feature three versions of the film, the theatrical trailer, a photo gallery, the complete script, and Gaylord Carter’s famous theatre organ score as recorded in stereo!

Lon Chaney was the “Man of a Thousand Faces.” Generations of filmgoers the world over have been thrilled by his portrayals that showcased – and more often than not, empathized with – the shadows of human nature.

The Phantom Of The Opera is an allegory of desire, featuring Chaney’s tour-de-force performance.

We’ve been really excited for this Blu-ray and have been reporting on it for the last few months, but now Image Entertainment has issued a press release with all of the details for the Blu-ray release of Lon Chaney’s The Phantom of the Opera.

“Chatsworth, CA — He was the “Man of a Thousand Faces.” Generations of filmgoers the world over have been thrilled by his portrayals that showcased – and more often than not, empathized with – the shadows of human nature. And now the makeup artistry of a true cinematic pioneer can be seen in high definition! On November 1st, Image Entertainment releases the Lon Chaney classic Phantom of the Opera for the first time on Blu-ray™! The Blu-ray™ features 3 versions of the film – assembled together for the first time in a single release — including a brand-new high definition digital transfer from the 35mm negative, plus Gaylord Carter’s famous theatre organ score,...

Platoon (2 Disc Blu-Ray/DVD Combo)MGM Home Entertainment1986/120 mins/Rated RList Price: $29.99 – Available May 24, 2011Fresh off the critical success of Salvador, Oliver Stone finally broke into the mainstream with Platoon , his impression of the Vietnam War, taken from when he observed it first-hand as a grunt. Stone uses an innocent, middle-class, college drop-out, who volunteers to join an infantry unit for patriotic reasons, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), to be his alter ego. As the narrator and letter writer to his grandmother, which allows us to hear his personal reactions to what is happening, it is through Taylor's eyes that we see the savagery of the war. The first thing the young man sees as his transport plane lands in Vietnam in 1967, are all the body bags and the disheartened looks of the soldiers leaving to go back home. His unit will be somewhere near the Cambodian border where just existing...

Twelve years on from the hugely acclaimed East Is East comes its sequel, West Is West. Sarfraz Manzoor examines the new directions British-Asian film-makers are taking

Ayub Khan-Din was in his first year at drama school in Salford when his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Khan-Din, the mixed-race son of a Pakistani Muslim father and a white Catholic mother, found that each time he came home, another slab of his mother's memory had disappeared. The past, with all its stories, was slipping into the void, and Khan-Din became determined to try to preserve his parents' history and his own experience of growing up.

Although he was studying to be an actor, Khan-Din started writing. At the time, Asians were rarely glimpsed on screen in the UK unless they were being beaten up by racist skinheads, running corner shops or fleeing arranged marriages. Khan-Din wanted to tell a different story...

Love and hate are a powerful combo. Especially for Dancing With the Stars. The series just scored its most-watched season closer since a certain love-her-or-hate-her hoofer not named Bristol Palin made the ballroom finals? We refer to Marie Osmond, arguably Dwts' original is-she-really-that-good title contender.  Last night's show, featuring Jennifer Grey's triumph over Kyle Massey and the lightning rod from Alaska, averaged an estimated 24.1 million viewers, the franchise's biggest finale audience since Osmond came up short to Helio Castroneves and Mel B in November 2007. Nearly 26 million caught the show's final half-hour.   Because Nielsen doesn't offer...

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, and arguably the most comprehensive ranking system on the Internet.

It’s because of this that we at HeyUGuys (and in this case we is myself and Barry) have decided to set ourselves a project. To watch and review all 250 movies on the list. We’ve frozen the list as of January 1st of this year. It’s not as simple as it sounds, we are watching them all in one year, 125 each.

This is our 28th update, my next five films watched for the project. You can find all our previous week’s updates here.

There are Star Wars people, and Star Trek people. Some people dig Bugs Bunny; others love Mickey Mouse. There’s DC folks, and those who Make Theirs Marvel. There’s the “boxers” crowd…and the “briefs” bunch. Red states. Blue states. You may have heated debates over any (or none) of these ways of seeing the world, but most of the time, the stakes of these discussions aren’t as very high as they might initially seem.

There are those who think humanity is worth preserving, and those who believe we ought to self-destruct our way back into a feral wasteland. That’s the discussion that takes place in Irwin Allen’s first live-action feature film, The Story of Mankind.

And that discussion is a hoot and a half!

Readers of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States and devotees of Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen...

Lady GaGa is upset when she found out that her Little Monsters were met by protesters from Westboro Baptist Church during her Monster Ball concert in St. Louis on Saturday night, July 17. She quickly wrote on Twitter to reach out to her devotees.

"At the risk of drawing attention to a hateful organization," she tweeted that day, "I would like to make my little monster fan aware of a protest being held outside the Monsterball in St.Louis tonight. Although we have had protesters before, as well as fundamentalists at the show."

People from the extremist group lined up outside the concert venue, holding signs which read "God hates Lady Gaga." They also accused the singer of teaching "rebellion against God," writing "There appears to be little to no hope for her, but who is to say what is doing with the souls of those who may be swarming to...

Sir Anthony Hopkins.

When I was asked by Venice Magazine to interview Anthony Hopkins in September of 2002, then-as-now he was regarded as perhaps the greatest living actor in the English-speaking world. That said, I wasn't sure what, or whom, to expect. Hopkins was known for having a somewhat mercurial personality, as well as not being a man to suffer fools gladly. Fortunately, I found him to be a very friendly, open and erudite gent with a remarkably diffuse and quite brilliant mind. Below, when Hopkins starts talking about his experience on Richard Attenborough's film Magic, notice how the conversation shifts suddenly to the Bee Gees, John Travolta and Saturday Night Fever, then effortlessly back to the topic at hand. This was my impression of Anthony Hopkins throughout our talk: insatiably curious about everything, even his memories, and able to mentally multi-task with an ease that was quite breathtaking.

Our...

This is the second part of a two-part interview. Part one can be found here.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: In writings about your films, versimillitude tends to get emphasized. A "documentary" aspect. But it's more important that something should feel real than that it is real, right?

Ramin Bahrani: Exactly. Little Deiter Needs to Fly: that guy doesn't really open and close his door the way he does in the film. But that's in him. Herzog just exagerrated and staged it.

Vishnevetsky: And Bells from the Deep—have you seen that one?

Bahrani: Yeah— those people are just drunk, they're not really praying! But he shoots them on the ice and he puts the right music to it, and it feels like a spiritual moment. It feels true.

Vishnevetsky: It's not very fashionable for people to talk about truth nowadays. But is that something that your after—trying to convey the truth of some situation?...

Let Robert Mitchum tell you the story of left hand/right hand (or why he's got Love and Hate tattooed on his fingers) playing a mad preacher in Charles Laughton's creepy and terrifying Southern gothic classic. The Night of the Hunter  Dir. Charles Laughton (1955) Surreal, dreamy, and brilliant, Charles Laughton's only proper turn behind the camera (he had a long and lengthy acting career) is one of the best films of the 50s (and ever) with a legendary performance from Robert Mitchum as preacher Harry Powell. (The film would pair nicely with Mitchum's other staggering performance in The Friends of Eddie Coyle.) What makes The Night of the Hunter so scary? Why does it cast a strange, lingering spell? Some of that can be credited to the story, based on the novel by Davis Grubb and adapted by the brilliant and prolific writer...

This was supposed to get here two weeks ago. This was also supposed to contain different bands to the ones I review this week. Essentially, nothing has gone right.

Eight months ago I changed from a PC to a Mac. I needed to acquaint myself with Final Cut and my PC at the time was very low spec. Eight months is all it lasted before the hard-drive died. The reason why I’m talking about a laptop in a music review column is because I had written a Musical MySpace article I was particularly proud of, but before I could send it to anyone… well, Apple fucked up. Considering I vowed to review Every band that sends me a friend request, you would think I need to go back and write my views on these musicians again, right? Unfortunately, MySpace apparently deletes friend invites after about a month, and despite...