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The 71st Annual Tony Awards aired live from Radio City Music Hall, the evening of June 11th.
Hilariously long run-on speeches. Truthful and violent bragging. Outdated references elongating award shows. Referencing other award show failures. And of course, musical numbers on musical numbers.
Students from the South Bronx are initiated into the Film Industry in an exclusive high-profile event hosted by their school.
Anthony Nielson’s 1991 play “Normal” makes its West coast debut this week.
Studio and network executives gathered in Manhattan on Tuesday to celebrate the accomplishments of the two most recent honorees of the Museum of the Moving Image’s 27th annual Industry Honors Salute. The night was dedicated to the tall and serene presence of the NBC Nightly News anchor, Lester Holt, and well-dressed vice president of Amazon Studios, Roy Price for their contribution to media in the recent times.
Holt, who conducted a widely-viewed exclusive interview with President Donald Trump earlier last month, is known for his calm and unflinching manner both on and off the screen. According to NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, there to introduce Holt, told the audience how minutes before the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump began, Holt, who was about to moderate the debate that “was to be viewed by 80 million people, was sitting in an adjacent office watching an old Julia Roberts movie.”
Holt, who noted that he’d had been with NBC for “almost exactly seventeen years of my career,” reminded us in his speech that journalism needs to stay vigilant today, not only due the state of the nation, but also because “our viewers, who tell us more than ever that they’re counting on us.” Holt became the anchor of NBC Nightly News in June 2015 after eight years as the anchor of NBC Nightly News weekend editions and twelve years as the co-anchor of Weekend TODAY. He is currently also the principal anchor of Dateline NBC, and has been in the position since September 2011.
Amazon’s Roy Price was introduced by Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor, who noted Price is “a great alchemist, he puts people together and makes great work.” He noted working for him and Amazon has been nothing but pleasant, although when he was first told about the role for Transparent by his agent, he recalled asking his confused agent the same question his father asked him when he got his first role on television, “What number?”
Price took the opportunity in his speech to describe the shortcomings of film, noting the strength in television and his hopes of taking television content to the next level. He was not the first to joke about Amazon Prime’s two-day delivery service, but he good-humoredly added some of his own into his talk. Amazon Studios has accomplished much in the past couple years, with its show, Transparent, becoming the first show to be produced by a streaming media service to win a Golden Globe and also win an Emmy. It also won two Oscars for Manchester by the Sea and one for The Salesman last year, landing wins in the categories of Best Actor for Casey Affleck, Original Screenplay for Kenneth Lonergan, and Best Foreign Language Film for The Salesman.
The cinematic tradition has always been a voyeuristic one. Whether it’s bodies or architecture, film is wholly concerned with the inquisitive studying of any given thing. Perhaps the most salient of those admirations is of cities. Before narrative film became a mainstay of cinema, travelogues were often the most admired of cinematic experiences. With just a single nickel audiences could experience the humid swamps of the Amazon or the arid deserts of the Wild West. Further still, patrons of the travelogue could travel to another city, take in the sights and explore the culture, all in the safety and comfort of the local nickelodeon.
That fascination with the Other locale has enabled the travelogue to evolve and coalesce with the narrative film, creating beautiful odes to beloved cities. This cultural filmic admiration has existed between many locales–New York and Paris, Buenos Aires and Italy, and Los Angeles and Berlin are just a few. But few other cities showcase this cross-culture homage better than New York and Italy–at least that’s the sentiment expressed by the Italian consulate general on a warm, sunny afternoon on the Upper West Side.
The Open Roads series was just kicking off in conjunction with the Film Society at Lincoln Center, celebrating new Italian Cinema in all its nascent beauty at the classy Leopard at Des Artistes. Whether it is a documentary exploring the rise of exorcisms in rural Italy or a Hitchcockian murder-mystery set at a G8 Summit, the festival offers a wide variety of filmic pleasures that will leave one reeling with cinephilic delight. With so many of the entries having already won acclaim in international festivals like Venice or the Berlinale, the Open Roads cinema offers American viewers the opportunity to sample some of the best that Italian cinema has to offer.
The Open Roads: New Italian Cinema series will be running from June 1 to June 7. Check out the line-up here.
Some of New York’s biggest names found their inner child at the annual Sesame Street gala on Wednesday.
Think you know who your favorite superhero is? Unless it’s already Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot and the rest of her all-star cast will have you reconsidering.
Here’s a review of “On One Condition” with Dan Daw, directed by Graham Adey. We saw the work at it’s US debut at SoHo Playhouse.