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Ava DuVernay: Black film-makers are told people don’t care about our stories

Academy Award winning director was speaking at Venice film festival, where she is the first African American woman to compete in its 91 year history

The Guardian - UK

Origin movie review: Ava DuVernay has made much better films than this didactic trudge

It covers an important and fascinating subject and is based on a highly respected book, but this laboured film is a real disappointment

Evening Standard

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary

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Ava DuVernay says she was discouraged from applying to Venice Film Festival: ‘You won’t get in’

Filmmaker is making history as the festival’s first African American woman to compete

The Independent UK

Venice film festival: T-shirts replace red carpet glitz as striking stars lie low

Support for the Hollywood strikes is evident as festival hopes its strong line-up makes up for lack of glamour

The Guardian - UK

Venice Film Festival 2023: forget the strikes, this festival thrives on the frisson of controversy

As the festival turns 80, it may be short on American A-listers, but there’s still a buzz

Evening Standard

7 new movies premiering at Venice Film Festival that we can't wait to see

From David Fincher, Michael Mann, Sofia Coppola, and more

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Venice Film Festival unveils A-list lineup with ‘Priscilla,’ ‘Ferrari,’ ‘Maestro’ amid strikes

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein drama “Maestro,” Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley movie, Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” will be making their world debuts at the Venice International Film Festival this fall

The Independent UK

More than mumblecore and bigger than Barbie – who is Greta Gerwig?

With the new Barbie movie, Greta Gerwig is joining an elite class of female filmmakers. Alongside Ava DuVernay, Patty Jenkins and Kathryn Bigelow, Gerwig is one of only a few women to direct a live-action film with a budget of US$100 million.

The Conversation

7 new to Paramount Plus movies with 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes in June 2023

Prestigious dramas, sci-fi brilliance and sports drama lead Paramount Plus' June movie offerings.

Tom’s Guide

The best and boldest ‘champagne’ carpet looks at the 2023 Oscars

Film and fashion fans got to see some inspired looks from Michelle Yeoh, Kate Hudson, Cara Delevingne and Rihanna

The Independent UK

Hollywood Stars Spend Oscars Eve at Annual Chanel Dinner

The night before the Oscars many of Hollywood’s biggest stars were not early to bed before the show.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Hollywood stars spend Oscars eve at annual Chanel dinner

The night before the Oscars, many of Hollywood’s biggest stars were not early to bed before the show

The Independent UK

Michael Hiltzik: These historic works are coming free from copyright. Why did it take so long?

It's well understood that Sherlock Holmes dispatched his great nemesis, Professor Moriarty, to his death in the 1893 story "The Final Problem," but not until this New Year's Day does the fictional detective shed the shackles that have bound him to an even longer-lived nemesis: the complexities of copyright law.

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The Guardian - UK

‘With my camera I don’t shoot, I heal’: director Euzhan Palcy receives honorary Oscar

A Dry White Season director takes lifetime achievement award, alongside Michael J Fox, Witness director Peter Weir, and songwriter Diane Warren

Asharq Al-Awsat

Academy Unearths Long-lost 'Race Films' in Black Cinema Exhibit

Long before Denzel Washington, Spike Lee or even Sidney Poitier, generations of pioneering and revolutionary Black US filmmakers played a key role in shaping early American cinema and dispelling pejorative stereotypes, a major new Hollywood exhibition argues. "Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971," opening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in…

Los Angeles Times

Crosby, Stills & Nash return to Spotify after taking a stand against Joe Rogan

Crosby, Stills & Nash songs are back on Spotify five months after the band mates took a stand against the streaming platform and one of its biggest moneymakers, Joe Rogan.

Los Angeles Times

Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a TV director

LOS ANGELES — When Ava DuVernay launched "Queen Sugar" on the OWN Network in 2016, she hired only women as directors — a practice she's continued through six seasons of the Louisiana-set family drama.

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Inverse

'DMZ' HBO Max review: Ava DuVernay's DC debut isn't worth your time

Despite strong performances and lively design, 'DMZ' is too simplistic and derivative to encourage wading into its borders.

Salon

Careful: This "DMZ" is full of plotholes

Ava DuVernay's sharp, cinematic series boasts a fantastic cast that gets lost in rushed and truncated storytelling

The Independent UK

Why Ava DuVernay chose not to get married or have kids: ‘My work is my heartbeat’

‘I’m going to do what feels good to me,’ the director says

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