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Oscars 2023: Fun facts about this year's nominees

Time for a round of Oscar trivia! Here are some intriguing facts about this year's slate of nominees.

Tribune News Service

Living writer Kazuo Ishiguro recalls ‘eureka’ Bill Nighy moment ahead of 2023 Oscars

How a snap decision in the back of a taxi resulted in awards recognition

The Independent UK

Guillermo del Toro Has Another Fantastical Stop-motion Movie in the Works

The Nobel Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Buried Giant' is getting the 'Pinocchio' treatment.

Inverse

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Death? Bill Nighy will worry about that later

LOS ANGELES — Bill Nighy handed me a cassette mixtape many years ago titled "Ooh Baby Ooh," a nod to the chorus of a Lou Reed rocker that was not among the 20 songs on the cassette, though there was plenty of Lou and Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield and…

Los Angeles Times

‘I was the oldest person on set’: how a doomsday comedy lured Inbetweener Simon Bird back to TV

Ambitious, warm, funny: Channel 4’s great new comedy about an apocalyptic cult was irresistible to the longtime sitcom actor – even if his castmates’ clubbing chat went over his head …

The Guardian - UK

Review: Bill Nighy's elegant performance shows character's zest for 'Living'

Conventional wisdom says it's a bad idea to remake a classic. Fortunately, "Living" ignored that wisdom.

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'Living' review: Bill Nighy captivates in this small, quiet tale

It should come as no shock that the great novelist Kazuo Ishiguro ("The Remains of the Day," "Never Let Me Go," "Klara and the Sun") has a beautifully delicate hand as a screenwriter — but nonetheless "Living," directed by Oliver Hermanus and based on Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru," arrives…

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Movie review: Bill Nighy triumphs in poignant ‘Living’

A greatly moving hybrid film, the British entry “Living” is based on the 1952 film “Ikiru” by the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, itself loosely based on Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.” The Kurosawa film features a great Takashi Shimura (“Seven Samurai”) in the lead. “Living,” which…

Boston Herald

How actor Bill Nighy and novelist Kazuo Ishiguro came together for ‘Living’

At the end of an evening with friends, actor Bill Nighy and novelist Kazuo Ishiguro decided to share a taxi home, a simple yet fateful decision which in time led to the new movie “Living.”

The Orange County Register

Review: If you doubted the greatness of Bill Nighy, a moving new drama offers 'Living' proof

Not long into "Living," Mr. Williams learns that he has not long to live. The news doesn't come as a huge shock, but even if it did, you gather, nothing about this man — not his stiff posture, his calmly appraising gaze or his thin, flat line of a mouth…

Los Angeles Times

Nobel-winner Ishiguro pens Oscar-tipped 1950s remake 'Living'

Los Angeles (AFP) - Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro has been obsessed for half a century with "Ikiru," a classic Japanese film about an aging bureaucrat who after being diagnosed with cancer races to find meaning in what remains of his monotonous life.

AFP

Living review – Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale

Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood give deeply affecting performances in this melancholy, understated tale of mortality and lost youth based on Kurosawa’s classic film, Ikiru

The Guardian - UK

Living movie review: Billy Nighy is sublime in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Kurosawa remake

The veteran actor shines in this rare outing as a leading man

Evening Standard

Kazuo Ishiguro on his first film in 17 years, defending ‘woke’ culture and his fears for young people

“We haven’t made way for the younger generation perhaps to the extent that we should have done”

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The Guardian - UK

‘I think about death 35 times a day’: Bill Nighy on sex, social media – and still being able to manage the stairs

In his new film, Living, Nighy plays a civil servant who has six months to live – a part tailor-made for him by Kazuo Ishiguro. He talks about the power of nostalgia, keeping it minimal and his close brush with Instagram

Evening Standard

Labour hopefuls battle to stand in Kensington, once a Tory ‘jewel in the crown’

LABOUR hopefuls are battling it out to be the party’s candidate for Kensington. Tory Felicity Buchan only won by 150 votes in 2019 and faces a battle to hold on next time.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Ishiguro pens screenplay of 'Ikiru' remake

VENICE -- A remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic film "Ikiru" with a screenplay by the Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro was screened at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on Thursday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Julianne Moore to Lead Venice Film Festival Jury This Fall

Julianne Moore has been selected to serve as president of the main competition jury for the Venice International Film Festival this year, festival director Alberto Barbera announced Friday. The Oscar-winning actor will preside over a jury that includes French director Audrey Diwan, whose film “Happening” won the Golden Lion last…

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Literary giant Fiona McCrae moves on from Minnesota's Graywolf Press

Fiona McCrae brought Minnesota's Graywolf Press from a small regional publisher to a worldwide literary powerhouse.

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Marwa al-Sabouni’s cultural highlights

The Syrian architect and writer on the idea of home in Branagh’s Belfast, smart Arab horses in Homs and the joy of lentils in Damascus

Irish Mirror

RTE Ryan Tubridy forced to correct major error after Morning Ireland fooled by death hoax account

Kazuo Ishiguro is very much alive

Dublin Live

RTE Ryan Tubridy tells listeners famous author is not dead after Morning Ireland blunder

Ryan Tubridy had to clear up mistaken reports that British writer Kazuo Ishiguro had passed away this morning

The Guardian - UK

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro audiobook review – a ghost in the machine

The childike innocence of the Never Let Me Go author’s exploration of what it means to be human is sweetly enhanced by narrator Sura Siu

The Guardian - UK

Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama

A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1953 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis

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