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Friday, March 20, 2020 at 1:00PM 
Gal Gadot and celebrity friends sing "Imagine" to us from their quarantines
AV Club the Olympic Flame has arrived in Tokyo... but how will the Olympics go on?
Criterion has announced its June titles - Portrait of a Lady on Fire, whoooo!
France 24 Cannes has finally made the announcement. The long running festival will not be cancelled but postponed. It will now begin at the end of June instead of mid-Ma
After the jump including coronavirus dread at movie theaters, Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, the fate of Pixar's Onward, and more...
Film School Rejects takes a fun look at a classic stunt from James Cameron's T2: Judgment Day. How'd they do that?
Empire Edgar Wright asks moviegoers to support movie theaters while they're shut down - there are ways to do so.
Out another scary coronavirus experience, this time the designer who created Sasha Velour's iconic headdresses on RuPaul's Drag Race
Variety Baz Luhrmann talks about the halting of his Elvis movie for now
Deadline with coronavirus cutting Pixar's Onward off at the box office knees, they're just moving it to VOD (today) and Disney+ (April 3rd). It is now, by quite a large margin, the lowest grossing of all Pixar movies.
Gizmodo listens to Tom Hooper's Cats commentary
Out Schitts Creek is getting Funko Pop figures for June
Coming Soon Kino Lober is launching Kino Marquee in association with arthouse movie theaters so people can screen arthouse movies at home starting with Brazil's Bacurau
IndieWire theaters are preparing to reopen in China with a slate of blockbusters in rerelease. The cool part is that all proceeds of those rereleases will be going to the theaters themselves (since that industry has taken such a huge hit)
Adam Lance Garcia has lined up all 9 Star Wars movies in a simultaneous grid format. It's kinda cool.
IndieWire streamers should buy these SXSW titles that didn't get to premiere
Reader Comments (17)
I saw quickly the line Portrait of a Lady and Criterion and had hopes it was the 1996 Kidman movie.
markgordonuk -- ...which is an astounding film that deserves more love than it usually gets. Sorry for the off-topic comment, but I adore Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady and very rarely see people celebrating it. Maybe one day it'll get a Criterion release. Btw, The Portrait of a Lady on Fire is also amazing, of course :)
That Kino Lorber/Bacurau home distribution deal is terrific.
Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady already has a nice blu-ray release from years ago.
TPOAL is my favourite film from 96,I could watch it right now,it's on Blu Ray but not by Criterion.
It had already been revealed a while back that Portrait of a Lady on Fire was going to Criterion, so while I’m extremely excited about the release, I’m more pleased to see that An Unmarried Woman will finally be getting a worthwhile home video edition!!
And as for that other Portrait of a Lady, you can count me among its admirers. Criterion has a relationship with Jane Campion, so it’s not crazy to imagine it as a future release. What’s crazy is that an actor who has made choices as bold/audacious as Kidman doesn’t have one of her movies in the Collection already!
Portrait of a Lady is very underrated as it doesn't just feature a great performance from Nicole Kidman but also a nice supporting performance from Christian Bale.
Theatres starting to re-open in China is a really positive bit of news amongst all this darkness. They closed end of January, so ended up being closed about two months.
Obviously every country is different in terms of how they reacted and when the pandemic hit, but could two months become a ballpark figure for things like cinemas being closed and then life starting to return to normal?
Trying to think a bit positively here, in Australia, where we are about to go into winter and flu season and our government has been behind other countries in putting social distancing and isolation measures in place.
God I hope so.This is like a movie come to life.
I don't like being negative, but I do have to agree with the majority of the internet that the Imagine singalong is tone deaf (not musically, but socially).
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/03/academy-rule-changes-oscars-2021-1202219188/
https://www.vulture.com/2020/03/martin-mcdonagh-hangmen-loses-broadway-open-over-coronavirus.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_source=tw
I strongly doubt Cannes will happen in June. We'd have to see dramatic declines in transmission compared to what is expected to be coming our way... and since it's Cannes, where artists are coming from around the world, we'd have to see it almost globally.
Best case scenario: they get creative and find an exciting way to let folks view the selected films from home. But given that they revel in the glitz and the glamour, I'm not sure they'd want to open up the festival to the unwashed masses sitting at home on their derrieres.
Celebrities: *sing Imagine*
Celebrities: That’s enough activism for awhile.
Fuck multi millionaire celebrities are bloody stupid and living in their own bubble. Talking of Portrait Of A Lady, Babs Hershey was SO good and underrated, and in this thread even underdiscussed.
Portrait of lady was on the criterion channel until this month. All of campions others movies are still up I believe, not sure why that one got taken down.
That Imagine bullshit is horrifying. Gal has the audacity to open and close the song all while supporting Israel's invasion of Palestine. The se celebs can fuck off.