#oscar winner
Congratulations to Ariana DeBose for winning the Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance as Anita in “West Side Story” (2021). Rita Moreno won the same award for playing Anita in the 1964 version of the musical.
In her acceptance speech DeBose spoke about the importance of representation and opening doors for marginalized people.
“Imagine this little girl in the back seat of a white Ford Focus, look into her eyes. You see an openly queer woman of color, an Afro-Latina, who found her strength in life through art. And that is, I think, what we’re here to celebrate.”
DeBose came out to her grandparents in 2015. She identifies as Queer.
In 2017 she met Sue Makkoo, a costume designer and professor, while working on Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (DeBose played Disco Donna). They are currently in a relationship and attended the 2022 Oscar’s ceremony together.
DeBose and actress Jo Ellen Pellmen created the Unruly Hearts Initiative to help young people connect with organizations and charities that advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.
Tony Richardson was an English director for both stage and films. He worked for 5 decades, with his best know work “Tom Jones” (1963) starring Albert Finney. The film won 4 Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Score.
In 1962, Richardson married actress Vanessa Redgrave. But there had been gossip that their marriage would not last. Tony Richardson was bisexual.
Even Vanessa’s mother Rachel Kempson expressed doubts, predicting the relationship would last ‘five years at a guess’. She was right.
Kempson spoke from experience… she too married a bisexual. Her husband Michael Redgrave came out to her before their marriage.
Richardson and Redgrave had two daughter, both who would become successful actresses: Natasha Richardson (born 1963), and Joely Richardson (born 1965).
Although Richardson had relationships and one night stands with men outside the marriage, it was his affair with French actress Jeanne Moreau that moved Vanessa to divorce him in 1967.
Richardson never publicly revealed his bisexuality. He died at the age of 63 due to complications from AIDS in 1991.
William Holden was an Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy Award winner.
“"Something I wanted to always do. Invent instruments that don’t exist. Invent sounds that don’t exist.”
Hans Zimmer, ‘Dune’ composer, gives his in-depth analysis and insider’s look at how the score was created for Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film. Dune earned Hans Zimmer an Oscar for Best Original Score at the 2022 Academy Awards"
From Youtube channel Vanity Fair: How 'Dune’ Composer Hans Zimmer Created the Oscar-Winning Score | Vanity Fair
Amazing work by this amazing composer
Have you seen that movie already?
It’s a must for sure
Enjoy…
Roma ~ Alfonso Cuarón
Schindler’s List(1993)
Women in the Films of Robert Altman
Pretentious community theater doyenne Camille Dixon (Glenn Close) and her flaky oddball sister Cora Duvall (Julianne Moore) attempt to camouflage a family scandal in the effervescent Southern Gothic farce Cookie’s Fortune (1999, Robert Altman)
***see more Altman ladies***
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Meryl Streep earning her fourteenth Oscar nomination as fabulous fashion magazine editor and boss from hell Miranda Priestly in the glamorous summer comedy hit The Devil Wears Prada (2006, David Frankel). She also won a Golden Globe and National Society of Film Critics awards, plus BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations… Oh, Meryl!
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One of Hollywood’s finest character actresses, Melissa Leo, shot by Gary Friedman for Los Angeles Times (September 2008)
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Diane Keaton in her finest dramatic showcase as tragic swinging schoolteacher Theresa Dunn in the darkly psychosexual character study Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977, Richard Brooks; featuring Richard Gere). Some notes on her performance:
“Diane Keaton projects the most electrifyingly explicit sexuality ever attained by an American actress in a psychologically plausible movie. In letting go she gives of herself much more freely than Brando did in Last Tango in Paris. She is such a knockout in every way that one regrets that the life of the character she plays has to go down the drain simply to be faithful to the stark outlines of the book. The fact remains that with Annie HallandLooking for Mr. Goodbar coming out the same year, Diane Keaton is clearly the most dynamic woman star in pictures. And any actress who can bring wit and humor to sex in an American movie has to be blessed with the most winning magic. We are not talking now of the warm, cuddly teddy-bear sex in Annie Hall, but the cold, hard, fleshy transactions in loveless lust of Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” — Andrew Sarris, Village Voice (October 1977)
“The film is not judgmental of Theresa’s sexual voraciousness and pursuit of altered states of reality. Quite the contrary, it celebrates her libidinous drive and portrays her as happy and content with her life, except on the occasions when it starts to interfere with her day job. This has a lot to do with Keaton’s startling, orgasmic performance. For the only actor who refused to disrobe in the original Broadway production of Hair, Keaton certainly rises to the occasion here. Showing her breasts unselfconsciously, lifting up her skirt to expose her ass after she straddles her professor lover, she gives a performance of rare sexual frankness and sensuality. When the film really kicks in, following Theresa to a variety of smoky, crowded bars, scoring coke and dancing with the multicultural clientele, you get a genuine sense of the character’s carnal exuberance and exhilaration.” — Bruce LaBruce, “Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Looking for Mr. Goodbar”,Talkhouse (July 2016)
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Holly Hunter at her most eccentric, as androgynous Swiss spiritual guru GJ in the first season of the New Zealand-set murder mystery series Top of the Lake (2013, Jane Campion & Garth Davis)
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Skid row alcoholic Wanda Wilcox (Faye Dunaway) becomes involved with hard-drinking writer Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke, as the alter ego of Charles Bukowski) in the semi-autobiographical character study Barfly (1987, Barbet Schroeder)
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La vita è bella,Roberto Benigni(1997):
PS: Picture not mine, credits to the owner.
Rating: 8/10
- If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I? Silence.
- You’re serving. You’re not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he’s not a servant to men.
- Buon giorno, Principessa!
- Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.
- What kind of place is this? It’s beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I’m moving here!
- You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you’re hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!
- You are such a good boy. You sleep now. Dream sweet dreams. Maybe we are both dreaming. Maybe this is all a dream, and in the morning, Mommy will wake us up with milk and cookies. Then, after we eat, I will make love to her two or three times. If I can.
- This is a simple story… but not an easy one to tell.
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