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“In this state, Black women represent 10 percent of the births but we’re 20 percent of the deaths. And Tulsa is one the worst places in the country to have a baby.

Forty years have passed since the release of An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982, and everyone remembers the famous scene in which Golden Globe winner (and 4-time nominee) Richard Gere, in his immaculate white military uniform, takes Debra Winger in his arms and carries her out while her factory co-workers cheer wildly. The film, directed by Taylor Hackford and written by Douglas Day Stewart, became an international success, grossing almost $200 million worldwide.

Dr. Fiona Hill of the Brookings Institute noted in an HFPA press conference, “Hollywood is no longer dominated by movies where the Americans are the good guys, and everybody else, the bad guys.

Danger. Perseverance.

Thor: Love and Thunder is again number 1 at the box office in France. Directed by Taika Waititi with Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Christian Bale, the movie is about Thor fighting Gorr the God Butcher who intends to make the gods extinct.

For many viewers, a big part of the appeal of documentary films lies in their dutiful service as cinematic passports, having the ability to take audiences anywhere and everywhere. One downside is that this sometimes lends itself, to a devaluation of the actual art of nonfiction filmmaking.

Dubbed the most hated man in Hollywood, director Otto Preminger directed 37 films over a 40-year career. Stories of his monstrous behavior on sets are legendary.

Although Jorge Gurvich feels he’s an integral part of Israeli cinema, if something distinguishes him within that small but powerful industry, it is his Latin American soul. This can be seen in his most recent film, Back to Maracanã, a co-production with Brazil and Germany that just arrived in theaters in his adoptive country after touring numerous festivals around the world.

The 70th edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) kicked off August 4 with an Australian classic in the making; Goran Stolevski’s Of an Age.   The Australian-Macedonian filmmaker’s second film follows the brief but lingering romance between two young men over the course of one sweltering summer’s day in Melbourne in the late 1990s.

Twin Peaks, co-created by television veteran Mark Frost and auteur filmmaker David Lynch, was a trailblazing work which influenced not only countless other TV shows and future creators, but the trajectory of the medium itself. A bright-burning mélange of soapy melodrama, murder mystery, offbeat humor, psychological horror, and the supernatural, the show debuted as a mid-season replacement in April 1990, and became an instant zeitgeist hit.