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Alfre Woodard spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1992 and 1993 about Bopha!, directed by Morgan Freeman, where she played the wife of a Black policeman (Danny Glover) in South Africa during apartheid. Bopha is a Zulu word meaning arrest, imprison.

Queen of trash? Feminist writer? Powerful emissary of women’s secret sexual desires? Gay icon? Insightful, affectionate, none too critical, Laura Fairrie's new documentary about the life of novelist Jackie Collins, aptly titled Lady Boss, aims to reveal the “real” woman behind and beyond the exterior veneer. Over a period of four decades, Jackie Collins, who was born in London in 1937, produced 32 novels, all of which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list.

Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives debuted in 1977 as the first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identities and lifestyles, made by openly gay filmmakers. The Mariposa Film Group, comprising Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein, Lucy Massie Phenix (Winter Soldier) and Veronica Selver, sought to create a film that would be free of political didactics, one that would simply tell the stories of what it means to grow up gay in America.

Though better known, Gus Van Sant's 2008 Golden Globe and Oscar winning biopic, Milk, starring Sean Penn, was not the first feature about the gay pioneering politician Harvey Milk, or about the socio-political era in which he rose to power as the first openly gay man elected to office. In 1984, Robert Epstein and Bob Friedman made the The Times of Harvey Milk, a feature, which, among other things, prepared the background for other features about AIDS, such as Parting Glances (1986) Longtime Companion (1990), and Poison (1991), to mention just a few titles.

Dreams and courage inspire Brazilian filmmaker Allan Deberton. He tells HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana he would play that he was a movie director when he was a kid.

In a surprise twist worthy of a horror flick, A Quiet Place Part II did not return to the number one position on its second weekend, as many predicted. Instead, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It topped the domestic box office.

After his successful turn as attorney Victor Sifuentes in the TV drama L. A.

Five decades after it was made, Sunday Bloody Sunday is just as poignant and intelligent as it was back in 1971, when initially released. John Schlesinger’s mature tale was nominated for major Oscars and won the Golden Globe for Best English-Speaking Foreign Film (a category since discontinued), earning a Best Actor nomination for Peter Finch.

Matt Bomer looks good no matter what he wears, but he displays innate style of the preppy variety. Guys can be inspired by his simplicity which makes it easy to to emulate.

The Cannes Film Festival may have moved from its pre-COVID May dates and will instead take place in person from July 6-17, but the return to tradition was apparent when festival president Pierre Lescure and director Thierry Fremaux announced the line-up of 63 films from the Normandie Theater in Paris with the poignant opening statement: “Cinema is not dead”. A French-made (albeit English-language) film will open the 74th annual edition on July 6 at the Palais du Festival.