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Think fast: is there any film you had seen that didn’t have a car? Difficult, isn’t it? Cars and movies were born and developed at the same time, from the late 19th century to the early 20th, a moment when movement and speed fascinated new generations and opened opportunities for new horizons. The first moving picture – The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Gare, in 1895 -  showcased a protagonist from the previous century – the locomotive.

The idea of cross-dressing as a theatrical staple has been around since medieval England. By 1598, when William Shakespeare presented As You Like It, which featured a cross-dressing heroine who disguises herself as a young boy and followed up with The Merchant of Venice (1600) as well as Twelfth Night (1602), on-stage cross-dressing had become the norm.

We still vividly remember the little freckled redhead girl in front of us who was shy but very smart. It was her film debut in Disney’s The Parent Trap, directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers.

The temperatures are high, ice cream drips, and the sound of waves – or the splash of the pool – fills the air. Kids are on vacay and the summer spills endlessly.

Will Smith’s shocking assault of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards not only embarrassed himself, but robbed too his King Richard collaborators of their chance at a special evening, and a lifetime’s worth of associated good memories. It would be a compounded shame if, further down the line, that single act also overshadowed the full and true story of the very complex character Smith portrayed in the film, the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams.

A man dives into a pool, its cerulean water glistening against his tanned and toned body under the summer sun. “I’m swimming home!” announces Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) after a few laps to the stunned owners, a chic couple, former acquaintances, quite hungover.

The songstress may have her sights set on the big screen. Taylor Alison Swift has fulfilled just about every dream a songwriter could have on her bucket list.

Imagine one of my childhood movie-watching experiences when I was a kid growing up in Calasiao, in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines: It is nighttime in a grassy open area beside the town’s church, built in 1588. A projector shows Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii on a screen mounted atop a truck.

At the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, multi-talented American actor, screenwriter and director Liev Schreiber attended the opening premiere, eighteen years after his last appearance. ​ Schreiber, best known for his iconic role as Ray Donovan for which he received five Golden Globe nominations, held a KVIFF press day on July 2, 2022 and talked about his recent visit to Ukraine while discussing his BlueCheck Ukraine Project which he co-founded.

He only helmed two feature films in his lifetime, but for those in the know, Jack Garfein remains a venerated and influential figure in the entertainment community, a teacher whose impact was seen in foundational shifts in screen performance and storytelling. Director Tessa Louise-Salomé’s artful new documentary The Wild One, which recently enjoyed its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, lovingly illuminates this loquacious but still somewhat enigmatic artist, a celebrated Broadway director perhaps best known as the co-founder of Actors Studio West.