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Before Hollywood’s biggest night gets underway, The Hollywood Reporter is counting down to the 2025 Oscars with a streaming preshow that will deliver expert analysis, insider predictions and behind-the-scenes coverage viewers can’t see anywhere else.

THR‘s Awards Countdown: Oscars Edition at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood starts streaming at 9 a.m. Pt / 12 p.m. Et on Sunday before the ceremony, hosted by Conan O’Brien, kicks off live on ABC at 4 p.m. Pt / 7 p.m. Et.

Watch the stream below and continue to follow The Hollywood Reporter throughout the night to see which movies and actors take home the golden trophies.

Emilia Pérez leads this year’s Oscar nominations with 13 nods, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked, which tied with 10 noms apiece. A Complete Unknown and Conclave both received eight mentions each.

All five of those films will compete for best picture with Anora, Dune: Part Two,...

The Hollywood Reporter is counting down to the 2025 Oscars with a streaming preshow on Sunday that will deliver expert analysis, insider predictions and behind-the-scenes coverage ahead of Hollywood’s biggest night.

Straight from the iconic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, right across the street from the home of the Academy Awards, the Dolby Theatre, THR’s film and awards experts will weigh in on the ceremony’s top categories, including best actor, best actress and best picture, ultimately revealing their final predictions for who will take home the honors on Sunday night.

Will Demi Moore win best actress and give an emotional, inspiring speech? Could Timothée Chalamet become the youngest person to be named best actor? And which film will receive the top prize of best picture? THR’s experts will explore these questions and more during Awards Countdown: Oscars Edition.

The preshow will also feature a deep dive into...

Giuliano Montaldo, the admired Italian filmmaker who wrote and directed Sacco & Vanzetti, the John Cassavetes-starring Machine Gun McCain and every episode of the big-budget 1982 miniseries Marco Polo, has died. He was 93.

Montaldo died Wednesday at his home in Rome, his family announced.

His big-screen résumé also included The Reckless (1965), starring Renato Salvatori; Grand Slam (1967), starring Janet Leigh; Giordano Bruno (1973), starring Gian Maria Volonté and Charlotte Rampling; And Agnes Chose to Die (1976), starring Ingrid Thulin; and The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987), starring Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Stefania Sandrelli and Valeria Golino.

Of the 20 films Montaldo helmed, 16 were set to music by Ennio Morricone; no other director collaborated with the famed composer more.

Montaldo also served as president of Italy’s Rai Cinema from 1999-2004.

Montaldo’s gangster tale Machine Gun McCain (1969), which also starred Britt Ekland, Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk, and Sacco & Vanzetti (1971), about the Massachusetts trial and 1927 execution of...

The inaugural season of CBC and HBO Max series “Sort Of” leads both the television and overall 2022 Canadian Screen Award nominations with 13 nods. CBC’s “Pretty Hard Cases” and CTV Sci-Fi Channel’s “Wynonna Earp” with 11 each, and CBC’s “Coroner” and “Kim’s Convenience” with 10 each are the other leading television nominees.

The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television revealed on Tuesday 145 nominations across television, film and digital media categories. In film, Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson’s “Scarborough” and Danis Goulet’s “Night Raiders” top the nominations with 11 each, while Michael McGowan’s “All My Puny Sorrows” has eight and Bretten Hannam’s “Wildhood” and Ivan Grbovic’s “Drunken Birds” six each.

“21 Black Futures” and “For the Record” lead the digital media nominations with eight each, followed by “The Communist’s Daughter” with six.

Beth Janson, CEO, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, said: “We are so fortunate to...

Shaka King, the director and co-writer of Judas And The Black Messiah, shares some of his favorite movies.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Judas And The Black Messiah (2021)

Goodfellas (1990)

Casino (1995)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Friends Of Eddie Coyle (1973)

A Prophet (2009)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Pope Of Greenwich Village (1984)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Network (1976)

Serpico (1973)

Prince Of The City (1981)

The Battle Of Algiers (1966)

Z (1969)

Animal House (1978)

King Of New York (1990)

Oldboy (2003)

Crooklyn (1994)

Memories Of Murder (2003)

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Capernaum (2018)

Chop Shop (2007)

Gloria (1980)

Dazed And Confused (1993)

Malcolm X (1992)

The Hospital (1971)

Little Murders (1971)

Newlyweeds (2013)

Other Notable Items

Fred Hampton

The Panther 21

Jamal Joseph

Akua Njeri, formerly Deborah Johnson

Ray Liotta

Martin Scorsese

Robert De Niro

I Love Lucy TV series (1951-1957)

Robert Mitchum

Jesse Plemons

Eric Clapton

Ryan Coogler

John Cazale

Burt Young

The Rocky franchise

Sidney Lumet

Al Pacino

Making Movies memoir by Sidney Lumet

Jackie Cooper

Jean Martin...

Fred Zinnemann’s counter-assassination thriller remains topflight filmmaking, torn from reality and shot through with an unsentimental dose of political realism. Edward Fox’s implacable killer outwits the combined resources of an entire nation as he stalks his prey, and when bad luck forces him to improvise, he racks up more victims on his kill list. Step aside Bond, Bourne and Marvel — the original Jackal is the man to beat.

The Day of the Jackal

Blu-ray

Arrow Video USA

1973 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 143 min. / Street Date September 25, 2018 / Available from Arrow Video / 39.95

Starring: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Cyril Cusack, Eric Porter, Tony Britton, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham, Vernon Dobtcheff, Olga Georges-Picot, Timothy West, Derek Jacobi, Jean Martin, Ronald Pickup, Jean Sorel, Philippe Léotard, Jean Champion, Michel Subor, Howard Vernon.

Cinematography: Jean Tournier

Film Editor: Ralph Kemplen

Second Unit Director: Andrew Marton

Original Music: Georges Delerue

Written...

“I spent a lot of time reviewing the silent films for crowd scenes –the way extras move, evolve, how the space is staged and how the cameras capture it, the views used,” Nolan said earlier this year when it came to the creation of his WWII epic Dunkirk, referencing films such as Intolerance, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Greed, as well as the films of Robert Bresson.

Throughout the entire month of July, if you’re in the U.K., you are lucky enough to witness a selection of these influences in a program at BFI Southbank. Featuring all screenings in 35mm or 70mm — including a preview of Dunkirk over a week before it hits theaters — there’s classics such as Greed, Sunrise, and The Wages of Fear, as well as Alien, Speed, and even Tony Scott’s final film.

Check out Nolan’s introduction below, followed by...

Running from 1-31 July, BFI Southbank are delighted to present a season of films which have inspired director Christopher Nolan’s new feature Dunkirk (2017), released in cinemas across the UK on Friday 21 July.

Christopher Nolan Presents has been personally curated by the award-winning director and will offer audiences unique insight into the films which influenced his hotly anticipated take on one of the key moments of WWII.

The season will include a special preview screening of Dunkirk on Thursday 13 July, which will be presented in 70mm and include an introduction from the director himself.

Christopher Nolan is a passionate advocate for the importance of seeing films projected on film, and as one of the few cinemas in the UK that still shows a vast amount of celluloid film, BFI Southbank will screen all the films in the season on 35mm or 70mm.

In 2015 Nolan appeared on stage alongside visual artist...

One of the best international thrillers ever has almost become an obscurity, for reasons unknown – this Blu-ray comes from Australia. Edward Fox’s wily assassin for hire goes up against the combined police and security establishments of three nations as he sets up the killing of a head of state – France’s president Charles de Gaulle. The terrific cast features Michel Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig and Cyril Cusack; director Fred Zinnemann’s excellent direction reaches a high pitch of tension – even though the outcome is known from the start.

The Day of the Jackal

Region B+A Blu-ray

Shock Entertainment / Universal

1973 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 143 min. / Street Date ? / Available from Amazon UK / Pounds 19.99

Starring: Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Delphine Seyrig, Cyril Cusack, Eric Porter, Tony Britton, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair, Tony Britton, Maurice Denham, Vernon Dobtcheff, Olga Georges-Picot, Timothy West, Derek Jacobi, Jean Martin, Ronald Pickup, Jean Sorel, Philippe Léotard, Jean Champion,...

"We must isolate and destroy them." Rialto Pictures has debuted a new trailer for the 50th anniversary 4K restored re-release of the 1966 classic war film The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film presents an accurate historical recreation of the three-year Battle of Algiers, chronicling the escalating terrorism and violence between French military forces and the Algerian independence movement, based on the memoirs of Saadi Yacef, a leader of the National Liberation Front. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1966, and ended up with three Academy Award nominations (for Best Foreign Film, Best Writing, Best Director) after its Us release. The cast includes Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Hadjadj and Samia Kerbash. Also playing at the Nyff before hitting theaters. See the new trailer below. Here's the new 4K re-release trailer for Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, from Rialto's YouTube: A...

It’s difficult to think of movies more influential for modern filmmaking than Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 feature The Battle of Algiers. A testament to just how visceral and immersive a cinematic experience can be, it’s no surprise that the drama about Algerian independence from France is one of Paul Greengrass‘ 10 favorite films as he further pushed a similar mode of docu-style thrills.

Recently undergoing a 4K restoration for its 50th anniversary, it’ll now be coming to theaters as it screens at Nyff and will be released by Rialto Pictures on October 7 at New York’s Film Forum, Landmark’s Nuart in Los Angeles, and E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., followed by a major city roll-out through the fall. Ahead of the release, they’ve debuted a new trailer, which can be seen below, along with a poster.

Algiers, 1957: French paratroopers inch their way through the...

Director Jacques Rivette just passed away back in January. There's more interest lately in his 12-hour opus Out 1, but if you'll settle for just 2.5 hours, this unique early New Wave feature will take you inside Rivette's world of artists, students, and refugees from political persecution, all in conflict in a sunny Paris of 1958. It's just as revolutionary as an early Godard or Truffaut, but in a style all Rivette's own. Paris Belongs to Us Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 802 1961 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 141 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Paris nous appartient / Street Date March 8, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Betty Schneider, François Maistre, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost, Daniel Crohem, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Marie Robain, Jean Martin. Cinematography Charles L. Bitsch Film Editor Denise de Casablanca Original Music Philippe Arthuys Written by Jacques Rivette, Jean Grualt Produced by Claude Chabrol, Roland Nonin Directed by Jacques Rivette

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

The French New...

Yet another European art film director tries his hand at cerebral Sci-fi. Alain Resnais' openly experimental movie uses a generic time travel framework to, what else, explore the phenomenon of memory. Suicidal melancholic Claude Rich is projected back exactly one year, for exactly one minute. What could go wrong? Je t'aime, je t'aime Blu-ray Kino Classics 1968 / Color /1:66 widescreen / 94 min. / Street Date November 10, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac. Cinematography Jean Boffety Film Editors Albert Jurgenson, Colette Leloup Original Music Krzysztof Penderecki Written by Jacques Sternberg, Alain Resnais Produced by Mag Bodard Directed by Alain Resnais

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

My very first UCLA film class in the Fall of 1970 dispatched us to the Vagabond Theater to see a double bill of two 'art' movies that play fast and loose with narrative conventions: Luis Buñuel's Ensayo de un Crimen and Alain Resnais' Je t'aime,...

A long time in the making, Reach Me, from filmmaker/actor John Herzfeld brings ‘positive thinking’ and ‘self-help’ to the big screen. It stars a bevy of Herzfeld’s actor friends and friends of friends, including Sylvester Stallone, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Connolly.

The title is one of a dozen or so newcomers opening in limited release this weekend. Music Box’s Happy Valley and Kino Lorber’s Monk With A Camera are among Friday’s debuting documentaries.

Happy Valley, named after the area where Pennsylvania State University is located, dives into the child sexual-abuse scandal that rocked Penn State, while Monk looks at an unlikely ascetic who gave up life in the fast lane.

Kino Lorber also is launching Iranian Western Vampire pic A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which it is releasing with Vice Films. The title, which was born out of a previous short film, debuted at Sundance in January.

Trans-Europ-Express (1967)

Redemption films resurrects two long unavailable titles from director Alain Robbe-Grillet, a member of the Nouvelle Vague best known as the screenwriter for Last Year at Marienbad, the surrealist classic from Alain Resnais. As a director, Robbe-Grillet has a lesser known yet equally lucrative body of work, consisting of ten titles that seem to exist somewhere out in the frayed hinterlands of any sort of definable movement. Many of his titles will put you in mind of works by other filmmakers, but each title seems to walk the line between sweet dream and beautiful nightmare, defying notions of narrative and, often, logic. That said, his films don’t cater to popular tastes, and many of his titles as director seem to have floated into an oblivion, the exception being his 1983 fantasy/nightmare La Belle Captive, one of his few offerings available on DVD. Until now, that is. While the...

Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 war film tells the turbulent story of the Algerian campaign for independence from France between the years of 1954 and 1962. It remains an incredibly powerful and engrossing depiction of insurgency, guerrilla warfare and hard-line retaliatory tactics used by a dominant colonial army.

In the nation’s capital Algiers, the fight of Algerian independence was led by the National Liberation Front (Fln) who resorted to increasingly devastating and shocking tactics to achieve their aims. They regularly assassinated policemen, officials and civilians, and spread fear throughout the city’s European populous with a string of deadly bombings. After their attacks, the Fln would then retreat back into the crowded Arabic area of the city called the Casbah and thus proved incredibly difficult to root out.

The French government’s reaction to the wave of violence was to severely clamp down on the Arab Algerians’ movements to and from the city...

Hitting movie theaters this weekend:

30 Minutes Or Less - Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson

Final Destination 5 - Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta

The Help - Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer

Movie of the Week

30 Minutes Or Less

The Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Nick Swardson

The Plot: Two fledgling criminals kidnap a pizza delivery guy (Eisenberg).

The Buzz: Sure, this isn’t typical fare for #1 at the box office, and it’ll be lucky to strike it rich, but 30 Minutes Or Less has got a lot going for it. Helmed by director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) and starring Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland), this film should garner a lot of (possibly) warranted attention. This is Michael Diliberti’s first screenplay, so that’s scary territory, but based on the trailer, the film looks to have good writing and an interesting/funny story to tell. The...

Rank the week of August 9th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Paul

(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #764

Win Percentage: 55%

Times Ranked: 7626

Top-20 Rankings: 22

Directed By: Greg Mottola

Starring: Simon Pegg • Nick Frost • Seth Rogen • Jane Lynch • Sigourney Weaver

Genres: Adventure • Comedy • Road Movie • Science Fiction • Sci-Fi Comedy • Adventure Comedy

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Super

(DVD & Blu-ray | R | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #2200

Win Percentage: 54%

Times Ranked: 2471

Top-20 Rankings: 11

Directed By: James Gunn

Starring: Rainn Wilson • Ellen Page • Liv Tyler • Kevin Bacon • Michael Rooker

Genres: Action • Action Comedy • Black Comedy • Comedy • Comedy Drama • Comic-Book Superhero Film • Drama • Satire • Based-on-Comics

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Jumping The Broom

(DVD & Blu-ray | PG13 | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #16475

Win Percentage: 32%

Times Ranked: 46

Top-20 Rankings: 2

Directed By: Salim Akil

Starring: Angela Bassett • Paula Patton • Meagan Good • Laz Alonso • Julie Bowen

Genres: Comedy • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy • Drama

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Your Highness

(DVD & Blu-ray | R...

Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit Josephine Baker, Abbas Kiarostami, The Band's Visit, The Battle Of Algiers: Arabs & Muslims on TCM Schedule (Et) and synopses from the TCM website: 8:00 Pm Princess Tam Tam (1935) A French novelist passes off a Tunisian shepherdess as royalty to get back at his cheating wife. Dir: Max Montagu Cast: Josephine Baker, Albert Prejean, Germaine Aussey. Bw-77 mins 9:30 Pm The Band's Visit (2007) An Egyptian police band gets lost in Israel. Dir: Eran Kolirin Cast: Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour, Ronit Elkabetz. C-87 mins Letterbox Format 11:15 Pm Rana's Wedding (2003) When her father orders her to marry, a Palestinian girl searches for her lover in occupied Jerusalem. Dir: Hany Abu-Assad Cast: Ismael Dabbagh, Clara Khoury, Khalifa Natour. C-86 mins Letterbox Format 1:00 Am The Battle Of Algiers (1967) Algiers revolts against the French Foreign Legion. Dir: Gillo Pontecorvo Cast: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag. Bw-...