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A show as cerebral as Severance, filled with so many complex and interlocking mysteries, can often seem like the product of a select few big brains — especially since creator Dan Erickson and director Ben Stiller are so prominent in the show’s publicity. However, television is a collaborative medium, and Severance embraces that process more than you might expect. Just ask Gwendoline Christie, who recently joined the show in Season 2 as Lorne, the enigmatic director of Lumon Industries’ Mammalians Nurturable division. Lorne had a significant impact on the plot, especially in the Season 2 finale — and Christie had a lot of input into her character.

Getting the role was like a dream come true for Christie, who says she watched Season 1 of Severance with intense jealousy.

“I loved its very powerful aesthetic sense, unlike anything I'd seen before,” Christie tells Gold Derby. “It was exceptional, and I felt depressed that I wasn't in it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Opening night: March 27, 2025

Venue: Broadway’s Music Box Theatre

Written by: Oscar Wilde

Adapted and Directed by: Kip Williams

Performer: Sarah Snook

Camera Operators: clew, Luka Kain, Natalie Rich, Benjamin Sheen, Dara Woo

Running time: 2 hrs (no intermission)

Deadline’s takeaway: If only Oscar Wilde were alive to offer up a pithy description of Broadway’s playful The Picture of Dorian Gray starring the remarkable Succession actor Sarah Snook, because this is a production that most of us will need more than a few words to convey all of its exuberant theatrical dazzle.

Equal parts acting masterclass, tech wizardry, illusion and clockwork stage management, all costumed and set designed with the wit and color schemes of the most vivid Cindy Sherman photographs, Dorian Gray marks audacious Broadway debuts by both Snook and director-adaptor Kip Williams.

So what if the use of video cameras on stage is already bordering on cliché,...

Cinetic Media has signed Amalia Ulman, the multi-hyphenate behind “El Planeta,” a critically acclaimed absurdist comedy.

“El Planeta” was written, directed and produced by Ulman, who starred in the feature as well. It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film festival in World Competition. The film was then given the prestigious opening night slot at Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films. “El Planeta” is set in the industrial northern Spanish city of Gijon during the 2009 economic crisis and follows mother and daughter grifters, who resort to ever more desperate schemes to maintain their lifestyle. Ulman is currently in post on her second feature film.

In addition, Ulman’s work as a visual artist has shown at the Tate Modern and had engagements at Art Basel. She was lauded as “the first great Instagram artist” for her piece “Excellences and Perfections.” Her work has been compared to Agnes Varda,...

David Byrne, the designer of the 62nd New York Film Festival poster: “Thanks to all the volunteers, the Walter Reade Theater staff, Todomundo, Pace Gallery, and Artists for Humanity.” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze

Film at Lincoln Center has announced that David Byrne is the designer of the 62nd New York Film Festival. Byrne joins an esteemed lineup who have contributed their work to the festival, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Cindy Sherman, Saul Bass, Pedro Almodóvar, John Waters, Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, and Jim Jarmusch.

62nd New York Film Festival poster designed by David Byrne

Earlier it was announced that Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, an adaptation of the novel by William S Burroughs, starring Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, and David Lowery will be the Spotlight Gala selection. RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, and Pedro Almodóvar’s...

“I’m a survivor,” says Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. “Since I was a kid, that’s been the definition of my life. Whatever I have to do, I do it. I’m still surviving at 95.” For decades, this feisty nonagenarian toiled away in relative obscurity at the Venice studio that she shared with her husband and longtime collaborator, the classically trained ceramicist Michael Frimkess, 89. Yet in the past decade, the Venezuela-born Suarez Frimkess also has been thriving.

In 2014, she and her husband were included in the Hammer Museum’s influential “Made in L.A.” biennial, and this month, Suarez Frimkess’ funky ceramic sculptures — 178 of them — will be showcased in The Finest Disregard, her long overdue retrospective at Lacma (Aug. 18 to Jan. 5), curated by Jose Luis Blondet. Her works depict figures from her family, art history, her upbringing and scenes involving some of her favorite pop icons: Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Wonder Woman,...

CreativeChaos vmg, a producer of documentary films and series, has signed with CAA for representation.

The company, founded by Ilan Arboleda and Tom Donahue in 2010, bills itself as a “venture media group” (hence the “vmg” in its name) and is behind films including HBO’s Casting By and Bleed Out and Netflix’s #MeToo doc This Changes Everything, among other titles.

Casting By, directed by Donahue, was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy in 2014 and played a role in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences creating a casting directors branch — which eventually led to an Oscar category for casting, set to make its debut at the 2026 awards. This Changes Everything won several festival awards.

CreativeChaos also produced Hulu’s feature documentary Thank You for Your Service (also directed by Donahue), which investigated problems with mental health services in the U.S. military and led to federal funding to...

It’s only delightful to witness the attention Linda Evangelista receives when she arrives at any event these days: The legendary supermodel and breast cancer survivor has been enjoying a public comeback that began to roll out slowly when she appeared on the cover of British Vogue in 2022, but ramped up to klieg light level when she was joined by Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell on the September 2023 cover of American Vogue. What does Evangelista think about this sudden burst of attention and adulation? “That I should’ve left the house sooner!” she exclaimed with a laugh to The Hollywood Reporter at Tuesday night’s Kering’s Second Annual Caring for Women Dinner at The Pool in New York City.

The annual fundraiser, produced by the Kering Group to benefit a trio of women-focused causes, was more than enough reason to venture out, she added. “I have felt so much love this week,...

This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies, with some selections reflecting a specific day or event in September, and others chosen at random.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings feature killer baboons, deadly office drama, and more.

A Photograph (1977)

Image: Play for Today, Episode “A Photograph”

Directed by John Glenister.

BBC1’s historic anthology series Play for Today aired for fourteen years, and in that time, it produced a small number of tales that sit somewhere in the vicinity of horror. Episodes also run close to feature length, thus making them more like TV-movies. While there was low chance of finding anything straightforwardly horror in this series, which mainly focused on dramas, there is no denying the sinister quality of certain stories.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the most visible member of the artist-activist collective Pussy Riot, is now on Russia’s most wanted criminals list. The Associated Press reports that earlier today a Russian news outlet, Mediazona, found Tolokonnikova’s name on the Russian Interior Ministry’s database, which claimed Tolokonnikova faced criminal charges without specifying what those charges are.

“Oopsie, I was just added to Russia’s federal wanted list,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram next to a photo of herself flipping the bird. Tolokonnikova believes the charges relate to her art.

In 2012, Tolokonnikova...

Andrea Riseborough — the shapeshifting actress whose name is on everyone’s lips — has lived in Los Angeles since 2010. But right now she’s back in her native England, where she’s filming the HBO miniseries The Palace, a period political satire co-starring Kate Winslet. A swanky hotel tucked discreetly at the end of a narrow alleyway in London’s Soho district serves as her temporary home. Riseborough, 41, enters the hotel’s busy restaurant precisely at the agreed-upon hour — 3:30 p.m. Tea time, although she will be drinking coffee.

Nothing in her demeanor suggests someone who nine days earlier had been nominated for an Academy Award — her first, no less, after 20 prolific years of dues-paying. She is petite, practically swimming in a striped wool overcoat. Her hair is cropped boyishly short — this for another recent role, playing British Vogue editor Audrey Withers in Lee. Right now, however, it gives her...

Slapdash, direct-to-video horror sequels cropped up like weeds in the 2000s, but no title from this particular era continues to receive as much flak as American Psycho 2 (sometimes subtitled All American Girl). As people probably know by now, this began as an original movie called The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die before someone at Lionsgate had the bright idea to make it into a sequel to American Psycho. To say critics and audiences back then hated the decision would be an understatement. Yet in this time of constant reevaluation of overhated cinema, maybe Morgan J. Freeman‘s American Psycho 2 isn’t a complete misfire. Beyond the panning and massive studio meddling sits a dark and sometimes fun comedy that was never given a fair chance.

“Angrier, deadlier, sexier” says the tagline for American Psycho 2, but this lambasted sequel is far less lurid than its poster suggests. Before the present-day plot begins,...

A supernatural horror rife with family ambiguity, anger and self-discovery, Sarah Lasry’s Spell on You (La Verrue) sees the Paris-based director take the confusion and rage of her childhood and combine it with the companionship she found in the world of witches and spells. It’s a narrative which empowers her young protagonist who after being initially horrified by the warts on her nose, through them, learns to harness her own unearthly powers. Lasry explores adult themes beyond the grasp of children yet glimpsed through forbidden keyholes and cracks in doors, and unlocks the freedom of self-expression through powers unknown. Spell on You is a creeping dark burgeoning of power where the adults do not rule and an ominous presence is felt right from the seeming normality of the opening scene through to a crescendo of unbalance in its final moments. Ahead of today’s premiere, we sat down...

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Two just-opened art exhibits showcase the work of powerfully influential women who trained their keen focus on L.A. and the film industry, while a retrospective look at the oeuvre of South African artist William Kentridge opens Nov. 12 at The Broad.

Joan Didion: What She Means Hammer Museum, Westwood

Like Joan Didion herself, this new show paying homage to the famed Slouching Towards Bethlehem writer is the perfect blend of East and West coasts. Curated by her friend and mentee, New Yorker writer and critic Hilton Als, to reflect her interests and inspirations, the show tracks the places Didion lived and visited (Berkeley, Hawaii, Miami, El Salvador). Works such as Betye Saar’s 1966 assemblage View From the Palmist Window and Ed Ruscha’s 1966 photo series Every Building on the Sunset Strip join photos and archival materials, including a film poster for 1976’s A Star Is Born,...

Tucked in a corner of the Catskills, Casa Susanna was a modest private resort where cross-dressing heterosexual men and transgender women gathered on summer weekends through the 1950s and ‘60s to live as their true selves, dressed in the ladies’ fashion of the day and engaging in bourgeois social activities such as taking snapshots.

Over the past 15 years, a handful of articles, academic research, and photography exhibitions (and let’s not forget the 2014 Tony-nominated play by Harvey Fierstein) have gradually opened the door to this secret subculture of Cold War America.

Now “Casa Susanna,” a new documentary by French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz, flings it open.

Following a warmly received world premiere in Venice and screenings this week in Toronto, “Casa” lands this fall at BFI London Film Festival and select U.S. and international festivals. PBS Intl., which has global rights and is receiving strong interest, is planning an awards campaign for this year.

In an Emmys season of some truly memorable transformations on screen, Emmy Rossum leading the cast of Peacock’s “Angelyne” may be the most mind-boggling.

The legendary billboard queen of Los Angeles is well-known for her larger-than-life appearance, with breasts, hair and makeup that could only be rivaled by a Barbie doll or drag queen. That is, until Rossum stepped into the role.

She sat in the makeup chair for upwards of five hours on some shoot days and embodied the icon over six decades, with each time period requiring a totally different set of accouterments. Those included individual prosthetics on her cheeks, chin, lips, nose, forehead, eyelids, breasts and neck. Even her ear lobes required their own unique pieces. Although it sounds like a lot, prosthetic designer Vincent Van Dyke told Variety he appreciated the challenge of transforming Rossum without it being obvious how much work went into the process.

Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett is a chameleon of epic proportions: From portraying Phyllis Schlafly in “Miss America” to Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There” and Katharine Hepburn in “The Aviator,” Blanchett doesn’t shy away from being completely unrecognizable on the big screen.

It’s one of her many gifts, in fact, and one that was on full display for 2015’s “Manifesto,” for which Blanchett became a homeless man, a scientist, a funeral speaker, a tattooed punk, a reporter, and a teacher, plus seven more characters ranging from male to female, polished to grunge.

“I’ve realized over the years that my relationship with the costume designer and the hair and makeup people is really profound,” Blanchett told The New York Times in a joint interview with feminist photographer Cindy Sherman. “It’s profound to see what the character looks like, and therefore how a character might move or project.”

Yet...

The Mystery of Picasso

Blu ray

Milestone/Kino Lorber

1956/ B&w, Color / 1.33:1, 2.35:1/ 78 Minutes

Starring Pablo Picasso

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

Attending a performance in the artist’s studio is one thing—to be there at the precise moment that inspiration strikes is quite another. Peter Jackson gives us the next best thing in Get Back, his new film about the Fab Four grappling with a distinctly Beatlesque dilemma—surrender the crown or continue their reign. The Beatles, musical geniuses to be sure, have also proven marketing geniuses as well—especially when it comes to repackaging their catalogue. And with Jackson’s help, this new documentary, cobbled together from over 60 hours of film shot 52 years ago, is the ultimate repackaging project—Get Back is the only reality show we’ll ever need.

The press describes Jackson’s film as a “fly on the wall” experience but it’s more like...

Despite being a child actor and having her own sitcom at 12, the star of Transparent and new film C’mon C’mon is happiest out of the spotlight

There were only a few occasions when the famed self-portraiture artist Cindy Sherman took photos of someone else and, at just five years old, Gaby Hoffmann became one of them. In the portrait, Hoffmann remembers with a knowing snort, she was dressed as the devil. Posing for one of the world’s most famous photographers was no fluke: Sherman was Hoffmann’s stepmother (she married Hoffmann’s older sister’s father), and as a child Hoffmann would regularly run riot in her studio, throwing on costumes and playing with props. “Then when I was a teenager I lived with Cindy, and when Halloween came that’s where I would go to dress up. My kids now enjoy it. It’s a family resource!”

This...

October’s here and it’s time to get spooked. After last year’s superb “’70s Horror” lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: “Universal Horror,” which does what it says on the tin (with special notice to the Spanish-language Dracula), and “Home Invasion,” which runs the gamut from Romero to Oshima with Polanski and Haneke in the mix. Lest we disregard the programming of Cindy Sherman’s one feature, Office Killer, and Jennifer’s Body, whose lifespan has gone from gimmick to forgotten to Criterion Channel. And if you want to stretch ideas of genre just a hair, their “True Crime” selection gets at darker shades of human nature.

It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...

“Brand New Cherry Flavor” takes place roughly 30 years ago. If the murderer’s row of college radio deep cuts didn’t eventually tip you off, the on-screen setup puts the new Netflix show somewhere in the “early ’90s.” What transpires after that simple introduction is a meticulous, slow-motion fever dream, one that transpires with the occasional help of pay phones, VHS tapes, and print headlines.

The new limited series has plenty more on its mind than aping a particular time and place. “Brand New Cherry Flavor” carries all the psychological trappings that come with the curdled glamor of Los Angeles, but this is a specific kind of Hollywood story; one that exists in its own self-contained universe, detached from a conventional decade-signaling aesthetic. Very quickly, the show establishes its primary concern isn’t enduring stardom or lavish luxury. It’s a supernatural revenge tale brought on by what’s ostensibly a simple legal dispute.

FX’s upcoming docuseries about the fight for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America, “Pride,” has set its full director slate and lined up a May premiere date at the cable network.

The six-part series, which will begin with the 1950s and work forward through the decades, will see six LGBTQ+ directors explore stories ranging from the FBI surveillance of homosexuals during the 1950s Lavender Scare to the “Culture Wars” of the 1990s and beyond. Civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin, writer Audre Lord and Senators Tammy Baldwin and Lester Hunt are among those interviewed for the series.

Directors include Tom Kalin (“Swoon”), Andrew Ahn (“Driveways”), Cheryl Dunye (“The Watermelon Woman”), Anthony Caronna and Alex Smith (“Susanne Bartsch: On Top”), Yance Ford (“Strong Island”) and Ro Haber (“Pose”).

The series will premiere with its first three episodes airing back-to-back on May 14. The second half of the series will air the following week...

Lucy (Geraldine Viswanathan), the heroine of “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” is a soulfully flip 26-year-old New York art gallery assistant with a problem, or a fixation, or maybe we should call it a ruling passion. She’s so invested in her romantic relationships that each time one of them ends, she holds onto the mementos from it and treats the objects as if they were more important than the ex she broke up with. She’ll save old shoelaces, a thimble from a Monopoly game, or a pink rubber piggy bank: anything that reminds of her of the bittersweet times that were. Her Brooklyn bedroom looks like a bag lady’s knickknack museum. She’s a hoarder of lost-love nostalgia.

The movie knows this, and cracks a lot of jokes about it (the H-word is used), but it also believes in her obsession; Lucy’s over-the-top reverence for the totems...

Filmmaker and Baltimore’s favorite son John Waters has never had a movie of his shown at the New York Film Festival, but his non-film contribution to this year’s fest might just outshine some of the actual entrants: The Hairspray creator designed the official poster for the 58th annual event. (See it below.)

Paying tribute to Baltimore’s iconic, instantly recognizable Globe Posters that advertised rock & roll and R&b concerts, drag races, circuses, carnivals and other 20th Century entertainments, Waters’ brightly colored poster is, like so many of his films, both affectionate embrace and sidelong satire. An inset photo of Martin Scorsese is captioned “You Know Who He Is!”, while Agnès Varda is accompanied by “We’ve Got Women Too!”

“Since none of my films were ever chosen to be in the New York Film Festival, I was thrilled to be asked to design this year’s poster,...

When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off next week, the annual event will flood Park City, Utah, with plenty of high-powered talent, and it seems that this year’s jury members might offer up as much notoriety and star power as the people on the big screen. The Sundance Institute has announced the “25 celebrated and revered expert voices across film, art, culture, and science” who will make up this year’s juries, designed to award feature-length and short films shown at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with 31 prizes. Those names include Ethan Hawke, Dee Rees, Nanfu Wang, Isabella Rossellini, Rodrigo Garcia, artist Cindy Sherman, E. Chai Vasarhelyi, and Emily Mortimer.

All this year’s winners, save for the Festival Favorite film (which will be announced the week after the festival closes) and the Short Film Awards, will be announced at a ceremony on February 1. The Short Film Awards will be announced...

Having long since ascended to the ranks of royalty at the Sundance Film Festival, Ethan Hawke, Dee Rees, Isabella Rossellini and Gregg Araki have now been named as jurors for this year’s Utah shindig.

As well as Hawke starring in Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film award winner Tesla this Sff and Mudbound director Rees helming the world premiering The Last Thing He Wanted, the duo will be joining Rossellini, past Grand Jury Prize winner Wash Westmoreland and Rodrigo Garcia on the 2020 U.S. Dramatic Jury.

Among the other five section juries, Free Solo co-director and Oscar winner E. Chai Vasarhelyi is on the U.S. Documentary jury and the great Cindy Sherman is on the Short Film Jury. Along with a trio of others, Emily Mortimer is on the Sloan jury and, after having his Starz series Now Apocalypse debut at last year’s Sundance, Araki is the sole Next juror.

Strand Releasing has acquired all U.S. rights to Maryam Touzani’s critically acclaimed feature debut, “Adam,” which had its world premiere at Cannes in Un Certain Regard.

“Adam” is also the official entry for Morocco in the international feature film race at the Oscars. Represented in international markets by Berlin-based Films Boutique, “Adam” has been on a laureled path since its Cannes debut. It won the New Director’s Prize Roger Ebert Award at Chicago and the best first feature at the Philadelphia Film Festival, among other prizes. It also played at big international festivals such as Toronto and Karlovy Vary and will next screen at the AFI Fest.

The film stars Lubna Azabal as a woman who runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca, where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter. Their lives are transformed by the arrival of a young pregnant woman searching for work,...

Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Ina Weisse’s “The Audition,” the tense psychological drama which world premiered at Toronto and went on to win the Silver Shell Award (for Nina Hoss) at San Sebastian.

Represented in international markets by Les Films du Losange, the film stars Hoss as Anna Bronsky, an obsessive violin teacher at a high school focused on honing young talent. When Anna finds a young student, Alexander, she sets off to create a model of herself but her dedication gradually creates a tense situation and affects her personal life with her husband and son.

“‘The Audition’ features such a powerful performance from Hoss that is heartbreaking, vulnerable and unforgettable, we are proud to have the film for North America” said Strand Releasing’s Jon Gerrans who negotiated the deal with Alice Lesort of Les Films du Losange. Strand plans to release “The Audition” next Spring or Summer.

Justin Timberlake is back! Almost a month after postponing the remainder of his 2018 concerts, the “Can’t Stop the Feeling” crooner announced on Thursday that he has officially returned to his Man of the Woods Tour. In a quick Instagram video, Timberlake, 37, wears a black-and-white Cindy Sherman shirt with a black beanie and pants, and tells fans that he’ll be...

It’s not hard to see why Robert Zemeckis, a director who has often been drawn to finding the “human” side of technological flimflam, would want to turn the eccentric and touching 2010 documentary “Marwencol” into a dramatic feature. Like the documentary, Zemeckis’ “Welcome to Marwen” tells the story of Mark Hogancamp, a resident of Kingston, New York, who in 2000, outside a bar, was beaten by five louts to within an inch of his life. After spending nine days in a coma, he woke up, but his body was broken and he’d lost nearly all his memory. His friends, his failed marriage, his vast collection of ladies’ high-heeled shoes: He had no recall of any of it.

He took refuge from the trauma by designing and building a miniature World War II village, which he populated with uniformed dolls, many based on the people around him. The Belgian village of Marwencol,...

On Monday, November 5, 2018, the Elton John AIDS Foundation (Ejaf) will host its annual New York Fall Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

At this year’s gala, Ejaf Founder Sir Elton John and Chairman David Furnish will honor Ford Foundation President Darren Walker, philanthropist Patricia Hearst, and long-time advocate Joe McMillan, CEO and Chairman of Ddg, with Ejaf’s Enduring Vision Award. Nine-time Grammy Award Winning Singer, Songwriter Sheryl Crow will be the special musical guest, and Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (Eji) and the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, will be the featured speaker. CBS This Morning co-anchor and journalist Gayle King will host the event.

“At this time of great uncertainty in the world, Ejaf’s work is more important than ever, and we remain steadfastly committed to addressing the unmet needs of people...

The Hammer Museum announced today that Grammy Award-nominated recording artist Leon Bridges will perform at its annual Gala in the Garden, which will take place on Sunday, October 14.

Solange Ferguson, Elizabeth Segerstrom, and Darren Star will serve as co-chairs for the event honoring award-winning author Margaret Atwood and acclaimed artist Glenn Ligon. Also participating in this year’s program are Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson, who will deliver the tribute speeches for Atwood and Ligon, respectively. The annual celebration recognizes artists and innovators who have made profound contributions to society through their work.

International shopping destination South Coast Plaza will partner with the Hammer Museum to present this year’s Gala in the Garden. The highly anticipated event attracts cultural and civic leaders in Los Angeles, as well as artists, collectors, and patrons of the arts. Last year’s event raised $2.4 million for the museum.

Supermodel turned entrepreneurial businesswoman, fashion designer and reality television mogul Heidi Klum decided to set down some roots in the busy heart of New York City’s Soho ‘hood with the $5.1 million purchase of a fixer upper penthouse loft atop a handsome, six-story Queen Anne style building that dates to the late 1800s.

Used for decades as an artist’s studio and marketed as requiring a “Total Renovation,” the 4,772-square-foot space stretches 125-feet from end to end with ten exposed support columns lined up down the middle of the 40-foot wide space. There are airy high ceilings, honey-toned hardwood floors laid at a 45-degree angle to the rectangular space and gigantic sash windows with southern, eastern and southwestern exposures that provide an over the rooftops view of the gleaming World Trade Center and the quirky Herzog de Meuron-designed tower at 56 Leonard Street that is often referred to as Jenga Tower...

Taraji P. Henson, Sienna Miller, Queen Latifah, Heidi Klum, Adrien Brody, Halsey, Rachel Brosnahan, Sara Sampaio, Hailey Baldwin, and Kenneth Cole were among those gathered at the 20th annual amfAR Gala New York at Cipriani Wall Street to pay tribute to writer, producer, and director Lee Daniels and W Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Stefano Tonchi for their longstanding commitment to the fight against AIDS.

The event raised $1.6 million for amfAR’s life-saving AIDS research programs.

Other guests included Alexander Vreeland, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Caroline Vreeland, Leelee Sobieski, Serayah, Olivia Culpo, Joan Smalls, Lais Ribeiro, Alexandra Daddario, Odeya Rush, Coco Rocha, Karen Elson, Georgia Fowler, Nina Agdal, Sofia Resing, Alina Baikova, Ashley Graham, Justine Skye, Nicola Peltz, Anwar Hadid, Lucy Hale, Devon Windsor, Hailey Clauson, Sailor Brinkley Cook, Martha Hunt, Andreja Pejic, Blanca Padilla, Sistine Stallone, Gala Gonzalez, Valery Kaufman, Helena Borden, Jessica Hart, Paige Reifler, Sanne Vloet, Lala Anthony, Grace Elizabeth,...

At the first edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival in 1993, the programmers landed an event that instantly made it stand out: a conversation between Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. “That helped show the community we were for real,” artistic director David Nugent said in an interview. Twenty-five years later, nobody’s doubting Hiff’s bonafides.

Over the decades, the festival has settled into its early October weekend slot, traditionally overlapping with the New York Film Festival. That gives the exclusive Suffolk County gathering an edge during the awards season, which launches in the cozy mountains of Telluride and takes flight in Toronto. But Hiff provides the first opportunity for many Oscar hopefuls to reach Academy members and other influencers away from the mayhem of a crowded, industry-oriented festival scene.

“A lot of studios have seen the opportunity here,” said Hiff executive director Anne Chaisson, but it certainly hasn’t...

Some mellow choices this time on 'would you rather' because it's August, the grossest month of the year. Everyone stay air-conditioned.

Would You Rather

...sip some drink with Marisa Tomei?

...drive to work w/ Grant Gustin and puppies?

...see Greece with Paul Bettany?

...curse your diet with Josh Brolin?

...convalesce with Cindy Sherman and a camera at the hospital?

..."share a moment" with Sam Claflin?

... teach Sharon Stone's dog new tricks?

... take a contemplative trip with Juliette Binoche?

Or

... learn your place in the star food chain with Tom Holland?

Pictures are after the jump to help you decide.

Robert Longo: The Destroyer Cycle Metro Pictures Gallery, NYC May 3 - June 17, 2017

Looking at the career of the artist Robert Longo can be a philosophical meditation on style. Style, as opposed to stylization, is a key to understanding Longo’s importance as an artist, both at the beginning of his career with the Men in Cities drawings, through his large charcoal drawings of guns, to his blue-chip Abstract Expressionist paintings, and into this recent, powerful exhibition at Metro Pictures.

A lot of art that we place in the category “Eighties Art” (see this year’s Whitney exhibition, a perfect collection of specimens) rested heavily on stylization, not style. Much of this type of work was paintings that came with pre-fab “movements,” object-sculptures allegedly imbued with some post-modern sensibilities, and, most especially, the adding of “neo-“ before any historical art movement to create a new category. At first, Longo’s...

Take one Oscar-winning actor. Pair her with a German visual artist, one with a puckish sense of humor. Give her 13 different roles, including female archetypes ranging from a Southern housewife to a blow-dried broadcast newsreader, and pray that Cindy Sherman doesn't sue. And then give her some of the most (in)famous declarations of sociopolitical/artistic intent ever written – Marx to Maples Arce, Dziga Vertov to Guy Debord, Dada to Dogme '95 – to speak in lieu of dialogue, while totally in character. At this point, you are either breathing heavy...

In today's Horror Highlights, we have an update and a video for Clive Barker Presents: Reel Fear Horror Contest, as well as Ghost Brothers clips, The Ranger casting details, info on the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, and a new zombie-themed song on Coolzey and Soce the Elemental Wizard's new Ep, Coolsay Too.

Clive Barker Presents: Reel Fear Horror Contest: "Are you more of a slasher fan, or would you prefer a paranormal thriller? Do you like blood and guts, or do the twists and turns of psychological horror keep you on the edge of the seat? Well, now’s the chance for you and genre fans everywhere to greenlight your next favorite horror flick.

Public voting for the “Clive Barker Presents: Reel Fear Horror Contest” from Project Greenlight Digital Studios and Shudder officially opens today!

Filmmakers have submitted one-to-three minute pitches for their original horror film concepts on projectgreenlight.

John Giorno's God Is Manmade for the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director honoree Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The roster of nine contemporary artists participating in the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program, sponsored by Chanel, are Walton Ford, John Giorno seen in Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jorge Pardo, Rh Quaytman, Sterling Ruby (Frédéric Tcheng's Dior And I), Aurel Schmidt, Ryan Sullivan, Stephen Hannock and Tara Subkoff's #Horror executive producer Urs Fischer.

Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel (seen in Pappi Corsicato’s Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait at the festival) Chuck Close, Eric Fischl, Nan Goldin, April Gornik, Jeff Koons, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith were some of the past contributors to Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal's Artists Awards initiative.

Urs Fischer's boomboomboom, 2016, The Transit of Venus (Melanie) for the Audience Award: Documentary Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

This year's artworks for...

For those outside of the fashion industry, the name Raf Simons might not immediately ring any bells. But even if you don’t know his name, you’ve undoubtedly seen his work given that he’s one of the most high profile and prolific fashion designers working in the industry right now. After a stint at the helm of Jil Sander, Christian Dior, and his eponymous brand, Simons has now found a new home at Calvin Klein. While he officially made his debut during men’s Nyfw at the beginning of February, this marks the first time he’s presented...

Director Andrew Dosunmu made a splash at Sundance in 2013 with his film Mother of George, a Brooklyn-set story concerning a Nigerian couple trying to have a child. Four years later, the man is still in New York City with Where Is Kyra?, this time exploring how a metropolis can swallow up its older members whole, without a second thought. We spoke with Dosunmu about where this idea came from, how he collaborates with his great cinematographer Bradford Young and if his top-notch lead actors were aware of how often the camera was not focused on them at all.

The Film Stage: How did the project come together?

Andrew Dosunmu: After I finished my last film Mother of George, I wanted to do something different. And I live in the city (New York City), and people are out there. And for me, it’s like, there’s this guy on...

2016 New York Film Festival poster - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Cemetery Of Splendor director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has designed the 54th New York Film Festival poster to join the ranks of Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Richard Avedon, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Diane Arbus, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Bridges, Maurice Pialat, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons.

Bruce Conner's Angels (1986) at MoMA in New York City Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th will open the festival, Mike Mills' 20th Century Women starring Annette Bening with Billy Crudup, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann and Greta Gerwig is the centrepiece and James Gray's The Lost City Of Z with Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland and Charlie Hunnam is the Closing Night Gala selection.

“Apichatpong Weerasethakul is more than just a ‘logical’ choice to do our poster—he’s one of the world’s greatest filmmakers...

Nicolas Pariser, Alice Winocour, Melvil Poupaud, Mathieu Lamboley, uniFrance President Jean-Paul Salomé Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Melvil Poupaud walked the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema red carpet with The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu) director Nicolas Pariser, Disorder's Alice Winocour, Julie Delpy's Lolo composer Mathieu Lamboley, Bang Gang's Eva Husson, A Decent Man's Emmanuel Finkiel, John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Aurélia Thiérrée with Guillaume Nicloux and his Valley Of Love star Isabelle Huppert.

Joseph Paskin (André Dussollier) Pierre Blum (Melvil Poupaud)

Oscar Isaac in Jc Chandor's A Most Violent Year, Alain Delon in Valerio Zurlini's Indian Summer (Le Professeur), Benoît Jacquot's Closet Children (Les Enfants Du Placard), Marguerite Duras, Eric Rohmer, Xavier Dolan, Justine Triet, Fan Bingbing, and his Great Game co-stars Clémence Poésy and André Dussollier - these and more entered into a kind of Lacanian conversation with Melvil Poupaud at the Parker Meridien in New York.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are still going strong! The couple were spotted having a romantic dinner at Sunset Hotel's Tower Bar in West Hollywood on Friday night. "They were super low-key and having a good time," a source told People. "They were really sweet with each other." They must have been having a blast, because they stayed until closing time! Related Video: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Heat up in Hawaii Following Perry's split with Mayer last July, the 31-year-old has been with Bloom since early this year. Last month they were were seen holding hands at Cindy Sherman's self-portrait exhibition,...

Here's one couple that's going strong: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. The duo attended Cindy Sherman's self-portrait exhibition, "Imitation of Life," at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles Wednesday night and "both seemed very happy," says an onlooker. Though they arrived together and left holding hands, Perry, 31, and Bloom, 39, kept things low-key while browsing the exhibit and mingled separately. Related Video: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Heat up in Hawaii "They did keep an eye on each other still while admiring the collection from separate ends of the gallery," says the onlooker. "They had a very flirty energy." Perry...

Here's one couple that's going strong: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. The duo attended Cindy Sherman's self-portrait exhibition, "Imitation of Life," at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles Wednesday night and "both seemed very happy," says an onlooker. Though they arrived together and left holding hands, Perry, 31, and Bloom, 39, kept things low-key while browsing the exhibit and mingled separately. Related Video: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Heat up in Hawaii "They did keep an eye on each other still while admiring the collection from separate ends of the gallery," says the onlooker. "They had a very flirty energy." Perry...

Sarah Davis lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband Millree Hughes and daughter Meriel.

Bradley Rubenstein: What were some of your early experiences, like school, for example, where you decided to become an artist?

Sarah Davis: My radar was, What’s the best thing to be doing when you’re 80? Where are the best-looking old people? And for me, that was obviously painters, or the art world more generally. Maybe I was close to my grandparents, or maybe it came from going to high school in L.A., where the projected end was 30. Still, painting was my identity from about age 8. Every kind of picture book, and there were tons of them, was how I spent my free time. I copied everything and made up my own. Making paintings and drawings was how I socialized, from third grade on.

Br: A lot of your work deals with...

Guillaume Nicloux and Isabelle Huppert at the Valley of Love premiere Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Emmanuel Finkiel (Je Ne Suis Pas Un salaud), Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang co-writer Alice Winocour (Disorder), Nicolas Pariser and his star Melvil Poupaud (Le Grand Jeu) and Bang Gang (Une Histoire D'Amour Moderne) director Eva Husson joined Guillaume Nicloux and Isabelle Huppert on the red carpet.

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, Alfred Hitchcock casting James Bond Sean Connery for Marnie, Gianfranco Rosi's Sacro Gra and The End with Gérard Depardieu, came up in my conversation with the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema opening night film director, Guillaume Nicloux.

Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in Valley Of Love

A long divorced couple, played by Depardieu and Huppert, meet up in Death Valley after their son committed suicide months earlier. They each received a letter promising them that if...

Through no fault of Sally Field, her new movie “Hello, My Name Is Doris” kept making me think about Carol Kane. Field plays a hoarder, but unlike Kane’s character in the recent indie “Clutter,” Doris is the cute kind, one whose house remains spotless despite stacks of junk in every room. Her easy-to-clear mess turns out to be mostly metaphorical, without the sad reality of rotting food or genuine mental illness. And since Doris goes mostly unnoticed by her young, obnoxious Manhattan co-workers, I hoped she would snap like Kane in Cindy Sherman’s “Office Killer” and take us to a.

Valley Of Love Us première Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The day before the opening night New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema screening of Guillaume Nicloux's Valley Of Love, starring Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert, attended by John Waters, Cindy Sherman, James Ivory, Angélique Kidjo, Emmanuel Finkiel (A Decent Man), Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang co-writer Alice Winocour (Disorder), Nicolas Pariser and his star Melvil Poupaud (The Great Game), I met with Eva Husson for a conversation on her debut feature Bang Gang (Une Histoire D'Amour Moderne).

Eva Husson with Valley Of Love director Guillaume Nicloux Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Tara Subkoff's teenage #Horror, Ben Affleck, a cat and Gillian Flynn, author of David Fincher's Gone Girl, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street, Cervantes, C.G. Jung, Dostoyevsky, Homer, and a Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Van Gogh connection bring us into the present.

Two best friends, teenagers Laetitia (Daisy Broom...