Jena Malone shows her stripes on the cover of ASOS magazine’s March 2015 issue, out on newsstands now! Here’s what the 30-year-old actress has to share with the mag: On her role in Hunger Games: “Sam Claflin and I were the newbies, and the rest of the cast had their own little families by the [...]
“It’s like a lot of films one sees today. Not that I see very many, but to me they are what I call ‘photographs of people talking.’ It bears no relation to the art of the cinema, and the point is that the power of the cinema in its purest form is so vast because it can go over the whole world,” Alfred Hitchcock once said. That dissatisfaction with seeing modern-day directors simply shooting actors and cutting between a multitude of shots is what motivated the fine folks over at Every Frame A Painting... Читать дальше...
There have been two films at Sundance this year focusing on influential studies in social behavioral science and the resulting repercussions. Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s “Stanford Prison Experiment” (review here) looked at the studies of Dr. Philip Zimbardo, while “Experimenter” from director Michael Almereyda examines Dr. Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiment. While the experiment itself is fascinating, the approach taken by Almereyda in using distractingly peculiar storytelling techniques... Читать дальше...
Tim Brown likes to think he is running downfield open when it comes to the Pro Football Hall of Fame voting on Saturday. There aren’t as many receivers going against the former Raiders great this year, after Cris Carter got in in 2013 and Andre Reed last year. Brown is a finalist for a sixth straight year since first becoming eligible in 2010 and only has one other receiver to compete with in Marvin Harrison. ”Certainly the logjam is not the same,” Brown said in a conference call. Brown ranks fifth all-time in receptions (1,094)... Читать дальше...
While it didn't manage to snap up any Oscar nominations, a handful of other plaudits should be more than enough to convince you to check out "A Most Violent Year." Not to mention that it's coming from J.C. Chandor, one of the most fascinating and prolific filmmakers of the moment, and comprises a cast including Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac and David Oyelowo. But if you have seen the movie —or maybe before you see it— perhaps it's best to understand the milieu against which it takes place.
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Madeleine K. Albright, chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group, Jin-Yong Cai, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the International Finance Corporation, David M. Cote, chairman and chief executive officer of Honeywell, and Jon Huntsman, chairman of the Atlantic Council, join Elizabeth C. Economy, CFR's C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies, to discuss the political, economic, and security aspects of the U.S.-China relationship and their policy implications.