Life imitates
art as the actress Sarah Michelle Cellar, who plays Buffy, describes her own beliefs this way: «I believe in an idea of God, although it's my own personal ideal.
SL - L: After 20 years in the performing
arts as an actress, writer and producer, I made the best decision I ever made, to go into veterinary technology.
Not exact matches
Today's #GoogleDoodle marks the 104th birthday of Mexican
actress Maria Félix, whose impact on film,
art, music and fashion established her
as an icon of international cinema → https://t.co/ILDpw7IELh pic.twitter.com / jyEcICaahi
The official Instagram account for Italian museums is sharing
art by women of all walks of life,
as «saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists,
actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries.»
Celebrity supporters include
actress and singer, Jane Lynch, who is one of the founding board members of Adopt the
Arts,
as well
as John Stamos, Slash, Juliette Lewis, and others.
It's been exactly 9 months since the Minister for Tourism,
Arts and Culture, Catherine Afeku announced the appointment of music producer Mark Okraku Mantey, daughter of the President of the Republic of Ghana, Gyankroma Akufo - Addo and
actress Bibi Bright
as President, Director and Secretary respectively to the Creative
Arts Council.
Amy Smart joined
actresses such
as Anna Kendrick, Camilla Belle, and Kate Bosworth at the
Art of Elysium «Heaven» Gala held at Skirball Cultural Center on Saturday (January 11) in Los Angeles, California.
A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's performance, which comes
as her finest career moment,
as well
as one of the year's early choices for 2002's Best
Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences will be able to make it through the film).
Having owned one of the world's largest private
art collections, he was forced to sell it in 1956
as part of a divorce settlement with his wife of 29 years,
actress Gladys Lloyd.
Australian
actress Wendy Hughes was trained
as a ballerina before attending the National Institute of the Dramatic
Arts.
And despite losing the Best
Actress award to Frances McDormand, the Australian actress, 27, looked relaxed and happy as she put on cheeky display with handsome husband Tom Ackerley at the annual Los Angeles event, held at the Wallis Annenberg Centre for Performin
Actress award to Frances McDormand, the Australian
actress, 27, looked relaxed and happy as she put on cheeky display with handsome husband Tom Ackerley at the annual Los Angeles event, held at the Wallis Annenberg Centre for Performin
actress, 27, looked relaxed and happy
as she put on cheeky display with handsome husband Tom Ackerley at the annual Los Angeles event, held at the Wallis Annenberg Centre for Performing
Arts.
Chinese
actress Zhang Ziyi is turning her back on martial
arts movies
as she is still suffering from injuries she received on the set of Crouching...
Natalie Portman has hinted at being a versatile
actress, willing to go deep to access the emotional soil for a part, but never has she committed this fully and completely, giving herself over
as actors sometimes do — Robert DeNiro is Raging Bull, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Names Desire, Charlize Theron in Monster, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Tootsie, Rain Man, etc.) These are those rare occasions when the actor is eclipsed by the character, the performance that then reaches something more than likable, believable; it becomes moving
art.
A top - notch
actress who managed to remain a complete unknown
as far
as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous
art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.
We get a glimpse at a day in the life of Mannix,
as he sorts out a pregnancy scandal with a single
actress (Scarlett Johansson), manages a cowboy star's (Alden Ehrenreich) miscasting in an
art film, and searches for a missing debauched Hollywood favorite (George Clooney); all while keeping twin journalists (both played by Tilda Swinton) off his back.
Formerly known
as that blonde girl who was once engaged to Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow has made a name for herself without the help of past beaus (Pitt and Ben Affleck) by maturing from Hollywood's princess into one of today's more classier
actresses, willing to take a chance on smaller
art films for the improvement of her career rather than her bank account.
Scott Bates chats with Daphne star Emily Beecham... Manchester - born
actress Emily Beecham is perhaps most recognised for her role in AMC's martial -
arts themed Western series Into The Badlands, but this weekend the 33 - year - old can be seen
as the titular lead in Daphne, a Fleabag-esque, London - set drama about an ordinary young woman who begins to reassess -LSB-...]
(It doesn't hurt that mixed - martial -
arts competitor - turned -
actress Gina Carano has joined the franchise
as Hobbs» partner, and another Fast & Furious character played by Michelle Rodriguez has been somehow resurrected.)
With the fresh and buzzy Orange is the New Black coming in
as a favorite and with a few Creative
Arts Emmys in hand (including Guest
Actress in a Comedy Uzo Aduba), that new show went home empty - handed.
The film stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, with Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, with newest cast members Liam Hemsworth, martial
arts legends Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme, and Chinese
actress Yu Nan
as the first female EXPENDABLE.
That cycle was started when Italian
actress Monica Vitti, known for her brooding films with Michelangelo Antonioni («L'Aventurra,» «L'Eclisse»), exquisitely took up the mantle of popular British comic strip heroine «Modesty Blaise» (1966), a pop
art masterpiece (or train wreck, take your pick), which makes up a double feature with Jane Fonda's turn
as «Barbarella» (1968), based on a French comic strip, on Thursday, May 17, at the Castro Theatre.
Veteran
actress Dame Helen Mirren has mixed emotions about landing a fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television
Arts (Bafta)
as she...
12 Years a Slave (Fox, Blu - ray, DVD, Digital HD), coming hot off an Oscar win for Best Picture
as well
as Best Supporting
Actress (Lupita Nyong» o, whose acceptance speech was a work of
art) and Best Adapted Screenplay (by John Ridley), timed this release right.
It's no surprise that Millennium
Actress is a critical darling,
as it's about how film — or any
art — only becomes important when an audience that respects it enough to engage it on multiple levels opens it up to a broader dialogue.
The
actress, in addition to obviously having those martial
arts chops, is known in China for her acting abilities
as well, and has won awards there for films beloved in the country.
Haywire, an action movie starring mixed martial
arts champion - turned -
actress, Gina Carano
as black - ops contractor Mallory Kane, starts off promising enough.
Zhou Xun: regarded
as one of the four great young
actresses in China (the other three are Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei, and Zhao Wei) she has a high international profile thanks to her appearances in Lou Ye's Suzhou River, the French - Chinese
art - house film Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, and Feng Xiaogang's Hamlet adaptation, The Banquet.
As Terrence Howard's wife, the British Academy of Film and Television
Arts (BAFTA) awarded Thandie the Best
Actress honor for her work.
Their For Your Consideration page lists the following awards
as the ones they're hoping to get noms for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting
Actress, Best Cinematography, Best
Art Direction, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Make - Up, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Visual Effects.
Judi Dench scored an Oscar nomination for Best
Actress as a predatory lesbian fixated on destroying a young
art teacher.
Moretz stars
as the young
actress that's been cast in the role that made Binoche's character famous, and Stewart plays Binoche's assistant in this movie about age, nostalgia, and
art imitating life (read our review).
Berry, who was the first black woman to win the best
actress Oscar, noted that Boone Isaacs had scored two such firsts: She was the first black woman to run a major studio publicity department and the first African - American to serve
as president of the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.
Emmy ® and Golden Globe ® award - winning
actress Toni Collette was previously scheduled
as the guest of honor at The
Art of Film.
With 11 nominations «The Grandmaster» was the big winner
as it won 7 awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best
Actress, Best Costume Design, Best
Art Direction, Best Original Score and Best Cinematography.
Breaking with tradition in the midst of an awards season that has come to colloquially become known
as «the year of the woman,» the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences has tapped four
actresses to present this year's lead acting awards at the 90th...
After searching for over a year, looking at over 1,000
actresses; who could speak Mandarin and English
as well
as have martial
arts experience.
The Canadian
actress has won fervent critical acclaim for her chameleonic performance
as a group of wildly different clones,
as well
as smaller prizes such
as the Critics» Choice Television Award, but has yet to earn recognition from the famously habit - prone voters of the Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences.
Holder of an MFA from Tisch School of the
Arts, Merin transitioned to journalism after a career
as an
actress, performing LaMamma, Long Wharf Theater, American Place Theatre, and with The Living Theater, Shirley Clark's Video Teepee, and Shuji Terayama's theater company in Tokyo.
Given to him
as a gift by his wife,
actress Joanne Woodward, these Daytonas are set apart by subtle but important differences, such
as an
art - deco font for the numerals on the subdials and small squares at the end of the hash marks.
This document of artists,
art - dealers and
actresses, a who's who of the golden age of creative high society in New York, similarly uncovers Binion's personal history
as a disregarded black artist in an overwhelmingly white majority.
Wieland's
art often addresses themes of disaster and tragedy,
as in Young Woman's Blues, with its references to some of the personal difficulties that plagued the
actress Elizabeth Taylor.
The
actress Emma Watson made a big splash in the
art world in 2015 — and not
as the latest celebrity collector.
In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural
art of the silent - era
actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such
as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.
While she's best known for her work in front of the camera
as an
actress and fashion model, Tilda Swinton is no stranger to the
art world, having long shown a preference for challenging avant - garde films (some of which she helped to produce) and even venturing into performance
art in her 1995 piece The Maybe first shown at London's Serpentine Gallery.
In the mode of New York Pop
art, which Wesselmann played an integral role in shaping, some of these motifs are specific to their moment, such
as the framed portrait of the
actress Mary Tyler Moore, while others recur throughout Wesselmann's oeuvre, from the round orange to the vase of flowers and the radio.
The work of multimedia artist Spencer Sweeney channels the vivacity of New York's downtown
art and nightlife scene, in which the artist has played many roles including stints
as the drummer of the
art - rock band
Actress, club owner, and DJ.
The first major museum show ever devoted to the great French
actress will illuminate her life and
art through painting, sculpture, photography, costumes, jewelry, stage designs, her furniture and personal effects,
as well
as selected films and recordings.
Jessica Chastain Solo exhibition by Maura Brewer; Curated by Juli Carson University
Art Gallery The UAG's Emerging Artist Series presents three filmic works by Maura Brewer each taking
as its site a recent film by the
actress Jessica Chastain: Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Interstellar (2014) and The Martian (2015).
A short film entitled «Nobody Dies» (誰も死なない, Daremo shinanai), directed by Mr. and premiered at Geisai 11 in Tokyo, accompanied by photos of the film's characters (i.e. the film's
actresses, in costume
as their characters, on the film's sets), was the artist's first forays into the media of video
art and still photography.
Cynthia Scott followed a BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design with stints
as a singer (Red Flame / Virgin 10 Records) and
actress (Aliens) in New York, London and Los Angeles — eventually completing the circle by establishing a home and
art studio in New Orleans.