Grindr, the ubiquitous LGBTQ hookup app that continues to expand into original content, will launch a new sex-focused podcast with “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum Katya Zamolodchikova.
“Who’s The Asshole?” is billed as a provocative look at love and sex, offering an “unfiltered and judgment-free space to explore the messy gray areas of lust, love and everything in between…the cheeks.” The first episode will hit all major podcast platforms on Feb. 15.
Each week, Katya will sit with celebrity guests and discuss dilemmas and anecdotes submitted by Grindr users. Inaugural visitors include actor Trace Lysette, comedian Jordan Firstman, country star Orville Peck and rapper Saucy Santana.
“When it came to choosing our host, Katya was an absolute no-brainer for us, bringing the perfect combination of honesty, humor and some incredible personal stories,” said Tristan Pineiro, VP of brand marketing and communications at Grindr. “Be it in a hookup or a date,...
“Who’s The Asshole?” is billed as a provocative look at love and sex, offering an “unfiltered and judgment-free space to explore the messy gray areas of lust, love and everything in between…the cheeks.” The first episode will hit all major podcast platforms on Feb. 15.
Each week, Katya will sit with celebrity guests and discuss dilemmas and anecdotes submitted by Grindr users. Inaugural visitors include actor Trace Lysette, comedian Jordan Firstman, country star Orville Peck and rapper Saucy Santana.
“When it came to choosing our host, Katya was an absolute no-brainer for us, bringing the perfect combination of honesty, humor and some incredible personal stories,” said Tristan Pineiro, VP of brand marketing and communications at Grindr. “Be it in a hookup or a date,...
- 2/7/2024
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes Film Festival attendees are cordially invited to a free special event — presented by The Hollywood Reporter and Campari — on Saturday, May 20, at 1:30pm Cannes time, in the Campari Lounge of the Palais: a live hourlong recording of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast, followed by a cocktail reception, with the Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander.
There is limited space at this event. Anyone wishing to attend must RSVP via this link by 11am on Friday, May 19.
During the podcast recording, the 34-year-old Swede will be interviewed by yours truly about her life, career and the film that brings her to the Croisette this year: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, in which she portrays Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII (Jude Law).
Vikander is best known for her performances on film in 2010’s Pure, 2012’s Anna Karenina and A Royal Affair; 2013’s The Fifth Estate, 2014’s Testament of Youth...
There is limited space at this event. Anyone wishing to attend must RSVP via this link by 11am on Friday, May 19.
During the podcast recording, the 34-year-old Swede will be interviewed by yours truly about her life, career and the film that brings her to the Croisette this year: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, in which she portrays Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII (Jude Law).
Vikander is best known for her performances on film in 2010’s Pure, 2012’s Anna Karenina and A Royal Affair; 2013’s The Fifth Estate, 2014’s Testament of Youth...
- 5/16/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Whether or not you've watched the 1989 Rob Reiner-directed film "When Harry Met Sally...," you probably know about its most famous scene. You've definitely heard the line, "I'll have what she's having." It's the story of Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan), two people who meet at the end of college and debate whether men and women can be just friends. It's not a debate that's currently raging, but hey, this was 1989. It was a weird time.
Harry and Sally keep finding their way back to each other and attempt the friendship route with their relationship, though ultimately, they end up together. The entire film is full of vignettes from couples that writer Nora Ephron interviewed, discussing their connection, how they met, and their journey toward love.
It was a sweet movie for the time being. Still, truthfully, other than the line about men and women being friends (or...
Harry and Sally keep finding their way back to each other and attempt the friendship route with their relationship, though ultimately, they end up together. The entire film is full of vignettes from couples that writer Nora Ephron interviewed, discussing their connection, how they met, and their journey toward love.
It was a sweet movie for the time being. Still, truthfully, other than the line about men and women being friends (or...
- 1/25/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
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In the midst of a golden age for documentary films, there is no shortage of docs worthy of being seen and discussed. But the directors of only six of 2022’s standouts could be represented on The Hollywood Reporter‘s Documentary Roundtable when it convened in November: Peabody Award winner Margaret Brown (Netflix’s Descendant), Oscar nominee Matthew Heineman (Nat Geo’s Retrograde), Oscar winner Laura Poitras (Neon’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed), first-time filmmaker David Siev (IFC’s Bad Axe), two-time Sundance grand jury prize winner Ondi Timoner (MTV’s Last Flight Home) and Emmy nominee Ryan White (Amazon’s Good Night Oppy). The sextet discussed the origins of their projects, hot-button debates in the doc community and more.
When someone asks you about your film and you have just a few seconds to hook them, what do you say?
David Siev...
In the midst of a golden age for documentary films, there is no shortage of docs worthy of being seen and discussed. But the directors of only six of 2022’s standouts could be represented on The Hollywood Reporter‘s Documentary Roundtable when it convened in November: Peabody Award winner Margaret Brown (Netflix’s Descendant), Oscar nominee Matthew Heineman (Nat Geo’s Retrograde), Oscar winner Laura Poitras (Neon’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed), first-time filmmaker David Siev (IFC’s Bad Axe), two-time Sundance grand jury prize winner Ondi Timoner (MTV’s Last Flight Home) and Emmy nominee Ryan White (Amazon’s Good Night Oppy). The sextet discussed the origins of their projects, hot-button debates in the doc community and more.
When someone asks you about your film and you have just a few seconds to hook them, what do you say?
David Siev...
- 12/12/2022
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Interior designer Melanie Rose specializes in something very intimate and unique in the home renovation space: She designs sex rooms. Remember Tommy Lee’s dream of a boudoir playground in “Pam & Tommy,” and how the racy redesign led to his sex tape being stolen? That’s what Rose does for a living — well, except she doesn’t steal her clients’ personal belongings.
When she’s not planning other folks’ bedrooms, Rose is in her own home writing a series of erotic novels based on that career. It was under the guise of pitching those books as a scripted series that her manager approached Adam Sher, president of ITV America. But Sher had another idea: Why not turn her life and work into a TV-ma-rated reality show?
And so Netflix’s “How to Build a Sex Room” was born. In the show, Rose visits people who have lost some of the...
When she’s not planning other folks’ bedrooms, Rose is in her own home writing a series of erotic novels based on that career. It was under the guise of pitching those books as a scripted series that her manager approached Adam Sher, president of ITV America. But Sher had another idea: Why not turn her life and work into a TV-ma-rated reality show?
And so Netflix’s “How to Build a Sex Room” was born. In the show, Rose visits people who have lost some of the...
- 8/19/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Vincent Liota’s Objects Doc NYC World Première on Sunday, November 14 with the director, executive producer Sally Roy, subjects Robert Krulwich, Heidi Julavits, Rick Rawlins, Jad Abumrad, Josh Glenn, and Rob Walker participating in an in-cinema Q&a
Marcel Proust knew that “the past is hidden in some material object which we do not suspect.” In his novel Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marías writes about the moment when we die and the transformation of our most precious belongings into trash, when “everything that had meaning and history loses it in a single moment and my belongings lie there inert, suddenly incapable of revealing their past and their origins; and someone will make a pile of them.”
Vincent Liota with Anne-Katrin Titze on the narrative mystery: “We see these things and at the beginning they’re meaningless objects and by the end they’re filled with meaning.
Marcel Proust knew that “the past is hidden in some material object which we do not suspect.” In his novel Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marías writes about the moment when we die and the transformation of our most precious belongings into trash, when “everything that had meaning and history loses it in a single moment and my belongings lie there inert, suddenly incapable of revealing their past and their origins; and someone will make a pile of them.”
Vincent Liota with Anne-Katrin Titze on the narrative mystery: “We see these things and at the beginning they’re meaningless objects and by the end they’re filled with meaning.
- 11/13/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
On August 14th, 1987, pioneering hip-hop heavyweights the Fat Boys cemented their status as one of rap’s premier pop culture ambassadors with the simultaneous release of their platinum-selling fourth album Crushin’ and their breakout comedy Disorderlies. With a matchless mixture of skills, charisma, a tireless work ethic, a sense of humor and a powerful mouth-powered rhythm machine, the trio of Mark “Prince Markie Dee” Morales, Damon “Kool Rock-Ski” Wimbley and Darren “Buff Love” Robinson (a.k.a. “the Human Beatbox”) was integral in bringing rap music to the attention of mainstream audiences.
- 2/19/2021
- by Will Hodge
- Rollingstone.com
One of the more bizarre news stories of the last few years was the public assassination of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother by two mysterious young women in a crowded Malaysian airport. Already newsworthy enough, only stranger when the accused claimed they were duped into thinking their actions were part of a prank reality-tv show rather than being party to a political murder.
A Sundance 2020 selection, Ryan White’s documentary Assassins delves further into how this story unraveled and intertwined with human trafficking, geo-political intrigue, and North Korea’s clandestine dynamics. As its trailer suggests, White’s film centers the possible culpability of these young women and dissects their role in this web of involved factions and agendas. White has directed projects about subjects ranging from Dr. Ruth Westheimer to Prop 8, and has never shied away from subjects that are both deeply humane and relevant to this time. And...
A Sundance 2020 selection, Ryan White’s documentary Assassins delves further into how this story unraveled and intertwined with human trafficking, geo-political intrigue, and North Korea’s clandestine dynamics. As its trailer suggests, White’s film centers the possible culpability of these young women and dissects their role in this web of involved factions and agendas. White has directed projects about subjects ranging from Dr. Ruth Westheimer to Prop 8, and has never shied away from subjects that are both deeply humane and relevant to this time. And...
- 11/12/2020
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
With ‘Tenet’ opening in multiple territories, this is a key weekend for European cinemas.
France, opening Wednesday August 26
As the population gears up for the country’s traditional September Rentrée, marking the return to work and school after the summer, a number of films that were held back due to the Covid-19 pandemic are finally being released this week in addition to Tenet which Warner Bros France has opened on 800 prints.
They included Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s Silver Bear-winning comedy Delete History for Ad Vitam, which was originally scheduled for the spring and was one of the hits of the Berlinale this year,...
France, opening Wednesday August 26
As the population gears up for the country’s traditional September Rentrée, marking the return to work and school after the summer, a number of films that were held back due to the Covid-19 pandemic are finally being released this week in addition to Tenet which Warner Bros France has opened on 800 prints.
They included Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s Silver Bear-winning comedy Delete History for Ad Vitam, which was originally scheduled for the spring and was one of the hits of the Berlinale this year,...
- 8/28/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦¬1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦¬158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦¬1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦
- ScreenDaily
"I don't know how to play Canasta," laughs Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the world’s most famous sex therapist, as we sit down in the Washington Heights apartment where she has lived for 54 years to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast. I had just asked the 91-year-old — who became a household name in her fifties, thanks to her candid discussion of sex on radio and TV and in books, columns, lectures and university courses — what motivates her to continue to work so hard at her age, as opposed to playing Mahjong or ...
- 11/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
"I don't know how to play Canasta," laughs Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the world’s most famous sex therapist, as we sit down in the Washington Heights apartment where she has lived for 54 years to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast. I had just asked the 91-year-old — who became a household name in her fifties, thanks to her candid discussion of sex on radio and TV and in books, columns, lectures and university courses — what motivates her to continue to work so hard at her age, as opposed to playing Mahjong or ...
- 11/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A whopping 159 feature documentaries have been submitted for consideration to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 2020 documentary feature Oscar race, the organization revealed Tuesday.
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
- 11/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A whopping 159 feature documentaries have been submitted for consideration to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the 2020 documentary feature Oscar race, the organization revealed Tuesday.
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
The films span a wide spectrum of topics, from gun violence in Jake Lefferman and Emily Taguchi's After Parkland and the 1969 moon landing in Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, to figures such as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona in Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona and the life of author Toni Morrison in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' Toni Morrison: The Pieces I ...
- 11/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The trophies for the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards were handed out on Sunday with Neon’s Apollo 11 taking Best Documentary Feature. The ceremony took place at Bric in Brooklyn.
Neon was the top winner of the night with the space docu, winning five awards. Their docu The Biggest Little Farm walked away with Best Cinematography and their bee-keeping pic Honeyland won Best First Documentary Feature for Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefano.
The Biggest Little Farm led the pack this year with seven nominations while Apollo 11 (also a Neon title) and the Warner Bros. docu They Shall Not Grow Old each had six. Speaking of the latter, The Shall Not Grow Old‘s Peter Jackson won for Best Director tying with Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert who directed the Netflix docu American Factory.
The ceremony also honored the great documentarian Frederick Wiseman with the D.A.Pennebaker Award...
Neon was the top winner of the night with the space docu, winning five awards. Their docu The Biggest Little Farm walked away with Best Cinematography and their bee-keeping pic Honeyland won Best First Documentary Feature for Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefano.
The Biggest Little Farm led the pack this year with seven nominations while Apollo 11 (also a Neon title) and the Warner Bros. docu They Shall Not Grow Old each had six. Speaking of the latter, The Shall Not Grow Old‘s Peter Jackson won for Best Director tying with Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert who directed the Netflix docu American Factory.
The ceremony also honored the great documentarian Frederick Wiseman with the D.A.Pennebaker Award...
- 11/11/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
“Apollo 11” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2019 at the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, which took place on Sunday evening at Bric in Brooklyn, New York.
The chronicle of Nasa’s 1969 moon mission won five awards in total, topping all other films at the ceremony voted on by film and television critics and journalists in the Critics’ Choice Association.
“Apollo 11” won in the Best Documentary Feature category that also included “American Factory,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “The Cave,” “Honeyland,” “The Kingmaker,” “Knock Down the House,” “Maiden,” “One Child Nation,” “They Shall Not Grow Old” and the two-part HBO documentary series “Leaving Neverland.” (The Critics’ Choice rules do not differentiate between film and television docs.)
The Best Director category ended in a tie between Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for “American Factory” and Peter Jackson for “They Shall Not Grow Old.”
Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s film “Honeyland,...
The chronicle of Nasa’s 1969 moon mission won five awards in total, topping all other films at the ceremony voted on by film and television critics and journalists in the Critics’ Choice Association.
“Apollo 11” won in the Best Documentary Feature category that also included “American Factory,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “The Cave,” “Honeyland,” “The Kingmaker,” “Knock Down the House,” “Maiden,” “One Child Nation,” “They Shall Not Grow Old” and the two-part HBO documentary series “Leaving Neverland.” (The Critics’ Choice rules do not differentiate between film and television docs.)
The Best Director category ended in a tie between Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert for “American Factory” and Peter Jackson for “They Shall Not Grow Old.”
Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s film “Honeyland,...
- 11/11/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
When Doc NYC started a decade ago, documentary film was still seen as something of a novelty. In the ensuing years, non-fiction movies have exploded in popularity with hits such as “Rbg,” “Free Solo,” “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” and “Apollo 11” helping to fuel more interest in the genre.
“We never could have anticipated the change,” says Thom Powers, the festival’s co-founder and artistic director. “Fifteen years ago you would not propose to a date that you go and see a documentary film, but now I think you would come off as an impressive date to suggest it.”
Powers points to several factors for the turnaround. In particular, he credits streaming services such as Netflix with helping to get audiences more comfortable with watching documentaries and with making non-fiction films more readily available.
“It used to be that if you heard about a documentary film, it would...
“We never could have anticipated the change,” says Thom Powers, the festival’s co-founder and artistic director. “Fifteen years ago you would not propose to a date that you go and see a documentary film, but now I think you would come off as an impressive date to suggest it.”
Powers points to several factors for the turnaround. In particular, he credits streaming services such as Netflix with helping to get audiences more comfortable with watching documentaries and with making non-fiction films more readily available.
“It used to be that if you heard about a documentary film, it would...
- 11/8/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Beyonce’s “Homecoming” has landed three nominations to lead all films in the first round of noms for the Cinema Eye Honors, a New York-based awards ceremony established in 2007 to honor all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking.
In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.
It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”
Also Read: 'Homecoming' Film Review: Beyoncé's Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.
In an announcement made at a luncheon in downtown Los Angeles, Cinema Eye Honors organizers unveiled nominations in seven categories, including new categories for broadcast editing and cinematography. “Homecoming” received nominations in both those new categories, as well as for the outstanding broadcast film of the year.
It faces off in that last category against “Apollo: Mission to the Moon,” “At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “Leaving Neverland” and “The Sentence.”
Also Read: 'Homecoming' Film Review: Beyoncé's Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
Other shows with multiple nominations were the broadcast series “Salt Fat Acid Heat” and “Tricky Dick,” which received two each.
- 10/24/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
A certain type of documentary has grown in prevalence and popularity lately — the piece that marshals evidence in service of the case that a very widely known contemporary figure is actually even greater than one had previously thought. The vogue began in summer 2018 with the features “Rbg” (about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” (about children’s television personality Fred Rogers) and has continued with documentaries about figures as varied as Toni Morrison, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and Luciano Pavarotti — and now, in Netflix’s three-episode documentary series “Inside Bill’s Brain,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Shepherded by Davis Guggenheim (an Oscar-winner for “An Inconvenient Truth”), we’re walked through the tech founder and humanitarian’s personal history in a manner that grows stultifying the more praise gets ladled on. It’s not that Gates’s current endeavors don’t merit attention and applause:...
- 9/17/2019
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Deadline is teaming with with the International Documentary Association and Hulu to launch For the Love of Docs, a screening series of 10 feature documentaries that represent the best of the brand. The films will be screened each week at the Landmark Theatre in Los Angeles beginning September 17 and running until December 10. The screenings are free.
The following films were chosen:
Ask Dr. Ruth, directed by Ryan White: A documentary about America’s favorite sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Bellingcat, Truth in a Post Truth World, directed by Hans Pool: An exciting film about “citizen investigative journalism” tackling issues such as the crash of Mh 17 to the poisoning of a Russian spy.
Halston, directed by Frédéric Tcheng: A captivating documentary about the legendary ’70s fashion designer Halston.
Love, Antosha, directed by Garret Price: A film about the late actor Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016. Told through letters...
The following films were chosen:
Ask Dr. Ruth, directed by Ryan White: A documentary about America’s favorite sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
Bellingcat, Truth in a Post Truth World, directed by Hans Pool: An exciting film about “citizen investigative journalism” tackling issues such as the crash of Mh 17 to the poisoning of a Russian spy.
Halston, directed by Frédéric Tcheng: A captivating documentary about the legendary ’70s fashion designer Halston.
Love, Antosha, directed by Garret Price: A film about the late actor Anton Yelchin, who died in 2016. Told through letters...
- 8/21/2019
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
New American Economy, aiming to celebrate immigrants' cultural contributions to America, will hold its first-ever New American Festival in September.
The festival, running from Sept. 14-15 at NeueHouse in New York City, will feature talks and panels with stars Hasan Minhaj, Padma Lakshmi, Dr. Ruth Westheimer and more.
"The festival's programing celebrates the visionary contributions that immigrants make to the fields of art and culture," said Nae's Katherine Steinberg, director of content strategy.
The festival, which will make its first stop in New York before traveling to other cities throughout the fall, has also ...
The festival, running from Sept. 14-15 at NeueHouse in New York City, will feature talks and panels with stars Hasan Minhaj, Padma Lakshmi, Dr. Ruth Westheimer and more.
"The festival's programing celebrates the visionary contributions that immigrants make to the fields of art and culture," said Nae's Katherine Steinberg, director of content strategy.
The festival, which will make its first stop in New York before traveling to other cities throughout the fall, has also ...
- 8/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
New American Economy, aiming to celebrate immigrants' cultural contributions to America, will hold its first-ever New American Festival in September.
The festival, running from Sept. 14-15 at NeueHouse in New York City, will feature talks and panels with stars Hasan Minhaj, Padma Lakshmi, Dr. Ruth Westheimer and more.
"The festival's programing celebrates the visionary contributions that immigrants make to the fields of art and culture," said Nae's Katherine Steinberg, director of content strategy.
The festival, which will make its first stop in New York before traveling to other cities throughout the fall, has also ...
The festival, running from Sept. 14-15 at NeueHouse in New York City, will feature talks and panels with stars Hasan Minhaj, Padma Lakshmi, Dr. Ruth Westheimer and more.
"The festival's programing celebrates the visionary contributions that immigrants make to the fields of art and culture," said Nae's Katherine Steinberg, director of content strategy.
The festival, which will make its first stop in New York before traveling to other cities throughout the fall, has also ...
- 8/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Earlier this week, Dr. Ruth Westheimer celebrated her 91st birthday, and she’s still going strong. She’s still America’s best-known sex therapist, and she’s now the subject of a new documentary. Ask Dr. Ruth looks back at Westheimer’s incredible life and phenomenal success. And while much of it is heartwarming, there are certainly plenty of gut-wrenching [...]
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- 6/6/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Hulu has released its list of content arriving at the streaming service this June, as well as everything that will no longer be available to watch there after June 30.
At the top of the must-watch list is season three of Hulu Original “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was notably pushed back to a June premiere date in order to ensure it would “maintain the quality it has,” Craig Erwich, Hulu’s Senior Vice President of Originals, said at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in February. The first three episodes of the new season premiere on Hulu June 5, after which new episodes will be released every Wednesday.
Another Hulu Original of note is “The Weekly” series from The New York Times, coming June 3. Each half-hour episode will feature a Times journalist investigating one of today’s most pressing issues, with new issues being explored each week.
Also Read: Elisabeth Moss...
At the top of the must-watch list is season three of Hulu Original “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was notably pushed back to a June premiere date in order to ensure it would “maintain the quality it has,” Craig Erwich, Hulu’s Senior Vice President of Originals, said at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour in February. The first three episodes of the new season premiere on Hulu June 5, after which new episodes will be released every Wednesday.
Another Hulu Original of note is “The Weekly” series from The New York Times, coming June 3. Each half-hour episode will feature a Times journalist investigating one of today’s most pressing issues, with new issues being explored each week.
Also Read: Elisabeth Moss...
- 5/15/2019
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
For decades, Dr. Ruth Westheimer stood at the forefront of sex education in the United States. Whether as a scholar or later as a public figure, Westheimer believed that knowledge was power, which she still does to this day. At 90 years old, she remains a spark plug and voice on sex positivity. The new documentary Ask Dr. Ruth explores how and why she found herself in that position. Currently in theaters on a limited basis and soon headed to a long term home with Hulu, it’s a doc that entertains while always informing. As far as non fiction cinema goes, it’s hard to smile as much as you will during this one, even if it occasionally goes to some tragic places. The film is a look at Ruth Westheimer, the tiny woman who would come to be known as America’s sex therapist. In many ways, she’s...
- 5/9/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The catchy tagline in the noteworthy documentary Ask Dr. Ruth boasts "size doesn't matter". It really should not matter especially when it comes to considering America's favorite and adored pint-sized sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer whose diminutive presence has had an impactful influence on pop culture not to mention society in general. Director Ryan White pays homage to the famed soon-to-be nonasegenarian (she turned age 90 in June 2018) as he chronicles a rather interesting and topsy-turvy life of the treasured German-born love doctor on call. Dr. Ruth secured a prominent legacy not only as a heralded sex therapist but also as a ubiquitous media personality, author, and carnal confidante to millions of people during her illustrious career in radio, television, and print....
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- 5/9/2019
- Screen Anarchy
An affectionate documentary chronicling the life of 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and taboo breaker Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Ryan White’s Ask Dr. Ruth, is often delightful and informative, following its subject’s life-long quest to demystify sex. Gaining prominence in New York on late-night radio in the 1980s, Dr. Ruth continues to keep active, teaching two college classes, writing books, and flying around the country to address various groups.
Following her as she enters her ninth decade in life, White struggles to keep up with his subject, capturing her everyday adventures from her modest apartment on the Lower East Side to Israel where she learns the fate of both her parents who had sent her away on the Kindertransport, saving her life. She arrives in the U.S. in 1956 and later in the film’s most touching passage reconnects with an ex-boyfriend from her time in Switzerland.
Dr. Ruth defies definition,...
Following her as she enters her ninth decade in life, White struggles to keep up with his subject, capturing her everyday adventures from her modest apartment on the Lower East Side to Israel where she learns the fate of both her parents who had sent her away on the Kindertransport, saving her life. She arrives in the U.S. in 1956 and later in the film’s most touching passage reconnects with an ex-boyfriend from her time in Switzerland.
Dr. Ruth defies definition,...
- 5/4/2019
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the on-air sex therapist who speaks so frankly, but how much do you know about the personal story of this diminutive Jewish grandma who has been a darling of talk shows for decades, using her expertise as a PhD sex therapist to offer non-judgmental advice on sexual matters? Likely, not much. Ask Dr. Ruth goes a way to correcting that. In the process, we again fall under the spell of this personable, lively, intelligent woman who has led an unusual life and overcome so many hardships.
Who knew Dr. Ruth, who seems so much fun, survived the Holocaust in a Swiss orphanage where as a ten-year-old she was put to work cleaning and caring for the younger children? Or that she was married several times? Or that she was an avid skier? These are among the surprises uncovered in this delightful documentary.
Director Ryan White’s illuminating,...
Who knew Dr. Ruth, who seems so much fun, survived the Holocaust in a Swiss orphanage where as a ten-year-old she was put to work cleaning and caring for the younger children? Or that she was married several times? Or that she was an avid skier? These are among the surprises uncovered in this delightful documentary.
Director Ryan White’s illuminating,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Now 90, Dr. Ruth Westheimer had resisted past overtures to do a documentary, but she was won over by filmmaker Ryan White. Ask Dr. Ruth, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, opens in theaters this weekend via Magnolia Pictures after screening at Tribeca Film Festival this week. The theatrical run comes ahead of its Hulu bow in June. 1091 Media, formerly The Orchard, is opening fellow Tribeca doc, Meeting Gorbachev by Werner Herzog and André Singer. Venice, Toronto, Telluride & Nyff title, Non-Fiction, by Olivier Assayas and starring Juliette Binoche opens in select locations on the coasts Friday, while Good Deed Entertainment has Tell It to the Bees with Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger in select cities around the country. Also on tap is Patrick Creadon doc Hesburgh, a self-release, in 30-plus markets this weekend.
Also opening in limited release is Briarcliff Entertainment’s El Chicano by Ben Hernandez Bray...
Also opening in limited release is Briarcliff Entertainment’s El Chicano by Ben Hernandez Bray...
- 5/3/2019
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
If Dr. Ruth Westheimer weren’t around, Mel Brooks would have had to invent a character like her to bounce off of Carl Reiner. A pint-sized, thickly accented German-Jewish survivor of the Nazis who made us tune in to what turned us on, she became an unlikely pioneer in sex therapy and TV phenomenon in the 1980s, cheerily dispensing bedroom advice, sexual empathy and relationship tips.
Ryan White’s lively film about the still hard-working, ever-ebullient sexpert, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” isn’t her first movie starring role. (That would be the forgettable mid-80s French comedy “Une Femme ou Deux” with Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver.) It’s nonetheless a long-overdue bio-doc that, in its spirited way, is as affirming as last year’s paean to another important octogenarian Ruth, “Rbg.” And much like how you hoped you’d live long enough to do planks in the gym like our venerable Supreme Court Justice can,...
Ryan White’s lively film about the still hard-working, ever-ebullient sexpert, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” isn’t her first movie starring role. (That would be the forgettable mid-80s French comedy “Une Femme ou Deux” with Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver.) It’s nonetheless a long-overdue bio-doc that, in its spirited way, is as affirming as last year’s paean to another important octogenarian Ruth, “Rbg.” And much like how you hoped you’d live long enough to do planks in the gym like our venerable Supreme Court Justice can,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Some stories are filled with horror, some with challenges, and some with triumph. And then there are stories like that of Dr. Ruth Westheimer that have a bit of all three in them due to the extraordinary life she’s led throughout the last nine decades, almost. Sergio Carmona from the Jewish Journal has been pretty upfront and on point about the documentary that’s coming out on the life of Dr. Ruth in short order since it is one of many movies that you should consider watching considering how impressive the subject is and how her life has touched so many
Why You Should Be Watching the New Dr. Ruth Documentary...
Why You Should Be Watching the New Dr. Ruth Documentary...
- 5/2/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
It’s still early in the day, but Dr. Ruth, who has been giving advice on all matters sexual for the past 44 years — she’s had radio shows and TV talk shows, was a David Letterman and Johnny Carson favorite, has written 46 books, among them the bestselling Sex for Dummies, and become known, at least to the dainties at the Los Angeles Times, as “the high priestess of hanky panky” — has already been up for several hours; taken a bubble bath; slurped coffee; downed a tumbler of Oj; put on...
- 5/2/2019
- by Erik Hedegaard
- Rollingstone.com
Ruth Westheimer is better known by her stage name, Dr. Ruth, and perhaps best known for how easily terms like clitoris, orgasm and fellatio have rolled off her tongue for close to five decades.
Now 90 years old, the German-born Holocaust survivor became a pop culture phenomenon in the '80s, first on the radio and later as a media magnet who had a series of sex therapy-centered show on television, where frank discussions of sex and sexuality were especially taboo.
Westheimer is prepping for another round of fame when Ask Dr. Ruth hits theaters May 3 via Magnolia Pictures ...
Now 90 years old, the German-born Holocaust survivor became a pop culture phenomenon in the '80s, first on the radio and later as a media magnet who had a series of sex therapy-centered show on television, where frank discussions of sex and sexuality were especially taboo.
Westheimer is prepping for another round of fame when Ask Dr. Ruth hits theaters May 3 via Magnolia Pictures ...
Ruth Westheimer is better known by her stage name, Dr. Ruth, and perhaps best known for how easily terms like clitoris, orgasm and fellatio have rolled off her tongue for close to five decades.
Now 90 years old, the German-born Holocaust survivor became a pop culture phenomenon in the '80s, first on the radio and later as a media magnet who had a series of sex therapy-centered show on television, where frank discussions of sex and sexuality were especially taboo.
Westheimer is prepping for another round of fame when Ask Dr. Ruth hits theaters May 3 via Magnolia Pictures ...
Now 90 years old, the German-born Holocaust survivor became a pop culture phenomenon in the '80s, first on the radio and later as a media magnet who had a series of sex therapy-centered show on television, where frank discussions of sex and sexuality were especially taboo.
Westheimer is prepping for another round of fame when Ask Dr. Ruth hits theaters May 3 via Magnolia Pictures ...
Dr. Ruth Westheimer has made her nearly four-decade-long career embodying an atypical older woman in the public sphere — that is, one who gives unflinching sexual advice. She has connected with multiple generations through her loving guidance, and the impact of her wisdom was evident at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her documentary Ask Dr. Ruth on Saturday night, which played to an audience that included many octogenarians as well as young gay couples who have experience with her work.
The documentary isn’t the first telling of her tale. Back in 2013, Westheimer's harrowing life story of fleeing Nazis ...
The documentary isn’t the first telling of her tale. Back in 2013, Westheimer's harrowing life story of fleeing Nazis ...
- 4/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Dr. Ruth Westheimer has made her nearly four-decade-long career embodying an atypical older woman in the public sphere — that is, one who gives unflinching sexual advice. She has connected with multiple generations through her loving guidance, and the impact of her wisdom was evident at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her documentary Ask Dr. Ruth on Saturday night, which played to an audience that included many octogenarians as well as young gay couples who have experience with her work.
The documentary isn’t the first telling of her tale. Back in 2013, Westheimer's harrowing life story of fleeing Nazis ...
The documentary isn’t the first telling of her tale. Back in 2013, Westheimer's harrowing life story of fleeing Nazis ...
- 4/29/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Team Experience reporting from Tribeca Film Festival. Here's Jason
A personality-based crowd-pleaser similar to what we saw last year with Won't You Be My Neighbor and Rbg, only with heaps more clitoral commentary, director Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth doesn't break any documentary molds. It's content to merely bring us the life story and work of itty bitty sexologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer. And Dr. Ruth's too warm-hearted (not to mention itty bitty) to go about straight-forwardly smashing molds anyway. The iconic personality is more content to sneak in, make you comfy, offer you a cookie or two, and ease all of your deepest secrets out first...
A personality-based crowd-pleaser similar to what we saw last year with Won't You Be My Neighbor and Rbg, only with heaps more clitoral commentary, director Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth doesn't break any documentary molds. It's content to merely bring us the life story and work of itty bitty sexologist Dr. Ruth Westheimer. And Dr. Ruth's too warm-hearted (not to mention itty bitty) to go about straight-forwardly smashing molds anyway. The iconic personality is more content to sneak in, make you comfy, offer you a cookie or two, and ease all of your deepest secrets out first...
- 4/27/2019
- by JA
- FilmExperience
Sundance Institute and Picturehouse announced today the programme of feature films, short films and panel discussions to take place at ‘Sundance Film Festival’ London between 30 May – 2 June at Picturehouse Central.
The festival will present 12 feature films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., selected for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse. The festival will open with the European premiere of Late Night (Nisha Ganatra), written by and starring Mindy Kaling alongside Emma Thompson. The festival will close four days later with the UK premiere of Penny Lane’s Hail Satan?.
Alongside the opening and closing night films, the festival will present a selection of fearless filmmaking: The Nightingale, a striking revenge drama starring Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin, marks Jennifer Kent’s anticipated follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut, The Babadook.
Time Out gala film, Animals (dir. Sophie Hyde,...
The festival will present 12 feature films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., selected for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse. The festival will open with the European premiere of Late Night (Nisha Ganatra), written by and starring Mindy Kaling alongside Emma Thompson. The festival will close four days later with the UK premiere of Penny Lane’s Hail Satan?.
Alongside the opening and closing night films, the festival will present a selection of fearless filmmaking: The Nightingale, a striking revenge drama starring Aisling Franciosi and Sam Claflin, marks Jennifer Kent’s anticipated follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut, The Babadook.
Time Out gala film, Animals (dir. Sophie Hyde,...
- 4/16/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Hulu launch date for the upcoming film “Ask Dr. Ruth” will be on June 1st with a theatrical release on May 3rd.
Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.
Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.
- 3/20/2019
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Updated, 4:45 Pm: Hulu said today that it has moved back the premiere date for Ask Dr. Ruth by three weeks, from May 10 to June 1. Its theatrical release via Magnolia Pictures remains set for May 3.
Previously, November 29: One day after the Ask Dr. Ruth documentary was unveiled as one of the high-profile premieres at 2019 Sundance Film Festival, turns out the Ryan White directed pic has a very therapeutic fest afterlife with Hulu and Magnolia.
The now Disney-dominated streamer will air the docu on the famed sex therapist and Holocaust survivor next year after Sundance concludes. Additionally, with Magnolia as a distributor, Ask Dr. Ruth will also receive “the widest theatrical release for a Hulu Documentary to date,” according to the home of The Handmaid’s Tale. A move that means they are putting Netflix and others on notice in the race for the Oscars
Which is A-ok with Dr.
Previously, November 29: One day after the Ask Dr. Ruth documentary was unveiled as one of the high-profile premieres at 2019 Sundance Film Festival, turns out the Ryan White directed pic has a very therapeutic fest afterlife with Hulu and Magnolia.
The now Disney-dominated streamer will air the docu on the famed sex therapist and Holocaust survivor next year after Sundance concludes. Additionally, with Magnolia as a distributor, Ask Dr. Ruth will also receive “the widest theatrical release for a Hulu Documentary to date,” according to the home of The Handmaid’s Tale. A move that means they are putting Netflix and others on notice in the race for the Oscars
Which is A-ok with Dr.
- 3/19/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival on Tuesday added to its 2019 lineup with another 16 titles, many of which feature pop culture subjects.
The Canadian festival, set to run April 25 to May 5, has booked the Sundance award winners American Factory, by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, and One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang. The latter film won Sundance's grand jury prize.
Also headed to Toronto from Sundance is Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, about Dr. Ruth Westheimer; Mads Brugger's Cold Case Hammarskjold; Stanley Nelson's Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,...
The Canadian festival, set to run April 25 to May 5, has booked the Sundance award winners American Factory, by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, and One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang. The latter film won Sundance's grand jury prize.
Also headed to Toronto from Sundance is Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, about Dr. Ruth Westheimer; Mads Brugger's Cold Case Hammarskjold; Stanley Nelson's Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,...
- 3/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Festival on Tuesday added to its 2019 lineup with another 16 titles, many of which feature pop culture subjects.
The Canadian festival, set to run April 25 to May 5, has booked the Sundance award winners American Factory, by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, and One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang. The latter film won Sundance's grand jury prize.
Also headed to Toronto from Sundance is Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, about Dr. Ruth Westheimer; Mads Brugger's Cold Case Hammarskjold; Stanley Nelson's Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,...
The Canadian festival, set to run April 25 to May 5, has booked the Sundance award winners American Factory, by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, and One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang. The latter film won Sundance's grand jury prize.
Also headed to Toronto from Sundance is Ryan White's Ask Dr. Ruth, about Dr. Ruth Westheimer; Mads Brugger's Cold Case Hammarskjold; Stanley Nelson's Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool,...
- 3/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is here to talk sex, baby. And don’t let her diminutive appearance and advanced age throw you off. America’s most famous sex therapist is getting the documentary treatment in the new Hulu film Ask Dr. Ruth, which chronicles Westheimer’s path from Holocaust survivor to advocate on the front lines of sex awareness and […]
The post ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ Trailer: America’s Most Famous Sex Therapist Gets a Documentary appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Ask Dr. Ruth’ Trailer: America’s Most Famous Sex Therapist Gets a Documentary appeared first on /Film.
- 2/14/2019
- by Hoai-Tran Bui
- Slash Film
The Television Critics Association’s winter press tour wrapped Wednesday in Pasadena, Calif. The 16-day junket featured its usual share of dull panels, bizarre questions, and awkward silences. But there were also moments that stood out for the right reasons. Among the highlights:
Hulu
The streaming service’s presence at the tour was genuinely impressive, with a series of shows whose teams — from “Catch-22” director George Clooney to “Shrill” executive producer Elizabeth Banks and actor Aidy Bryant to “The Act’s” Patricia Arquette and castmates to documentary subject Dr. Ruth Westheimer — provided not merely star power but real insight. Major talent at TCA is nothing new, but the all-killer, no-filler nature of Hulu’s fast-moving of panels, along with the fact that the stars came with strong ideas and points to make indicated that a scrappy Hulu’s ambition, at least, is on par with its more dominant peers in the streaming space.
Hulu
The streaming service’s presence at the tour was genuinely impressive, with a series of shows whose teams — from “Catch-22” director George Clooney to “Shrill” executive producer Elizabeth Banks and actor Aidy Bryant to “The Act’s” Patricia Arquette and castmates to documentary subject Dr. Ruth Westheimer — provided not merely star power but real insight. Major talent at TCA is nothing new, but the all-killer, no-filler nature of Hulu’s fast-moving of panels, along with the fact that the stars came with strong ideas and points to make indicated that a scrappy Hulu’s ambition, at least, is on par with its more dominant peers in the streaming space.
- 2/14/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Dr. Ruth Westheimer came to TCA to tell TV critics what questions she will not take.
“You will never know how much money I have and with whom I am sleeping,” she grinned, as she and director Ryan White came to talk about documentary Ask Dr. Ruth coming to Hulu after its high-profile premiere at 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The now Disney-dominated streamer will air the docu on the Holocaust survivor turned iconic sex therapist and with Magnolia set to give it the widest theatrical release for a Hulu Documentary to date, according to the home of The Handmaid’s Tale. The move puts Netflix and others on notice in the race for the Oscars.
Among other questions Westheimer will not address are those about sex involving an animal – “I’m not a veterinarian,” the nonagenarisn explained.
Nor has she addressed “violent sex that I know some people engage in,...
“You will never know how much money I have and with whom I am sleeping,” she grinned, as she and director Ryan White came to talk about documentary Ask Dr. Ruth coming to Hulu after its high-profile premiere at 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
The now Disney-dominated streamer will air the docu on the Holocaust survivor turned iconic sex therapist and with Magnolia set to give it the widest theatrical release for a Hulu Documentary to date, according to the home of The Handmaid’s Tale. The move puts Netflix and others on notice in the race for the Oscars.
Among other questions Westheimer will not address are those about sex involving an animal – “I’m not a veterinarian,” the nonagenarisn explained.
Nor has she addressed “violent sex that I know some people engage in,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Ruth Westheimer, aka Dr. Ruth. is a legendary sex therapist known for her openness about the topic.
But while discussing the upcoming Hulu documentary that chronicles her life, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” during the Television Critics Association press tour Monday, Westheimer revealed she didn’t actually tell her own children about the birds and the bees — but she did give her now-adult grandson and his grade-school class a talk about the facts of life.
“The answer is no. I did not have the sex talk [with them]. I left that to my children,” she told reporters.
Also Read: Hulu Drops Trailers for Dr. Ruth Documentary, New Aidy Bryant Comedy 'Shrill' (Video)
“If there is nobody in the household who can do it, father or mother, whoever it is, then a grandmother should do it or an aunt,” she said. “I never did it, except in the film you will see my...
But while discussing the upcoming Hulu documentary that chronicles her life, “Ask Dr. Ruth,” during the Television Critics Association press tour Monday, Westheimer revealed she didn’t actually tell her own children about the birds and the bees — but she did give her now-adult grandson and his grade-school class a talk about the facts of life.
“The answer is no. I did not have the sex talk [with them]. I left that to my children,” she told reporters.
Also Read: Hulu Drops Trailers for Dr. Ruth Documentary, New Aidy Bryant Comedy 'Shrill' (Video)
“If there is nobody in the household who can do it, father or mother, whoever it is, then a grandmother should do it or an aunt,” she said. “I never did it, except in the film you will see my...
- 2/11/2019
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
If the success of “Rbg” and “Won’t You be My Neighbor?” taught documentary distributors anything, it’s that audiences love hagiographies about beloved American public figures — the older the better. Like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Fred Rogers, Dr. Ruth Westheimer effected radical change in the most unassuming of packages. Perhaps less known to contemporary viewers, but no less influential, Westheimer is getting the biopic treatment with “Ask Dr. Ruth,” a new documentary about the popular sex therapist coming to Hulu in May.
Of course, Dr. Ruth is no stranger to television; she hosted at least five television shows for Lifetime throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s, following the success of her radio show, “Sexually Speaking.” For audiences who recall hearing her German-accented sex advice on the radio or TV, Westheimer’s return to the screen will be laden with nostalgia. But the film also includes her lesser-known history,...
Of course, Dr. Ruth is no stranger to television; she hosted at least five television shows for Lifetime throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s, following the success of her radio show, “Sexually Speaking.” For audiences who recall hearing her German-accented sex advice on the radio or TV, Westheimer’s return to the screen will be laden with nostalgia. But the film also includes her lesser-known history,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Hulu has set premiere dates and released new trailers for the Aidy Bryant comedy “Shrill” and the feature documentary “Ask Dr. Ruth.”
Directed by Ryan White, “Ask Dr. Ruth” chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. It will hit Hulu on Friday, May 10, following a limited theatrical run the week prior.
Per Hulu, “With her diminutive frame, thick German accent and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.”
Also Read: Vice Media Near Deal for New Show With Hulu, Executive Says (Exclusive)
Rafael Marmor, White, Jessica Hargrave and Christopher Leggett are producers on the film.
“Shrill,” slated to debut on Wednesday,...
Directed by Ryan White, “Ask Dr. Ruth” chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. It will hit Hulu on Friday, May 10, following a limited theatrical run the week prior.
Per Hulu, “With her diminutive frame, thick German accent and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.”
Also Read: Vice Media Near Deal for New Show With Hulu, Executive Says (Exclusive)
Rafael Marmor, White, Jessica Hargrave and Christopher Leggett are producers on the film.
“Shrill,” slated to debut on Wednesday,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Hulu has slotted premiere dates for two new installments of its Into The Dark horror event series from Blumhouse Television: April Fools’ Day-themed I’m Just F*cking With You on Friday, April 5 and Mother’s Day-themed All That We Destroy on Friday, May 3. The premium cabler also set Friday, April 19 for the premiere of its new 10-episode comedy series Ramy.
From Jason Blum’s indie TV studio, the Into the Dark series includes 12 feature-length episodes, released each month and inspired by a holiday, featuring Blumhouse’s signature genre/thriller spin on the story.
I’m Just F*cking With You, which is an upcoming SXSW Narrative Spotlight feature, tells the story of a man and his sister on the way to a family wedding, who endure a night of increasingly frightening practical jokes during a one-night stay at a secluded motel.
The installment stars Keir O’Donnell, Hayes MacArthur and Jessica McNamee,...
From Jason Blum’s indie TV studio, the Into the Dark series includes 12 feature-length episodes, released each month and inspired by a holiday, featuring Blumhouse’s signature genre/thriller spin on the story.
I’m Just F*cking With You, which is an upcoming SXSW Narrative Spotlight feature, tells the story of a man and his sister on the way to a family wedding, who endure a night of increasingly frightening practical jokes during a one-night stay at a secluded motel.
The installment stars Keir O’Donnell, Hayes MacArthur and Jessica McNamee,...
- 2/11/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
You may know Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s thickly accented voice or recognize her diminutive presence at just 4 foot 7 inches, but Ryan White, the director of the new documentary “Ask Dr. Ruth” says he was drawn to make a film about Westheimer upon learning about her impressive, worldly backstory.
White’s film shows how Westheimer went from a life in Frankfurt, Germany, survived and escaped the war and even wound up as a sniper in the Israeli military before making her way to America and becoming a household name as a sex therapist.
“I knew her as America’s sex therapist, but I did not know the 55 years of life that she lived before she became famous, that was challenge after challenge. Her whole family was murdered in the Holocaust, she went through World War II, she went through Israeli independence,” White told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman at the Sundance Film Festival.
White’s film shows how Westheimer went from a life in Frankfurt, Germany, survived and escaped the war and even wound up as a sniper in the Israeli military before making her way to America and becoming a household name as a sex therapist.
“I knew her as America’s sex therapist, but I did not know the 55 years of life that she lived before she became famous, that was challenge after challenge. Her whole family was murdered in the Holocaust, she went through World War II, she went through Israeli independence,” White told TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman at the Sundance Film Festival.
- 2/6/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
In Ryan White’s breezy documentary “Ask Dr. Ruth,” the 90-year-old Ruth Westheimer asks a fair share of the questions. “Are you hungry?” “Are you sure you’re not hungry?” And with her grandmotherly credentials thus verified, she’s free to turn to her Alexa and ask it to find her a boyfriend. Alas, the app demurs. “If she doesn’t know that, what good is she?” the doctor tuts of the AI program. Not good enough to do what Westheimer did: leap from being a licensed sex therapist with a risqué 15-minute radio call-in show into a national sensation with six TV programs, more than three dozen books, and countless talk-show appearances in which she’s used her no-nonsense charm to, among other things, needle Arsenio Hall into saying the word “vagina.” Dr. Ruth denies she’s political — she even says she’s not a feminist — but that moment...
- 2/6/2019
- by Amy Nicholson
- Variety Film + TV
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