Oliver Stone to Take Restored Copy of Oscar-Winning ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ to Lumière Festival
One of several high-profile guests scheduled to attend the Lumière Festival in October, Oliver Stone will be screening a newly restored copy of 1989’s “Born on the Fourth of July” at its world premiere in the French city of Lyon.
Other guests of honor include actor Viggo Mortensen, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (1998’s “Festen”), Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher and Oscar winning composer Gabriel Yared. Sofia Coppola, whose father Francis Ford picked up the Lumière Prize last year, is bringing her latest film, “On the Rocks”, starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones, to Lyon.
Run by film director Bertrand Tavernier and Cannes Festival head Thierry Frémaux, Lumière is one of the world’s leading film heritage events. This 12th edition will also feature contemporary works including 20 films originally scheduled to run in Cannes before the festival had to be cancelled due to Covid-19. Titles include Vinterberg’s “Drunk”, “Last Words” by Jonathan Nossiter,...
Other guests of honor include actor Viggo Mortensen, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (1998’s “Festen”), Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher and Oscar winning composer Gabriel Yared. Sofia Coppola, whose father Francis Ford picked up the Lumière Prize last year, is bringing her latest film, “On the Rocks”, starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones, to Lyon.
Run by film director Bertrand Tavernier and Cannes Festival head Thierry Frémaux, Lumière is one of the world’s leading film heritage events. This 12th edition will also feature contemporary works including 20 films originally scheduled to run in Cannes before the festival had to be cancelled due to Covid-19. Titles include Vinterberg’s “Drunk”, “Last Words” by Jonathan Nossiter,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Apple executives used the company’s Wwdc keynote Monday to announce a slew of software updates for the iPhone, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Mac — but one product was curiously missing: The Homepod, Apple’s smart speaker, wasn’t mentioned once during the two-hour presentation.
The absence of the Homepod was especially notable because the conference marked the one-year anniversary of the device’s unveiling. Apple used last year’s Wwdc to introduce the smart speaker to the world, with Apple CEO Tim Cook promising at the time that it would “reinvent home audio.”
Apple had originally planned to launch the Homepod before the end of last year, in time for the holiday season. The company missed that deadline, and instead started to sell the device in February.
It rolled out a significant software update to the Homepod last month, bringing stereo-pairing and multi-room audio to the device. Apple also...
The absence of the Homepod was especially notable because the conference marked the one-year anniversary of the device’s unveiling. Apple used last year’s Wwdc to introduce the smart speaker to the world, with Apple CEO Tim Cook promising at the time that it would “reinvent home audio.”
Apple had originally planned to launch the Homepod before the end of last year, in time for the holiday season. The company missed that deadline, and instead started to sell the device in February.
It rolled out a significant software update to the Homepod last month, bringing stereo-pairing and multi-room audio to the device. Apple also...
- 6/4/2018
- by Janko Roettgers
- Variety Film + TV
“Today is all about software,” proclaimed Apple CEO Tim Cook during the opening keynote for Apple’s 2018 Worldwide Developers Conference (Wwdc) in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, setting the stage for a long list of announcements of new features coming to iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Mac Os later this year. Here are the biggest news bits of the show all in one place:
Siri Shortcuts: One of the most notable updates to iOS 12, which is expected to be available once the company launches the new iPhone in September, are Siri Shortcuts. These allow iPhone and iPad users to set up custom voice commands and routines. Shortcuts directly integrate into supporting third-party apps, which makes it possible to tell an app to make certain information available via Siri. For instance, users can decide to assign their custom coffee order to a Siri command of their choice, and then...
Siri Shortcuts: One of the most notable updates to iOS 12, which is expected to be available once the company launches the new iPhone in September, are Siri Shortcuts. These allow iPhone and iPad users to set up custom voice commands and routines. Shortcuts directly integrate into supporting third-party apps, which makes it possible to tell an app to make certain information available via Siri. For instance, users can decide to assign their custom coffee order to a Siri command of their choice, and then...
- 6/4/2018
- by Janko Roettgers
- Variety Film + TV
‘Closely Watched Trains’: Oscar-winning movie classic gets special Academy screening (photo: Václav Neckár in ‘Closely Watched Trains’) Jirí Menzel’s first solo feature film, the World War II-set drama Closely Watched Trains / Ostre sledované vlaky (1966) was the 1967 Oscar winner in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Those living in the Los Angeles area will have the chance to watch a new print of Menzel’s classic on the big screen at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, September 23, 2013, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. To be hosted by Oscar-nominated writer-director Philip Kaufman, the Closely Watched Trains screening will feature a rare onstage discussion with Jirí Menzel himself. A mix of light comedy and somber drama, Closely Watched Trains tells the story of Milos (Václav Neckár), a young railway worker whose routine life in a small Czech town is upended following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
- 9/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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