Steve Pond
Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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‘The End’ Review: Are You Ready for a Post-Apocalyptic Musical? Tilda Swinton Is
Telluride Film Festival: Joshua Oppenheimer’s dystopian toe-tapper joins “Emilia Perez” and “Joker: Folie à Deux” as one of the weirdest triptychs in recent cinema
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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Big Dog Explore Love and Loss
Telluride Film Festival: The film from David Siegel and Scott McGehee is suffused with a sadness that it aims to carry lightly
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: Odd, Chaotic Documentary Explores a Dizzying Time for John Lennon
Venice 2024: The filmmakers have made a bracing, scattered and somewhat revelatory look at a period that’ll go down as a misstep for the Smart Beatle
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‘September 5’ Review: Can Journalists Be the Heroes in a Story of Deadly Terrorism?
Venice Film Festival: Tim Fehlbaum’s drama about the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds strength in dark rooms, unlikely protagonists and moral dilemmas
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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Embraces the Crazy in Dreamlike Maria Callas Drama
Venice Film Festival: Pablo Larraín follows his films about Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana with another dark fantasia about an iconic woman
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Telluride Film Festival to Include ‘The Piano Lesson,’ ‘Conclave,’ ‘Saturday Night’
The lineup will also feature “The End,” “Nickel Boys” and the documentaries “Martha” and “Piece by Piece”
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‘Separated’ Review: Errol Morris Pumps Up the Drama in His Story of Trump’s Border Policies
Venice Film Festival: The documentary filmmaker creates a curious hybrid by mixing nonfiction techniques with a fictional storyline
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Fall Film Festivals Struggle to Regain Their Mojo as Awards Season Launching Pads
After three years in which the Best Picture winner skipped Venice, Telluride and Toronto, the once-mighty fests would like to matter to awards voters
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Inside the Black-and-White Look of ‘Ripley’: Luxury, Danger and a Whole Lot of Stairs
TheWrap magazine: “In the old days, I might have had a panic attack,” says production designer David Gropman of the miniseries’ scale and complexity
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Here Are All the Ways John Hawkes Was Wrong About His Emmy-Nominated Role in ‘True Detective’
TheWrap magazine: The “Night Country” actor admits he resisted showrunner Issa López’s ideas for his character and the song he performs on the HBO limited series
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In Praise of the Emmys’ Poor TV Movie Category
Limited series got a total of 100 Emmy nominations this year; television movies got 5
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Juno Temple Had No Time to Grieve ‘Ted Lasso’ Before Starting ‘Fargo’: ‘It Was Kind of a Blessing’
TheWrap magazine: The actress goes deep on the complexity of her “Fargo” character and that “profoundly beautiful” ending
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How ‘Finding Your Roots’ Fights Racism ‘One Family Tree at a Time’
TheWrap magazine: “We truly are a nation of immigrants,” says host Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the aftermath of the PBS program’s first Emmy nomination
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‘Amplified’ Wins Top Award at HollyShorts Film Festival, Qualifies for Oscars
“Anuja,” “Wander to Wonder” and “The Final Copy of Ilon Specht” also won Oscar-qualifying awards at the short film fest
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Who Is Mary Lou Belli and Why Does She Keep Getting Emmy Nominations?
TheWrap magazine: The director of “The Ms. Pat Show” specializes in the multi-cam format, where it’s all about getting an audience to laugh
