New York, NY (PRWEB) November 01, 2021 The COLCOA French Film Festival kicks off on November 1 in Hollywood with a slate of impressive films in competition
Happy Birthday to the Rolling Stones Mick Jagger, who turns 78 today (July 26th)!!! Jagger will always be best known as being s rock s preeminent frontman and along with Keith Richards, has written some of the most enduring and important songs of the rock era, including “(I Can t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Under My Thumb,” “Gimme Shelter,” “You Can t Always Get What You Want,” “Ruby Tuesday,” “Get Off My Cloud,” “Brown Sugar,” “Let s Spend The Night Together,” “As Tears Go By,” “Street Fighting Man,” “She s A Rainbow,” “19th Nervous Breakdown,” “Jumpin Jack Flash,” “Honky Tonk Women,” “Angie,” “Paint It, Black,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Waiting On A Friend,” “Miss You,” “Emotional Rescue,” “Fool To Cry,” “Wild Horses” “Sympathy For The Devil,” “It s Only Rock N Roll,” “Start Me Up,” and literally hundreds of others.
Oscar voters have always had a soft spot for villains. In the 90-plus years since The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences starting handing out awards, its members have honored the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Javier Bardem for playing remorseless killers, Michael Douglas and Daniel Day-Lewis for playing pathologically greedy tycoons, and Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix for playing Jokers. Just last year, the Academy gave its Best Picture Oscar to
Parasite, a movie about a band of con artists manipulating a family of self-centered swells.
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There are commonalities, though, between the
kinds of bad guys and gals the Academy prefers. Hannibal Lecter and Anton Chigurh are almost supernatural forces of pure evil. There’s a tragic dimension to the ruthlessness of Gordon Gekko and Daniel Plainview. The Joker is both evil
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Back home: Ben Farry says he comes back to Queenstown to decompress
Queenstowners of a certain age will recall the late Pat Farry’s career as a pioneering rural GP. But, as PHILIP CHANDLER discovers, his son Ben’s also forged an amazing career in the world of drama. He explains why he’s moved from acting into screenwriting and recalls his first attempts at filmmaking
Thank goodness for a mid-life crisis.
After a long career as an actor, born-and-bred Queenstowner Ben Farry who’s largely been based in London since ‘97 is discovering even more success as a screenwriter.
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