#Berlin Film Festival Winners (Updating Live)

#Berlin Film Festival Winners (Updating Live)

Rose Bryne and Andrew Scott have taken the top acting awards at this year’s Berlinale film festival, with Bryne winning the best leading performance honor for her barnstorming performance in If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You, and Scott taking the best supporting performance honor for playing Broadway composer Richard Rogers in Richard Linklater’s Blue…

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#Todd Haynes on Current Cultural Climate in U.S. for LGBTQ People: “It’s an Open Season on Queer and Trans Bodies”

#Todd Haynes on Current Cultural Climate in U.S. for LGBTQ People: “It’s an Open Season on Queer and Trans Bodies”

Todd Haynes says LGBTQ people in the U.S. are currently living in a “culture that just seems to be becoming more infantile in every conceivable way” and that has resulted in an “open season on queer and trans bodies, identities and youth.” Haynes spoke about the current political and cultural climate for LGBTQ people while…

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#Christine Vachon on the State of Indie Filmmaking, Getting Picketed in the ’90s and Her Concern for Young Writers During the WGA Strike

#Christine Vachon on the State of Indie Filmmaking, Getting Picketed in the ’90s and Her Concern for Young Writers During the WGA Strike

Christine Vachon and her Killer Films productions are regulars on the festival circuit, with 2023 being no different. Vachon started the year at Sundance, with festival break-out Celine Song’s Past Lives, and then headed to Cannes with her latest collaboration with director Todd Haynes, May December, which screened in competition at the Palais. At 57th…

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