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1. The Connection Between “The Shining” and “Planes: Energy and Rescue.” If there’s a movie more horrifying or maddening than Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic Rorschach evaluate “The Shining,” then surely it’s the upcoming “Planes: Flame and Rescue.” Rodney Ascher, the director of the “The Shining” video essay/documentary “Room 237,” watched the latest in the “Planes” series with his son, who questioned why the planes don’t need people to fly them, and he mused on the post-human nature that the Pixar and Pixar spin-off movies build to. One of the stray things he noticed, however, was the eerie similarity between one location in “Planes” and the Overlook of Kubrick’s film.
The last third of the film concerns a remote luxury hotel for cars and planes (“The Grand Fusel Lodge”) threatened by an approaching forest fire, and this place was eerily s
Tom Cullen, Chris Fresh, Weekend The Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association has announced its list of Dorian Award nominations for film, television, and pop figures in various categories. Though dominated by movies and characters featuring/playing gays/lesbians/bisexuals/etc., the Gay & Lesbian Critics have made some eclectic choices. [Full list of Gay & Lesbian Critics' nominations.] For Film of the Year, for instance, only Andrew Haigh's romantic drama Weekend could be considered a "gay movie." Pedro Almodóvar's mystery melodrama The Skin I Live In does play with the issue of gender identity, but it's not exactly about it. The other nominees — Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life— focus on other issues. On the other hand, the Performance of the Year category mostly consists of non-heterosexuals: Christopher Plummer, who plays Ewan McGregor's gay father in Mike Mills...
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Woody Allen proclaims his innocence over Dylan Farrow claims
Reuters
Filmmaker Woody Allen has again denied accusations that he molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was a child.
The allegations recently resurfaced in HBO's four-part documentary series Allen v Farrow.
A new interview with Allen, recorded in 2020, has now been released in which he denies he sexually abused her.
The director called the accusations "preposterous" and described himself as "perfectly innocent".
It is Allen's first interview on US television in nearly 30 years and was released on streaming service Paramount Plus on Sunday.
The interview was recorded in July but has only been made accessible now, with his answers cut between testimony from Farrow.
Farrow has accused the Oscar-winner of sexually abusing her in 1992 when she was seven years old.
"As I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted," Farrow told Gayle King in 2018. "As a seven-year-old, I would've said he touched my private parts."
Allen has always denied the claim, which was investigated at the moment but led to no criminal charges.