Tag: Film
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Film on haenyeo, Korea’s ‘mermaids,’ shows women who fight to preserve sea and sisterhood
South Korea’s “haenyeo,” or women divers, say that they’ve become inseparable from their deep blue environment. In Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s first executive-produced film, she explores the divers’ world, most of them now in their 60s, 70s and 80s and living on Jeju Island, 80 miles off the Korean Peninsula. The women are…
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Daniel Day-Lewis officially ends retirement from acting for son’s film ‘Anemone’
Daniel Day-Lewis, widely considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, is emerging from retirement after seven years away from the big screen. He’s starring in Focus Features and Plan B’s upcoming film “Anemone,” which marks the directorial debut of his son, Ronan Day-Lewis. Daniel Day-Lewis and Ronan Day-Lewis co-wrote the film, described as…
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New York Film Festival returns with a post-strike lineup of inventive, queer, star-studded films
After last year’s industrywide strikes rendered cinema-going a bit less exciting, film festivals have been returning in full force the past few months, renewing excitement around filmmaking at large. Following a summer of star-studded events in Cannes, Venice and Toronto, the 62nd annual New York Film Festival opens at Lincoln Center on Friday for 17…