Lady Gaga sheds tears, Martin Scorsese makes surprise appearance at NYFCC event

From USA Today: NEW YORK — Lady Gaga shared a lot of “big feelings” — and some tears — as she accepted a best actress award Wednesday night for her role in “House of Gucci.” The singer and actress, who starred in the 2021 biographical crime drama as Patrizia Reggiani, took …

Inside the NYFCC Awards, from Lady Gaga’s 13-Minute Speech to Martin Scorsese’s ‘Power of the Dog’ Love

From IndieWire: Thursday night’s Omicron-delayed New York Film Critics Circle Awards dinner at TAO in the Meatpacking District in New York City gave many of this year’s Oscar nominees — and a few Oscar also-rans — a last chance to unbutton and let loose and celebrate before the big show …

David Edelstein on Martin Scorsese’s Silence

Martin Scorsese has evidently waited his entire life to direct a saga of martyrdom and Judas-like betrayal on the scale of Silence, his stark, portentous adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel about Portuguese Catholic priests who get put through the wringer (along with their native followers) in 17th-century Japan. The movie …

‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com He’s not really a wolf – he’s more like a hyena, a scavenger, a bottom-feeder. Why would you want to know his story? That’s my takeaway from Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” His name is Jordan Belfort and, as played by Leonardo DiCaprio, he’s a fun-loving, money-churning, …

‘Charlie Countryman,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com Fredrik Bond’s “Charlie Countryman” is an intriguing directorial debut: a blend of the madcap and the maniacal, a movie that mixes tones in ways that shouldn’t work but do. In that sense, it calls to mind a couple of other films: Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” and Jonathan Demme’s “Something …

‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com Having squandered most of this century’s first decade being a movie star, Matthew McConaughey has approached its second stanza as an actor. The results have been salutary. In a year in which he’s already turned in stellar work in “Mud,” after last year’s “Magic Mike” and “Killer Joe,” here …

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