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Union sustainability activists from across the industry come together at the 2024 Hollywood Climate Summit to share their knowledge – and action items. by Margot Lester / Photos by Katherine Bomboy      In late June, film and television community members gathered at the Hollywood Climate Summit, held at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Samuel Goldwyn Theater, to explore options for reducing our collective impact on the environment. As Local 600 Camera Technician Summer Marsh, an NEB […]

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FX’s new series about “that other L.A. basketball team” takes a fly-on-the-wall approach to visualize one of the first scandals of the Internet age. by David Geffner / Photos by Kelsey McNeal/FX   There’s a moment in Clipped, the new dramatic limited series from FX (streaming exclusively on Hulu), where Shelly Sterling (Jacki Weaver) sits in her car outside her Malibu mansion listening to a recorded argument between her husband, Donald Sterling (Ed O’Neill) and his executive assistant, V. Stiviano (Cleopatra […]

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Netflix’s dramatic series, A Man in Full (based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel), is a tale of Atlanta society – top to bottom and back again. by Margot Lester / Photos by Mark Hill / Netflix / Framgrabs Courtesy of Netflix   Netflix’s A Man in Full, based on novelist Tom Wolfe’s late 1990s bestseller, tells the story of Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker’s (Jeff Daniels) struggle to save his empire and his reputation – while fending off opportunists […]

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The best minds in technology at HPA 2024 all agreed AI will be a game-changer; less clear are where the new goalposts will be and what that event horizon looks like. by David Geffner / Photos Courtesy of HPA   I arrived at the Westin Mission Hills Resort in Rancho Mirage, CA, early Tuesday morning, for the second day of the 2024 HPA (Hollywood Professional Association) Tech Retreat, and the writing was on the wall – or should I say: […]

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The 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards luncheon revels in fun and funny before an audience of PR professionals who went above and beyond to respond to 2023’s challenges. by Pauline Rogers / Photos by Trae Patton and Evans Vestal Ward   The 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards hit both fresh and fun notes this year as more than 600 attendees streamed into the event’s “fresh” alternate venue – The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, while the “fun” came in the form of […]

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A new feature version of the Broadway hit (and, before that, Hollywood box office smash) recently debuted on screens: head back to high school with Mean Girls (the musical). by Pauline Rogers / Photos by JoJo Whilden/Paramount Pictures   Let’s face it: high school is war, and no one comes out unscathed. In 2004, film audiences were introduced to the Mark Waters-directed Hollywood smash hit Mean Girls, co-written by Tina Fey and based on Rosalind Wiseman’s 2002 book Queen Bees and […]

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Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

Director: Praveen Kandregula
Cinematographer: Apoorva Shaligram, Sagar Yvv

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cinematographer: Thomas Townend
A traumatized veteran unafraid of violence tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what could be his death trip or his awakening.

Director: Rupert Sanders
Cinematographer: Jess Hall
In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Director: David Lynch, Lesli Linka Glatter, Caleb Deschanel, Duwayne Dunham, Tim Hunter, Todd Holland, Tina Rathborne, Graeme Clifford, Mark Frost, Uli Edel, James Foley, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Diane Keaton, Jonathan Sanger
Cinematographer: Frank Byers, Ronald Víctor García
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Director: John Ford
Cinematographer: Winton C. Hoch
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

Director: John Irvin
Cinematographer: Alex Thomson
A former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff agrees to help the FBI chief infiltrate the Chicago mafia when the FBI chief's son is killed by them.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

Director: Eva Longoria
Cinematographer: Federico Cantini
This is the inspiring story of Richard Montañez who, as a Frito Lay janitor, helped disrupt the food industry by channeling his Mexican heritage to turn Frito Lay snacks into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.

Director: Stephen Frears
Cinematographer: Danny Cohen
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

Director: Arthur Lubin
Cinematographer: W. Howard Greene, Hal Mohr
An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.

Director: Macon Blair
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
When a depressed woman is burgled, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves along with her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

Cinematographer: Joseph T. Rucker, Willard Van der Veer
Account of Admiral Byrd's 1928 expedition to the South Pole. Academy award winning cinematography.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert J. Flaherty
Cinematographer: Clyde De Vinna, George Gordon Nogle, Bob Roberts
An alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.

Director: Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg
Cinematographer: Joseph Ruttenberg
In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from h...

Director: Bill Condon
Cinematographer: Tobias A. Schliessler
A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.

Director: Greg Berlanti
Cinematographer: John Guleserian
Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.

Director: Orson Welles
Cinematographer: Gary Graver
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead...

Director: Malcolm D. Lee
Cinematographer: Greg Gardiner
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

Director: Andy Muschietti
Cinematographer: Chung-hoon Chung
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.

Director: George Clooney
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
As a 1950s suburban community self-destructs, a home invasion has sinister consequences for one seemingly normal family.

Director: Boots Riley
Cinematographer: Doug Emmett
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

Director: Marcel Sarmiento
Cinematographer: Harry Lipnick
A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.

Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Cinematographer: Doug Emmett
High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.

Director: Anna Biller
Cinematographer: M. David Mullen
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

Director: Kevin Smith
Cinematographer: David Klein
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cinematographer: Jimmy Chin, Clair Popkin, Mikey Schaefer
Alex Honnold attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb El Capitan.

Director: Leo McCarey
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
A married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought.

Director: Lila Neugebauer
Cinematographer: Diego García
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.

Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.

Director: Frank Capra
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.

Director: Ridley Scott
Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

Director: Ben Wheatley
Cinematographer: Laurie Rose
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

Director: Frank Lloyd
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Director: Frank Borzage
Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer, Joseph A. Valentine
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

Director: Dan Fogelman
Cinematographer: Brett Pawlak
As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

Director: Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker
Cinematographer: Larkin Seiple
Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, an ex-con and his adopted teenage brother go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.

Director: Maxance Louvety
Cinematographer: Enzo Kristensen
A door-to-door salesman at the end of his tether finds on his last sale of the day much more than he could ever bargain for

Director: Bart Layton
Cinematographer: Ole Bratt Birkeland
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.

Director: George Tillman Jr.
Cinematographer: Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

Director: Paul Dano
Cinematographer: Diego García
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.

Director: Peter Strickland
Cinematographer: Ari Wegner
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.

Director: Susan Johnson
Cinematographer: Michael Fimognari
A teenage girl's secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.

Director: James Gray
Cinematographer: Hoyte Van Hoytema
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.

Director: Joe Wright
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel
In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Director: Bo Burnham
Cinematographer: Andrew Wehde
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.