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The British director Joanna Hogg on death, mothers, and the allure of memoir movies

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Filmmaker Joanna Hogg and her lifelong friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton have made their most personal and exposing film yet with “The Eternal Daughter,” an emotional ghost story about a 60-something and her mother on a trip together

The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Gray’s Queens coming-of-age drama “Armageddon Time” and Laura Poitras’ documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” about artist Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family.

Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” the Marilyn Monroe drama “Blonde,” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” with Timothée Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.

Film Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Martin Scorsese dedicated to film preservation, is launching a virtual theater to stream classic films free of charge.

The Associated Press' film writers picks for best movies of 2021:LINDSEY BAHR:1. "Licorice Pizza": It's a rare film that makes you nostalgic for a time and place you never knew, but Paul Thomas Anderson's breezy, sunny "Licorice Pizza" does just that for the San Fernando Valley of Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) and Alana Kane's ( Alana Haim ) youths. "Licorice Pizza": Paul Thomas Anderson's shaggy-dog story of self-discovery in '70s San Fernando Valley feels to me like a loose, easy-breathing culmination for Anderson, a virtuoso filmmaker here at his most tender and organic. "Licorice Pizza," crammed with the comic chronicles of adolescence and young adulthood, is the most lived-in movie of the year. If Anderson resurrects '70s California in "Licorice Pizza," Hogg's film is just as detailed in its '80s London.

Associated Press Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle have named their picks for the best movies of 2021.

Movies that affirm the vitality of the medium, no matter the size of the screen

The Souvenir Part II is an art film told with the ambition of a big blockbuster.

Filmmaker Joanna Hogg conceived her 2019 semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir as a two-part work. The second installment is a wonderfully generous movie, sardonic in tone but rich in emotion.

A year after depending on drive-in and virtual screenings, the New York Film Festival, one of the premier destinations of the fall festival circuit, will return to in-person premieres at Lincoln Center this September, with vaccination proof required for all attendees.

EU Film-Cannes-Souvenir Part II Joanna Hogg poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'The Souvenir- Part II' at the 74th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Thursday, July 8, 2021. As common as sequels are in summer, they rarely find a place at the Cannes Film Festival. But Joanna Hogg's "The Souvenir Part II" is no franchise entry. The night before, Hogg premiered her film “The Souvenir Part II” at the Cannes Film Festival. I don’t know that it’s really dawned on me that it’s finished.”“The Souvenir Part II" has been one of the clear standouts at the Cannes Film Festival.

As common as sequels are in summer, they rarely find a place at the Cannes Film Festival.

On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival will reopen.

VENICE Australian actress Cate Blanchett said Wednesday she is baffled that other countries didnt learn from Italys pain to be better prepared to fight the coronavirus outbreak when it spread. Blanchett, who is heading the jury at the virus-restricted Venice Film Festival, arrived on the Lido wearing a surgical mask and skipped the typical water taxi photo op that stars have long used. At an opening-day press conference, Blanchett was asked whether she feared coming to Italy, the first country in the West to be slammed by COVID-19. Hospitals, cemeteries and morgues were overflowing in nearby Lombardy, which became the epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. They will award the coveted Golden Lion and other awards to winners of the 18 in-competition films when the festival wraps up Sept. 12.

FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 31, 2018 file photo, actress Cate Blanchett poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'A Star Is Born' at the 75th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. The lineup for the Venice Film Festival will be announced on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, and will be the first major film event since the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Barbera noted that almost half of the competition film selections this year are directed by women. The decision to hold the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival is experienced like a sign of confidence in dnd concrete support of the world of film and the audiovisual industry, Barbera said. Cannes and Telluride were cancelled and others like Venice and the Toronto International Film Festival have had to get creative and scale back where possible in order to proceed.