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As the Swedish show “Summer of 1985,” based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist (“Let the Right One In,” “Border”), is set to make a splash at Canneseries’ competition, its production banner Media Res International is sitting on a possible sequel. According to the series producer Anna-Klara Carlsten, the international division of U.S. studio […]

“The American story keeps repeating itself,” U.S. filmmaker Kelly Reichardt told the audience of her masterclass Tuesday at Visions du Réel, a documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland. During an onstage conversation that is part of a wider tribute to the director, Reichardt was asked whether she is rewriting the American myth through her films. […]

Dave Mason, solo artist, a founding member of the band Traffic, writer of the classic rock songs “Feelin’ Alright” and “Hole in My Shoe” and sideman to the Rolling Stones, George Harrison and Jimi Hendrix, has died, according to an announcement from his publicist. No cause of death was announced, although ill health forced him […]

Production on Season 5 of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” has resumed after going on pause weeks ago amid a domestic violence investigation involving Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. It has not yet been revealed whether Paul or Mortensen will be involved in Season 5 moving forward. The cast of “The […]

It’s easy to get depressed about national politics. The people running things are nasty, brutish and eager to appeal to baser instincts rather than better angels. As “The Balusters,” the story of a neighborhood association riven by prejudice and petty skirmishes, demonstrates, politics aren’t much better at the local level. The debate here may be […]