HIKER TRASH AT FILM SCHOOL: THE MUSICAL

Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

The Rider director Chloé Zhao has already begun shooting her next film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand. 

“In a just awards season, Sakura Andô would be a frontrunner in this year’s Best Supporting Actress race for her tender and tough-minded work in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters. As Nobuyo, the maternal figure in the drama’s makeshift family, Andô indicates the insuperable hurt in a character whose full history of pain isn’t made clear until the film’s final act. This history informs every aspect of Andô’s performance, especially during an indelible heartbreaker of a scene in which Nobuyo talks to Yuri (Miyu Sasaki), an abused and neglected girl illegally taken under her wing. Sitting in front of the cathartic flames of a fire that consume the clothes Yuri was found in, Nobuyo wraps the young girl in her arms and holds her close, telling her, in the certain terms of a survivor, that no one should have to bear the violence that she has born. Andô threatens to dissolve into tears as Sasaki gently caresses her cheek, but she valiantly withstands the urge. Hers is the guarded face of a woman who will never understand why people inflict pain on one another, much less deprive those closest to them of the love and care that every being deserves.” — Matthew Eng

30 Memorable Moments from Great Performances of 2018

Camp Ivanhoe? That’s all the way across the other side of the island. You really think a twelve-year-old boy could row this far in a canoe?