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He was initially an ambassador from the Hippie Nation, a force of irreverence armed with a sharp wit and a what-me-worry smile. Which is why, in the late 1960s, right when Flower Power was beginning to bloom in full and the escalating situation in Vietnam galvanized the youth generation, Donald Sutherland started to make a name for himself in… war movies. It’s funny to think of that factoid now, given the six decades of incredibly versatile work the late, great actor left behind when he died Thursday at the...

Donald Sutherland, the tall, lean and long-faced Canadian actor who became a countercultural icon with such films as “The Dirty Dozen,” “Mash,” “Klute” and “Don’t Look Now,” and who subsequently enjoyed a prolific and wide-ranging career in films including “Ordinary People,” “Without Limits” and the “Hunger Games” films, died Thursday in Miami after a long illness, CAA confirmed. He was 88.

For over a half century, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor, who received an honorary Oscar in 2017, memorably played villains, antiheroes, romantic leads and mentor figures. His profile increased in the past decade with his supporting role as the evil President Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise.

Most recently, he appeared as Judge Parker on the series “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” and in the “Swimming With Sharks” series in 2022. His other recent recurring roles include the series “Undoing” and “Trust,” in which he played J. Paul Getty, and features “Ad Astra” and “The Burnt-Orange Heresy.

Salma Hayek Looks Breathtaking In Her Burgundy Ensemble ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Salma Hayek is the epitome of beauty and grace, which increases tenfold because of her sheer confidence. She is also a fashion icon who often shares beautiful photos on her social media. Hayek recently attended Qatar’s Fashion Trust Arabia (Fta) dinner in London, celebrating the Fta 2023 winners. Salma left us captivated by her maroon ensemble and looked classier than always.

Salma is an influential personality in Hollywood who has worked in many notable films. Behind the scenes, too, Hayek is an enigmatic person, and recently, she gave a shoutout to Angelina Jolie as she won her first Tony Award for producing a play on which Jolie’s daughter Vivienne worked as an assistant producer. Salma is also an avid animal lover and has several animals at her farm and home, as per reports. The Latina actress opened up...

When Sally Aitken’s Playing with Sharks opens in Australian cinemas next week, it will cap a period of significant milestones for WildBear Entertainment.

The life story of pioneering scuba diver Valerie Taylor has already made a splash internationally, having been chosen as one of only 10 films for the World Cinema Documentary Competition section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

After the festival, National Geographic Documentary Films swept on the worldwide rights. Other screenings have included the Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival in the US, as well as this year’s Gold Coast Film Festival.

The selections are a strong endorsement for the work of WildBear, which restored, cleaned, scanned, and remastered archived 16 and 35 mm film footage captured across a 50-year period to create the film.

Producer Bettina Dalton was central to the process, having spent more than 20 years archiving Taylor’s material.

WildBear Entertainment CEO Michael Tear said...

The ABC has used its submission to the Federal Government’s media reform green paper review to request an additional $90 million in funding, while at the same time joining Sbs in dismissing content obligations as “unnecessary”.

In its response to the paper, the ABC has proposed it receive $30 million in annual funding across the next three years to support the production of an extra 36 hours of Australian drama, factual and children’s content, and 30 hours of arts, music, and specialist programming a year.

The broadcaster also reiterated its stance that a content obligation has the potential to affect its operational independence, with the submission stating the proposal could “constrain the ability of the ABC board and management to flexibly allocate funds to best meet the corporation’s charter remit in a changing media environment”.

Instead, the ABC suggested commissioning commitments in “key content genres” at the beginning of each triennial...

When sponsors of right-wing grievance politics piss their britches over “cancel culture,” a term applied so broadly that it lacks any substantive meaning, they’re always talking about society slamming the door shut on arcane, draconian mores engineered to inflict harm on marginalized people and maintain a status quo benefitting the few over the many. It’s called “white supremacist patriarchy.” So when dimwits and scumbags like Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy, Ben Shapiro, and Stephen L.

Continue reading ‘F.T.A.’: Jane Fonda And Donald Sutherland’s Unearthed Anti-War Film Teach Us What Being Cancelled Really Looks Like [Review] at The Playlist.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Black Westerns

An often overlooked aspect of the western genre is the emergence of the Black-led films born around the Civil Rights era and continuing throughout the century. With essential context from guest programmer and film scholar Mia Mask, The Criterion Channel is now presenting a series of these works, including Rutledge (1960), Duel at Diablo (1966), The Learning Tree (1969), El Condor (1970), Skin Game (1971), Black Rodeo (1972), Buck and the Preacher (1972), The Legend of Black Charley (1972), Thomasine and Bushrod (1974), Posse (1993), Buffalo Soldiers (1997), and Rosewood (1997).

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

Center Stage (Stanley Kwan)

Following her breakout with Jackie Chan in Police Story and before her iconic roles in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Olivier Assayas,...

Against the star-spangled, quilted backdrop of what looks like it could be a friendly, amateur Fourth of July talent show, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, and the company of the Fta Show raise their fists and middle fingers to the United States Armed Forces. They’re accompanied by the raucous cheers from thousands of enlisted service members who make up a fraction of the reported 64,000 total GI attendees over the course of the Fta Show’s tour through U.S. military bases in Hawai’i, the Philippines, and Japan. At each station they delight in having an outlet to tell their employers to screw off and set the date to get them back home.

It’s hard to call an anti-Vietnam doc anyone’s idea of a good time, which is the exact expectation F.T.A—the film, the show it documents, and the stars of both—so brilliantly subverts to its advantage.

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review, going back to a 1972 anti-Vietnam War documentary with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, as they entertain the troops in “F.T.A.,” available through on-demand in Virtual Cinemas right now, for more info click KinoLorber.com.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

The rediscovered 1972 documentary – directed by Francine Parker, a pioneering female filmmaker – is an acronym for “Free the Army” and other variations of the phrase. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland – right after they did the film Klute in 1971 – organized an anti-war “entertain the troops” show for army bases in Hawaii, the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan … the very places being used to conduct the Vietnam War. The idea was to gather performers, including Fonda and Sutherland, to help mobilize the anti-Vietnam War effort.

“F.T.A.” is available through On-Demand Virtual Cinema, locally through Facets Chicago or KinoLorber.com. Featuring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Directed by Francine Parker.

Self-styled “political vaudeville” troupe F.T.A. (an acronym that alternately stands for “Free The Army” or “Fuck The Army”) was something out of Rush Limbaugh’s worst nightmare: a Jane Fonda-led band of progressive, feminist, class-conscious show-biz pranksters who traveled far and wide performing anti-war sketches and songs in front of sympathetic soldiers at the height of the Vietnam era. F.T.A. brought the anti-war movement and the anarchic spirit of the Yippies to soldiers fighting and dying for a cause many didn’t believe in. The lefty mirth-makers—whose ranks included Holly Near, Paul Mooney, and Donald ...

By 1971, America's involvement in Vietnam had steamrolled onward in full combat-&-bombing mode for six solid years, just about as long as the U.S. has currently been occupying Iraq. They're different wars, but similar enough to make the evidence presented in the long-censored, long-buried, long-bootlegged film "F.T.A." (1972) all the more astonishing: it was then, more than midway through the first Nixon term, that a couple of full-on movie stars (Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda) helped gather together a band of lefty anti-war musicians, actors and activists, and devised a cheesy vaudeville show to act as counterpoint to the Bob Hope pro-war paradigm. And then they toured, but not at home for other activists or mere American voters, but on or around military bases, for G.I.s, beginning at Fort Bragg (which wasn't filmed) and ending up bouncing around the Pacific Rim from one installation to another. The delighted...

Jane Fonda's controversial '70s docu-film where she was featured actively opposing the Vietnam War is set to be released on DVD.

Fonda was a prominent political activist in the 1960s, opposing America's conflict in the Asian country. She teamed up with Donald Sutherland and Fred Gardner in April 1970 to form the Fta (Free The Army) tour, an anti-war road show.

Their protests were made into a movie that contained strong criticism of the war of by service men and women.

The film, called "F.T.A.," was released in 1972 but was pulled from theaters a week later. Director Francine Parker blamed pressure from the Nixon White House for making the film "disappear."...

Jane Fonda's controversial documentary opposing the Vietnam War is to be released on DVD - 37 years after it was pulled from cinemas and withdrawn from circulation.

The actress emerged as a prominent political activist in the 1960s, opposing the longrunning American conflict in the country.

Fonda teamed up with Donald Sutherland and Fred Gardner in 1970 to form the FTA (Free The Army) tour, an anti-war road show, and their protests were filmed for the documentary.

The movie hit cinemas in 1972, the same week Fonda made a controversial trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam, visiting opposition forces.

A week after its release, the film was removed from theatres, with director Francine Parker blaming pressure from the White House for making the movie "disappear".

But now the film will be available to watch for the first time since its limited release, with Docudrama Films planning to release it in a DVD format later this year, according to New York Post gossip column PageSix.