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EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry follows the young singer-songwriter's rise from unknown to worldwide fame. But in a deleted scene from the R.J. Cutler film, Eilish rises to even greater heights – about five stories up inside Radio City Music Hall. The scene finds…

The bracingly intimate feel of the documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry emerged because the pop singer at its center grew to trust the filmmakers enough to reveal her private pain on her own terms, the film's director revealed. "We achieved the intimacy because Billie and her family were open and…

There's an emotional realness to singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, a disinclination to disguise experience behind euphemism or pretense. It manifests in her music and in Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry, the Oscar-contending documentary that follows her on her journey to global stardom. In the film directed…

Emmy-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler will be presented with the Pennebaker Award at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, honoring lifetime achievement, the Critics Choice Association announced Thursday. The presentation will take place Sunday, November 14, as part of the sixth annual edition of the documentary awards…

Billie Eilish not only has the No. 1 album in the country—Happier Than Ever—she's also the subject of the Emmy-nominated documentary Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry, directed by R.J. Cutler. The Apple Original Films doc chronicling the Grammy-winning teenage singer-songwriter's creative process, family…

EXCLUSIVE: The Emmy-contending documentary Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry creates a remarkably intimate portrait of the young recording artist, following her on tour, at home, revisiting dark moments in her life, negotiating fame and the ups and downs of romantic love. "We see her, the way she turns her…

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is not even out of her teens and she has already won awards in the Grammys' top four categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. She's achieved something else rare for someone her age—having a documentary made about her by a major filmmaker…

For the famous women at the heart of some of the year's most compelling documentaries, there are no secrets. They reveal intimate details of past trauma and personal struggles with startling transparency. "That was one thing that I was very good at," Demi Lovato confides directly to camera in her docuseries Demi Lovato…

Paul McCartney once told a Liverpool High School class that when it comes to songwriting, “‘I don’t know how to do this.” Of course, that’s only because songwriting comes so natural to him. While deconstructing songwriting might be a challenge to the great Beatle, sometimes there’s a lot to learn simply by watching…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions…

Sony Pictures Classics is set to release awards contender The Father in select New York and Los Angeles theaters today before expanding nationwide March 12 before landing on PVOD on March 26. That’s quite a theater-to-digital journey for the Florian Zeller-directed drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The…

The music documentary resurgence is alive and well and set to continue into 2021 with an insatiable appetite for weird and wild movies about bands and artists. The release over recent years of films such as Amy and Searching For Sugar Man kicked off a trend that has been amplified by interest from the streaming…