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It's been a headline-making weekend at the Kelly-Giffords household in Tucson, Arizona. The couple celebrated the news Friday that Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly had been re-elected to his first full term representing Arizona, winning a tight contest with Republican Blake Masters. That bulletin was…

UPDATED with trailer: Briarcliff Entertainment on Tuesday dropped the trailer for Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, the upcoming documentary from RBG and Julia directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen. The feature-length pic is gearing up for a theatrical release July 15 after the distributor acquired it in April after its…

Congresswoman Gabby Giffords of Arizona was a rising star in the Democratic Party when she was she was shot during a meeting with constituents near Tucson in 2011. Six people were killed in the attack and Giffords barely survived a severe injury to her brain. Giffords' recovery and return to activism are the subject…

There’s a euphoria among film sellers and buyers as SXSW finally convenes Friday in Austin, Texas after a three-year pandemic shutdown. With the last two editions of the Sundance Film Festival being virtual, and the hybrid edition of TIFF seeing reduced capacities, few industry execs, and a muted atmosphere, SXSW…

Julia Child knew her way around a sauce the way Leonard Bernstein knew his way around a sympathy, the way Patrick Mahomes knows his way through a defense. That is to say, with panache. The renowned cookbook author and pioneering TV personality is the subject of the documentary Julia, directed by Betsy West and Julie Co…

The filmmakers behind Julia, the in-depth exploration of iconic television cooking show host Julia Child, said her profound impact on the culture was felt far beyond introducing lovingly prepared French cuisine to a mass American audience. Co-director Julie Cohen said during a panel for the Sony Pictures Classics…

The late African American civil rights activist, author and legal scholar Pauli Murray spent a lifetime taking on the system—fighting inequality, institutionalized racism and gender bias. Just how successful Murray became in waging those battles emerges in the Amazon Studios documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray…

Why did I not know about Pauli Murray? That is the overwhelming response of viewers to the new documentary My Name Is Pauli Murray, directed by the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated team behind RBG, Julie Cohen and Betsy West. As West put it in a tweet Friday, "Some people are furious, some dumbfounded that they…

In the early 1960s, American "cuisine" meant for convenient but fairly nasty stuff. Example: this recipe for "Crusty Tuna Surprise." Take two cans of StarKist Tuna, mix with cheese soup, "then top it crisply with Kellogg's Corn Flakes Crumbs." Yum. Then Julia Child arrived, armed with sauce pans and cast iron…

Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer for Julia, the documentary about groundbreaking TV chef and author Julia Child who ended up influencing generations with her series The French Chef and the seminal cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The documentary, which doesn’t have a release date yet, hails…

On Wednesday, Amazon debuted the first trailer for My Name Is Pauli Murray, which hits theaters on September 17 and will be available to stream on Prime Video on October 1. The latest doc from Oscar-nominated RBG filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen tells the story of Pauli Murray, one of the most influential figures…

Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to My Name Is Pauli Murray, the Participant, Drexler and Storyville Films documentary which made its world premiere at Sundance. Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat, a full decade before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned separate-but-equal…