The statement from The Academy is mild but firm: “As supporters of filmmakers — and the human rights of all people — around the globe, we find it extremely troubling that Asghar Farhadi, the director of the Oscar-winning film from Iran, ‘A Separation,’ along with the cast and crew of this year’s Oscar-nominated film ‘The Salesman,’ could be barred from entering the country because of their religion or country of origin.”
Tag: 01.28.17
Actor John Hurt Dead At 77
David Lynch, who directed him in The Elephant Man, called him “simply the greatest actor in the world.” He made a thriving, and unusual, career in theatre, film, and television playing characters from Quentin Crisp to Caligula to Raskolnikov to Winston Smith to (for Mel Brooks) Jesus.