Daniel Craig and Mads Mikkelsen sat down (virtually) with one another for the inaugural episode of “Dream Teams,” Variety’s new series that pairs collaborators who caught lighting in a bottle. Having recently seen Mikkelsen’s turn in the film “Another Round,” Craig was eager to discuss that performance but the two also reminisced about playing poker, that infamous torture scene and playing drunk.

► Brock: "Tom and Jerry (2021): On a technical level I appreciate the craftsmanship of the movie. Very impressed with the level of real world objects 'interacting' with the animated characters. They clearly used real world plates and seamlessly incorporated any CGI objects or backgrounds they did use. The cast is strong, doing everything they can to sell it, and the editing and shot choices are superb. On the script and storytelling level, however, it is boring, unfunny, unoriginal, dull and arduous…

For Euzhan Palcy, making Sugar Cane Alley was “hell. Nobody wanted to touch it. Nobody was interested… it was Black, a period piece directed by an unknown and Black female director. And the movie nobody wanted to touch got 5 awards in Venice Film Festival.”

We always felt there was a potentially interesting story to tell with ReOrchestrated. Not out of a sense of jumped up self-importance, but just because we were so excited to have pulled off these massive, collaborative gigs with all these incredible classical and gospel musicians, despite having been told it was a weird and unnecessary thing to do at almost every turn. 

Beth’s Take: Golden Globes Winners 2021

Chloé Zhao won the Golden Globe for Best Director, a history-making victory as she is now just the second woman to win the category in the Globes’ 78-year history. The first and previously only woman to win Best Director at the Globes was Barbra Streisand for “Yentl.” Zhao was awarded Best Director for her work on “Nomadland,” which also won her the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Zhao’s fellow nominees in 2021 were David Fincher (“Mank”), Regina King…

No one knew it at the time, but Summer Stock marked the end of an era for Judy Garland. The 1950 musical comedy was the last film Garland made for MGM, the studio that had defined her career since her breakout as a 15-year-old singing to a photo of Clark Gable in Broadway Melody Of 1938. In the studio-driven days of classic Hollywood, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer branded itself as the home for stars and musicals. And from the late 1930s through the late 1940s, Garland was one of the…

To celebrate the extended 50th-anniversary of IFFR, we’re presenting our biggest collection yet on IFFR Unleashed. 50 films, from 50 festival editions. Each available to watch for 50 days.

Studiocanal representatives have confirmed that a new Paddington film is in the works (”active development” is the term, as reported by Variety). To say we’re tickled the brightest shade of shrimp is an understatement. Michael Bond’s bear has a firm place in Letterboxd hearts: Paddington 2 was the second highest rated action/adventure film and third highest rated comedy of the 2010s.

Selome Hailu speaks with documentarian Jessica Beshir, director of Faya Dayi, which premiered as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Following a screening of their new documentary Echo in the Canyon, we were joined for a Q&A with director Andrew Slater and executive producer Jakob Dylan, moderated by the Coolidge's Director of Marketing & Development Beth Gilligan.

Kino International has been an integral part of Berlin's cultural life and history for almost 60 years. Today, the cinema is listed as a "cultural monument of national importance."