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Dame Edith Sitwell, the poet, who back in the 1950s, at the height of her grandness, would intimidate her enemies by regarding them through a pair of lorgnettes. These days, it’s a term generally reserved for elderly female actors – hearty, salty, imperious. Americans can do it, of course – Elaine Stritch, so very great, so very grand – but may struggle to ascend to the highest reaches of haughtiness achieved by a Dame Maggie Smith or a Dame Edith Evans.

Isabella Rossellini has paid tribute to David Lynch — whose death was announced yesterday — with a post on Instagram. 

Ellise Shafer Isabella Rossellini has paid tribute to the late David Lynch, who died on Thursday at 78. The legendary actress, who had her breakthrough role in Lynch’s 1986 film “Blue Velvet” and was in a roughly five-year relationship with the director afterwards, shared a photo of the two of them on Friday morning with the simple caption: “I loved him so much. Thanks for all your kind messages.”A post shared by Isabella Rossellini (@isabellarossellini) In addition to “Blue Velvet,” Rossellini also appeared in Lynch’s 1990 film “Wild at Heart,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival (where the two are pictured above).

A photo of an Oscar statue that appeared to be burned in the Los Angeles fires went viral on social media this past week, but it was actually generated by AI.

At a spry 72 years young, Isabella Rossellini is having a moment. And an impressive one considering her remarkable life so far.

Model, actor and animal behaviorist Isabella Rossellini has no regrets. At the golden age of 72, the child of actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini has learned her fair share of lessons during her five decades-long career. Now, in Edward Berger’s papal whodunnit Conclave, Rossellini transfers that resilience to Sister Agnes, a primarily silent yet intimidating nun tasked with caring for the cardinals as they meet to elect a new Pope after the former one dies under mysterious circumstances. As the candidates, marshaled by Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes), backstab and clandestinely strategize, Sister Agnes holds crucial information.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Isabella Rossellini will be honoured during the upcoming European Film Awards with a lifetime achievement award celebrating her body of work as an actor and filmmaker. The Italian model and movie star, who is the daughter of Swedish actor Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, made her acting debut in 1979 in the Taviani brothers’ film “Il Prato” before breaking out internationally in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in 1986, followed by prominent roles in films such as Taylor Hackford’s “White Nights,” Robert Zemeckis’s “Death Becomes Her,” and Peter Weir’s “Fearless,” to name a few.

“Nomadland”Frances McDormand became only the third person to win three lead-acting Oscars, after Katharine Hepburn and Daniel Day-Lewis. McDormand was also a producer of “Nomadland,” playing a woman who hits the road after losing her job and her husband.

The Cannes Film Festival will announce the lineup for its 76th edition Thursday morning at 11 a.m. Paris time (2 a.m. PT/5 a.m. ET). The press conference will stream live from the UGC Normandie cinema on the Champs-Elysées.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Ruben Östlund, the Oscar-nominated director whose latest film “Triangle of Sadness” won last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, will be back at the French festival to preside over the jury of its 76th edition. Östlund is a Cannes regular, having won the festival’s top prize twice, for “Triangle of Sadness” in 2022 and for “The Square” in 2017. Before that, he presented two films at Un Certain Regard, including “Force Majeure,” which won the Jury Prize. “I am happy, proud and humbled to be trusted with the honor of jury president for this year’s competition at the Festival de Cannes,” said Östlund, who will be the first Swede to head the jury in 50 years, following the footsteps of Ingrid Bergman. “Nowhere in the film world is the anticipation as strong as when the curtain rises on the films in competition at the  festival.”

The Cannes Film Festival has appointed Swedish director and two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund as jury president for its upcoming 76th edition, running from May 16 to 27.

Ben Masters, the actor best known for his role as Julian Crane on the old NBC soap Passions, died January 11 at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs. He was 75.

.Perhaps best known for her TV role as everyone's favorite detective on, the London-born Lansbury was as legendary as she was lovable — so much so that she scored a perfect 100 on 's ultra-scientific «lovability index» in the mid-1990s.The daughter of an actress and a wealthy politician, a pre-teen Lansbury, buried between the arts and politics, took to acting as a method of coping with her father's untimely death, which she described as «the defining moment» of her life. Upon moving to the United States while World War II was still raging, Lansbury was quickly contracted by MGM, where she appeared in her first film (, 1944), earning her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the young age of 19.While Lansbury landed her second Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win just a year later for her role as a working-class music hall singer in, she was often quick to dismiss her years with MGM, who frequently miscast her in older, somewhat villainous roles alongside the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Garland.«I was always playing somebody else, a different kind of woman than I was myself,» she told of her time with the media conglomerate. «I regret terribly the years that I wasted playing a bunch of women who weren’t me at all.»It was during this time the British character actress met her second and longtime husband, Peter Shaw, shortly after ending a brief marriage to Richard Cromwell (Lansbury later found out Cromwell was gay).

Carl Samrock, a former VP National Publicity for Warner Bros Pictures and home video executive who also was a photojournalist for The New York Times, died October 1 of pancreatic cancer. He was 81.

Isabella Rossellini remembered her mother Ingrid Bergman on what would have been the Oscar winner's 107th birthday on Monday. In a touching but simple salute on Instagram, the 70-year-old actress shared a classic black and white photo of her beloved mom, writing, 'Mama #ingridbergman was born today August 29th 1915 and died the same day in 1982. I miss and think of her every day.'The Land of Dreams actress, who looks so much like her famous mama, was only 30-years-old when the Hollywood icon died from breast cancer at age 67.  Remembering: Isabella Rossellini remembered her mother Ingrid Bergman on what would have been the Oscar winner's 107th birthday Monday.

Jon Burlingame editorA 300-year-old violin, reputed to have been played on the Oscar-winning “Wizard of Oz” score, will go on the auction block next month and could fetch as much as $20 million.The rare Stradivarius belonged to Odessa-born Toscha Seidel, widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, famed for his rich tone and emotional intensity.Estimates are that the violin could bring between $16 million and $20 million at auction, partly because of its excellent condition and partly because of its history. There are about 600 Stradivarius violins in existence worldwide; the highest price paid for a Strad was $15.9 million in 2011, so the Seidel instrument could mark a new world record.

Variety is ranking his 15 best performances.Born in New Jersey, the die-hard Los Angeles Lakers fan has been an integral figure in the landscape of cinema for seven decades. His first credited film role was in the tiny B-movie “The Cry Baby Killer” (1958).

Murder on the Orient Express,” a miserable, poorly cast, sleepy take on the author’s most famous novel. Bad on its own terms, the film was made even worse by the fact that Sidney Lumet’s superb 1974 version, starring Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman and Albert Finney, is a screen classic.Running time: 127 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, some bloody images, and sexual material).

He said: “I kissed Lauren Bacall.

The Exorcist and Game Of Thrones star Max von Sydow has died aged 90.