#Philadelphia Film Festival

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Anyone around Philly ?

#david duchovny #2023 #bfd the movie #Philadelphia film festival

[popentertainment-moviereviews]

SALTBURN (2023)

Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan, Paul Rhys, Ewan Mitchell, Lolly Adefope, Sadie Soverall, Millie Kent, Reece Shearsmith, Richie Cotterell, Millie Kent, Will Gibson, Tasha Lim, Aleah Aberdeen, Matthew Carver, Gabriel Bisset-Smith, Saga Spjuth-Säll, Glyn Grimstead and Paul Rhys.

Screenplay by Emerald Fennell.

Directed by Emerald Fennell.

Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. 131 minutes. Rated R.

Screened at the 2023 Philadelphia Film Festival.

Saltburn: PFF Closes With a Gem

For three consecutive years, the Philadelphia Film Festival has allocated some of its most coveted slots to vehicles that showcased Irish talent. In 2021, the festival’s opening night film was Belfast, the loosely autobiographical work, penned and directed by Kenneth Branagh. It recounted his childhood in Northern Ireland’s capital city. In 2022, the festival kicked off with The Banshees of Inisherin. The tale was set on a fictitious island in Galway Bay, off the western coast of Ireland. It starred the estimable duo of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as life-long friends, whose relationship becomes abruptly truncated. This year, in its 32nd edition, the festival’s closing night film was Saltburn. Dublin native, Barry Keoghan, is cast as the film’s protagonist.

Set in 2006, Saltburn is at once a jocular, albeit scathing, satire of the British ruling class and a psychological thriller. It centers on Oliver Quick (Keoghan), an incoming freshman at prestigious Oxford University. Unlike his posh classmates, Oliver hails from a modest background and is a socially maladroit dweeb. His parents are apparently addled with alcoholism and drug addiction. He has no siblings or other familial support to speak of. Oliver is an obvious candidate for ostracism by his more privileged peers.

In the film’s prologue, Oliver speaks retroactively of the ambivalent, tortured, and unrequited feelings that he had harbored for Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). Felix is a strikingly handsome alpha male, whose family boasts a centuries-old aristocratic pedigree. Felix is accustomed to people fawning over him. In particular, wherever he goes, he is avidly pursued by a bevy of pulchritudinous coeds. Meanwhile, Felix remains totally oblivious to Oliver’s homoerotic longings for him.

The two lads meet serendipitously, when Jacob experiences a flat tire on his bicycle. He is distressed by the prospect of being tardy for a meeting with his new faculty advisor. As Oliver rides past, he notices Felix’s predicament. Oliver veers from the pathway and graciously offers to lend his own bicycle to help the immobilized stranger. Felix expresses his deep-seated gratitude.

Felix defies audience expectations, when he actually takes pains to incorporate Oliver into his elite social clique. As summer break beckons, Felix magnanimously invites Oliver to sojourn at his family home, the eponymous Saltburn. It turns out that the family residence is a sprawling Medieval castle from a bygone era. Drayton House, an edifice situated in Northamptonshire, afforded an ideal site for location shooting. Construction of the spectacularly opulent estate began around 1300 and was repeatedly revised thereafter. Shortly after the house was erected, the original owner of the magnificent structure was issued a license to build ramparts and crenellations as part of a protective wall around the residence.

When Felix gives a tour of the estate to Oliver, he parenthetically references family lore. As a vestige of a tryst that the notoriously licentious Henry VII once had while visiting the estate, the monarch’s desiccated seminiferous fluids are reputed to remain embedded in the mattress in one of the guest rooms. Imagine living in a home with such a juicy historical tidbit attached to it.

Oliver soon meets the residents of Saltburn, a menagerie of well-drawn and altogether eccentric characters. Felix’s immediate family consists of his mother, Elsbeth (Rosamund Pike); his father, Sir James (Richard E. Grant); and his sister, Venetia (Alison Oliver). They are augmented by Felix’s snide biracial cousin, Farleigh Start (Archie Madekwe), who also matriculates at Oxford, and a non-family hanger-on, literally known as "Poor Dear" Pamela (Carey Mulligan). All of the thespians convincingly embody the solipsistic sense of entitlement that is routinely exhibited by upper-class British twits.

However, ultimately it is Keoghan, who delivers a particularly delicious performance that anchors the film. He adroitly captures the evolution of his screen character over the course of the film’s protracted narrative trajectory. Last year, Keoghan as well as his cast-mate, Brendan Gleeson, each scored a supporting Oscar nomination for their respective roles in the aforementioned The Banshees of Inisherin. Keoghan portrayed a cognitively impaired villager in the film. Here, Keoghan demonstrates his versatility, while enlivening a far different role. He establishes that he is capable of carrying a feature film as its lead.

Saltburn is the sophomore venture of Emerald Fennell. In 2020, she made a successful transition from actor/showrunner to screenwriter/director/co-producer with her debut feature, Promising Young Woman. The film generated an Oscar for Fennell’s Best Original Screenplay along with nominations culled for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Carey Mulligan, who as noted plays a juicy supporting role in Saltburn), and Best Editing. Here, Fennell shows impressive growth as a filmmaker. Her screenplay is chocked full of plot twists and apt metaphorical constructs. Fennell makes efficacious use of dramatic foreshadowing and misdirection. Following a faux denouement, Fennell uses a double epilogue to mount a startling montage of events, juxtaposed with a memorable true finale. In her role as director, Fennell evokes strong performances from her entire ensemble cast and handles the film’s frequent tonal shifts with dexterity.

The production values of Saltburn are superb. Cinematographer, Linus Sandgren (La La Land), makes adroit use of light, mirrors, and reflections to fashion a litany of mindboggling images. His use of a 1:33:1 aspect ratio creates the sensation that the viewer is a voyeur, who is surreptitiously spying on the most intimate machinations of the film’s onscreen characters. The editing by Victoria Boydell keeps the pacing taut and the audience guessing what will transpire next. The evocative score by Anthony Willis (M3gan) provides an excellent complement to the visual text of the film. The choice of period pop hits buttresses the film’s sense of time and place.

For all my enthusiasm for Saltburn, I would be remiss if I did not provide a caveat to prospective viewers. The film includes explicit dialogue as well as repeated depictions of drug use and decidedly twisted psychosexual expression. One vignette involves a libertine, who is ruefully disparaged as “sexually incontinent,” and her liaison with an accommodating paramour. Another scene depicts more “mundane” intercourse. These carnal interludes are not gratuitously ribald. Instead, they capture the sublimated urges of various screen characters as well as the intolerant deprecations of their more priggish detractors.

After appearing at the Philadelphia Film Festival, both Belfast and The Banshees of Inisherin each went on to accrue a plethora of Academy Award nominations as well as other accolades. Although Saltburn is a far more polarizing film, it is richly deserving of similar recognition.

Nathan Lerner was a syndicated Film Critic for the Montgomery Newspapers Chain and its corporate successors for twenty years. He welcomes feedback at [email protected].

Nathan Lerner

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: November 17, 2023.

#Saltburn #2023 #Movie Review #Barry Keoghan #Jacob Elordi #Nathan Lerner #Philadelphia Film Festival #PFF32 #Youtube

[popentertainment-interviews]

Rian Johnson

Peeling A Glass Onion

by Jay S. Jacobs

The new face of modern mystery may very well be Rian Johnson. The writer director is releasing Glass Onion the second film of a planned series of Knives Out mysteries which will be filmed for Netflix. The first Knives Out film was a huge hit with a more-traditional theatrical release a few years ago, leading the streaming giant to contract Johnson to create a whole series of Benoit Blanc mysteries, which has only the brilliant detective played by Daniel Craig in common. (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery also had a brief theatrical run last month.

So, why does Johnson think that people enjoy old-fashioned parlor mysteries?

“I’m a puzzle nut myself,” Johnson explained to me recently on the red carpet at the Philadelphia Film Festival. “I love solving puzzles. There's always that element of our brains. The other thing about them – and this is why I love the genre – you think about [the story].”

They don’t call them brain teasers for nothing…

“You get a good mystery,” Johnson continued. “You get a rogue's gallery of interesting characters, all trying to kill each other. You get a charismatic detective at the center of it. What's not what's not to love? It's the most fun you can have [while] telling a story.”

Johnson feels this is why the genre has such a resounding history and popularity.

“[The mystery] seems to always come back around, right?” he says, brightly.

As a longtime mystery fan, it seems only natural that Johnson has toyed with the genre for years. Even before hitting paydirt with his popular comic mystery Knives Out, the writer/director has always toyed with the conventions of mysteries on such earlier films as Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper, and even to a slight extent in his blockbuster Star Wars: The Last Jedi. He also has a new TV series coming on Peacock called Poker Face with Natasha Lyonne, which is said to be similar to the old Columbo mystery movies.

However, it was Knives Out that brought Johnson’s love of old-fashioned parlor mysteries into sharp relief. A classic locked-door mystery – with a wicked sense of humor and style – and an all-star cast including Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon and Christopher Plummer. It tells the story of a famous mystery novelist who dies mysteriously in his spooky mansion. Of course, his extended family are all sniping over his fortune as the body still hasn’t gotten cold. And Detective Benoit is always around, capturing clues and surreptitious conversations as he endeavors to find the killer.

Knives Out took the old-fashioned mystery films and added a wonderfully modern, comic aspect which only added to the film’s popularity. The follow-up, Glass Onion, has Detective Blanc in the middle of a COVID-era murder party at the grand private island mansion of a tech billionaire (Ed Norton) which leads to real death. The suspects here are a group of college friends – all of which have become somewhat successful, but all of whom are having behind-the-scenes problems, played by Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Leslie Odom Jr., Kathryn Hahn and Janelle Monae.

What were some of the classic mysteries that inspired Johnson to make the films?

“[Mystery] series in general,” Johnson said. “I was thinking about the Agatha Christie movies that were coming out back in the 70s – and her books. [One was] Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov. On this movie, a huge influence is Evil Under the Sun with Ustinov as Poirot. It was a glamorous European vacation movie.”

It’s not all Christie films though, Johnson acknowledges.

“Also The Last of Sheila, which was so good. I keep trying to mention that because more people have to see that movie.”

I noted to Johnson that, by total coincidence, that film was the first PG-rated movie I ever saw in a theater and has long been a favorite of mine. The 1973 mystery – written by the odd-couple screenwriting team of actor Anthony Perkins (Psycho) and musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim (Sweeney Todd) – was also about a murder mystery game in a yacht on the French Riviera which leads to a murder. It had a Nixon-era superstar cast of James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, James Mason, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon and a young, mostly unknown Ian McShane. It’s fun seeing the sly nods Johnson made to The Last of Sheila in Glass Onion, particularly during the early scenes.

Knives Out was a passion project in which Johnson had been working on the script for about a decade. After the popularity of that film, he has to come up with and film the follow-up in just a couple of years – mostly during the pandemic.

“That just was no pressure. No pressure,” Johnson laughed.

Hey, Agatha Christie wrote like 80 books, plays, poetry books, autobiographies and short-story collections in less than 60 years….

“Yeah, that's true. So, I'm slacking,” Johnson laughed again.

Well, maybe not quite slacking. But it was quite an experience to suddenly have to come up with a whole new mystery scenario, with only the Detective character in common with Knives Out.

“I came up with this one from scratch,” Johnson continued. “I started writing it after the first one came out and people liked it. It was a little scary at first, but you dive in, start working and then you're just doing your job and don't have time to think about it.”

Copyright ©2022 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: December 23, 2022.

Photo #1 © 2022 Deborah Wagner. All rights reserved.

All other photos © 2022. Courtesy of Netflix. All rights reserved.

#Rian Johnson #2022 #Director Interviews #Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery #Jay S. Jacobs #Deborah Wagner #PFF31 #Philadelphia Film Festival #Oscar Nominees

[phillypeel]

10.27.22, N. 15th Street, 8:22 pm

on my way to see Weird: the Al Yankovic Story at the Philadelphia Film Festival

#in the shadows #noir photography #philadelphia street photography #street photography #philadelphia streets #philadelphia banana peel project #15th street Philadelphia #Philadelphia film festival #weird the al yankovic story #i saw weird al #banana peel #night photography #Philadelphia night photography #yellow banana peel #Philadelphia film center

[ritahayworrth]

anyway grace kelly in high society (1956) is actually good. while as far as she is from being a Comedienne™, she totally could have become one if she had had the chance to. like isolating her performance, her tracy is charming and funny, and i think her spin on tracy works and she is able to make it her own especially when you consider that tracy was originally written specifically with kate in mind. its just totally undermined by the fact that when unavoidably you compare the film as a whole to the 1940 version, the film is just not as good because the pacing of high society is horrible, and really just feels like they just cut and pasted the quippiest lines from the original and added some cole porter songs in between. and then of course there is bing crosby...........

#tldr; i do not think high society's failings are not grace's fault!! if anything she saved the film #the movie being bad does not make her performance bad #and this is coming from the bitch whose second favorite is easily the philadelphia story (1940) #anyway i know they changed the location of the movie to newport to advertise the newport jazz festival #and so to have it make sense for louis armstrong to be there #but keeping in philadelphia would have just been so perfect #like the original story was about the wedding of daughter from a high-profile philadelphia family #and grace is literally from philadelphia and this was her last film before getting married #so anyway yeah.... #personal #High Society

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY Arrives in Philadelphia this July

Join us for our first NOIR CITY: Philadelphia July 21-23 at The Colonial Theatre, located in the historic business district of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The three-day extravaganza will feature nine films from the heart of Hollywood's noir movement: the year 1948, plus the FNF-funded restoration of Woman on the Run (1950).

The 1948 screenings include conventional noir classics like Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai, Anthony Mann's Raw Deal, and John Farrow's The Big Clock, as well as two supernatural noirs -- George Sherman's The Spiritualist and, based on the novel by Cornell Woolrich, Farrow's Night Has a Thousand Eyes. The festival closes with Preston Sturges' noir-tinged dark comedy, Unfaithfully Yours. FNF founder and president Eddie Muller will be on hand throughout the weekend  to introduce the films.

Beginning at noon on Saturday, Eddie will be signing copies of his latest book, Eddie Muller's NOIR BAR – Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir, in The Colonial Theatre's Garden Suite.  The day's first film, Larceny, will begin at 2:00 pm.  Eddie will also have copies of his book Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir available for sale. Pre-signed copies of both books will be available all weekend at The Colonial Theatre's merchandise store.

The full festival schedule  and tickets for double features or single films are available here.

#film noir #film noir festival #noir city #noir city philadelphia #eddie muller #woman on the run #noir bar #dark city the lost world of film noir #the colonial theatre

[tinseltine]

We're 2 days from Oscar Sunday!  And I finally finished MiniMovieReview Extravaganza 19

Here's short summary, longer posts on tinseltine.com/reviews

WONKA| Warner Bros Pictures  | Writer/Director Paul King  Co-Writer Simon Farnaby

A waste of a prequel. There were so many ways to approach this material and they went with the most unimaginative display of froth imagined.

THE COLOR PURPLE| Warner Bros Pictures | Director Blitz Bazawule Screenplay Marcus Gardley | Based on Alice Walker’s Novel

Perfectly cast.  Spectacularly designed, wonderful musical numbers, it still had heart and struggle, and yet, it was just good, not great.

LEO| Netflix | Directors Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim | Writers Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler, Paul Sado

This should have gotten so much more attention.  Please do yourself a favor and watch it on Netflix on a Saturday afternoon, you'll be very delighted with this little tale.

THE IRON CLAW| A24 | Writer/Director Sean Durkin

Some true stories just shouldn't be true. So sorry for this cursed family. Would have been a better Oscar Best Picture nominee than The Holdovers.

SALTBURN| MGM Studios/Amazon | Writer/Director Emerald Fennell

If only Emerald Fennell could have restrained herself from going sensational in the 3rd act, this also could have been a Best Picture contender.

ZONE OF INTEREST|  A24 | Writer/Director Jonathan Glazer

So effective. So meaningful. So boring.

#movie review #oscars 2024 #Oscars #Academy Awards #Best of 2023 #minimoviereview #philadelphia #moviesite #film #awards season #Film Festivals #Wonka #The Color Purple #Leo #The Iron Claw #Saltburn #the zone of interest

[mediabureau]

Best of… PIFF #16. May 16 - 20, 2023 posted to all social media channels!

Welcome back! We have posted the Best of… PIFF #16. May 16 – 20, 2023. We want to thank everyone who participated in this years PIFF. Thank you!

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#filmfestival #Philadelphia #Philadelphia Independent Film Festival

[ajepyx]

SLEEP UNTIL NOON Screening May 8th at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival

SLEEP UNTIL NOON Screening May 8th at Philadelphia Independent Film Festival

For those of you in the Philadelphia area, our music video for Milan Lazistan’s “Sleep Until Noon” will be screening on the opening night of the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival on Wednesday, May 8th in the 8:45pm block! Screenings will take place at Canal Street Film Center (941 N Front Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123). General admission tickets for $15 can be purchased online or at the…

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#Drama #Film Festival #folk #Independent Film #Milan #mtv #Music at Midnight #Music Video #Philadelphia #PIFF #rock #Short Film #Sleep Until Noon #Soul #vh1

[sharonallen246]

The Best-Dressed Celebs At Cannes 2023 So Far!

Do you like to keep track of Cannes looks every year? Want to know which celebs ruled the red carpet?

#Dressed Celebs #76th Annual Cannes Film Festival #clothing manufacturers in Los Angeles #trusted clothing manufacturers in Philadelphia #Cannes 2023

[uartsanimation]

UArts Animation was thrilled to resume our annual trip to the Ottawa International Animation Festival @OIAF_Animation! A bus full of our #UArts #Animation students explored the fest this past weekend and returned inspired and energized. See you again next year! #OIAF22 #uartsanimation

#OIAF22 #uarts #animation #uartsanimation #schooloffilm #philly #philadelphia #ottawa #film festival #uartist #road trip #canada

[endlesshunger]

Pierogi Fest. Port Richmond, Philadelphia, PA. 2022

#35mm #film #giant cotton candy #cotton candy #pierogi #polish #festival #monster cotton candy #philadelphia #endless hunger

[popentertainment-moviereviews]

THE SWEET EAST (2023)

Starring Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Jacob Elordi, Rish Shah, Gibby Haynes, Andy Milonakis, Nichole Byron, Jordan Nessinger, Jack Irv, Khalil Amonette, Cameron Andre, Betsey Brown, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Peter Buntaine, Kaili Corcoran, Volkan Eryaman, Adam Friedland, Jamie Granato and Emmy Harrington.

Screenplay by Nick Pinkerton.

Directed by Sean Price Williams.

Distributed by Utopia. 104 minutes. Not Rated.

Screened at the 2023 Philadelphia Film Festival.

The Sweet East is certainly interesting, exciting and complex, with lots of action and some very funny dialogue and situations. So why didn’t I like it more than I did?

It tells the story of Lillian (Talia Ryder), a very pretty high school student who is on a trip to Washington DC with her class and her boyfriend. She’s obviously having a terrible time – she’s fighting with her boyfriend and her classmates are kind of asses – and when a gunman walks into a club they are at she is able to escape.

She takes this opportunity to not only escape the gunman, but to escape her old life. She impulsively runs off with a bunch of punks she met at the club, starting a voyage where she slips from adventure to adventure, with lots of different people, and tries to reinvent herself.

She runs across all sorts of bad men (and women) from all ends of the spectrum – party animals, Q-Anon followers, anarchist punks, neo-Nazis, pretentious indie filmmakers, a British film heartthrob, kidnappers, gay jihadists, even an ostentatious preacher (who is played by Gibby Haynes, lead singer of the Butthole Surfers, of all people…).

The Sweet East is the first directing job by Sean Price Williams, who has long been a well-respected cinematographer. (Previous films he lensed like Golden Exits and Her Smell played during previous years at the Philadelphia Film Festival.) Williams has worked previously with the Safdie Brothers – but thankfully had nothing to do with their biggest hit, Uncut Gems, because I cannot stress enough how much I HATED that film.

However, while The Sweet East is certainly better than that movie, it has the same basic problem. None of its characters are even the tiniest bit likable. In fact, most are assholes.

Well, except perhaps for Lillian. Not that she is particularly nice either, but honestly, she’s an empty slate throughout. She seems to have no real belief system herself, except for survival mode. She fits in with all the weird and dangerous people she runs across naturally, using her charm to seem much nicer than she is. She doesn’t appear to buy into their extreme beliefs, but she never really counters them either, except for occasionally in a teasing manner. However, she is also selfish and thoughtless and uncaring of people’s feelings – there is a running gag of people chiding her for repeatedly using the term “retarded” derogatorily, and that is just one small example of her deep anti-social streak.

Lillian just floats like a leaf in the wind from one situation to another, no matter how potentially disastrous. She is all about herself. She uses her obvious beauty and a teasing sexual tension to extract what she can from these people, and then she is off to the next thing. And a wake of bedlam follows behind her.

Many of them, despite their often-abhorrent beliefs, may not even deserve the crap that she dumps on them in her quest for personal freedom. Take Lawrence (Simon Rex), who is a neo-Nazi college professor. And yes, his involvement in this cause – apparently, he’s deeply involved in a potential terrorist plot – makes it hard to feel that much sympathy for him.

However, just towards her, Lawrence is kind and doting and frankly wrapped around her little finger. He sometimes drops his hate speech into casual conversation, and she mostly ignores or dismisses it, but he gives her a place to live, buys her clothes, food, and takes her on an expensive trip, all because she asked for it or teased him. And yes, he’s way too old to be lusting after this young girl, but he is courtly in his feelings towards her. He doesn’t touch her and probably never would. However, she rips him off and leaves him for dead with his neo-Nazi cohorts.

Does he deserve it? Maybe. Probably, even. But who is she to make this decision? Particularly considering she never appears to really use the money she took, and that money leads to the deaths of several completely uninvolved people.

In fact, interestingly, those deaths – which make up the one true over-the-top “action-packed” sequence of the film – happens only about 2/3 of the way through the film. It’s obviously meant to be the show-stopper sequence – even though the violence is somewhat cartoonish – but it also points out how little action happens throughout the rest of the film. Don’t get me wrong, Lillian gets herself into a whole bunch of crazy problems with crazy people throughout the running time, but most of it seems a lot more muted.

Then the final shot in the film of Lillian – her reaction to a television report on a tragic occurrence which may or may not have involved people from her past – just makes the character even more inscrutable. Just like everyone else she has met in the film, the audience has no idea what the hell is really going on inside her head.

It’s certainly possible to make a good film with bad people, but The Sweet East feels like it is working so hard to be a hip and quirky cult film that it forgot to actually tell a story that people can care about.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: October 26, 2023.

#The Sweet East #2023 #Movie Review #Talia Ryder #Jacob Elordi #Jay S. Jacobs #Philadelphia Film Festival #PFF32 #Youtube

[seeminglyranch87]

Taylor & Travis Timeline

April 2024 - Part 1

April 1 - iHeart Radio Music Awards (x)

Taylor won the following iHeart Awards for 2024

Artist of the Year

Pop Artist of the Year

Tour of the Year

Best Lyrics - Is It Over Now

TikTok Bop of the Year - Cruel Summer

Favorite Tour Style

Taylor accepted these awards remotely

April 2 - Travis speaks to People promoting Kelce Jam music festival (x)

Kelce, 34, tells PEOPLE, "I'm the happiest I've ever been. I'm a guy that some people say is glass half full, half empty, and my glass is all the way full. It's all the way full." "I'm oozing life right now,"

"It's just so much fun getting into when you win the Super Bowl, all these doors open, and so I've just been going through all these open doors, experiencing life and just appreciating the people that have got me here and also staying high and meeting new faces."

"It doesn't feel like there's much chill in my life. Everything seems to be full throttle and just moving at the speed of light, and that's how I kind of like it. I like it to be up pace. I like to have just exciting things going on. And sure enough, I'm out here in the entertainment world trying to dabble into that before I get back locked in on football and knowing that that's going to be my focus until I'm done playing."

"But to dabble around in the entertainment space is something that I'm really interested in, it's just going to be an amazing opportunity to get out in front of Kansas City and just celebrate the Super Bowl win one more time." Travis says referring to Kelce Jam.

ETonline release 8 minute interview with Travis (x)

Speaking of his trip to the Bahamas with Taylor Travis says "t's just a lovely place down there isn't it you can get it all down there, all the love in the world 

"you make it all work is it just you prioritize what's important yeah I mean I think we're both very career driven, I think we both love what we do and you know any chance that I can you know show my support to her and knowing that she's shown me all the support in the world throughout the season it's just been an amazing experience you know getting to know Tay"

Travis spoke to Associated Press (x)

"The only thing I can learn from [Taylor] that translates into how I can perform is just how relatable she is on stage. She’s very comfortable. She brings everybody into the room with her. She makes it an intimate setting even though there’s 70,000 people at every show. It’s pretty impressive.”

Travis speaks with The Hollywood Reporter (x)

You’re producing your second festival and taking part in the live music space, while Taylor Swift put on one of the biggest live music events of all time last year with her Eras Tour. Did you learn anything from watching her do that? (Laughs.) I did: Don’t try and be Taylor, that’s what I learned. Yeah, she’s on a whole other stratosphere. She’s the best at what she does for a reason. It’s because she’s so articulate and just very dialed into every single thing that she does. And that’s the beauty of it. I’d be silly if I ever tried to take anything from what she does, other than just enjoy the people that show up. I think that’s one thing I could probably take away: She really relates to the people she’s performing in front of, and so I’ll take that. Her four-hour concert is not easy to do … It’s impressive.

April 3 - New Heights Ep. 84 airs with special guest Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jason & Travis Kelce film episode in LA after flying in from Philadelphia together with Taylor.

April 4 - Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity filmed in LA - Travis confirmed to host

TikTok - waitress who served Travis over the weekend in Ohio shares that Travis knows all 300 Taylor Swift songs in sweet interaction (x)

April 5 - Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity day 2 filming in LA - Travis to host.

Taylor promotes her up coming album The Tortured Poets Department according to Billboard (x)

The two week countdown to 'The Tortured Poets Department' is on — and to celebrate, Taylor Swift unveiled five new playlists featuring songs from her first 10 albums representing a distinct phase of heartbreak. ⁠ ⁠ Four of the playlists are named after the taglines of previously announced deluxe editions: “I Love You, It’s Ruining My Life," “You Don’t Get to Tell Me About Sad,” “Am I Allowed to Cry?” and “Old Habits Die Screaming." The fifth one is dubbed “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” after one of the song titles on 'Tortured Poets.' ⁠ ⁠ Each playlist also features a voice note in which Swift speaks about her personal experiences with each phase, inspired by the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.⁠

Just checking in, how is everyone?

Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity filmed in LA - Travis is host

April 8 - Taylor reveals lyrics to TTPD (x)

Perfectly timed with the solar eclipse - personal photo taken on iPhone today - USA

Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity filmed in LA - Travis is hosting

April 9 - Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity filmed in LA - Travis is host

Travis & Taylor papped driving in LA (x)

April 10 - New Heights Ep. 85 airs with guest Dave "Lil Dicky" talking about Travis dating Taylor (x)

1:16:50 (x)

LD: how you guys doing with all this? Travis beams; "I'm having a blast in life baby, just flying high, enjoying it all!" Lil Dicky says "your most popular Popstar and beloved musician somehow met your most popular beloved athlete and they actually fell in love..." Travis replies "I don't know how I did it because she does not, she wasn't into sports so I don't know how the f**k I did it? Lil Dicky responds "well you did it because you said you called her out on..." Travis answers "I know exactly how I did it!"

Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity filmed in LA - Travis is host.

April 11 - New Heights podcast recorded live with Jason & Travis Kelce at Nippert Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio

Travis dances to Shake It Off and tells the audience this is one of his favourite songs, Jason says it's Wyatt's favourite too (x)

April 12 - Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity filmed in LA - Travis confirmed to host

Taylor & Travis seen leaving Sushi Park restaurant - LA

April 13 - Taylor posts (x) with lyrics “I wish I could un-recall how we almost had it all.”

The photo reveals that Aaron Dessner is a collaborator.

Travis & Taylor attend Day 2 of Coachella. They are first seen side stage for Bleachers with Jack Antonoff then escorted to the pit for Ice Spice and others though out the night. (x x x x x x) Taylor is wearing a New Heights cap

April 14 - Taylor releases another clue in the lyrics of Peace - CONDUCT on Apple Music.

April 17 - New Heights Ep. 86 airs. Jason & Travis Kelce talk about experiencing Coachella (01:07:50) (x)

Jason "we know who you went with, we saw the pictures. all right we know who you went with"

Travis "She's [Taylor] supporting the New Heights"

Jason "Big New Height supporter - yeah sold out of the green hat real quick"

Travis "It's a good color green"

Jason "How was Coachella different? I expected you guys to be backstage like mostly with the musicians right but it seemed like you guys are in the crowd?"

Travis "I'd like to see it front from the fans perspective like the people that actually cuz I am a fan of music I'm a fan of live shows. I want to see it from the front of the stage. We probably could have finessed it that way but I think it's just that much more of an experience if you're in the uh if you're in the pit man if you're in the the madness with all the uh all the fans. It was awesome though."

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Chestnut will be premiering at the Frameline47 Film Festival on June 15th, 2023.

“Named for a street in Philly’s Castro-equivalent neighborhood, Chestnut is an emotional drama steeped in sodium street lights and bar-sign neon, following a young woman through the complex, sexually charged liminal space between college and full adulthood.

Reluctant to leave Philadelphia to take the finance job waiting for her in Los Angeles, aspiring writer Annie (Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer) meets party girl Tyler (Fargo’s Rachel Keller) and the more reserved, thoughtful Danny (Top Gun: Maverick’s Danny Ramirez), employees of a nearby restaurant, out at a bar. Annie is immediately attracted to Tyler, who pulls Annie into her social circle of locals. Compelled but also confused by where she stands with code-switching Tyler, Annie spends the summer bar-hopping, ghosting her college bestie Jason (Titans’ Chella Man), and avoiding her father’s long-distance career encouragement. But Annie knows she’s on borrowed time, and making a choice about her future is inevitable.”

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by Shiryn Ghermezian

The Philly Palestine Coalition on Monday began a petition that demanded the cancellation of the film festival, which is co-sponsored by Israel Bonds, the Consulate General of Israel, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Pennsylvania. The pro-Palestinian group falsely claimed that Israel Bonds “finances the Israeli government’s budget” and “directly contributes to the displacement of Palestinians, the expansion of unlawful settlements, and unchecked settler violence.” The petition also falsely accused the state of Israel of genocide, apartheid, and occupation in its treatment of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.

According to the Israel Bonds website, proceeds from the sale of bonds have contributed to Israel’s growth in high-tech, cleantech, and biotech. Capital from Israel bonds have also “helped strengthen every aspect of Israel’s economy, enabling national infrastructure development … [and] expanded transportation networks enabled by investments in Israel bonds help facilitate shipment of ‘Made in Israel’ technology around the world, enhancing national export growth.”

Soon after facing pressure from the Philly Palestine Coalition, the BMFI announced on Monday it pulled the screening of The Child Within Me — a day before the scheduled event.

“Bryn Mawr Film Institute is not a political organization. We don’t endorse or oppose any causes,” the BMFI said in a released statement. “In past years, we have not regarded hosting a screening from the Israeli Film Festival as a political partnership or taking a stance on any issues. This was our feeling when we arranged the 2024 screening many months ago. However, as the situation in Israel and Gaza has developed, it has become clear that our showing this movie is being widely taken among individuals and institutions in our community as an endorsement of Israel’s recent and ongoing actions. This is not a statement we intended or wish to make.”

“BMFI is a safe place for civil and nuanced conversations about diverse stories,” the film institute added. “For the well-being and safety of all patrons, BMFI will not be a location for anger and violence. For those who wish to partake in an IFF screening, there are upcoming screenings at other venues.”

The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Anti-Defamation League’s chapter in Philadelphia were outraged by the move. They urged the BMFI to immediately reverse its decision to cancel the screening.

“Although BMFI states that this decision was made in an attempt to avoid controversy, this action only serves to blacklist Israeli culture, playing into the hands of antisemites who try to deny the Jewish people their voice and existence,” the two Jewish organizations said in a joint statement on Tuesday. “The IFF intentionally offers a multifaceted view of Israeli society. Each season, carefully curated feature films and documentaries provide glimpses into the intricate tapestry of Israeli life, allowing audiences to form their own informed opinions … Let us celebrate cultural diversity, promote dialogue, and recognize the transformative power of film in connecting us all.”

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