Новости за 21.12.2017

“Regal” may be the word to describe Kristin Scott Thomas as she sits in the warmly lighted lobby of New York City’s Lowell Hotel sipping an espresso she ordered in French. Also “cosmopolitan,” “posh,” “chic”: An animal-print coat drapes across her shoulders like an exotic cape.

“It’s a small world but not if you have to clean it.” That adage, from the work of artist Barbara Kruger, could describe “Downsizing.” In Alexander Payne’s new film, opening Friday, people volunteer to shrink themselves down to five inches tall in order to save the planet from humanity’s worst...

Judging from the nominations, SAG Awards voters spend a lot of time watching Netflix. Will the 121,544 SAG-AFTRA members in good standing keep showering the streaming network with love? And will the movie winners offer any clarity to this year’s wide-open Oscar season? Here are early guesses.

Andy Serkis is a testament to evolution.

This year, cinema’s preeminent performance-capture star finished his trilogy of turns as ape-civilization founder Caesar in Matt Reeves’ enthusiastically received “War for the Planet of the Apes.” He played the character from toddler to elder and through...

It’s no coincidence that several recent period dramas have included in their narratives Europe’s colonization of the Middle East, Africa or India.

Downtown is vibrant with retail, entertainment and drinking establishments. Just beyond, vines stretch in all directions. The vignerons here did much to put California on the wine map, with roots going deep, figuratively and literally. You were thinking Sonoma? No. For decades Lodi provided grapes...

Luca Guadagnino didn’t have to work too hard to convince Michael Stuhlbarg to join the cast of his latest film, “Call Me by Your Name,” and not just because the 49-year-old character actor was already a fan of Guadagnino’s “I Am Love.”

If anyone’s looking for this year’s indie darling, we’ve found him. Caleb Landry Jones has been making scenes all year, in “Get Out,” “American Made,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “The Florida Project.” (He even had a key role as a dirtbag on “Twin Peaks.”) With both “Get Out”...

Every year, Hollywood assembles a series of awards shows to bestow prizes on a number of leading and supporting actors. And every year, the Envelope takes note of several actors who may have been on-screen for only a few minutes, but whose performances jumped off the screen. We singled out three...

Here are six elements of the tax plan that could affect home ownership, home selling and moving.

Matt Smith talks about channeling Prince Philip for the second season of 'The Crown' on Netflix.

Anyone who has seen Jordan Peele’s horror/social-satire “Get Out” understands the intense appeal of Daniel Kaluuya. As Chris, a young black photographer who gets sucked into a racial nightmare — a “sunken place” — when he visits the family of his white girlfriend (Allison Williams), the British...

When director Matt Reeves was assembling a crew for 2008’s “Cloverfield,” there were two top contenders to design the sound: Douglas Murray and Will Files.

Step into the land of the pharaohs and explore the wonders of Egypt on a five-day Nile cruise combined with a six-day land tour.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Thursday, Dec. 21, and here’s what’s happening across California:

Awards season always get us thinking about what it must be like to work in the movies, so we invited six leading actresses to join The Envelope to share their insights. Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger...

The Chris Cornell Scholarship, named for the late Soundgarden/Audioslave singer and songwriter, is being launched at the UCLA School of Law with a gift of $1 million from a coalition led by the late musician’s wife, Vicky Cornell.

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To the editor: Commercial and industrial property owners claim that reforming Proposition 13 by creating a “split roll” that separates them from homeowners would cause major harm to the state’s business climate. They’re saying that paying higher taxes increases the costs they must pass on to customers....

Congressional Republicans are celebrating the passage of their tax plan, while many other issues are being pushed till 2018.