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The resurfaced commercials put screen legend and “To Have and Have Not” actress Bacall in a new light: Hilariously slinging instant coffee as the easiest way to look refreshed on set. Bacall, who would have turned 98 on September 16, starred in iconic films like “How to Marry a Millionaire,” “Dark Passage,” and “The Big Sleep” before dying in August 2014. The “Designing Woman” alum starred in “Misery,” “Dogville,” and “Ernest & Celestine” among her final roles....

The similar approach between the legendary filmmakers, Modine told Hollywood Reporter, is in the intimacy of the set despite the massiveness of the project. “Sometimes on ‘Full Metal Jacket,’ there weren’t more than 10 or 15 people on the set,” he said. “And as big as ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ was, with all of the people that were working on it and the tremendous size of the cast and crew, it got smaller and smaller and smaller as you got closer and closer to the set where you were going to be filming....

When Fukunaga first heard the news of the movie’s initial push back to November back in March, he said, “There were a couple of hours of F—, it’s not happening. And then pretty quickly, I mentally moved on…I was at peace with it.” As for the studios and executives’ decision, he said, “I think they made a very smart decision to be one of the first to say out loud, ‘This is a big thing....

On that closing line of Russell Crowe’s 2001 Best Actor acceptance speech for “Gladiator,” I fell in love with the Oscars. I was also too sick to leave the house; at 14 years old, I was recovering from double pneumonia. It was the latest in a string of lung-related health issues that eventually led to a lupus diagnosis. When I heard these words from an actor I barely knew, it made me feel like I could be a part of Hollywood....

That was “Master of None” Season 3, which debuted in May of this year and was subtitled “Moments in Love” — a clear, semi-successful homage to Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 classic, “Scenes From a Marriage.” Now, HBO and writer/director Hagai Levi have produced a full-on remake, starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain as the struggling couple at the story’s center. While Aziz Ansari’s latest Netflix season does little, if anything, to impact how a new “Scenes From a Marriage” lands in 2021, it’s but one of many series and films from the past five decades that were inspired by Bergman’s breakthrough and then built off of its honest, raw ethos....

Where to Watch “Stath Lets Flats”: HBO Max (the series originally aired on Channel 4) There’s something hypnotic about the opening credits for the first season of “Stath Lets Flats.” From the way that Jamie Demetriou fakes opening a door all the way through the multiple floating Stath Charalamboses at the end, that green-screen awkwardness is a pretty clear snapshot of where the title character is at the beginning of the series....

In Emma Cooper’s words, “it’s quite helpful that I’m British.” “Of course I knew who they are,” she said in an interview with IndieWire. “But I know way more about Prince Charles.” Cooper, the director of “The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes,” admits she never understood the mystique surrounding Marilyn Monroe before she began work on the film. Nor did she have any sentimental attachments to the idealized America that the Kennedy presidency represented....