Inconvenient Indian, a history of the indigenous peoples of Canada by Michelle Latimer, won the documentary award, while the Georgian-French drama Beginning by Déa Kulumbegashvili won a single FIPRESCI Prize, voted on by international critics.
Meanwhile critics kept their antennas tuned to the Big Apple, where the New York Film Festival will run over the course of the next two weeks. Already causing a stir was Mangrove, a retelling of police harassment among London’s Caribbean community in the 1970s, and the second picture in the Small Axe series by the acclaimed director Steve McQueen.
To rave reviews and glowing recollections, Friday saw the release of remastered, deluxe, and super deluxe editions of the seminal Prince album Sign o’ the Times. From the calamity-cleft funk minimalism of the title track and the sunburst sweeps of ‘Starfish and Coffee’ to the slow-build spiritualism of ‘The Cross’ and soul devotional ‘Adore’, on Sign o’ the Times the artist was at his most fertile, creatively unfettered as he surveyed his surrounds.
Sign o’ the Times was already a double album, which on release stretched across 80 minutes and four sides. The super deluxe package now spans nine discs, adding all of the contemporary single edits and B-sides plus 45 previously unreleased studio tracks and live performances from Utrecht and Paisley Park.
On Monday, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder reported that the Arctic sea ice has shrank to the second-lowest level on record. Satellites recorded a sea ice covering of 3.74 million square kilometres on 15 September, which is only the second time in the past forty years that the ice covering has dropped below 4 million square kilometres.
The record low within the past forty years of record keeping came in 2012, when a late-season cyclonic storm broke up an already depleted layer of ice, leaving only 3.41 million square kilometres. This year’s decline hastened between late August and early September, owing to pulses of warm air from Siberia, which has been in the throes of an unprecedented heatwave.
Starring roles in films by Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean Renoir were followed by parts in Hollywood pictures and British-American productions. Sought out by Mel Ferrer, it was on the set of The Sun Also Rises that she first met Zanuck, and she played in The Roots of Heaven by John Huston and Bonjour Tristesse by Otto Preminger, before starring alongside Orson Welles in Crack in the Mirror.
Performances at the Olympia in Paris and on tours to the United States and Brazil had made Gréco the face of the chanson. From the late 50s, under the auspices of the composer André Popp, she recorded classic renditions of songs by Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, and a young Serge Gainsbourg. Between continuing forays on television and film, she had hits with ‘La Javanaise’ and ‘Déshabillez-moi’ and won critical acclaim for the albums Gréco chante Mac Orlan and La Femme.
In the 1970s, Gréco embarked on a series of world tours, switched record labels at the end of a long partnership with Philips, and tried her hand at songwriting. Sporadic recordings in the 80s and 90s were followed by a fully-fledged comeback and a series of albums in the 2000s. In 2012, Gréco celebrated with a new record and television specials in France on the occasion of her 85th birthday. She was promoted to commandeur of the Légion d’honneur.
A source of inspiration for philosophers, fellow artists, and the songwriters who wrote songs in her name, framed against the shadows of the stage with her long dark hair and black attire, Gréco maintained a spare approach to her craft, reciting the title of each song and performing with poetic flair and a husky voice out of the stillness.
The original list was short on women, with Joni Mitchell the highest ranking solo female artist at number thirty. Madonna was the only woman with as many as three featuring albums, while hip hop hegemony shifted from 2003 to 2012 between the socially conscious Public Enemy and a soul-sampling Kanye West.
The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young still predominate, but with six albums Kanye West is now on par with The Rolling Stones. Aretha Franklin and Joni Mitchell can boast four albums apiece, while the diversity of artists on three albums includes the sonic explorations of Janet Jackson and Fiona Apple, slacker rock from Pavement, and rap luminaries from Beastie Boys and Outkast to Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar.
The Beatles hold on to a spot in the top five thanks to Abbey Road, with Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder, Blue by Joni Mitchell, and Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys offering an evocative prelude to a new champion, Marvin Gaye’s weary but hopeful, environmentally conscious song cycle What’s Going On.
Casting a covetous glance, Emmy and Schitt’s Creek only had eyes for each other as the small-town sitcom swept the comedy circuit. Showrunner Dan Levy became the first person to win in all four major disciplines, clasping the awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series alongside Andrew Cividino, while heading up the cast and crew as the show was named Outstanding Comedy Series for 2020.
Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and Annie Murphy in the remaining acting categories completed the set. There was more diversity in the genres of drama and limited series, where Succession and Watchmen heralded a fine night for HBO, claiming the top prizes while picking up four awards apiece. Regina King (Watchmen) and Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True) took home the lead acting awards for their respective limited series, leaving Zendaya (Euphoria) and Jeremy Strong (Succession) as their dramatic counterparts.
Billy Crudup (The Morning Show), Julia Garner (Ozark), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen), and Uzo Aduba (Mrs. America) triumphed for their supporting roles. Andrij Parekh won Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the ‘Hunting’ episode of Succession, while Maria Schrader won Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series for the German-American drama Unorthodox, the first Netflix series primarily in Yiddish.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the Supreme Court and feminist icon, who attained rock star status late in life for her withering dissents as leader of the liberal wing of the court, died on Friday at the age of 87. Her death from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer sets up a fierce battle over the future of the court as the United States races towards a presidential election.
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents hailing from Kraków and Odessa, Joan Ruth Bader suffered the loss of an older sister in infancy and her mother, Celia, the day before her high school graduation, subsequently attending Cornell University where she graduated with a bachelor of arts in government.
At Cornell she met Martin Ginsburg, who she married one month after graduation, demoted from her job at the Social Security office in Oklahoma when she became pregnant with the couple’s first child. Ginsburg then enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she was one of only nine women in a class of hundreds, transferring to Columbia where she tied for first in class when she graduated in 1959 with a law degree.
Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 2007 ruled that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, pay discrimination claims must be made within 180 days of an employer’s discriminatory conduct, in this case from the date of the plaintiff Lilly Ledbetter’s first unequal paycheck. Objecting that the statutory 180-day period should only begin once a claimant becomes aware of the discrimination, Ginsburg called on Congress to clarify Title VII. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act of 2009, which resets the statutory clock upon each new discriminatory paycheck, became the first bill signed into law by President Obama.
A further dissent came over Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which declared unconstitutional the section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 requiring states to receive federal approval before changing voting practises. Ginsburg responded, ‘Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet’.
With unprecedented introspection threatening to turn more than the clothes inside out, New York Fashion Week heralded the start of a new season. Fewer eyeballs would turn towards fewer designers and fewer bodies draped and distended in space, with much of the week composed virtually as fashion strains to fit inside the new normal.
Alessandro Michele announced that Gucci would reduce its number of annual shows from five to two, joined by brands like Saint Laurent equally keen to reset the clock and foster a little breathing space amid the hectic fashion calendar. The summer months collided menswear with haute couture or took conspicuous steps towards gender-neutral, as weeks in London and Paris went digital with virtual shows, podcasts, interviews, and panel discussions, cinematic shorts, and celebrity collaborations.
Not quite business as usual then heading into New York, for the first major showcase of spring/summer collections. With most designers opting for digital presentations, there were no celebrities adorning front rows and no street style fashionistas. Even the major names in American fashion were missing out, from Marc Jacobs, Ralph Lauren, and Michael Kors to Oscar de la Renta, Tory Burch, and Proenza Schouler, while the CFDA set up the Runway360 platform to capture the virtual stragglers. But a few hardy souls still strove valiantly to present their wares in person, taking to the Spring Studios rooftop in TriBeCa.
Amid rapid tests and masks, New York City-based Monse ascended the Spring Studios rooftop for a cocktail party replete with leftover fall coats and tantalising resort wear. Bronx and Banco, Rebecca Minkoff, and LaQuan Smith also scaled the perilous heights of in-person presentation for shows featuring boho-chic, head wraps, and cut-out dresses.
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