In today’s Movie News Rundown: A new doc investigates a $500 million art heist that left empty frames behind; the Directors Guild of America asks Georgia to reverse its voting restrictions, and we say goodbye to Twin Peaks actor Walter Olkewicz and Teen Wolf actor James Hampton.
But First: Hunger Ward, the Oscar-nominated documentary about children starving to death in Yemen because of Saudi Arabia and its allies — including the U.S. — is the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen. Director Skye Fitzgerald says there is a deliberate blockade not just of food, but of information, to keep you from learning about the atrocity and stopping it. This is how you can learn more and help.
This Is a Robbery: The 1990 theft of 13 works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is one of New England’s most bedeviling mysteries, and the subject of a new Netflix docuseries. Margeaux Sippell details what we know about a security guard who has spent years answering questions, and an art thief with an airtight alibi. Empty frames still hang in the Boston museum to memorialize the stolen art.
Drought: When North Carolina moviemakers Megan Petersen and Hannah Black set out to make their film about storm chasing in a stolen ice cream truck, some of their worries proved to be unfounded. (Casting an actor on the autism spectrum, for example, turned out to be no trouble at all.) But then they ran into very serious problems, including a family tragedy and a hurricane. They wrote this terrific piece for us about their experiences making Drought.
DGA Appeals to Georgia Governor: Leaders of the Directors Guild of America have written directly to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, saying the state’s new voting law “threatens to undermine the pillar of our democracy – the right to vote,” Deadline reports. The 18,000-member guild has more than 400 members who live in the state, a magnet for film and TV production. DGA president Thomas Schlamme and national executive director Russell Hollander wrote that the bill “will disenfranchise our members, and disproportionately impact our members of color, and millions of other hardworking Georgians” and urged Kemp to “reconsider your support for this misguided law and to make every effort to unwind its restrictions before it takes full effect on July 1st.”
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Regarding "This is Robbery" and the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum theft, there's an excellent 2005 doc from director Rebecca Dreyfus about her (and others') obsession with the case. The movie is called "Stolen" and I highly recommend it!
It's obvious that the Directors Guild of America never even read the bill and let CNN and other MSM news broadcasts do their thinking for them.