Lily Gladstone made history as the first indigenous woman to win a Best Actress Golden Globe for her celebrated performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. After a standing ovation, Gladstone began her speech with a few words in the Blackfeet language, the “beautiful community and nation” that raised the …
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Robert De Niro has had a hell of a year. In April, the screen icon welcomed a daughter, Gia, with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen. Three months later, he lost his grandson, Leandro, to a drug overdose at just 19 years of age. Then came the actors’ strike, causing an industry-wide …
Read More »Why Does Martin Scorsese Make Everyone Lose Their Minds?
Across his grand filmography, Martin Scorsese has weighed up the deadly sins that make us all too human. Greed, wrath, envy, pride — name the flaw, he’s made it visceral on the screen. That he’s 80 years old and bringing out the epic Killers of the Flower Moon, based on …
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Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember …
Read More »Why 'Killers of the Flower Moon's' Reign of Terror Is Still Felt Today
Before he wrote the book Killers of the Flower Moon, author David Grann paid a visit to Oklahoma and the Osage Nation in 2012. He found himself in the local museumlooking at a big panoramic photo of the Osage tribe and some white settlers. But a panel was missing from …
Read More »Inside Scorsese's Meeting With the Osage That Changed 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
O n a November evening in 2019, Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and about a dozen members of his production team for Killers of the Flower Moon settled into folding chairs in a wood-paneled community hall in the Osage Nation in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. They had flown more than 1,300 miles after …
Read More »'Reservation Dogs' Creator: Our Series Finale Is Just the Beginning
This post contains spoilers for the series finale of Reservation Dogs, which we recapped here. The finale is now streaming on Hulu. Why? This seems to be the most pressing question for Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo. The Indigenous teen comedy just finished its third and final season, having only …
Read More »'Killers of the Flower Moon' Is Martin Scorsese's Great American Tragedy
The Osage called it the “Reign of Terror.” Once upon a time, long after they’d been forcibly displaced and sold land in the Oklahoma territories deemed barren and unfruitful, the Indigenous tribe had discovered oil under the ground. And more oil. And still more oil after that. They became rich. …
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