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An op-ed from The New York Times is challenging readers to see one of the most beloved scenes from 1964’s Mary Poppins in an entirely new light — but not everyone’s buying it.

The essay by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an English professor at Linfield college, argues that the original book written by P. L. Travers has a history of racism, which is carried through in the first movie and also subtly in 2018’s sequel, starring Emily Blunt.

“One of the more indelible images from the 1964 film is of Mary Poppins blacking up,” Pollack-Pelzner writes in The Times. “When the magical nanny accompanies her young charges,...

"When a woman confronts her loneliness, she's free." That's one of the lovely first sentences spoken in Amanda Eliasch's impassioned "The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly," a jarringly constructed documentary-hybrid that examines, and recreates, the tragedy, and the comedy, of her life as an artist, photographer, writer, actress and, ultimately, filmmaker. The film, which begins in childhood and lands in the present, is about the value of self-awareness in the life of an artist -- are you really living your life if you're in your head, filtering it through the prism of the imagination, all the time? You might say that Amanda Eliasch is more like a character in a book than a person in real life. But in real life, she is, in fact, quite a person -- a real presence that I got to know over the course of a few weeks as her distinctive, and promising,...

Title: The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly Director: Amanda Eliasch Starring: Amanda Eliasch, Justine Glenton, Charles Eliasch, Giulia Laudano, Elizabeth Karr, Liza Zane, Adam Urosevic, Steve Pound, John Cusworth, Miles Alltoft, Leo Rudell, Mimi Dean Indulgence and inanity collide in the bewildering vanity project “The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly,” a punch-drunk mixture of “Tarnation,” “The Room” and some lost, axed-in-run-through “Saturday Night Live” sketch of skewered, oblivious privilege. A kaleidoscopic memoir of and by director Amanda Eliasch — a socialite and part-time photographer who exists seemingly to be seen – this navel-gazing non-starter offers zero of interest to anyone not immediately connected to its maker (and even then that might be a [ Read More ]

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The Venus in Fur actress will also accept the Legend Award on behalf of her husband and director Roman Polanski.

The 11th annual Ischia Film & Music Festival is to celebrate women in the arts with awards for actress Emmanuelle Seigner, creative artist Amanda Eliasch and Oscar-nominated director Christina Comencini.

At the festival, which runs from July 14-21 off the coast of Naples, Seigner will receive the Ischia Actress of the Year award, Eliasch will receive the Enrico Job Prize for creativity and the Career Cult Award will go to Italian film director and novelist Comencini.

Seigner’s award will be presented on July 14, Eliasch’s on July 18 and Comenchini’s on July 20.

“We are happy to have the talented Emmanuelle Seigner with us in Ischia for the Festival’s July 14 opening night presentation – the Italian premiere of her latest film, Venus In Fur directed by her husband Roman Polanski, which is appropriately...