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Darren Aronofsky to Get 2026 Locarno Film Festival Honorary Leopard

Darren Aronofsky to Get 2026 Locarno Film Festival Honorary Leopard

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky with its Honorary Leopard, the Pardo d’Onore, presented by Manor, at its 79th edition this summer, organizers said on Tuesday. Lauding Aronofsky as a “visionary,” the festival said he will receive the homor on Friday, Aug. 14 on the Swiss city’s Piazza Grand. He will also present two of his films as part of the festival, namely The Fountain (2006) and Mother! (2017). “With era-defining films like π (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), the Venice Film Festival award winner The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), Noah (2014), and The Whale (2022), for which Brendan Fraser was deservedly awarded best actor at the Academy Awards, Darren Aronofsky has carved out a space in contemporary cinema that defies tidy categorization,” Locarno said. “By turns provocative, spiritual, and formally daring, his films have for more than a quarter century probed the outer limits of faith, desire, and obsession.” Locarno concluded that Aronofsky would receive the honor in recognition of “his singularity as an artistic force.” Said Giona …

iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Published by skeptic

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple’s biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability. At WWDC 2008, Apple showed a presentation that said Mac OS X Snow Leopard had “0 new features,” as it opted to focus on performance and stability improvements. Technically, the update did include some smaller new features, but Apple was overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood changes on the Mac. “We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” said Apple’s former software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before.” iOS 27 will still get some new features too, including a more personalized version of Siri. The update should be announced in June and released in September. Popular Stories Apple …

Heated Rivalry’s Costume Designer Also Loves Ilya’s Leopard Shirt (And Shane’s Sexy Reading Glasses)

Heated Rivalry’s Costume Designer Also Loves Ilya’s Leopard Shirt (And Shane’s Sexy Reading Glasses)

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Shane thing is interesting because I think there’s just so much discomfort in the character himself, in the world outside of being an athlete. Like, Hudson is doing that great. [Laughs] Hudson and Shane are very different people. What a great thing for him that people are really seeing what a wonderful job he did on screen for the show. Connor, too—very different people than the characters they play. But yeah, Shane, I don’t think we could get him to go much further. And then, cut, I have him in very straight-cut suits, a little bit of tailoring, but nothing crazy, really simple lapels for all the tuxedos. Ilya’s tuxedos, we did double-breasted and peak lapel and different colors and played around with that a little bit more. I think it’s all just about trying to tap into the real character beats. Shane, I think, just doesn’t exist in the world that way. Speaking of Shane, there are two notable pairs of eyewear in this season. He and Kip both wear reading glasses, and …