On 21 June, Cate Blanchett will be in conversation painter, Jenny Saville, at the National Portrait Gallery. Tickets for public booking opens tomorrow, 23 May 2025. Tickets can also be purchased for the livestream of the event.

A new documentary on Martin Scorsese is set to be released on Apple TV+, Cate Blanchett will be featured in it having worked with Scorsese in THE AVIATOR (2004).

Warwick Thornton’s THE NEW BOY is in select cinemas in US/Canada from tomorrow, 23 May. Watch a clip below.

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National Portrait Gallery Conversation

To celebrate the opening of Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting, the largest major museum exhibition dedicated to the work of one of the world’s foremost contemporary painters, join us in the Gallery and live online for an exclusive in-conversation between Jenny Saville and the award-winning actor, Cate Blanchett.

This special event brings together two iconic artists – painter and performer – for a unique and thrilling conversation, which will see the pair reflect on their careers, practices and successes across their respective artforms. From early experiments to international recognition, both Saville and Blanchett offer a rare insight into what it means to be an artist today.

Introduced by Victoria Siddall, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and chaired by the exhibition’s curator, Sarah Howgate, this conversation will consider everything from shared influences and interests – including culture, performance, identity and the body – as well as their experiences of being women and mothers working in the creative arts.

Through this conversation, Saville and Blanchett explore what continues to drive them and discuss the importance of supporting the next generation of artists and performers.

More information and how to book tickets here.

Mr. Scorsese

Apple TV+ announced “Mr. Scorsese,” a five-part film portrait of iconic director, producer and writer Martin Scorsese, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Rebecca Miller (“She Came to Me,” “Personal Velocity”). “Mr. Scorsese” originated with executive producers Miller and Damon Cardasis at Round Films (“Maggie’s Plan,” “Saturday Church”), and Cindy Tolan (“Étoile,” “Dandelion”), Miller’s longtime creative collaborator.

“Mr. Scorsese” is a film portrait of a man through the lens of his work, exploring the many facets of a visionary who redefined filmmaking, including his extraordinary career and unique personal history. With exclusive, unrestricted access to Scorsese’s private archives, the documentary series is anchored by extensive conversations with the filmmaker himself and never-before-seen interviews with friends, family and creative collaborators including Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, Robbie Robertson, Thelma Schoonmaker, Steven Spielberg, Sharon Stone, Jodie Foster, Paul Schrader, Margot Robbie, Cate Blanchett, Jay Cocks and Rodrigo Prieto, along with his children, wife Helen Morris and close childhood friends. From acclaimed director Miller, “Mr. Scorsese” examines how his own colorful life experiences informed his artistic vision as each film he made stunned the world with originality. Starting with his New York University student films through to the present day, this documentary explores the themes that have fascinated Scorsese and informed his work, including the place of good and evil in the fundamental nature of humankind.

The New Boy

In the moody magical-realist drama, “The New Boy,” an Indigenous boy (Aswan Reid) is captured in the outback and forced to live in a Christian orphanage in rural Australia. It’s the early 1940s, and the Australian government is continuing to implement brutal policies geared toward the forced assimilation of Aboriginal people. Missionary groups are taking Aboriginal children from their families to convert them to Christianity. The fate of what came to be known as the Stolen Generations befalls our nameless newcomer in the film’s opening scene, which Thornton visualizes as a stylized, slow-motion face-off on cracked desert grounds.

The formidable Blanchett in a rare role in her native Australia, is neither severe nor overly innocent here: Eileen curses and takes sips of wine, bringing unexpected levity to a film that is ultimately about spiritual warfare.

Thornton, who briefly attended a Christian boarding school when he was a child, brings a textured perspective to this story of cultural violence and white guilt. He opts for a dreamy, lugubrious atmosphere and oblique imagery that might alienate some hoping for a more straightforward narrative — and mesmerize others captivated by its slow-burn vision.

Full review on NY Times

Sources: Apple TV+