The Este Lauder Companies Chairman Emeritus, Leonard A. Lauder, was honored with the Women's Leadership Award at the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund Fashion Gala. The evening included tributes from Harper's Bazaar Editor-in-Chief Glenda Bailey and Tommy Hilfiger, who is also a dinner cochair with his wife Dee. Guests included Elizabeth Hurley, Karlie Kloss, Carolyn Murphy, Hilary Rhoda, Aerin Lauder, Jane Lauder, Danielle Lauder, Fabrizio Freda, John Demsey, Jane Hertzmark Hudis, Sara Moss, Tracey T. Travis, and dinner co-chairs Christina and Robert C. Baker, Anne and Joel S. Ehrenkranz, Katherine Farley and Jerry I. Speyer, Bill Ford and Marigay McKee, Kenneth C. Griffin, Judy Glickman Lauder, Laura and Gary Lauder, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, William P. Lauder, and Lori Kanter Tritsch.
- 11/19/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Since 1964, the Ford Mustang has been something of a pop culture icon: Steve McQueen drove a 1968 Mustang Gt in “Bullitt”; Serge Gainsbourg sung about making out in a Mustang; Vanilla Ice rapped about his rolling in his Mustang “5.0”. For over a half century, the performance coupe has been noteworthy for three reasons: it’s attainable, fast, and fun.
Now Ford is hoping to keep the car cool by going green, expanding the Mustang line with a new model called the Mustang Mach-e. It’s a double departure, of sorts: it...
Now Ford is hoping to keep the car cool by going green, expanding the Mustang line with a new model called the Mustang Mach-e. It’s a double departure, of sorts: it...
- 11/19/2019
- by Jesse Will
- Rollingstone.com
Twenty-five years ago, with one fatal bullet to the heart, a family on Long Island, New York, was forever changed.
William Ford Jr., a 24-year-old high school math teacher who’d been recently hailed as a hero for detaining an armed robber on the street, was shot and killed on April 7, 1992. His killer? Mark Reilly, a 19-year-old mechanic at Super Stang Auto Body in Central Islip, New York, where Ford’s girlfriend’s car was being serviced.
Reilly, who is white, was arrested for manslaughter but he claimed self-defense in the altercation at the shop with Ford, who was black.
William Ford Jr., a 24-year-old high school math teacher who’d been recently hailed as a hero for detaining an armed robber on the street, was shot and killed on April 7, 1992. His killer? Mark Reilly, a 19-year-old mechanic at Super Stang Auto Body in Central Islip, New York, where Ford’s girlfriend’s car was being serviced.
Reilly, who is white, was arrested for manslaughter but he claimed self-defense in the altercation at the shop with Ford, who was black.
- 9/7/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
The year before he was shot through the heart – killed by a man who was never prosecuted – people were calling 24-year-old William Ford Jr. a hero. Ford, then a 24-year-old math teacher who had applied to be a corrections officer, had witnessed the shooting of a former district attorney. Ford had chased down the fleeing gunman, tackling him to the ground, and held him until police arrived.
Ford spent much of the last day of his life in a Brooklyn courtroom, a witness for the prosecution in the case. On April 7, 1992, after returning home from his testimony, he was shot...
Ford spent much of the last day of his life in a Brooklyn courtroom, a witness for the prosecution in the case. On April 7, 1992, after returning home from his testimony, he was shot...
- 9/6/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
The loss of a family member is devastating to anyone, but when that person’s legacy is wrapped up in injustice, the pain can be insurmountable. In the acclaimed Sundance documentary Strong Island, director Yance Ford explores the 1992 murder of his own brother, William Ford Jr., and how the justice system let his killer walk away. Ahead of a release next month on Netflix, the powerful first trailer has arrived.
“Strong Island communicates an intimate, searing story with a level of control (formal framing, evidentiary presentation of emotional content) that may be disconcerting,” Ford tells Filmmaker Magazine. “It may not be the vein of communication that audiences expect from a film where the filmmaker is also a character. But Strong Island is a meticulously thought out, visually constructed experience that invites the viewer into the life and home of its characters.”
See the trailer and poster below.
In April 1992, on Long Island NY,...
“Strong Island communicates an intimate, searing story with a level of control (formal framing, evidentiary presentation of emotional content) that may be disconcerting,” Ford tells Filmmaker Magazine. “It may not be the vein of communication that audiences expect from a film where the filmmaker is also a character. But Strong Island is a meticulously thought out, visually constructed experience that invites the viewer into the life and home of its characters.”
See the trailer and poster below.
In April 1992, on Long Island NY,...
- 8/23/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Netflix has released its first trailer for its new crime series, “Strong Island,” which chronicles the murder of school teacher William Ford, Jr., and the way it shaped the victim’s family. “You stumble out of the garage and into the yard, where you fall,” the trailer begins. “You lie on the ground, bullet through your heart, and know you will never see your sisters again, your mother, your father. That was the beginning.” According to the synopsis, in April 1992, Ford, a black 24-year-old teacher, was killed by Mark Reilly, a white 19-year-old mechanic. Ford was unarmed, but became the prime.
- 8/22/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
While the forthcoming crime documentary Strong Island, debuting on Netflix in September, does attempt to answer long-lingering questions about a 1992 killing on Long Island, New York, the film is not focused on catching a killer.
Rather, the highly-personal directorial debut from Yance Ford chronicles the loss that shattered his family in the 20-plus years since his brother, a black 24-year-old teacher named William Ford Jr., was allegedly gunned down by a white 19-year-old who was never brought to trial.
The film is also a poetic rumination on race in America that simultaneously celebrates — and reclaims — William’s memory.
“A deeply intimate and meditative film,...
Rather, the highly-personal directorial debut from Yance Ford chronicles the loss that shattered his family in the 20-plus years since his brother, a black 24-year-old teacher named William Ford Jr., was allegedly gunned down by a white 19-year-old who was never brought to trial.
The film is also a poetic rumination on race in America that simultaneously celebrates — and reclaims — William’s memory.
“A deeply intimate and meditative film,...
- 8/22/2017
- by Chris Harris
- PEOPLE.com
The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center has today announces their complete lineup for the 46th annual New Directors/New Films (Nd/Nf), running March 15 – 26. Dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent, this year’s festival will screen 29 features and nine short films. This year’s lineup boasts nine North American premieres, seven U.S. premieres, and two world premieres, with features and shorts from 32 countries across five continents.
The opening, centerpiece, and closing night selections showcase three exciting new voices in American independent cinema that all recently debuted at Sundance: Geremy Jasper’s “Patti Cake$” is the opening night pick, while Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats” is the centerpiece selection and Dustin Guy Defa will close the festival with “Person to Person.” Other standouts include “Menashe,” “My Happy Family,” “Quest” and “The Wound.”
Read More: The Sundance Rebel:...
The opening, centerpiece, and closing night selections showcase three exciting new voices in American independent cinema that all recently debuted at Sundance: Geremy Jasper’s “Patti Cake$” is the opening night pick, while Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats” is the centerpiece selection and Dustin Guy Defa will close the festival with “Person to Person.” Other standouts include “Menashe,” “My Happy Family,” “Quest” and “The Wound.”
Read More: The Sundance Rebel:...
- 2/15/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
‘Strong Island’ Review: Yance Ford’s Powerful and Personal Look at Race in America — Sundance Review
There is no shortage of documentaries on the preponderance of racially motivated shootings that have become a fixture of modern American society, but none carry the striking intimacy of Yance Ford’s “Strong Island.” The transgender filmmaker’s remarkable essay film, which explores the lingering pain surrounding the murder of his brother, William Ford, Jr. in 1992, manages to explore the incident while personalizing its reverberations across two decades. Equal parts journalistic investigation and family portrait, Ford’s delicate project transforms the source of his frustrations into an absorbing cinematic elegy.
Despite the dark event at its center, “Strong Island” also functions as an insightful memoir of black life in America. With only a handful of subjects and family archives, Ford tracks his parents’ early courtship in the Jim Crow South through their decision to rebuild their lives in Long Island, where Ford and his siblings grow up caught between the...
Despite the dark event at its center, “Strong Island” also functions as an insightful memoir of black life in America. With only a handful of subjects and family archives, Ford tracks his parents’ early courtship in the Jim Crow South through their decision to rebuild their lives in Long Island, where Ford and his siblings grow up caught between the...
- 1/25/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Ford is to take the unusual step of announcing its new Ford B-Max car at the Mobile World Congress event later this month, in a move designed to showcase the "technologically advanced" features in the vehicle. On February 27, Ford Motor Company executive chairman Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, will unveil the all-new B-max at the 2012 Mobile World Congress (Mwc) in Barcelona. This will mark the first time in the history of Mwc that a car manufacturer has introduced a new vehicle at the event, which takes place ahead of the B-max's appearance at the Geneva Motor Show on March 6. Ford said that the "bold step" is intended to showcase "the growing connection between automobiles and mobile technology". The company added that it will announce new features that will put the B-max "among the most technologically advanced small cars on the (more)...
- 2/14/2012
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
The filmmakers behind my current top two films of the year (The Tree of Life and Shame) are teaming up for another project and now we have an official promo poster and synopsis to prove it, just as we got last year for Steve McQueen‘s sex addiction drama. Provided by Collider at American Film Market, the promo poster for 12 Years a Slave reveals that a 2012 release is intended. That is if a distributor is acquired, an acquisition almost guaranteed after buyers went crazy for the Nc-17 Shame, finally going to Fox Searchlight.
McQueen will be reteaming with Michael Fassbender and have Brad Pitt (also producer) in a role, but it is Chiwetel Ejiofor who will be leading the drama. We now have an official synopsis from the script by McQueen and John Ridley (Three Kings), which can be read below, followed by the poster.
Based on a true story,...
McQueen will be reteaming with Michael Fassbender and have Brad Pitt (also producer) in a role, but it is Chiwetel Ejiofor who will be leading the drama. We now have an official synopsis from the script by McQueen and John Ridley (Three Kings), which can be read below, followed by the poster.
Based on a true story,...
- 11/2/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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