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LONDON: Oscar-winning ac-
tor Leonardo DiCaprio�s foun-
dation has raised over $100 mil-
lion for the ight against climate change. �...I am pleased to an-
nounce $11 million in new grants
across our six programme areas,
bringing the total inancial impact of LDF to over $100 million,�
read a statement from DiCaprio
on the foundation�s website, re-
ports metro.co.uk.
The �Titanic� star has been
seen raising awareness of climate
change from time to time, and his
Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- which he created in 1998 - has
completed 20 years.
�When I founded LDF 20 years
ago, I did so based on the simple
idea that we could make a real
difference by directly funding
some of the most effective envi-
ronmental projects.
�Whether it be individuals,
grassroots movements or major
nonproits, we wanted to focus on getting critical funding to those
who could have the greatest im-
pact...,� read the statement.
LONDON: Actor Jake Gyl-
lenhaal, 38, is reportedly dating
22-year-old model Jeanne Cadieu.
Despite having a 16-year age
difference between the �Night-
crawler� actor and the model,
their relationship is progressing
quickly, reported US Weekly.
�Jeanne is very mature for her
age. She�s quirky, smart and loves
history, reading; she�s a really
great and well-rounded person.
She and Jake really took things
slow, but are now pretty serious,�
the publication quoted a source as
saying.
The duo was spotted together
in London in July and then in
Greece a month later.
Gyllenhaal has previously been
romantically linked to stars such
as Taylor Swift, Reese With-
erspoon, Natalie Portman and
Kirsten Dunst.
LOS ANGELES: Actress Sher-
idan Smith says she has pet don-
keys to keep her sane. In the up-
coming Christmas special of �The
Jonathan Ross Show�, Smith ad-
mitted that she keeps grounded by
spending time with the donkeys
on her farm.
Smith, who is dating Jamie
Horn, said she found herself on
a dating app as she wanted a bit
of normality. “It is dificult now isn�t it and I think, we are always
working with people in the indus-
try and I wanted a bit of normal-
ity.
�We�ve got our little farm with
my donkeys. It�s my little bit of
sanity away from the madness,
to be honest,� Sheridan said she
took extra lifestyle precautions
away from the limelight.
By Jake Coyle And Lindsey Bahr
Associated Press Film Writ-
ers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr
name their choices for the best
ilms of 2018.JAKE COYLE
1. �Burning��: It was, for sure,
an extraordinary movie year. Lit-
tle to nothing separates my fa-
vourite 10 ilms, or, for that mat-ter, my top 20 or 30. Many of
the year�s best were found over-
seas, and none haunted me more
than Lee Chang-dong�s smoul-
dering slow-burn thriller. An ad-
aptation of a Haruki Murakami
short story, �Burning�� is about a
triangle of young Koreans (Yoo
Ah-in, Jeon Jong-seo, Steven
Yeun _ all astonishing) divided
by class but united in heartache
and rage. At sunset, with Miles
Davis playing, it reaches an ach-
ing crescendo.
2. �Private Life��: Tamara Jen-
kins� comic and compassionate
fertility drama is like �Waiting
for Godot�� with two of the best
actors around: Kathryn Hahn
and Paul Giamatti. In a mov-
ie year where love that lasts was
hard to ind, the searching couple in �Private Life�� made for an af-
fectionate and indelible portrait
of middle-aged marriage.
3. �First Reformed��: Chiseled
out of a lifetime of doubt, Paul
Schrader�s late-in-life master-
piece throbs with an existential
despair that has hardened into
a taut and tormented religious
drama. It�s a culmination for
Schrader_ an anguished book-
end to �Taxi Driver,�� which he
wrote _ about a priest (a never-
better Ethan Hawke) in desperate
search for grace.
4. “Shoplifters’’: The ilms of Hirokazu Kore-eda unfold so
nimbly and breezily that their pro-
fundity (and your tears) can come
as a surprise. In this, a high-point
for Kore-eda and the winner of
Cannes� Palme d�Or, the Japanese
master depicts the ragtag life of
a makeshift, impoverished family
that slowly, heartbreaking gnaws
at the question: What makes a
family? The answer is more than
DNA.
5. �The Ballad of Buster Scrug-
gs.�� Take the Coen brothers for
granted at your peril. In this, an
anthology of six Western tales
of death and storytelling, life is
a Poker game where everyone�s
holding _ like the two pair of
black aces and eights that Scrug-
gs (Tim Blake Nelson) refuses to
play in the ilm’s irst chapter _ a dead man�s hand.
6. �Cold War�� A stone-cold
stunner, the second straight from
Pawel Pawlikowski (�Ida��),
about a romance torn between
exile and home (and based on
the director�s parents). Paw-
likowski�s command is absolute.
His smoky, shimmering images _
dense with atmosphere, luminous
with mystery _ are what celluloid
was made for.
7. �The Rider��: Chloe Zhao�s
second feature, starring real-
life rider Brady Jandreau as an
injured South Dakota cowboy
forced to give up the only life he
knows, is so illed with the beauty and struggle of the Pine Ridge In-
dian Reservation. Blending ic-
tion with real life, Zhao achieves
something spiritual.
8. �Paddington 2��: In an end-
lessly dispiriting year, Paul
King�s charm overload was the
go-to antidote, a salve of confec-
tionary delight: marmalade for
your maladies.
9. �The Favourite��: It�s just
such an irresistible acting specta-
cle. Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz
and Emma Stone set a torch to
the traditional historical drama
in Yorgos Lanthimos� wild and
caustic period romp.
10. “Zama’’: Argentine ilm-
maker Lucrecia Martel�s ellipti-
cal tale of a Spanish magistrate
in remote 18th century Argentina,
adapted from Antonio di Bene-
detto�s novel, casts a deliriously
hypnotic spell. The vivid, formal-
ist imagery unravels the pathetic
absurdities of a colonist whose
stature, tenuous from the start, is
disappearing before his eyes.
Honourable mentions: �You
Were Never Really Here,�� ��The
Hate U Give,� ��Eighth Grade,�
��Black Panther,� ��Minding the
Gap,� ��Sorry to Bother You,�
��Roma,� ��Free Solo,� ��Support
the Girls,� ��Let the Sunshine In.�
LINDSEY BAHR
1. �Cold War��: Romantic,
passionate, tragic and perfectly
unsentimental, ilmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski�s �Cold War�� is an
intoxicating portrait of an impos-
sible, cruel and undeniable love
between a musician, Wiktor (To-
masz Kot) and a singer with an
�it factor,�� Zula (Joanna Kulig).
Shot in stunningly crisp black
and white, Pawlikowski’s ilm is a triumph in an 85-minute pack-
age.
2. �Can You Ever Forgive
Me?��: Lee Israel is not your
typical leading lady, and that�s
what makes her so great. You
can imagine one version of this
movie, about a washed up biog-
rapher who starts a side hustle
forging personal letters of some
of wittiest literary minds of all
time, relishing in and exploiting
her unglamorous life.
But director Marielle Heller
and star Melissa McCarthy just
let Lee Israel be: Sharp, unpleas-
ant, infuriating, compelling, ter-
rible and heroic. Heller�s early
�90s New York feels like the real
thing too.
3. �Roma��: Alfonso Cuaron�s
deeply personal ode to women
who raised him, “Roma’’ is a ilm going experience like few others
_ tranquil but urgent, meditative
but exciting, and told with pure
love and humanity. Like �Cold
War,�� ��Roma� is also shot in
black and white, but it rarely feels
like it. His images are so vivid
you can almost feel the prism of
colours peeking through.
4. �Wildlife��: This adaptation
of Richard Ford�s novel about a
family in 1960s Montana feels
like it was made by someone
much older and much more ex-
perienced than 30-something,
irst-time director Paul Dano. And yet he�s made one of the
most elegant and heart wrenching
examinations of a nuclear Ameri-
can family (Carey Mulligan, Jake
Gyllenhaal and Ed Oxenbould)
that�s dissolving under capitalist
systems and gender essentialism.
5. �BlacKkKlansman��: Ron
Stallworth’s story of iniltrating the Ku Klux Klan is a good one,
but Spike Lee made it even bet-
ter in �BlacKkKlansman, an ex-
plosive and essential treatise on
racism in America with a rally-
ing score, a surprising amount of
humour, and some unforgettable
performances (from John David
Washington and Adam Driver).
6. �A Star Is Born��: Bradley
Cooper�s achievement with �A
Star Is Born�� is hard to quantify.
As an actor, he�s never been bet-
ter as the self-destructive rock
star Jackson Maine, who has
one gesture of love left in his
pill and alcohol addled body _ to
help Lady Gaga�s Ally reach the
heights she deserves.
7. �Private Life��: Tamara Jen-
kins found something novel, and
wonderfully feminine, to say
about middle-class New York
intellectuals in this impeccably
written and acted story about mar-
riage, fertility and hope in middle
age, that is humorous, precise and
true, and a great spotlight for the
equally excellent Kathryn Hahn
and Paul Giamatti.
8. �The Favourite��: This movie
about power struggles in the court
of Queen Anne is deliciously de-
ranged, and wickedly cynical, but
somehow more accessible and
lighthearted than what we�ve typ-
ically come to expect from Yor-
gos Lanthimos. With iercely fun and piercing performances from
Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Ra-
chel Weisz and Nicholas Hoult,
it�s a fully engrossing experience
that will leave you looking for
some pearls to clutch.
9. �Juliet, Naked��: I won�t pre-
tend like �Juliet, Naked�� has the
gravitas or prestige of most of the
other ilms on this list, and yet it is quietly, unassumingly one of
the more poignant, and straight-
forwardly enjoyable movies of
the year about mid-life second
chances, for those who have nev-
er made any mistakes (Rose By-
rne�s small-town character An-
nie), and those who�ve made all
of them (Ethan Hawke�s elusive,
cult rock star Tucker Crowe).
10. �The Ballad of Buster
Scruggs��: The Coen brothers
show off their best tricks in this
deliriously entertaining Western
anthology.
It’s the kind of ilm that feels new but familiar and nihilistic yet
comforting, as you jump between
a singing sharpshooter (Tim
Blake Nelson), an old prospector
(Tom Waits) and his �pocket,�� to
a woman (Zoe Kazan) on a wag-
on trail getting her irst glimmer of happiness.
Honourable Mentions: �First
Reformed,�� ��Burning,� ��Leave
No Trace,� ��If Beale Street
Could Talk,� ��A Simple Favour,�
��Minding the Gap.�
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‘Burning,’ And ‘Cold War’ Top AP’s List Of Best 2018 Films
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