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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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Gyllenhaal Dating Young Model

Donkeys Keep Sheridan ‘Sane’

‘Burning,’ And ‘Cold War’ Top AP’s List Of Best 2018 Films

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