When we first glimpse the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the stunning new film that bears his name, he is lying on a corpse-strewn beach, looking near death himself. It’s 1511, and he has just ...

Don't miss the Official Trailer for The Testament of Ann Lee, a biographical historical drama musical distributed by Annapurna Pictures. Explore the Shaker Movement through song and dance in The ...

The Testament Of Ann Lee picks up where 2009’s Antichrist left off: a wave of innumerable women saunter through the woods in a beautiful, haunting, mysterious manner. But the singing women of Ann Lee ...

CHATHAM, N.Y. — The cast and crew of “The Testament of Ann Lee” visited Hancock Shaker Village eight months before they started shooting the film. Amanda Seyfried, star of the film, felt the presence ...

Filmmakers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet are clearly fascinated by ambition. They’re fascinated, too, by dreamers — difficult dreamers, brilliant but demanding people who have plans they must fulfill ...

Performances in N.Y.C. “The Testament of Ann Lee,” starring Amanda Seyfried, tells the story of the Shakers and their feminist leader. Dance and music are its vital, mystical language. “The Testament ...

Among the low, static chatter of the everyday, a woman throws her head back and cries out. Her voice pierces the sky and cuts through the marrow of modern apathy. Her contorted expression is rotted by ...

Choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall tells IndieWire about designing the movements and intention to move through trauma for the founders of the Shaker movement in "The Testament of Ann Lee." “I’ve spent a ...