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“Eighty percent of silent movies were lost before anyone realized how important they were,” Sandra Schulberg, president of IndieCollect in Los Angeles stated at the May 25th Hollywood Foreign Press Association Napoleon restoration event in Cannes. “Half of all movies made before 1950 have been lost.

In her recent work in the Fox series The Cleaning Lady (no, she is not the “maid”, as Hollywood usually portrays Latinas) this beautiful and talented 27-year-old Argentinian actress, Eva De Domici, has managed to achieve something that very few immigrant actors have: perfectly blend herself into an American production. In the first season, her role as Nadia Morales began as a secondary one, and quite frankly, that could easily have been the end.

Just one year after winning her second Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play, Mary-Louise Parker is ready for her third, reprising with David Morse the roles they premiered 25 years ago in How I Learned to Drive, Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play. Parker, who has won two Golden Globes – for the TV movie Angels in America in 2004 and the TV series Weeds in 2006 – among five nominations, has found a place for herself as a respected actress of stage, TV and occasional movies.

(Last of two parts of our round-up of women directors whose films were in competition for Palme d'Or and Un Certain Regard. )   Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (War Pony, Camera d’Or Award)   Riley Keough is the 33-year-old daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and Danny Keough.

Top Gun: Maverick arrived directly to number 1 at the box office in France. Directed by Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, this sequel is about Pete “Maverick” Mitchell who continues to push his limits as a test pilot and in charge of training a detachment of young graduates from the Top Gun school for a special mission that no pilot would have ever imagined.

With territory stretching from the Sea of Japan to the edge of present-day Poland, and from the Arctic in the north to India in the south, the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries represents the largest contiguous land kingdom in history. Directed by Robert H.

All of the different awards bestowed at Cannes can become a bit confusing to absorb. There’s the Palme d'Or, the most coveted award at the festival, if not in the entire film industry, which goes to the best overall film in contention.

(First of two parts of our round-up of women directors whose films were in competition for Palme d'Or and Un Certain Regard. ) At the recent Cannes Film Festival, we applaud women directors who bagged awards, including Claire Denis (Stars at Noon, Grand Prix, jointly awarded), Charlotte Vandermeersch (Le Otto Montagne or The Eight Mountains, Jury Prize, shared with co-director Felix Van Groeningen, jointly awarded), Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (Les Pires or The Worst Ones, Un Certain Regard Award), Lola Quivoron (Rodeo, Coup de Coeur Award), Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (War Horse, Camera d’Or), and Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75, Camera d’Or Special Mention).

"Frances is bisexual," Bobbi (Sasha Lane) exclaims, unprompted while grilling Nick (Joe Alwyn), an actor, about his character’s sexuality in a play. “Don’t you feel a bit conflicted… you’re playing a gay character and you’re a straight man.

Con la presencia de uno de sus fundadores, el ganador del Globo de Oro a mejor actor Edward James Olmos, dio inicio el Festival Internacional de Cine Latino en Los Angeles (LALIFF), que se celebra anualmente en esta ciudad californiana. En esta ocasión, el festival se llevará a cabo desde el 1 al 5 de junio en el icónico Teatro Chino de Hollywood.