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French actor-writer-director Eva Husson and Mothering Sunday star, Australia’s Odessa Young (A Million Little Pieces, Assassin Nation, Shirley), were on hand via Zoom to conduct a Q & A about this evocative and inspiring film presented by Sony Picture Classics and Women in Film (WIF). Based on the heartbreaking novella by Graham Swift, the film was adapted to the screen by Alice Birch (Golden Globe Nominee Normal People).

The Dropout on Hulu is based on the story of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, who, blinded by ambition and hubris rose to great prominence only to endure an equally spectacular fall, that shook America. Amanda Seyfried is most convincing in the skin of this brilliant and controversial business leader.

While she is best known for her role as fading movie legend Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson was a movie star who lived her life on her own terms. The diminutive actress (5’1) lived extravagantly and received unbelievable adulation including ten thousand fan letters a week at the height of her fame.

Despite being savaged by critics as one of the worst Marvel movies ever, Morbius still chalked up respectable earnings of $39. 1 million to debut at number one.

After weeks of absolute domination, The Batman falls to the fourth position in Italy, while Corro da te, a romantic comedy by Riccardo Milano starring Pierfrancesco Favino and Miriam Leone, grosses another €509. 000 and lands on the lowest step of the podium, taking in a total of two million euros.

A hedgehog and a vampire brought down Batman in a week filled with surprising new releases. And the country’s overall box office climbed to over a million in sold tickets and 10 million in receipts for the first time in weeks.

Jake Gyllenhaal, twice nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about Brokeback Mountain directed by Ang Lee from the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx. The son of screenwriter/director parents Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner, the younger brother of actress/director/screenwriter Maggie Gyllenhaal, Golden Globe winner and five-time nominee, Jake grew up in a show business family engaged in politics, so he was aware of the cultural implications of portraying a cowboy opposite Heath Ledger in this landmark same-sex love story.

The 8th edition of the Stockfish film festival that took place from March 24 to April 3 in Reykjavik has announced the 4 winners of the Shortfish competition. The fiction short Nest won the big prize.

We nominated him four times and gave him a Golden Globe in 1987 as Best Television Actor – Musical/Comedy Series, for the ‘80s hit TV series Moonlighting. We had lengthy conversations with him 10 times, from September 1989 to February 2013.

Mixing dramatization and documentary, The Last Forest depicts the indigenous Yanomami tribe’s way of life - and their struggle to preserve it. Brazilian filmmaker Luiz Bolognesi’s latest documentary, The Last Forest, was released on Netflix in 2021.