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Though better known, Gus Van Sant's 2008 Golden Globe and Oscar winning biopic, Milk, starring Sean Penn, was not the first feature about the gay pioneering politician Harvey Milk, or about the socio-political era in which he rose to power as the first openly gay man elected to office. In 1984, Robert Epstein and Bob Friedman made the The Times of Harvey Milk, a feature, which, among other things, prepared the background for other features about AIDS, such as Parting Glances (1986) Longtime Companion (1990), and Poison (1991), to mention just a few titles.

Dreams and courage inspire Brazilian filmmaker Allan Deberton. He tells HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana he would play that he was a movie director when he was a kid.

In a surprise twist worthy of a horror flick, A Quiet Place Part II did not return to the number one position on its second weekend, as many predicted. Instead, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It topped the domestic box office.

After his successful turn as attorney Victor Sifuentes in the TV drama L. A.

Five decades after it was made, Sunday Bloody Sunday is just as poignant and intelligent as it was back in 1971, when initially released. John Schlesinger’s mature tale was nominated for major Oscars and won the Golden Globe for Best English-Speaking Foreign Film (a category since discontinued), earning a Best Actor nomination for Peter Finch.

The Cannes Film Festival may have moved from its pre-COVID May dates and will instead take place in person from July 6-17, but the return to tradition was apparent when festival president Pierre Lescure and director Thierry Fremaux announced the line-up of 63 films from the Normandie Theater in Paris with the poignant opening statement: “Cinema is not dead”. A French-made (albeit English-language) film will open the 74th annual edition on July 6 at the Palais du Festival.

Icelandic filmmaker Tinna Hrafnsdóttir describes her home country as a great setting for crime stories. She tells HFPA journalist Tina Jøhnk Christensen that in January there is darkness almost 18 to 20 hours a day.

Pip Broughton is an acclaimed producer and director behind the hugely successful Welsh series Keeping Faith. The series, which was written by Broughton and Matthew Hall, was shot on location in Wales with Eve Myles staring as the lawyer Faith Howell, whose world collapses when her husband goes missing.

Thanks to the loud-and-clear, stronger-than-expected performance of A Quiet Place Part II, combined with the solid showing of Cruella, the recent Memorial Day weekend buoyed hopes that moviegoing attendance is indeed back with a vengeance. With the one-two punch of John Krasinski’s sequel to his 2018 horror hit and Emma Stone’s origin story of the puppy-hating villainess, it was the first weekend in over a year when the North American box office ticket sales exceeded $100 million.

Emma Thompson was interviewed numerous times by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press. This is what she said in 1997 about her mother, actress Phyllida Law, her costar in The Winter Guest directed by Alan Rickman.