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The HFPA met Oliver Stone in Nursultan, Kazakhstan, and later at the Rome Film Fest in October to talk about his involvement in the new documentary Qazaq: History of the Golden Man, which is now showing at the Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles. The film, available both as a feature-length version and as a six-hour series, is written, directed and produced by Igor Lopatonok, and Stone figures as the interviewer of Kazakhstan's former President, considered the founder of the country, Nursultan Nazarbayev, the larger-than-life and controversial subject of this intriguing project with the music score composed by Golden Globe nominee Carlo Siliotto.

Dune fended off competition from three new releases and current titles to stay on top on its second weekend. Despite several horror movies showing in time for the Halloween weekend, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune got the biggest treat with $15.

In 1999 Angelina Jolie spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about Girl, Interrupted, directed by James Mangold, and co-starring Winona Ryder. Her performance as Lisa, the sociopath held in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s, earned her a third Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress.

Found is an involving documentary that taps into a thick vein of universal feeling while also never running or trying to squirm free from the potential ambiguity inherent in its story. After DNA tests reveal that they are blood-related cousins, three American teenage girls, all adopted as babies from China, develop an online friendship built around the understandably complicated feelings they each have about their respective lost personal histories.

Although women still face considerable challenges to get their movies greenlit, Joanna Hogg has made a sequel to her breakout hit, The Souvenir. The story is about a young film student whose love is not enough to save a charismatic addict.

Attica! is a riveting documentary that revisits an American tragedy exactly 50 years after the prisoners’ rebellion at the Attica correctional facility in upstate New York which would become infamous in American prison history. On this anniversary the revolt has spawned several retrospectives, such as HBO Max’s Betrayal at Attica.

When a fire broke out at the site of the El Gouna film festival a day before it was due to start its 5th edition, many Egyptians celebrated on social media, describing the fire as divine intervention. The organizers refused to resign to God’s will and embarked on a renovation project that entailed employing 3,000 workers around the clock.

Tim Burton, Joel Schumacher, Christopher Nolan, and Zack Snyder are just four of the notable movie directors that have brought the comic book character of Batman to life on the big screen. In 2022, Matt Reeves takes over the hot seat as director of the Warner Bros’ release, The Batman.

Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson, Pierce Brosnan, James Gunn, and Jason Momoa delighted fans across the globe with virtual interviews, on-set discussions and highly anticipated trailer launches at the 2021 DC FanDome event. The 4-hour presentation from Warner Bros.

John Carpenter's Starman, David Cronenberg's The Fly, George Romero's  Dawn of the Dead, and Roberto Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy have something in common according to Italian director Luca Guadagnino: they are among his favorite films ever. An odd aesthetic choice for the acclaimed author of the 2017 delicate gay romance and intimate portrait Call Me by Your Name, nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Picture Drama, and one Oscar nominee for Best Picture, and the film that launched the career of Timothée Chalamet among its many values.