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An entertaining, surprising and instructive voyage through the silent era of film was one of the highlights of the two days of celebration of classic and restored that took place on February 15th at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. The first event of the second annual HFPA Restoration Summit was titled Serge Bromberg Presents: Treasures of the Silent Era, and filled the historic theatre with enthusiastic fans of the early days of Cinema.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B. deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

With all the color popping up across carpets, this week the choice was black, and we see why it’s a classic. .

Back in April of 2019, when Paramount released the first trailer of its much-anticipated Sonic The Hedgehog movie, the target audience’s reaction was not what the studio expected. Fans of the game hated the big-screen version of their beloved furry blue hero, taking to social media to loudly chastise its “creepiness” and “horrible teeth” that looked “terrifyingly human”.

For most members, Alena Prime was that diminutive presence at meetings, the widow of Marcel Dalio, the French actor best remembered for his roles in Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion, two of the greatest movies of all time. He was forced into exile by the Nazis and became a fixture of Hollywood films playing supporting roles most notably in Casablanca.

He was one of the madmen who pitched Narcos to Netflix, a show about Pablo Escobar with a Brazilian actor playing him, mostly on Spanish but with an American point of view. As we all know, it was a huge success, nominated in its first season for a Golden Globe as Best Television Drama and one as Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Wagner Moura.

“I grew up around a lot of women who have followed their dreams,” says Kitty Green, a previous AACTA winner for Best Feature-Length Documentary and now director and writer of The Assistant, starring Julia Garner and Matthew Macfadyen, which covers a day in the life of a young assistant working for an exploitive and predatory executive. Originally conceived as a project on consent and institutional power, the film shifted focus when the Harvey Weinstein story broke.

For over 40 years the HFPA has recorded famous and celebrated actresses, actors and filmmakers. The world's largest collection of its kind - over 10,000  items - is now in the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Margaret Herrick Library.

Golden Globe winner Matt Bomer delved deep into his new character on the TV show The Sinner: he participated with his castmates in a dream analysis workshop. “We got up and did exercises in front of each other.

The Hollywood Foreign Press association was front and center as The Noir Film Festival kicked off its 18th edition at the splendid Castro 1920s movie palace in San Francisco. It was the seventh year in a row that the HFPA has supported the restoration of another almost lost noir film, re-premiering it on the Festival's opening night.