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 “In this film, I was really revisiting a period of my life,” says Alfonso Cuarón of his latest film, Roma. “But I did it in  a very specific way.

Damien Chazelle is the youngest director whose film had the honor of opening the Venice Film Festival twice within two years. Two years ago with his successful, Golden Globe-winning, La La Land and again this year with his new film, First Man, in which Chazelle once again teams up with Ryan Gosling.

HFPA Grantee Imagine a huge screen reaching far into the African night sky. A Hollywood movie is being shown.

Golden Globe winner - and Guatemala-born- Oscar Isaac debuts this week as a producer with the thrilling dramatic account of the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the SS commander who masterminded the brutal extermination of six million Jews during World War II, The film, Operation Finale,  recounts the Argentinian capture from the POV of Mossad agent Peter Malkin (Isaac) who convinced Eichmann (Ben Kingsley) to sign his release from Argentina to stand trial in Israel. Oscar Isaac is an accomplished musician - his love for music was shown in the Cohen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

Lately, she has been in the headlines because of the #metoo movement, fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment and addressing fat-shaming on her new Netflix TV show Insatiable.   In this podcast, Alyssa Milano – known for TV series like Who’s the Boss, Melrose Place, Charmed, and Mistresses – tells HFPA journalist Helen Hoehne how she became the person she is today.

The 75th edition of the Venice Film Festival starts on Wednesday, August 29th, on another planet. The moon, to be precise, when Damien Chazelle returns to the Lido to open the fest with First Man, covering the defining years in the life of Neil Armstrong.

Golden Globe winner James Cameron has been a sci-fi fan since he started to read and watch television. And a practitioner of the genre since 1984, the year he made The Terminator.

The global box office chart this week was dominated by Ant-Man and the Wasp. And no, this is not a mix-up with a report from seven weeks ago, when the second installment of the Disney and Marvel’s franchise had its domestic and international debut.

Golden Globe winner Neil Simon, iconic playwright and screenwriter, has died, aged 91. One of the most prolific and influential American writers of stage and screen, Simon was nominated for a Golden Globe-Best Screenplay-Motion Picture three times: in 1973, for The Heartbreak Kid (directed by Elaine May); in 1976 for The Sunshine Boys (directed by Herbert Ross), and in 1978 for The Goodbye Girl, which he won.

Film Bios is an occasional series reviewing autobiographies of notable filmmakers.  It was October 24th, 1929 and Fred Zinnemann had just disembarked in New York after a seven-day crossing from Cherbourg, France.