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HFPA journalist  Jenny Cooney met the powerhouse wife-husband writing-producing team, funny and witty Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino at the Hollywood Athletic Club. They have created TV shows like Gilmore Girls, Bunheads and the Golden Globe-winning comedy series The Marvelous Mrs.

HFPA Grantee Created in 1981, the American Cinematheque has been honoring and promoting the art of motion pictures, presenting films and videos otherwise not available to the large public,  and establishing a dialogue between audience and filmmakers, in the realm of classical, independent and new talent filmmaking. Home base of the Cinematheque is the historic 1922 landmark Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd, where the first Hollywood premiere of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks was held in 1922, and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, where the Cinematheque started programming in 2005.

It was the end of January when Marvel launched a new title that ended up monopolizing both the worldwide box office and the cultural conversation. Three months after the debut of Black Panther, they did it again.

The Bigamist (1953), a film noir restored with funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, anchors a celebration of the 100 years anniversary of legendary actress and director Ida Lupino (1918-1995): Hard, Fast and Beautiful : The Films of Ida Lupino, which showcases six of her films, shown at the Billy Wilder Theater. They are all typical Lupino, tackling and exposing the dark underside of American society in the midpoint of the 20th century.

Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins is known as a great actor, but we cannot avoid the musical legacy that he inherited from his father, a member of the acclaimed 60s folk band, The Highwaymen. One of his sons is becoming a rock star, and Tim himself has his own band, The Rogues Gallery – they played two concerts in Italy, in Spoleto and Ravello, which yielded a new live album of folk-inspired Americana material.

HFPA journalist Ana Maria Bahiana sat down with writer/director Kenneth Lonergan at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.   They talked about his new miniseries, Howards End, based on the novel by E.

HFPA Grantee Project Involve (PI) is the most extensive artist development program of Film Independent (FI), a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles and designed to support as well as nurture independent cinema. PI offers 9 months of intensive free mentorship, education and career development for about 25-30 emerging filmmakers the majority of whom belong to minorities, such as women, African Americans and LGBTQ groups.

Vittorio Taviani (born September 29, 1929, in San Miniato, Italy) passed away on April 15, 2018, at age 88. In close collaboration with his younger brother Paolo (born November 8, 1931), he directed some important movies in the history of Italian cinema: San Michele aveva un gallo (1971) from the novel The Divine and the Human by Leo Tolstoy;  Allonsanfàn (1974) with Marcello Mastroianni; Padre padrone (1977) the true story of Gavino Ledda, son of a Sardinian shepherd; La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982), about a 1944 massacre in the cathedral of San Miniato; Good Morning, Babylonia (1987) about two Italian brothers who work in Hollywood as set designers on D.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson can still claim the world crown title, but at home his position as the number one box office draw has entered into uncertain territory. On its second outing, Rampage had no trouble dominating once again the worldwide box office, pulling in $57 million from 61 territories and easily crossing the $200 million mark.

Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence is a unique talent - she seems to excel in everything when she puts her heart and soul into it.  In her recent film Red Sparrow Lawrence learned the major steps of classical ballet only in three months.