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Today, Isabelle Huppert celebrates her 70th birthday. In an eclectic career spanning 50 years, she has made 125 feature films, establishing herself as one of the most versatile actresses.

Female Pioneer, author/ director Eva Kupper is a powerful documentary maker in Belgium, who has worked throughout her career with multiple European productions. Like many Belgian talents, Küpper graduated in 2009 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Gent with Whatʼs in a Name, a feature-length documentary that won several prestigious prizes, including the IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary in 2010.

Iranian movie producer Elaheh Nobakht spoke via Zoom from Lebanon’s Beirut Women Film Festival, for which she was elected President of the competition category Documentary and Animated Shorts. The Beirut International Women Film Festival focuses on Women for Leadership, and Nobakht talks about the role of creative women in middle eastern countries and her hopes for the future.

In a radio interview, Willem Dafoe talked about being fired from his very first film. He was a ‘glorified extra’ on the set of the epic Heaven’s Gate in Montana and recalled, “One day we're sitting in a lighting setup, eight hours, full makeup, full costume, and we’re not even going to shoot.

Three female directors will talk about their work, their past and future projects and their success in working in TV and streaming. HFPA member and moderator K.

Finnish filmmaker Hanna Västinsalo attended the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s and Film Independent’s residency program earlier this year with her movie Palimpsest.  Her background in molecular genetics gives her film a unique point of view.

For those unversed in the world of Jean Rollin, Orchestrator of Storms is an informative documentary about one of Eurocult cinema’s most unique voices.   Rollin, who died in 2010, was a French film director, actor, and novelist known for his work in the fantastique genre.

Hollywood began with musical films, many of which were Broadway musicals adapted for big screens. But from long before that, there has been opera, an art marrying the craft of extraordinary singing, orchestral scoring, emotional storytelling and opulent set and costume design that has been entertaining people for centuries.

The 18th Osaka Asian Film Festival kicked off in this port city just a few days before the triumphant win for Everything Everywhere All at Once at the Oscars in Los Angeles. OAFF 2020, 2021, 2022 had been held in-person without guest stage appearances.

“What’s It all About” is the title of one of Michael Caine’s autobiographies, written in 1992. At 90 he no longer poses the sentence as a question.