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Michelle Yeoh stars in the science fiction film Everything Everywhere All at Once, that premiered at the 2022 SXSW South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. The Malaysian actress – acclaimed for her performances in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) by Ang Lee, The Lady (2011) by Luc Besson, Crazy Rich Asians (2018) by Jon Chu – spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about her role in Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall from the 1997 novel by Arthur Golden.

Italian documentary film director Cecilia Mangini, legendary and little known at the same time, is honored with a retrospective at the Academy Museum called “Rare Takes: The Works of Cecilia Mangini” from March 5 - 20, 2022. It will happen a year after her death in Rome on January 21, 2021 – she was 93.

On July 7, 1896, the Lumière brothers screened six of their silent short films at the Watson Hotel in Mumbai, India. They were Entry of Cinematographe, The Sea Bath, Arrival of a Train, A Demolition, Ladies and Soldiers on Wheels, and Leaving the Factory.

The current season of Killing Eve marks the fourth and final in this award-winning series which follows a Russian assassin, Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer, and her unusual relationship with Sandra Oh’s Eve Polastri, a British intelligence officer whose globe-trotting cat-and-mouse game with Villanelle has taken some unexpected turns since the series began in 2018. The principal actors assembled in the Variety Streaming Room series via Zoom to discuss the new season.

Currently a senior programmer and Director of Strategic Initiatives, John Nein has worked at the Sundance Film Festival since 2001. He also curates the festival’s preservation initiative, Los Angeles Library’s “Lost & Found at the Movies” conversation series; and serves as the consultant for American cinema at the Locarno Film Festival.

On April 22, 1993, 32-year-old Pasang Lhamu Sherpa became the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest. After reaching the top of the 8,848-meter peak, she descended the mountain with five other Sherpas when weather conditions dramatically deteriorated.

BAFTA – The British Academy Film Awards – to Americans known as the British Academy Awards – will be held this Sunday March 13, 2022. The live event will take place from Albert Hall with full capacity audience, as per pre-pandemic levels.

A contemporary of Golden Globe nominee John Cassavetes (Faces, Shadows), arguably the father of the New American Cinema, Shirley Clark (1919-1997) is an equally seminal figure of bold and audacious indies who, due to gender and other biases, has remained an unsung hero. Early on, Clarke saw the limitations of experimental cinema and the narrow scope of exploring female subjectivity and sexual desire.

Finnish women writers wrote strong, independent female characters for the early films of their country’s cinema Women in Finland enjoy a high degree of equality among men. In 1906, the women of Finland became the first in Europe to be granted the right to vote.

Born in 1892 in Cleveland, Ohio Rose Wenger grew up a tomboy. Especially intrigued by the rodeo, she learned to ride and traveled as a trick rider with a Wild West Show by the age of 19.