Interviews

Oliver Stone’s latest documentary Nuclear, which begs us to reconsider nuclear energy to solve the environmental crisis, was presented out of competition on September 9 at the Venice Film Festival. In Venice Stone was also awarded the 21st edition of Premio Fondazione Mimmo Rotella (an Italian renowned artist) during a special ceremony held at the Centurion Palace in Venice.

In Charcoal, a Brazilian-Argentine coproduction now playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, Irene, a middle-aged woman (Maeve Jinkins), is living a complicated life in a desolate rural area in Brazil. She is married to a man who is secretly having a gay affair, cares for her elderly father who is in a vegetative state and is also raising a young boy.

  Twelve days after the U. S.

“President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs was the big story in the Philippines and it was one of the biggest stories in the world, and cinema must bear witness. The bloody extra-judicial killings became normal after a while as people got inured to them.

At 35 years old, Ismael Cruz Córdova is an actor who does not give up. Born in Aguas Buenas (Puerto Rico), Ismael knew from childhood that his profession would be an actor.

With a trajectory that spans more than 20 years, Spanish director J. A.

The series Santa Evita, based on the bestselling novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez, directed by Rodrigo García, and produced by Salma Hayek, has become a true phenomenon around the world, thanks to a plot that, like the novel, cunningly combines real events with pure fiction. Although the performances of Ernesto Alterio, Darío Grandinetti, Diego Velázquez and Francesc Orella are notable, the heaviest weight falls on the actress chosen to play Eva Duarte, the Uruguayan Natalia Oreiro.

Love and desire in older women have often been considered scandalous and treated as such in cinema. But with her new film A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love, German director Nicolette Krebitz takes a lighthearted, forgiving approach to the subject that is both daring and refreshing.

  On our special Rewind  Episode of the Golden Globes Around the World podcast series, we thought it would be a good time to revisit our December 2020 podcast with Chris Evans, who at that time was promoting his limited series Defending Jacob, co-starring Michelle Dockery. 2022 has been another busy year for the star.

“We're on a mission from God,” stolidly maintain the two FBI-looking musicians Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) in John Landis’ 1980 classic The Blues Brothers. God, indeed, seemed to have blessed this musical/comedy/cat and mouse chase, plus massive car pileups, that Landis and company were able to concoct.