Interviews

Thai-born makeup artist, Nick Barose began his formal training assisting icon Kevyn Aucoin. He has since risen to the top of his field and his client roster is a veritable who’s who in Hollywood including Lupita Nyong’o, Rachel Weisz, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Winona Ryder, Amandla Stenberg, Angela Bassett, Willow Smith, Holly Hunter, and can now add Lily Gladstone, who stars in Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Spanish presence at the 2023 edition of the Cannes Film Festival goes beyond Pedro Almodóvar and Víctor Erice. They are living legends but a name like Elena Martín Gimeno represents the promise of a future that is already here.

Inspired by L. A.

This week’s “Golden Globes Around the World” podcast episode features Szilvia Gogh, a woman of many talents. Scuba diver and instructor, marine coordinator and water safety officer, stunt double and stunt woman, jewelry designer, cancer survivor, wife and mother.

Hollywood Boulevard looked as if it took a dive under the sea as Disney rolled out the blue carpet for the world premiere of the live action film version of The Little Mermaid last Monday (May 8, 2023). The new film premieres in the U.

As the director of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux can be rightly credited for having championed many emerging international talents over the years, while nurturing veteran filmmakers and, more recently, taking risks by saying no to streamers if they refuse to have theatrical distribution.   A week prior to the opening of the festival, he spoke via Zoom to the Hollywood Foreign Press to explain how this 76th edition will be different.

When in the mid-80s, Disney contemplated the unimaginable and considered closing its animation division after years of living off re-releases of its classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Cinderella (1950) and Peter Pan (1953), and more recent releases like The Fox and the Hound (1981) and The Black Cauldron (1985) that did not bring them great profits, it was imminent that a change was needed to survive. Summoned by the new corporate leadership of Disney studios, led by Michael Eisner and animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Clements and John Musker were the animators who brought to the table the proposal on which they would focus their talents and energies to save the division.

Long before the new generations of Americans discovered Chile, thanks to Pedro Pascal, another actress born in the Southern Cone caused a sensation in Hollywood and forced many to look at the map. Her name is Leonor Varela.

Margueritte Shelton has a confession to make when asked about her new book, ‘Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life. ’   “I’ve never met Muhammad Ali, didn’t know anything about boxing, never stepped into the boxing ring or even saw a boxing match,” she unexpectedly revealed in a recent Hollywood Foreign Press Association round table interview.

Ildikó Enyedi was 34 years old when her first feature film, My Twentieth Century won the Camera d’Or in Cannes. It got rave reviews in the trades, and she was declared a breath of fresh air of a new class of female directors emerging from the fall of communism.