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EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie says that roles such as her portrayal of Maria Callas — arguably the greatest prima donna assoluta soprano of all time — in director Pablo Larraín’s Maria, come along “once in a lifetime.” The Academy Award-winning artist laughs, then adds, “I mean, it’s certainly the most…

EXCLUSIVE: When Plan B's Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner handed RaMell, the visual artist and filmmaker, Ross Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Nickel Boys — the story of Black boys beaten, tortured and worse at a notorious state-run reform school in the Florida Panhandle — he knew he was…

EXCLUSIVE: It was the faded monochrome photograph of a small Black boy, both hands gripping a valise, as he leaves London with a party of other school-age evacuees, that caught Steve McQueen's eye while he was researching his Small Axe film anthology.  "I just wanted to know who he was … what was his…

EXCLUSIVE: Irish rock knight Bob Geldof and the producers of Just For One Day, the musical about the Live Aid rock concerts in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985, will transfer the show, which world-premiered at London's Old Vic Theatre last January, into the West End in 2025 to mark the seminal…

David Mackenzie is full of deceit. His movies, not him. Mackenzie can lure you with the cunningness of an illicit couple, played by Tilda Swnton and Ewan McGregor, in his 2003 drama Young Adam. "Give us a come-hither look," I remember him instructing Swinton on a barge berthed on the Forth and Clyde…

Filmmaker Fleur Fortuné says it was necessary to take Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen, the cast of her thrilling debut feature The Assessment, into “a danger zone” for them to fully comprehend the implications involved in making a movie set in a dystopian future where couples have to grovel for…

Marianne Jean-Baptiste says that she's playing “the ultimate Karen” in Mike Leigh's new film Hard Truths. The character's name is, actually, Pansy. The horticulturalists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, just outside of London, describe the Pansy flower as a symbol for “humanism.” That's not a…

EXCLUSIVE: Movie producers in Hollywood and London would court three-time Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott and ask her what she wanted to do. She'd reply that what she really wanted to do was to film a story about an older woman who's a protagonist. "They'd smile at me, and then I'd never hear from…

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Stefiuk from Montreal was part of the 2023 Telluride Film Festival student symposium intake — where Moonlight's Barry Jenkins sharpened his filmmaking chops 20 years ago — and the experience has been life-changing. The town of Telluride is tucked into a box canyon surrounded by…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is studying the possibility of creating a version of his acclaimed seven hour Apple TV+ production Disclaimer that can qualify for Academy Award consideration. The phenomenal work directed and adapted by Cuarón from Renée Knight's 2015 unputdownable…

EXCLUSIVE: Pauletta Pearson Washington says that the film adaptation of August Wilson's acclaimed play The Piano Lesson has been a family affair. "All my babies are involved in this," the actor, musician and philanthropist declares.   "My son directed it," she says pointing to filmmaker Malcolm…

Superstar singer Robbie Williams displayed his signature cheekiness at the world premiere screening of Michael Gracey’s musical biography Better Man when he asked members of the audience at the Telluride Film Festival to “suspend your absolute bigotry” over a word that most Americans find…