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Maria : Q&A with Actress Angelina Jolie & Director Pablo Larraín

@Courtesy of Netflix Maria : The tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest female opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris. Director: Pablo Larraín Screenwriter : Steve Knight Distributor : Netflix Production Co : Komplizen Film, The Apartment, Fabula Rating : R (A Sexual Reference|Some…

‘Anora’ Star Yura Borisov on Making His First American Film with Sean Baker (Video Interview)

Not many Americans will have known Russian actor Yura Borisov before watching Sean Baker’s well-regarded dramedy Anora, for which Borisov has already been receiving awards attention. In fact, he’s actually one of Russia’s biggest stars with an acting career that goes back over twenty years. Any Americans that do know Borisov might remember him from…

New York Film Critics Circle Names The Brutalist as Best Film

The new acclaimed epic historical drama, The Brutalist, has been named this year’s Best Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The feature, which was directed and produced by Brady Corbet, also won the prize for Best Actor for Adrien Brody. NYFCC, which is the oldest critics’ group in the United States, is…

Solo Leveling -ReAwakening- : ENGLISH DUB TRAILER 2 | December 6

Crunchyroll has just dropped an English dub trailer for Solo Leveling -ReAwakening–  coming to theaters on December 6 here in the U.S. & Canada (in IMAX on December 4). Solo Leveling -ReAwakening– features a catch-up recap of the first season coupled with an exclusive sneak peek of the first two episodes of the highly anticipated…

‘The Order’ – Exclusive Video Interview with Jude Law

With over 35 years as an actor and two Oscar nominations under his belt, actor Jude Law has seemingly done everything, so taking on the role of FBI agent Terry Husk in The Order, the new period crime film from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, is an interesting choice for sure. In the ‘80s, a series…

MUFASA: THE LION KING / New Featurette : Barry Jenkins & Lin-Manuel Miranda

©Courtesy of Disney December is here at last—bringing with it the highly anticipated big-screen debut of Mufasa: The Lion King on Dec. 20! To celebrate, a new Music of Mufasa featurette and exhibition posters are now available, and Walt Disney Records reveals its Dec. 13 release date of the songs only and deluxe versions of…

DOC NYC : ‘Queendom’ Explores Rage and Rebellion in Homophobic Russia

As I watched the poignant and powerful Queendom, I could not help thinking of “the personal is the political,” a catchphrase from the 1970s that was often used by feminists to validate the importance of personal, lived experience in the struggle to liberate themselves from oppressive structural systems. Agniia Galdanova‘s documentary, which was screened last…

SEPTEMBER 5 | Official Trailer : Starring John Magaro, Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Beneschv

Paramount Pictures has introduced a brand new trailer for its historical drama September 5, which details the hostage crisis that transpired during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. The film follows an American sports broadcasting team that quickly adapts to sports reporting and live coverage of the athletes who were taken hostage in Israel. Geogg, a…

Marshall Brickman, Co-Writer of ‘Annie Hall’ & ‘Jersey Boy,’ Dead at 85

Screenwriter Marshall Brickman, who collaborated with Woody Allen on several of his most important films, died in Manhattan on November 29 at the age of 85. Brickman also co-wrote the Broadway musicals Jersey Boys and The Addams Family. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer for Allen Funt’s Candid Camera as well as…

The Seed of the Sacred Fig : Exclusive Interview with Director Mohammad Rasoulof

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on…

Queer: A Breathtaking Epic of Same-Sex Desire

©Courtesy of A24 Described by its producers as the story of “a cosmic and precarious love between two American expats in midcentury Mexico City,” Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer is a breathtaking adaptation of the eponymous novel that William S Burroughs had begun writing in the 1950s though it was not published until 1985. Starring Daniel Craig…