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Isabelle Huppert – Still Face, Broken Soul

©Elle, Isabelle Huppert In a scene in The Lacemaker (La dentellière, 1977), Isabelle Huppert’s character is led with closed eyes by her lover. He takes her closer and closer towards a steep cliff and open sea. There she opens her eyes, and he asks, “do you trust me”? “Of course,” she replies. The scene has…

3 Body Problem: An Epic Tale of Humanity Threatened by Aliens

Netflix’s new TV series 3 Body Problem is a magnificent, exquisitely wrought epic that straddles the genres of history, politics, psychology, eschatology, romance, and astrophysics (to name but a few). The plot line is simple: humanity faces an existential threat as the laws of physics unravel in a time warp that heralds a new age…

Exclusive Interview With Award-Winning Film Producer Andrea Iervolino

Andrea Iervolino is an award-winning film producer and businessman whose passion for cinema led him to take his first steps in the film industry when he was just an adolescent. Since then he has gone on to produce and distribute over 75 films, becoming one of the most active and accomplished film executives in the…

Oscar Predictions: Here’s How to Win Your Oscar Pool

The 96th Academy Awards will be handed out this Sunday, March 10th. Many of the 23 categories have definite frontrunners, while others are ripe for surprises. Read below for our take on who will – and should – win each of those races, and use these picks to beat everyone else you know! Best Picture…

The Evolution of Asian Cinema

Photo by James Hargis Connelly – © MPTV – Image courtesy Though Asian actors have been performing in movies for more than a century, they were often cast in one-dimensional roles that stereotyped them as either hopelessly passive or brutally aggressive. In many cases, Asian characters were often played by non-Asian actors in “yellowface.” For example,…

Interview: Tom Donahue, Kate Kiley & Ilan Arboleda on ‘Casting By’ and Oscar’s Casting Category

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. In September 2012, Casting By premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. What began as a look at the incredible, underdiscussed career of legendary casting director Marion Dougherty evolved into a film that advocated strongly for the recognition of a role critical to the…

National Museum of Cinema in Turin: Exclusive Interview With President Enzo Ghigo & Director Domenico De Gaetano

In the ancient capital of Italy (Torino lead the Kingdom of Italy right after it’s unification in 1861 until 1865), there is the impressive National Museum of Cinema. This institution welds the beauty of architecture of the Mole Antonelliana with the history and futurism of the motion picture industry. This is one out of the…