Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024

Julio Torres mined his own life and experiences to make his feature directorial debut " Problemista," in which he plays an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador caught in the nightmarish Catch-22 of the U.S. immigration system.

His character Alejandro desperately needs someone to sponsor...

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024

The hero of "Problemista" sees the world differently. He's an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro who thinks today's toys are too fun. He proposes a toy truck with a deflating tire to teach kids they're running out of time.

Alejandro is the creation of Julio Torres, who stars, directs...

Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022

George Miller's "Three Thousand Years of Longing" spans millennia, but it can often feel longer waiting in between films from the "Mad Max" director.

Seven years after Miller's "Fury Road" blazed its way across movie screens, the 77-year-old filmmaker is finally back with a movie two...

Saturday, May. 21, 2022

It's taken a lot of time and a good deal of yearning for Australian director George Miller to make "Three Thousand Years of Longing, " his long-awaited follow-up to "Mad Max: Fury Road."

Miller premiered "Three Thousand Years of Longing" over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, the...

Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021

Joanna Hogg first had the instinct to make a film about her then-unfolding relationship to her heroin-addicted first love — a traumatic and formative time that coincided with her coming-of-age as a filmmaker — in 1979.

Back then, she didn't feel capable of tackling something so ambitious...

Sunday, Jul. 11, 2021

Joanna Hogg is sitting on a hotel balcony overlooking the Mediterranean, but what she'd really like to be doing is swimming in it. 

The night before, Hogg premiered her film "The Souvenir Part II" at the Cannes Film Festival. Sequels may be a regular part of summer, but they rarely make...

Friday, Sep. 4, 2020

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has joined a chorus of voices at the Venice Film Festival urging the reopening of movie theaters and a return to cinema normality after coronavirus lockdowns, saying films are meant to be seen on the big screen, not at home. 

Directors and actors alike...

Thursday, Sep. 3, 2020

Two stars at the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, have praised the decision by the Berlin festival to award gender-neutral prizes, with Swinton predicting other award ceremonies will follow suit.

Organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival announced last...

Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2020

The beachfront terrace at the Excelsior Hotel, usually hopping with movie industry VIPs and minor celebrities, is pleasantly quiet. The red carpet has a three-meter-high (ten-foot) wall blocking the public's view. Veteran film-goers walk away dejected after being told they had to reserve seats...

Wednesday, May. 15, 2019

It was only weeks before production was starting on "The Souvenir," the story goes, and British director Joanna Hogg and her friend, actress Tilda Swinton, still didn't have a lead actress.

The role of Julie, an affluent, twentysomething film student in 1980s London, was loosely based on...

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