<![CDATA[EL PAÍS]]>https://english.elpais.comMon, 04 May 2026 14:13:49 +0000en1hourly1<![CDATA[Willem Dafoe: ‘I live near Rome, on an alpaca farm; it’s the best place to see the river of life’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-17/willem-dafoe-i-live-near-rome-on-an-alpaca-farm-its-the-best-place-to-see-the-river-of-life.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-04-17/willem-dafoe-i-live-near-rome-on-an-alpaca-farm-its-the-best-place-to-see-the-river-of-life.htmlFri, 17 Apr 2026 11:08:38 +0000It’s impossible not to be charmed by Willem Dafoe. The 70-year-old actor radiates charm, jumps into jokes, invents his own, and is universally praised by the crews he works with... Sean Baker spoke of how the actor adapted to a project as small as The Florida Project — a film built around non‑actors and children with no experience — only to earn the third of his four Oscar nominations.

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]]>Cesc Maymo<![CDATA[Iran: The country the West came to know through film]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-15/iran-the-country-the-west-came-to-know-through-film.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-03-15/iran-the-country-the-west-came-to-know-through-film.htmlSun, 15 Mar 2026 04:30:00 +0000When the Islamic Republic was established in Iran in 1979, that now-rattled dictatorship — adhering to the radical Islamism it championed — decided that women and love would disappear from Iranian cinema. But, at the same time, it believed that film could be an ideological weapon for domestic anti-Western consumption, as well as a propaganda tool at international festivals.

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]]>Alessandro Levati<![CDATA[Wagner Moura, Oscar nominee: ‘We’re in a very ugly time, even I am afraid of running into ICE’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-28/wagner-moura-oscar-nominee-were-in-a-very-ugly-time-even-i-am-afraid-of-running-into-ice.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-28/wagner-moura-oscar-nominee-were-in-a-very-ugly-time-even-i-am-afraid-of-running-into-ice.htmlSat, 28 Feb 2026 04:45:00 +0000Brazilian actor Wagner Moura, 49, can be seen seated in front of a computer in Los Angeles. He has lived in the city for years with his three children and wife, the photographer Sandra Delgado. In just a few hours, he will be on the red carpet at the Independent Spirit Awards, one of many he will have trekked since the release of The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s thriller that premiered at Cannes, where Moura won the award for best actor. “It’s been going on for awhile,” laughs the performer, who is now nominated for an Oscar — one of four nominations for the film.

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]]>Matt Winkelmeyer<![CDATA[Berlinale 2026: When cinema (good, bad, mediocre) is not discussed because of a political storm]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-20/berlinale-when-cinema-good-bad-mediocre-is-not-discussed-because-of-a-political-storm.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-20/berlinale-when-cinema-good-bad-mediocre-is-not-discussed-because-of-a-political-storm.htmlFri, 20 Feb 2026 13:23:31 +0000While the Berlinale’s director, Tricia Tuttle, keeps piling up sandbags to stop the wave of outrage over how the festival is handling the invasion of Gaza from flooding its cinemas, screenings at the 76th edition continue. The German festival has always been the most politicized of the major film events, but the controversy has sent shockwaves into 2026, creating the sense that there are first‑class victims (Ukrainians and Iranians) and second‑class ones (Gazans). Tuttle has spoken far more about politics than about film programming.

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]]>CLEMENS BILAN<![CDATA[Hollywood legend Robert Duvall, star of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Apocalypse Now,’ dies at 95]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-16/hollywood-legend-robert-duvall-star-of-the-godfather-and-apocalypse-now-dies-at-95.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-16/hollywood-legend-robert-duvall-star-of-the-godfather-and-apocalypse-now-dies-at-95.htmlMon, 16 Feb 2026 20:02:34 +0000“To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything.” With these words, Luciana Duvall announced on social media that her husband, acting legend Robert Duvall, had passed away on Sunday at the age of 95 at his ranch in Virginia.

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]]>Casey Curry<![CDATA[Timothée Chalamet, bound for glory ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-01/timothee-chalamet-bound-for-glory.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-02-01/timothee-chalamet-bound-for-glory.htmlSun, 01 Feb 2026 04:00:00 +0000With the Screen Actors Guild Award in hand for portraying Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, in February 2025, Timothée Chalamet, 30, opened up to his fellow performers. “I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats,” he said.

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]]>DANIEL COLE<![CDATA[Mstyslav Chernov, a filmmaker who spans the red carpet and the trenches of Ukraine: ‘The world has never been as dangerous as it is today’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-01-25/mstyslav-chernov-a-filmmaker-who-spans-the-red-carpet-and-the-trenches-of-ukraine-the-world-has-never-been-as-dangerous-as-it-is-today.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-01-25/mstyslav-chernov-a-filmmaker-who-spans-the-red-carpet-and-the-trenches-of-ukraine-the-world-has-never-been-as-dangerous-as-it-is-today.htmlSun, 25 Jan 2026 04:00:00 +0000“It was like living in two worlds, and having to go from one to another in a dramatic way. From attending film festivals and walking down red carpets to crossing the Poland border and getting into the trenches,” recalls Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov (Kharkiv, 40 years old) of September 2023, when he was headed from screening to screening, kicking off the race to the Oscars that he would ultimately win with his documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. It was also then that he managed to get his country’s army to allow him to embed with a platoon. The moment in which that decision was handed down was not just any — with it, he was able to document the offensive that Ukraine launched to recover its land in Donbas, now considered the biggest counteroffensive in Europe since the Second World War. The result is 2000 Meters to Avdiivka, which can now be seen on Prime Video, and is itself an Oscar contender, after debuting at Sundance and being included on this year’s 15-film shortlist for best documentary.

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]]><![CDATA[Oliver Laxe’s ‘Sirât’ receives two Oscar nominations for drama about rave culture]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-01-22/oliver-laxes-sirat-receives-two-oscar-nominations-for-drama-about-rave-culture.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2026-01-22/oliver-laxes-sirat-receives-two-oscar-nominations-for-drama-about-rave-culture.htmlThu, 22 Jan 2026 21:01:31 +0000Oliver Laxe’s film Sirât received two nominations on Thursday for the 98th Academy Awards, which will be presented on March 15. The Spanish contender has been nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound. The team watched the nomination announcement together in Madrid, inside the lobby of the Telefónica building, Spain’s oldest skyscraper (the telecom company is one of the film’s producers), along with friends and members of the press. Laia Casanovas, Amanda Villavieja and Yasmina Praderas received their first Oscar nominations for their impressive sound design. They are the first all-female team to be nominated for the award.

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]]>Jaime Villanueva<![CDATA[‘Sleepless City’: The light of cinema illuminates Madrid’s Cañada Real shantytown]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-21/sleepless-city-the-light-of-cinema-illuminates-madrids-canada-real-shantytown.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-12-21/sleepless-city-the-light-of-cinema-illuminates-madrids-canada-real-shantytown.htmlSun, 21 Dec 2025 04:00:00 +0000Paqui sits in a chair facing a house, close to the road, phone in hand. Paqui’s official name is Francisca Jiménez Fernández, she’s 49 years old, and although her body exudes a certain listlessness and a sad smile plays across her face, her eyes sparkle: she has a knack for irony. “I agreed to be in the film to get away from here, because I have a dream of making something of myself,” she says. She looked “very good” on screen, although she became fed up with so many takes during filming. “The film will show that those of us from La Cañada aren’t monsters, or bad people. We want to get out of here, and if we can get help, all the better. That way, people will also see what it’s like to live in a shantytown and among drug addicts.”

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]]>Maria Jou Sol<![CDATA[Only Shakespeare surpasses Stephen King: The king of horror is the most-adapted living writer]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-21/only-shakespeare-surpasses-stephen-king-the-king-of-horror-is-the-most-adapted-living-writer.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-21/only-shakespeare-surpasses-stephen-king-the-king-of-horror-is-the-most-adapted-living-writer.htmlFri, 21 Nov 2025 14:57:15 +0000In the last four weeks, three films based on Stephen King novels or short stories have been released in theaters. In the same period, two series also inspired by the American writer’s work have landed on digital platforms. And in early 2026, yet another will appear: a television series based on Carrie, directed by Mike Flanagan. A glance at the IMDb film database is staggering: since 1976, when Brian De Palma’s original Carrie was released, more than 400 audiovisual productions bearing Stephen King’s name have been launched. No other living writer has been so frequently adapted on screen (and he is second in history only to William Shakespeare, with 1,876 productions based on the Bard’s works). What is it about King — the author of more than 60 novels and 200 short stories — that makes him so appealing? What do filmmakers and experts think of this wave of adaptations?

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]]>Masheter Movie Archive / Alamy Stock Photo<![CDATA[Harris Dickinson, from heartthrob to Ken Loach torchbearer: ‘We have lost faith in politicians’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-14/harris-dickinson-from-heartthrob-to-ken-loach-torchbearer-we-have-lost-faith-in-politicians.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-14/harris-dickinson-from-heartthrob-to-ken-loach-torchbearer-we-have-lost-faith-in-politicians.htmlFri, 14 Nov 2025 11:36:58 +0000Harris Dickinson, 29, has several tattoos. On his right shoulder, as can be seen in some of his films, is the word “KES,” a reference to Ken Loach’s 1969 film of the same name, which was also Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s favorite movie. Now that’s a statement of intent.

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]]>Pascal Le Segretain<![CDATA[Alec Baldwin and ‘Rust’: What to do with a film after a tragedy on set]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-07/alec-baldwin-premieres-rust-what-to-do-with-a-film-when-the-star-kills-the-director-of-photography.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-07/alec-baldwin-premieres-rust-what-to-do-with-a-film-when-the-star-kills-the-director-of-photography.htmlFri, 07 Nov 2025 11:43:02 +0000On October 21, 2021, filming of the western Rust resumed at a ranch 20 minutes from Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a lunch break. Alec Baldwin, the film’s star, fired a Colt .45 revolver during a rehearsal. Unfortunately, the gun was loaded with several blanks and one live round, and the shot was aimed directly at the crew behind the camera, as the scene was to be filmed from that perspective. The shot killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and shrapnel from the bullet, after passing through the first victim, hit director Joel Souza’s shoulder, stopping just centimeters from his spine.

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]]><![CDATA[History’s greatest art thefts: From the Mona Lisa to a priceless Vermeer]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-20/historys-greatest-art-thefts-from-the-mona-lisa-to-a-priceless-vermeer.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-20/historys-greatest-art-thefts-from-the-mona-lisa-to-a-priceless-vermeer.htmlMon, 20 Oct 2025 12:09:33 +0000The theft on Sunday of nine jewels from the collection of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie at the Louvre Museum is just the latest in a long line of incredible art robberies. In fact, this isn’t the first time the Louvre Museum has suffered an art heist, starting with the theft of the legendary Mona Lisa painting.

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]]>Roger Viollet<![CDATA[Martin Scorsese, as saintly as he is sinful]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-17/martin-scorsese-as-saintly-as-he-is-sinful.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-17/martin-scorsese-as-saintly-as-he-is-sinful.htmlFri, 17 Oct 2025 17:57:45 +0000In the late 1970s, Martin Scorsese shared a house with musician Robbie Robertson. A house and drugs. Mountains of narcotics, confirms the lead guitarist for The Band. New York, New York (1977) had been a failure, and the filmmaker had lost his way in life. Until his body said enough, and, suffering from internal bleeding, he ended up hospitalized. “Most of me wanted to die. Because at that point, I couldn’t do my job anymore. I felt incapable of creating,” the director confesses to Rebecca Miller on camera. His friend Robert De Niro approached his bedside, pressuring him — he had been doing so for some time — to accept a project led by the actor, which the filmmaker resisted. Scorsese recalls: “He looked at me and said, ‘What the hell do you want to do? Do you want to die like this?’” No, Scorsese decided, and that’s how Raging Bull came to be made.

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]]>Melinda Sue Gordon<![CDATA[Jeremy Allen White: ‘I had to forget about Bruce and approach him as a young musician on the brink of stardom’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-08/jeremy-allen-white-to-play-bruce-springsteen-i-had-to-forget-about-bruce-and-approach-him-as-a-young-musician-on-the-brink-of-stardom.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-08/jeremy-allen-white-to-play-bruce-springsteen-i-had-to-forget-about-bruce-and-approach-him-as-a-young-musician-on-the-brink-of-stardom.htmlWed, 08 Oct 2025 15:55:59 +0000Since 1986, Bruce Springsteen had rejected every offer to make a movie about his life, until the end of 2023, when director Scott Cooper sat down next to writer Warren Zanes in front of Springsteen and Jon Landau, the singer’s manager and confidant. Zanes is the author of Deliver Me From Nowhere, a book that recounts the months in which the rocker, after the smash hit success of The River (1980), struggled to avoid being devoured by depression and to maintain his creative purity despite pressure from his record label, a battle (a purely artistic one) that he would win with the release of Nebraska (1982). Cooper wrote the script while Zanes was finishing the book. And thus there sat the quartet, deciding whether Springsteen’s refusal to sanction a biopic would be reversed or not.

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]]>ZIPI<![CDATA[‘In-I In Motion,’ the film Juliette Binoche directed after encouragement from Robert Redford]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-22/in-i-in-motion-the-film-juliette-binoche-directed-after-encouragement-from-robert-redford.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-22/in-i-in-motion-the-film-juliette-binoche-directed-after-encouragement-from-robert-redford.htmlMon, 22 Sep 2025 16:02:40 +0000In the fall of 2008, Juliette Binoche put her foot down and decided, in a radical change, to dance. But not just in any old way. She would do it alongside the prestigious British dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. And not even with an existing piece, but together, over nearly six months of rehearsals, they would research, create, and assemble a work that would combine the best of both worlds, capitalizing on their apparent weaknesses and contradictions. Binoche ended up dancing and Khan acting, and in the work In-I, the fears of a man who had suffered racism and discrimination due to his skin color and his Muslim faith would merge with those of a woman harassed in a world — that of cinema — with a tyrannical stance over bodies and hierarchies. The following year they staged it for 100 performances — with sets by Anish Kapoor and music by Philip Sheppard — all over the world, with no further ambition, until Robert Redford came along.

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]]>Javier Hernández<![CDATA[Actor Robert Redford dies at 89 ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-16/actor-robert-redford-dies-at-89.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-16/actor-robert-redford-dies-at-89.htmlTue, 16 Sep 2025 12:33:10 +0000He was a titan of acting, a legend among indie filmmakers in the U.S. — he was the driving force behind the Sundance Festival (named after his character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) — a beacon for Democrats, and an activist dedicated to social and environmental causes. With Robert Redford’s death, it’s not just one Redford who is gone, but all the Redfords who have existed across different fields in the United States. The country also loses a fierce adversary of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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]]>Michael Ochs Archives<![CDATA[Charlie Sheen: The remarkable survival of an actor ravaged by addiction]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-10/charlie-sheen-the-remarkable-survival-of-an-actor-ravaged-by-addiction.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-09-10/charlie-sheen-the-remarkable-survival-of-an-actor-ravaged-by-addiction.htmlWed, 10 Sep 2025 10:45:12 +0000How on earth has Charlie Sheen made it to 60? How has he survived decades of cocaine — first snorted, then smoked as crack — endless parties with alcohol and friends? And his sexual excesses? Did he make enough to cover all the extortion money he gave to sex workers, including one to whom he reportedly paid as much as $1.4 million?

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]]>Unique Nicole<![CDATA[Why does Indiana Jones wear glasses? The hidden mistakes in film masterpieces]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-08-25/why-does-indiana-jones-wear-glasses-the-hidden-mistakes-in-film-masterpieces.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-08-25/why-does-indiana-jones-wear-glasses-the-hidden-mistakes-in-film-masterpieces.htmlMon, 25 Aug 2025 17:37:01 +0000It’s a scene that’s been repeated since the very first Bond movie, Dr. No (1962). The villain of the moment explains to James Bond his Machiavellian plan to conquer the world. In Dr. No, he even invites him to dinner and to drink a 1955 Dom Perignon.

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]]><![CDATA[Family tragedy, the repression of Argentina’s military dictatorship and the delicate legacy hidden in ‘The Eternaut’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/family-tragedy-the-repression-of-argentinas-military-dictatorship-and-the-delicate-legacy-hidden-in-the-eternaut.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/family-tragedy-the-repression-of-argentinas-military-dictatorship-and-the-delicate-legacy-hidden-in-the-eternaut.htmlSun, 20 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000In secret, from phone booths, at the age of 58, screenwriter Héctor Germán Oesterheld — one of Latin America’s most famous creators thanks to (among other comics) El eternauta (The Eternaut) — dictated the installments of El eternauta II, so that cartoonist Francisco Solano López could progress with the work. This was before the writer was devoured by the repressive apparatus of the Argentine military dictatorship on April 27, 1977.

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]]><![CDATA[‘Superman’, the naive superhero returns to his origins ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-11/superman-the-naive-superhero-returns-to-his-origins.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-11/superman-the-naive-superhero-returns-to-his-origins.htmlFri, 11 Jul 2025 10:09:06 +0000The alien immigrant who believes in humanity; the being who trusts in the kindness of strangers; the Superman first brought to life with conviction and innocence by Christopher Reeve in 1978 is the same Man of Steel now portrayed by David Corenswet, who has the same shy smile and strong physique.

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]]>Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picture; Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures/™ & © DC Comics<![CDATA[‘F1’: Brad Pitt eyes Tom Cruise’s crown as king of dad movies]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-27/f1-brad-pitt-eyes-tom-cruises-crown-as-king-of-dad-movies.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-27/f1-brad-pitt-eyes-tom-cruises-crown-as-king-of-dad-movies.htmlFri, 27 Jun 2025 16:20:37 +0000The short synopsis could be: “An ordinary middle-aged man does something extraordinary.”

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]]>Associated Press/LaPresse<![CDATA[Danny Boyle blends zombies with Brexit: ‘We’re a small, shitty island, not an empire’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-15/danny-boyle-blends-zombies-with-brexit-were-a-small-shitty-island-not-an-empire.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-06-15/danny-boyle-blends-zombies-with-brexit-were-a-small-shitty-island-not-an-empire.htmlSun, 15 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000Danny Boyle (Radcliffe, England, 68) sits down opposite the journalist and bursts out laughing. The English filmmaker is good at promotion, and the conversation begins by going back to 1994, at the San Sebastián Film Festival presentation of his debut cinematic release, Shallow Grave, a dark comedy. “It was before everything, what a time,” the director chuckles. And by “everything” he means Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, two further nominations for 127 Hours, the commercial success of The Beach or Sunshine, to much less heralded projects, to his departure from the 007 universe when he was preparing a James Bond film, to his anger with David Bowie when he didn’t give him the rights to his songs for a musical, or to his brilliant miniseries Pistols, about the legendary punk band.

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]]>SAMUEL SANCHEZ<![CDATA[Karla Sofía Gascón plays the villain in new western ‘Trinidad’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-28/karla-sofia-gascon-plays-the-villain-in-new-western-trinidad.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-28/karla-sofia-gascon-plays-the-villain-in-new-western-trinidad.htmlWed, 28 May 2025 13:30:39 +0000Karla Sofía Gascón has returned to filming after Emilia Pérez, by Jacques Audiard. The Spanish actress — who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the narco-musical — plays Widow Bronson, the villain in the western Trinidad, which stars Gabriela Andrada and also features Paz Vega. The film is currently being shot in Spain’s Canary Islands and is co-directed by Laura Alvea and José Ortuño.

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]]>María Heras<![CDATA[Spike Lee: ‘I don’t know how we can talk about American values considering who the president is’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-25/spike-lee-i-dont-know-how-we-can-talk-about-american-values-considering-who-the-president-is.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-25/spike-lee-i-dont-know-how-we-can-talk-about-american-values-considering-who-the-president-is.htmlSun, 25 May 2025 04:00:00 +0000It’s been 18 years since Spike Lee and Denzel Washington last collaborated… and Highest 2 Lowest (2025) is their fifth project together.

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]]>Benoit Tessier<![CDATA[Old versus new masculinities: The debate shaking up Cannes]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-23/old-versus-new-masculinities-the-debate-shaking-up-cannes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-23/old-versus-new-masculinities-the-debate-shaking-up-cannes.htmlFri, 23 May 2025 15:30:51 +0000“Masculinity, for me, is always changing.” At 29, Paul Mescal is part of a generation of actors whose attitude, way of approaching life, and choice of projects mark a clear break from the traditional mold of actors from earlier eras. In truth, it’s more about behavior than age — and this year’s Cannes Film Festival has made that clear: Leonardo DiCaprio and Pedro Pascal, are only six months apart in age, but they are a world apart when it comes to their life philosophies.

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]]>Stephane Mahe<![CDATA[‘Sleepless City’: Madrid’s Cañada Real shantytown proudly raises its voice at Cannes]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-20/sleepless-city-madrids-canada-real-shantytown-proudly-raises-its-voice-at-cannes.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-20/sleepless-city-madrids-canada-real-shantytown-proudly-raises-its-voice-at-cannes.htmlTue, 20 May 2025 15:03:37 +0000The journey has come to a successful conclusion. A decade ago, Guillermo Galoe, 39, began visiting Cañada Real, the Madrid neighborhood considered the largest informal settlement in Europe: 8,000 people living on both sides of a 10-mile-long, old cattle track, just a few minutes’ drive from downtown Madrid. Specifically, he went to Sector 6, the southernmost sector, between the Valencia highway and the border with the suburb of Getafe.

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]]><![CDATA[Bono: ‘We have to fight against this general feeling that the world is screwed’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-19/bono-we-have-to-fight-against-this-general-feeling-that-the-world-is-screwed.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-05-19/bono-we-have-to-fight-against-this-general-feeling-that-the-world-is-screwed.htmlMon, 19 May 2025 12:30:43 +0000What is there left to say about Paul David Hewson, 65, better known as Bono, the singer (not the leader, he insists) of U2? Having seen the documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, which premiered this Friday night in Cannes, there seems to be quite a bit still. Although the film, which Apple TV+ is releasing on May 30 in both standard and immersive formats, is based on the musician’s memoirs (Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story) and the tour that accompanied it, there’s a feeling that Bono needed this film to leave behind the fears, contradictions, and thoughts that have marked his life.

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]]>Lewis Joly<![CDATA[Eight films and series about Pope Francis]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-22/eight-films-and-series-about-pope-francis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-22/eight-films-and-series-about-pope-francis.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2025 10:14:22 +0000John Paul II was a Pope who was a great fan of cinema, who even worked in a theater company in Nazi-occupied Poland and wrote three plays (later adapted into films). Francis was a Pope who loved film and television, and who understood how to spread his message through the screen. Whether in fiction or factual documentary, Jorge Mario Bergoglio starred in the following productions:

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]]><![CDATA[Karla Sofía Gascón: ‘I have been left very alone’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-02-03/karla-sofia-gascon-i-have-been-left-very-alone.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-02-03/karla-sofia-gascon-i-have-been-left-very-alone.htmlMon, 03 Feb 2025 16:51:45 +0000A week ago, Karla Sofía Gascón (Madrid, 52 years old) was in the middle of the running for the Oscar for Best Actress for her work in Emilia Pérez. At the same time, she continued to be the subject of attacks on social media for her status in the world of cinema: she is the first publicly trans actress to be nominated for an Oscar. Until journalist Sarah Hagi delved into Gascón’s X (formerly Twitter) account and brought to light a dozen tweets containing racist and inflammatory comments that she had never deleted from her profile, but which were resurrected last Thursday. In them, she criticized Islam (with expressions against Moroccans such as “fucking Moors”), George Floyd (whom she called a “drug addict”), and the world of cinema (including the Barbie campaign or the 2021 Oscars).

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]]>Kevin Winter<![CDATA[Andrew Garfield: ‘Suddenly your parents die, you have a crisis and your priorities change’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-02-03/andrew-garfield-suddenly-your-parents-die-you-have-a-crisis-and-your-priorities-change.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-02-03/andrew-garfield-suddenly-your-parents-die-you-have-a-crisis-and-your-priorities-change.htmlMon, 03 Feb 2025 12:55:29 +0000Anyone might raise an eyebrow listening to a whiny Andrew Garfield talk about his midlife crisis. The Californian actor doesn’t look 41, which is how old he turned last August, but one of the gifts he gave himself to get over the ordeal was a week at the San Sebastián Film Festival held the following month: seven days of surfing and restaurants with two friends, or in other words, Spider-Man and a couple of colleagues on a pintxo tour of the Basque coastal city world-famous for its food scene.

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]]>Antonio Macarro<![CDATA[Paul Newman, 100 years of the most intense blue gaze in cinema]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-27/paul-newman-100-years-of-the-most-intense-blue-gaze-in-cinema.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-27/paul-newman-100-years-of-the-most-intense-blue-gaze-in-cinema.htmlMon, 27 Jan 2025 18:49:17 +0000On January 26, 1925, the small street of Renrock Road in Cleveland Heights, in the suburbs of Cleveland (Ohio), woke up snowy and icy enough for the Newman couple, Art and Theresa, to decide that their second child, Paul Leonard, should be born at home: 2025 marks the centenary of Newman’s birth, an actor who was possibly not the best among his peers, but arguably the most handsome and the one who best connected with his era and his generation, the owner of the most intense blue eyes in Hollywood. He was tenacious, intelligent, a charmer and an icon of the 20th century. He triumphed in the cinema and in motor racing, the passion that truly filled his life. And, incidentally, he drank countless liters of beer throughout his life: that’s why, for years, he wore a chain around his neck with a bottle opener. His genes and constant exercise allowed his prodigious physique to not be affected by his alcoholism.

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]]><![CDATA[The documentary on America’s gun obsession: Teaching kids to shoot and clearing snow with flamethrowers ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-22/the-documentary-on-americas-gun-obsession-teaching-kids-to-shoot-and-clearing-snow-with-flamethrowers.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-22/the-documentary-on-americas-gun-obsession-teaching-kids-to-shoot-and-clearing-snow-with-flamethrowers.htmlWed, 22 Jan 2025 12:15:00 +0000A father gives his teenage daughter a talk about the love of guns as she assembles and disassembles one blindfolded. A woman holds a banner declaring “gun rights are women’s rights.” A man decides to shoot dildos to test their durability. Two eight-year-old girls star in an ad for a gun shop, proudly displaying the weapons lined up on the shelves and counters.

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]]><![CDATA[Adrien Brody: ‘In the face of rising antisemitism, we have to find again a way to learn from our past’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-21/adrien-brody-in-the-face-of-rising-antisemitism-we-have-to-find-again-a-way-to-learn-from-our-past.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-21/adrien-brody-in-the-face-of-rising-antisemitism-we-have-to-find-again-a-way-to-learn-from-our-past.htmlTue, 21 Jan 2025 18:34:25 +0000Adrien Brody, 51, finds acting painful. But he likes it. Entering a Madrid hotel room with a reserved demeanor, he clutches his coat tightly around his shirt. His expression only softens when discussing legendary basketball coach Pat Riley, the architect of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime era, whom he portrayed in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

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]]>Daniel González<![CDATA[Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian filmmaker persecuted by the regime]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-15/mohammad-rasoulof-the-iranian-filmmaker-persecuted-by-the-regime.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-15/mohammad-rasoulof-the-iranian-filmmaker-persecuted-by-the-regime.htmlWed, 15 Jan 2025 12:24:59 +0000He had only two hours to decide: exile or prison? “The secret service was interrogating the film crew, and on top of that, the Islamic Revolutionary Court announced that day that within a week, they would carry out the sentence condemning me to eight years in prison, plus a flogging and confiscation of my property,” recalls Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof.

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]]>ANDRE PAIN<![CDATA[The Vatican, an intricate network of secrets and whispers behind the election of a new pope]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-20/the-vatican-an-intricate-network-of-secrets-and-whispers-behind-the-election-of-a-new-pope.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-20/the-vatican-an-intricate-network-of-secrets-and-whispers-behind-the-election-of-a-new-pope.htmlFri, 20 Dec 2024 16:15:49 +0000A group of men deciding who will inherit power. And women serving them. A meeting that has been a constant since human beings first set foot on Earth. In some corporations, little has changed, and even less so in spiritual power. The same holds true for the grand institution that most fiercely unites politics and spirituality, power and religion: the Catholic Church, which, in turn, most crudely reflects the patriarchy.

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]]><![CDATA[Movie roles in exchange for nude pics: 27 women accuse filmmaker Eduard Cortés of sexual misconduct]]>https://english.elpais.com/spain/2024-12-18/movie-roles-in-exchange-for-nude-pics-27-women-accuse-filmmaker-eduard-cortes-of-sexual-misconduct.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/spain/2024-12-18/movie-roles-in-exchange-for-nude-pics-27-women-accuse-filmmaker-eduard-cortes-of-sexual-misconduct.htmlWed, 18 Dec 2024 11:36:22 +0000Twenty-seven women have told EL PAÍS that they were sexually harassed by the filmmaker Eduard Cortés, twice nominated for the Goya Awards — Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars — and director of the popular TV series Merlí and Raising Voices. The photographer Silvia Grav, the visual artist Eva Fàbregas, the actresses Sofía Barco, Norah Alexandra Vega and Nicole León, among other women interviewed by this newspaper, all accuse Cortés of having benefited from his position in the industry to offer them work in one of his productions on condition that they film themselves naked, masturbating or engaging in other types of sexual practices. Most of them were between 20 and 30 years old at the time, and two of them were underage. Everything came to light on October 26, when Grav turned to Instagram to share some old messages exchanged with the Barcelona-born film director, and accusing him of grooming her. Dozens of women added to this testimony from their own social media accounts. This newspaper has had access to almost a hundred of these conversations, dating from mid-2007 to October of this year.

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]]>JORGE ZAPATA<![CDATA[Hugh Grant: ‘Do you know what I miss? When the internet didn’t exist’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-11-26/hugh-grant-do-you-know-what-i-miss-when-the-internet-didnt-exist.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-11-26/hugh-grant-do-you-know-what-i-miss-when-the-internet-didnt-exist.htmlSun, 01 Dec 2024 05:15:00 +0000Hugh Grant is not one to be contradicted. And even less so when it comes to himself. “What happens is that you have an image of me based on the characters in Richard Curtis’ films and I’m not like that. In reality, that charming Englishman is a self-portrait of Richard,” says the actor with a smile from ear to ear, which at the same time makes your blood run cold. Curtis, one of his best friends, and to whom Grant presented an honorary Oscar on November 18, is the scriptwriter and/or director of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually. “That Hugh is actually Richard.”

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]]>Kiko Huesca<![CDATA[Sean Baker, the director of the dark side of the American dream: ‘I think I show an America that you would otherwise never see on the big screen’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-28/sean-baker-the-director-of-the-dark-side-of-the-american-dream-i-think-i-show-an-america-that-you-would-otherwise-never-see-on-the-big-screen.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-28/sean-baker-the-director-of-the-dark-side-of-the-american-dream-i-think-i-show-an-america-that-you-would-otherwise-never-see-on-the-big-screen.htmlMon, 28 Oct 2024 20:48:07 +0000Sean Baker is scared of the figure of Eloy de la Iglesia. That a cursed director of the Spanish Transition — the man who portrayed the wave of destruction that heroin caused in the sewers of the vaunted Movida Madrileña — scares the most recent winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, an indie filmmaker with a New York soul, is a sign of the shadows Baker hides. “At New York University, we didn’t get that Spanish cinema. I discovered it about five years ago and I feel more aligned with it than with Fellini,” he says. “His personality reminds me of Pasolini, and I’ve been told that his drug addiction originated from his interaction with actors. That scares me because I was hooked. I had problems with drugs, I was addicted to heroin at the end of the 1990s, when I was in my twenties. Sometimes I get scared when I realize that I’m getting too close to those worlds again. In one film I had a person shooting up next to me. Ugh.” For a filmmaker who doesn’t enjoy interviews, the confession came out in torrents.

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]]>UNIVERSAL<![CDATA[Al Pacino, memoirs of a survivor from the Bronx]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-18/al-pacino-memoirs-of-a-survivor-from-the-bronx.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-18/al-pacino-memoirs-of-a-survivor-from-the-bronx.htmlFri, 18 Oct 2024 19:44:51 +0000Alfredo James Pacino was supposed to have died in the late 1960s or early 1970s in some alley or apartment in the South Bronx, New York. Just like his three best friends: Cliffy, Bruce and Petey. He himself went hungry, slept on the street or on friends’ couches on numerous occasions, was caught by the police after some of the pranks committed by his gang of teenagers (”If we wanted food, we’d steal it. We never paid for anything. Making mischief and running away from authority figures was our pastime”), and jumped from one rooftop to another on the tenements of Bryant Avenue. He drank (a lot) and did drugs (not so much). Like all of them.

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]]><![CDATA[Christopher Reeve, the Superman who became a hero after near-fatal accident]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-10/christopher-reeve-the-superman-who-became-a-hero-after-near-fatal-accident.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-10-10/christopher-reeve-the-superman-who-became-a-hero-after-near-fatal-accident.htmlThu, 10 Oct 2024 14:29:13 +0000He was the first major star of superhero cinema, marking the dawn of the modern era with his portrayal of Superman in 1978. Yet, despite embodying the invincible Man of Steel, Christopher Reeve would later spend the final years of his life in a motorized wheelchair, reliant on a mechanical respirator after a life-altering horse-riding accident in 1995.

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]]><![CDATA[Billionaires in a bunker: Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon’s apocalyptic musical]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-09-24/billionaires-in-a-bunker-tilda-swinton-and-michael-shannons-apocalyptic-musical.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-09-24/billionaires-in-a-bunker-tilda-swinton-and-michael-shannons-apocalyptic-musical.htmlTue, 24 Sep 2024 15:58:18 +0000The family has been locked away for several decades, in a golden cage. There are paintings by the great masters, exquisite food, and luxury treatment. But in the end, it’s still a cage. On the surface, the Earth has been devastated by thousands of fires. For years, no intruder has bothered the family, which saved itself from the global catastrophe along with a group of friends who are useful because of their professions. The patriarch ran a large energy company — in other words, he is one of the people responsible for the disaster — and now he is dictating his memoirs to his children. An account aimed at whitewashing his image. And into this deadly boredom enters a survivor from the outside world.

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]]><![CDATA[The resurrection of Jerry Lewis’ catastrophic Holocaust movie ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-09-14/the-resurrection-of-jerry-lewis-catastrophic-holocaust-movie.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-09-14/the-resurrection-of-jerry-lewis-catastrophic-holocaust-movie.htmlSat, 14 Sep 2024 04:00:00 +0000US comedian Jerry Lewis never wanted anyone to see The Day the Clown Cried. At least not during his lifetime. He knew that what he had hoped would be a masterpiece had actually turned out to be a monumental disaster and a stain on his career. When he received the honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2013, he said in reference to the film, “No one will ever see it because I’m embarrassed at the poor work. It was all bad and it was bad because I lost the magic.”

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]]><![CDATA[The passion for trashy movies: When a film fiasco wins over fans]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-08-27/the-passion-for-trashy-movies-when-a-film-fiasco-wins-over-fans.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-08-27/the-passion-for-trashy-movies-when-a-film-fiasco-wins-over-fans.htmlTue, 27 Aug 2024 18:55:01 +0000E.T. didn’t just come down to Earth in the Steven Spielberg movie. He also landed in South Africa, Turkey and again in the United States, as well as in other countries. Although his name wasn’t E.T., and his appearance left a lot to be desired. These aliens starred in movies such as Nukie and Mac and Me, some of the most outrageous ripoffs of the classic film.

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]]><![CDATA[Liam Neeson, the senior avenger]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-07-03/liam-neeson-the-senior-avenger.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-07-03/liam-neeson-the-senior-avenger.htmlWed, 03 Jul 2024 14:48:28 +0000In 2007, Liam Neeson received a curious proposal, an action script co-written by Luc Besson that Jeff Bridges had rejected. After a first reading, it sounded like a “straight to DVD” movie. But the project involved learning karate and moving to Paris for four months, and Neeson fancied both. The fact that Taken became a worldwide success and that, after the death of his wife in 2009, Neeson stopped taking dramatic parts to focus on high-action roles are two twists of fate that no one could have foreseen.

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]]><![CDATA[Will Smith seeks universal forgiveness after Oscars slap with a new installment of ‘Bad Boys’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-06-06/will-smith-seeks-universal-forgiveness-after-oscars-slap-with-a-new-installment-of-bad-boys.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-06-06/will-smith-seeks-universal-forgiveness-after-oscars-slap-with-a-new-installment-of-bad-boys.htmlThu, 06 Jun 2024 16:38:08 +0000In reality, the slap was inaudible, but its shockwave reverberated around the world. From the epicenter of the Kodak Theater stage on March 27, 2022, that ripple has continued to vibrate, overshadowing the career of Will Smith, once Hollywood’s Mr. Nice and beloved by the public, who in 30 seconds destroyed his artistic future by getting up from his seat at the Oscar ceremony and slapping the comedian Chris Rock, who had just made a joke about the alopecia suffered by his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Neither the statuette he won minutes later, for King Richard, nor the messages of repentance he issued later, have served to make the cinemagoing audience forget. On June 7, Smith’s first big release after the incident will be in theaters, and the actor has chosen to play it safe by enlisting his friend Martin Lawrence and returning to his most popular franchise, Bad Boys, with a fourth installment, Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Now the question is; is the world ready to forgive the Fresh Prince?

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]]>JJ Guillén<![CDATA[Jake Gyllenhaal: From acclaimed dramas ‘Donnie Darko’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’ to ‘Road House’ action ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-31/jake-gyllenhaal-from-acclaimed-dramas-donnie-darko-and-brokeback-mountain-to-road-house-action.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-31/jake-gyllenhaal-from-acclaimed-dramas-donnie-darko-and-brokeback-mountain-to-road-house-action.htmlFri, 31 May 2024 14:30:58 +0000During a joint TV interview to promote Spider-Man: Far From Home, Tom Holland (Spider-Man) and Jake Gyllenhaal (the villain) were asked which director they would like to work with in the fall of 2021. Gyllenhaal answered: “Pedro Almodóvar.”

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]]>Getty<![CDATA[Director Yorgos Lanthimos: ‘I never take things too seriously’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-20/director-yorgos-lanthimos-i-never-take-things-too-seriously.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-20/director-yorgos-lanthimos-i-never-take-things-too-seriously.htmlMon, 20 May 2024 16:36:28 +0000After basking in red carpet glory for the premiere of Kinds of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, 50, is faced with the world’s press. The filmmaker sits with his hands on his knees and begins to respond pleasantly in his pristine English. When this EL PAÍS journalist refuses the offer of a drink from a female publicist, Lanthimos jokes: “Spaniards drink like Greeks.”

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]]>Yara Nardi<![CDATA[Cannes Film Festival kicks off amid French #MeToo and threat of workers’ strike]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-14/cannes-film-festival-kicks-off-amid-french-metoo-and-threat-of-workers-strike.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-14/cannes-film-festival-kicks-off-amid-french-metoo-and-threat-of-workers-strike.htmlTue, 14 May 2024 15:39:24 +0000Every year, the Cannes Film Festival faces a handful of controversies, wades into various messes, has unexpected problems explode in its face... and also becomes a place where films are screened, bought and sold. For almost all non-film-related issues, Thierry Frémaux, the general delegate — a CEO of sorts — of the most important film competition in the world, invariably responds: “Let’s let the films speak.”

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]]>Stephane Mahe<![CDATA[Francis Ford Coppola waits for a distribution offer he can’t refuse for ‘Megalopolis’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-04-16/francis-ford-coppola-waits-for-a-distribution-offer-he-cant-refuse-for-megalopolis.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-04-16/francis-ford-coppola-waits-for-a-distribution-offer-he-cant-refuse-for-megalopolis.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2024 16:30:02 +0000The first screening of Megalopolis at Universal’s CityWalk IMAX theater in Los Angeles ended with a standing ovation from 300 guests. Octogenarian filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola had finally brought his 40-year-old dream to the big screen. Coppola began writing the script while making Apocalypse Now in 1979. However, there have been no other screenings, leaving many people wondering about its global release due to financial challenges. Coppola has spent $120 million of his own money to make the film, but has struggled to find a studio willing to pony up $100 million for distribution. Making it more difficult, his most recent film, Twixt, only earned $1.3 million in 2012.

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]]>Vivien Killilea<![CDATA[Frankenstein, the thousand faces of a creature that never goes out of style]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-04-04/frankenstein-the-thousand-faces-of-a-creature-that-never-goes-out-of-style.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-04-04/frankenstein-the-thousand-faces-of-a-creature-that-never-goes-out-of-style.htmlThu, 04 Apr 2024 22:30:01 +0000“Mary Shelley was painfully young, a teenager in fact, when she published Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, and she was able to transfer all her contradictions and questions to the monster and his tale, all her essential needs and her feelings of marginalization and inadequacy.” The reflection comes from Guillermo del Toro, from his book Cabinet of Curiosities. “I was overcome by the Miltonian sense of abandonment, the absolute terror of an absurd life. Tragedy did not depend on evil. That is the supreme pain of the novel: tragedy does not need a villain,” the tome reads.

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]]><![CDATA[Rookie ghostbuster Paul Rudd is a nice guy who plays nice guys]]>https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-03-22/rookie-ghostbuster-paul-rudd-is-a-nice-guy-who-plays-nice-guys.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/people/2024-03-22/rookie-ghostbuster-paul-rudd-is-a-nice-guy-who-plays-nice-guys.htmlFri, 22 Mar 2024 16:27:26 +0000After our interview, Paul Rudd asked his assistant to hand him his cell phone. He shared a photo with us showing him kissing his son, whose eyes were red from tears of joy. The photo was taken during the Super Bowl in February 2020, and the Kansas City Chiefs had just beaten the San Francisco 49ers. Rudd is from Kansas, and has long been known as a dedicated Chiefs fan. It was the team’s first Super Bowl win in 50 years. “When I visit my parents and have some downtime, I always head to the stadium with all my fan gear,” he laughs. “That was the season we finally made it to the final. Back when the team was just average, my son became a big fan and I wondered why I had subjected him to that. But then everything turned around, and we made it to the Super Bowl. He begged me to go. That picture captures the exact moment we realized victory was just seconds away, and my boy just went absolutely wild!” The photo shows a warm father-son moment, the perfect portrait of Paul Rudd. The comedy star has been married for 30 years without any scandals; he’s an actor who has made it to the top playing good guys. Now he’s in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, playing a high school science teacher who ends up chasing ectoplasms for love.

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]]>Daniel González<![CDATA[Jonathan Glazer, the Jewish director of ‘The Zone of Interest’ who dared to call out Israel at the Oscars]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-03-13/jonathan-glazer-the-jewish-director-of-the-zone-of-interest-who-dared-to-call-out-israel-at-the-oscars.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-03-13/jonathan-glazer-the-jewish-director-of-the-zone-of-interest-who-dared-to-call-out-israel-at-the-oscars.htmlWed, 13 Mar 2024 13:53:56 +0000“All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, not to say, ‘Look what they did then.’ Rather, ‘what we do now.’ Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst.” That’s how Jonathan Glazer started his speech after winning the Oscar for Best International Feature Film for The Zone of Interest, a drama set in the Auschwitz extermination camp during World War II. “Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,” Glazer continued. “Whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization — how do we resist?” One of the prominent music video directors of the 1990s and director of four cult films, Glazer skillfully depicted the horror of Nazi extermination camps without showing any victims. His Oscar acceptance speech solidified his position as a unique creator with a distinctive voice, fearless and unwilling to self-censor.

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]]>Arturo Holmes<![CDATA[Todd Haynes, director: ‘I’ve entered Almodóvar’s territory, but I’m not on his level’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-23/todd-haynes-director-ive-entered-almodovars-territory-but-im-not-on-his-level.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-23/todd-haynes-director-ive-entered-almodovars-territory-but-im-not-on-his-level.htmlFri, 23 Feb 2024 23:08:41 +0000There’s only one thing that Todd Haynes likes more than making a movie: talking about his movie. But not with any egomaniacal fuss or egocentricity, but rather, pure didactic eagerness, and love for a good chat. Haynes (Los Angeles, 63 years old) tends to bring several books related to his film to interviews. For ours, the Californian director showed up with photo books that explore the landscapes of Georgia, where the plot of May December takes place. But none of them made reference to the plot’s real elephant in the room, the fact that the film centers on a real-life event in the United States that met with a media storm. The case involved a teacher and one of her underage students. Sex, jail, childbirth and death was to follow. “All my countrymen remember it,” he explains with a rogue smile.

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]]><![CDATA[Lily Gladstone, Oscar nominee for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: ‘The world has to start getting worried about the return of Trump’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-05/lily-gladstone-oscar-nominee-for-killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-world-has-to-start-getting-worried-about-the-return-of-trump.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-05/lily-gladstone-oscar-nominee-for-killers-of-the-flower-moon-the-world-has-to-start-getting-worried-about-the-return-of-trump.htmlMon, 05 Feb 2024 18:02:21 +0000When Lily Gladstone (Kalispell, Montana, 37 years old) was a little girl, her father made her believe he had powers. “He used to play jokes on me. For example, that he had control over the clouds because he was a magician. He played tricks that I didn’t catch at the time. He still has that playful spirit. Nowadays, he takes care of my dog when I travel. And since we share location by cell phone, when I’m 400 meters from our house, he’ll open the window and shout my name, as if he were summoning me. Of course, my dog is convinced that I show up at the door because he called me,” laughs the actress. “But he is also the father who gave me the courage to go out into life, and a deep respect for my roots [which come from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce peoples]. He gave me the name of his grandmother, Lily. I even got to know her younger brother, my great-grand uncle. My father insisted that I not lose connection with either family, or my community. When I was bullied in school, he always reminded me that I was better, and said, ‘They’ll want to be your friend when you win the Oscar.’ Which is to say, he’s got some kind of power. Who knows?” she says, with a hint of irony.

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]]>Moeh Atitar<![CDATA[The bittersweet battle of a Spanish filmmaker in Hollywood ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-28/the-bittersweet-battle-of-a-spanish-filmmaker-in-hollywood.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-28/the-bittersweet-battle-of-a-spanish-filmmaker-in-hollywood.htmlSun, 28 Jan 2024 02:01:00 +0000It is difficult to wipe away the smile of F. Javier Gutiérrez, even with a conversation in which he describes his long and bittersweet trajectory as filmmaker. Based in Los Angeles since 2009, the 50-year-old director of Before the Fall (2008) and Rings (2017) is releasing The Wait, another thriller in the style of Before the Fall, although that movie fitted into the science fiction genre, and his third feature is a horror film, describing the journey to hell of the caretaker of a large farmhouse who, after accepting a bribe from the headhunter on the estate, suffers the collapse of his family and life. “I’m often asked if all these years in Hollywood has been worth it. And yes, I know the rules of the game, and I’m staying here,” he says into a tape recorder in a Madrid movie theater.

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]]>Álvaro García<![CDATA[Three women accuse Spanish film director of sexual violence ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-27/three-women-accuse-spanish-film-director-of-sexual-violence.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-27/three-women-accuse-spanish-film-director-of-sexual-violence.htmlSat, 27 Jan 2024 13:01:57 +0000Three women claim to have suffered sexual violence at the hands of Spanish filmmaker Carlos Vermut, winner of the San Sebastián Film Festival’s Golden Shell for the neo-noir movie Magical Girl (2014). A film student, an employee of one of his productions and a worker in the cultural sector have reported to EL PAÍS that the director allegedly took advantage of his prominence in the world of cinema in order to have violent sexual relations with them – relations that they didn’t consent to.

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]]>JUAN BARBOSA<![CDATA[2024 Oscar nominations: For once, let’s talk about good cinema]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-24/2024-oscar-nominations-for-once-lets-talk-about-good-cinema.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-24/2024-oscar-nominations-for-once-lets-talk-about-good-cinema.htmlWed, 24 Jan 2024 16:25:50 +0000In the book Adventures in the Screen Trade, the legendary screenwriter William Goldman tried to guess which film had won the Oscar in 1939. There were so many exceptional movies that year, it was hard to pick a winner. Was it this masterpiece? Or this other one?

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]]><![CDATA[A movie with a Nazi’s view of the Holocaust]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-19/a-movie-with-a-nazis-view-of-the-holocaust.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-19/a-movie-with-a-nazis-view-of-the-holocaust.htmlFri, 19 Jan 2024 19:50:14 +0000Millions of human beings were executed in Nazi Germany. Many people witnessed the Holocaust and chose to ignore or deny it. The Nazi extermination camps posed a logistical challenge that required infrastructure and a bureaucracy to undertake. They required people to perform their gruesome tasks and then go back home to their loved ones at night. How did they become capable of committing these crimes? Books and movies often focus on victims, but others explore the executioners’ daily lives. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest depicts the horrors of Auschwitz through the perspective of the commander’s family, whose mansion was located next to the camp wall. While they couldn’t see into the camp, they were exposed every day to its sounds and smells. Glazer, who won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes for his film, adapted Martin Amis’ novel of the same name. Other productions in the same vein include the TV miniseries The Interpreter of Silence (Disney+), based on Annette Hess’ novel The German House. It explores the trial in the 1960s of 20 commanders of an extermination camp in Frankfurt. Are these portrayals legitimate? Are they moral? How does one even approach characters such as these?

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]]><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn: The myth, now in comic book form]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-16/audrey-hepburn-the-myth-now-in-comic-book-form.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-16/audrey-hepburn-the-myth-now-in-comic-book-form.htmlTue, 16 Jan 2024 18:27:38 +0000A square face with eyebrows. So Truman Capote defined the face of Audrey Hepburn (Brussels, 1929-Tolochenaz, 1993). Simple as it is blunt, the sarcastic comment of the writer opposed to the actress starring in the adaptation of his novel Breakfast at Tiffany’s, has now become the takeoff point from which Christopher, one of the greats of French comics, has drawn the star in the Spanish language graphic novel Audrey Hepburn (Aloha Editorial), written by Switzerland’s Eileen Hofer with the collaboration of Luca Dotti, Hepburn’s youngest son and the keeper of her secrets.

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]]><![CDATA[Filmmaker Alexander Payne: ‘I’m not the only filmmaker who thinks about showing people before walking clichés’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-13/filmmaker-alexander-payne-im-not-the-only-filmmaker-who-thinks-about-showing-people-before-walking-cliches.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-13/filmmaker-alexander-payne-im-not-the-only-filmmaker-who-thinks-about-showing-people-before-walking-cliches.htmlSat, 13 Jan 2024 00:05:15 +0000When he was a kid, Alexander Payne, now 62, dreamed of becoming a projectionist. “And look at me now,” he jokes by video call days before Christmas from his home in his native Omaha, Nebraska. The two-time Oscar winner for the screenplays of Sideways and The Descendants —and recipient of four other nominations, two in directing and two in screenwriting for Election and Nebraska — is one of those select filmmakers who can do whatever they want. “Well, I move in medium-sized budgets, I’m not very prolific.... That helps, but I wish I had been faster,” he confesses. “I respect good cinema too much to do anything. Although... there’s a certain pretentiousness in trying not to be pretentious. I plead guilty.”

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]]><![CDATA[The 2024 Golden Globes bring back the guillotine]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-08/the-2024-golden-globes-bring-back-the-guillotine.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-08/the-2024-golden-globes-bring-back-the-guillotine.htmlMon, 08 Jan 2024 14:38:29 +0000Someone should resurrect the guillotine in France. In September, the French committee that selected its Oscar representative made a notorious decision. It passed over the Palme d’Or Anatomy of a Fall and opted for Tran Anh Hung’s clumsy movie, The Taste of Things. Even the Golden Globes — presented last night in another celebration of alcohol and sushi at the Beverly Hills Hotel — have exposed the error: Justine Triet’s courtroom drama took home the award for best non-English language film and for best script, in what was the big surprise of the night.

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]]>MARIO ANZUONI<![CDATA[Gabriel Byrne: ‘The Catholic Church has left a black mark’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-12-23/gabriel-byrne-the-catholic-church-has-left-a-black-mark.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-12-23/gabriel-byrne-the-catholic-church-has-left-a-black-mark.htmlSat, 23 Dec 2023 15:31:01 +0000The Gabriel Byrne who sits for this interview has long since left behind the actor who suffered a panic attack after the successful screening of The Usual Suspects at Cannes in 1995. Terrified, he crawled into his hotel bed in Nice for several days. He is no longer the man who was sexually abused by the Christian Brothers as a child and, soon after, at age 11, by a Catholic priest at the seminary he attended in Liverpool. Nor is he the man who battled alcoholism for decades. He likely achieved peace after writing his second volume of memoirs, Walking with Ghosts (2020), which he adapted as a one-man show for the theater, and faced all his problems.

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]]>Carlos Alvarez<![CDATA[‘The Marvels,’ the last link in the long chain of Marvel’s commercial nonsense ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-11/the-marvels-the-last-link-in-the-long-chain-of-marvels-commercial-nonsense.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-11/the-marvels-the-last-link-in-the-long-chain-of-marvels-commercial-nonsense.htmlSat, 11 Nov 2023 23:34:03 +0000Brie Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film Room (2015). She also has a handful of other interesting credits on her CV. And yet, the performer — who plays Captain Marvel — is the latest victim of the lack of control that reigns at Marvel Studios, which is plagued by exorbitant budgets, low-quality series and audience fatigue.

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]]>Laura Radford<![CDATA[‘Past Lives’, the indie film that seems poised to become an Oscar contender]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-01/past-lives-the-indie-film-that-seems-poised-to-become-an-oscar-contender.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-11-01/past-lives-the-indie-film-that-seems-poised-to-become-an-oscar-contender.htmlWed, 01 Nov 2023 23:15:00 +0000Is there such a thing as nostalgia for a future that never happened? There is, and playwright Celine Song discovered it one evening sitting in the middle of a triangle completed by her husband, writer Justin Kuritzkes, in a T-shirt, and a Korean engineer, in smart casual attire. They were drinking at the bar of Please Don’t Tell, a New York speakeasy. “I noticed the other customers in front of me, and thought about what questions they would be asking. Like, who was the husband? Was the other guy a lover? Really, what each of us meant to the other two. Suddenly, I felt that answering that question alone was an easy way out, it didn’t show all the intricacies of the truth, and therein lay the germ of a story. I was telling different friends that anecdote, and depending on their background and culture, each one had very different approaches to that moment,” she says with a chuckle. “In addition, through that woman, who was already fictionalized, I could dive into the nostalgia of a future and a relationship that could have happened but didn’t.”

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]]><![CDATA[Maïwenn: ‘Problems with Johnny Depp? There are tensions on every shoot’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-02/maiwenn-problems-with-johnny-depp-there-are-tensions-on-every-shoot.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-10-02/maiwenn-problems-with-johnny-depp-there-are-tensions-on-every-shoot.htmlMon, 02 Oct 2023 04:16:00 +0000When Maïwenn, 47, first met Luc Besson, she was 12 and he was 29. They didn’t start dating until she was 15 and, as she has said on other occasions, at the time she was coming out of a painful relationship with her divorced parents, who had each, in their own way, abused her psychologically. By the time she was 16, she was already a mother and was living with Besson in Los Angeles; she had abandoned her budding acting career. Despite these facts, Maïwenn Aurélia Nedjma Le Besco, her full name, has always asserted that she has been in control of her life, that she has done what she wanted as much as possible. “The Professional [directed by Besson in 1994] was partly based on the relationship between Luc and me,” she has recounted, meaning that she didn’t feel like much of a child at the time. After her divorce, she returned to France, performed humorous one-woman shows, returned to cinema as an actress and began a career as a director. That last pursuit brought her to the most recent Cannes Film Festival, where she recently premiered her sixth feature film as a director, Jeanne du Barry, in which she also co-stars with Johnny Depp.

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]]>stephanie branchu<![CDATA[Pain, shame and silence: Four films about sexual abuse]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-28/pain-shame-and-silence-four-films-about-sexual-abuse.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-28/pain-shame-and-silence-four-films-about-sexual-abuse.htmlThu, 28 Sep 2023 18:34:17 +0000François is a prestigious, wealthy lawyer, with a pristine image as a defender of children. But behind closed doors, he hides a monster who has spent 30 years convincing his wife that he is controlling his impulses. Three decades ago, he raped a boy over a year and a half. Every night he stays in his luxurious house to watch child pornography, justifying himself with the cases he investigates. Joachim Lafosse, a little-known Belgian filmmaker, thus starts A Silence, a film now competing at the San Sebastián Film Festival in Spain. The silence in the title is not that of the lawyer, but that of his wife — a victim or an accomplice? — who does not realize what her young son is learning from his father. A similar reflection on brutal legacies appears in Kalak, by the Swede Isabella Eklöf, also in the San Sebastián contest, as well as The Successor, by the Frenchman Xavier Legrand, on the remains of the shipwreck left by a similar predator. The festival is also screening Quitter la nuit, by the Canadian Delphine Girard, who illustrates how an incident of sexual abuse committed in a car is seen differently by the victim and by the perpetrator. Together, the four films evoke a pessimistic feeling about the advance of darkness in today’s society.

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]]><![CDATA[Interview with a terrorist: Documentary on former ETA chief creates a stir at San Sebastián Film Festival ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-14/interview-with-a-terrorist-documentary-on-former-eta-chief-creates-a-stir-at-san-sebastian-film-festival.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-09-14/interview-with-a-terrorist-documentary-on-former-eta-chief-creates-a-stir-at-san-sebastian-film-festival.htmlThu, 14 Sep 2023 16:28:28 +0000The announcement that the Netflix-backed documentary No me llame Ternera – Don’t Call Me Ternera – will be screened on September 22 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in northern Spain has triggered protest. The film features an interview by journalists Jordi Évole and Màrius Sánchez with Josu Urrutikoetxea, better known as Josu Ternera, who was a leading figure within the Basque terrorist group ETA and one of its most ruthless members. Can a festival give airtime to such a man? Might it not feel like an affront to his victims?

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]]><![CDATA[Tom Hanks: Writer by trade]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-08-13/tom-hanks-writer-by-trade.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-08-13/tom-hanks-writer-by-trade.htmlSun, 13 Aug 2023 08:40:50 +0000Tom Hanks is now an author. He has just written a novel, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, which comes after a previous collection of short stories, Uncommon Type: Some Stories (2017). And what is the two-time Oscar winner going to talk about? Well, Hollywood, film shoots and the murky times the film industry is experiencing. And about the America in which Hanks seems to feel increasingly alone every day and, as such, becomes an aspiration that is far from reality: a multiethnic America that repays hard work and talent with promotions and decent salaries. The best that can be said about Hanks’s novel is that it oozes Hanks from every angle and that it is fluidly written. But that also weighs the book down: Hanks has not written a satire but believes in his work and, like a prestigious director, has retained control over the final editing.

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]]>Alexander Mahmoud<![CDATA[Drought, sweat and hellish heat: 20 great movies with searing temperatures ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-08-08/drought-sweat-and-hellish-heat-20-great-movies-with-searing-temperatures.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-08-08/drought-sweat-and-hellish-heat-20-great-movies-with-searing-temperatures.htmlTue, 08 Aug 2023 15:52:54 +0000As the summer heat intensifies, we look at 20 famous movies, where drought, sweat and sweltering conditions play leading roles.

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]]><![CDATA[The 13 action sequences in which Tom Cruise risked his life ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-12/the-13-action-sequences-in-which-tom-cruise-risked-his-life.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-07-12/the-13-action-sequences-in-which-tom-cruise-risked-his-life.htmlWed, 12 Jul 2023 15:26:45 +0000Director Christopher McQuarrie makes it clear – Tom Cruise does risk his life to film his action sequences. He should know: he has directed three of the seven Mission: Impossible films that have been released (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opened on Tuesday, and Part Two, where Cruise is supposed to take things even further, will be released next year). The actor has stand-ins and specialists who replace him occasionally, but when it is time for the action set pieces, whether it is a jump, a fight, a chase or a shootout, he asks to do it himself. And although there are mandatory safety measures, there is always the risk of something going wrong. Want an example? We have 13. The following are some of the most memorable moments in which Cruise — who turned 61 on July 3rd — has risked life and limb for the sake of his art.

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]]><![CDATA[Spying on the spies: from James Bond to Edward Snowden, Mata Hari and Hedy Lamarr]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-29/spying-on-the-spies-from-james-bond-to-edward-snowden-mata-hari-and-hedy-lamarr.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-29/spying-on-the-spies-from-james-bond-to-edward-snowden-mata-hari-and-hedy-lamarr.htmlThu, 29 Jun 2023 14:12:50 +0000From “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it” to “I have not made public anything that endangers people. I think European governments are afraid of me” there is not only a time lapse of more than six decades, but also a huge journey between fiction and reality. A journey between the first sentence of Casino Royale, the first novel starring James Bond, which its creator, Ian Fleming, published in 1952, to a September 2019 interview published in EL PAÍS with Edward Snowden, a CIA computer security expert and the source of one of the biggest leaks of state secrets in history when he brought to light a program of mass surveillance on a global scale by the CIA and the U.S. National Security Agency in 2013. For some, a hero; for others, a villain.

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]]>Jaime Villanueva<![CDATA[Beyond Indy: Six movies to enjoy in air-conditioned respite from the heat of summer ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-27/beyond-indy-six-movies-to-enjoy-in-air-conditioned-respite-from-the-heat-of-summer.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-27/beyond-indy-six-movies-to-enjoy-in-air-conditioned-respite-from-the-heat-of-summer.htmlTue, 27 Jun 2023 14:02:03 +0000Beyond Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny there is plenty of cinema around this summer. Indy fully deserves his return to the big screen, but there are some less anticipated gems to look out for at theaters.

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]]><![CDATA[Director James Mangold: The latest ‘Indiana Jones’ is ‘a poetic exploration of time’s imprint on life’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-26/director-james-mangold-the-latest-indiana-jones-is-a-poetic-exploration-of-times-imprint-on-life.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-26/director-james-mangold-the-latest-indiana-jones-is-a-poetic-exploration-of-times-imprint-on-life.htmlMon, 26 Jun 2023 19:30:36 +0000James Mangold’s deep voice resonates with conviction, while his neat-student demeanor exudes tranquility. The New Yorker was tasked with concluding the Indiana Jones story, but he had already done this once before, albeit it on a smaller scale, with Wolverine in Logan (2017). “I’m guilty, yes,” he laughed. “But obviously I had never thought about doing it with Indiana,” he told a group of journalists at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny premiered before its release in theaters. The final installment of the Indy saga is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 30.

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]]>Pascal Le Segretain<![CDATA[Christian cinema and its faithful viewers]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-23/christian-cinema-and-its-faithful-viewers.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-23/christian-cinema-and-its-faithful-viewers.htmlFri, 23 Jun 2023 18:56:03 +0000They are a faithful, loyal audience. They read specialized media outlets, especially digital ones. Every three months, approximately, they will go to the movie theaters to see a film related to their spiritual interests. The Catholic audience has not stopped going to the cinema. But from time to time their attendance multiplies and sends a striking signal, as has happened with the film His Only Son, about the sacrifice of Abraham, which opens now in Spain after making $13 million in the United States. Its production company, Angel Studios, is also behind the latest Christian audiovisual bombshell, the series The Chosen, about the life of Jesus.

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]]><![CDATA[The story of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos: A legendary tale now coming to the big screen ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-12/the-story-of-flamin-hot-cheetos-a-legendary-tale-now-coming-to-the-big-screen.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-12/the-story-of-flamin-hot-cheetos-a-legendary-tale-now-coming-to-the-big-screen.htmlMon, 12 Jun 2023 14:22:34 +0000It was a matter of life and death. At one of the factories belonging to Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo that produces all kinds of potato chips and snacks, the fear of layoffs as a result of a market in crisis seized its workers. Yet one janitor, Richard Montañez, born on the outskirts of Los Angeles to a Mexican family, insisted that the Latino community did not eat Cheetos — the company’s flagship product — and that potential customers did not have a flavor that matched their tastes in the stores. Inspired by a video featuring Frito-Lay CEO Roger Enrico, Montañez created a spicy recipe at home that, when mixed with Cheetos, became an explosive, yet tasty snack: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were born. He immediately contacted Enrico directly to share the idea with him and get his approval. When he got the green light, he went one step further. In the face of the marketing department’s incompetence, Montañez, along with friends and family, multiplied sales efforts to create demand for those Cheetos designed for hardened appetites. His venture succeeded, and he was immediately promoted to director of multicultural community marketing, leaping from janitor-cleaning boy to the office. This is a story of achievement, a magnificent triumph of the American dream, with only one catch: it’s a lie. Or at least there is little truth in the story. Somewhere between the reality and the myth, the myth came to fruition.

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]]><![CDATA[The red carpet: Cannes’ great big bonfire of vanities ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-27/the-red-carpet-cannes-great-big-bonfire-of-vanities.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-27/the-red-carpet-cannes-great-big-bonfire-of-vanities.htmlSat, 27 May 2023 14:46:56 +0000Every morning, and at different times later in the day, two cleaners methodically vacuum the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. The section that suffers the most wear and tear, taking a particular battering from stiletto heels, is the ‘rosso’-red central area (the sides are in another shade, known as ‘teatro’ red). This main section is replaced every day and re-used locally. Two or three times a day, come rain or shine, the covered entranceway leading up to the Palais des Festivals, where spotlights ensure the stars are perfectly lit as they are photographed, hosts a red-carpet walk: an event that’s a blend of performance, posturing and modelling, with big investment by major fashion and jewelry firms. Sometimes, it’s about cinema, too. It’s a 60-meter-long parade without which the festival would never get the attention it has enjoyed for two weeks every May since 1946.

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]]><![CDATA[Natalie Portman: ‘Human beings need to be told stories’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-22/natalie-portman-human-beings-need-to-be-told-stories.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-22/natalie-portman-human-beings-need-to-be-told-stories.htmlMon, 22 May 2023 14:31:28 +0000In 1996, the relationship between Mary Kay Letourneau, a 34-year-old Seattle school teacher who was married with four children, and her 12-year-old student, Vili Fualaau, of Samoan descent, made headlines around the world. The scandal broke out when Letourneau became pregnant, and it was discovered that the two were in a sexual relationship. Letourneau’s husband divorced her and took their four children to Alaska. This triggered a chain of events: Vili Fualaau’s parents sued her and a trial was held. The sentence was light — only three months in prison — but it would be harsher if Letourneau saw her student again. After giving birth to a girl, she finished serving her sentence and was let out of jail. But one early morning in February 1998, police discovered her with the student in a car. A month later, she announced that she was pregnant again. She was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, and had her second daughter with Fualaau behind bars. She did not leave prison until 2004.

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]]><![CDATA[Pedro Almodóvar will shoot his first English-language feature film in New York City ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-17/pedro-almodovar-will-shoot-his-first-english-language-feature-film-in-new-york-city.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-17/pedro-almodovar-will-shoot-his-first-english-language-feature-film-in-new-york-city.htmlWed, 17 May 2023 19:05:08 +0000The presence of legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar at the Cannes Film Festival always causes a stir. This time, he’s participating in a special screening of his medium-length film, Strange Way of Life. It stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal as two ex-lovers, who cross paths again out of passion and with new intentions. Almodóvar, 73, in addition to presenting the film at the French festival, will host a public conversation with Hawke, which caused tickets to be sold out within seconds online.

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]]><![CDATA[Forty years on from ‘Paris, Texas’: Wim Wenders tells the story of the making of his masterpiece about the West and sadness]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-13/forty-years-on-from-paris-texas-wim-wenders-tells-the-story-of-the-making-of-his-masterpiece-about-the-west-and-sadness.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-05-13/forty-years-on-from-paris-texas-wim-wenders-tells-the-story-of-the-making-of-his-masterpiece-about-the-west-and-sadness.htmlSat, 13 May 2023 20:23:59 +0000German director Wim Wenders is fascinated by the classic American cinema of John Ford, Nicholas Ray, Howard Hawks and Samuel Fuller, and filming in the United States was a dream come true. The 77-year-old, Düsseldorf-born director did just that at the end of the 1970s, after he had already made a name for himself as an auteur of interest in European cinema. However, dreams come true in some very strange ways: Wenders accepted Francis Ford Coppola’s proposal to direct Hammett, a screenplay in which the mystery writer Dashiell Hammett himself became the star of a noir thriller. Warner Brothers ultimately destroyed that movie in 1982, to the dismay of Coppola and Wenders--”I dedicated years of my life, I moved there just for a hellish outcome,” Wenders said. But the film was essential for the German director’s decision that he would only direct again if he had absolute freedom and without a previously closed script. Thus, in the spring of 1983, he set out to shoot a film in southwest Texas that a year later won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and struck a chord with audiences around the world. Forty years ago this spring, Wenders began filming Paris, Texas.

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]]><![CDATA[‘The name’s Bond... James Bond.’ ‘Mine too!’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-29/the-names-bond-james-bond-mine-too.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-29/the-names-bond-james-bond-mine-too.htmlSat, 29 Apr 2023 13:40:23 +0000When Ian Fleming wrote his first story about a womanizing, highly skilled British secret agent in 1952, he wanted the “most boring name” (his own words) he could find. He looked around and remembered a book he had used to identify the birds that flew over his mansion in Jamaica: Birds of the West Indies, by ornithologist James Bond. Without consulting the investigator, he gave his name to his agent 007 and forever changed his life; his, and that of his thousands of namesakes, to which the documentary The Other Fellow (2022) is dedicated. In it, director Matthew Bauer follows for 10 years some of those real James Bonds, men who live as best as they can under the shadow of a sexist, petulant and adventurous legacy.

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]]><![CDATA[Meryl Streep wins Spain’s Princess of Asturias award]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-26/meryl-streep-wins-spains-princess-of-asturias-award.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-26/meryl-streep-wins-spains-princess-of-asturias-award.htmlWed, 26 Apr 2023 16:07:29 +0000American actress Meryl Streep, 73, is the winner of the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, a prestigious annual prize which this year reaches its 43rd edition. In recent decades, Streep has become, quite simply, the actress, a figure of worldwide prestige, especially on the big screen. And the awards reaffirm this: she has won three Oscars (the last, for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady), in addition to having nominated on 18 other occasions; three Emmys; two British Academy Film Awards, the Donostia Award from the San Sebastian Festival and Best Actress at Cannes for Evil Angels (1988).

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]]><![CDATA[Ten great movies that resurrect the myth of Dracula]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-16/ten-great-movies-that-resurrect-the-myth-of-dracula.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-16/ten-great-movies-that-resurrect-the-myth-of-dracula.htmlSun, 16 Apr 2023 22:14:49 +0000We can’t seem to get enough of vampires, bloodsuckers, incubi, succubi, revenants and nachzehrers. And, above all — especially in the world of cinema — Dracula, or Nosferatu. Nosferatu (1922) was the first film adaptation to break the copyright held by Florence Stoker, the widow of Bram Stoker. The Irish author — who gathered various occult legends related to Vlad Draculea, or Vlad the Impaler — wrote the novel Dracula in 1897. Funnily enough, the book’s namesake, the Prince of Darkness, appears in barely 10% of the pages.

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]]><![CDATA[Audrey Hepburn: The myth of the modern woman was born in ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-11/audrey-hepburn-the-myth-of-the-modern-woman-was-born-in-breakfast-at-tiffanys.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-04-11/audrey-hepburn-the-myth-of-the-modern-woman-was-born-in-breakfast-at-tiffanys.htmlTue, 11 Apr 2023 16:55:08 +0000The definition of what constitutes a star in 21st-century Hollywood has changed. “And I’m sorry to report, [it’s] for the worse [...] The real reason certain actors become stars and others do not is regrettably not so glamorous… studios manufactured stars to suit the fears and fantasies of the day, giving faces to paradigm shifts, and therefore historical consequence to their chosen personae. And so it has always been. Since the era of Hollywood’s first stars, American moviegoers have been devouring a steady dosage of self-image.” Thus begins Californian journalist Sam Wasson’s Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman. The book — which was written in 2010 and revised in 2021 — focuses on the movie’s creation of a female archetype that transcended Hepburn herself and has little to do with the Holly Golightly described by Truman Capote in his original novel. The film made Hepburn herself a huge star, and audiences viewing “Audrey’s Holly Golightly in 1961 experienced, for the very first time, a glamorous fantasy life of wild, kooky independence and sophisticated sexual freedom; best of all, it was a fantasy they could make real,” argues Wasson.

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]]><![CDATA[The strange tale of ‘Cocaine Bear’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-03-30/the-strange-tale-of-cocaine-bear.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-03-30/the-strange-tale-of-cocaine-bear.htmlThu, 30 Mar 2023 19:42:41 +0000The autopsy produced one indisputable conclusion: the 200-pound male black bear found dead in December 1985 in Chattahoochee National Park (in the Appalachian Mountains of northern Georgia) had died of a cocaine overdose. Near the body of the most common bear species in the United States was a sports bag with more than 66 pounds of cocaine with a street value of over $15 million at the time. The bag had been thrown out of an airplane by a drug trafficker. Strewn around the bear’s body were 40 open and empty packages of the drug. The autopsy report indicated a cerebral hemorrhage, a perforated stomach and all kinds of damage to internal organs. Over the years, the legend grew along with the size of the animal, the drug cache and its value. Now the story has become a Hollywood movie — Cocaine Bear.

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]]><![CDATA[Sigourney Weaver: “The Spanish have a special relationship with cinema”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/22/inenglish/1474539114_371888.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/22/inenglish/1474539114_371888.htmlThu, 22 Sep 2016 12:35:15 +0000“This festival has always had a special place in my heart,” Sigourney Weaver told journalists ahead of the Donostia award presentation ceremony at the 64th San Sebastían International Film Festival on Wednesday morning.

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]]>Javier Hernández Juantegui<![CDATA[Jaume Collet-Serra, top of the US box office once more]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/03/05/inenglish/1394034976_514307.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2014/03/05/inenglish/1394034976_514307.htmlThu, 06 Mar 2014 13:29:44 +0000Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra has reached the number-one spot in the US box office for the second time in his career, once again with actor Liam Neeson, with new thriller Non-Stop.

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]]><![CDATA[Terry Gilliam in Spain to finish ill-fated Don Quixote movie... yet again]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/21/inenglish/1490112381_334697.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/21/inenglish/1490112381_334697.htmlThu, 23 Mar 2017 07:55:07 +0000In a 2016 interview with EL PAÍS on the occasion of the Spanish-language release of his autobiography, Gilliamesque, Gilliam stated: “Making my version of Don Quixote is a medical obligation. It is a brain tumor that I have to extirpate no matter what.”

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]]><![CDATA[Ke Huy Quan: From Short Round in ‘Indiana Jones’ to Oscar favorite with ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-26/ke-huy-quan-from-short-round-in-indiana-jones-to-oscar-favorite-with-everything-everywhere-all-at-once.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-26/ke-huy-quan-from-short-round-in-indiana-jones-to-oscar-favorite-with-everything-everywhere-all-at-once.htmlSun, 26 Feb 2023 11:19:24 +0000In 1993, Ke Huy Quan decided he had enough. His Asian heritage meant that casting directors ignored him, and he was experiencing obvious racial discrimination. So, he gave up acting. He went on to work as an assistant director and an action sequence coordinator. Then, two decades later, in 2018, he saw Crazy Rich Asians and thought it was time to return to the other side of the camera. He asked his lawyer-agent, who is also a former child actor, to find a part for him, but that turned out to be unnecessary. Out of the blue, he received an unusual script in which he would play the main character’s husband. Almost three years after shooting the film – the Covid-19 pandemic delayed its release – Quan’s time has come. The actor is a star again. The kid who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Data in The Goonies is weeks away from possibly winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. When he learned of his nomination for an Academy Award, all he could say was “I’m so happy! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!” And he jumped for joy.

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]]>Dana Pleasant<![CDATA[Penélope Cruz laments Harvey Weinstein’s unacceptable “abuse of power”]]>https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/13/inenglish/1507883628_100151.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/13/inenglish/1507883628_100151.htmlFri, 13 Oct 2017 09:20:25 +0000More than 30 women, including actresses, journalists and coworkers, have accused Weinstein of sexual abuse and rape in a scandal that has shocked Hollywood. Police in both New York and London have opened investigations into the allegations made against the filmmaker.

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]]>ANDREW H. WALKER<![CDATA[When Malcolm X and Cassius Clay anticipated present-day racism in the US]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-02-21/the-wee-hours-in-which-malcolm-x-and-cassius-clay-anticipated-present-day-racism-in-the-usa.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-02-21/the-wee-hours-in-which-malcolm-x-and-cassius-clay-anticipated-present-day-racism-in-the-usa.htmlMon, 21 Feb 2022 02:14:51 +0000On February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay, only 22 years old at the time, surprisingly became the heavyweight boxing champion of the world when he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami. Liston, the title holder, was a hard-hitting, iron-fisted fighter. Clay had class, style and a big sassy mouth. But he was also a man conscious of his influence and destiny. His friend Malcolm X attended the pugilistic soirée and invited the brand-new champion to his motel room that night: Clay was about to announce his conversion to Islam, his name change (to that of Muhammad Ali, the one beloved by God), and his joining the Nation of Islam, the religious organization that Malcolm X, incidentally, was planning to leave. That night, in that tiny room, they were not alone, they were joined in the celebration by two other friends who were also stars in their own right: the singer Sam Cooke, the soul music icon, and Jim Brown, the legendary running back, who, at the top of his game but fed up with racism in sports, was thinking about retiring and taking a go at an acting career.

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]]><![CDATA[James Cameron: ‘Titanic was never motivated by an ambition to sweep the box office’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-17/james-cameron-titanic-was-never-motivated-by-an-ambition-to-sweep-the-box-office.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-17/james-cameron-titanic-was-never-motivated-by-an-ambition-to-sweep-the-box-office.htmlFri, 17 Feb 2023 00:04:44 +0000The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, killing 1,496 of the 2,208 people on board. An ocean liner that had taken three years to build went down in less than three hours during its maiden voyage.

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]]><![CDATA[James Cameron, the king of innovation, returns with ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-12/james-cameron-the-king-of-innovation-returns-with-avatar-the-way-of-water.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-12/james-cameron-the-king-of-innovation-returns-with-avatar-the-way-of-water.htmlMon, 12 Dec 2022 11:20:00 +0000What was the name of the lead character in Avatar? What was his village called? And what year does the story take place? When Avatar was released in 2009, it made nearly $3 billion at the box office, making it the highest grossing film in history.

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]]><![CDATA[The unspoken sexual harassment in Spain’s film industry]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-06/the-unspoken-sexual-harassment-in-spains-film-industry.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-06/the-unspoken-sexual-harassment-in-spains-film-industry.htmlMon, 06 Feb 2023 18:39:39 +0000Very few Spanish actresses have ever reported sexual harassment. Maribel Verdú, who has appeared in over 60 movies in a career spanning several decades, did so when she was still underage, showing up at the police station with her parents. Although awareness of abuse has changed since the #MeToo movement erupted in the US, harassment in the Spanish film industry remains for the most part cloaked in silence, as illustrated by the fact that none of the actresses consulted for this story wanted their names in print.

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]]><![CDATA[‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: The indie film that could sweep the Oscars ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-26/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-the-indie-film-that-could-sweep-the-oscars.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-26/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-the-indie-film-that-could-sweep-the-oscars.htmlThu, 26 Jan 2023 18:15:29 +0000Everything Everywhere All at Once was shot in just 38 days between January and March 2020, at the onset of the Covid pandemic. It had a budget of just over $14 million and a team of no more than nine people working on the countless digital effects – two of whom were the directors, who had not previously done anything similar. One of the main roles was being played by an actor emerging from a 20-year retirement.

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]]><![CDATA[Park Chan-wook: ‘I admire Buñuel and the women in his most enigmatic films, and it shows in this thriller’ ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-26/park-chan-wook-i-admire-bunuel-and-the-women-in-his-most-enigmatic-films-and-it-shows-in-this-thriller.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-26/park-chan-wook-i-admire-bunuel-and-the-women-in-his-most-enigmatic-films-and-it-shows-in-this-thriller.htmlThu, 26 Jan 2023 17:11:20 +0000Over the years, Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, 59, has maintained his strength but become more elegant. He began that shift in The Handmaiden (2016), and now he deepens it in Decision to Leave, a film noir brimming with aesthetic ambition, hypnotic narration and attractive characters, especially the two main ones, who adhere to Hollywood’s classic canons: a detective who is led to make the wrong decisions by love and a foreign femme fatale. Of course, nothing is what it seems in Decision to Leave. At the most recent Cannes Film Festival, where this interview was conducted, Park won the best director award.

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]]>Michael Buckner<![CDATA[‘Babylon:’ A love song to the lawless years of Hollywood ]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-21/babylon-a-love-song-to-the-lawless-years-of-hollywood.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-21/babylon-a-love-song-to-the-lawless-years-of-hollywood.htmlSat, 21 Jan 2023 19:05:35 +0000It was the happiest moment of the 20th century, one with unbounded excess and debauchery. The interwar period of the roaring twenties brought a moment of cultural rebirth in Paris, New York, Chicago, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles. The pioneers of cinema had arrived, fleeing Thomas Edison’s patent claims and seeking a place with as many hours of sunshine as possible to shoot movies outdoors. The industry required young bodies, beautiful faces, talented people and tireless work, in exchange for huge profits, fame and glory. On the mountain that borders Los Angeles, the huge Hollywood sign advertised a new development. The studios had flourished at its feet: in the 1920s cinema was already the fifth-largest industry in the United States, but that neighborhood of Los Angeles still was home to empty lots, crops and animals. On the other side of the mountain, in the valley, were the orange groves and the immense estates. In that ecosystem, depravity, art and business came together. Many directors, descendants of the original filmmakers who arrived in California, have paid homage to that moment. The latest is Damien Chazelle with Babylon.

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]]><![CDATA[The war of the superheroes: Will DC disputes give Marvel an edge?]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-16/the-war-of-the-superheroes-will-dc-disputes-give-marvel-an-edge.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-01-16/the-war-of-the-superheroes-will-dc-disputes-give-marvel-an-edge.htmlMon, 16 Jan 2023 12:30:54 +0000For nearly 90 years, Marvel and DC have been locked in a battle for market dominance. The race between these two superhero brands has always been close, but infighting at DC appeared to be giving Marvel an edge. That, however, might change, thanks to James Gunn, who has been appointed the new co-head of Warner Bros’ DC Comics film and TV unit, alongside Peter Safran.

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]]>Kevin Winter<![CDATA[Alejandro González Iñárritu: ‘Depicting your dead son is... liberating. It happened 25 years ago, and I was carrying that fragility around’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-27/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-depicting-your-dead-son-is-liberating-it-happened-25-years-ago-and-i-was-carrying-that-fragility-around.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-27/alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-depicting-your-dead-son-is-liberating-it-happened-25-years-ago-and-i-was-carrying-that-fragility-around.htmlTue, 27 Dec 2022 04:16:09 +0000Film director Alejandro González Iñárritu recalls that the Spanish village of La Torre de Esteban Hambrán had no more than 60 houses in 1982. He and his friend Jaime San Bernardi, two Mexican kids, arrived there after boarding a cargo ship and crossing the Atlantic; after they got there, they ended up picking grapes in town, an hour away from Madrid. It was the second time González Iñárritu had made the journey by boat. “I had no other way to travel because I didn’t have a penny when I was 19,” he recalls now, sitting in a suite at the Mandarin Ritz hotel in Madrid. Things have clearly changed a lot since then.

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]]>Javier Salas<![CDATA[Tom Hanks: ‘Actors are insufferable, selfish and paranoid’]]>https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-15/tom-hanks-actors-are-insufferable-selfish-and-paranoid.htmlhttps://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-12-15/tom-hanks-actors-are-insufferable-selfish-and-paranoid.htmlThu, 15 Dec 2022 13:57:08 +0000Dressed in a dark jacket and white shirt, Tom Hanks, tall and thin since suffering a bad case of Covid-19 in Australia on the set of Elvis, was recently in Spain to promote his latest movie, A Man Called Otto – the Hollywood version of the Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was nominated for two Oscars in 2016. The production is a gentle comedy, less incisive than the original, in which Hanks plays a grumpy, recent retiree who will be awakened from his malaise by a Latin American family that moves into his small neighborhood. As he speaks, Hanks radiates good vibes and in his responses it is sometimes unclear if he is teasing, or perhaps hiding the truth behind a joke.

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