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Basque Cinema Gets Its Goyas Moment
The region in northern Spain is reaping the rewards of its years-long production investment, heading into "the Spanish Oscars" with a record 45 nominations.
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Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg Rewrote Hollywood’s Rules in the Chaotic 70s. Who’s Doing That Now?
The conditions that birthed the last golden age of cinema — bloody conflict abroad, corruption in politics... — are back in force, and posed to yield a new generation of iconoclastic filmmakers.
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Rupert Grint on His Love of Puppets, ‘Potter’ and Accidentally Becoming a (Kind of) Scream King
He became the child star of all child stars through the '00s. Here, the Brit talks 'Harry Potter' and Finnish folklore ahead of the Berlinale premiere of 'Nightborn.'
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How Laurence Olivier’s ‘Hamlet’ Set the Stage for Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’
‘Hamet’ is competing in eight Oscar categories this year, seven decades after ‘Hamlet’ scored four wins (including best picture).
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Tig Notaro, Oscar Nominee, Is Finally Taking Herself “More Seriously”
The beloved comedian produced 'Come See Me in the Good Light,' the wrenching Oscar nominee for best documentary — and has reconsidered herself as an artist in the process.
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‘The Secret Agent’ Casting Director Reveals the Role That Was Hardest to Cast
“Sometimes the most difficult thing is to not do the obvious thing,” says Oscar nominee Gabriel Domingues.
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Inside Marvel’s Meta ‘Wonder Man’ Campaign
Few actors are willing to play their characters outside of a TV show or movie, but Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sir Ben Kingsley were happy to help Marvel create an outside-the-box marketing campaign: "They understood exactly what we were trying to do.”
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“The System That’s Supposed to Protect You Becomes a Nightmare” – Juliette Binoche on ‘Queen at Sea,” Aging and Alzheimer’s
The European screen icon on stepping into British social realism with Lance Hammer’s Berlin competition drama — and why films about aging, illness and family live in “that in-between time where things can go out of control."
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Berlin Hidden Gem: The Ballad of a Metal God (Who Happened to Be Gay)
How a Rage Against the Machine rocker and former anthropologist turned it up to 11 with a heart-felt, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the band that “created the culture of heavy metal.”
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Rose Byrne Says She’s “Gifted at Disassociating”
The Oscar-nominated Aussie breaks down how she remained sane during her stressful turn in Mary Bronstein’s ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.’
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“It’s Up to Us to Tell the Truth”: Warwick Thornton on Exploring Indigenous Trauma With Berlin-Premiering Outback Western ‘Wolfram’
The Aboriginal filmmaker drew on his own family history to tell the story of Indigenous children forced into labor in Australia’s tungsten mines in the 1930s.
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Sony Pictures Animation Bosses on ‘KPop’ Netflix Plans, ‘Spider-Verse’ Pressure and Betting on ‘GOAT’
Kristine Belson and Damien de Froberville make quietly radical creative choices, gambling — and winning — on 'Demon Hunters' and the 'Spider-Verse' franchise. Now they are back with 'GOAT,' their first theatrical effort in almost three years.
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James Van Der Beek’s “I Don’t Want Your Life!” Scene in ‘Varsity Blues’ Was All of Us in 1999
Fire that f***king pigskin!
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The Best Six Weeks of Bella Ramsey’s Life: How ‘Sunny Dancer’ Gave Them the “Teenage Years I Never Got”
The 'Game of Thrones' and 'Last of Us' star shook off their big-show burnout filming George Jaues’ sophomore feature, about a group of cancer survivor teens at summer camp.
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“We’ll Put Out the Films That Others Won’t”: Inside Watermelon Pictures’ Fearless Bet on Political Cinema
Brothers Badie and Hamza Ali are building an indie distributor and their own streaming platform around Palestinian stories and other films the industry is scared to touch.
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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ VFX Team Takes “Real Issue” With Oscars Overlooking Departments for Using CG
“That’s just like saying our performers are not actors,” says VFX supervisor and second unit director Richard Baneham.
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