While video game adaptations have had a rocky history, it finally seems like the entertainment industry has found a way to do the classic games justice. Recently both sonic the hedgehog and Unexplored were box office hits, and Super Mario Bros. should be one of the biggest movies of this year. However, there probably hasn’t … Read more
The Annual Meeting of Directors of the Cervantes Institute ended this Wednesday with the presentation of the conclusions, in which a priority issue was addressed: the challenge of digitization and adaptation to the new technological scenario. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, José Manuel Albares, highlighted in a recorded video the “need to optimize … Read more
We sometimes realize after the release of a film that there have been plenty of filming secrets and that production has not been a long calm river. Some directors were forced to use trickery to finish their film or make the producers understand that they had to be left alone. We invite you to see … Read more
05/12/2022 – This residency organized by the festival with Tabakalera and the Elías Querejeta Film School also hosts the next projects of Sameh Alaa, María Alché, Naomi Pacifique and Hikaru Uwagawa This article is available in English. Six film projects have been selected from among the 348 submitted for the ninth edition of Ikusmira Berriakwhich … Read more
French cinema is exported all over the world. And the films of French directors do not only create a sensation in French cinemas. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of talented French filmmakers. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of the greatest current French directors. Indeed, we could have mentioned Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Jean-Jacques Beineix or … Read more
Fox Searchlight unveils the official trailer for new James Bond director Sam Mendes, Empire of Light, starring Olivia Colman. The official trailer for Sam Mendes’ upcoming Empire of Light has been released. While the film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival this fall, and the first trailer was released … Read more
Films created by the directorial duo of “The Manager”, Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat They are the creators of one of the best Argentine series of recent times: Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. The duo is behind the idea and creation of The one in charge, the series that has already broken viewing records on … Read more
Posted Sep 27, 2022, 10:06 AMUpdated on Sep 28, 2022 at 10:57 If some directors have never managed to win the precious sesame what is the Cannes Palme d’or, for others it is almost a formality. Since the creation of the Cannes Film Festival in 1939, eight of them have managed to walk away twice … Read more
In cinema as elsewhere, it is the winners who write history. In Cannes, the Palme d’Or honors each year the filmmakers who obtain it. Webbed doubles like Francis Ford Coppola (“Secret Conversation” in 1974 and “Apocalypse Now” in 1979), Michael Haneke (“White Ribbon” in 2004 and “Love” in 2009), or even more recently Ken Loach, … Read more
Léon Gaumont, the Lumière brothers, Alfred Hitchcock and even Stanley Kubrick are among the top directors. On the other hand, for their female counterparts, it is radio silence. The exploits of female directors seem to have been speeded up throughout history. Wrongly. These ladies, seasoned or not, have many times overshadowed men in the world … Read more