It’s All Relative: Thrillers Brimming With Family Secrets
The best-selling author Nina Simon recommends mystery novels where blood is thicker than murder.
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Spain’s SETT Drives $521 Million Investment Push to Build Global Audiovisual Players
No Spanish industry initiative is likely to drive more conversation at this year’s San Sebastián Festival than the latest moves by the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT). Over the past 12 months, state-backed venture capital fund SETT, the investment driver of the Spain Audiovisual Hub, has plowed €215.6 million ($252.3 million) into Spain’s film, […]
Go Back-To-School Shopping In Diagon Alley And I'll Tell You What Your Wizarding World Career Would Be
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Naomi Watts Believes Standards Have Changed for Older Women in the Industry: ‘Look at the Emmys Last Week… That’s Heartening to See’
British actor Naomi Watts, at the San Sebastián Film Festival to receive this year’s prestigious Donostia Award, spoke about opportunities in the industry for women over 50. Talking a week after Sarah Paulson told Variety about the lack of film offers following her spellbinding portrait of Marcia Clark in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American […]
Naomi Watts Says She’d Like To Work With Paul Thomas Anderson & Praises The Advancements Older Women Have Made In Hollywood — San Sebastián
“I started, by Hollywood standards, quite late,” Naomi Watts began this morning when quizzed on whether the treatment of older women in Hollywood has improved during a press conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival. The British-Aussie actor is at the Spanish festival to receive an honorary Donostia Award for career achievement. “I launched with […]
10 Songs We’re Talking About
Riley Green measures milestones, Grand Theft Audio VI flaunts collaboration, Kate Nash chooses to shout and more.
5 Takeaways from the ‘Jay-Z in 8’ Documentary
The rapper unpacks the lyrics to more than two dozen of his songs and shares insights into his life with Rick Rubin, in a docuseries airing on HBO.
Canada-U.S. Tensions Play Out in Unexpected Ways at Film Festival
In Toronto, small jokes and big worries show how relations between the two countries affect not just politics.
A Vision of Chekhov’s ‘Cherry Orchard’ Rooted in Modern Korea
The director and writer Simon Stone updated the classic work to reflect the world we live in with this Korean-language adaptation at the Park Avenue Armory.
Can a New Museum Persuade Austria to Finally Love ‘The Sound of Music’?
For decades, Salzburg residents dismissed the hit musical as kitsch. Now, a dedicated space aims to reconcile movie myth and local history.
Rob Lowe Watches ‘The Godfather’ With His Dogs
Now that his sons are out of the house, the actor said, “our dogs are now actually our kids, and they sit and watch TV with us.”
Her Brother’s Dying Wish Was to Make a Podcast. First They Had to Make Up.
Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman had bitter fights with her brother. With “My Brother David,” she tries to set things right.
Writer-Star Berto Romero, Director Javier Ruiz Caldera Unpack San Sebastian Buzz Title ‘5 More Minutes’: ‘Characters and Audience Should Feel Every Second’s Weight’
World-premiering in San Sebastián main competition, Javier Ruiz Caldera’s time-warping drama ‘5 More Minutes’ (‘5 Minutos Más’) suggests one way an on-the rocks relationship may come closer together again: by plunging them into the makings of a global apocalypse. Writer-star Berto Romero (“The Other Side”) and Belen Cuesta (“The Endless Trench”) play a couple who […]