Damien Chazelle: Musicals are the best genre to examine dreams vs reality
In 2013, Damien Chazelle arrived into Sundance Film Festival with “Whiplash,” a drama about a young drummer trying to please his tyrant teacher, and left
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Globes set up La La Land and Moonlight as Oscar front-runners
The 2017 Awards Season has kicked off in earnest with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcing a plethora of nominations covering film and
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Woody Allen: I feel alienated and out of touch
Woody Allen has often described reality as a miserable existence and that he made movies in order to escape it and suppress the thought
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Viggo Mortensen: I played characters I don’t want to meet – TV interview
Before he gained his international fame thanks to playing the role of Aragon in the epic film trilogy “Lord of the Rings,” Viggo
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Nicole Kidman: There is no difference between biological and adopted children – TV interview
Being an adoptive mother, Nicole Kidman felt a special connection with Sue Brierley, whom she played in “Lion,” which tells the story of an Indian
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How did Hollywood pave the way to Trump’s presidency?
Trump resembles many of the heroes in Hollywood movies. He is a white man, who champions the causes of the disenfranchised, loves America and seeks to defend it from the bad aliens, namely Muslims, Mexicans and Chinese.
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Venassa Redgrave: Terrible things done to women in the name of God – TV interview
Regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation, 80-year-old Vanessa Redgrave is still very busy, performing in theatre, TV and film.
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Tim Burton: my directorial decisions are emotional not intellectual – TV interview
Like many of the characters in his earlier movies, such as Alice in Wonderland, Frankenweenies and Edward Scissorhands, the central character in
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Is Whitewashing Ethnic Roles in Hollywood justified?
The visage of Tilda Swinton in Marvel’s recently released “Doctor Strange”, in which the English actress plays the Asian Ancient one, has yet
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Why Can’t China Win an Oscar?
Early this month, the American academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences revealed the list of films from 85 countries that would compete
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