Alessandro Michele at the Venice International Film Festival, September 5, 2022. Andreas Solaro / AFP It won’t last long. Valentino announced the appointment of Alessandro Michele as Creative Director on Thursday, March 28. brand. A position that remained vacant for only a few days: his predecessor, Pierpaolo Piccioli, stepped down on March 22 after twenty-five […]
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American actor Vin Diesel was accused of sexual violence by his former assistant
Vin Diesel in Paris, April 5, 2017. THIBAULT CAMUS / AP American actor Vin Diesel, star of the film franchise Fast and furiousis accused of sexual assault by a former assistant, according to a civil complaint filed Thursday, Dec. 21, in California courts that extended the statute of limitations for sex crimes. The facts in […]
Paris 2024: Filming in the capital will be banned for the first time for three months
Mindy (Ashley Park) and Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) in an episode of Emily in Paris, created by Darren Starr, in 2022. NETFLIX The Olympics and Paralympics (JOP) are coming to Paris at the worst possible time for the film industry. “Summer is traditionally the best time to shoot very spectacular films in the capital. explains […]
‘The Maestro’: Bradley Cooper Orchestrates Leonard Bernstein’s Troubled Love
Bradley Cooper (Leonard Bernstein) and Carey Mulligan (Felicia Montealegre) in The Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper and released on Netflix in 2023. JASON MCDONALD/NETFLIX We can only be careful when we see a Hollywood star trying to take the director’s hat: it always acts on the whim of a spoiled child who wants more than […]
“Munk”: Exploded Portrait of the Tortured Artist
Edvard Munch (Mattis Hermann Nyqvist) in “Munk” by Henrik Martin Dalsbakken. KINOVISTA The opinion of the “world” – why not The previous film about Edvard Munch (1863-1944) takes us back to 1974, the release date of the great feature film. Edvard Munch, The Dance of Life, by the Englishman Peter Watkins, whose integral narrative and […]
A certain cinematic taste for the culinary world
Pauline (Bonnie Chaniot-Ravoir) and Dodin Bouffant (Benoit Magimel) in “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” by Tran An Hung. STÉPHANIE BRANCHU/CURIOSA FILMS Just like reality television, social networks and TV series, culinary aromas have been spreading in cinemas for a long time. As of now, it will be released on November 8th The Passion of Dodin […]
“The Settlers”: A Western Through the Pampas About the Bloody Conquest of Tierra del Fuego
Jose Menendez (Alfredo Castro) in “Columns” by Felipe Galvez. DULAC Distribution The opinion of the “world” – why not At the end of the 19th centurye and XXe Over the centuries, the businessman José Menéndez conquered millions of hectares in Tierra del Fuego, near Chile and Argentina, with the consent of the authorities and the […]
“Menus – delights. Les Troisgros”: Frederic Wiseman’s star-studded holiday
Documentary film “Menus-Pleasures. Three Groceries”, Frederic Wiseman. Meteor movies The meaning of “the world” – should not be missed Even a brief overview of the works of 93-year-old Frederick Wiseman is enough to make you dizzy. In a fifty-six-year career and a good forty films, Excuse Me, the former Boston attorney turned filmmaker in the […]
DVD: “Hello Actors Studio,” a look back at the intellectual and collective epic
Robert De Niro “Hello Actors Studio” (1987), Annie Tresgott. Carlota’s movies Even today, it’s hard to call a great performance by an American actor without “method” and the actors’ studio: two terms that have been like the alpha and omega of American drama since the 1960s. This is Charlize Theron, unidentified monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003); […]
“For Your Wedding”: Our Milstein unravels the threads of his life
Enrico Macias, Ouri Milstein and Jocia Macias for “Your Wedding” by Ouri Milstein. REZO FILMS The meaning of “the world” – should not be missed From the unhappy consciousness of the world – asserts a litany of tragic experiences – what can we do in cinema? Several masterpieces of melodrama answer the question. Oury Milstein, […]