Tag: Gloria
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San Sebastian’s Wip Latam: Grounded Tales & Genre From a Chilean True Horror Tale to the Return of the Antichrist in Colombia
San Sebastian’s pix-in-post showcases have often launched standout movies, such as Sebastian Lelio’s “Gloria,” winner of the Films in Progress Award at the 2012 edition, plus notable directors, such as Jayro Bustamante, whose praised debut “Ixcanul” played at the festival in rough cut in 2015 before winning the Alfred Bauer prize for innovation at 2016’s…
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SNL: Aubrey Plaza and Michael B. Jordan Host First 2023 Shows
NBC’s sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live is returning with new Season 48 episodes, and the first two hosts for 2023 have been announced. Aubrey Plaza and Michael B. Jordan will host the first episodes back and will each be making their hosting debuts. Plaza kicks the new year off on January 21 with musical…
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‘Gloria’ Star Paulina García Heading, Exec Producing Matías Rojas’ ‘Our Memory’ (Exclusive)
Paulina García, who won the Berlinale’s 2013 best actress Silver Bear for her role in Sebastián Lelio’s Chilean drama “Gloria,” is starring in and executive producing Matías Rojas Valencia’s “Our Memory” (“Nuestra Memoria”).The documentary-hybrid is based on Rojas’ research into a powerful enclave in southern Chile and the influence it continues to have on the…
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Florence Pugh To Star in Sebastián Lelio’s ‘The Wonder’
Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio‘s been on quite the tear in the last few years. Between 2017 and 2019, the filmmaker released three films, “A Fantastic Woman” (2017)— which would go on to win the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards—“Disobedience” (2018) and “
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Florence Pugh to Star in Adaptation of Psychological Thriller ‘The Wonder’
Florence Pugh is set to star in “The Wonder,” a big-screen adaptation of the suspenseful novel by Emma Donoghue.Set in the late 1850s, the story follows an English nurse who goes to a tiny village in Ireland to observe what some view as a medical anomaly and others consider a miracle: a young girl who…
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Pop Culture Imports: Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Memories of Murder,’ Sebastián Lelio’s ‘Gloria,’ Jet Li’s ‘Fearless,’ And More
(Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) There’s nothing like a foreign movie to keep you cozy on these cold November nights. This week’s Pop Culture Imports compiles more of the best foreign movies and TV streaming now, including a…
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‘Gloria Bell’ Trailer: Julianne Moore’s Acclaimed Performance Is One Thing to Look Forward to in 2019
Following the Oscar-winning success of “A Fantastic Woman” earlier this year, plus the acclaim he received for his English-language debut “Disobedience,” Chilean director Sebastián Lelio is set to return to theaters in the spring with a remake of his own movie. “Gloria Bell,” based on Lelio’s 2013 comedy-drama “Gloria,” stars Julianne Moore as a divorced…
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Toronto Film Review: Julianne Moore in ‘Gloria Bell’
Sebastián Lelio’s “Gloria Bell” is the second film this year to end with the Laura Branigan song “Gloria” — the kind of high-energy empowerment anthem that re-casts its leading lady in a different light — the other being Netflix’s recent Gloria Allred docu “Seeing Allred.” Speaking of re-casting leading ladies… It also happens to be…
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Rachel Weisz Talks Filming Lesbian Sex in ‘Disobedience’: Sebastián Lelio ‘Doesn’t Objectify, He Subjectifies’
When Rachel Weisz saw Sebastián Lelio’s film 2013 “Gloria,” about a 58-year-old woman’s sexual re-awakening, she knew she could trust the Chilean director with “Disobedience.” It was Weisz who approached author Naomi Alderman about adapting her eponymous novel for the screen, about Ronit (Weisz), a woman who rekindles a teenage affair with Esti, a woman…
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Cannes: FilmNation Closes $120 Million Revolving Credit Facility
In a pre-Cannes Film Festival deal, FilmNation Entertainment has negotiated $120 million in additional capital through a revolving multi-bank credit facility agented by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and co-led by Union Bank.FilmNation made the announcement Wednesday. It said the move greatly expands its financial capabilities as part of its strategic initiative focused on being…