Friday, Dec. 9, 2022

The wait was worth it for editor Monika Willi. Eleven years after being approached to work on a prospective project that ultimately didn’t come to fruition with writer-director Todd Field, Willi got another call from the master auteur--this time yielding Tár (Focus Features). Among the...

Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022

When Cate Blanchett stepped out of her first screening for " Tár," she wanted to immediately go back and watch it again.

Sure, she might be a little biased considering she stars in the film ( and learned how to speak German, conduct an orchestra and play piano for the role ), but it's not...

Friday, Oct. 7, 2022

Cate Blanchett has heard the line before. "I wrote this part for you" is a director-actor pickup line, she said. It is not usually to be believed.

But what she didn't know when Todd Field sent her his script for "Tár," a modern-day parable about an extraordinary conductor and composer at...

Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022

"Time is the thing," says Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Fields' "Tár"

Lydia, a world-renown conductor, is explaining her art as more than waving a baton around — not a mere "human metronome" — but rather an almost god-like ability to mold and contort time. The way Blanchett says this...

Saturday, Sep. 10, 2022

"All the Beauty and the Bloodshed," Laura Poitras's epic documentary about photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the Sackler family and their art connections has been awarded the Golden Lion for best film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.

Poitras, the American...

Thursday, Sep. 1, 2022

Todd Field didn't write "TÁR" with Cate Blanchett in mind. He wrote it for Cate Blanchett only. If she didn't want to do it, it wouldn't exist.

The film, which is having its world premiere Thursday night in competition at the Venice International Film Festival, looks at an extraordinary...

Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021

With a touch of Barbara Stanwyck, a sumptuous Art Deco office and a deadly shade of crimson lipstick, Cate Blanchett plays a femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro's "Nightmare Alley" with cunning embrace and subversion of the film noir archetype. 

If "Nightmare Alley" is del Toro's lushly...

Wednesday, Sep. 9, 2020

Hong Kong director Ann Hui paid tribute to her home city as she received a lifetime achievement award from the Venice International Film Festival.

The acclaimed director said she wanted to "revert this honor back to Hong Kong," the city where she grew up.

"It has given me an...

Thursday, Sep. 3, 2020

Two stars at the Venice Film Festival, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, have praised the decision by the Berlin festival to award gender-neutral prizes, with Swinton predicting other award ceremonies will follow suit.

Organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival announced last...

Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2020

The beachfront terrace at the Excelsior Hotel, usually hopping with movie industry VIPs and minor celebrities, is pleasantly quiet. The red carpet has a three-meter-high (ten-foot) wall blocking the public's view. Veteran film-goers walk away dejected after being told they had to reserve seats...

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