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Altitude has released the UK trailer for Award-winning director Walter Salles’ acclaimed ‘I’m Still Here.’

Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. We are introduced to the Paivas: a father, Rubens (Selton Mello), a mother, Eunice (Fernanda Torres), and their five children. They live by the beach, in a rented house with doors constantly open to friends. The affection and humour they share among themselves are their own subtle forms of resistance to the oppression that hangs over the country. One day, they suffer a violent and arbitrary act that will forever change their lives. In the aftermath, Eunice is forced to reinvent herself and carve out a new future for herself and her children.

The story of this family, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s bestselling memoir helped to reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.

Directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Torres,...

Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles has been wrestling with languages his whole life. He grew up in Rio de Janeiro and Paris and studied at USC, becoming fluent in his native Portuguese and French plus English. When he followed up his Oscar-nominated and Golden Bear-winning “Central Station” (1998) with “The Motorcycle Diaries” (2004), he became fluent in Spanish.

“I couldn’t possibly do ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ without having an in-depth understanding of Spanish,” said Salles on Zoom, “because directing actors has so much to do with precision, with the capacity to find that one word that can trigger something fresh and new. Whenever you have to rationally extend yourself, create a sentence, as opposed to that specific word that untaps something, you miss an opportunity.”

But after struggling with his 2012 English-language adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” a beloved novel, he did not make another feature film for 12 years. “I’m...

It’s an emotional morning for Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres, as they speak about their Golden Globes nominations. Their film I’m Still Here, directed by Salles, received a nomination in the Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language category and Torres received a nomination for her performance as well. Any nomination could make for an emotional morning, but what makes today truly special is actually two nominations that happened over two decades ago.

“It’s an emotional moment because 25 years ago, Fernanda Montenegro was nominated for Central Station and Central Station was also nominated,” says Salles. “And then this year it happens again with a film that is very dear to us and Fernanda is also recognized as her mother was, so it makes this moment really unique for us.”

Saying I’m Still Here is very dear to them is not an exaggeration for Salles, as the film exploring the determination...

Fernanda Torres has earned the first Golden Globe nomination of her career for her acclaimed performance in Walter Salles‘ “I’m Still Here.” Her nomination comes exactly 25 years after her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, received recognition in the same category for “Central Station,” a performance that would go on to earn the screen legend an Academy Award nomination. As Torres told Gold Derby in an interview about her nomination this morning, that resonance makes the recognition even more meaningful.

“It’s really emotional to think that this is a recognition of the partnership I have with Walter, to walk in the same path as my mother walked with him 25 years ago, and the idea that Brazil was able to produce generations of creative people able to be in the world and talk about Brazil again through Walter, [who] is this great, great friend and maestro, of course it’s very touching, it’s unbelievable.

The 2025 Golden Globes nominations will be announced shortly, and there are quite a number of international films in contention for other major categories outside of Best Non-English Language Film. This will be the second year of the new voting body, which has expanded by adding 215 international voters, something that was evident in the plethora of foreign-language films represented last year outside of the designated category: “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Zone of Interest,” “Fallen Leaves,” and “Past Lives.”

It is predicted that France’s “Emilia Pérez” will be recognized across the board, but let’s take a look at three international films underneath the surface that can potentially get other Golden Globe bids, in particular “I’m Still Here” from Brazil, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” from Germany and “All We Imagine as Light” from France, India, and the Netherlands.

Starting with “All We Imagine As Light,” which has had a great week,...

For an impossibly long time, we luxuriate in a family living their best lives in Rio.

We know what’s coming in this haunted movie, and yet the 1970s nirvana washes over us: mother and father throwing spontaneous dance parties as the children and neighbors join in, a family heading out for an endless-summer kind of day at the beach.

By the time the unthinkable happens more than 30 minutes in, we are so sunburnt by the tropical glow we have to blink to be certain of what we saw. Did that really happen? Was the father really taken in for “questioning” by Brazil’s military dictatorship, never to be seen again?

Such is the low-key wallop of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here. Inspired by real events and the director’s own childhood visitations at the home of the family portrayed in the movie (the father is the real-life anti-dictatorial congressman...

The new, award-winning live-action political drama feature “I'm Still Here”, directed by Walter Salles (“On The Road”), based on the biographical book by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, stars Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, and Fernanda Montenegro, opening January 17, 2025 in theaters:

“…in 1917 Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian family sees their father taken away by the dictatorship government, never to be seen again.

“Now the lives of ‘Eunice Paiva’ and her five children abruptly change after the disappearance of her husband…

“…former ‘Brazilian Labour Party’ congressman ‘Rubens Paiva’…”

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The latest feature from Walter Salles tells the remarkable story of Eunice Paiva. Known as a human rights activist in Brazil, Paiva became a lawyer after her husband Rubens was disappeared during the Brazilian dictatorship, in 1971. The film follows her quest for justice all the way up to the modern day.

“I’m Still Here” marks the first feature film by Salles since 2012’s “On the Road,” though he directed shorts and a documentary about Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke. As a child Salles knew the Paiva family, though the film is not a memoir from his perspective.

Instead, it’s adapted from an autobiography by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the son in the family, and reorients the story around matriarch Eunice. She’s played in a fiercely concentrated, Gena Rowlands-caliber performance, by Fernanda Torres – and in a late-film cameo by Torres’s mother Fernanda Montenegro, 95, an Oscar nominee for Salles’s “Central Station.

“I’ve never worked with such a profound character,” reveals Fernanda Torres about starring in the critically acclaimed “I’m Still Here.” For our recent webchat the renowned Brazilian actress adds, “there are so many layers of doubt and anger and fear. This is a tragic story which is not a melodrama. It’s not something that you just rely on your self-pity. You have to be strong. Eunice is such a profound character with so many contradictions,” she says, noting that the film and Eunice’s story ultimately stand for “the importance of art, the resistance of art, the importance of freedom, and all of that Eunice teaches us to do, not by screaming, but with civility, humanity, and dignity.” Watch our video interview above.

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“I’m Still Here” is directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega,...

At a moment in history where developed democracies around the world seem receptive to political candidates with authoritarian tendencies, the story of Rubens and Eunice Paiva feels increasingly relevant. Rubens was a Brazilian politician who was murdered for his opposition to the implementation of military dictatorship in 1968. After his death, Eunice established herself as one of the nation’s most committed human rights activists.

The story of clinging to principles in unimaginably challenging circumstances comes to life in Walter Salles’ new film “I’m Still Here,” which opens in theaters in January 2025. The biopic aims to put Eunice Paiva in the spotlight and shine new light on a dark chapter in South American history.

An official synopsis of the film reads, “Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government.

"It's gotten too dangerous here..." Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the US trailer for acclaimed Brazilian film I'm Still Here, the first feature film from director Walter Salles in 12 years. He's best known for his earlier work - directing the films Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water, On the Road. The film tells a true story about a Brazilian family whose father is taken by the government & never seen again. Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1971 - a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by a heinous act. The lives of Eunice Paiva and her five children abruptly change after the disappearance of her husband – former Brazilian Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva. The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice, Selton Mello, and Fernanda Montenegro. This first premiered at the Venice Film Festival,...

This fall, Walter Salles finally returned with his first feature in 12 twelve years, the moving political/family drama I’m Still Here. Led by a powerhouse performance by Fernanda Torres alongside Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro, Sony Classics will give Brazil’s Oscar entry a qualifying run beginning next week in LA before opening on January 17. Ahead of the release, the U.S. trailer has arrived for the Venice, TIFF, and NYFF selection.

Here’s the synopsis: “Brazil, 1971. Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, this story portrays an important part of Brazil’s hidden history. “

Savina Petkova said in her review, “Torres is stellar, even with such a hermetic character. Eunice is stoic, almost saintly in her devotion to family,...

On Tuesday, Sony Pictures Classics released the trailer for “I’m Still Here,” Brazil’s submission for International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

“I’m Still Here” tells the true story of the Paiva family, whose lives were torn apart by the Brazilian military dictatorship in the 1970s, but rebuilt through resilience. In 1971, Labour Party congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) is disappeared by the military, leaving his wife Eunice alone to care for their five children. But rather than be silenced in fear, Eunice becomes an activist fighting for justice against the oppressive regime, bringing hidden history to light.

The film is directed by Walter Salles, who is making his return to the director’s chair 12 years after his last film, 2012’s “On the Road.” He’s reuniting with his “Central Station” star Montenegro, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in the 1998 film and is still...

Korean actor Hoyeon is joining Theo James in Kim Jee-woon’s The Hole thriller.

The indie follows Owen, played by James, as a successful professor living in South Korea and bedridden after a devastating car accident killed his wife, Sandy (Hoyeon). Owen is cared for by Yuna, his Korean mother-in-law, who starts to unravel the truth behind Owen and Sandy’s marriage, only to threaten his road to recovery.

Hoyeon made her acting debut in the first season of Netflix’s Squid Game series, and also appears in Alfonso Cuarón’s psychological thriller Disclaimer for Apple TV+. Hoyeon also has an upcoming starring role in Na Hong-jin’s Hope, opposite Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender.

The Veterans is shopping the international rights to The Hole starting at AFM this week, while CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group are representing the U.S. rights. Sam Esmail, Chad Hamilton and...

“I’m Still Here” is not the first film that writer/director Walter Salles has made about the consequences of living under a military dictatorship, as his personal politics have become an inseparable aspect of his identity as an artist. Salles’ films have all been highly specific in calling out the evils of fascism and militarism, but that does not mean his work should generally be classified as some form of protest art.

Salles is a humanist, which is perhaps why he is so adamant about recognizing political structures in which power is not concentrated. “I’m Still Here” is perhaps not revolutionary in its topic of interest, but considering that Salles is one of the few living filmmakers who is so open about the necessity of addressing the past, it is just as critical to his arc as a storyteller as career highlights like “Dark Water” and the Oscar-nominated “The Motorcycle Diaries.

Exclusive: Amid a surfeit of horror projects heading to next week’s American Film Market, here instead comes a legit blue chip crime-drama-thriller in the shape of James Gray’s next movie, Paper Tiger, which will star Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Emmy and Tony winner Jeremy Strong and Oscar winner Anne Hathaway.

This is the type of project buyers we’ve spoken to this week have been crying out for. Something elevated. Five of Gray’s films have competed for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Based on Gray’s original screenplay, the story is set to follow two brothers who pursue the American Dream—only to become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through an ever-more dangerous world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their family brutally terrorized by the Russian “Mafiya.

Sony Pictures Classics on Wednesday announced release dates for two of its acclaimed festival titles, The Room Next Door and I’m Still Here, both of which premiered in Venice.

Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, who has long been in business with the studio, The Room Next Door will be released in NY and L.A. theaters on December 20 and expand to select cities on January 10 before opening nationwide on January 17.

Directed by Walter Salles from a script by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, I’m Still Here is getting a one-week awards-qualifying run in November and releases in New York and Los Angeles on January 17 before expanding to theaters nationwide on February 14.

Taking home the top prize of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, and John Turturro, marks Almodóvar’s first English-language feature. The film follows Ingrid...

Sony Pictures Classics has updated its release dates for awards contenders The Room Next Door and I’m Still Here.

Pedro Almodóvar’s euthanasia drama The Room Next Door won the Venice Golden Lion and will open theatrically on December 20 in New York and Los Angeles, before expanding to select cities on January 10, 2025, and then opening nationwide on January 17, 2025.

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star as reunited friends who spend a month together after one reveals she has a terminal illness. John Turturro also stars. The feature marksSpanish maestroAlmodóvar’s first in English.

Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here will open in...

by Cláudio Alves

Fernanda Montenegro in Walter Salles' I'm Still Here.

This past week, Fernanda Montenegro celebrated her 95th birthday. A living legend of Brazilian culture in various mediums, she is our oldest living Best Actress nominee. Montenegro is back on the awards trail with Walter Salles' I'm Still Here. While her late-film cameo won't excite many voters, Brazil's Best International Film submission is raking in Audience Awards at festivals worldwide and sterling reviews to match. Perhaps Sony Pictures Classics can even look away from Saoirse Ronan and Almodóvar's leading ladies for a moment, and mount a Best Actress campaign for Fernanda Torres. Her performance as Eunice Paiva is nothing short of magnificent.

Though a longshot, Torres' nomination would be amply deserved, making her and Montenegro one of the few mother-daughter duos to score acting Oscar nominations. It's a very exclusive club that includes…...

Brazil has selected Walter Salles’ well-received comeback feature I’m Still Here to represent it in the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

The picture stars Fernanda Torres as the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva disappeared in the early years of the 1964-1985 Brazilian military dictatorship.

Torres’ mother Fernanda Montenegro, who is considered one of the greatest Brazilian actresses of all time, also briefly shares the Eunice Paiva role, appearing as the protagonist in her final years. They are joined in the cast by Selton Mello as Rubens Paiva.

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The project also reunites Salles with his regular collaborator, the director Daniela Thomas, who takes an artistic producer credit.

The picture enjoyed a buzzy world premiere in Venice in Competition, receiving a 10-minute ovation and going on to win Best Screenplay for Heitor Lorega and Murilo Hauser.

The Oscars race is wide open this year, and so is the question of which film will win the coveted TIFF Audience Award.

With A-listers like Selena Gomez and Angelina Jolie and breakout stars like Mikey Madison and Gabriel Labelle, the 49th annual Toronto International Film Festival concludes on Sunday after screening 278 films over its 10-day run. Following Pedro Almodóvar’s stunning melodrama, “The Room Next Door,” taking the Golden Lion at Venice, attention shifts to the Canadian festival to see which film will get a significant boost in the early days of the best picture race.

While some films here scream awards potential, others are destined only for commercial success, while others are just blips in the massive lineup. Below are potential awards contenders from other films screened at the festival and Variety’s predictions on which film will win the TIFF Audience Award on Sunday, Sept. 15.

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Apocalypse in the Tropics

Venice, Telluride

Brazilian documentarian Petra Costa chronicles the dire state of democracy with this eye-opening exposé, delving into the troubling ties linking Christian evangelism and politics. Getting up close and personal with some powerful people amid a wave of social and political unrest, she shifts between the epic and the intimate, history and the present, to shed light on a phenomenon not only in her home nation, but around the world. — Jordan Mintzer

April

Venice, Toronto

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s miraculous feature centers on an Ob-gyn (a marvelous Ia Sukhitashvili) who performs secret abortions for desperate women in deepest rural Georgia. Like Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the drama emphasizes the risks of backstreet terminations as well as the shame and expense that prevent access. Offsetting the grimness of it all are bouts of transcendent beauty. — Leslie Felperin

Babygirl

Venice, Toronto

A spectacular Nicole Kidman...

With the possible exception of the animated feature The Wild Robot, no film that has had its world premiere or North American premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival has been more warmly received than I’m Still Here, Walter Salles’ deeply moving portrait of one family’s experience under the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 through 1985.

After being unveiled last week at the Venice Film Festival, where the jury awarded it the best screenplay prize, the film debuted in Toronto at the TIFF Lightbox on Monday afternoon, where — in the presence of Salles and stars Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello — it was greeted with an enthusiastic minute-long standing ovation. (Unlike Cannes and Venice, Toronto is not a fest where standing ovations of any length are a given).

I’m Still Here was adapted from Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 book Ainda Estou Aqui by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, and centers on the Paiva family,...

Walter Salles’ drama I’m Still Here enjoyed a buzzy world premiere in competition at Venice, with Fernanda Torres’ lead performance putting her among the hot contenders for the best actress prize, and now arrives in Toronto for its North American debut before heading to San Sebastian.

Torres plays the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva disappeared in the early years of the 1964 to 1985 Brazilian military dictatorship.

The civil engineer and former leftist congressman had initially gone into exile after the coup but returned to Brazil to reunite with his wife and children, taking up residence in a beachfront house in Rio de Janeiro. He was abducted from his home in 1971 by military forces and never seen again by his family.

Eunice Paiva relentlessly pursued the truth about what happened to her husband at the same time as keeping a roof over the heads of their five children.

Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” tells the deeply moving true story of the Paiva family and their experiences during Brazil’s military dictatorship from the 1960s through the 1980s. Living in sun-drenched Rio de Janeiro, the large extended family led a joyful life surrounded by friends. But darkness soon falls over their household after Rubens, the father, is suddenly taken away by the regime for interrogation and never returns.

Left to raise their five children alone, Rubens’ resilient wife Eunice rises to the challenge. In a quietly powerful performance, Fernanda Torres captures Eunice’s inner strength and fortitude as she shields the family from the full harshness of their new reality. As timely interviews reveal the system’s refusal to acknowledge victims like Rubens, Eunice begins piecing together his secret life of political involvement.

Through Salles’ empathetic direction and Adrian Teijido’s gorgeous cinematography blending grainy film with nostalgic home movies,...

Walter Salles’ 1998 international breakthrough, Central Station, earned an Oscar nomination for the magnificent Fernanda Montenegro. Now in her 90s, the actress turns up toward the end of the director’s first feature in his native Brazil in 16 years, the shattering I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), in a role that requires her to speak only through her expressive eyes. What makes the connection even more poignant is that she appears as the elderly, infirm version of the protagonist — a woman of quiet strength and resistance played by Montenegro’s daughter, Fernanda Torres, with extraordinary grace and dignity in the face of emotional suffering.

Many powerful films have been made about the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil, from 1964 through 1985, just as they have about similar oppressive regimes in neighboring South American countries like Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. The human rights abuses of systematic torture, murder and forced disappearances represent an...

As the title might suggest, Walter Salles’ first dramatic feature in 12 years is ultimately a celebration of Brazil — not only of the resilience of its liberalism under tyrannical rulers, but of its sunlight, its carnival spirit and the delicious blue of the sea that rolls onto Rio de Janeiro’s broad beaches. I’m Still Here tells the true story of the Paivas and their five children, whose easy, giggling closeness is documented by middle daughter Eliana with her Super 8 camera — the Christmas present of choice in 1970 — in a film we see within the film. The military dictatorship has its grip on the country. It is an act of rebellion to be happy.

So we watch the Paivas, a couple still visibly in love after a few decades of marriage, playing beach volleyball with their children, dad-dancing to pop songs and eating lavish dinners. Their rented house is already too small for them all,...

Walter Salles’ deeply poignant “I’m Still Here,” the Brazilian director’s return to his homeland and to the filmmaking form that yielded his Oscar-nominated “Central Station,” begins where maybe every movie set in Rio de Janeiro should: at the beach. A stray dog disturbs a game of volleyball. Girls dab Coca-cola onto their skin as tanning lotion. Little kids play football and flirty teens trade gossip about pop stars and boys they like. In the sparkling water, Eunice Paiva (a stunning turn from Salles regular Fernanda Torres) floats on her back, squinting against the sun. There isn’t a cloud in the sky. But there is a helicopter.

It is Christmastime in 1970 and Brazil is six years deep into the military dictatorship that would last for another 15. But on a day like this, amongst people like the Paiva family – Eunice, her engineer husband Rubens (Selton Mello) their five volleyball-playing, Coke-tanning,...

The Venice Film Festival — which gets underway today — has in recent decades fired the starting gun on the “traditional” awards season.

This year’s festival is stacked with A-list talent. It’s perhaps starrier than ever. The roll call includes Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega, Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, Daniel Craig, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Costner, Sigourney Weaver, Nicole Kidman, Isabelle Huppert, Winona Ryder, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe and many more.

In terms of awards hopefuls, Warner Bros’ Joker: Folie à Deux, Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut The Room Next Door, Angelina Jolie starrer Maria and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer are among those jostling for liftoff at the event, which is firmly established as a key Academy launchpad.

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This isn’t the year’s first glimpse at awards hopefuls, however. In reality,...

The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival officially kicks off on Wednesday with the eyes of the film world focused on the Lido.

Long-running festival director Alberto Barbera and his team have unveiled a star-studded lineup, including possible awards season contenders. But which premieres can’t be missed amid the busy program?

THR‘s chief movie critic David Rooney looked through the selection of the big Italian festival to pick some of the most intriguing prospects.

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When Brady Corbet was in Venice at age 16 with Mysterious Skin, instead of flying home with his director Gregg Araki and co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, he stayed on a couple extra days to see the new Claire Denis film, The Intruder. That same cinephile curiosity is evident in the choice of filmmakers with whom he’s worked, among them Michael Haneke, Sean Durkin, Lars von Trier, Olivier Assayas and Mia Hansen-Love. Co-written with Mona Fastvold,...

Boatloads of high-wattage stars are set to disembark at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Monica Bellucci, Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega are among A-list talents toplining high-profile titles that will premiere at the Lido’s Palazzo del Cinema.

But besides being a glitzy affair, Venice’s upcoming 81st edition – which features a rich mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres – also looks set to bolster the event’s status as the top destination for studios and streamers to build Oscar campaigns and a prime launchpad for the cream of the year’s cinematic crop.

As anticipated by Variety, “Joker 2: Folie à Deux” — Todd Phillips’ edgy musical sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion prizewinning “Joker,” starring Gaga and Phoenix — is once again...

Altitude Film Distribution has picked up a raft of titles to release in UK-Ireland in the next six months, including Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, which is the opening film of the San Sebastian film festival in September.

Noemie Merlant, Naomi Watts, Jamie Campbell Bower and Will Sharpe star in Emmanuelle, about a woman’s erotic fantasies when she travels to Hong Kong on a business trip.

The Veterans is handling sales with Pathe releasing in France on September 25. Neon has North American rights.

The film is Diwan’s English-language debut and is based on Emmanuelle Arsan’s French novel about...

On Saturday, June 15, 2024, TCM presents a special double feature curated by celebrated filmmaker Gina Prince-Blythewood. The episode will showcase the films “Central Station” (1998) and “Fruitvale Station” (2013), with Prince-Blythewood joining host Ben Mankiewicz to discuss her selections. “Central Station,” directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, tells the story of a […]

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Exclusive: Out of the Cannes market, Sony Pictures Classics has bought North American rights and a raft of international territories on Walter Salles’ anticipated first narrative feature in more than a decade: I’m Still Here.

In I’m Still Here, the acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, known for critical hits such as Oscar nominee Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, has tackled the emotional and powerful true story of a woman who is forced into activism after her husband is captured by the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s.

The film reunites Salles with his Oscar-nominated Central Station star Fernanda Montenegro, one of Brazil’s most acclaimed actors, and her daughter Fernanda Torres, with whom the filmmaker has worked multiple times. It also reunites the filmmaker with SPC who previously released 1998 hit Central Station, which won the Berlin Golden Bear and was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Montenegro...

Los Angeles, March 10 (Ians) ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ star Lily Gladstone, who’s a huge fan of Cate Blanchett, recently told ‘People’ magazine that she was disappointed when her “ultimate actress” did not win the Academy Award for her role as Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur’s 1998 biographical period drama, says The Hollywood Reporter.

“I have idolised Cate Blanchett since I was a teenager. When … she was up for ‘Elizabeth’ at the Oscars and didn’t win, I remember just being really, really upset about that,” this year’s Best Actress Oscar nominee said to ‘People’. “She is my ultimate actress. I think she is the great talent of this generation.”

At the 71st Academy Awards, Blanchett was nominated alongside Fernanda Montenegro, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson and Gwyneth Paltrow, who ultimately won the Oscar for ‘Shakespeare in Love’, notes The Hollywood Reporter.

Gladstone, who is nominated for her first...

It’s not unknown that Lily Gladstone is a huge fan of Cate Blanchett, but the actress is recalling her reaction when Blanchett missed out on an Oscar for Elizabeth.

The Killers of the Flower Moon star recently told People magazine that she was disappointed when the Tár actress didn’t win the Academy Award for best actress for her role as Elizabeth I in the 1998 biographical period drama.

“I’ve idolized Cate Blanchett since I was a teenager. When … she was up for Elizabeth at the Oscars and didn’t win, I remember just being really, really upset about that,” Gladstone said. “She’s my ultimate actress. I think she’s the great talent of this generation.”

That year at the 71st Academy Awards, Blanchett was nominated alongside Fernanda Montenegro, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson and Gwyneth Paltrow, who ultimately won the Oscar for Shakespeare in Love.

Gladstone, who is...

The 2023 Oscar nominees for Best Actress are Cate Blanchett (“Tar”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”), Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”), Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”), and Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”). Our current odds indicate that Yeoh (82/25) will take the prize, followed in order by Blanchett (18/5), Williams (9/2), Riseborough (9/2), and de Armas (9/2).

Blanchett, who triumphed here in 2014 for “Blue Jasmine,” is the only past Oscar winner in this lineup. She now belongs to a group of 20 women with at least five Best Actress nominations apiece, with her previous unsuccessful bids having come for “Elizabeth” (1999), “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” (2008), and “Carol” (2016). She also has a supporting victory to her name for “The Aviator” (2005) as well as two more notices in that category for “Notes on a Scandal” (2007) and “I’m Not There” (2008). Her overall nomination total of eight is the one of the highest for an actress, behind Meryl Streep (21), Katharine Hepburn (12), and Bette Davis...

The 2023 Oscar nominations were a mixed bag in terms of diversity — with no Black actors nominated in the lead acting categories and women shut out for best director — but there was one particular milestone worth applauding. With nods for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu (all for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”) and Hong Chau (“The Whale”), the number of Asian acting nominees reached the most recognized in a single year ever at four nominations.

This figure surpasses the lineup from 2004, which included Indian and Iranian actors Ben Kingsley and Shohreh Aghdashloo (both for “House of Sand and Fog”) and Japanese star Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai”).

“Everything Everywhere All At Once,” written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, was the top film with 11 nominations, many of which held historical significance. The Daniels are the fifth duo nominated for directing, with Kwan’s nominations for directing and...

It took 59 years for Michelle Yeoh to land her first lead role in a Hollywood film. And it’s taken 95 years for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize a woman who identifies as Asian in its best actress category.

On Tuesday morning, the Malaysian-born performer, who became a movie star in Hong Kong before successfully crossing over to the global stage, received her expected Academy Award nomination for her multifaceted role in A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once. It is the first career Oscar nod for the beloved icon, 60, known stateside for her supporting (yet scene-stealing) turns in such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies and Crazy Rich Asians. But for the Academy, the achievement is even more consequential.

Oscars’ best actress category is historically one of the awards body’s whitest and least diverse, certainly among the four acting races. Women...

If someone told me a decade ago that the woman who would play Marilyn Monroe in a fictionalized biopic of her life would have the best chance of being the one Latina woman nominated at this year’s Oscars for best actress, I would have asked, “where is Ashton Kutcher? Because clearly, I’m on ‘Punk’d’?”

But what could have seemed like a fever dream may soon become reality, Ana de Armas has done the impossible with her intoxicating portrayal of the classic starlet in Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” and the Academy Awards may fall under her spell.

If she is nominated for best actress, she would be only the fifth Latina ever to be nominated in the category in 95 years. She would follow Brazilian Fernanda Montenegro for “Central Station” (1998), Mexican Salma Hayek for “Frida” (2002), Colombian Catalina Sandino Moreno for “Maria Full of Grace” (2004) and Mexican Yalitza Aparicio for...

Gullane, one of Brazil’s biggest production powerhouses, has attached Fernanda Montenegro, Oscar-nominated for “Central Station,” to star in “The Hanged,” the new anticipated film from “Narcos” director Fernando Coimbra.

The news comes as Gullane unveiled in Cannes its first post-pandemic movie slate, led by two movies from director Cao Hamburger.

“We want to continue providing production services for the platforms, producing with them. But we also want to own the IP of some of our projects, and movies give us that,” Gullane co-founder Fabiano Gullane said..

Produced with Globo Filmes and Telecine, “The Hanged” is co-produced by Portugal’s Fado Filmes. Paris Filmes distributes in Brazil. It will go into production second semester 2022,

“’The Hanged’ has been long delayed due to the pandemic but we are very honored to have two of the biggest acting stars, part of recent Brazilian cinema history,” said producer Caio Gullane.

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“West Side Story” breakout star Rachel Zegler revealed in an Instagram post on Sunday that she doesn’t have a ticket to attend the 94th Academy Awards, sparking a wave of outrage on social media from fans.

“Idk y’all, I have tried it all, but it doesn’t seem to be happening,” Zegler wrote in a comment to a user on Instagram. “I will root for ‘West Side Story’ from my couch and be proud of the work we so tirelessly did three years ago. I hope some last minute miracle occurs and I can celebrate our film in person, but hey, that’s how it goes sometimes, I guess. Thanks for all the shock and outrage – I’m disappointed too. But that’s okay. So proud of our movie.”

Zegler made her debut film performance as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the stage musical. Her portrayal...

Fifteen years have passed since Penélope Cruz broke new ground as the first Spanish woman to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Although her performance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Spanish-language film “Volver” was passed over in favor of Helen Mirren’s in “The Queen,” she bounced back two years later by triumphing in the supporting category for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” Now, based on her work in Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers” (their seventh collaboration), she may have another shot at lead glory. If she does land in the lineup, she will join an exclusive club as the fifth leading lady to be recognized for two non-English language performances.

The first woman to accomplish this feat was Sophia Loren, who was nominated for “Marriage Italian Style” (1965) after winning for “Two Women” (1962). Both are Italian-language films directed by Vittorio De Sica. After losing on her second outing to Julie Andrews (“Mary Poppins...

Big news for Paul Thomas Anderson’s awards campaign as his film “Licorice Pizza” was named the best picture of the year by the National Board of Review. The MGM and United Artists Releasing movie also picked up prizes for directing, and shared the breakthrough performance award for newcomers Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman.

Another newcomer having a great day is Latina Rachel Zegler, who won best actress for her turn in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” She is just the second Latina to ever win the category since Fernanda Montenegro in “Central Station” (1998).

Will Smith has kicked off his awards race in a big way by being named best actor for “King Richard,” while his co-star Aunjanue Ellis nabbed supporting actress.

Veteran actor Ciaran Hinds picked up what’s sure to be the first of many prizes of the season for his performance in Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast.

Gwyneth Paltrow just learned about a surprising reaction to her Oscar win.  The 49-year-old goop founder was a Watch What Happens Live guest on Thursday, Oct. 21, where she played a round of the game "Plead the Fifth." The segment consisted of host Andy Cohen asking tough questions, and Gwyneth was allowed to remain mum if a question felt too invasive.  A question that appeared to startle even the actress herself had to do with Glenn Close saying during an interview last fall that Gwyneth's 1999 Best Actress Oscar win for Shakespeare in Love over Central Station's Fernanda Montenegro was an example of why it's hard to compare acting performances during...

by Cláudio Alves

Glenn Close was right. During her latest awards campaign, AMPAS' favorite also-ran recalled the 1998 Best Actress race, concluding that the rightful winner wasn't Gwyneth Paltrow but "that incredible actress that was in Central Station." While that year's Oscar champion gets a lot of undue vitriol –she's excellent in Shakespeare in Love – it's hard to disagree that the trophy rightfully belonged to the great Brazilian thespian Fernanda Montenegro. The only Portuguese-speaking performance to be recognized by the Academy, this star turn has a special place in my heart. So much so that I feared my love was a product of nostalgia goggles. A re-watch disabused such notions. Montenegro's nominated work remains a towering achievement…...

Carey Mulligan’s performance in Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman” has been beloved by critics and audiences alike since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020. She has been considered one of the top contenders in the best actress race, which is among the most competitive of all-time, with no shortage of talent in the running. However, a notable statistic may have just cemented her an Academy Awards nomination.

Mulligan has won best actress prizes from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and, most recently, the National Board of Review — two critical precursors leading up to the Oscars. Since Lafca’s founding in 1975, every actress who has won both of these awards has been nominated for an Oscar. The two groups have only matched 12 times since 1975 and haven’t since 2002.

Most notable is seven of the 12 women went on to win the Academy Award for best actress.

Exclusive: CAA has inked acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker, documentarian, and philanthropist Walter Salles.

A USC alum, Salles has been a filmmaker for 35 years, his 1995 feature Foreign Land selected by over 40 film festivals and being local hit in his homeland.

His 1998 drama Central Station about a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother recently died died, searching for the father he never knew; was nominated for two Oscars — Best Foreign Language Film and Fernanda Montenegro for Best Actress– and won the Foreign Language Film Golden Globe, blasted him off to a career in Hollywood. The movie also won a BAFTA, and the Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear.

His 2004 feature The Motorcycle Diaries from Focus Features, about an early road trip made by Che Guevara and Alberto Granado through South America that defined their revolutionary beginnings, grabbed a Golden Globe nom, and won...

Glenn Close said this week that Gwyneth Paltrow’s 1998 “Best Actress” Oscar for “Shakespeare in Love” just “doesn’t make sense.”

Close was on ABC News’ “Popcorn with Peter Travers” to promote her new Netflix film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” when she shared her distaste for awards on the grounds that she can’t justify comparing artists’ works.

“I’ve never understood how you could honestly compare performances. I remember the year Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in ‘Central Station,'” she said, referring to Fernanda Montenegro. Paltrow and Montenegro were also up against Cate Blanchett (for “Elizabeth”), Meryl Streep (for “One True Thing”) and Emily Watson (for “Hilary and Jackie”).

Close went on, “I thought, ‘What?’ It’s like, it doesn’t make sense, so I think who wins has a lot of things to do with how things have been, whether it has traction or whatever.

Seven-time Academy Award-nominee Glenn Close is back in the Oscar mix for her turn in Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” now streaming on Netflix. All eyes were on Close last year to finally take home Best Actress for “The Wife,” but alas that honor went to Olivia Colman for “The Favourite.” Speaking with film critic Peter Travers for his ABC News special “Popcorn,” Close had some candid thoughts about the Oscars, pointing to the Best Actress race in 1999 as an example that didn’t “make sense.”

“I honestly feel that to be nominated by your peers is about as good as it gets,” Close said. “And then, I’ve never understood how you could honestly compare performances, you know? I remember the year Gwyneth Paltrow won over that incredible actress who was in ‘Central Station’ and I thought, ‘What?’ It doesn’t make sense.”

The year Paltrow won, she was...