Lourdes Portillo, the Oscar-nominated Mexican-born documentary filmmaker whose work explored Latin American social issues through spellbinding narratives, has died. She was 80. Ms. Portillo died Saturday at her home in San Francisco. Her death was confirmed by her friend Soco Aguilar. No cause was given. One of Ms. Portillo’s best-known works is her 1994 documentary … Read more
TWO YEARS AGO, the Spanish filmmaker Albert Moya came to Florence to visit an artist friend who’d unwittingly become the caretaker of a large family estate, left empty after a famous Italian writer died, on the outskirts of town. Moya was staying nearby, at the tumbledown hotel Torre di Bellosguardo, when he learned that another … Read more
Joe Camp, a pioneering filmmaker who created a groundbreaking franchise with his “Benji” movies, which brought a lovable live-action dog to the masses and became a smash success, died on Friday at his home in Bell Buckle, Tenn. He was 84. His son the director Brandon Camp announced the death in a statement. He said … Read more
Robert M. Young, an eclectic director whose documentary subjects included civil rights lunch counter sit-ins and sharks, and whose feature films included one about a Mexican American farmer who kills a Texas lawman and one about a woman who takes revenge on her attacker, died on Feb. 4 in Los Angeles. He was 99. The … Read more
“I feel like I’m in a fairy tale,” Sean Wang said to the sold-out crowd gathered at the Ray Theater in Park City, Utah, last month for his Sundance Film Festival debut. Mr. Wang, a 29-year-old filmmaker, was dressed in a black suit and white Vans (a nod to his skateboarding roots). He grabbed his … Read more
If you’re a celebrity seeking to rebrand, the Sundance Film Festival can offer a useful assist. From Marvel superheroes seeking an indie turn to teenage movie stars hoping to segue into spicy adult roles, the snowy event is the perfect place to debut a new direction. This year’s big rebrand was so skillfully executed that … Read more
But throughout his career Mr. Jewison was repeatedly drawn to more serious fare, in movies like “F.I.S.T.” (1978), a labor-union drama that starred Sylvester Stallone; “In Country” (1989), about the daughter of a Vietnam War casualty; and his last film, “The Statement” (2003), the story of a former Nazi collaborator, played by Michael Caine. Well … Read more
Menachem Daum, a filmmaker who co-produced a groundbreaking 1997 documentary that illuminated the cloistered world of America’s Hasidim, died on Jan. 7 in a hospital near his home in Borough Park, Brooklyn. He was 77. His death was confirmed by Eva Fogelman, a friend and the author of a book about Christian rescuers of Jews … Read more
He’s got some chunk in his trunk. A hungry, hungry groundhog has been caught on camera chowing down in a Delaware man’s garden — and he’s turned it into a viral YouTube series. Jeff Permar began recording footage of the curious garden muncher, named Chunk, nibbling on tomatoes, carrots and other vegetables back in 2019, racking up … Read more
Six years after the #MeToo movement swept through Hollywood, actress Rebecca Romijn is finally ready to speak up about working with two of the most controversial directors in show business. Romijn, 50, starred as the blue-skinned Mystique in the “X-Men” movies, notably helmed by Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner. Both have been accused — very … Read more
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A bizarre UFO case dubbed “Brazil’s Roswell” has set the internet abuzz amid rumors that video of a captured “creature” may exist — and could soon be released. The so-called Varginha incident — an alleged UFO crash, extraterrestrial encounter, and subsequent military cover-up — made global headlines in 1996 and sparked a media frenzy in Brazil, despite … Read more
CARA Delevingne and Hollywood star Margot Robbie were at the centre of a “punch-up” in which two top British filmmakers were arrested at a celebrity restaurant in Argentina last night. The shaken stars had just finished a luxury meal at the famous celeb haunt Patagonia Sur in Buenos Aires at 3am when a paparazzi tried … Read more
Another American Pie is in the works, this one to be penned by Insecure actor and Definition Please filmmaker Sujata Day. The multihyphenate is set to develop and write a new installment of the long-running sex comedy franchise for Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production arm of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. Plot details have yet to … Read more