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In Maria, Angelina Jolie gives a career-defining performance as a haunted opera diva

4/5 Chilean director Pablo Larraín concludes his thematic trilogy of 20th century biopics of famous women – after ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this soft, restrained drama

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Maria review – Angelina Jolie plays the diva in magnificent stroll around the cult of Callas

Jolie is a painting to be stared at in Pablo Larraín’s opulent drama, tottering around Paris in the 70s and drawing us in to tragedy as thoroughly as Bellini or Puccini

The Guardian - UK

Angelina Jolie says women are defined too much by other people’s perceptions

Actor is at Venice film festival promoting biopic about opera singer Maria Callas who was scrutinised for being a ‘diva’

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Venice Film Festival prepares to greet Angelina Jolie and 'Maria,' her film about famed opera singer

Angelina Jolie portrays renowned opera singer Maria Callas in a film premiering at the Venice Film Festival Thursday

The Independent UK

Maria: how to watch, reviews, awards, cast, plot and everything we know about the Angelina Jolie movie

Angelina Jolie teams with Pablo Larraín on a biopic about Maria Callas. Here's everything you need to know about the movie.

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Venice Film Festival: From ‘Joker 2’ to ‘Queer,’ here are 10 movies to get excited about

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are getting ready to descend on the Venice Film Festival this week, from George Clooney and Angelina Jolie to Lady Gaga, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix

The Independent UK

Apple TV+ Launches Hispanic Medical Drama 'Midnight Family'

Apple TV+ presents 'Midnight Family,' a captivating all-Spanish-language medical drama set in Mexico City, premiering on September 25, 2024.

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Venice Film Festival – the buzziest films from this year's line up from Joker: Folie à Deux to Queer

With major blockbusters screening alongside features from Tim Burton, Pedro Almodóvar and Luca Guadagnino, the 81st Venice Film Festival has a lot of promise

Evening Standard

Kidman, Clooney, Craig and Jolie join Venice film festival lineup

Stars will descend on the Lido as Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic contends with the Joker and Beetlejuice sequels for this year’s Golden Lion

The Guardian - UK

Platino Awards 2024: 'La Sociedad de la Nieve,' 'Cerrar los ojos' and 'El Conde' Dominate Nominations

'La Sociedad de la Nieve', 'Cerrar los ojos' and 'El Conde' dominate the nominations of the 2024 Platino Awards, which return to Mexico this year.

Latin Times

25 films that could contend for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars, including Dune: Part Two

Let's take a look at 25 films that could contend for Best Picture at the Oscars next year.

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Who is Maria Callas? First look at Angelina Jolie as the opera singer in new biopic

After Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana, Pablo Larraín turns his attention to an opera legend

Evening Standard

Netflix Just Released the Weirdest Vampire Movie of the Decade

What if one of the most infamous dictators of the 20th century was actually a vampire? Pablo Larraín's perverse horror film plays out this surreal scenario.

Inverse

TV tonight: the fascinating story about Coco Chanel’s mysterious life

Old friends and insiders lift the lid on the founder of the Chanel fashion house. Plus: Oz’s top drag queens fight for a crown. Here’s what to watch this evening

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El Conde review: Brilliant Netflix film reimagines Pinochet as a literal vampire

The Chilean director Pablo Larraín follows up his English-language tales of haunted women – ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this surreal alternate history horror

Evening Standard

Venice Film Festival’s big winners: from Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things to Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border

We look at the hits and misses of La Serenissima’s film festival this year

The Guardian - UK

El Conde review – Pinochet rises from the dead in Pablo Larraín’s gothic horror

The Chilean dictator returns as a vampire – and his family’s out for blood. But this alternative history, though entertaining, feels politically enigmatic

The Guardian - UK

El Conde to Captain Phillips: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Feted Chilean director Pablo Larraín re-imagines Pinochet as a vampire in a witty new comedy, and Tom Hanks stars in a wonderfully tense pirate thriller

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Director Pablo Larraín: ‘Chile is my world. How can I not be allowed to talk about the things that happened to us?’

Augusto Pinochet returns as a bloodsucking vampire – together with Margaret Thatcher – in El Conde, the Chilean director’s black comedy horror. He talks about his fascination with the dictator and why, despite his family ties, he feels empowered to keep telling stories about his country

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.”

The Guardian - UK

Venice film festival roundup – Adam Driver’s Ferrari roars in to soup up a subpar opening week

A ponderous Italian wartime drama and Pablo Larraín’s one-joke General Pinochet satire threatened to sink the actors’ strike-hit 80th Venice film festival – until Michael Mann’s racing thriller hit the gas

The Guardian - UK

El Conde review – Pablo Larraín’s horror-satire pitches Pinochet as a vampire

Macabre alt-history faces the ongoing agony of Chile, and the Chilean people’s struggle to confront their past, with graphic-novel energy and directness

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: one woman’s search for the female orgasm

Former Love Islander and biochemist Yewande Biala gets personal in a new documentary. Plus: the story behind the film noir classic The Third Man. Here’s what to watch this evening

Total Film

First trailer for vampire satire from director of divisive Princess Diana biopic is here

Pinochet is a vampire in this off-kilter horror movie

The Guardian - US

Angelina Jolie to play Maria Callas in Spencer director’s next biopic

The Oscar-winner will play the opera singer in a film that explores the ‘tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic’ story of her life

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