Fernando Meirelles

Bernal cuts birthday cake at Silk Road fest

Gael García Bernal, the star of Oscar-nominated films “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Babel,” had an early birthday bash in the northwestern Turkish province of Bursa over the weekend. The Mexican heartthrob cut a birthday cake...

Blindness - Cinema One 1500, 1740, 2030

From the director of City of God and The Constant Gardener, this beautiful but chilling apocalyptic fable imagines an unnamed city of the future plagued by a terrifying outbreak of “white blindness” which renders its...

DVD Review - City of Men

Several years ago, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles made an international breakthrough with his Acade­my Award-nominated film, City of God. Meirelles went on to direct his first American film, The Constant Gardner, but...

More celebrities writing own blogs to control public image (Reuters)

Reuters - In the fast-paced world of celebrity news, stars are increasingly turning to their own Web sites and blog postings to talk about themselves in a do-it-yourself approach to managing their public images.

UK box office: Body of Lies takes a blow from My Best Friend's Girl

The pain of poor returns for Ridley Scott's thriller was compounded by My Best Friend's Girl enjoying rude health at the UK box office, plus a continued battering by Bond And the critics never even saw us ... Dane Cook in My...

Blindness, the film, will harm blind people

Fernando Meirelles' protestation that his sci-fi scarer is an allegory cannot disguise the damage it will do One vision ... Danny Glover in Fernando Meirelles's Blindness The Tropic Thunder "retard" row was about a word. The...

Gael Garcia Bernal to attend Silk Road fest

Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, the star of Oscar-nominated films “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Babel,” will be one of the guests at this year’s Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival. Bernal will be attending the...

Body of Lies, Ridley Scott, 128 mins, 15Blindness, Fernando Meirelles, 122 mins, 18Conversations...

We've had only about three years' worth of "war on terror" movies, but they're already blurring into one another. Whether it's Syriana, Rendition or The Kingdom, there's always a desert setting, deafening bombs and torture...

Interview: José Saramago

There is a revealing moment when José Saramago, Portugal's austere Nobel laureate, relaxes into laughter, and it comes as he is talking of his own death. Frail and unflaggingly upright in posture, he is in an armchair in his...

Theatre of the absurd

Published Date: 22 November 2008 ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT IN MULTI-plexes across America, film directors, producers, studio executives and baseball cap-wearing actors can be found hovering around the backs of cinema auditoriums,...

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