The Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho understands this feeling just as well as I and maybe you do, and he’s made a lovely, enveloping film about it, called “Pictures of Ghosts.” The subject here is his hometown of Recife. It’s not a place that looms as large in North American discourse as Rio or San … Read more
Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho tells us the origins of his love for motion pictures, developed in the city of Recife at theaters like the Veneza and Sao Luiz. Though these cinemas were closed over time and converted into different spaces with new people and memories, the ghosts of the films of the director’s youth … Read more
Todd Phillips took to Instagram to announce that joker 2 has finally wrapped after four months of filming. The director also shared two new images from the movie featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in character. “That’s a wrap,Phillips wrote in the caption. “Thanks to these two (+ the entire cast) and the BEST crew … Read more