Clockwise from left: Atlas (Netflix), My Oni Girl (Netflix), Unfrosted (Netflix)Image: The A.V. Club
Netflix offers a few high-profile originals this May as the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters. Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut and acts in Unfrosted, a comedy about the...
Netflix offers a few high-profile originals this May as the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters. Jerry Seinfeld makes his feature directorial debut and acts in Unfrosted, a comedy about the...
- 5/3/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
"Don't listen to everything your father says." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a Mexican satire dramedy film called Down the Rabbit Hole, by Mexican filmmaker Manolo Caro. Down the Rabbit Hole is the alternate English title for this, also known as Fiesta en la Madriguera in Spanish, based on the book of the exact same name. Raised in opulence and culture, 10-year-old Tochtli's lavish life contrasts with the darkness that seeps in from his father's criminal activities. This is about a young Mexican kid who wants a hippo above all else. It reminds me of the story of Pablo Escobar's infamous "cocaine hippos", which might be part of the influence (or reference) for why this kid wants one anyway. Miguel Valverde Uribe stars as Tochtli, a particularly intelligent and precocious boy who at first glance seems to have everything, and when he doesn't, his father, Yolcaut, will do...
- 3/26/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 38th Annual Imagen Awards took place on Sunday, Dec. 3 to celebrate Latino excellence and contributions to Hollywood. Taking place at the Biltmore Hotel in L.A., the talent that showed up to the event included Gina Rodriguez, Edward James Olmos, Michael Cimino, Enrique Arrizon, Julieta Egurrola, and many more.
This year’s ceremony comprised 136 nominations across 27 categories highlighting storytelling and performances by Latino talent. Among the nominees were programs and films such as Flamin’ Hot, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Acapulco and This Fool.
Contending for Best Feature Film were A Man Called Otto, Flamin’ Hot, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Ruido. Nominees for Best Actor in a Feature Film included Daniel Giménez Cacho for Bardo, Andy García for Father of the Bride, Jesse García for Flamin’ Hot and Tenoch Huerta Mejía for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In the Best Actress in a Feature Film category, the...
This year’s ceremony comprised 136 nominations across 27 categories highlighting storytelling and performances by Latino talent. Among the nominees were programs and films such as Flamin’ Hot, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Acapulco and This Fool.
Contending for Best Feature Film were A Man Called Otto, Flamin’ Hot, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Ruido. Nominees for Best Actor in a Feature Film included Daniel Giménez Cacho for Bardo, Andy García for Father of the Bride, Jesse García for Flamin’ Hot and Tenoch Huerta Mejía for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In the Best Actress in a Feature Film category, the...
- 12/4/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
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Young Adam (2003): A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers’ lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer.
Bad Education (2004): An examination...
Young Adam (2003): A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers’ lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits. Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer.
Bad Education (2004): An examination...
- 8/7/2023
- by The A.V. Club Bot
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Vix has begun production on 7 new original titles during the second quarter of the year including 6 series and one film. They include the Sofia Vergara-led Koati: Animated Series and the Benicio del Toro-produced film Matar Al Jockey (Kill The Jockey).
“With these 7 new productions we continue to increase our original content offerings on Vix, with stories that appeal to the diverse tastes of our audiences,” said Rodrigo Mazón, Chief Content Officer ViX for TelevisaUnivision, in a statement. “Since the launch, we have been working on a path of constant development and production that we know today strongly reflects and resonates with the audience’s preferences and generates great successes in our service,” he added.
Matar Al Jockey (Kill The Jockey) follows Remo Manfredini, a legend in the world of turf racing whose self-destructive behavior overshadows his great talent. Abril, an up-and-coming jockey, is pregnant by Remo and...
“With these 7 new productions we continue to increase our original content offerings on Vix, with stories that appeal to the diverse tastes of our audiences,” said Rodrigo Mazón, Chief Content Officer ViX for TelevisaUnivision, in a statement. “Since the launch, we have been working on a path of constant development and production that we know today strongly reflects and resonates with the audience’s preferences and generates great successes in our service,” he added.
Matar Al Jockey (Kill The Jockey) follows Remo Manfredini, a legend in the world of turf racing whose self-destructive behavior overshadows his great talent. Abril, an up-and-coming jockey, is pregnant by Remo and...
- 6/22/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Colombian-Mexican filmmaker Rodrigo García has wrapped his first Spanish-language feature, “Familia,” which was shot in Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico for Netflix.
García, who has directed such acclaimed films as “Mother and Child” and “Albert Nobbs,” and whose TV credits include “Six Feet Under,” “Big Love” and “In Treatment,” said: “Shooting ‘Familia’ has been a great experience.” He added: “Great producers, collaborators, several of my favorite Mexican actors and actresses and Netflix’s full support have made this project an unforgettable trip back home.”
This is the first time García, who is the son of Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Marquez, has directed a film in Mexico. He’s an executive producer in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of his father’s literary classic “100 Years of Solitude,” which will be shooting in Colombia.
According to the synopsis, “Familia” follows “a peculiar family and explores the complexities of cohabitation around a decision that will change them forever.
García, who has directed such acclaimed films as “Mother and Child” and “Albert Nobbs,” and whose TV credits include “Six Feet Under,” “Big Love” and “In Treatment,” said: “Shooting ‘Familia’ has been a great experience.” He added: “Great producers, collaborators, several of my favorite Mexican actors and actresses and Netflix’s full support have made this project an unforgettable trip back home.”
This is the first time García, who is the son of Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Marquez, has directed a film in Mexico. He’s an executive producer in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of his father’s literary classic “100 Years of Solitude,” which will be shooting in Colombia.
According to the synopsis, “Familia” follows “a peculiar family and explores the complexities of cohabitation around a decision that will change them forever.
- 5/22/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Luis Ortega has wrapped production in Argentina on “Kill the Jockey,” starring Úrsula Corberó, “Money Heist’s” Tokyo, and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“120 Bpm”), which is shaping up as one of the biggest upcoming movies from Latin America.
Ortega’s follow-up to 2018 Un Certain Regard hit “El Angel,” which sold worldwide and set a box office record in Argentina, “Kill the Jockey” has been snapped up for overseas sales by Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment, which also sold “El Angel.”
TelevisaUnivision VOD service ViX will roll out “Kill the Jockey” in the U.S. and Latin America. Scanbox handles distribution in Scandinavia.
“Kill the Jockey’s” top-notch cast also features Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girólamo, Daniel Fanego (“El Ángel”) and Roly Serrano (“Youth”).
It turns on Remo (Pérez Biscayart), the best jockey of his generation, whose addictions, however, have gradually cast a shadow over his glory. Like Abril (Corberó), another jockey,...
Ortega’s follow-up to 2018 Un Certain Regard hit “El Angel,” which sold worldwide and set a box office record in Argentina, “Kill the Jockey” has been snapped up for overseas sales by Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment, which also sold “El Angel.”
TelevisaUnivision VOD service ViX will roll out “Kill the Jockey” in the U.S. and Latin America. Scanbox handles distribution in Scandinavia.
“Kill the Jockey’s” top-notch cast also features Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girólamo, Daniel Fanego (“El Ángel”) and Roly Serrano (“Youth”).
It turns on Remo (Pérez Biscayart), the best jockey of his generation, whose addictions, however, have gradually cast a shadow over his glory. Like Abril (Corberó), another jockey,...
- 5/17/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The final stretch of the 2023 Oscar season has started with voters casting their ballots for the winners of the 95th annual Academy Awards. All season long, Gold Derby has been interviewing dozens of the nominees, including all five contenders for Best Cinematography. Click on each cinematographer’s name below to watch each of these 20-minute interviews.
James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
The German-language film “All Quiet on the Western Front” is the third adaptation of the classic anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which follows Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), an enthusiastic new soldier who quickly becomes hardened and traumatized by the realities of trench warfare. Friend describes the camerawork on the film “extremely challenging,” elaborating, “I look back and I don’t think I would have changed any element of it, but it was by far the most challenging project of my career to date.” His camerawork...
James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
The German-language film “All Quiet on the Western Front” is the third adaptation of the classic anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which follows Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer), an enthusiastic new soldier who quickly becomes hardened and traumatized by the realities of trench warfare. Friend describes the camerawork on the film “extremely challenging,” elaborating, “I look back and I don’t think I would have changed any element of it, but it was by far the most challenging project of my career to date.” His camerawork...
- 3/3/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
In this season’s competitive cinematography race, Mandy Walker’s bold lensing of Warner Bros.’ Elvis made her just the third woman ever nominated for an Academy Award in the category. Could she become the first to take home the Oscar?
Walker is joined by two other first-time nominees in James Friend, for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, and Florian Hoffmeister, for Focus Features’ Tár. Also in the running is veteran two-time winner Roger Deakins, who with his work for Searchlight’s Empire of Light earned his 16th nomination (extending Deakins’ distinction as the most nominated living cinematographer in the category).
The fifth contender is another veteran, Darius Khondji, who is nominated for his first collaboration with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Netflix’s Bardo is the director’s deeply personal, introspective film following documentarian Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) that moves between the real and surreal and was filmed...
Walker is joined by two other first-time nominees in James Friend, for Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front, and Florian Hoffmeister, for Focus Features’ Tár. Also in the running is veteran two-time winner Roger Deakins, who with his work for Searchlight’s Empire of Light earned his 16th nomination (extending Deakins’ distinction as the most nominated living cinematographer in the category).
The fifth contender is another veteran, Darius Khondji, who is nominated for his first collaboration with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Netflix’s Bardo is the director’s deeply personal, introspective film following documentarian Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) that moves between the real and surreal and was filmed...
- 3/1/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“It’s a wonderful feeling,” says Darius Khondji while discussing his recent Best Cinematography Oscar nomination for “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” “It’s very wonderful for this movie. I’m very happy for all of us. For the director, [Alejandro González Iñárritu] and for the whole crew. They are behind each frame of the film and I just feel that it’s their nomination as much as mine. Especially Alejandro, he’s very much a director that’s behind every frame. It’s really his film.” Watch our video interview above.
“Bardo” tells the story of an acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian named Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who goes on an introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity. Khondji’s Oscar nomination is the second of his career; he earned his first for “Evita” in 1996.
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“Bardo” tells the story of an acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian named Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who goes on an introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his Mexican identity. Khondji’s Oscar nomination is the second of his career; he earned his first for “Evita” in 1996.
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- 2/13/2023
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Anyone requiring proof of veteran cinematographer Darius Khondji’s versatility need look no further than his work on two very different autobiographical projects this past year—James Gray’s subdued, ‘80s-set “Armageddon Time” and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s lush, ultra-modern “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” For the latter, Khondji placed second to Florian Hoffmeister (“TÁR”) at the 2022 EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival, winning the Silver Frog.
See Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Bardo’ is an ‘intimate experience’ that contemplates the ‘labyrinthine way that our memory works’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Recent recipients of the cinematography-centric event’s runner-up prize to also compete at the Oscars include Bruno Delbonnel (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”), Łukasz Żal (“Cold War”) and Bradford Young (“Arrival”). Should Khondji join that list when Academy Award nominations are announced on January 24th (he’s eighth in our Best Cinematography odds), he’ll only be getting his second-ever nom—astonishing, considering a career that...
See Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Bardo’ is an ‘intimate experience’ that contemplates the ‘labyrinthine way that our memory works’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Recent recipients of the cinematography-centric event’s runner-up prize to also compete at the Oscars include Bruno Delbonnel (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”), Łukasz Żal (“Cold War”) and Bradford Young (“Arrival”). Should Khondji join that list when Academy Award nominations are announced on January 24th (he’s eighth in our Best Cinematography odds), he’ll only be getting his second-ever nom—astonishing, considering a career that...
- 1/12/2023
- by Ronald Meyer
- Gold Derby
Nine years ago, the director Alejandro González Iñárritu spent eight months in the Canadian wilderness with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. It was minus 40 degrees, the sort of cold that cuts to the bone; the sort of cold that makes it hard to open your eyes, as DiCaprio once described it. The Revenant, for which Iñárritu recieved one of the five Oscars to his name, is regularly mentioned in the same breath as Apocalypse Now when discussing the Toughest Film Shoots Ever. Compared to Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths, Iñárritu’s latest film, it was a walk in the park.
What could be harder to make than The Revenant, a film that saw its star chow down on raw bison liver and multiple crew members exit due to conditions one source described as a “living hell”? “Bardo was 100 times tougher,” says Iñárritu over Zoom from his cosily...
What could be harder to make than The Revenant, a film that saw its star chow down on raw bison liver and multiple crew members exit due to conditions one source described as a “living hell”? “Bardo was 100 times tougher,” says Iñárritu over Zoom from his cosily...
- 1/12/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - Film
Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Review — Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, written by Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro G. Iñárritu and starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Luis Couturier, Andres Almeida, Clementia Guadarrama, [...]
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- 12/19/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Plot: An epic, visually stunning and immersive experience set against the intimate and moving journey of Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. The folly of his memories and fears have decided to pierce through the present, filling his everyday life with a sense of bewilderment and wonder.
Review: Early in Bardo, main character, Silverio tells his driver, “If you don’t know how to play around, you don’t deserve to be taken seriously.” Truer words have never been spoken, especially regarding director Alejandro G. Innaritu. The Oscar-winning director of Birdman and The Revenant has only directed seven feature films over the last two decades, and each has progressively become more ambitious and experimental.
Review: Early in Bardo, main character, Silverio tells his driver, “If you don’t know how to play around, you don’t deserve to be taken seriously.” Truer words have never been spoken, especially regarding director Alejandro G. Innaritu. The Oscar-winning director of Birdman and The Revenant has only directed seven feature films over the last two decades, and each has progressively become more ambitious and experimental.
- 12/16/2022
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Martin McDonagh’s fourth film marks an In Bruges reunion between the writer-director, Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson. It again finds the two leads as another mismatched, in-a-rut couple of men serving up heaping portions of existential despair and black comedy. But this rut is of a very different ilk—much smaller in scope, lacking villainy, almost cute… until it isn’t. Banshees is McDonagh’s A Straight Story, but he doesn’t go full monty. He works in a few comically violent McDonagh beats that rip us out of the ordinary. But it’s the permeating sense of normality, routine, and unremarkableness that gives them their punch. To note the simplicity, he opens on a white...
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Martin McDonagh’s fourth film marks an In Bruges reunion between the writer-director, Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson. It again finds the two leads as another mismatched, in-a-rut couple of men serving up heaping portions of existential despair and black comedy. But this rut is of a very different ilk—much smaller in scope, lacking villainy, almost cute… until it isn’t. Banshees is McDonagh’s A Straight Story, but he doesn’t go full monty. He works in a few comically violent McDonagh beats that rip us out of the ordinary. But it’s the permeating sense of normality, routine, and unremarkableness that gives them their punch. To note the simplicity, he opens on a white...
- 12/16/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This review originally ran September 1, 2022, for the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Although seemingly fragmented in its structure, as dreams often play out in our subconscious, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” the new fable from Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, reveals itself a circular narrative where the surreptitiously personal and the vehemently political become entangled to seismic effect.
Throughout the film’s warranted nearly-three-hour runtime, Iñárritu writes the cinematic verses of an oneiric love poem to an ever-incongruous homeland while simultaneously investigating his own perceived hubris, insecurities and fractured identity. On the other side of everything with which he grapples rests a transcendent masterpiece lucidly woven from honest contradictions, painful self-awareness, and hard-hitting historical observations.
Much like “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón’s own artistic pilgrimage back to his estranged origins, Iñárritu’s “Bardo” is an attempt at...
Although seemingly fragmented in its structure, as dreams often play out in our subconscious, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths),” the new fable from Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu premiering at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, reveals itself a circular narrative where the surreptitiously personal and the vehemently political become entangled to seismic effect.
Throughout the film’s warranted nearly-three-hour runtime, Iñárritu writes the cinematic verses of an oneiric love poem to an ever-incongruous homeland while simultaneously investigating his own perceived hubris, insecurities and fractured identity. On the other side of everything with which he grapples rests a transcendent masterpiece lucidly woven from honest contradictions, painful self-awareness, and hard-hitting historical observations.
Much like “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón’s own artistic pilgrimage back to his estranged origins, Iñárritu’s “Bardo” is an attempt at...
- 12/15/2022
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
With the release of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo: False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths,” Netflix invited guests to experience the sights and sounds of the Academy Award-winning director’s most personal film.
Through a series of conversations, the audience learned more about the design and craft of the project and had the opportunity to view concept art, costumes, and pieces from the sets.
Daniel Giménez Cacho stars as Silverio Gama, a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Silverio finds himself on a surreal journey into memories and dreams when he returns to Mexico after many years away.
“Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths” will stream globally on Netflix beginning December 16.
Cinematographer Darius Khondji agreed to work on the film without reading the script
Darius Khondji has worked on films from “Seven” to “Uncut Gems,” earning an Academy Award nomination for “Evita” in 1996. Sitting...
Through a series of conversations, the audience learned more about the design and craft of the project and had the opportunity to view concept art, costumes, and pieces from the sets.
Daniel Giménez Cacho stars as Silverio Gama, a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Silverio finds himself on a surreal journey into memories and dreams when he returns to Mexico after many years away.
“Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths” will stream globally on Netflix beginning December 16.
Cinematographer Darius Khondji agreed to work on the film without reading the script
Darius Khondji has worked on films from “Seven” to “Uncut Gems,” earning an Academy Award nomination for “Evita” in 1996. Sitting...
- 12/12/2022
- by Karen M. Peterson
- Variety Film + TV
“There is nothing to understand, there’s a lot to feel,” declares Alejandro G. Iñárritu about his ambitious and deeply personal new film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” For our recent webchat he adds, “If you want to understand, there’s nothing to understand, just shut up your mind and let yourself go, and go with the dream. When people do that, they use art to be transported. That’s how cinema started in the first place. Then narrative and storytelling was added to the equation, but it’s not necessarily the only possibility of cinema,” he explains. “This is not an autobiography. This is a fictionalized exercise, a very personal and intimate experience to get us into this labyrinthine way that our memory works,” he notes, adding that he “wanted to establish that this was a journey in the mental landscape of a character that is navigating between truth and fiction.
- 12/12/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
After two multiple Oscar winners in quick succession – Birdman and The Revenant – we’ve had to wait seven years for a feature from Alejandro G. Iñárritu. That wait ends this week, with the arrival of Bardo on Netflix. And it’s probably his most personal film to date.
To give the film its full title, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is an epic journey through the memories of journalist and filmmaker Silverio Gama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) as he returns to his home country of Mexico to confront his own identity, his relationships with his family as well as the history and likely future of his nation. Mixing emotion and comedy and sprinkled with nostalgia, it takes on universal themes such as success, mortality and family bonds. In other words, what it means to be human in today’s world.
Related: The Bardo director & cast on the red...
To give the film its full title, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is an epic journey through the memories of journalist and filmmaker Silverio Gama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) as he returns to his home country of Mexico to confront his own identity, his relationships with his family as well as the history and likely future of his nation. Mixing emotion and comedy and sprinkled with nostalgia, it takes on universal themes such as success, mortality and family bonds. In other words, what it means to be human in today’s world.
Related: The Bardo director & cast on the red...
- 12/12/2022
- by Freda Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It seems somehow surprising that Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu and lauded veteran cinematographer Darius Khondji had never worked together before collaborating on Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. But when they finally did come together on what would become Mexico’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar, there was an instant melding of the minds and a true feeling of kinship, with each telling me they felt as if they’d discovered a brother they’d never met.
Khondji, who recently won the Silver Frog at Cameraimage for Netflix’s Bardo, recounted that Iñárritu called him “completely out of the blue form the other side of the world and told me about this film he was making. From the first calls we had, it put me in a certain kind of mood. … The way he was talking about it, there was something very familiar, like somebody from my family,...
Khondji, who recently won the Silver Frog at Cameraimage for Netflix’s Bardo, recounted that Iñárritu called him “completely out of the blue form the other side of the world and told me about this film he was making. From the first calls we had, it put me in a certain kind of mood. … The way he was talking about it, there was something very familiar, like somebody from my family,...
- 12/9/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
“Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” is the latest project from Alejandro González Iñárritu, the four-time Academy Award winner who serves as a multi-hyphenate (director-co-writer-producer-editor-music) on the surreal new film that was released in select theaters on November 4 and hits Netflix in the United States on December 16. The Best Picture contender is described as an “epic, visually stunning and immersive experience set against the intimate and moving journey of Silverio (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles who is compelled to return to his native Mexico.”
In an exclusive video featurette pushing “Bardo’s” sound editing strengths for Oscar consideration in that craft category, supervising sound editor and sound designer Martin Hernandez and supervising sound editor Nicolas Becker talk about their inspiration in producing the film’s audio.
See ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’: Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu...
In an exclusive video featurette pushing “Bardo’s” sound editing strengths for Oscar consideration in that craft category, supervising sound editor and sound designer Martin Hernandez and supervising sound editor Nicolas Becker talk about their inspiration in producing the film’s audio.
See ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’: Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu...
- 12/7/2022
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Multiple Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu has returned to his Mexican roots with Netflix’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. While there are some personal elements in the film, it is not an autobiography, rather what he prefers to call an “autofiction.”
The movie, which is Mexico’s entry for the International Feature Oscar, documents one man’s cultural rediscovery as he leaves Los Angeles and returns to Mexico. After receiving a prestigious award for his work in journalism and documentary filmmaking, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is compelled to re-examine his roots. Upon arrival, he contends with embarrassing memories from the past and an existential crisis.
Related: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage
During a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, González Iñárritu said, “This is a film that came from some experiences and images and emotional things that I have been going...
The movie, which is Mexico’s entry for the International Feature Oscar, documents one man’s cultural rediscovery as he leaves Los Angeles and returns to Mexico. After receiving a prestigious award for his work in journalism and documentary filmmaking, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is compelled to re-examine his roots. Upon arrival, he contends with embarrassing memories from the past and an existential crisis.
Related: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage
During a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, González Iñárritu said, “This is a film that came from some experiences and images and emotional things that I have been going...
- 12/3/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The first calendar year to see the physical return of almost every major film festival since the pandemic, 2022 has been a huge morale booster for filmmakers from all around the globe. And now, with the third edition of Deadline’s Contenders Film: International kicking off Saturday at 8 a.m. Pt, that outreach expands even further: leaving a carbon-free footprint, our online event will showcase the myriad films that soared at Sundance, beguiled Berlin, captivated Cannes, thrilled Telluride, vitalized Venice and touched Toronto, all the while shining a spotlight on the must-see movies that might have flown under your radar.
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Since submissions accepted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar category continue to grow — up by something like 30 from just 10 years ago, buoyed no doubt by the boundary-breaking success of 2019’s Parasite — it is harder than ever before to see...
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Since submissions accepted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar category continue to grow — up by something like 30 from just 10 years ago, buoyed no doubt by the boundary-breaking success of 2019’s Parasite — it is harder than ever before to see...
- 12/3/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
This interview with Alejandro G. Iñárritu first ran in two different parts in the Race Begins and International issues of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu would like to get this straight from the start: “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” is not an autobiography. Its lead character, played by Daniel Giménez Cacho, is Silverio Gama, a movie director who looks like Iñárritu and who moved from Mexico to Los Angeles early in his career, just like Iñárritu; he also has a family like Iñárritu’s and he and his wife lost a child, like Iñárritu. But “Bardo” is a fantasia, a dreamscape and, insisted the writer-director, anything but a factual accounting of his life.
“It has taken me a long time to make myself clear that this is not an autobiography,” he said. “For me, every autobiography is a lie. Autobiography pretends it owns the truth,...
Alejandro G. Iñárritu would like to get this straight from the start: “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” is not an autobiography. Its lead character, played by Daniel Giménez Cacho, is Silverio Gama, a movie director who looks like Iñárritu and who moved from Mexico to Los Angeles early in his career, just like Iñárritu; he also has a family like Iñárritu’s and he and his wife lost a child, like Iñárritu. But “Bardo” is a fantasia, a dreamscape and, insisted the writer-director, anything but a factual accounting of his life.
“It has taken me a long time to make myself clear that this is not an autobiography,” he said. “For me, every autobiography is a lie. Autobiography pretends it owns the truth,...
- 11/29/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
“It’s an honor to represent Mexico, particularly in a year with very powerful films,” says producer Stacy Perskie Kaniss, whose Netflix movie “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” directed by Oscar winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, has been selected as the country’s official entry for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards. “The film is a love letter to Mexico and to Mexican identity. There’s a line in the film that says, ‘Mexico is a state of mind.’ I was born and raised in Mexico. It really does feel that way.”
We talked with Perskie Kaniss as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” tells the story of Silverio (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho), an acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian who goes on an oneiric introspective...
We talked with Perskie Kaniss as part of Gold Derby’s special “Meet the Experts” Q&a event with 2022/2023 awards contenders. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” tells the story of Silverio (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho), an acclaimed journalist-turned-documentarian who goes on an oneiric introspective...
- 11/29/2022
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Bardo follows the story of a journalist and documentary filmmaker as he finds himself on a journey to connect back with his past and his Mexican heritage.
Daniel Giménez Cacho, who plays Silverio and Ximena Lamadrid, who plays Camila, recently sat for an exclusive with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like working with renowned five-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
“Right before we began shooting, we rehearsed in a Hacienda, a hotel very secluded sort of in the middle of nowhere in Mexico,” Lamadrid revealed. “We stayed there for about to or three nights and we were rehearsing with the four of us – Griselda [Siciliani], Daniel, Íker [Sánchez Solano] and I with Alejandro doing a lot of the acting exercises, connecting, getting to know each other. It never felt intimidating. It never felt like he was this huge director and we had to sort of aspire to work with him.
Daniel Giménez Cacho, who plays Silverio and Ximena Lamadrid, who plays Camila, recently sat for an exclusive with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like working with renowned five-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
“Right before we began shooting, we rehearsed in a Hacienda, a hotel very secluded sort of in the middle of nowhere in Mexico,” Lamadrid revealed. “We stayed there for about to or three nights and we were rehearsing with the four of us – Griselda [Siciliani], Daniel, Íker [Sánchez Solano] and I with Alejandro doing a lot of the acting exercises, connecting, getting to know each other. It never felt intimidating. It never felt like he was this huge director and we had to sort of aspire to work with him.
- 11/23/2022
- by Rose Carter
- Uinterview
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” from Alejandro González Iñárritu is a stirring and profound examination of a man having an existential crisis. The word itself is a Buddhist term that means the plane between death and reincarnation. That man is played by Daniel Giménez Cacho and his Ximena Lamadrid stars as
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- 11/23/2022
- by manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
From the time "Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths" premiered at this year's Venice International Film Festival, it was met with a ton of resistance. /Film's own Marshall Shaffer called the film "an incoherent grab-bag of visual metaphors delivered with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer" in his 3-out-of-10 review. While the critical community has been generally averse to the latest film by two-time Best Director winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the film has found many supporters within the filmmaking community. Directors like Lulu Wang and Barry Jenkins have expressed their great admiration for Iñárritu's surreal auto-fiction epic. The latest supporter of the film is one of the director's old pals and a fellow Best Director winner, Guillermo del Toro.
The co-director of "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," another film produced by Netflix this year, recently moderated a Q&a for "Bardo" with Iñárritu at the Academy Museum and said...
The co-director of "Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio," another film produced by Netflix this year, recently moderated a Q&a for "Bardo" with Iñárritu at the Academy Museum and said...
- 11/23/2022
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film, “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” a documentarian (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho) travels to his home country of Mexico for a party in his honor and struggles with an existential crisis. For sound designer and supervisor Martin Hernandez, creating the soundscape of the film meant using audio to capture the slippery nature of memory.
“More than a mental journey, I think this is a state of mind, which is a quite different thing,” Hernandez told IndieWire Crafts and Animation Editor Bill Desowitz at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch. “A state of mind is something that lingers in your memory. It’s something that is in you a long time ago, and it transforms you. Alejandro has this idea that we are not exactly the ones in the picture of you when you were a kid. We’re different people now.
“More than a mental journey, I think this is a state of mind, which is a quite different thing,” Hernandez told IndieWire Crafts and Animation Editor Bill Desowitz at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch. “A state of mind is something that lingers in your memory. It’s something that is in you a long time ago, and it transforms you. Alejandro has this idea that we are not exactly the ones in the picture of you when you were a kid. We’re different people now.
- 11/22/2022
- by Bill Desowitz and Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Guillermo del Toro defends divisive new film Bardo: ‘Anyone confused about the plot, my condolences’
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has shared some sparring words for those “confused” by Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newest film Bardo, False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths.
Since Iñárritu’s drama comedy made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in early September, followed by its theatrical release last week (18 November), it’s received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike for being too “indulgent” and “tedious”.
At the time of writing, the movie, which follows the deeply personal story of Silverio Gacho (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned Mexican journalist and filmmaker, holds a critics rating of 57 per cent and an 83 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
“It’s audacious, bold film-making, a highly personal work that is cluttered with symbolism and bloated with self-regard,” The Observer’s Wendy Ide wrote, with Time’s Stephanie Zacharek, similarly finding it “exhausting”.
“Iñárritu has a lot of thoughts and feelings,...
Since Iñárritu’s drama comedy made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in early September, followed by its theatrical release last week (18 November), it’s received mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike for being too “indulgent” and “tedious”.
At the time of writing, the movie, which follows the deeply personal story of Silverio Gacho (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a renowned Mexican journalist and filmmaker, holds a critics rating of 57 per cent and an 83 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
“It’s audacious, bold film-making, a highly personal work that is cluttered with symbolism and bloated with self-regard,” The Observer’s Wendy Ide wrote, with Time’s Stephanie Zacharek, similarly finding it “exhausting”.
“Iñárritu has a lot of thoughts and feelings,...
- 11/21/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Film
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Bardo” has proven one of the most divisive films of the year, drawing mixed reactions out of Venice before finally arriving in theaters earlier this month — and 22 minutes shorter than its initial version. The sprawling, deeply personal tale of a journalist and filmmaker (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who returns to his native Mexico City after decades in the U.S. has alienated some critics and audiences for its hedonistic, freewheeling style. Is it profound or pretentious?
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” certainly has one fan in fellow Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. The “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Pinocchio” director moderated an onstage Q&a for “Bardo” at Los Angeles’ Academy Museum on Friday, joined by the likes of Iñárritu and others from the cast and crew. During his opening remarks, del Toro made his feelings about the movie clear — as well as his distrust of...
“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” certainly has one fan in fellow Mexican director Guillermo del Toro. The “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Pinocchio” director moderated an onstage Q&a for “Bardo” at Los Angeles’ Academy Museum on Friday, joined by the likes of Iñárritu and others from the cast and crew. During his opening remarks, del Toro made his feelings about the movie clear — as well as his distrust of...
- 11/21/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Bardo, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, documents one man’s cultural rediscovery as he leaves Los Angeles and returns to Mexico. After receiving a prestigious award for his work in journalism and documentary filmmaking, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) suddenly is compelled to re-examine his Mexican roots. Upon arrival, he contends with embarrassing memories from the past and an existential crisis.
Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage
González Iñárritu started to really consider the nature of immigration and belonging when he created Carne y Arena, a virtual-reality installation that gave him the opportunity to speak to more than 500 immigrants crossing the border. “There was a very, very deep call of the nature of being an immigrant,” he said Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event. “What we share in common was that nostalgia, melancholia — all the things that you lose when you leave your country.
Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage
González Iñárritu started to really consider the nature of immigration and belonging when he created Carne y Arena, a virtual-reality installation that gave him the opportunity to speak to more than 500 immigrants crossing the border. “There was a very, very deep call of the nature of being an immigrant,” he said Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event. “What we share in common was that nostalgia, melancholia — all the things that you lose when you leave your country.
- 11/19/2022
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline is offering up a record number of titles in the lineup for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, which kicks off this morning live and in-person at the DGA Theater on Sunset Boulevard.
The casts and creators from 29 films hailing from 14 studios and streamers will take the stage today to discuss their buzzy awards-season projects in front of a crowd of key Academy and guild voters, as the film kudos season zooms into the fast lane.
Click here to sign up for and watch the livestream.
If you can’t attend today’s event, you can follow along via livestream, on Deadline.com, and on our social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
As for the day, Carey Mulligan, Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Chastain, Guillermo del Toro and Janelle Monáe are just a small handful of the artists that’ll have visited the Contenders stage before we’ve even hit the lunch break.
The casts and creators from 29 films hailing from 14 studios and streamers will take the stage today to discuss their buzzy awards-season projects in front of a crowd of key Academy and guild voters, as the film kudos season zooms into the fast lane.
Click here to sign up for and watch the livestream.
If you can’t attend today’s event, you can follow along via livestream, on Deadline.com, and on our social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.
As for the day, Carey Mulligan, Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Chastain, Guillermo del Toro and Janelle Monáe are just a small handful of the artists that’ll have visited the Contenders stage before we’ve even hit the lunch break.
- 11/19/2022
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Few films released in 2022 make a bolder visual statement than “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s sprawling film about an acclaimed documentarian returning to his hometown in Mexico to receive an award has captivated audiences with its unapologetically surreal images since premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
It begins with a newborn baby asking to be inserted back into his mother’s womb, and only gets crazier from there, as Iñárritu attempts to make sense of life and art while looking for meaning in a world that can seem devoid of it.
To discuss bringing such a singular artistic vision to life, the film’s stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ximena Lamadrid, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and supervising sound editor and sound designer Martín Hernandez joined IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch.
It begins with a newborn baby asking to be inserted back into his mother’s womb, and only gets crazier from there, as Iñárritu attempts to make sense of life and art while looking for meaning in a world that can seem devoid of it.
To discuss bringing such a singular artistic vision to life, the film’s stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ximena Lamadrid, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and supervising sound editor and sound designer Martín Hernandez joined IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch.
- 11/18/2022
- by Christian Zilko and Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
The Screen Podcast is back for the 2022/2023 awards season.
The Screen Podcast is back for the 2022/2023 awards season. Over the coming weeks, the Screen International team will provide expert analysis of the race for Oscar and Bafta glory, and bring you interviews with many of the leading contenders.
The Screen International Podcast · Alejandro Iñárritu on ‘Bardo’ inspirations, re-editing after Venice premiere
In the first episode of the season, Alejandro González Iñárritu, a two-time best director Oscar winner for Birdman and The Revenant, talks to Screen contributing editor Mark Salisbury about his latest project, Mexican Oscar entry Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths.
The Screen Podcast is back for the 2022/2023 awards season. Over the coming weeks, the Screen International team will provide expert analysis of the race for Oscar and Bafta glory, and bring you interviews with many of the leading contenders.
The Screen International Podcast · Alejandro Iñárritu on ‘Bardo’ inspirations, re-editing after Venice premiere
In the first episode of the season, Alejandro González Iñárritu, a two-time best director Oscar winner for Birdman and The Revenant, talks to Screen contributing editor Mark Salisbury about his latest project, Mexican Oscar entry Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths.
- 11/17/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Click here to read the full article.
Alejandro Gonzalez
In Netflix’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Daniel Giménez Cacho stars as Silverio Gama, a renowned documentarian who is set to receive a prestigious award for his career as a journalist upon his return to his native Mexico after living with his family in Los Angeles for decades. The epic black comedy, which is Mexico’s official Oscar submission for best international feature, is an extremely personal project from four-time Oscar-winning writer-director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who likens his latest film to the Mexican soup called pozole — “a mix of an enormous amount of things” — that speaks to the shared loneliness of the immigrant experience, particularly for those who feel without a homeland. The film sees Gama weaving throughout his own memories and the present day as well as interacting with figures central to Mexico’s complex history and culture.
Alejandro Gonzalez
In Netflix’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Daniel Giménez Cacho stars as Silverio Gama, a renowned documentarian who is set to receive a prestigious award for his career as a journalist upon his return to his native Mexico after living with his family in Los Angeles for decades. The epic black comedy, which is Mexico’s official Oscar submission for best international feature, is an extremely personal project from four-time Oscar-winning writer-director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who likens his latest film to the Mexican soup called pozole — “a mix of an enormous amount of things” — that speaks to the shared loneliness of the immigrant experience, particularly for those who feel without a homeland. The film sees Gama weaving throughout his own memories and the present day as well as interacting with figures central to Mexico’s complex history and culture.
- 11/16/2022
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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November is traditionally when things cool down outside but heat up when it comes to movies and television and 2022 is no exception.
On the TV front, the month sees the return of some old favorites like Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest and Netflix’s The Crown and some intriguing new shows, including a big movie star’s first venture into the medium. Meanwhile, theaters are starting to fill up with awards-season movies,...
November is traditionally when things cool down outside but heat up when it comes to movies and television and 2022 is no exception.
On the TV front, the month sees the return of some old favorites like Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest and Netflix’s The Crown and some intriguing new shows, including a big movie star’s first venture into the medium. Meanwhile, theaters are starting to fill up with awards-season movies,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Keith Phipps
- Rollingstone.com
Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date.
It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.
This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...
It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.
This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...
- 11/4/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Love him or loathe him, it's hard to remain neutral on the work of Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. He makes big (some might say bombastic) films that swagger with their authority and artistry. Iñárritu emerged at the beginning of the millennium with films that felt distinctly of the time. His "Trilogy of Death," all written by Guillermo Arriaga, were among the most prominent and successful examples of the emergent "hyperlink cinema." As people connected in ways that transcended geography through the Internet, so did unexpected connections emerge between seemingly disparate characters on-screen.
Since this initial run culminated in best picture and director nominations for "Babel," Iñárritu has begun greater involvement in his work by writing the screenplays as well. Results of the "full Iñárritu" vary depending on who you ask, but the numbers don't lie as to how the industry feels. He's won five Oscars over the past decade,...
Since this initial run culminated in best picture and director nominations for "Babel," Iñárritu has begun greater involvement in his work by writing the screenplays as well. Results of the "full Iñárritu" vary depending on who you ask, but the numbers don't lie as to how the industry feels. He's won five Oscars over the past decade,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slash Film
Two-time Best Director winner Alejandro González Iñárritu has spent a lot of time on the press tours for his last few films telling stories about the extreme challenges of making them. Whether it was crafting the one-take look of "Birdman of (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" or the brutal weather conditions making "The Revenant," the lengths to which he will go to push his directorial style further seemingly knows no bounds. Some find this self-congratulatory and annoying; some find it wondrous. I am someone who may not love — or even like — everything he does, but that doesn't change the fact that there will be moments of inventive visual beauty I can't help but marvel at when I see them.
Well, Iñárritu is back on the press trail for his latest film, "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," and once again, the talk about how hard it was to make are top of mind.
Well, Iñárritu is back on the press trail for his latest film, "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," and once again, the talk about how hard it was to make are top of mind.
- 10/31/2022
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Click here to read the full article.
Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu is no stranger to the Tokyo International Film Festival. He first visited the city with his debut feature film, Amores Perros (2000), and went on to win the festival’s prizes for both best director and best film. In 2006, he was back in the Japanese capital to shoot major portions of his globe-spanning, Oscar-nominated drama Babel, living with his entire family for four months in the city. Later, he returned to serve as president of 2009 Tokyo festival jury.
This year, Iñárritu is arriving in Japan with dual duties. He will both screen his first feature in seven years (and his first fully Mexico movie since Amores Perros) — the epic, phantasmagoric comedy drama Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — and he will attend a glitzy gala at Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel to receive the festival’s Kurosawa Akira award for lifetime achievement.
Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu is no stranger to the Tokyo International Film Festival. He first visited the city with his debut feature film, Amores Perros (2000), and went on to win the festival’s prizes for both best director and best film. In 2006, he was back in the Japanese capital to shoot major portions of his globe-spanning, Oscar-nominated drama Babel, living with his entire family for four months in the city. Later, he returned to serve as president of 2009 Tokyo festival jury.
This year, Iñárritu is arriving in Japan with dual duties. He will both screen his first feature in seven years (and his first fully Mexico movie since Amores Perros) — the epic, phantasmagoric comedy drama Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — and he will attend a glitzy gala at Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel to receive the festival’s Kurosawa Akira award for lifetime achievement.
- 10/28/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Adam Sandler is taking part in an impressive Best Actor awards campaign for Hustle.
The sports drama was released on Netflix in June, and stars Sandler as an NBA scout who discovers a talented basketball player (Juancho Hernangómez) in Spain.
For the film, the actor received some of the best reviews of his career.
While his previous films for Netflix, including The Ridiculous 6, Sandy Wexler and Murder Mystery, were all torn apart by critics, Hustle was well regarded, and led to him breaking an impressive Rotten Tomatoes record.
On Wednesday (26 October), the Academy hosted an awards screening for Hustle, which is said to have received a warm response. Sandler was in attendance, and participated in a Q&a that was moderated by US chat show host Jimmy Fallon.
Vanity Fair reported that Netflix might consider pushing Sandler for Best Actor at the Oscars following a middling festival response to other forthcoming films,...
The sports drama was released on Netflix in June, and stars Sandler as an NBA scout who discovers a talented basketball player (Juancho Hernangómez) in Spain.
For the film, the actor received some of the best reviews of his career.
While his previous films for Netflix, including The Ridiculous 6, Sandy Wexler and Murder Mystery, were all torn apart by critics, Hustle was well regarded, and led to him breaking an impressive Rotten Tomatoes record.
On Wednesday (26 October), the Academy hosted an awards screening for Hustle, which is said to have received a warm response. Sandler was in attendance, and participated in a Q&a that was moderated by US chat show host Jimmy Fallon.
Vanity Fair reported that Netflix might consider pushing Sandler for Best Actor at the Oscars following a middling festival response to other forthcoming films,...
- 10/27/2022
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Though the 95th Academy Awards are still five months away, it’s never too early to look at some of the circuit contenders. Here’s some of the films that could score a minimum of two nominations in the major categories — picture, director, screenplay, international film and the acting races.
Armageddon Time
(Focus Features)
James Gray’s autobiographical coming-of-age story about growing up in 1980s Queens features an outstanding supporting cast of potential nominees, including prior Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins, plus Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong. Gray could also earn recognition for his sensitive original screenplay, which offers an uncompromising look at a turbulent era.
Avatar: The Way Of Water
(Disney)
James Cameron’s original blockbuster earned nine Oscar nominations, including best picture, and although we’ve only seen a teaser trailer, expect “The Way of Water” to wow audiences and Oscar voters. It’s only natural given advancements...
Armageddon Time
(Focus Features)
James Gray’s autobiographical coming-of-age story about growing up in 1980s Queens features an outstanding supporting cast of potential nominees, including prior Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins, plus Emmy-winner Jeremy Strong. Gray could also earn recognition for his sensitive original screenplay, which offers an uncompromising look at a turbulent era.
Avatar: The Way Of Water
(Disney)
James Cameron’s original blockbuster earned nine Oscar nominations, including best picture, and although we’ve only seen a teaser trailer, expect “The Way of Water” to wow audiences and Oscar voters. It’s only natural given advancements...
- 10/26/2022
- by Shalini Dore, Jazz Tangcay, Jenelle Riley, Michaela Zee, EJ Panaligan, Carole Horst, Malina Saval and Katie Reul
- Variety Film + TV
“I haven’t done a film in seven years. And most of the films I have done with my open eyes, observing the exterior world and then trying to make sense of it,” said “Bardo” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu at a special screening and Q&a for his film in New York City on October 25, where he was joined by his co-screenwriter Nicolás Giacobone and actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ximena Lamadrid, and Íker Solano. He explained that “Bardo” was different because “I made this film with my eyes closed, meaning that the journey was inward.”
“Bardo” tells the story of journalist and documentarian Silverio Gacho (played by Cacho), who goes on an inner journey to reconcile his past and present, his culture and identity, and his failures and successes as he prepares to accept a prestigious journalism award. It’s a deeply personal film for Iñárritu but not strictly autobiographical.
“Bardo” tells the story of journalist and documentarian Silverio Gacho (played by Cacho), who goes on an inner journey to reconcile his past and present, his culture and identity, and his failures and successes as he prepares to accept a prestigious journalism award. It’s a deeply personal film for Iñárritu but not strictly autobiographical.
- 10/26/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Netflix has debuted a second trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.’
Set against the intimate and moving journey of Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. The folly of his memories and fears has decided to pierce through the present, filling his everyday life with a sense of bewilderment and wonder.
Our glowing review from this year’s Lff is here.
With both emotion and abundant laughter, Silverio grapples with universal yet intimate questions about identity, success, mortality, the history of Mexico and the deeply emotional familial bonds he shares with his wife and children. Indeed, what it means to be human in these very peculiar times.
Set against the intimate and moving journey of Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. The folly of his memories and fears has decided to pierce through the present, filling his everyday life with a sense of bewilderment and wonder.
Our glowing review from this year’s Lff is here.
With both emotion and abundant laughter, Silverio grapples with universal yet intimate questions about identity, success, mortality, the history of Mexico and the deeply emotional familial bonds he shares with his wife and children. Indeed, what it means to be human in these very peculiar times.
- 10/25/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For the first time since 2015's "The Revenant," Alejandro González Iñárritu is back behind the camera. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker, who's taken home directing trophies for both the Leonardo DiCaprio survival thriller and 2014's trippy, Michael Keaton-led dark comedy "Birdman," returns with the Netflix film "Bardo." The movie's full title is actually "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," and Iñárritu serves as not just director of the project, but also writer, producer, and editor.
Now, "Bardo" has a new trailer, and the film that premiered at Venice looks like a surreal, gorgeous, and potentially somewhat inscrutable work of art. This stunning but disorienting trailer doesn't exactly explain what's going on in this movie, but the film's official synopsis makes its plot a little more explicit. Apparently, the film tells the story of "Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles." After being named...
Now, "Bardo" has a new trailer, and the film that premiered at Venice looks like a surreal, gorgeous, and potentially somewhat inscrutable work of art. This stunning but disorienting trailer doesn't exactly explain what's going on in this movie, but the film's official synopsis makes its plot a little more explicit. Apparently, the film tells the story of "Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles." After being named...
- 10/24/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
"We think we're from several places when in fact… we're from nowhere." Who are we, where are we, why are we? Some of the questions Iñárritu tries to explore in this. Netflix has debuted a second official trailer for the film by Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu titled Bardo. This premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and also stopped by London (read our review), opening in select theaters first early next month. The films follows a renowned Mexican journalist & documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his own identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories. It's essentially an autobiographical film about Iñárritu's life and his many questions about everything - his connection to Mexico and his family and so much more. Shot on gorgeous 65mm by Academy Award-nominee Darius Khondji. Iñárritu's Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as "Silverio", with Griselda Siciliani,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The second trailer for Alejandro G. Inarritu‘s red-hot Oscar contender “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” just dropped. Netflix is releasing the film theatrically in Mexico on October 27, followed by the US, Spain and Argentina on November 4, and globally on November 18. The film will start streaming on Netflix on December 16.
This wide-screen epic is set in the 1980s and follows the journey of Silverio Gama, a ex-pat Mexican journalist and filmmaker living in L.A., back to his native country to collect an award. He is beset by both memories and fears as he makes his way home. Acclaimed Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho is Silverio and Argentine’s leading lady Griselda Siciliani plays his wife. Iñárritu co-wrote the screenplay with his pal Nicolás Giacobone; they shared in an Oscar for scripting “Birdman” back in 2016.
That film, which won Best Picture, also brought Iñárritu the first of...
This wide-screen epic is set in the 1980s and follows the journey of Silverio Gama, a ex-pat Mexican journalist and filmmaker living in L.A., back to his native country to collect an award. He is beset by both memories and fears as he makes his way home. Acclaimed Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho is Silverio and Argentine’s leading lady Griselda Siciliani plays his wife. Iñárritu co-wrote the screenplay with his pal Nicolás Giacobone; they shared in an Oscar for scripting “Birdman” back in 2016.
That film, which won Best Picture, also brought Iñárritu the first of...
- 10/24/2022
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s eagerly awaited return, following the one-two Oscar punch of Birdman and The Revenant, manages to be at once wilfully obscure, completely beautiful and so staggeringly on the nose it could form the bulbous centrepiece of a clown’s face. Whatever else it achieves (and it achieves an awful lot) few films are so opaque and yet so obvious at the same time – in itself that’s pretty impressive. And that’s before we get to how staggeringly gorgeous Bardo can look.
Daniel Giménez Cacho is wonderful as Silverio Gacho, a Mexican-born journalist-turned-documentary-filmmaker, who is to be given a major award by his LA contemporaries, sending him into a spiral of self-doubt, by turns prickly and vulnerable, as he faces his imposter syndrome and the hostility of those he left behind in Mexico. The ensuing three hours explores those feelings as well as ideas of nationhood, identity,...
Daniel Giménez Cacho is wonderful as Silverio Gacho, a Mexican-born journalist-turned-documentary-filmmaker, who is to be given a major award by his LA contemporaries, sending him into a spiral of self-doubt, by turns prickly and vulnerable, as he faces his imposter syndrome and the hostility of those he left behind in Mexico. The ensuing three hours explores those feelings as well as ideas of nationhood, identity,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It has been seven years since Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s last film, the epic western The Revenant, which scored him his second consecutive Best Director Oscar after winning for Birdman the previous year. Considering the subject matter of his latest work, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, the 59-year-old has been reeling from something of an existential crisis. This rambling, self-indulgent three-hour odyssey stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a celebrated journalist and documentarian who arrives at a transformative mid-life crossroads on the eve of accepting a prestigious international award. Reminiscent in tone and narrative fluidity of Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, which itself recalled the surreal masterworks of Federico Fellini, Bardo unspools as a semi-autobiographical...
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- 10/9/2022
- Screen Anarchy
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