Tag: Alberto Arvelo

The Liberator | Blu-ray Review

Selected as the Venezuelan submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2014 Academy Awards, Alberto Arvelo’s The Liberator, a biopic on Simon Bolivar,...

The Liberator | Review

Plowing the Sea: Arvelo’s Portrait of Famed Leader Hardly Revolutionary Arriving with all the earmarks of a truncated and incredibly abridged version of history in...

2013 TIFF: Gibney, Posin, Turturro, Kevin Macdonald & Sean Durkin Fill Up Special Presentations

With only the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters programmes left to be determined, TIFF head programmers dished out the final make-up of the Galas, Special...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...

Interview: Lukas Dhont – Coward | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Following the Grand Prix–winning Close, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont...