There is nothing in life like the certainty of death. Absolutely everything else is uncertain. Foxtrot begins with a view of truck hood as it… Read More »‘Foxtrot’ paces the life of a traumatized family and their soldier boy
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford were awarded two Golden Lions last night for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice International Film Festival. Both U.S. actors… Read More »Jane Fonda: ‘I live for sex scenes’ with Robert Redford
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurosson has brought to Venice Under the Tree, his third feature film. Of those your correspondent has seen so far in the third… Read More »‘Under the tree,’ an Icelandic saga of common men and women
Venice extends the red carpet for the stars that keep arriving for the 74th International Film Festival. Tonight the Biennale will honor Jane Fonda and Robert… Read More »Stars walk down the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival
William Friedkin, the maker of The Exorcist, the 1973 classic movie, had never seen an exorcism. Almost half a century later, and with curiosity… Read More »Friedkin: If I knew, I would not have made ‘The Exorcist’
The best thing about The Shape of Water is the movie’s name. The photography is great, too, and so is the music. There are… Read More »Guillermo del Toro did it again with ‘The Shape of Water’
It may be misleading, but certainly tempting, to attribute American filmmaker Alexander Payne’s extraordinary sensitivity for drama to his Greek origins (his ancestors anglicized the… Read More »Downsizing: Alexander Payne’s Lilliputian dystopia
There is a shop in Florence that is so tiny that most pedestrians pass it by without even noticing. Yet when they do, they will… Read More »Five lessons from the violin maker of Florence
Your Fi correspondent in the United States visited Germany last month. Berlin is a city that shows its scars. The palace of the German parliament,… Read More »How to honor a shameful past
In only four years, Nubank went on to become Brazil’s sixth largest credit-card issuer among financial companies. It has more cardholders than Citibank’s Brazilian unit… Read More »Nubank, the credit card startup that’s beating Citibank in Brazil
