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
In 1945, Dino Buzzati wrote and illustrated The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily. It was a children’s book. Yet like The Little Prince, by Saint-Exupéry,… Read More »The Bears’ Invasion, seven decades later
Air Berlin filed for insolvency after its largest shareholder, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, withdrew its support. Still, the German airline will continue flying for at… Read More »Air Berlin’s insolvency and the quest for efficient airlines
Many have fallen before for the notion that history is not only a chronological progression, but also marks the evolution of ideas. For those, the… Read More »How Charlottesville set the clock back to the dark ages