FILMS from AFAR

I spoke with Iván Díaz, head of International at Barcelona-based Filmax, about the remake market, the sale of rights on Cesc Gay’s Sentimental (The People Upstairs)—now on its way to becoming one of Europe’s most-resold IPs—and his thoughts on Olivia Wilde’s US version, The Invite. This Q&A has been edited for length and clarity. There have been 5 remakes already and 4 more in the works, is that right? Yes… Sentimental, from the beginning was a movie that we all felt very pro

Mike Leigh’s ‘Tender Loving Care’ Sweeps San Sebastian Awards as ‘La Bola Negra,’ ‘NAZA’ Earn Audience Nods Amanda Kernell's 'Brace Your Heart' won the Swedish-Sami filmmaker the Silver Shell for best director as the Spanish film fest wrapped up its 74th edition, the last for outgoing director Jose Luis Rebordinos. This article originally ran in The Hollywood Reporter. Mike Leigh’s dramatic comedy Tender Loving Care took home three top awards at Saturday night’s closing cerem

San Sebastián Kicks Off in Spain (Sept 18-26) The San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) inaugurates its 74th annual edition in the northern Spanish city this weekend, with 263 films from 47 countries screening across its line-up. The Official Selection features 17 films making their world premieres outside their production territories and competing for the fest’s top Golden Shell prize, including new works from directors Jesse Eisenberg, Mike Leigh, Fatih Akin, Ni

Despite more than 50 books published in 40-plus languages, author Margaret Atwood may always be best known for her novel and hit series The Handmaid’s Tale, and now its sequel The Testaments. Both are set in a dystopian future society where women are forced to live under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship that denies them basic rights and freedoms. “Everything in The Handmaid's Tale has happened somewhere, sometime,” Atwood affirmed at a public appearance on Wednesday

Renowned restaurant owner and cook Nancy Silverton was recognized this summer with yet another major culinary award—the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. Yet Silverton, co-owner of the Michelin-starred Mozza Restaurant Group, insists she doesn’t see herself as a chef. “That whole image of a chef is still somebody much grander than who I feel like,” she told Eater last year. We know where she gets that image. The culture loves the larger-than-life kitchen per

A woman translated it. A man filmed it. The culture war that followed says less about Homer than about who still gets to decide whose story counts. Emily Wilson, Nolan, and the Fight Over a Hero Why would a University of Pennsylvania classics professor need a dedicated “misogynistic trolling” button on her website? In Emily Wilson’s case, it’s because she dared translate Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, becoming the first woman to do so in English and helping inspire Christo