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Thursday, October 3, 2024


 Sept. 30 NYFF62 Maria Screening Q&A







“I honestly have been seeking the story for many, many years,” Larraín told IndieWire. “Unlike the other two movies, ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer,’ this is the story of an artist. It’s a story of a woman that ended up being very shaped by the opera that she sang on stage.”

“I always wanted to make a movie about opera,” he continued. “It’s not easy. It’s unusual for cinema, but those are two of my greatest loves in my heart, opera and cinema. I’m very happy to be able to put them together in a movie, about a singer that really changed the history of opera, not only with the life, but with her voice and with her with her acting capacities. Maria Callas was someone that obviously had a wonderful voice, but also had a very strong discipline to work her characters.”

Though Jolie was not very familiar with opera before the film, the actress and Larraín previously shared with IndieWire how she prepared for the through extensive training. On the red carpet, the director walked us through how much of Jolie’s voice we actually hear in the film, versus Callas’ own.

“She had to train for a long time. She trained for over seven months. There’s breathing, there’s posture, there’s accent,” he said. “She sang in Italian and French, but mostly Italian. There’s, you know, what in music is called the pitch, which is the capacity to reach each note and follow the melody, and that was very challenging for her.”

He continued, “Everyone that does not sing, [including] myself, would have a very hard time doing it. This is not pop music. It’s not like you get in a car and put on a David Bowie song and you’ll be able to sing it. That’s not what it is. It’s just you can’t really sing opera unless you really, really train. We also wanted to capture her voice through certain technical things that you do; capture her voice, her breathing her, her every sound.”

Much of the work was also completed in post-production. “Later, in post-production, we were able to mix it with Maria Callas’ voice. So sometimes you hear 1 percent of Angelina’s voice, sometimes it’s 5 percent, sometimes it’s forty percent, in a couple of times, not very often, but it does happen, you listen to sixty percent or seventy percent of Angelina’s voice. Obviously, this is a movie about Maria Callas, so you wanna have Maria’s voice, but in order to make it believable, Angelina had to sing out loud in front of her crew and and hundreds of extras in order to make it possible.”

He added, “I think she did beautiful, beautiful work and makes it believable and makes the movie possible. Without that, none of this could happen. Even if you have a great performance and everything is beautiful, if you don’t believe that she’s actually singing, there’s no movie, and I think she pulled it off. We had the help of a number of people that are experts are on it and so I’m happy that that it actually works.”




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Monday, September 30, 2024


Leaving the Carlyle





NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 30: Angelina Jolie is seen leaving for the New York Film Festival on September 30, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Robert Kamau/GC Images)












Arriving at Alice Tully parking




















She could see the poster the fan wanted her to sign before she approached. She proceeded to walk directly towards him with her right hand held out to get it.  She agreed to pose for a photo with him after.

A strong hint.  One of many.   Hard to ignore.

The day before, she declined to sign the photo of her with Jon (below), but she was totally fine signing the M&MS poster. More than fine.







Arriving back at Carlyle



NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 30: Angelina Jolie is seen on September 30, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images)







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Thursday, September 26, 2024


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Wednesday, August 14, 2024




This year’s Spotlight features an imaginative range of portraits of musicians and performers, including Pablo Larraín’s Maria, with Angelina Jolie delivering a towering performance as legendary opera singer Maria Callas in her final days; the North American premieres of Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s irreverent anti-biodoc about the influential indie rock band Pavement, and TWST/Things We Said Today, Andrei Ujică’s archival film about the Beatles’ descent on NYC for their sold-out 1965 Shea Stadium concert; and the U.S. premiere of Elton John: Never Too Late, directed by R.J. Cutler and David Furnish, featuring never-before-seen concert footage from the past 50 years, with in-person appearances by Elton John and the directors. Music is also prominent in Jacques Audiard’s Cannes Jury Prize winner Emilia Pérez, an audacious and genre-defying musical crime comedy that also received the Cannes Best Actress prize for its ensemble cast.




Maria
Pablo Larraín, 2024, Italy/Germany/U.S., 122m

Following his acclaimed historical biopics Jackie and Spencer, about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Diana, respectively, Chilean director Pablo Larraín has made his third entry in an unofficial trilogy about world-famous women dealing with the blinding glare of celebrity while at emotional crossroads. In an all-consuming performance at once poignant and imperious, Angelina Jolie becomes Maria Callas, the American-born, Greek opera singer whose voice and intensely dramatic life captivated millions before her death from a heart attack at the age of 53. Set in Paris, September 1977, during the final week of her life, Maria follows the legendary soprano as she negotiates her public image and private self and reckons with the increasingly blurred boundaries between the venerated “La Divina” and the vulnerable human being Maria. Punctuated by grand operatic interludes, Maria is exquisitely shot by Ed Lachman and features a vivid supporting cast that includes Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, and Valeria Golino.




VF

You have both Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attending the festival this year with their respective films, Wolfs and Maria. Obviously, there’s some tension there due to their ongoing divorce proceedings. How do you handle that? Just space out their appearances?

Yes, of course. Angelina will be on the first day, on Thursday the 29, and she will leave right after with [Maria director] Pablo Larraín to go to Telluride. So Brad will arrive only on Saturday, to Venice. There is no way that they can cross each other at the Lido.


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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

No NYFF, A Venice surprise?

So In the Land of Blood and Honey totally skipped the festivals just as Matt Mazur had said it would. I had hoped she would consider showing up in NY so we could get early feedback but I guess she and Graham King and his team felt she didn't need the festivals. They may have figured she can generate buzz on her own and in a more controllable media environment. It is also possible that there are scheduling issues involved although at the moment there is no word that any of her films will be starting by that time. It's a surprising strategy and not without risks as she will have some ground to cover just to catch up to those films that have been shown in festivals while working with a small promo budget.

49th NYFF: Main Slate
4:44: Last Day On Earth, directed by Abel Ferrara (USA)
A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
Corpo Celeste, directed by Alice Rohrwacher (Italy/Switzerland/France)
Footnote, directed by Joseph Cedar (Israel)
George Harrison: Living In The Material World, directed by Martin Scorsese (USA)
Goodbye First Love, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve (France/Germany)
Le Havre, directed by Aki Kaurismäki (Finland/France/Germany)
Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin (USA)
Melancholia, directed by Lars von Trier (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany/Italy)
Miss Bala, directed by Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico)
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
Pina, directed by Wim Wenders (Germany/France/UK)
Play, directed by Ruben Östlund (Sweden/France/Denmark)
Policeman, directed by Nadav Lapid (Israel/France)
Shame, directed by Steve McQueen (UK)
Sleeping Sickness, directed by Ulrich Köhler (Germany/France/Netherlands)
The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius (France)
The Loneliest Planet, directed by Julia Loktev (USA/Germany)
The Kid With A Bike, directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France)
The Student, directed by Santiago Mitre (Argentina)
The Turin Horse, directed by Béla Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky (Hungary/France/Germany/Switzerland/USA)
This Is Not A Film, directed by Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (Iran)

Opening Night:
Carnage, directed by Roman Polanski (France/Germany/Poland)

Closing Night:
The Descendants, directed by Alexander Payne (USA)

Centerpiece:
My Week With Marilyn, directed by Simon Curtis (UK)

Gala Screenings:
A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg (UK/Canada/Germany)
The Skin I Live In, directed by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)

68th Venice International Film Festival

Director: Marco Müller

31st August > 10th September 2011

6 September

7:30 p.m. SALA DARSENA
VENEZIA 68
FILM SORPRESA


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