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Dec 20, 2022 · Alejandro González Iñárritu is on a mission to ‘liberate cinema’ from the boundaries of reality and tell new stories about Mexico, migrants, and life itself along the way, starting with his ...
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Feb 22, 2024 · Getty Images. Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment are in negotiations for a new film from Alejandro González Iñárritu, with Tom Cruise attached to star. The untitled project would be ...
Oct 28, 2022 · October 28, 2022 3:45pm. Brigitte Lacombe. Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu is no stranger to the Tokyo International Film Festival. He first visited the city with ...
Dec 8, 2022. After two decades away, Alejandro González Iñárritu has found his way home. The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant returned to his home country of Mexico to make a film for the first time since his feature debut, 2000's Amores perros, made him an international sensation.
- Vivian Maier
- The Labyrinth of Solitude
- The Phantom of Liberty
- The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- David Bowie
The Chicago-based photographer, whose prolific work was discovered shortly before her death in 2009, captured hundreds of thousands of images of everyday people she encountered while exploring the Midwestern city. While most of her work was in black and white, Iñárritu says that her color photographs inspired the film’s palette, particularly during...
Iñárritu considers Octavio Paz one of the greatest Mexican writers. “This is the most accurate description of the feeling of being Mexican, no matter where you are in your country or outside the country,” says the director. “He wrote it when he was living in Europe, with a distance that it requires. … For me, it’s a bible or an X-ray of a Mexican s...
The great surrealist auteur Luis Buñuel, who made films in France, Mexico and his native Spain, was a major influence on Iñárritu. The Bardo director says Buñuel’s 1974 dark comedy, a series of vignettes skewering social mores and ideals, is a particular favorite. “It is the most sophisticated, liberating way to do a film with no narratives or with...
Iñárritu says he was an avid fan of the progressive rock movement, and this 1974 concept album by Genesis — the band’s last to feature original frontman Peter Gabriel — tells the story of Orion, a Puerto Rican immigrant living in New York who confronts questions about his identity. The evocative cover art, designed by English design group Hipgnosis...
A crucial moment in the film is a sequence in which Gama and his family party to Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.” Iñárritu says that song in particular exudes joy and makes the listener, in his words, “almost want to smile to death.” In the film, the track is stripped down to just Bowie’s vocals, creating an otherworldly sense as Gama loses himself in the mu...
Sep 1, 2022 · Alejandro G. Iñárritu Gets Teary-Eyed as Three-Hour ‘Bardo’ Nabs Four-Minute Standing Ovation in Venice. Will “ Bardo ” be Alejandro González Iñárritu’s third best director Oscar in ...
Dec 10, 2022 · Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu teamed up with sound designer Martin Hernandez to create a unique soundscape for his new film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.
