Latest Walter Salles News

From ‘The Brutalist' to 'Wicked,' where to watch this year’s top awards movies

Jan. 23, 2025 12:27 PM EST

The 2025 movie awards season is in full swing but figuring out where to watch everything can be overwhelming. Are they streaming? For free? In theaters? Only in Los Angeles and New York? Take one of the big winners of the Golden Globes, “The Brutalist,” a film that’s been...

Movie Review: A family is torn apart under Brazil’s dictatorship in ‘I’m Still Here’

Jan. 15, 2025 16:45 PM EST

It’s easy to fall in love with the Paiva family. Filmmaker Walter Salles makes sure of that in “I’m Still Here.” He drops the audience into the warm everyday of the beautiful home of Eunice (Fernanda Torres) and Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), in 1970s Rio de Janeiro, where...

In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance

Jan. 10, 2025 11:22 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — In movies, political resistance often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. But in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” it comes in the shape of a defiant smile. The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a...

Brazilian film 'I’m Still Here' tops box office, forcing nation to reckon with dictatorship trauma

Dec. 29, 2024 23:14 PM EST

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian-made dramas rarely last long in local cinemas. But, nearly two months after its release, “I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, has drawn millions of moviegoers across the South...