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De Charlize Theron con transparencias a Kim Kardashian con un Balenciaga histórico: todos los ‘looks’ de Academy Museum Gala

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Monica Barbaro: The dancer who quietly became a Hollywood star

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The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary You Can See Everything Is an Act of Radical Empathy
We all know Elizabeth Holmes is a villain.
She promised a radical new technology—bloodwork performed in a countertop-sized machine from a single droplet taken from your finger. She was young, photogenic, and self-possessed; she dressed like Steve Jobs. Her invention would disrupt the $60 billion bloodwork industry, bringing cheap, frictionless health monitoring to the masses. Or it would have, if it worked. Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors of nearly $500 million; she's currently serving an 11-year prison sentence. Holmes has been written about extensively, and her story was turned into an Emmy-winning Hulu series starring Amanda Seyfried. She is an avatar of Big Tech mendacity, a cautionary tale as much as a person.
Everyone knows the story. You would think there is nothing left to say. But you'd be wrong.
Just before she entered prison, Holmes invited documentarians Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim to live with her, her boyfriend Billy Evans, and their two young children in their beachfront San Diego rental unit, promising them full access, complete transparency. The result is this year's most entrancing documentary, You Can See Everything. When the camera captures Billy in the shower, the movie delivers on its titular promise; you, uh, really can see everything.
Yet what you cannot see is who Holmes really is. The mystery of the era's most famous fraudster is the movie's central riddle: Is she cynical, calculating, a stone-cold liar and psychopath? Or is she something stranger—a damaged and delicate person who genuinely believes her lies, or at the very least, genuinely believes the stories she tells herself to justify those lies after the fact?
Fielder and Holmes seem uncertain themselves; the movie is, in part, their own attempt to wrestle with their own ambivalence, their own inability to come to a conclusion. It's a hall of mirrors about the infinite unknowability of a person, even given unfettered access.
The documentarians do not absolve her of her villainy; the movie is not an attempt to excuse her fraud or build a case for her innocence. But they offer something exceptionally rare in this era of simplistic hero and villain narratives: genuine and deeply felt empathy for someone on whom the culture (not to mention the legal system) has cast final judgment. In the process, they have given us one of the strangest, most unsettling, and most poignant films of the year. You Can See Everything is a small miracle of a movie.
It's sometimes said that the most compelling villains don't believe themselves to be villains. They have an internally coherent story to tell that excuses their actions, makes them the heroes in their own minds. Fielder and Oppenheim have given Holmes, and viewers, the gift of allowing Holmes a measure of psychological complexity. You don't see into her mind, because that's impossible. But you see that the story she tells herself is different from the story the world tells us about her. It's surprisingly kind and generous; it's also tricky as hell—to the point where you, the viewer, might wonder if you're the one being tricked.
Halfway through, the movie takes a meta-turn that I won't spoil, entering into high-concept territory in an attempt to more deeply explore what art and images can reveal about a human psyche. It's formally audacious, often funny, and actually justifies the three-hour running time. I've never seen anything quite like it.
The exercise left me just as unsettled as the documentarians seem to be themselves; uncertain about Holmes and her motives, and nearly as uncertain about Fielder and Oppenheim, two talented filmmakers who appear to be questioning not only the nature of their chosen form, but of reality, especially psychological reality, themselves. There are times when You Can See Everything borders on magical realism, except the magic comes from the complexity of human nature and storytelling, as if Gabriel García Márquez had written a story about a man with a camera that could see into souls. It's dizzying, dazzling, a sort of postmodern Rashomon of perspective shifting.
As I left the theater, in something of a daze, I found myself thinking of a line from the great Saul Bellow novel The Adventures of Augie March, "Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough." In the case of Holmes, it's impossible to tell which it is. All we can say is this supposedly one-note Big Tech villain, like perhaps everyone, is better understood as some kind of mystery, even to herself.
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How Hollywood films have reimagined the South Asian epic Ramayana

American audiences will be able to watch an English-dubbed version of “Ramayana,” a Hindi film based on a South Asian epic tradition, in theaters in November 2026. The Sanskrit “Ramayana,” or “Journey of Rama,” is an epic poem that was composed sometime between 400 BCE and 400 CE. The epic follows Rama, an exiled prince […]
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- ‘Violent, disgusting and a tour de force’: ‘Henry’, the film that held up a mirror to society
‘Violent, disgusting and a tour de force’: ‘Henry’, the film that held up a mirror to society
“This is a very disturb¬ ing movie, made by some pretty disturbed people.” That was how Chris Carlo, owner of one of the first theaters to screen Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in 1990, described John McNaughton’s feature debut. Made four years earlier, the film had become a cult classic before it ever reached a movie theater. Carlo programmed it for midnight screenings where audience members often walked out, unable to endure its violence.

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- Kevin Bacon: ‘I’m still 100% focused on improving, transcending, and doing something impactful’
Kevin Bacon: ‘I’m still 100% focused on improving, transcending, and doing something impactful’
Although they lost almost all their savings in Bernie Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the marriage of Kevin Bacon, 68, and Kyra Sedgwick, 61, who have been together for 38 years, survived with their New York apartment and their farm in Connecticut intact. It was there that the pandemic lockdown found them, and there that they hatched a film together, with the help of their two children, who came from the West Coast: Travis, a composer drafted into acting by the demands of the script, and Sosie, who has already established herself as a film and television actress.

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Sissy Spacek was more than Carrie: A life of love, loss and acclaim

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Wagner Moura e artistas do Oscar alertam sobre eleições
Em uma carta conjunta divulgada neste sábado (10) pela revista Variety, 58 membros brasileiros da Academia de Artes e Ciências Cinematográficas, responsável pelo Oscar, entre eles o ator Wagner Moura, os cineastas Kleber Mendonça Filho, Fernando Meirelles e o produtor Rodrigo Teixeira, se dizem preocupados com os possíveis desdobramentos do segundo turno das eleições presidenciais no Brasil.
O texto cita propostas de Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) de reescrever a Constituição, o desmonte da cultura sob o governo de seu pai, Jair Bolsonaro, que foi condenado por tentativa de golpe de Estado. Aborda ainda o caso, revelado pela Folha, da criptomoeda B22, que oferecia tokens a quem divulgasse conteúdos que incentivassem o voto em Flávio e dizia destinar parte dos recursos a crianças de Uganda.
Artistas temem retrocessos na cultura
“Sob a administração anterior, a indústria audiovisual brasileira sofreu com o fechamento do Ministério da Cultura, a suspensão do Fundo do Setor Audiovisual, o enfraquecimento das instituições culturais e as acusações de censura. Tememos um retorno a esse cenário”, diz o texto. “Proteger a liberdade de expressão e garantir a sustentabilidade a longo prazo da indústria audiovisual brasileira são inseparáveis da defesa da democracia.”
Menciona ainda os planos do governo de Donald Trump de enviar US$ 1 milhão para financiar grupos contrários ao STF, noticiados pelo The Guardian, sob a acusação de que a corte extrapola as atribuições judiciais e impõe censura no Brasil.
Carta pede atenção internacional às eleições
A carta, assinada também por nomes como Alice Braga, Anna Muylaert, Daniel Filho, Lais Bodanzky, Lucy Barreto, Sônia Braga e outros, pede maior atenção internacional ao pleito no país.
“Consideramos os acontecimentos no Brasil como parte de um padrão mais amplo de suposta interferência eleitoral em toda a América Latina. A defesa da democracia brasileira deve, portanto, depender não apenas do povo brasileiro, por meio de eleições livres, justas e transparentes, mas também da vigilância e do engajamento da comunidade internacional.”
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- Eliza Capai
- Emilie Lesclaux
- Emilio Domingos
- Fernando Meirelles
- Flávia Amon
- Flávia de Souza
- Gabriel Domingues
- Gabriel Mascaro
- Helena Solberg
- Heloisa Passos
- Ilda Santiago
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- Jorge Bodanzky
- José Joffily
- Juliana Rojas
- Karen Akerman
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- Kleber Mendonça Filho
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- Maria Augusta Ramos
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- Pedro Kos
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- Plínio Profeta
- Renata Almeida Magalhães
- Rodrigo Teixeira
- Sara Silveira
- Sônia Braga
- Tatiana Leite
- Thales Junqueira
- Vânia Catani
- Vera Hamburger
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Eva Marie Saint: the Hitchcock muse whose career spanned nearly eight decades
Eva Marie Saint, one of the last great actresses from Alfred Hitchcock’s universe, died on Tuesday, October 6 at her home in Los Angeles, family representatives said. She was 102.

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- Richard Dean Anderson, the iconic MacGyver: ‘He was different, a TV hero who didn’t use guns. He would think, look and solve the problem’
Richard Dean Anderson, the iconic MacGyver: ‘He was different, a TV hero who didn’t use guns. He would think, look and solve the problem’
He had a solution for everything. There was no problem he couldn’t tackle. Whether it was forcing open a lock by melting ice, building a defibrillator out of two candlesticks and a microphone cable, making a bomb with a stick of chewing gum or defusing one with a paper clip. He could even stop a sulfuric acid leak with milk chocolate bars. As a popular Spanish saying inspired by the character goes: “You’re more dangerous than MacGyver in a hardware store.”

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- Brett Goldstein, the comedian who ran a strip club in Marbella before finding fame with 'Ted Lasso'
Brett Goldstein, the comedian who ran a strip club in Marbella before finding fame with 'Ted Lasso'
“He’s here, he’s there, he’s every fucking where: Roy Kent, Roy Kent!” chants the loyal Richmond crowd in tribute to the captain of the struggling English football club at the heart of the TV series Ted Lasso. It seemed almost prophetic of what awaited Brett Goldstein, the 46-year-old actor who plays the gruff Kent. Since joining the hit Apple TV comedy’s main cast, having originally been hired only as a writer, he has gone from being virtually unknown outside the United Kingdom to starring in a romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez, appearing alongside Harrison Ford in a television series, and becoming Marvel’s new Hercules.

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- Tom Cruise Climate Film Digger is “Biggest Flop of His Career” and Could Lose $150m in “Historic Disaster”
Tom Cruise Climate Film Digger is “Biggest Flop of His Career” and Could Lose $150m in “Historic Disaster”
Tom Cruise's new climate film Digger is turning into the "biggest flop of his career" and could lose $150m in a "historic disaster", leading Warner Bros to try a bold new marketing strategy: implying Americans are dumb.
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- Sylvester Stallone: ‘I don’t know what the new masculinities are. It’s in a man’s nature to conquer’
Sylvester Stallone: ‘I don’t know what the new masculinities are. It’s in a man’s nature to conquer’
It is Sylvester Stallone’s fourth interview of the day. Is he tired of talking yet? “No, because this is the first one about my memoirs,” he replies from a hotel room in New York, his hometown, overlooking Central Park, where he is meeting with EL PAÍS.

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- Vincent Cassel: ‘There are things that are good for your career and others that you like: always do the latter’
Vincent Cassel: ‘There are things that are good for your career and others that you like: always do the latter’
There is a generation of filmviewers that cannot separate Vincent Cassel, 59, from the 1995 movie La Haine (Hate), where he dominated the screen. Although more than three decades have passed, Mathieu Kassovitz’s film was already exposing the seams of modern France. A Jewish kid from the Parisian suburbs, inflamed by frustration, resentment, the poison of social exclusion, a constant sense of injustice and a desire for revenge after a friend gets killed by the police. Vince, but also Saïd and Hubert, his closest friends, formed a trio that would be unlikely today in the banlieues of the Paris periphery. An Arab, a Black man and a Jew united by that prescient smell of fracture, exclusion and identity conflicts that began to feed the hatred and stoke the fire of the far right.
Production: Nono Vázquez. Photography assistants: Emilio Azevedo and Adrián Wong. Production assistants: Laura Gimenez and Isabel Orozco. Makeup and hair: Anne Bochon. Movement direction: Pauline Gudet. Video: Daniele Vaia. Studio: Paul Le Cacheux Photographer.

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Lili Reinhart, the actress looking for success away from Hollywood clichés
Lili Reinhart isn’t interested in being a celebrity… and the 30-year-old actress has proven this throughout her career. The moment her name started making headlines for her starring role as Betty Cooper in the TV series Riverdale (2017-2023), control over what she wanted (and didn’t want) in her life seemed to slip from her grasp. And, as her fame grew, she also had to confront her insecurities: subjected to constant media exposure, her life suddenly belonged to the public.

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- Tom Cruise vs. the world: Actor faces jokes about his age, his Oscar bid, and his return to the media spotlight
Tom Cruise vs. the world: Actor faces jokes about his age, his Oscar bid, and his return to the media spotlight
Although Tom Cruise has maintained his star status on the big screen, the 64-year-old has avoided giving interviews to mainstream media for the past 20 years. Instead, he has focused on being an actor exclusively associated with his roles, someone who only generates conversation for his spectacular stunts in the sequels to Mission Impossible, done without doubles, or for his commitment to the seventh art, to theaters, and to Hollywood.

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- Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Tom Cruise loved this film because it freed him from the handsome, strong man that he is’
Alejandro G. Iñárritu: ‘Tom Cruise loved this film because it freed him from the handsome, strong man that he is’
Digger is like a mango. It’s an acidic film, but also a bit sweet; outwardly it seems one thing but inside it contains surprises, and it needs time to ripen. Like a mango, its flavor can’t be explained. In fact, it’s better not to even try, says its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu: “The only way to know what a mango tastes like is to put it in your mouth. And you have to put this film in your eyes to understand it, because if I explain it to you, you won’t get it.”

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- ‘Forgotten Island’ turns children’s animation into a song to friendship and roots: ‘Diversity makes us stronger’
‘Forgotten Island’ turns children’s animation into a song to friendship and roots: ‘Diversity makes us stronger’
There is nothing a good plate of lechón (piglet) can’t achieve. So can a story that has been in the works for a decade and speaks of friendship, migration, change, roots and food (yes, lechón too), one that is animated and aimed primarily at children, yet carries a message not only for kids. It was over dishes like that and other traditional Filipino foods that Forgotten Island was cooked up for years. Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, who are friends, colleagues and something like compatriots, have been passionately shaping the story all these years, and finally on September 25, 2026, it is opening in movie theaters worldwide.

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- Lena Dunham’s body is back again… and her memoir, ‘Famesick,’ reads differently now
Lena Dunham’s body is back again… and her memoir, ‘Famesick,’ reads differently now
Lena Dunham — the child prodigy who wrote the HBO series Girls (the millennial version of Sex and the City) and later became the fallen star of her generation — published her second memoir this past April. And it reads quite differently now, after she recently announced that she has become a mother via surrogacy.

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