Maestro

As Bradley Cooper receives acclaim for helming and starring in his upcoming film Maestro, the actor has lined up a new project called Best of Enemies. The movie has become the latest of upcoming book adaptations nabbed by Hollywood, and it will re-team Cooper with Christian Bale years after the pair of great actors starred in American Hustle together. Best Of Enemies is a spy thriller that was just snatched up by Amazon and MGM Studios, per Deadline. The movie is about an unlikely friendship that forms between a CIA…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBradley Cooper has said he directed his new Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro in the late conductor’s voice, after being inspired by Christian Bale’s method in 2013’s American Hustle.Speaking to fellow director Spike Lee, Cooper, 48, recalled being impressed by Bale’s dedication to staying in character. “American Hustle was the first time I saw an actor stay in the voice of a…

Bradley Cooper fully immersed himself in his role as Leonard Bernstein for Maestro a full year before shooting the film, Carey Mulligan has revealed.The actor, 48, stars as the American conductor in the 2023 film exploring Bernstein's relationship with Costa Rican actress Felicia Montealegre."He prepped to the point where he walked on set and didn’t have to think — like you say... he was ringing me a year before in full Lenny voice and everything," Mulligan told Variety.Cooper has been nominated for Best Actor– Motion…

Awards season is here and Barbenheimer is all set to rule! Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer dominated the nominations in the comedy and drama categories at the 81st Golden Globe Awards. Check out all the nominations. (Also read: Ryan Gosling talks about Barbie sequel, shares new ideas about his character: ‘Can I play Husky Ken?) Margot Robbie in Barbie (left) and Cillian Murphy in a still from Oppenheimer. Make it Barbenheimer, but in awards seasonBarbie secured nominations for star…

What are the biggest movies releasing in December 2023? Shah Rukh Khan headlines the biggest offering in Bollywood this month with Dunki, in which an Indian soldier offers to illegally relocate four locals to a foreign country through the donkey flight method. Marking his first collaboration with filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, the film is out December 21 in theatres. Long before that, we've got Zoya Akhtar's The Archies, which puts an Anglo-Indian spin on the beloved comic book characters, as they navigate friendship,…

Bradley Cooper’s long-in-the-making directorial follow-up to “A Star Is Born” comes out in select Bay Area theaters this week before it streams Dec. 20 on Netflix. We check the buzzy biopic out along with John Woo’s killer “Silent Night” and a heartbreaking look at musician Jon Batiste. We also unveil a new feature singling out a film, new or old, that might have escaped your attention but is worth seeking out. Here’s our roundup. “Maestro”: The versatile, committed Bradley Cooper steps back up to the director’s podium…

It’s that time of year when the studios bring out their big guns, from awards fare to blockbusters. Here are the movies we’re looking forward to most The holiday season is upon us, which means there’s no better time to get your friends or family together and head to the movies — meaning either the local cinema or gathering around the TV when the film inevitably heads to streaming. And now that the actors’ strike has come to an end, you can actually see your favorite stars do…

Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper, in a performance so expansive and exuberant that it easily upstages that controversial prosthetic nose) was a man of contradictions. And for Cooper, in his second outing as a director (after A Star Is Born), it’s this sense of perpetually warring sides to Bernstein’s psyche that proves to be central in his approach to this biopic. In a step up in terms of ambition and bravura, Cooper directs with a gusto and showmanship to match that of Bernstein at his most…

After Maestro made its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2023, the movie had a big screen release on November 22 in select theaters. The highly-anticipated film will premiere on December 20 on Netflix. As more and more reviews of Maestro drop, critics have largely shared positive reviews of the movie, which marks Bradley Cooper's second directorial effort after 2018's A Star Is Born. Also read: Bradley Cooper is unrecognisable as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, fans predict an Oscar…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein’s very public life as a conductor while diving into his more private marriage to Felicia Montealegre. How each side of Bernstein’s existence interacts with the other is the tension and harmony of “Maestro.” Which is authentic? Which a performance? Resolving those dichotomies is, thankfully, not the aim of Cooper’s admirably ambitious if performative drama…