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Julio Torres mined his own life and experiences to make his feature directorial debut “ Problemista,” in which he plays an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador caught in the nightmarish Catch-22 of the U.S. immigration system. HT Image His character Alejandro desperately needs someone to sponsor his work visa, and he thinks he may have found that person in Tilda Swinton’s Elizabeth, a caustic, put-upon art critic. Together they embark on a wild, surreal New York odyssey of setbacks, bureaucratic nonsense,…

As testified by numerous documentaries, many journalistic investigations and countless lived experiences, the United States immigration system is a purgatorial, deliberately confusing, dehumanizing hell. Getting here, let alone staying here, can be a confounding maze of dead-ends and Kafka-esque double binds, an impossible staircase of bureaucracy. The metaphors come easy; the system lends itself well to magical realism, as poignantly realized in the new A24 film Problemista, in which immigration is a literal maze of drab…

11. The Angelic Conversation (1985)Judi Dench reads 14 Shakespeare sonnets over 77 minutes of homoerotic imagery, backed by compositions by Benjamin Britten and experimental band Coil in this romantic and dreamy film. While not as powerful as Jarman’s best queer works, which channelled anger as well as beauty in their rebellion against oppression, Dench’s readings and the woozy imagery work beautifully together.10. Jubilee (1978)Elizabeth I (Jenny Runacre) time travels to punk-era Britain and discovers a desperate,…

The nights are drawing in. There’s frost underfoot. You can see your breath in the air. It’s the time of year for a chilly tale of the unexpected. And according to none other than Martin Scorsese, director Joanna Hogg is at the perfect point in her career to direct such a film. “He was trying to encourage me to make a ghost story with him,” Hogg recalls. “He just thought maybe it’s a direction I could go in. So I said: ‘Well, you know, give me some ghost stories to read.’” Scorsese was as good as his word – his…

Actress Tilda Swinton has revealed she had a candid conversation with legendary musician David Bowie three years before he died in which he confessed he did not believe in an afterlife. The actress worked with the legendary musician on the music video for his 2013 single `The Stars (Are Out Tonight)` and she`s opened up about a candid conversation they had in which Bowie gave his thoughts on life after death - and insisted he simply didn`t believe in it, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Speaking to the Guardian…

Tilda Swinton has been posing in different costumes for the Observer’s photographer and, as I arrive, has just changed into tartan trousers, saucy two-tone shoes and is standing perfectly still as a hairdresser attends to a blond quiff that makes her look like an incredible exotic bird – or a dandy hooligan, although her face looks too seraphic to mutate into aggro. What you see almost at once is that Swinton is giving 100% to the task at hand while being obligingly considerate to everyone around her. The mix of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTilda Swinton has admitted to defying Covid protocols on the set of her forthcoming project. The 62-year-old actor will be shooting her next film in Ireland, where she claimed she was “told to wear a mask at all times”.“I’m not,” Swinton apparently said during her keynote speech at the South by Southwest Film and TV Festival in Austin, Texas, on Monday (13 March).“I’m sure this is…

After 31 years, Sally Potter’s Orlando is re-released, a dreamy, swoony reverie of shapeshifting sexual identity; “gender” isn’t the word used. It is the film that confirmed Tilda Swinton in the arthouse-icon status that Derek Jarman had given her (Hollywood prestige was to come eight years later, in Danny Boyle’s The Beach). The movie concludes with a rapturous closeup on Swinton’s face: sublime, seraphic, enigmatic, while Jimmy Somerville serenades her from heaven, a cheeky falsetto cherub fluttering in the sky.Potter…

Almost 50 years ago, Tom Luddy co-founded the Telluride film festival, a small and enormously influential long weekend that takes place every year over the Labor Day weekend high in the Colorado mountains.Telluride is not like other film festivals. It is intimate and inclusive and democratic. Everyone mixes with everyone else – anathema to the likes of Cannes or Venice.It has high and singular standards. If its curators – Tom and executive director Julie Huntsinger, who joined in 2007 – like a film, they invite it. If…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosWatch Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton team up for a haunting new ghost movie. Mads Mikkelsen is joining Bryan Fuller’s new horror film. The CW is only giving short orders to The Winchesters and Gotham Knights. Plus, Namor rises in a new Wakanda Forever featurette. Spoilers, away!Dust BunnyTHR reports Mads Mikkelsen is attached to star in Dust Bunny, a new film from Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller in which “an eight-year-old girl enlists the help of her intriguing neighbor to kill the monster under…