Topic: Walter Salles

Oliver Stone to be honored at S.F. Film Festival

0 View Larger Image . Oliver Stone, director of such notable films as "Wall Street" and "JFK" and Academy Award winner for "Platoon," "Born on the...

Mineta paved mayoral way for Quan

0 . Niles Dolbeare was listening when NPR's "Political Junkie" show asked the trivia question "Who was the first Asian American elected mayor of a...

Dark Water (2005 Film)

Dark Water is a psychological thriller directed by Walter Salles starring Jennifer Connelly , John C. Reilly and Tim Roth . Dahlia Williams (Jennifer Connelly ) left her husband and is determined to start a new life in her new apartment with her daughter, Ceci ...

Movie reviews: Dark Waters

Walter Salles 2005 film 'Dark Water' is dark and mysterious, a truly chilling remake of Hideo Nakata's Japanese horror film which was originally released in 2002. It's an interesting concept that Walter Salles should take on a film of this ...

Linha de Passe

The fourth collaboration as co-directors between the well-established Walter Salles (who made the excellent The Motor Cycle Diaries ) and Daniela Thomas, Linha de Passe is virtually Visconti's classic Rocco and His Brothers transposed from Milan to S& atilde;o Paulo with ...

Road out of the favelas in Linha de Passe

Set in S?o Paulo, a city of 20 million mostly impoverished inhabitants, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas's film is about a family trying to survive in poorly paid jobs they are desperate not to lose. One brother is a motorcycle ...

First sight: Sandra Corveloni

Who is she?A 43-year-old, S& atilde;o Paulo born-and-bred actor who's just appeared in her first feature film.Isn't 43 a little too long in the tooth to be embarking on an acting career?Even if that were so ...

A few too many views of Paris

Gurinder Chadha contributes a touching story about a young man who pesters women falling for a Muslim girl in a hijab, while Isabel Coixet offers a moving tale about a man on the point of asking his wife for a divorce when ...