Four time Academy Award winner Alejandro González Iñárritu basically works with the crème de la crème of Hollywood. He scored Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Revenant” (which won DiCaprio his first Oscar award for Best Actor), Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett for “Babel,” and incredible ensemble troupes for “21 Grams” and “Birdman” to name just a few.

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Barely 24 hours since a trade article revealed Tom Cruise’s intended desire to work with auteurs and reunite with the likes of cineastes like Paul Thomas Anderson, the 61-year-old actor has linked up with a five-time Oscar winner. Deadline reveals that Cruise will star in the next film from “Birdman” and “Bardo” filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu through his non-exclusive strategic partnership at Warner Bros.

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Mike Nichols was an absolutely legendary filmmaker, especially in terms of comedy. His reputation was so well-regarded, Nichols was actually the type of filmmaker that other established filmmakers would go to for advice. And as with a story told by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, sometimes that advice was downright terrifying and not what you want to hear just days before you start filming your biggest project to date. 

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Speaking as part of the recent THR Directors Roundtable, Alejandro G.

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In a career filled with near-unwavering success, including Best Picture and Best Director wins for “Birdman” and “The Revenant,” Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “BARDO: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” the Mexican auteur’s latest film, a personal surrealist trip, is his most divisive. Critics of the film have accused “Bardo” of being “exhausting,” “shallow,” and “self-indulgent.”  

READ MORE: ‘Bardo’ Review: Forget ‘Roma,’ Alejandro Iñárritu Wishes His ‘Handful of Truths,’ Was His’ 8 ½’ [Venice]

Of course, Iñárritu isn’t the only director to excavate his life for deeper meaning.

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At this point, the drama surrounding the release of “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” overshadows the actual film itself. Everything started back at Venice, when the film premiered to some decidedly mixed reviews. The filmmaker responsible for the feature, Alejandro González Iñárritu, immediately started to claim there were racist undertones in the reviews and that the film wasn’t being viewed as objectively as it should.

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu has made his latest film since the release of “The Revenant” in 2015, with “BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” The film marks his first Spanish-language feature since 2010’s “Biutiful.” 

The movie will also mark the first time Iñárritu teams up with cinematographer Darius Khondji, who has worked on a slew of acclaimed films, which recently include “Uncut Gems,” “Okja,” and “The Lost City of Z.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu is an opinionated filmmaker. We have seen this quite a bit over the past several weeks, after the festival debut of his most recent film, “Bardo.” When critics initially panned his film, he got very defensive and even talked about underlying racism in the reviews. Now, the filmmaker is opening up about why he isn’t pleased with the high-gloss modern cinema we see in 2022.

Speaking at an event in London (via Variety), filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu talked about his views on modern filmmaking.

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Over the weekend, we saw a number of high-profile films get major premieres at the Venice Film Festival. One of the most anticipated features to debut is Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Bardo.” The film marks the director’s first feature since 2015’s Oscar-winning “The Revenant” and many were curious how Iñárritu would return. Well, if the early reviews are any indication, “Bardo” might not be the Oscar contender that we have come to expect from Iñárritu.

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If you ever questioned it before, let “Bardo” — wordily subtitled ‘or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,’ as was the director’s wont with 2014’s “Birdman” — lay your queries to rest: Alejandro Iñárritu really, really loves Fellini. He’s not the only one, naturally: comparisons to “8 ½” are par for the course whenever a filmmaker comes out with a notionally autobiographical work, as with Pedro Almodóvar’s “Pain and Glory” in 2019.

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The Venice Film Festival and Netflix have enjoyed a fruitful relationship for a while now. Partly, this is because Venice has become a destination for studios who want to debut films that will likely become awards contenders, and partly, because Cannes and the streaming service can’t seem to figure out their differences. Though nothing is set in stone, just yet, it appears 2022 is shaping up to be another banner year for Netflix in Venice.

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The Amazon Western, metaphysical sci-fi hybrid, “The Outer Range,” is on Prime Video now; it’s fantastic, and obviously, lead actor Josh Brolin is doing the rounds doing press on the feature (read our review here). His appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast has been the gift that keeps giving. He discussed almost appearing as Batman in Zack Snyder’s “Batman Vs. Superman,” he essentially said “never say never” to Marvel if Thanos would ever come back, talked about his reappreciation for “The Goonies,” and more.

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And just like that, Alejandro G. Iñárritu has wrapped production on his new film in Mexico City. Twenty years after shooting his first film, “Amores Perros,” the five-time Oscar winner returned to his native country, Mexico, to produce and shoot this new and entirely Mexican project. And it’s got a title, “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).”

READ MORE: Alejandro González Iñárritu Next Film Features Cinematographer Darius Khondji & ‘Zama’ Star Daniel Giménez Cacho

Up until this point, Iñárritu’s movie had been shrouded in secrecy.

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We’ve all been curious how Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu would top his previous entries, and there seems to be a shimmer of light to what his next feature film could be about after a long drought concerning plot details. 

READ MORE: Leonardo DiCaprio Says Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘The Revenant’ Was Almost Done As A One-Shot Film

Mexican outlet El Universal (via The Film Stage) has set photos and potential details concerning the filmmaker’s follow-up to the 2015 Oscar-winning survival film “The Revenant” that helped Leonardo DiCaprio finally secure his Best Actor Oscar.

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When a filmmaker like four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (a two-time Best Director winner and nine-time nominee total; plus a Special Achievement Academy Award for the VR film “Flesh and Sand“) makes a new film, the world, and the trades generally know about it first. But like Alfonso Cuaron, who made “Roma” away from the Hollywood system, when someone like Iñárritu makes a film in his native Mexico, it usually goes somewhat uncovered by the American media for months.

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The Criterion Collection could easily take a month off in 2020, maybe two, and rest easy at winning the title for best cinephile DVD/Blu-Ray company (how many years in a row they’ve already won that title is something we’ll leave you to debate with friends). 2020 has already included an amazing and essential box set from French New Wave legend Agnès Varda, another upcoming box set from Federico Fellini which is sure to astound, and plenty of landmark, long-awaited soon-to-come releases like “Moonstruck,” Jim Jarmusch‘s hip hop/ninja assassin mash-up, “Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai,” Claudia Weill‘s seminal feminist indie classic “Girlfriends,” Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning “Parasite” class warfare drama, David Lynch‘s “Elephant Man,” and earlier this summer, “Come & See,” the legendary WWII film from Soviet director Elem Klimov.

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Accompanying the surprise release of her new album Folklore (the visual art for which has some Robert Eggers-esque leanings), Taylor Swift released a new music video for her song “Cardigan” last night. Directed by the singer herself, the video features photography from none other than Rodrigo Prieto, a frequent collaborator with Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu, as well as Ang Lee.

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It’s been a long five years since the last feature film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, “The Revenant,” hit theaters. In that time, the US political system has turned into a complete shitshow and we’re now facing a global pandemic. Obviously, we’re not saying the lack of a new film from Iñárritu is the cause of these calamities. But yet, we’re not so sure it’s not. Regardless, it appears that there’s a new project from Iñárritu in the works and he’s bringing along one of the best cinematographers working today to help him make it happen.

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In the debate over the pros and cons of streaming services and how they’ve changed the film landscape, many are focused on the business side of things. Will theaters die? Should streaming services earn Oscars? But in the case of filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, he’s more concerned about how streaming services have affected which films get made, and thus, how audiences’ tastes have changed how stories are told in film.

While speaking at the Sarajevo Film Festival (via Variety), the “Birdman” director said that storytelling in film “needs much more contemplation, a little bit more patience, it needs to be a little bit more mysterious, more impenetrable, more poetic, more soulful.”

READ MORE: Alejandro González Iñárritu Supports Netflix But Worries About The Theatrical Experience: “Cinemas Are The Womb Of What We Are”

The director laments that quality storytelling has left the film industry in recent years as tentpole films dominate the marketplace and TV has attracted more viewers, with his fast-paced stories.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu is one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world, today. With back-to-back Best Director and Best Picture Oscar wins in 2015 and 2016, for “Birdman” and “The Revenant,” respectively, Iñárritu cemented his place among the very best the industry has to offer. So, when the filmmaker talks about the uncertain future of the industry, it’s probably important that everyone take notice.

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CANNES – As official Cannes Film Festival competition jury press conferences go the 2019 jurors didn’t have much noteworthy to say this time around. Sure, celebarated American director Kelly Reichardt joked that this was her “first time not trying to get out of jury duty” and both she and Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwarcher hoped the day would soon come when they weren’t referred to as “women directors,” but it was mostly left jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu to carry the burden of the global media’s inquiries.  

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When you’re Leonardo DiCaprio, you have choices in life. In your personal life, you can choose what model you’d like to be with on any given day. You have enough money to choose to do a little or as much work as you’d like. You can choose to devote your life to climate change education, if you so desire. And obviously, you can choose which filmmaker you’d like to work with, as just about everyone out there is keen to have you on their next project.

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One thing that non-Cannesgoers might not realize about this crazy festival is that underlying the stew of emotions served up by the programming, the one constant is guilt: every moment not spent either watching a film or writing about a film comes freighted with a low-level background hum of remorse, with a side order of vertiginous FOMO. But this year I’ve tried to come to terms with my inability to bilocate, and to explore just a few of the other experiences the festival has to offer.

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The smoke of the SXSW Film Festival is fading, and the spring bloom of the Tribeca Film Festival is around the corner. And like they do every year, the organizers have put together a series of terrific talks with some heavyweight filmmakers and creative talent, and they’re really bringing the goods this April.

READ MORE: 21 Films We Hope To See In The Cannes 2017 Lineup

Scarlett Johansson, Noah Baumbach, Dustin Hoffman, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Tom Hanks, and more will participate in a series of conversations that should prove tremendously fascinating and entertaining.

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Novelty or the next step in storytelling? That seems to be the question surrounding the future of virtual reality. There are some who think the technology will be best applied in video games, while others think it’s only a matter of time until moviemakers embrace the format. Well, the only way for directors to tell will be to get their feet wet, and that’s just what Alejandro G. Iñárritu is doing.

Teaming up with his old pal and frequent collaborator, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (“Birdman,” “The Revenant“), Iñárritu will be directing a virtual reality short film that will explore the intense and excruciating experience of a group of immigrants and refugees crossing the border between Mexico and the United States. 

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It is, how shall we put this, not a huge week for new releases, and the movie news cycle seems to be taking a little bit of a breather in between TIFF and the New York Film Festival. So we thought we’d take this opportunity to attempt a more ambitious, wide-ranging week-long feature, and one that we’ve been batting around internally for a while now — our official and definitive and unimpeachably correct (!!) ranking of the 100 currently working filmmakers we’re most excited about.

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