Last year it was Amy Winehouse and Bob Marley. Up soon are a quartet of films about the Beatles (an impending Michael Jackson ...

In Maria, Angelina Jolie channels her own celebrity and understanding of fame, the crippling demands of beauty and age, and a ...

One of the greatest opera stars in history, Maria Callas lived a life of high drama and high fashion, and her jewellery ...

Chilean director Pablo Larraín concludes his thematic trilogy of 20th century biopics of famous women – after ‘Jackie’ and ‘Spencer’ – with this soft, restrained drama ...

The director, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain, is interested in famous women who find themselves misunderstood. His previous films include Jackie (2016) about Jacqueline Kennedy (who became Onassis’s ...

Biographer Lyndsy Spence, author of Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas, says: “Maria Callas lived her life trying to meet the demands of the public, who were often unforgiving in their ...

There’s a story that soprano Maria Callas, secluded in her Paris apartment ... or just the brilliant exemplar of any doomed, weeping diva. Answer: exemplar, although a good enough one that ...

But it never filled the void, the split between her outer persona as an operatic diva and her inner sense of being a flawed woman. Maria Callas shakes hands with the audience after her concert at ...

During the final years of Maria Callas’s life, the famed opera singer retreated to her Paris apartment. The film Maria reimagines her final days there before her death in 1977, and while there ...

As in Jackie and Spencer, Maria offers a wide-open vista of its subject through an arrow-slit of a temporal window: in this case, the final week of Callas’s life. Voice weakened, stardom gone ...

There has, since Pablo Larraín’s study of Maria Callas premiered at Venice International Film Festival in August, been a critical cooling on the project. Does it not allow the great diva enough ...

It invokes the last days of Maria Callas, “La Divina” of opera, as played by Angelina Jolie. She was striking in her beauty and formidable on stage, able to command her passions like a ...