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With Oscar balloting now in full force, it might be only appropriate to share my conversation with a man who has already won five of them and once again is in the hunt with his first film in seven years, Bardo, which has been shortlisted for Best Internationa…

For Alejandro G. Iñárritu, one of the principal challenges of Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths was the “delicate tone” of the piece, which looked to move seamlessly and truthfully between pain and humor, profundity and absurdity, as it cut to the heart of the immigrant experience.  The…

The strengths and possibilities of cinematic language were heavy on Alejandro G. Iñárritu's mind as he sat down for a keynote ‘screen talk’ at the London Film Festival on Sunday afternoon. The director is in London to screen his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. The keynote…

Mexico has selected five-time Academy Award winner Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Bardo as its official entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar race. The immersive work stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a renowned Los Angeles-based Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who, after being named the…

Set to the tune of the Beatles classic “I Am the Walrus,” a new trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo — full title: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — dropped today, giving viewers a taste of what Venice festgoers experienced this month. The film received six minutes of applause in its three-hour…

EXCLUSIVE: When he comes to a film festival with his latest film, Alejandro G. Iñárritu cuts a supremely confident swath. As he premiered his film Bardo in Venice, the writer-director seemed a bit more vulnerable. This is understandable because the film is a mix of dream and reality, a deep dive into his own life…

Alejandro G Iñárritu‘s three-hour-long opus Bardo (False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) received a warm reception at its Venice Film Festival world premiere on Thursday night. Six minutes of applause began inside the Sala Grande as the credits rolled, with attendees standing for the Oscar winning filmmaker for…

Dear Alejandro: Having just seen Bardo (False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), it's clear to me that this is your most personal work, a magnum opus you've been building toward throughout your exceptionally successful career. Manifestly, this is your 7½ to Fellini's 8½, a semi-autobiographical extravaganza of a sort…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu made a spirited appearance at the Venice Film Festival Thursday where he dismissed fears that audiences will be unable to correctly experience his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths when it is released on Netflix later this year. "My generation has seen movies by great…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film will be titled Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Deadline has learned. The news comes as the five-time Oscar winner wraps production in Mexico City. The feature penned by Iñárritu and his longtime collaborator Nicolás Giacobone is billed as a nostalgic comedy set…

Alejandro G. Iñárritu is underway on his first feature in the director's chair since he won three Oscars for The Revenant. The Los Angeles Times reported that the new project has rolled cameras in Iñárritu's hometown of Mexico City and that it is going under the title Limbo. The Spanish-language movie is being led by…

The Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted a special honorary Oscar (statuette) to director Alejandro G. Inarritu’s extraordinary virtual reality installation Carne y Arena. It will be presented at the upcoming Governors Awards on November 11 to be held at the Ray Dolby…