Gabriela Garcia

Each year at the Cannes Film Festival, the international glitterati line up at the jury box, and a European who’s who of actors and directors files its much-expected RSVP to the invitation-only event. Many veteran directors and producers are accustomed to this fawn-and-camera-pose routine before their indie movies light up...

From the musings of ancient Greek philosophers to the chain letters of AOL-era email, the question “What would you do if today were your last day?” has been one of our collective favorites. We imagine drug binges with no consequence, life savings spent on one lavish trip, and the Herculean...

When Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar was 8 years old, his parents sent him to a Catholic boarding school in a remote part of the county in the hopes he would become a priest. Instead, little Pedro grew up to be an openly gay film director whose characters — such as...

Children of Paradise, a three-hour film set in the Parisian theater scene of the 1820s, is often heralded as the French answer to Gone With the Wind. But no, Scarlett O’Hara’s majestic breakdowns don’t even come close to the level of grandiosity represented in the 1945 French flick. Gone With...

A lily of the valley is fragrant, beautiful, and delicate. Also, it might send you into cardiac arrest as you violently vomit your brains out if you ingest one of its adorable little berries. It’s an apt nom de plume for Lily Tomlin, the 72-year-old Tony-, Emmy-, and Grammy-winning feminist...