#The Bernstein Children on ‘Maestro’

#The Bernstein Children on ‘Maestro’

The interview takes place over three continents. There’s one virtual zoom window overlooking four living rooms: Two in New York, one in New Zealand, and one at THR Roma‘s office in Italy. Maestro, Bradley Cooper‘s take on the life, personal and professional, of legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey…

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#Talent Behind ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ Among American Cinematheque Crafts Honorees 

#Talent Behind ‘Barbie,’ ‘Oppenheimer’ Among American Cinematheque Crafts Honorees 

Talent behind movies including Barbie, Oppenheimer and Maestro are among the honorees for the American Cinematheque‘s third annual “Tribute to the Crafts,” which will be held Jan. 19 at the newly renovated Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The event — which will be co-hosted by producers and American Cinematheque board members Franklin Leonard and Paula Wagner…

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#Producers of ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Origin’ and More Oscar Contenders Talk the Toughest Tasks Behind the Scenes of Their Films

#Producers of ‘American Fiction,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Origin’ and More Oscar Contenders Talk the Toughest Tasks Behind the Scenes of Their Films

Erika Alexander and Jeffrey Wright in Orion/Amazon MGM Studios’ American Fiction. Claire Folger/MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Producer Jermaine Johnson worked primarily as a literary manager for clients like first-time movie writer-director Cord Jefferson (whom he’s represented for close to a decade) before the pair collaborated on Jefferson’s darkly comic adaptation of the novel Erasure by Percival…

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#Gotham Awards: ‘Maestro’ Multi-Hyphenate Bradley Cooper Tapped for Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute

#Gotham Awards: ‘Maestro’ Multi-Hyphenate Bradley Cooper Tapped for Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute

Bradley Cooper, co-writer, director and lead actor of Maestro, will collect the Cultural Icon & Creator Tribute — on behalf of himself and Leonard Bernstein, who Cooper plays opposite Carey Mulligan’s Felicia Montealegre in the Netflix film — at the 33rd Gotham Awards, the Gotham Film & Media Institute announced Wednesday. The event will take place…

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#Carey Mulligan on How ‘Maestro’ Isn’t a Biopic and Bradley Cooper’s Request They Bare Their Souls to Each Other

#Carey Mulligan on How ‘Maestro’ Isn’t a Biopic and Bradley Cooper’s Request They Bare Their Souls to Each Other

Maestro may be considered by most a biopic of Leonard Bernstein‘s life, but star Carey Mulligan disagrees. “It’s not,” she told Vogue in her November cover story. “It’s a movie about a marriage — a very complicated marriage.” The Netflix film tells the story of Leonard (Bradley Cooper) and Felicia Montealegre’s (Mulligan) love story over…

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#‘Maestro’ Review: Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper in a Moving Portrait of Leonard Bernstein’s Complex Marriage

#‘Maestro’ Review: Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper in a Moving Portrait of Leonard Bernstein’s Complex Marriage

There’s possibly no cheesier word in the Valentine’s Day greeting card section than “soulmates.” But it seems a fitting distillation of what kept virtuoso conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre, together through 27 often strained years of complicated marriage, as depicted in Bradley Cooper’s transfixing biographical love story, Maestro. Amplifying…

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