Fernando Meirelles

Blindness Starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, and Gael Garcia Bernal Directed by Fernando Meirelles Rated R It's a tough position to be in, wanting something to be better than it is. I don't have kids, but if I did, I imagine I'd have to pretend to like a lot of school plays and soccer games. Chicago Cubs fans have had to pretend for 100 years that they actually believe this is the year, despite evidence to the contrary (again). With Blindness , I wanted badly to...Read Full Story

Brazilian Fernando Meirelles is teaming once again with screenwriter Bráulio Montovan, also from Brazil, for a film based on Peter Evans’s book “Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys” Meirelles defines the upcoming film as a sort of Greek ‘Godfather,’ with Ari Onassis in the middle of it all, drawing more on the sketchy business practices of the billionaire, and his tumultuous relationship with the Kennedys and...Read Full Story

I would put it to you, sir or madam, that 29 years from now, City of God will ascend to the upper ranks of the greatest films ever made. Its reputation will move it past quite a few international and American films alike for one reason: It's simply better than almost any other movie ever made. So director Fernando Meirelles has that to live up to. His follow-up, The Constant Gardener , was not an instant smash and didn't create anything new and different. It was very good...Read Full Story

The BFi London Film Festival got off to a cracking start last night with the gala screening of Fernando Meirelles' 360, the globe-spanning ensemble piece starring Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jamel Debbouze, Ben Foster, Moritz Bleibtreu and more. Law led the assembled stars alongside much of the film's European cast, including Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Lucia Siposova, Gabriela Marcinkova and Dinara Drukarova. Also in attendance that we spotted were Tom Hiddleston, Terry Gilliam and...Read Full Story

The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced today they have acquired US rights to 360, the sweeping new film from two acclaimed artists: director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and writer Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon). With a stellar international cast that includes Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Ben Foster, Jamel Debbouze and Moritz Bleibtreu, 360 is a moving and exciting dramatic thriller that dazzlingly weaves together the stories of an...Read Full Story