Angelina Jolie deserves some flowers for her steady performance as Maria Callas in the biopic “Maria,” even if the movie doesn’t completely do the opera legend justice. “Maria” focuses ...
Angelina Jolie plays the opera star Maria Callas in a movie that can’t figure her out. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site ...
“The film isn’t a biography about one of the world’s greatest opera singers,” says cinematographer Edward Lachman about Pablo Larraín’s rousing drama “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie.
Lyndsy Spence, the author of the biography '"Cast a Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callas," said that Callas had two miscarriages during her relationship with Onassis, in 1960 and 1963.
Spoiler alert! We're disclosing major plot details about the movie “Maria” (streaming now on Netflix). How do you capture someone as mythic as Maria Callas in a two-hour movie? That was the ...
Angelina Jolie’s committed performance as Maria Callas glimmers amid a lackluster script that reduces the operatic legend’s life to a drawn-out dirge. Pablo Larraín/Netflix In Maria ...
One of the more animated objects in “Maria” is Maria Callas’s piano, moved from room to room by servants at the whim of the ex-opera star. Its journeys have no discernible purpose.
How do you capture someone as mythic as Maria Callas in a two-hour movie? That was the challenge facing screenwriter Steven Knight (“Spencer”), who reteams with director Pablo Larraín for the ...
Maria had an affair with business magnate Aristotle Onassis, and continued to see him even after his marriage to Jackie Kennedy, according to Biography. Aristotle’s driver, Yaikinto Rossa ...
Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Not long before his death on March 15, 1975, Aristotle Onassis had a secret visit from Maria Callas in his private room at the American Hospital in Paris.