Former California first lady Maria Shriver is the latest to blame the current Democratic leadership of Los Angeles for the deadly wildfires posing a historic threat to the region. “LA cannot go ...

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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Almost 50 years on from her death, however, the public perception of Maria Callas all too often skews in one direction: the tortured female star.

Maria ­Callas was only 45 when she grimly assessed her situation during an interview with the critic John Ardoin. She had played all her cards and lost every round, and ­although she would ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If ever a star cried out to be immortalised on screen, surely it was the glamorous and tempestuous Maria ...

Documentary film that tells the life story of legendary Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, completely in her own words. Show more Documentary film that tells the life story of legendary ...

Angelina Jolie might have missed out on a Golden Globe, but could be on course for another Oscar nomination for her leading role in Pablo Larraín's new movie Maria. You might have seen Netflix ...

A character study rather than biopic, Pablo Larraín’s Maria showcases Oscar winner Angelina Jolie’s acting prowess, capturing the opera singer’s dramatic highs and lows with captivating intensity and ...

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Here, violence and possession make way for the haunted. Maria is the softer, more restrained film – less immediately striking, perhaps, but still deeply emotive. It invokes the last days of Mari ...