Filmmaker: Let’s start with perhaps the most obvious question: why a silent film? Pablo Berger: It all happened at the San Sebastián Film Festival. I was around 18 or 19. I wrote reviews for some ...

Juan Antonio Bayona takes the director nod for "The Impossible" in a ceremony marked by critique of government cutbacks and tax hikes. By Pamela Rolfe MADRID — Pablo Berger‘s Spanish retelling of the ...

The pioneer of corridos tumbados is stepping into a different sonic space on his new album. On Friday, Natanael Cano released his single “Blancanieves,” which hears him skipping charchetas and guitars ...

Apparently 2012 was the year to wake Snow White from her slumber. Along with the box-office dud "Mirror Mirror" and the successful if soulless "Snow White and the Huntsman," writer-director Pablo ...

Pablo Berger’s “Blancanieves” combines two recent movie trends: the updating of classic fairy tales and the rediscovery of silent film. Hollywood studios have lately been turning venerable children’s ...

The fun in the Spanish “Blancanieves” is the way it plays with our expectations. For starters, there is its format, which breaks just about every rule of modern moviemaking: It’s silent, it’s in black ...

Following hard upon “The Artist,” “Blancanieves” is the second silent black-and-white feature to emerge from Europe in little more than two years. A pair of films don’t exactly make a trend, but ...

There was nothing explicitly wrong with “The Artist,” a tenderly made homage to the swan song of silent cinema, until it transformed into an Oscar behemoth. Part of the issue with “The Artist” ...

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Angela Molina and Sofía Oria share a dance in “Blancanieves,” an enchanting Snow White adaptation. ‘The Artist” won the Best Picture Oscar, and the half-silent “Tabu” earned multiple raves. But Pablo ...

Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger's reinvention of the Brothers Grimm classic is the most original of the year's Snow White makeovers. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Berger sets both the opening ...