Note: This review originally appeared on Next Best Picture's website. Although Chilean director Pablo Larraín has covered several genres and stories with his films, he's particularly passionate ...

Maria Callas was the diva. ... 91, who worked at The News from 1956 to 1998, said the best story about the Love Field meeting was told for years by the late Joe Laird, ...

As Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to find her voice to lose it. In ‘Maria,’ the actress takes on La Divina for the final act of director Pablo Larraín’s trilogy on iconic 20th-century women.

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 Callas (1923-1977) is often hailed as one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century. She’s best known for her performances in the operas Medea, Tosca and La Traviata, and when TIME put ...

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas and Director Pablo Larraín on the set of Maria. Photo: Pax Jolie-Pitt/Netflix “Angie had different stages in her preparation,” Larraín in that same interview.

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” (★★½ ...

Was Maria Callas friends with John F. Kennedy? The movie depicts Callas sitting in the audience at John F. Kennedy’s birthday party in 1962, when in fact, she performed two arias at the event.

Near the end of “Maria,” 53-year-old Maria Callas, the opera diva stunningly played by Angelina Jolie, attempts to make it through the challenging mad scene from “Anna Bolena” in an empty ...

Maria Callas died in 1977, aged 53, and, as anyone even faintly interested in opera knows, she had a life of tumult, torment and tragedy that was itself operatic in scope. The events in Steven ...

Maria Callas died at the age of 53 from a heart attack, and her last few days are when Larraín chooses to tell her story. Though the final years of her life were filled with various health ...