When I stepped out of my screening of Agora at Cannes last week, I knew I needed to talk with director Alejandro Amenabar. While the performances were great, it was the production design and the ...

I was coincidentally watching Rachel Weisz in The Mummy just moments before I stumbled across this news. And what do I find - Rachel Weisz starring in another Egyptian period piece! Agora is an ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. “Agora” opens in theaters this Friday. Alejandro Amenabar’s “Agora” contains a ...

Something of an action film for intellectuals, in that it focuses on sectarian power struggles and violence stemming in part from scientific inquiry, Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar’s “Agora” ...

"Agora," Alejandro Amenabar's intellectual epic that had sat without a U.S. buyer for six months, has found a stateside home. By Steven Zeitchik, The Associated Press “Agora,” Alejandro Amenabar’s ...

The unexpected opening in Spain for Alejandro Amenabar’s ancient historical epic “Agora” has resparked interest in the pic in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Spanish-backed film, toplining Rachel Weisz, ...

Alejandro Amenábar’s film Agora, starring Rachel Weisz as the celebrated pagan mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, has occasioned a number of online reality checks regarding the ...

OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR Alejandro Amenabar said Tuesday he was “a bit nervous” ahead of the world premiere of his latest film Agora, a historical epic with one of biggest budgets ever for a European ...

Alejandro Amenabar will need good word-of-mouth to attract wider audiences willing to sit through 144 minutes and a heavy-handed beginning in his latest film, "Agora." Hopefully, he will get it. By ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shot with an English-speaking cast in Malta and set in the fourth century in Roman-controlled Alexandria (ancient Egypt to you, pal), “Agora” has everything ...

Alejandro Amenabar’s “Agora” contains a dense plot littered with historical details of Egyptian society during the Roman Empire, but none of them can save the movie from having the fleeting qualities ...