Though far from ground-breaking by modern cinema terms, a scene in which Jack Whitehall’s character discusses his sexuality with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Amazon boat captain is a departure for the traditionally conservative studio
The world’s oldest film festival, regarded as a showcase for Oscar contenders as awards season approaches, hopes to welcome back Hollywood celebrities this year after a scaled-down 2020 edition
Ghassan Salhab discusses his new film, the follow-up to ‘The Mountain’ and ‘The Valley,’ which was completed just as the first wave of COVID-19 landed in Lebanon, and will premiere 5 August at the Locarno film festival
Until the premiere of ‘The Worst Person in the World,’ the highlight of the 33-year-old Norwegian actress’ time on the big screen amounted to just one minute 10 years ago. Now she is firm favourite to lift the best actress award at Cannes on Saturday
Nabil Ayouch’s ‘Casablanca Beats’ is the first Moroccan film in almost 60 years to compete for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and only the second Moroccan title to...
‘It’s not important to finish reading [Anderson’s script] or to study it,’ remarked Bill Murray. ‘You just look at it [and think] “Okay, I...
The movie is based on the true story of Marseille detectives from the BAC Nord brigade who were accused of racketeering and stealing drugs
Anderson’s singular approach, full of meticulous sets and symmetrical shots, has paid off. He has total creative control and an ever-growing menagerie of...
Some 25 meters tall, and weighing nearly 35 tons, ‘The Gesture’ is a statue and fountain made of metal beams salvaged from the facility’s ruined warehouses
The images are part of a yearly tradition started by the town of Gyoda in Saitama, north of Tokyo, in 2008 in a bid to bring in tourists. In 2015, they even...
A 12-track album finished in 2010 but shelved for unknown reasons, ‘Welcome 2 America’ offers a prophetic window into social struggles at today’s forefront,...
Only just free of the post-World War II occupying forces that left in 1955 and still in ruins, Austria set its sights firmly on culture, turning former...
Winehouse’s parents have cooperated with ‘Reclaiming Amy,’ a BBC documentary that airs Friday, the anniversary of her death, which her father Mitch says gives...
Chastened by a decade or more of low-budget movies, Kilmer was mounting a comeback in the 2010s with a successful stage show about Mark Twain that he hoped to...
Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit the Road’ premiered in Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight – the same section in which Jafar Panahi presented his classic ‘The White Balloon’ in...
There is no shortage of drugs and sex with the Velvets. Haynes said, the film was ‘not a sex, drugs and rock’n’roll gossip movie’, even if he admitted that...
In ‘Annette’, Driver plays a famous stand-up comedian named Henry McHenry who performs a sinister, physical show, dubbed ‘The Ape of God,’ while clad in a...
The Belfast-born, Edinburgh-based filmmaker and critic has a boundless affection for movies, and tastes that stretch around the globe. He has made pilgrimages...
‘The Call’ – the Russian project’s working title – was announced in September last year, four months after Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman first to...
Some, like The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw, found that, after trudging through crowds on the baking sea-front road, the Croisette, they couldn’t...
‘Agent Orange, this guy in Brazil, and Putin are gangsters,’ Lee said. They have no morals, no scruples. That’s the world we live in. We have to speak out...
While Fremaux praised Netflix – which began streaming in 2007 – for their ‘extraordinary work’, he was quick to turn the knife in his defence of the magic of...
On Tuesday, the Cannes Film Festival, delayed from May to July, will finally open its doors for its 74th and maybe most critical edition. Its famed red carpet...
The Ecrans du reel nonfiction film festival will project a package of watchable, locally made shorts at Beirut Art Center in two sessions this month
Cate Shortland, an Australian director of indies, grounds “Black Widow” in a more tactile and murky reality. Essentially a European-set spy thriller with all...
The government also revealed Wednesday it intends to sell Channel 4, a publicly-owned but commercially-funded television broadcaster that draws 90 percent of...
If you can stomach the macho melodrama, these movies are ridiculous big-screen ballets, with cars shooting out of skyscrapers and airplanes, that at their...
Back for its 16th edition, Metropolis Cinema’s much-loved documentary film festival will project 21 local, regional and international films at six venues in...