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Andrea Pallaoro’s Golden Lion contender The Echo Chamber, starring Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon, earned a eight-minute ovation as it…
The Tokyo International Film Festival will introduce two new competitive awards, a Southeast Asia-focused section and a prize honoring women in cinema. The…
Korean sales house Finecut has closed a string of international deals for three festival titles, including Hong Sangsoo’s Locarno prizewinner “Nowhere to Lay…
EXCLUSIVE: Alberto Barbera is a force of nature. The 76 year-old longtime Venice artistic director is here, there and everywhere, one minute speaking at an…
Paul Giamatti offers stalwart support as a domineering director shaping a novice actress in a New Jersey community theater.
Netflix wants the “ink” to dry on its Oscar prospects. Danny Boyle made his first trip to Venice with “Ink,” his adaptation of James Graham’s stage sensation…
Forty years into a career that has made him one of American cinema’s most recognizable character actors, John Turturro has a Cannes best actor prize, an…
More than 27 years later, Lilly Wachowski has unplugged from the Matrix franchise that launched her and sister Lana’s filmmaking careers. On Friday, Lilly shot…
This harrowing fictionalization of the Danish resistance’s witch hunts will make you despair for humanity.
Against the rubble gray and stiff mahogany with which director May el-Toukhy washes out her post-Second World War Copenhagen, the pops of crimson in “Woman…
Dark comedy Buddy from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films is sailing along at no. 7 for the three-day weekend with $5.75 million on 1,771 screens (up 500) in…
Venice: Gael García Bernal’s third directorial outing is rich with layers but leaves his protagonist too much of a blank slate.
No less a figure than Oprah Winfrey appeared at the Telluride Film Festival to moderate a conversation about Everest: The Other Side, following the film’s…
As anyone who has made a great-author biopic (or even watched one, for that matter) can tell you, writing is among the hardest professions to make cinematic…
Having appeared in both the penultimate and the final Daniel Craig-era Bond films and in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two, Léa Seydoux has entered a…
Acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong returned after 24 years to the Venice Film Festival, where he was warmly embraced with a six-minute standing…
Venice: A tragic (and tragically handsome) Marinelli plays a drug-addicted music producer enmeshed in Vikander's codependent, unrequited care in Andrea…
If you’re ever thinking of attempting a single-location film, choose that location with care. Make it high-ceilinged, light-filled, book-lined, with a…
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” was No. 1 at the domestic box office for the sixth consecutive weekend, a rare feat that underscores the movie’s remarkable staying…
Plenty of comparisons have been made in recent years between fast-developing artificial intelligence systems and HAL, the rogue computer in Stanley Kubrick’s…
