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Lesley Manville battles snow and spies in the trailer for upcoming Cold War thriller “Winter of the Crow,” from director Kasia Adamik and set against the…
Oscar-nominated German director Werner Herzog sat down at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday with Golden Lion contender Bucking Fastard, in the company of…
Sisters Rooney and Kate Mara had to talk in sync with each other for Werner Herzog’s drama “Bucking Fastard,” revealing the challenge was “surprisingly” easy…
Venice: Haunted by tragedies this NatGeo doc never flinches at, Jim Morrison makes the dangerous attempt to climb up and ski down the Everest's North Face in…
Verve Ventures has boarded Jerome Sable’s black comedy “Wolf of the North” for North American sales ahead of its bow at Frontières at TIFF: The Market. One of…
John Malkovich is downplaying the Oscar buzz that he’s already getting for “Wild Horse Nine,” a darkly comedic drama that premieres at the Venice Film…
Gloria Steinem, the American feminist icon and founder of Ms. magazine, died Wednesday, September 2, at her home in New York City. She was 92. Her death was…
The Venice Film Festival opened this week with Danny Boyle’s Ink, which, while not strictly a documentary, deals with fundamental issues of truth in news…
Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist who became the public face of the American women’s movement and helped launch Ms. magazine, died Wednesday at her home…
Swiss French filmmaker Ursula Meier (“The Line”) is prepping her long-gestating English-language debut, “Quiet Land,” a detective story-cum-romantic drama set…
Oscar-nominated actress Sandra Hüller is set to star as late acclaimed German writer and artist Wolfgang Herrndorf in the upcoming feature Work and…
Sandra Hüller will star in “Arbeit und Struktur” (“Work and Structure”), Maria Schrader’s adaptation of the acclaimed autobiographical work by German writer…
Movie marketing and publicity specialist Rob Deacon has set up Phoenix Film Finance to leverage his expertise in the industry to make an impact on the…
The Venice4Palestine collective has reiterated calls for the Palestinian flag to fly at the Venice Film Festival after its Artistic Director Alberto Barbera…
Mexican animators Roy and Arturo Ambriz, the groundbreaking duo behind their country’s first-ever stop-motion animated feature, are hoping to hit a high note…
“The Possessed,” the third feature by Bosnian-Dutch writer/director Ena Sendijarević, has completed casting as the film moves toward principal photography…
Greek filmmaker Elina Psykou (“Stray Bodies”) has attached a trio of Hellenic heavyweights to the cast of “Patrimonial Fears and Other Illusions,” which will…
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (also known as PÖFF), the largest and only A-list festival in the Baltics, is turning…
“Anatomy of a Portrait” (“Anatomia di un Ritratto”) will have its world premiere in the Venetian Nights program of Venice Days on Sept. 4. Directed by…
“Fjord,” written and directed by Cristian Mungiu, is Romania’s submission for the 2027 Oscars in the best international feature film category, having been…
