The first ever Marathi film presented at the Sundance Film Festival is among the few Indian films that address the sexual desires of people living in poor rural community — and even fewer that show queer folks in Indian villages.
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As James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown biopic on “The Bard” is about to hit the screens, we’ve gathered a collection of people singing Bob Dylan songs around the world.
The premiere of a Hollywood epic, the selection of a future U.N. leader, and the birth of a pop superstar.
The first living creature to leave earth, the birth of a fashion icon, and a historical film release.
Updated Sept. 09, 2024 at 12:00 a.m. On this day 70 years ago, the famous image of Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate with her white dress was taken on the set of The Seven Year Itch. This iconic image has left a lasting impact on pop culture. What is the famous picture of Marilyn […]
Updated June 4, 2024 at 12:05 p.m. U.S. mega movie star Angelina Jolie was born on this day in 1975, in Los Angeles, California. What was Angelina Jolie’s childhood like? Angelina Jolie grew up in a family deeply involved in the entertainment industry, with her father being actor Jon Voight and her mother being actress […]
With the current edition in full swing, we take a look back at Cannes history, with a little help from the photographic archives of INA, France’s public audiovisual institute. This 1962 episode features icons, heartthrobs and rising stars …
Updated May 14, 2024 at 10:35 a.m. Cate Blanchett was born on this day in 1969. Blanchett is an Australian actress known for her roles in film, television, and theater. She has won multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. What are some of Cate Blanchett’s […]
Updated April 28, 2024 at 11:45 a.m. Spanish actress Penélope Cruz was born on this day in 1974, in Madrid, Spain. She began her acting career in the early 1990s. Where did Penélope Cruz grow up? Penélope Cruz Sánchez grew up in Alcobendas, a town near Madrid, Spain. She grew up in a working-class family, the […]
The nomination of three non-English films at this year’s Academy Awards reflects demographic changes in the movie industry and within the Oscars’ institutions themselves.
Based on a true story, Society of the Snow, offers an example of a well-managed community in the face of extreme hardship. The film, which is nominated for Best International Feature Film at this year’s Oscars, highlights that morality and friendship are necessary to survive.
Disney’s new movie “Wish” is being touted as a new children’s blockbuster to celebrate the company’s 100th anniversary. But some Christians may see the portrayal of the villain as God-like and turning wishes into prayers as the ultimate denial of the true message of Christmas.
A new melodrama broadcast in China about sexual assault in the workplace is a sign that some difficult questions are being addressed, but that serious taboos remain in Chinese society and public life.
From her local cinema in northeast Ukraine, the author reflects on how watching Christopher Nolan’s biopic, about the father of the atomic bomb, takes a very ominous and actual tone.
The author is looking for a coming-of-age movie, but not the age you had in mind.
Since Agnès Varda, Louis Malle and Michel Gondry, trying one’s luck in Hollywood has become an obsession for some French filmmakers. But Netflix and friends are changing the formula.
Movie houses, music venues and art galleries are showing signs of life after a long lockdown. They’re also having to be creative with how they reopen, as certain health restrictions still apply.
No crisis has ever hit the entire film industry as badly as the coronavirus lockdown. With sets empty, movie premieres postponed, screenings canceled and box offices closed, the global film industry has been largely frozen in time — and revenue. Even as activity is gradually resuming, it will take time for the movie business to […]
Every fictional plague has an origin story, and an ending — happy or otherwise. We hereby issue a pandemic spoiler alert!
The infamous 1972 film sparked a years-long legal battle in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s native land. The recently restored court archives are now being made public.
BEIJING — Fan Bingbing, China“s highest-paid actress and star of the 2014 blockbuster X-Men, recently received some unwanted public attention—an accusation of tax evasion. The Chinese actress was accused by Cui Yongyuan, a TV presenter and producer, of signing “Yin-Yang contracts’ for the films she stars in. This allows her to pay lower tax via […]
OneShot — Happy Birthday Ms. Monroe OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video.
Cleared by the Central Board of Film Censors on appeal, top Pakistani director Shoaib Mansoor’s ‘Verna’ is a flawed film, but a wake-up call for a nation obsessed by patriarchal honor.
-OpEd- BEIJING — Many Chinese films are awful. Who is to blame for this objective fact? An audience typically praises a film when they think it’s good and complain when it isn’t. Yet Feng Xiaogang, a famous Chinese film director, was lambasted at the recent Shanghai Films Festival for the following statement: “The reason why […]
India’s Supreme Court made it compulsory to play the national anthem in cinemas. And you better stand up when the music starts.
Moviegoers are turning out in droves to see Kabali, a new Indian film featuring superstar Rajinikanth. What’s all the excitement about? KBR journalist Jasvinder Sehgal attends a pre-dawn premiere to find out.
PARIS — Invited on French radio Europe 1, British actress and Oscar-nominee Charlotte Rampling has weighed in on the controversy over the lack of diversity this year among Academy Award nominees, saying that filmmaker Spike Lee’s call to boycott the ceremony was “racist against whites.” The 69-year-old English-born actress, famous for her movies in three […]
Watch Darth Vader’s heavy breathing in German, Yoda in Russian riffin’, and Princess Leia declare her love in French … in our 90-second video, to celebrate the release of the Star Wars franchise’s 7th installment.
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The lunar landscapes of the Tabernas Desert, near Almeria in southern Spain, were used as filming locations for some of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns in the 1960s. When my wife and I went there in the 1980s it was pretty much abandoned, but it has since become a major tourist attraction.
Some film distributors are choosing to release movies directly online without theater screenings. Because of cinema regulations, this new model is forbidden in France — for French movies — but foreign films are another matter.
This picture is old, but not as old as it seems: These men were actors taking a break on the set of a war movie on the river Krka in the historic town of Sibenik. Still, the image provides a slice of history, as we were on a trip through the Socialist Federal Republic of […]
Talk about Tiny, Tiny Toons… Granted, the 90-second-long cartoon doesn’t look like much. If anything, it reminds you of early arcade games like Pong. But once you realize that each pixel is actually an individual atom, things get way more interesting… Watch IBM’s A Boy and His Atom, officially the smallest movie ever made: Here […]
LA STAMPA (Italy); NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER (U.S.) Worldcrunch VATICAN CITY– Charismatic, humble, and kind — it was inevitable that the story of Pope Francis would end up on the silver screen. Bringing the story of Jorge Mario Bergoglio to life is German director Christian Peschken, who received 25 million euros backing from a group of […]
Worldcrunch CARACAS – Thursday was supposed to be the day Hugo Chavez was inaugurated for a fourth term as Venezuela’s president. But the ceremony has been postponed as he is recovering from a reported “severe” lung infection after his latest cancer surgery in Havana, Cuba. Though Chavez has not been seen in public for more […]
PARIS – “An exceptional year for Bollinger champagne…” Considering the current economic situation, Jérôme Philipon’s comment is refreshing indeed. Even as the overall champagne market was down by 5% at the end of September, the family-run Bollinger producers predict record sales for 2013, says Philipon, the CEO of the champagne house. He expects a growth […]
Worldcrunch The world’s most famous secret agent is turning 50 – the James Bond film franchise is marking five decades since the October 5, 1962 release of Dr. No, the first movie of the series produced by London’s Eon studio. Twenty-two movies and countless shaken-not-stirred martinis later, moviegoers are trying to sum up — and […]