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British actress Emily Watson will serve as jury president at the 32nd instalment of the Bosnian film festival in August.
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After my 22-month-old child died, music and poetry brought catharsis and comfortThe day Renzo had his aneurysm, in the afternoon before it happened, I distinctly remember telling him that it was going to be a pleasure to watch him grow up. It seems ridiculous to write that here, the foreshadowing so on the nose as to be unbelievable. But it’s true. To him and my wife Allegra, I said, “I love our little family.” After the struggles around his birth, job loss, the pandemic, it felt, finally, like
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Spanish-language media giant TelevisaUnivision said it posted a loss in the second quarter despite a swell of revenue from its rights to air the World Cup in Mexico, a sign of the challenges the company, formed from the combination of Univision in the U.S. and Grupo Televisa in Mexico, continues to face. The company posted […]
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Films Boutique has boarded international sales on “The Difficult Bride,” Rubaiyat Hossain’s supernatural feminist drama selected for the Horizons competition of the Venice Film Festival, where it will become the first Bangladeshi feature film to screen. The cast includes three Bangladesh National Film Award winners – Azmeri Haque Badhon, Rikita Nondine Shimu and Sunerah Kamal […]
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Musk condemned the long-gestating doc in 2023, posting on X, "It's a hit piece" — to which Gibney replied: "How would you know?"
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LOTTERY LEADER Isabel Davis has been appointed director of the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Funds, overseeing some £20 million ($26.8 million) a year in support for U.K. independent filmmakers. Davis joins the British Film Institute from Screen Scotland, where she has served as executive director for eight years, and begins a five-year fixed-term contract in […]
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Tom Holland is on the second of two consecutive blockbuster press tours in the space of a month – first for “The Odyssey” and now for “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” – but the actor is already gearing up for his next role: Fred Astaire. Holland, who is set to play the debonair dancer in an […]
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Totem has picked up international sales rights for “Oasis,” by writer-director Jannis Lenz, which has its world premiere in the Horizons competition section at the Venice Film Festival. The film joins Totem’s sales slate as the company shifts its primary focus to production. The film centers on a school where a viral video of a […]
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Comcast said its second quarter was boosted by revenue tied to World Cup telecasts on the company’s Spanish-language Telemundo network as well as the Peacock streaming service, which achieved profitability for the first time, but the company still faced headwinds in its cable and broadband business and saw profit in the period decline due to […]
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Whoopi Goldberg used Tuesday’s episode of “The View” to push back on conservative anger over Elliot Page’s casting in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” dismissing a clip of commentator Ben Shapiro calling the choice a mistake. Shapiro called Page’s role an “absolute puzzler” before pointing out that he is “about 5’2 and 105 pounds soaking wet […]
The Guardian Culture
Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details Continue reading...
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Ludwig Göransson’s meticulous score uses instruments of the era to create an earthy, raw and bleak soundscape, but it merely supports the portrayal of an uncomplicated heroA few weeks ago I came across a video of Professor Armand D’Angour, associate professor of classics at Oxford university. He explained how, through groundbreaking research involving fragments of melody and rhythms found on papyrus and stone and the reconstruction of ancient instruments, it is now possible to hear for the first
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The gay Netflix romance maintained a political edge despite rollbacks to queer and trans rightsAfter six books, three seasons of television and a film-length finale, Heartstopper has come to an end. Often dubbed the most wholesome show on TV, Netflix’s adaptation of Alice Oseman’s young adult LGBTQ+ graphic novel series, which itself began life as a web comic, is a legitimate cultural phenomenon, turning its two leads – Kit Connor and Joe Locke – into household names, while racking up tens of mi
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Danny Boyle's Rupert Murdoch biopic 'Ink' will open the 83rd Biennale on Sept. 2.
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The Venice Film Festival is about to reveal its 2026 lineup, promising a plethora of buzzy titles from international directors. Like Cannes this year, Venice is expected to have a lighter Hollywood presence than in previous editions. But that does not mean there won’t be a robust roster of awards contenders. As previously announced, the […]
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Daniel Wu received the Best from the East Award at the New York Asian Film Festival, capping a stretch that has put him back at the center of Hong Kong’s two biggest franchises: “Cold War 1994” and the “Twilight of the Warriors” series. “Cold War 1994” is the third installment in the “Cold War” series, […]
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The Sarajevo Film Festival, the leading festival for South-East European cinema, unveiled the lineups for the four competition sections on Thursday, which include 21 world premieres, six international premieres, one European premiere and 23 regional premieres. The 32nd edition runs from Aug. 14 to 21. The narrative feature films section includes nine films from South-East […]
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Luiz Carlos Barreto, one of the driving forces of the Cinema Novo movement in the 1960s and 1970s, died in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, July 22, at the age of 98. In reaction – and it’s a measure of the huge regard with which Barreto was held in his native Brazil and beyond – […]
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The superstar comedian will be joined by some all-star stand-up pals on Suite Rife on Deck, set to hit the open water on MSC Poesia from Feb. 10-14. Rife promises "only cool people, only good vibes."
The Guardian Culture
The painter, sculptor and performance artist has devoted his life to making art available to the masses. Now with a new exhibition, the centenarian discusses inequality, inspiration, and why he won’t be stopping any time soon‘Life is short, art long,” says Ken Turner, reading from a book of aphorisms by ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. And he’s half right, really, because at 100 years old – and very possibly the world’s oldest performance artist – art might have been long, but life hasn’t be