Iran filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof gets prison, lashings before Cannes
The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings just ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes…
Larrakia-Erub filmmaker Aaliyah-Jade grew up in Sydney but her Torres Strait Islander culture remains her ‘life force’
I love the quiet that the sea brings. The lulls of its steady rhythm, the coos of the winds breaking against it. It's meditative —…
‘Diaspora Jews think Judaism is more important than Zionism’: UK filmmaker | Israel War on Gaza News
London, United Kingdom – Gillan Mosely began questioning her upbringing as a teenager. Growing up in a Jewish family that believed in Zionism, she spent…
Eleanor Coppola, matriarch of filmmaking family, dies at 87
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who…
‘The Shadowless Tower’ review: Connection stymied by regrets
Chinese director Zhang Lu’s contemporary drama “The Shadowless Tower” is a gently enigmatic character piece that resists telling you too much about its characters. Zhang’s…
Wingard on his ‘mic-drop monster movie’ ‘Godzilla x Kong’
Since making his MonsterVerse debut in 2017’s “Kong: Skull Island,” the title character has battled a sneaky squid, deadly lizard-like predators, the mighty Godzilla and…
Sundance Institute CEO exits in surprise leadership shakeup
Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente, who helped bring the beloved indie film festival back in person after the COVID pandemic shutdown, is stepping down, the…
M. Emmet Walsh, ‘Blood Simple’ character actor, dies at 88
LOS ANGELES — M. Emmet Walsh, the character actor who brought his unmistakable face and unsettling presence to films including “Blood Simple” and “Blade Runner,” has…
Naomi Campbell growing close to multi-millionaire Saudi filmmaker after they are seen together at string of events
NAOMI CAMPBELL got gossips twitching at the Baftas this month after arriving on the red carpet with a handsome male companion. The supermodel’s date was…
How Kagiso Lediga became the most sought-after filmmaker in South Africa | Arts and Culture
As a teenager in drama school in Cape Town in the 1990s, Kagiso Lediga was bored by the heavy focus on theatre and Shakespeare in…
BBC EastEnders and other soaps 'will be made by AI within three years' says filmmaker
James Hawes, who directed Gary Oldman's spy series Slow Horses, told MPs artificial intelligence would soon be able to make shows without any human input…
The 10 best movies we saw at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
An image from the documentary “Daughters.” (Sundance Institute) Executive produced by Kerry Washington, “Daughters” culminates with an emotional father-daughter dance inside a Washington, D.C., jail.…