BY ALEX RITMANP Brendan Fraser’s return to the movies was greeted with an adoring reception on Sunday night in Venice, one which seemed to even catch the star himself by surprise. The Whale — Darren Aronofsky’s A24 drama touted as a career comeback for Fraser, the former Hollywood leading man who effectively disappeared from the […]
FRANCE24 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION One year after ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi came to power, Iranian authorities are targeting the country’s cinema. The July arrests of directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, both icons abroad, reflect the pressure that filmmakers and actors are facing. The Iranian film community has been asking “who will […]
PTI JULY 18, 2022 15:58 IST The Hindu The absurdist comedy film is written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert American absurdist comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All at Once, starring renowned actor Michelle Yeoh, will be released in Indian theatres soon. Written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, […]
By Ben Dalton / Screen Daily Iran has selected A Hero, from two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi, as its entry for the international feature award at the 2022 Academy Awards. The film was chosen by a nine-person Iranian delegation, representing Iranian cinema to Ampas. The delegation reviewed 44 Iranian films, and […]
By Variety/ By Owen Gleiberman The director leaves camp and irony behind to tell the luminous but down-to-earth tale of two women, played by Penélope Cruz and Milena Smit, who navigate the joy and pain of motherhood. Among the multiple pop sources and forms that Pedro Almodóvar has always poured, […]
By Deadline/ Pete Hammond There is an especially telling and actually chilling scene in Spencer, Pablo Larrain’s brilliantly imagined portrait of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) facing the crossroads of a long dead marriage during a Christmas holiday at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. Prince Charles (Jack Farthing), stands in an ornate room at […]
Pedro Almodóvar’s new film “Parallel Mothers,” starring Penelope Cruz, will open the upcoming Venice Film Festival in September. Almodóvar’s hotly anticipated pic, which was shot during the pandemic, will world premiere on the Venice Lido in competition on September 1. The film sees the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar reuniting with Penelope Cruz, most recently in Almodóvar’s 2019 […]
The Second highest honour Grand Prix; at just concluded Cannes Film Festival in the Competition Section went to Persian Film A HERO by Asghar Farhadi. Generally hailed by several critics as his best film post SEPARATION; it explores the question of morality and right or wrong in Iranian Civil Society. […]
The Cannes Film Festival returns this year for its 74th edition, running from July 6 to 17 after the Covid-19 pandemic deprived the world’s leading film festival of its 2020 edition. A slew of past Palme d’Or winners and arthouse favorites are set to return to Cannes as organizers announced […]
We are trained to spot an Almodóvar. For one it’s all staged, it all looks staged, it all wants to look staged. In the case of his 30-minute short film, The Human Voice which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, more literally so — the entire house in […]