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...
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Venice: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The Whale’ — and Brendan Fraser’s Potential Career Comeback — Gets Rapturous Seven-Minute Ovation
‘A period of repression’: Iran’s crackdown on filmmakers escalates
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...
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ to release in India
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...
Iran selects Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ as Oscar international feature entry
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...
‘Parallel Mothers’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar’s Best Since ‘All About My Mother’
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...
‘Spencer’ Venice Film Festival Review: Kristen Stewart Finds The Private Diana In Pablo Larrain’s Superb Royal Breakup Drama
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...
‘Parallel Mothers,’ to Open Venice Film Festival
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...
“A Hero” wins Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival
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...
Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’ to go on screen at Cannes Intl. FilmFest.
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...
The Human Voice On BMS Stream Review: So Sensual Is Pedro Almodóvar’s Artifice, You’ll Want To Press Yourself Up Against The Screen- Film Companion
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...
‘Parallel Mothers’: Pedro Almodóvar Calls New Film An “Intense Drama” As New Actors Join Penelope Cruz In The Cast
While the COVID-19 pandemic wrecked the film industry in ways that will likely take years to recover, the long break that filmmakers were forced into actually has sparked some creativity. We’ve seen several directors helm new projects that they conceived during this...
Oscars: Denmark Toasts Win for ‘Another Round’
All of Denmark is celebrating after the dual Oscar win of Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘Another Round,’ which took home the 2021 Academy Award for best international film, and for Danish sound editor Mikkel Nielsen, who took home the Oscar for his work on...