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Bruno Santamaría Razo’s fiction debut “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building”(“Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul”) has clinched the top Ojo award at the 24th Morelia Film Festival (FICM), which wraps Oct. 25. Hailed by Variety as a “lush, poetic film rooted in memories,” it became the first Mexican feature to […]
Spain’s Valladolid International Film Festival – known in Spain as Seminci – opens Friday, Oct. 23 with 30 world premieres and a lineup bringing together some of international cinema’s most acclaimed auteurs and an emerging generation of Spanish filmmakers. Running through Oct. 31, the festival’s 71st edition features 22 films in official competition and 208 […]
The MPA gave “Wildwood” a PG-13 for “strong fantasy violence/bloody images, thematic material, suicide-related material, brief partial nudity and language,” which is a mouthful for any movie and an especially wild one for a stop-motion picture about a girl hunting for her kidnapped baby brother. It’s the first PG-13 in Laika’s 17 years as a […]
AGC Intl., the sales arm of Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, has added “Gods Don’t Give Gifts” to its slate and will introduce the animated sci-fi epic to buyers at the American Film Market. Creator Zack London (aka Gossip Goblin) makes his feature directorial debut with the film. London’s Gossip Goblin YouTube channel has 1.4 million […]
Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench says her eye condition has left her unable to perform on stage or read, more than a decade after she was diagnosed.
The Latino Film Institute has unveiled its seventh annual cohort of directors for the LFI Inclusion Fellowship supported by Netflix. Ten emerging filmmakers join the program to produce live-action narrative short films through $50,000 production grants, mentorship and industry engagement opportunities. Fellows participate in a studio-style environment and will screen their completed films at the […]
Film critic Emma Jones and Dheepthika Laurent discuss the week's film releases. Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård play an odd couple in the fantasy romance "Wicker" about love, society and the patriarchy.
The Sharjah Intl. Film Festival for Children and Youth will bring films from Thailand, Brazil, India, Italy and across the Arab world to the UAE for its 13th edition, with a lineup featuring international festival titles, emerging filmmakers and Emirati talent. Running Oct. 26-Oct. 31, SIFF’s Green Carpet program includes Chayanop Bunprakob, Baz Poonpiriya and […]
BBC Sport visits Como to find out how the Italian city's football club, led by coach Cesc Fabregas, is looking to break up the Serie A establishment and gatecrash the Champions League.
Charli xcx has announced that she has canceled tomorrow night’s “Music, Fashion, Film” performance in Arizona due to illness. The pop singer is currently on her “Music, Fashion, Film” tour across North America and, after two shows in Los Angeles over the weekend, was slated to appear at Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena on Wednesday. But […]
Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy Powell is set to present this year’s Film London Jarman Award on Nov. 24, where she will also be the guest of honor. Powell frequently collaborated and was mentored by Derek Jarman, whom the award was established in honor of in 2008 to celebrate U.K.-based artist-filmmakers in the film industry. Throughout […]
Dan Lin has been dismissed as Netflix’s head of film after almost three years, multiple sources tell Variety. Even if expected, it’s a significant shoe to drop following a layoff bloodbath last week at the streamer. Roughly 1,000 employees got the chop, capped by the shock firing of chief content Bela Bajaria. Lin was let […]
Jessica Edwards has been named the new executive director of the Woodstock Film Festival, the organization announced Sunday as the 27th annual festival came to a close. Edwards will take over the role from Meira Blaustein, the festival’s co-founder. “I have had the pleasure of working with Jessica at the Woodstock Film Festival over the […]
Sergei Loznitsa’s “Imperium,” which revisits the Soviet Union of the early 1970s through footage shot by Italian cameramen, has won the best film award at the 70th BFI London Film Festival competition. The prizes were unveiled Sunday as the festival drew to a close. The competition jury was led by filmmaker Sam Pollard, whose credits […]
Antonio Banderas has joined Nicolas Cage in “True Detective” Season 5. The duo will headline the next installment of the HBO anthology series, which is set to begin production in 2027. The new season hails from showrunner Issa López, who helmed the Alaska-set fourth season, “Night Country,” starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Season 5 […]
Susan Lyall worked with actor Jeremy Strong to research the Meta CEO’s favorite Nikes and luxury sweaters The first Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie, 2010’s The Social Network, helped cement the early aughts image of Mark Zuckerberg rebelling against corporate norms in rumpled hoodies and T-shirts. The follow-up, The Social Reckoning, is carbon-dated from 2019 to 2021. This is “post-hoodie”, as the movie’s costume designer, Susan Lyall, describes it, “post-thumbing his nose” to formality. It is also peak robot. Zuckerberg’s reserved wardrobe of suits or interchangeable long-sleeved shirts echo his
It’s been 25 years since the release of this film skewering an industry that famously takes itself very seriously. It might have been comedy gold but it was also, in its own way, prophetic • Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Critics were divided, the US release date couldn’t have been worse (a few days after 9/11) and the sequel was a flop. Yet few films have predicted fashion’s own present like 2001’s Zoolander. The memeable absurdist comedy about the “three-times male model of the year” was a cinematic Cassandra: correctly predicting themes, styles and sensibi
While the world debates the dangers of artificial intelligence, filmmaker Doris Dörrie explores how humanoid robots could change the way we deal with aging, caregiving and how people choose to die.
While the world debates the dangers of artificial intelligence, filmmaker Doris Dörrie explores how humanoid robots could change the way we deal with aging, caregiving and how people choose to die.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the dates for its 80th edition, set to run Aug. 12-18, 2027. Supported by Screen Scotland, the milestone edition will honour the festival’s long history while building on the success of its revitalised iteration, launched in 2024 under the leadership of CEO and festival director Paul Ridd and […]
