The Oscar-nominated director of 'Pina' and 'The Salt of the Earth' returns to 3D for 'From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor,' a portrait of the Pritzker-winning architect behind LACMA's $724 million David Geffen Galleries — and a defense of beauty in a world of
The Venice Film Festival found itself under fire in the weeks leading up to opening night over the inclusion of “DAU,” by Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky, in the main competition of its 83rd edition. In a joint statement released on Aug. 17, the Ukraine Ministries of
Roma filmmaker Alina Șerban broke barriers long before she set foot on the red carpet this week at the Venice Film Festival, where her feature-length directorial debut, “I Matter,” world premieres in the Venice Spotlight section. Rising from an impoverished background to become
For Lucy Liu, who has voiced memorable characters in everything from “Kung Fu Panda” to “Strange World,” being part of the independently made, black-and-white animated film “Moonfish” was all about lending her name and support to first-time filmmaker Daniel Zvereff. “These are
Watermelon Pictures has acquired “Everything Is Not OK,” a documentary from director Dev Benegal chronicling the life of artist Judith Blum Reddy. The film will stream exclusively on Watermelon+, the distributor’s streaming platform. The producing team pairs Benegal with Min(d)
Paris-based Moveria has boarded international sales on Taiwanese filmmaker Lu Po-Shun’s debut feature “Will You Still Be My Friend,” which is set for a berth in San Sebastián’s New Directors sidebar before travelling on to the Busan International Film Festival. A
Every great love story, in Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong’s telling, is secretly a story about love that cannot happen — class, status or fate standing in the way. His new film dares to ask the opposite question, and it took him the better part of two decades, one abandoned
Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary “From Inside Out,” which has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, examines the work of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor, paying particular attention to the design and construction of the David Geffen Galleries of
What holds it together is the suppleness of Eisenberg’s voice as a writer-director (the wit that singes, the story that never stops poking around corners), and the utterly astonishing performance of Julianne Moore, who plays a crumpled-up wallflower in dire need of blooming.
Bad Bunny has won his first Emmy for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. He won in the outstanding variety special (live) category. “The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny” took home a total of seven nominations, winning music direction, choreography, sound
Audiences got the first glimpse at a triumphant and career-defining performance from Andrew Scott in “Elsinore” this weekend, but the Telluride player also delivers another important gift: legendary show business gossip. Central to the plot is an infamous real-life moment in
The best original song race already includes tunes by Taylor Swift, Travis Scott, David Byrne, Backstreet Boys and, yes, Diane Warren.
Jesse Eisenberg has made his most significant debut to date. There is a delicious irony at the center of “The Debut,” Eisenberg’s third feature as a director, which world premiered at the Telluride Film Festival: it is a film about a nobody who attacks a bit part as if it were
Bad Bunny’s “Super Bowl Halftime Show” and “The Traitors” dominated night one of the Creative Arts Emmys with seven and six wins, respectively. Comedian Wanda Sykes provided opening remarks. “Television isn’t made by a handful of people. It’s made by thousands of talented
The two-hour documentary captures the brothers’ blockbuster Oasis Live ’25 reunion with intimate interviews and unprecedented access to rehearsals, backstage and stadium performances.
The thriller about the former 'To Catch a Predator' host premiered Saturday at the Venice Film Festival and will open in theaters Sept. 25.
Oasis mania hit Venice Film Festival on Saturday night as Liam and Noel Gallagher presented the world premiere of their highly anticipated documentary “Don’t Look Back in Anger.” The rock doc received an eight-minute standing ovation as the once-estranged brothers held hands
The former NBC Entertainment chief turned up on the Lido to support his film debut (playing himself!) opposite Robert Pattinson in Lance Oppenheim's dissection of 'To Catch a Predator.'
Penélope Cruz became an Oscar winner when 2008’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” made her the first Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar. Seventeen years later, she is not chasing a second statuette so much as choosing which vehicle to ride to the ceremony — because this season
The 2016 documentary “Supersonic,” focused on Oasis’ beginnings and incredibly fast rise to superstardom, made no mention of what was then the most salient fact about the Gallagher brothers: that from 2009, they were no longer on speaking terms. Ten years after that Asif
Let’s dispense with the suspense. Mike Leigh has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and has won it zero times. That seems wrong. He has a Palme d’Or, a Golden Lion, five decades of films that taught generations of actors what unglamorous truth looks like and one of
The film centers itself on Pete Townshend’s contradictions, his growing pains, his turmoil, and his complexity as a human being and rock artist. And that’s all good. But given where it sets the bar, there’s too much that's left out.
Andrew Scott is the prince of Telluride. There are performances that feel like a reckoning, and performances that feel like a resurrection. Andrew Scott’s work in “Elsinore,” which had its world premiere Friday night at the Telluride Film Festival, is somehow both — a great
Alexandra Artrip, who played the youngest daughter of Sandra Bullock’s character Sally Owens in 1998’s “Practical Magic,” has weighed in on the sequel’s decision to recast her and fellow original actor Evan Rachel Wood in the upcoming sequel. Artrip played Antonia Owens
Mandy Moore knows how to travel with her kids. She hands them a tablet for some screen time. Not that the children have carte blanche on what they could watch. Instead, Moore uses ABCmouse, a childhood education app that she says keeps the kiddos occupied while teaching them
Andrew Haigh has built a career watching people at the precise moment their lives come apart — and finding, in the wreckage, something close to grace. At the 53rd Telluride Film Festival, the British writer-director received the Silver Medallion, the festival’s career tribute,
After feuding for the past few years, Kanye West and Kid Cudi have made up and reunited during West’s Chicago concert on Friday night. West performed the past two nights in his hometown of Chicago to promote his latest album, “Bully,” and welcomed several surprise guests to the
“Evil Dead” star Bruce Campbell is opening up about his battle with cancer, revealing that he’s been given about five years to live. Back in March, Campbell revealed he had been diagnosed with a cancer that was “treatable but not curable.” “These days, when someone is having a
Lance Oppenheim's A24 film — co-starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Phoebe Bridgers and Jeff Zucker playing himself — debuted with an electric screening inside Sala Grande Saturday night.
“Primetime,” a thriller starring Robert Pattinson as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen, made its debut at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday to an enthusiastic seven-minute ovation. Venice went fully in for Pattinson’s immersive performance as Hansen, the “Dateline”
Not everything labeled “old-fashioned” needs to carry negative connotations. A handwritten letter, your grandma’s rice pudding, the cocktail — all nice old-fashioned things. But the moment Alberto Iglesias’ sweet music flows out of the speakers at the start of “It Will Happen
Nothing sharpens the mind like working within constraints. Made on a shoestring production grant of €200,000 ($234,000) and given three weeks to write a screenplay and outline a production schedule, ‘Tijuana, Todavía’ by Mexico’s Gabriel Gutiérrez Morales has been rewarded with
Two action flicks, Paramount’s “By Any Means” and A24’s “Onslaught,” arrived in theaters on Friday. But neither could dethrone “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which remains No. 1 in its sixth weekend in theaters. “Spider-Man” added $3.9 million on Friday, pushing it past the
Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year. So when Maggie Gyllenhaal was approached to make a movie about her, she asked for a weekend to daydream about what that milestone might look like. What came back was “Flesh Impact,” a 17-minute short that hands the most consumed
The Spider-Man feature is soon aiming to become the top grossing movie domestically of all time, as Tom Holland's other summer movie, 'The Odyssey,' comes in at No. 2.
The busy actor took a break from 'The Batman: Part II' filming to attend the Venice Film Festival world premiere of his Chris Hansen-inspired pic 'Primetime.'
Three teenagers, unclothed, stand close to one another in a forest, gently caressing the wounds they have inflicted on one another. This is the climactic moment in “Oasis,” a film that at times feels like a Grimms Brothers fairytale, and, at others, an all-too-real vision of
“Can you get tighter in on him?” Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) demands of the technician editing his latest “To Catch a Predator” segment. He has noticed that when his would-be pedophile prey finally spot him, stepping out of an upstairs bedroom or strolling through the
For anyone whose happy place is an old-school library reading room, all aged dark wood and green-and-gold reading lamps casting warm islands of light in the velvety murk, “Chronovisor” will be a near-fetishistic delight — even as it makes quite unhappy places of such hallowed
Al Pacino didn’t travel to the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of “Father Joe,” but he sent a video message with well wishes to his collaborators on the movie. “I wish I was there with all of you in Venice, which is great and lovely. I’ve had films there. I’ve been there.
Set as Katie Taylor’s final fight, one of the greatest fighters in boxing is going for the undisputed title. Irish boxer Katie Taylor defense her WBO, IBF and WBA women’s super lightweight (junior welterweight) championship belts against French fighter Flora Pili. Additionally,
Veteran auteur Nanni Moretti – who has had nine movies in competition at Cannes — is back in Venice after 37 years with “It Will Happen Tonight,” a romantic drama toplining French star Louis Garrel and Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“La Storia,” “Supersex”). “Years ago I had
In news that might not surprise anyone, Liam and Noel Gallagher skipped the Venice Film Festival press conference for their upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger” on Saturday. The two brothers — who reunited last year for their massive “Live ’25” tour
'Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger' captures the brothers’ blockbuster Oasis Live ’25 reunion tour, their first live performances after their infamous falling out back in 2009.
It seems as simple as moving a few letters around, but a new collaboration between Aflac, the provider of supplemental insurance and Ben Affleck, the actor and director, has been years in the making. Pairing Aflac, which has thrived with commercials featuring an anthropomorphic
The actor touched down on the Lido this weekend for the Venice Film Festival world premiere of Lance Oppenheim's film, in which he stars as 'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen.
The Venice Film Festival jury president said her AI experiment "fundamentally did not work. All the reasons we decided to make this project to begin with were killed off in the AI version."
A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl,
That title gives a first clue towards how misbegotten and compromised this new Tom and Jerry joint is. Everybody knows that Tom and Jerry shouldn’t be searching for a forbidden compass, whatever that might be: If the perma-warring pair are on a quest for something, it ought to
Robert Pattinson thinks Chris Hansen could come around on “Primetime,” a tense thriller about the television journalist and “To Catch a Predator” host, which premieres on Saturday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. The real-life Hansen has been vocal in his skepticism of
