Cinema News
|
By AFP
London -
Far from being wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic, Britain's film and television industry is enjoying a blockbuster run thanks in large part to a surge in online streaming.
|
|
By AFP
Beirut -
A distressed son looks for his father, a lazy beach day ends in tragedy: Lebanese can now stream short films about this summer's devastating port blast -- but some say it's just too soon.
|
|
By AFP
Bangalore -
Cinemas in movie-mad India tentatively re-opened on Thursday but with worries about coronavirus and only old films showing, early punters were few and far between.
|
|
By AFP
New Delhi -
Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar acknowledged on Saturday a drug problem within India's film industry, following a growing narcotics probe surrounding the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
It survived the advent of DVDs and the internet era of instant gratification. Now Rome's last remaining adult cinema says it is sure to also overcome its latest challenge as it grapples with coronavirus.
|
|
By AFP
Venice -
The decision to hold the Venice Film Festival despite the coronavirus pandemic is being hailed as a "sign of hope" for the movie world after months of closed cinemas, shuttered film sets and cancelled galas.
|
|
By AFP
Kuala Lumpur -
Malaysian prosecutors dropped Thursday 1MDB-linked charges against one of the producers of Hollywood hit "The Wolf of Wall Street" after he struck a deal that should see authorities recover over $100 million.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
For decades, Harvey Weinstein was untouchable, reigning over Hollywood as the mega-producer Meryl Streep famously called "God." On Wednesday the convicted rapist was contemplating spending the rest of his life in prison.
|
|
By AFP
New York -
For decades, Harvey Weinstein was untouchable, reigning over Hollywood as the mega-producer Meryl Streep famously called "God." On Monday he became a convicted rapist facing up to 29 years in prison.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
France's Cesar Academy, which awards its version of the Oscars, was in crisis Friday after its entire board resigned, overwhelmed by a series of rows that have infuriated both women's activists and industry insiders.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
The entire board of the Cesar Academy, which awards France's equivalent of the Oscars, resigned Thursday just two weeks ahead of its gala ceremony after more than 200 actors, producers, directors and movie personalities demanded "profound reform".
|
|
Toronto -
Annie Baker’s brilliant “The Flick” is about movies, but much more. It’s about working dead-end, minimum-wage jobs and using movies to escape. It’s about the difficulties we have in connecting to each other through our social masks.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russian celebrities have launched a major solidarity campaign in support of a young actor who they say was wrongfully jailed for a crime amid a crackdown on the opposition.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
Russian celebrities have launched a solidarity campaign in support of a young actor who they say was wrongfully jailed for a crime amid a crackdown on the opposition.
|
|
By AFP
Kiev -
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov on Tuesday warned against trusting Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Moscow freed him from jail in a historic prisoner swap with Kiev this weekend.
|
|
By AFP
Los Angeles -
Oscar-winning film director Roman Polanski is suing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, demanding his reinstatement nearly a year after the organization expelled him amid the #MeToo movement.
|
|
By AFP
New Delhi -
India's main opposition Congress party has petitioned election officials to delay the release of a flattering new Bollywood biopic about Prime Minister Narendra Modi until after upcoming elections.
|
|
By AFP
Ouagadougou -
Africa's biggest film festival opened on Saturday marking its 50th anniversary and buoyed by its contributions to the continent's film industry but overshadowed by security problems in host country Burkina Faso.
|
|
By AFP
Rome -
Italy is to introduce an obligatory delay between Italian films screening in cinemas and being shown on streaming services like Netflix, in a bid to protect its domestic film industry.
|
|
By AFP
Moscow -
The trial of Russian stage and screen director Kirill Serebrennikov began Wednesday with a closed hearing, more than a year after he was placed under house arrest in a controversial embezzlement probe.
|
|
By AFP
Atenas -
The Greek-French filmmaker Costa Gavras was forced to deny rumours of his own demise on Thursday after some media were fooled by a fake ministerial Twitter account announcing he had died.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
Fresh from shooting her first film in English, Haifaa al-Mansour plans to return to her native Saudi Arabia next month for her new project -- but this time, she won't be directing out of view by walkie-talkie from the back of a van.
|
|
By AFP
Kirkuk -
From black-and-white musicals to action movies, Abdel Qader al-Ayoubi screens films and exhibits paraphernalia of the art form in his basement in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a cinema-free zone.
|
|
By AFP
Atenas -
The house and private archives of Greek cinema godfather Theo Angelopoulos, who died in 2012, were destroyed in this week's deadly wildfires near Athens, his widow said Thursday.
|
|
By AFP
Los Angeles -
Morgan Freeman's lawyer demanded Tuesday that CNN retract a story accusing the 80-year-old movie star of multiple cases of sexual harassment.
|
|
By AFP
Bejing -
Itinerant workers, abandoned children, forgotten victims of Mao-era re-education camps: all find space in Wang Bing's lengthy cinematic explorations of life on China's margins.
|
|
By AFP
Bejing -
Itinerant workers, abandoned children, forgotten victims of Mao-era re-education camps: all find space in Wang Bing's lengthy cinematic explorations of life on China's margins.
|
|
By AFP
Paris -
From an African-American detective infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan to Kurdish female fighters battling jihadists, here are the movies that will battle it out for the top Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes film festival this week:- Everybody Knows -Iranian ma...
|
|
What an exciting time it must have been to go to the movies, back in the 1970s. I was only a little tyke then, so I didn’t feel the effects of it until years later. But something about that decade brought out the best in Hollywood creativity.
|
|
By AFP
Gandhidham -
Wearing bowler hats and fake moustaches while carrying walking sticks, hundreds of Charlie Chaplin fans shuffled bow-legged through a small Indian town to celebrate the comic actor's birthday this week.
|
apis-428961 apis-428170 apis-427300 apis-426694 apis-424442 apis-419070 apis-418239 apis-414847 apis-413904 apis-413314 apis-413290 apis-405577 apis-403816 apis-403780 apis-403331 apis-393286 apis-391317 apis-388916 apis-381776 apis-379363 apis-375126 apis-373120 apis-372860 apis-372215 apis-367358 apis-365582 apis-365574 apis-365280 apis-364019 apis-363760
Cinema Image
A view of the outside of The Odyssey, August 2016.
The Regal Theater in Union Square in Manhattan. Nightscream via Wikimedia
Old laundry box for a launderette in the United Kingdom
cinema, screen, festival Photo by Pete
LG’s LW6500 model with Cinema 3D TV offers flicker-free and a brightness booster to allow users to switch on the 3D feature without much dimming of the picture. LG Canada
A view from the seats. A hush. A movie is about to be screened at The Odyssey cinema.
Old cinema signage - the mystery of movies
Laundry box for the clothes of ushers and usherettes
Signage for the British Film Institute (1970s)
Deep within The Vaults and getting ready to enjoy the underground cinema experience.
The steps leading down to the screening area, designed to capture the 1930s vibe.
Entrance to the cinema musuem
A cinema ratings board from the 1930s
Old device for printing cinema tickets circa 1930
Signage for an old cinema chain
Foundation stone for the workhouse (1871) that became the cinema museum
The exhibition includes several screens showing excerpt from Kubrick's movies, such as 'Barry Lyndon' (1975).
Researchers are discovering that actions portrayed in movies likely influence "real life" behaviors, especially for children and adolescents. Bob Cotter
Old cinema sign from the 1940s
A seating area where patrons can relax before the start of the movie.
|
|