Steve Zahn, Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Janeane Garofalo star in Ben Stiller’s “Reality Bites,” which premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. By Lucy Spicer Autumn is just around the corner. Can you feel a nip in the air? Film lovers need not despair as the sun sets earlier and earlier — it may […]
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British producer David Puttnam, whose long list of credits includes “Chariots of Fire,” “The Killing Fields” and “The Mission,” will be honored by the Rome Film Festival with its inaugural Industry Lifetime Achievement Award. Puttnam, whose work has earned a combined total of 10 Oscars, 10 Golden Globes, 25 BAFTAs and nine Emmys — as well […]
From awards contenders to a shocking horror debut, chilling documentaries, standout performances, and at least one very special stork, this season's crop of festival premieres offer sterling reminders how very good the movies can be.
The official closing film “The Chronology of Water” by Kristen Stewart was screened at the awards ceremony at the Oldenburg State Theater, where the award winners were announced. “Broken Voices” by Ondřej Provazník won the German Independence Award for Best Film, “Keep Quiet” by Vincent Grashaw was honored with the Spirit of Cinema Award, and “Under the Burning Sun” by Yun Xie won the...
The English actor Malcolm McDowell will be a guest of the Lucca Film Festival 2025 on September 24. He will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award and present the film Caligula: The Ultimate Cut, accompanied by the international artist Hershey Felder.
The LFF will also honor a rising star with the New Protagonists Award, presented to the actor from Lucca, Alberto Paradossi.
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Carlos V. Gutierrez is a film and television director whose work has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Emmy Award, and has been featured on HBO and Showtime. In the commercial world, Carlos is a highly sought after director who works on national campaigns for Turbo Tax, Princess Cruises, Exxon / Mobil, Chevy and numerous others. His commercial work for clients includes a...
The Morgan Neville (20 FEET FROM STARDOM)-helmed Telluride hit is one of seven new additions to the 56th annual festival, alongside Nia DaCosta’s HEDDA. The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), a week-long celebration of film, music and culture, today announced additional titles to join the previously slated films for the highly anticipated 56th annual festival, taking …
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Toronto-based director Clement Virgo just premiered his latest feature, Steal Away, which he co-wrote with wife Tamara Berger, at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival (where I reviewed it). They previously collaborated on the 2005 Lie with Me. This new project is an adaptation of Karolyn Smardz Frost’s 2017 nonfiction book Steal Away Home and […]
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Satyajit Ray’s Mahapurush (1965), a sharp social satire adapted from Bengali writer Rajshekhar Basu’s short story Birinchibaba, remains one of the most incisive explorations of religious imposters in Indian cinema. Coming five years after Devi (1960), where Ray offered a chilling depiction of blind faith and its tragic consequences, Mahapurush takes a lighter, comedic route to...