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Philippine film industry eyes new stage

AFP Global Edition 37 days ago

A new wave of independent Philippine cinema has had critics buzzing at festivals around the world this year but now industry veterans say it is time to win over audiences as well. "In the Philippines at the moment we have solved one ...

Key winners at Cannes, Berlin compete for Oscars

AP News 37 days ago

Key winners at Cannes, Berlin festivals compete for foreign-language honors at Oscars Top prize-winners from the Cannes and Berlin film festivals are among 65 movies competing for the foreign-language honor at the Academy Awards next March. Oscar contenders include Germany's "The White ...

Comic communism: Ceausescu, pig and a tale of 2 hats

AFP Global Edition 44 days ago

It was a red carpet reception befitting a major head of state and Romania's official photographers were out in force as dictator Nicolae Ceausescu welcomed the visiting French president. But when Ceausescu's Communist Party officials examined the pictures, they were aghast: their ...

Film pulled from Swiss festival in Polanski protest

AFP Global Edition 50 days ago

Dutch-born director Jan Kounen has withdrawn his Cannes-premiered movie about Coco Chanel from the Zurich film festival in protest at the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski, the organisers said Friday. Kounen asked the festival to halt the planned first Swiss screening of ...

(FILE PHOTO) Roman Polanski Taken Into Custody In Switzerland

Getty Images 55 days ago

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 25: (FILE PHOTO) Director Roman Polanski presents the Grand Prix award during the Palme d'Or Closing Ceremony at the Palais des Festivals during the 61st International Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2008 in Cannes, France. Polanski has ...

Books Dan Brown

AP News 60 days ago

FILE - In this May 17, 2006 file photo, author Dan Brown, left, arrives for the screening of "The Da Vinci Code," at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen, file) Copyright 2009 AP News

France submits Audiard's "Prophet" to Oscars

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News 65 days ago

PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - Jacques Audiard's prison drama "A Prophet" will be France's bid for an foreign Oscar nomination slot for the 2010 Academy Awards, the French film organization CNC said Thursday. "Prophet" stars first-time actor Tahar Rahim as an errant, illiterate ...

Fatih Akin cooks up 'Soul Kitchen' for Venice filmfest

AFP Global Edition 72 days ago

Turko-German director Fatih Akin served up some pure entertainment at the Venice film festival Thursday with "Soul Kitchen," a story of changing fortunes in a Hamburg suburb in the throes of gentrification. The film is the first to offer full-bore humour so ...

Damon, demons, Darwin among Toronto fest offerings

AP News 73 days ago

Damon, demons, Darwin among highlights as Toronto fest showcases fall films The cinema smorgasbord of the Toronto International Film Festival has something for all tastes, a place where zombies, demons and vampires share screen time with art films, Hollywood awards contenders and ...

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