7 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week

Buongiorno, my good reader. It’s a Venice-heavy Insider this week, as the A-lister festival got underway amid the cameras and gondolas of the canal-strewn city. Back here in the UK it’s Jesse Whittock taking you through the biggest stories of the week. Sign up for the newsletter here to experience the full Insider package. Ciao, […]

The comedian says his son Felix died earlier this year shortly after his wife Cerys had given birth.

The U.K. may have just had the hottest August since records began but, in more positive news, it also had the hottest August at the box office in almost a decade. Thanks to the incredible performances of both “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” a total of $161.3 million was earned at the box […]

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May el-Toukhy is in competition at the Venice Film Festival with post-World War Two psychological thriller Woman Unknown as one of just two female directors in the running for the Golden Lion this year. Set in Denmark in the summer of 1945, the picture revolves around nanny and housemaid Marie (Mathilde Arcel), who is on […]

Director Tony Gatlif, who was known for films such as Gadjo Dilo exploring Roma culture, died in the Southern French town of Arles on September 3. He was 77. The director was born Michel Boualem Dahmani in Algiers on September 10, 1948, to a Kabyle father and mother of Andalusian and Gitane origin. He had […]

Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that she experimented with artificial intelligence to transform Dakota Johnson into Marilyn Monroe for her short film “Flesh Impact” which plays on the Lido. But she ended up scrapping it because she felt that it stripped Johnson’s performance of the very humanity that made it compelling. Speaking at the […]

Bendita Film Sales has acquired international rights to Norma Vila’s psychological horror thriller “Salitre” (“Carapace”) ahead of its premiere at the Sitges Film Festival’s Fantàstic In-Competition Selection. Vila’s debut feature stars Nagore Aranburu, star of Series Mania top laureate “Querer” and winner of this year’s supporting actress Goya Award for “Sundays,” and Haizea Carneros (“Sacamantecas”) […]

The Westchester Farmers' Market, fresh henna tattoos and bowling at Lucky Strike are on the artist's agenda.

David Perlis' new book "Morning in Marin" chronicles how a drug-fueled Northern California enclave became ground zero for 20th century counterculture and pop icons.

His biggest roles included Robin Tripp in 70s TV sitcoms Man About the House and Robin's Nest.

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Peter Facinelli (The Twilight Saga) and Mark Elias (9-11: Lone Star) are starring in comedy-adventure We Could Be Heroes, which is soon to wrap in Ontario, Canada. The film follows “an unlikely wannabe detective who finds himself pulled into a very real mystery when a young gamer gets into trouble and turns to […]

Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s endpoint (one Loktev could not have foreseen when she began shooting on her iPhone X) was the […]

Manisha Koirala is attached to star in “Cowgirls & Indians,” an indie feature that will start shooting in November around Austin, Texas, and nearby locations. The film was formerly titled “Cowboys & Indians.” Tejal Desai, a Nicholl Fellow, wrote and is directing the film, expanding on her award-winning short “Cowboys and Hindus.” The story follows […]

Paul Schrader writes great parts for great actors, and has been doing so for 50 years, since Robert De Niro played Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Since then, to name but a few, he’s given us William Devane in Rolling Thunder, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Willem Dafoe in Light Sleeper, Nick Nolte […]

In the 1970s, Ms. Steinem confronted the newspaper’s executive editor about the honorific in an exchange of letters, pressing it to use the alternative to Miss or Mrs.

With a self-possessed vision, the vocalist married her easy and intimate tone to jazz, blues and folk experiments, opening the door to a new postmodernism.

The director Dave Green narrates a scene from the film in which a perturbed Wile E. Coyote lawyers up.

Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer met in a cafe, not a vet clinic. But the line between their lives and their characters’ is “pretty porous.”

Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King and Maisie Williams on the unlikely sequel, embracing their witchiness and their hopes for a third film.

“Come From Away,” about a remote Newfoundland community that embraced grounded travelers, is playing all over the world — even in the town where it takes place.

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The director Dave Green explains how he brought cartoons to life in “Coyote vs. Acme.”

The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the market of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), will present Doc Square 2026 from Oct. 10-13, bringing together eight partner organizations from five countries to connect Asian documentary creators with industry professionals. Launched last year, the program introduces documentary projects still in production across Asia and offers […]

Dutch filmmaker Finn Szumlas has started principal photography on his debut feature “Stairway to Earth,” kicking off a 5-week shoot in the Netherlands. Leading the film is Polish star Magdalena Koleśnik (“Sweat”) and Dutch actor Kay Greidanus (“Dit Zijn Wij”), playing two strangers who meet up after a one night stand at at a summer […]

Liu Haonan and Qiao Yuhang have been finishing each other’s stories since high school, where they drew together, talked about animation and film, and traded ideas for comics and stories of their own. More than a decade later, they’re doing something a two-person team couldn’t have pulled off a few years ago: building a science-fiction […]

Italian producer Lorenzo Mieli is one of the speakers at the CAA and Finch & Partners The Future of… Creativity forum unfolding today on the fringes of the Venice Film Festival. The symposium at the La Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia, also featuring George Clooney, Venice Artistic Director Alberto Barbera and jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal as guest […]

Raffaele Annecchino, the former international chief at Paramount and its predecessor Viacom, has died aged 55 from acute meningitis. The Italian executive, known for his negotiating skills and business acumen, passed away suddenly over the weekend while in the Balearic Islands, according to his personal office. The former President and CEO of Paramount International, Networks, […]

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EXCLUSIVE: Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes) and Anson Boon (MobLand) are set to star in Andy & Orson, the feature directorial debut of writer-directors Nathan Newman and Arnold T. Rice. MetFilm Sales is launching the project for worldwide sales ahead of the TIFF market with filming due to take place in the U.K. in early Q4, […]

The FCC asked a federal court Thursday to dismiss the First Amendment lawsuit ABC filed against the agency, arguing that the Disney-owned broadcaster failed to establish that the FCC’s early license renewal review for ABC’s TV stations represents “retaliation” for disfavored speech. ABC sued the FCC last month, alleging the commission was waging an “extraordinary […]

Actor-turned director Anna Foglietta is back in Venice in a different guise this year, after serving as the event’s official emcee in 2020. Foglietta — who is best-known to international audiences for her role in Italy’s smash hit “Perfect Strangers” — is on the Lido with her directorial debut, “A Common Story.” It’s a marriage […]

Philippine studio Viva Communications has acquired the rights to remake Indonesian film “2nd Miracle in Cell No. 7,” marking the first time an Indonesian film will be officially remade for the Philippine market. The adaptation is set to premiere Dec. 25 as part of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). The original “Miracle in Cell […]

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“In my more than 40-year career, I’ve never been put in the position of being a decoy,” says Alex Brandon, chief White House photographer for The Associated Press. “Wild. Just wild.” Brandon is one of several subjects who’ve lent their testimony to “Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,” a 28-minute mini-doc about Trump’s (and his curiously close […]

The most remarkable thing about Miike Takashi — whose filmography spans well over a hundred features in a smorgasbord of different genres and styles — is that he has never made a documentary. But now he’s at Venice with doc “Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki.” The films screen out of competition. “I take on […]

India’s queen of television Ekta Kapoor is betting that Indian viewers walking away from appointment television will still watch long-running fiction, just on YouTube’s terms. In an interview with Variety, the Balaji Telefilms Ltd. joint MD, and Gunjan Soni, YouTube’s managing director for India, break down the partnership between the two companies, under which Balaji […]