Oscars, honors and accolades be damned — Guillermo del Toro has no intention of changing. “I’m still a very weird guy,” he said while accepting a career tribute at the Marrakech Film Festival on Friday. “Very weird!” But that very oddball idiosyncrasy is precisely what made the festival’s lifetime achievement award feel all the more […]
Bows blaze, strings sing—welcome to the LEGEND OF STRINGS. Five cinematic violin tracks by Benjamin T. Jackson you need to hear today. ? Best with headphones. Great for focus, gaming, writing & pure goosebumps. Composer: Benjamin T. Jackson Label/Rights: Locked by Score a Score TRACKLIST 00:00 Benjamin T. Jackson — Twilight Conspiracy (Locked by Score a Score) 02:14 Benjamin T. Jackson —...
And it'll be the last time we see any Sundance world premieres in Utah, as the festival moves to Colorado in 2027.
In the early pre-production stages of Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” not everyone involved in the project backed Ana de Armas’ casting as Marilyn Monroe. Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival, the actress recalls meeting with Australian director Andrew Dominik and some of the film’s producers, saying, “I’m not going to say who but not everyone […]
“Materialists” star Dakota Johnson, who founded production label Tea Time Pictures back in 2019, said producing has emphasized a “love-hate” relationship with her career. During an in-depth conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival on Friday, the actor said she feels she is “in an internal battle all the time” working in the film industry. […]
Jessica Alba recalled shooting a “humiliating” scene in Tim Story’s 2005 Marvel adaptation of “Fantastic Four” while giving an in-depth career talk at the Red Sea Film Festival on Friday. Asked about her memories of the shoot, she said her “least favorite scene” was of character Sue Storm reappearing completely naked over a bridge. “I […]
This December, we celebrate the power of people to nurture both communities and the planet. From regenerative farming and fighting food insecurity, to challenging human rights injustices while connecting with nature, to U.S. veterans rediscovering landscapes once marked by conflict, these films illuminate the ways humans and ecosystems thrive when justice and care guide our […]
(L–R) Rebecca Lichtenfeld, Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki, and Judith Helfand attend the premiere of “Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار)” at The Egyptian Theatre in Park City. (Photo by Andrew W. Walker/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Jordan Crucchiola In a remote village in northwest Iran, there lives a woman named Sara Shahverdi. She is […]
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“From Shiraz to Seoul : An Iranian teenager’s journey through K-Pop in Ebrahim Amini’s K-Poper” © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI) [lalitmax2022@gmail.com]
In an era where cultural borders are increasingly porous and global pop culture travels effortlessly from one corner of the world to another, K-Poper, the début directorial venture of Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim...
At the 7th Hainan Island International Film Festival in China, jury president Marco Müller urged audiences and industry to rethink the event’s place on the calendar, arguing that its slot between AFM and Berlin gives Hainan a unique chance to premiere the films that will define the coming year – not recap the one that’s […]