Legendary actress Jacqueline Bisset, actor/director Jack Huston and songwriter Diane Warren, who is heading into the Oscars on March 2 as an Oscar nominee for the 16th time, will be guests of honor at the opening ceremony of the 20th Los Angeles, Italia Film, Fashion and Art Festival on Sunday, Feb. 23, fest organizers announced on Saturday. The ceremony, which …
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The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi is addressing an alleged groping incident that reportedly happened at CAA’s Golden Globes party earlier this year. One day after the news broke, the filmmaker took to X (formerly Twitter) Saturday morning to apologize and explain his side. “I want to address the recent articles about me directly and openly,” he wrote. “I fully understand that …
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Lynne Marie Stewart, the veteran actress best known for her work on Pee-wee’s Playhouse and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, among dozens of other projects, has died. She was 78. Stewart died Friday, according to a spokesperson for the comedy sketch troupe The Groundlings. The cause of death wasn’t immediately available. “We are heartbroken to hear of the passing of …
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The award ceremony for the 75th Berlin international film festival has kicked off in the German capital, with this year’s winners of the Gold and Silver Bears set to be announced shortly. There’s no clear favorite among the 19 films in competition at the 2025 Berlinale, and whatever the international jury, under president Todd Haynes, decides, it is likely to …
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The 2025 Berlin International Film Festival has announced the winners of its Generation Kplus section, the festival’s sidebar dedicated to children’s cinema, with top honors going to The Botanist by Jing Yi and Michel Gondry’s animated feature Maya, Give Me a Title. Jing Yi’s debut feature The Botanist (Zhi Wu Xue Jia) took home the Grand Prix of the international …
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If Charles Darwin had written On the Origin of Species after a long weekend spent watching epic nature series in pristine HD from the comfort of his sofa, he likely would have based his evolutionary theories on “survival of the cutest.” Boosted by constant improvements in filming technology and boasting borderline interchangeable names like Planet Earth, Our Planet, Blue Planet …
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The Berlin International Film Festival has announced the winners of the 2025 Panorama Audience Awards, with Spanish drama Sorda (Deaf) by Eva Libertad taking the top prize for best feature film and German documentary Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelln Letters) by Martina Priessner winning in the Panorama Dokumente category. The awards, decided by audience votes, were presented in collaboration with …
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German director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s Hysteria has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in the Panorama section at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The behind-the-scene conspiracy thriller follows the drama on a German film shoot, a production about real-life arson attacks on a Turkish family by German skinheads, that kicks off when a copy of …
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The 75th Berlin International Film Festival wrapped its Generation competition of children and youth films with honors for a diverse and powerful slate of directors, led by Irish filmmaker Brendan Canty, whose drama Christy took home the Grand Prize in the 14plus category. A raw and deeply affecting coming-of-age story, Christy follows a 17-year-old boy navigating the streets of working-class …
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George Armitage, who co-wrote and directed the Alec Baldwin-starring Miami Blues and helmed another 1990s black comedy, Grosse Pointe Blank, starring John Cusack, has died. He was 83. Armitage died Feb. 15 in Playa del Rey, California, his son, Brent Armitage, announced. As was the case with many others, Armitage got a big career boost in the early 1970s from …
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