Toronto rolled out the red carpet for movie stars on Thursday as North America’s biggest annual film festival opened with a program of nearly 300 films on topics ranging from political activism to sports. The Toronto International Film Festival began with the premiere of Apple TV drama “Being Heumann,” starring Ruth Madeley as US activist […]
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French comedy show ‘Call my agent’ makes film comeback
French showbiz comedy series “Call My Agent” is back as a feature-length film with cameos from Hollywood stars George Clooney and Eva Longoria, with critics saying that for once, a movie made from a series has hit the mark. The original series ran for four seasons from 2015, following talent agents at a Paris agency […]
Fast-pace dance takes I.Coast’s working-class streets by storm
On the streets of a working-class Abidjan neighbourhood, hundreds of young people gather every week after class to dance the biama, a high-tempo combo of acrobatic twists, frenetic footwork and funny facial expressions. The craze has gripped Ivory Coast — where nearly two thirds of the population is aged under 25 — since it evolved […]
It’s all coming back: Celine Dion fans gear up for Paris return
Fans of Canadian superstar Celine Dion are gearing up for an onstage comeback many feared might never happen, with just a day to go until her opening concert in Paris following a years-long battle with a rare neurological disorder. The 58-year-old will on Saturday perform her first full concert since revealing she was suffering from […]
Fans celebrate Celine Dion’s Paris return with giant karaoke
Rhinestone-studded microphones in hand and decked out in glittery gowns, thousands of fans packed into a sweltering Paris theatre to belt out Celine Dion’s classics ahead of the superstar’s long-awaited return. Paris has come down with a serious case of Celine Dion fever ahead of the 58-year-old’s first full concert on Saturday since revealing she […]
Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy: blocked at home, feted in Europe
Independent Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy, whose first film won a top prize at the Venice Film Festival last year, told AFP that it had been blocked by censors and would not be shown in her home country.”Songs of Forgotten Trees” from Roy, just 28, picked up the best director prize in the secondary Horizons section […]
Musk threatens legal action over documentary
Elon Musk’s lawyers put the makers of a new four-hour documentary about the multibillionaire on formal legal notice days before its premiere, warning that the film defames him. The September 3 letter from attorney Alex Spiro, addressed to a producer at Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, accuses the Oscar-winning documentarian of building “Musk” around a predetermined […]
Israeli-made film about Gaza gets 25-minute ovation at Venice premiere
A chilling new documentary about Israel’s AI-powered mass killing of civilians in Gaza from two Oscar-winning Israeli filmmakers received a 25-minute ovation at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. The audience clapped continuously for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after the screening, an AFP reporter witnessed, setting what is thought to be […]
Ex-president Bush remembers 9/11 through exhibit of his art
Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks that would define his presidency, George W. Bush, now an avid painter, is displaying 16 pieces of art inspired by the tragic events. The exhibit opens with a painting of lower Manhattan shrouded in thick gray smoke under a blue sky, the Twin Towers having both collapsed […]