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Dos presencias españolas, ‘Extraño Río’ y ‘Calle Málaga’, en la programación de la Biennale.

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Ayer se desveló la impresionante programación de la 82 edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, que se celebra del 27 de agosto al 6 de septiembre. Una selección potente, con claro protagonismo del cine en lengua inglesa, que busca posicionar a Venecia como la antesala decisiva de la temporada de premios. No es un gesto gratuito: Anora, ganadora en Cannes el año pasado, acabó llevándose el Óscar a la Mejor Película. Y ahora, todos miran a la Mostra como el próximo trampolín. Así, en la competición por el León de Oro hay nombres de peso como Guillermo del Toro, Yorgos Lanthimos, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, Park Chan-wook, o Benny Safdie. La riqueza de la programación se extiende también a las secciones paralelas y fuera de competición. En ellas se presentarán, entre otros, los nuevos trabajos de...

It's going to be a smashing time in Venice this year. The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its 82nd edition and the annual event will serve as the launching pad for Dwayne Johnson's Oscar campaign. The WWE star-turned-leading man plans to be front and center on the Lido with the competition entry The Smashing Machine from director Benny Safdie. Based on the life of Mma fighter Mark Kerr, the film reunites Johnson with his Jungle Cruise costar, Emily Blunt, and hopes to succeed in the awards race where A24's last sports picture — 2023's The Iron Claw — fell short.

But Johnson is stepping into the ring with some heavy-hitters in the Best Actor race, including George Clooney and Oscar Isaac. Both stars will be in Venice for their respective Netflix productions, Jay Kelly and Frankenstein, which hail from directors with proven awards track records. Clooney...

Valérie Donzelli (À Pied d’Oeuvre), Cai Shangjun (The Sun Rises on Us All), Kaouther Ben Hania (The Voice of Hind Rajab) and the directorial debut by Hou Hsiao-Hsien muse Shu Qi arriving with “Nühai” (Girl) are some of the surprise inclusions for the 82nd Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion competition. Of course this year is no different from previous editions – it is stacked with heavyweights such as Park Chan-wook, Mona Fastvold, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Assayas, Kathryn Bigelow, former Golden Lion winners Guillermo del Toro and Yorgos Lanthimos.…...

Amanda Seyfried is back on the musical theater kick, and this time, she’s putting the Shake(r) in her dance routine for the big screen. The actress leads Mona Fastvold‘s “The Testament of Ann Lee,” portraying the titular religious leader who founded the Shaker Movement in the late 1770s.

“The Testament of Ann Lee” is co-written by Fastvold and her “The Brutalist” collaborator and real-life partner Brady Corbet. “Ann Lee” was announced in December 2024. It will premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, and later will screen at TIFF 50.

Christopher Abbott, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Tim Blake Nelson, Stacy Martin, Matthew Beard, Scott Handy, Viola Prettejohn, David Cale, and Jamie Bogyo co-star alongside Seyfried. Ann Lee’s followers deemed her the female Jesus Christ, and her worshippers prayed through song and dance, hence the music-centric genre for the historical feature. “The Testament of Ann Lee” is shot in 70mm,...

The lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled, with the likes of Giullermo del Toro, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and Yorgos Lanthimos all competing for the coveted Golden Lion.

Here is the full lineup of 20 films in competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival:

Ballad of a Small Player, Edward Berger

Below the Clouds, Gianfranco Rosi

Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos

Duse, Pietro Marcello

Elisa Leonardo Di Costanzo

Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch

Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro

The Grace, Paolo Sorrentino

A House of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow

Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach

Mother Bhum, Chong Keat Aun

No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook

A Pied D’Oeuvre, Valerie Donzelli

Silent Friend, Ildiko Enyedi

The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie

The Stranger, François Ozon

The Sin Rises on Us All, Cai Shangjun

The Testament of Ann Lee, Mona Fastvoid

The Voice of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben...

The Venice Film Festival is back on the Lido for its 82nd edition, kicking off August 27-September 6. The packed lineup of auteur premieres heading to Italy include new films from Olivier Assayas, Guillermo del Toro, Mona Fastvold, Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Baumbach, Yorgos Lanthimos, Benny Safdie, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, László Nemes, François Ozon, Pietro Marcello, and many more in competition.

Out of competition, we’ll see new films from Luca Guadagnino (“After the Hunt”), Werner Herzog (“Ghost Elephants”), Sofia Coppola (Marc Jacobs documentary “Marc by Sofia”), Charlie Kaufman (the short “How to Shoot a Ghost”), Julian Schnabel (“In the Hand of Dante”), Gus Van Sant (“Dead Man’s Wire”), Laura Poitras (“Cover-Up”), Lucrecia Martel (“Nuestra Tierra”), and Tsai Ming-liang (“Back Home”)

Artistic director Alberto Barbera’s programmers had already unveiled a wave of announcements before Tuesday’s lineup: Alexander Payne heads up the jury, Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia” opens the festival Italian-style,...

Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Tuesday morning, when he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs August 27-September 6.

The lineup is expansive, with big names and arthouse darlings sprinkled across the festival’s strands, even including the shorts program.

High-profile titles include Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny. Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. The film will screen Out of Competition on Guadagnino and Amazon MGM Studios’ request, Barbera explained during the presser.

Elsewhere, in Competition we have Jay Kelly, the latest film Noah Baumbach has made for Netflix. The...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” are heading to the Lido for their world premieres at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

At a press conference in Venice on Tuesday morning, the announcement of those and other titles was made by Alberto Barbera, Director of the Cinema Department and Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, president of La Biennale di Venezia.

Other films in the Venice main competition include new work from Paolo Sorrentino (“La Grazia”), Jim Jarmusch (“Father Mother Sister Brother”), Laszlo Nemes (“Orphan”), Park Chan-wook

“Sermon to the Void,” Hilal Baydarov

“L’Isola di Andrea,” Antonio Capuano

“Il Maestro,” Andrea Di Stefano

“After the Hunt,” Luca Guadagnino

“Hateshinaki Scarlet,” Mamoru Hosoda

“The Last Viking,” Anders Thomas Jensen

“In the Hand of Dante,” Julian Schnabel

“Dead Man’s Wire,” Gus Van Sant

“Orfeo,” Virgilio Villoresi

Out of Competition – Non Fiction

“Kabul,...

Celebrating its 82nd edition this year, Venice Film Festival will take place August 27 through September 6. Ahead of the event, President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and Director Alberto Barbera have now unveiled the lineup.

Highlights include new films from Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, Lucrecia Martel, Laura Poitras, Benny Safdie, Werner Herzog, Kathryn Bigelow, Luca Guadagnino, Olivier Assayas, Sofia Coppola, Kent Jones, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Jenkin, Tsai Ming-liang, Mamoru Hosoda, Gus Van Sant, Noah Baumbach, Mona Fastvold, Pietro Marcello, Guillermo del Toro, László Nemes, and more.

See the lineup below.

Opening Film

La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino) (in competition)

Closing Film

Chien 51 (Cédric Jimenez) (out of competition)

In Competition

The Wizard of the Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)

Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)

The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)

A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)

The Sun Rises on Us All (Cai Shangjun)

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)

Elisa (Leonardo Di Costanzo)

À pied d’œuvre...

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has unveiled a rich mix of buzzy movies with big stars — as well as smaller titles with awards potential — that will be vying for the Golden Lion during the event’s upcoming 82nd edition.

Hotly anticipated new works from Kathryn Bigelow, Guillermo Del Toro, Noah Baumbach, Mona Fastvold, Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Olivier Assayas, Park Chan-wook, Benny Safdie and more are set for Lido launches, making for a cornucopia of cinematic offerings.

As anticipated by Variety, big-name films premiering at Venice include Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Focus Features’ “Bugonia,” the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, who were last at the fest in 2023 with the Oscar-winning “Poor Things”; and Luca Guadagnino’s psychological drama “After the Hunt” starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.

Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, and Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt are among the films selected for the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27 - September 6).

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The first two are among 21 Competition titles, with further Competition entries including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney, Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard Of The Kremlin starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, Mona Fastvold’s The Testament Of Ann Lee, and Guillermo del Toro’sFrankenstein starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.

The selection was announced by artistic director Alberto Barbera,...

"There's so much pressure to be a part of the world." Music Box Films has revealed the official trailer for an indie film titled Suspended Time, the latest feature film by acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (after his recent work on Wasp Network and the new "Irma Vep" series). This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival last year and got pretty bad reviews - it's a script from the pandemic and is set during Covid-19 lockdowns, and no good film came out of that time. During spring in 2020, two married couples quarantine together in a country house in the provincial Chevreuse Valley, leading to rising tensions and revelations about their relationships. A "scabrous French comedy from master filmmaker" Olivier Assayas, Suspended Time is a sharply personal and fiercely neurotic ode to the eternal expanse of memory and the allure of life beyond our personal screens. With Vincent Macaigne, Micha Lescot,...

It’s been such a long wait for Olivier Assayas’ Suspended Time, which premiered back at the 2024 Berlinale Film Festival, that the director has already shot another feature in the meantime, with The Wizard of the Kremlin hopefully gearing up for a fall debut. Prior to that, his personal, 2020-set drama will arrive in theaters from Music Box Films beginning August 15. Ahead of the release, the new trailer and poster have arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “As society recedes in the spring of 2020, film director Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne) returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley. Still processing the legacy of his parents and feeling out the uncertain shape of the world to come, Paul hunkers down with his documentary filmmaker girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Morgan (Nine d’Urso). Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols...

Olivier Assayas’s Suspended Time premiered last year at Berlinale, where Slant’s Pat Brown wrote of the film: “By virtue of the shared experiences it speaks to, Suspended Time may be Assayas’s most universally relatable film to date.” That would be the shared experience of life during lockdown, as Assayas’s latest tells the story of how, as society recedes in the spring of 2020 due to the pandemic, a film director named Paul Berger (Vincent Macaigne) returns to his childhood home in the provincial Chevreuse Valley.

According to the film’s official description: “Still processing the legacy of his parents and feeling out the uncertain shape of the world to come, Paul hunkers down with his documentary filmmaker girlfriend Carole (Nora Hamzawi), his music journalist brother Etienne (Micha Lescot), and Etienne’s new girlfriend Morgan (Nine d’Urso). Squabbling over the minutiae of health protocols and the morality of...

Exclusive: It’s been almost a decade since Paul Dano and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert blew away Sundance Film Festival attendees with Swiss Army Man, but now the trio now looks ready to reunite on Dano’s next director outing. Sources tell Deadline that Dano is set to write and in talks to direct a new untitled comedy for Universal Pictures, with Kwan, Scheinert and their partner Jonathan Wang producing through their Playgrounds banner. Dano is also in talks to produce.

Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being a high-concept, original comedy. The Daniels have a first-look deal at the studio and, while they are still deep in development on a follow-up to their Oscar Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, this film would mark one of the first major projects they are solely producing under the deal. Senior EVP Production Development Erik Baiers...

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This June, Tubi is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from two hilarious seasons of Community to the action-filled Taken trilogy. However, for this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Tubi in the next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the ten best movies coming to Tubi in June 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Jaws (June 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97% Credit – Universal Pictures

Jaws is a thriller drama film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay co-written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb. Based on Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, the 1975 film is set in a summer resort town, and it follows a police chief, a marine biologist, and a local fisherman as they team up to hunt a giant shark who has been killing tourists.

Kristen Stewart is issuing a PSA.

“Stay vigilant, and look alive,” she urges her fellow Hollywood creatives. The 35-year-old, a longtime icon of the screen thanks to her starring role as Bella Swan in the era-defining vampire franchise Twilight, admits that the industry is in a dark place.

“[Trump‘s] shadow is bleak. You could almost say opaque,” Stewart tells The Hollywood Reporter in one of her first interviews as a filmmaker. “I think we’re all looking over our shoulders going, ‘Holy shit.’ The slippage is just terrifying.”

Perhaps no one is more qualified to talk on the downfall of the movie biz. Through her 20-plus years as a film star, Stewart has grown into a self-assured and cool-as-a-cucumber celebrity. She departed from mainstream productions after an appearance in the twisted Disney adaptation Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012, instead opting for indie sets like Olivier Assayas’ Personal Shopper (2016) and his...

Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche opens The Temple Woods Gang with a quiet urgency, placing us atop a concrete rooftop overlooking the Bois du Temple housing project. The film immediately feels lived-in: sun-bleached façades, pigeon-scattered courtyards and the muted hum of distant traffic. Through a subtle camera move we meet Monsieur Pons, a grieving ex-sniper whose personal loss casts a silent shadow over the story ahead.

From there, the narrative shifts gears into a true-life 2014 heist: a small crew of neighborhood friends—led by the eager Bébé—targets the luggage van of a wealthy Middle Eastern prince. Ameur-Zaïmeche balances vérité-style spontaneity with carefully framed set pieces, making the robbery pulse with authenticity. You sense the director’s art-house roots in every long take and off-beat reaction shot, yet the plot’s kinetic momentum never stalls.

This is no routine thriller. The contrast between adrenaline-fueled action—captured in tense over-the-shoulder shots on the highway—and hushed,...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

It’s a day to celebrate! We discuss the legend Maggie Cheung! Our B-Sides include Lost Romance (a.k.a. Story of Rose), Full Moon in New York, Green Snake, and Sausalito. Our esteemed guest for this episode is Nick Newman, host of the Emulsion podcast for The Film Stage.

We talk about the Hong Kong New Wave, Maggie’s aborted performance in Inglourious Basterds, the true B-Sidey-Ness of Sausalito, and Maggie Cheung’s brief, lovely, recent Sight and Sound interview.

There’s also Nick’s Sight and Sound List, that GQ piece, Julia Ormond’s tackling a famous Audrey Hepburn role, and Nick’s great interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas back in 2022.

By 2004, at the young age of forty, Cheung retired from acting.

Exclusive:French powerhouse studio Gaumont has taken on international sales rights to prolific French filmmaker François Ozon’s adaptation of Albert Camus’ literary masterpiece The Stranger.

Ozon reteams with hisSummer Of ’85 breakout star Benjamin Voisin who plays main character Meursault, a Frenchman living in 1930s Algeria whose apathy and indifference to the surrounding world culminate in cold-blooded murder and a trial that explores both the crime and his character.

The Swimming Pool, Under The Sand and 8 Women director also reteams with Rebecca Marder, who starred in Ozon’s 2023 courtroom comedy The Crime Is Mine, and Pierre Lottin, who starred in...

Mubi’s May 2025 selection has arrived, featuring a Rooney Mara double-bill of perhaps her best film (Carol) and most recent effort (La cocina), Cannes-selected Latin American cinema, and a program curated by Magic Farm‘s Amalia Ulman.

As Kent M. Wllhelm said of Magic Farm in his review, “I was sold on the premise of satirizing opportunistic content creators who play dress-up as journalists, but weaving that into the storylines of the ensemble cast is no easy task for a sophomore feature. The plot gets lost; when it feels like there’s too much going on, nothing gets to shine. There’s nevertheless fun to be had in Magic Farm; importantly, Ulman’s voice and perspective are what stick with you after the credits roll. It’s encouraging to see a young director experiment, venturing into new narrative and stylistic territory.”

Check out the lineup below, and get 30 days free here.

For actress Kristen Stewart, starring in "Twilight" has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, the worldwide popularity of the five-film vampire series helped to make Stewart one of the most recognizable actresses on the planet. Unfortunately, with that fame came the tabloids, and before long, Stewart became better known for being in gossip magazines than for her considerable skills as an actress, seemingly destined to be tagged forever as "that girl from 'Twilight.'" Fortunately, a number of international directors such as Olivier Assayas and Pablo Larrain came to the rescue, looking past the gossip to see the potential and creating roles for Stewart that were finally worthy of her talents.

Stewart's filmography encompasses a wide range of genres, from biopics and mother/daughter dramas ("Still Alice") to romantic comedies and nail-biting thrillers ("Panic Room"). While she has inhabited a wide variety of characters,...

Walter Salles has described the “explosion of joy” in Brazil at his Oscar win for I’m Still Here as “the most beautiful gift”.

Speaking after his masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra lab, Salles said the film “allowed younger generations to have a better understanding of what had happened in their own country. It was the contact with a hidden part of history that surfaced, and that is what made the film theirs.”

“There’s always a moment where the film ceases to be made by the family that allowed it to exist, and becomes something that belongs...

Walter Salles has revealed he is eager to work again with The Motorcycle Diaries star Gael García Bernal, and that an opportunity nearly arose ahead of his making Oscar-winning drama I’m Still Here.

“We’ve been trying for a long time,” Salles told journalists at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event this weekend, saying they had worked on a project involving characters from different Latin American countries that had not come to fruition.

“I developed it for Gael. I would love to work again with Gael. He’s one of my closest friends and one of the persons I love most in life and in cinema as well, he was an incredible co-author of The Diaries,” Salles said of the Mexican star, whose recent credits include La Máquena and Holland.

“I love the idea of cinema being done by a family, and Gael is certainly part of that family…...

Gaumont has promoted Alexis Cassanet to the position of executive VP of international distribution and co-productions.

Cassanet was most recently EVP of international sales and distribution. He played a key role in securing financing for two major productions: “High in the Clouds,” an animated film co-produced by Paul McCartney and based on his own book, and Olivier Assayas’s “The Wizard of the Kremlin” which is in its last stretch of filming with an all-star cast including Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge and Jeffrey Wright.

Under his new position, he will contribute to the development of projects with strong international potential, identify new sources of international financing and will be actively involved in setting up co-productions. He will work closely with Gaumont’s international subsidiaries on feature films aimed at global audiences.

Cassanet will also continue to oversee international sales of new productions and remake rights, in close collaboration with Adeline Falampin,...

It looks like Jude Law is getting ready to host a party!

The 52-year-old actor was seen going barefoot while stocking up on bottles of booze alongside his wife Phillipa Coan on Sunday (March 23) in New Orleans, La.

The actor had his toned arms on display in a tank top.

Jude has been spending time in New Orleans lately and local outlets noted his presence in town over the holiday season a few months ago. It’s unclear if he and his family have officially moved there or if he’s there working on a project.

Jude has also been spotted in Latvia recently while working on the upcoming movie The Wizard of the Kremlin, in which he is playing the role of Russian President Vladimir Putin for French filmmaker Olivier Assayas.

Alicia Vikander’s multifaceted role in The Assessment deserves your attention.

The Oscar winner’s performance in Fleur Fortuné’s feature directorial debut may be the riskiest turn of her career, as the sci-fi thriller has her playing several different personas within the same character. The first of which is Virginia, an assessor who determines whether prospective parents like Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) are worthy of raising a child in their future world where resources are slim. Virginia subjects the husband and wife to a 7-day assessment period in which she herself portrays a child-like character that puts them through their paces in increasingly disturbing ways.

Naturally, Vikander had doubts before, during and after filming, but by trusting her process and her fellow collaborators, she eagerly took the plunge into the idiosyncratic part.

“It was a bit like taking a leap of faith, and I was like,...

I felt a tad guilty about enjoying the pandemic. Yes, it was obviously a tragic worldwide nightmare, the ramifications of which are still not truly known, and I was extremely privileged to not be that affected by it. Nonetheless, I couldn't help how much I enjoyed the sudden closure of society. What can I say: I'm an only child and an antisocial one. I hunkered down with my partner at the time, my parents, and my dog, and it was really lovely. It was honestly idyllic, and that feeling is beautifully reflected in director Olivier Assayas' new film, Suspended Time, which is playing at the 30th Rendez-Vous with France from Film at Lincoln Center.

Olivier Assayas Has a 'Day in the Country'

Suspended Time is set in those confusing early days of Covid-19 and lockdowns, back in April 2020. Assayas narrates the film himself, gently introducing us to a beautiful, endlessly...

J'adore le cinéma! If you love it too, especially in a Francophilic way, you'll be happy to know that Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center are gearing up for the 30th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, running from March 6 to March 16. As usual, this year's film series combines a variety of anticipated films from great French directors with fresh young filmmakers, some selected as part of Unifrance’s 10 to Watch 2025 Program, a yearly initiative honoring a new generation of directors and actors who contribute to the vitality of French creation. There will be 23 films this year, a variety of North American, U.S., and New York premieres which "celebrate the energy, innovation, and range of French cinema," according to Film at Lincoln Center (Flc).

“Unifrance is honored to be celebrating 30 years of French cinema with our partner, Film at Lincoln Center,” said Daniela Elstner, executive director of Unifrance. “Rendez-Vous...

For centuries, poets and philosophers have written about how phantasmagoria and spectral evocation lie at the heart of photography -- and the same is very much true of motion pictures. The earliest experiences in movement-imitating sequential photography have an eerie, liminal quality to them, like dispatches from another world altogether; just have a look at the 1889 Monkeyshines shorts, believed to be the first American films ever, and tell us if they don't feel like seeing a ghost.

From 1889 to now, movies have largely retained that ghostly aptitude. Film, the realm par excellence of images and impressions that detach themselves from -- and eventually outlive -- their subjects, is still arguably the best-suited medium for evoking a world beyond and dramatizing its interactions with ours. Therefore, you can count the 12 best ghost films ranked below, ranging from horror to comedy to romance and back, as 12 of the best ghost stories ever,...

The 30th annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema festival, hosted by Film at Lincoln Center and Unifrance, is celebrating the work of acclaimed actor Vincent Lindon.

While the 2025 festival is not entirely honoring Lindon himself, the actor appears in a whopping trio of featured films and also will be onsite for Q&As and introductions. Lindon stars in Quentin Dupieux’s meta-comedy “The Second Act,” which opened the 77th Cannes Film Festival, as well as Gilles Bourdos’ dramatic thriller “Cross Away” and Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin’s “The Quiet Son” (Lindon won Best Actor at the 81st Venice Film Festival for that drama).

And Lindon isn’t the only beloved French star to join this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: Actors Isabelle Huppert and Édgar Ramírez, plus auteurs Olivier Assayas and Bertrand Bonello are among those who will have features screening. Bonello, while known as a director, lent his composing skills to “Planet B.

When it comes to how they navigate Hollywood, Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun might be soulmates. They both catapulted to fame thanks to massive, culture-defining genre properties only to eschew a traditional movie star path for something more eclectic. Stewart flocked to the atmospheric worlds of French director Olivier Assayas...

Kristen Stewart makes her recorded music debut with “Who Laughs Last?” a new collaboration with the L.A.-based band, Lord Huron.

Stewart drives the song with a spoken-word monologue delivered across several verses, her noir-ish tale of a long, searching, late-night drive floating over a propulsive groove. Stewart’s vocals are interrupted only when Lord Huron frontman Ben Schneider jumps in to deliver the wailing chorus, “I’m gonna leave that city far behind and get a long, long way from there/I’ve got a burning feeling deep...

One of the best performances of Kristen Stewart's career is coming to Netflix next month. Though her breakout roles came in David Fincher's Panic Room, Zathura: A Space Adventure, and Into the Wild, Stewart has been synonymous with Bella Swan and The Twilight Saga for much of her career, starring in the five franchise films from 2008 to 2012. In those five films, Stewart's performance as Bella was widely panned, which led to her being unfairly labeled as an emotionless actress.

After starring in another big-budget production, 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman, Stewart shifted her focus to indie projects and, just like her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, reinvented herself as an actor. During the remainder of the 2010s, Stewart starred in the dramas Camp X-Ray, Still Alice, and Equals, but began garnering critical acclaim for her collaborations with director Olivier Assayas in Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper.

French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski, who’s just wrapped filming of “Vie Privée” starring Jodie Foster in Paris, received the French Cinema Award at a jam-packed ceremony held in an ornate room of the Ministry of Culture on Jan. 16.

The tribute, which is given by the film promotion body Unifrance, was introduced by Gaëtan Bruel, chief of staff of Rachida Dati, the minister of culture, as well as Unifrance president Gilles Pelisson and managing director Daniela Elstner.

Created in 2016, the French Cinema Award honors actors, filmmakers and producers who have contributed to making French cinema shine abroad. Past recipients include actors Juliette Binoche, Virginie Efira and Melvil Poupaud, director Olivier Assayas and producers Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam, among others.

Zlotowski, who is perfectly bilingual and has worked with a number of international talent, from Natalie Portman to Lily Rose-Depp and more recently Foster, has been actively promoting each movie she...

In the middle of 2024, it was announced that acclaimed filmmaker Olivier Assayas was set to make a film titled “The Wizard of the Kremlin.” Not only that, the film is set to feature actors such as Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, and Jude Law. However, not much was known about the film aside from that info. Now, it appears we know more, including the big news that Jude Law is set to portray one of the most controversial political figures of our time.

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If you've ever wondered what it would look like should Mr. Napkin Head be in control of a nuclear arsenal, wonder no longer with the confirmation from actor Jude Law that he will be playing the Russian president Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin from director Olivier Assayas. Law’s involvement in the film was first revealed last spring, though specifics about his role were kept under wraps. The movie, based on Giuliano da Empoli’s best-selling novel of the same name, centres on a young filmmaker (played by Paul Dano) who unexpectedly becomes a key advisor to Putin during his ascent to power in post-Soviet Russia. One heck of an internship, that one. The movie's cast is rounded out by Alicia Vikander (who starred alongside Law in 2023’s Firebrand), Zach Galifianakis, and Tom Sturridge.

Jude Law recently confirmed to Deadline that he will be taking on the role of young Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’ New Film ‘ The Wizard of Kremlin.’ The movie will be based on Giuliano da Empoli’s popular 2022 book, with a screenplay written by Olivier Assayas and Emmanuel Carrère.

The book tells the story of a fictional meeting between the author and Vadim Baranov, a mysterious man who was once an artist, TV producer, and close advisor to Vladimir Putin. Baranov, now retired, shares his life story, including his time in 1990s Russia, his role in helping Putin rise to power starting in 1999, and his experience with political power.

Directed by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, the movie will feature Jude Law in a supporting role and focus on Vladimir Putin, now 72, “at the beginning of his governing career.”

“I haven’t really started work on it yet,” Law said. “I mean,...

Jude Law is taking on the role of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the upcoming film, The Wizard of the Kremlin. The film will have Law in a supporting role while The Batman star Paul Dano will play the lead. The Holiday actor shared that he had a lot more preparation to do before actually portraying Putin.

Jude Law in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew | Credits: Lucasfilm

Law was last seen in the action film The Order. He appears in a supporting role alongside Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, and Vanessa Kirby in the survival thriller, Eden, which premiered at TIFF. He also ventured into the world of Star Wars with the lead role in the show, Skeleton Crew.

Jude Law is portraying Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin Jude Law in a still from Captain Marvel | Credits: Marvel Studios

French filmmaker Olivier Assayas found Jude Law the perfect...

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew star Jude Law recently confirmed he is set to play Vladimir Putin in an upcoming drama that features a star-studded cast.

Per Av Club, Law confirmed in an interview with Deadline that he will be portraying Putin in the upcoming drama, The Wizard of the Kremlin. From director Olivier Assayas, The Wizard of the Kremlin is a feature adaptation of the novel written by Giuliano da Empoli, which centers around a fictitious TV producer, Vadim Baranov, who recounts to the book's author how he helped Putin rise to power after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Batman star Paul Dano is set to play Baranov in the film, which also features the talents of Alicia Vikander (Tomb Raider), Tom Sturridge (The Sandman), and Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover).

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As is typically the case, France was one of the world’s biggest producers of movies in 2024, debuting a nonstop series of French features ranging from internationally acclaimed indies to locally embraced box office hits. Naturally, it’s the former category that tends to make the crossover to us non-local viewers every year, but this past year saw a particular crossover appeal for the films that made waves at home and saw a ripple effect echo across the seas. 2024 saw no shortage of French auteurs (re)staking their claims over the field, as well as fresh faces looking to earn their glory for the first time.

And while some of these names missed the mark, both old and new (Agathe Riedinger), a country like France could never get to its current position as one of Europe’s most consistent exports of cinema without a heavy supply of names eager to create on a yearly basis,...

How the team behind the Oscar contender managed to make a three-hour-plus film feel significantly shorter.

David Jancso is so close with filmmakers Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold that the editor has been by the couple’s side for several major milestones over the last decade, from cutting Corbet’s debut film The Childhood of a Leader and Fastvold’s 2020 feature The World to Come to witnessing the early days of Corbet and Fastvold’s daughter’s life in the pair’s Paris apartment.

“I understand what Brady wants, and his visionary approach to filmmaking is something that you just don’t forget,” Jancso tells Gold Derby.

Neither is The Brutalist, Corbet’s acclaimed new film and one of the season’s top awards contenders, with seven Golden Globe Awards nominations including Best Drama, Best Director for Corbet, and Best Screenplay for Corbet and Fastvold. Set in the aftermath of World War II,...

Exclusive: Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman, André Holland, Alison Brie and Tom Sturridge are leading Alex Vlack’s feature directorial debut, the drama The Revisionist.

The production, written by Vlack, is currently shooting in Louisville, Ky.

In The Revisionist, Elise, a successful novelist, does what so many writers do: she manipulates and transforms the people in her life into the characters she needs for her story. As she blurs the line between fiction and reality, her world descends into secrets, lies, and outright betrayal. The project is an exploration of the psychological lengths to which a writer will go to achieve their art.

Pic is also produced by Vlack along with Arielle Elwes, Veronica Radaelli, Zachary Spicer, Fiona Robert and Sophia Robert. Vlack’s previous work includes directing and executive producing the documentary Still Bill about soul legend Bill Withers.

Cassian Elwes serves as EP along with Paul Robarts, Andy Steinman,...

Back in September we reported that French filmmaker Alice Winocour had begun pre-production on her fifth feature film and a major casting announcement has just landed. Variety reports that Angelina Jolie has been cast (one of three central women characters in the film) in Coutures aka “Stitches.”

Following in the fashion walkways portraits of fellow French filmmakers Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper) and Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent), this French and English language film is set in the world of high fashion and unfolds in Paris. Jolie stars in the movie as a filmmaker and is one of three women whose lives will collide during Fashion Week.…...

Olivier Assayas has spent large swaths of his diverse career fascinated by the stasis of life, and all the varied forms it takes—from the familial (“Summer Hours”) to the spiritual (“Personal Shopper”) to the industrial (“Irma Vep”). Knowing his preoccupation with the frustrations and beauties that keep us locked into place, it only made sense that the French auteur would one day see fit to tackle stasis from a global perspective; it was never a matter of whether or not he’d make a film called “Suspended Time,” but rather when he’d finally get around to it.

What possible motivation could Assayas have to finally explore the stagnancy experienced across the totality of modern life? What world event could possibly have inspired “Suspended Time” to come out of suspension? The answer, as it turns out, would come to Assayas neatly packaged in an Amazon parcel, left on the...

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Adria Arjona is quickly becoming one of the most prominent names in Hollywood and after her beloved roles as Bix Caleen in Star Wars: Andor and Madison Figueroa Masters in Hit Man, she has proven herself to be more than a capable performer. The Puerto Rican actress began her acting career with small television roles in Emily and True Detective but is now getting lead roles because of her talent. So, if you also love Arjona’s performances here are the 7 best movies and TV shows starring Adria Arjona.

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Triple Frontier is an action-adventure film directed by J.C. Chandor who also co-wrote the film with Mark Boal. The 2018 film revolves around five friends who are also former special forces operatives as they reunite to take down a South American drug lord and steal...

Fresh off his appointment as director of Italy’s National Cinema Museum, former Berlinale chief Carlo Chatrian is in Greece where he has curated an intriguing lineup of titles for the repertory sidebar at this year’s Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Grouped under the theme of ‘monsters,’ flicks handpicked by Chatrian include George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead and Lee Chang-Dong’s Peppermint Candy. The unique mix of titles has been a hit with audiences here in Greece and best exemplifies the unique and staunchly international programming style that Chatrian says has earned him the rep as an industry “outsider.”

“I’m really attempting to expand the vision of cinema,” he says.

From 2012 to 2018, Chatrian was the artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival. He held the same position at the Berlin Film Festival from 2020 until this year when he stepped down after the German government announced plans to...

Carlos Marques-Marcet’s Toronto-winning musical drama They Will Be Dust, will open the 69th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week, also known as the Seminci, on October 18.

The end of life drama starring Alfredo Castro and Angela Molina won the Platform section at TIFF last month.

Valladolid, headed by José Luis Cienfuegos for a second year, is a key launchpad into the Spanish market for local and international films.

There are a total of 22 titles in the running for the festival’s top prize, the Golden Spike that comes with a €70,000 award for the Spanish distributor. The Silver Spike...

Italy’s National Cinema Museum in the northern city of Turin has named former Berlin Film Festival head Carlo Chatrian as its new director. Chatrian will be in post for five years.

Chatrian replaces Domenico De Gaetano. The museum’s management committee thanked De Gaetano in a statement this afternoon for leading the institution during recent “complex years” and “succeeding in the enterprise of increasing visitors and making it an attractive cultural center of international standing, opening it to the new languages ​​of cinema.”

The committee said the decision to hire Chatrian was “unanimous.” Chatrian, a Turin native, began his cinema career as a writer and journalist. He has been a programmer and consultant for various institutions including the National Cinema Museum in Turin, Filmmaker Doc in Milan, Alba International Film Festival (of which he was also deputy director), Courmayeur Noir in Festival, Festival dei popoli in Florence, Cinéma du Réel in Paris,...

My First Film is now showing exclusively on Mubi. For more on Anger's film, go behind the scenes with an exclusive featurette. My First Film.Between 2010 and 2012, Zia Anger directed a feature film titled Always All Ways, Anne Marie in her hometown of Ithaca, New York. She cast her friend Deana LeBlanc as a surrogate for herself, and her actual father as the father. The semi-fantastical, semi-autobiographical film had a beleaguered production—rife with Adderall, an unwanted pregnancy, near-fatal accidents, and imploding friendships. It was never screened or distributed, but Anger has long bore its scars. Anger’s work has always been sharply self-critical and self-reflexive, and you can see commentary on the industry-perceived “failure” of making Always All Ways seep into her subsequent films, such as her polemical 2015 short My Last Film, which envisions a career-suicide note delivered via the film festival submission website Withoutabox. In 2018, frustrated by...