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Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown and Eva Libertad’s Deaf are among the 12 films selected to play in competition at the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), taking place in Romania from June 13-22.

Films by first and second-time directors are in the running for the €10,000 Transilvania Trophy, while 10 works pushing the boundaries of the documentary form have been selected to screen for the top cash prize of €2,000 in the What’s Up Doc? Doc section.

In addition to the debut films from Danish-Palestinian director and Spain’s Libertad are Corsican filmmaker Julien Colonna’s The Kingdom, and second...

Robert Benton, who co-wrote movies such as Bonnie & Clyde and directed films such as Kramer Vs. Kramer and Places in the Heart, died at his home in Manhattan on Sunday at age 92. His passing was confirmed to the New York Times by Marisa Forzano, his assistant and manager.

Benton was born in during the Depression in Waxahachie, Texas, and many of his films echoed that milieu. In the early ’60s, he got a job at Esquire during the magazine’s golden age when it helped pioneer the New Journalism movement. It was also the prelude to the magazine’s great, high-concept covers.

Benton’s first screenplay was Bonnie and Clyde, co-written with David Newman, who would become a frequent collaborator. After becoming fascinated with the criminal couple’s Depression-era story, Benton and Newman decamped to the heartland to interview people who knew them and get a sense of what the film might be.

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Long gone are the days of romantic comedy movies dominating the worldwide box office. The vast majority of romcoms are consigned to an eternity on the streaming services, with no hope of making a real cultural impact. While the '90s and 2000s had Sleepless in Seattle, Something About Mary, and 50 First Dates staking their claim as box office giants, fans of the 2010s and 2020s are forced to excavate gems from streaming services and struggling theaters. Certain gems like Anyone But You, Crazy Rich Asians, or Midnight in Paris manage to break free of the "chick flick" label, but, for whatever reason, they are a dime a dozen. Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris,...

The 23rd edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival, kicked off Friday night with a sold-out screening of Dogman, the canine-focused revenge thriller by the French veteran Luc Besson, with Dogman co-star Jojo T. Gibbs in attendance.

Some 3,500 viewers backed Unirii Square in Cluj-Napoca for the start of the 11-day festival, which runs through June 24. The biggest film extravaganza in Romania, the festival is one of the premier events on the Eastern European industry calendar, with more than 200 films, exhibitions, concerts, talks and special events scheduled, and around 1,000 industry professionals expected.

Alongside Jojo T. Gibbs, most recently seen in Alex Garland’s Civil War, the TIFF guest list this year includes Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti (The Yes Man), who will be honored with the festival’s special award for contribution to world cinema; and Romanian film and theater legend Catrinel Dumitrescu (Aurora), who will receive the excellence award at the closing gala on June 22nd.

Longtime character actor M. Emmet Walsh has died at the age of 88. The actor, known for his roles in films like Knives Out, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Blade Runner, The Jerk, Romeo + Juliet, Ordinary People, and more, died of cardiac arrest on Tuesday, March 19. Walsh’s longtime manager, Sandy Joseph, said the actor died at Kerbs Memorial Hospital in St. Albans, Vermont, per Entertainment Tonight. Walsh had been a working actor in Hollywood since his first role in 1969’s Alice’s Restaurant. He racked up over 200 onscreen credits throughout his long career. He acted with some of the biggest names in the business, like Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (Walsh played Ford’s boss at the LAPD), Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in Romeo + Juliet (as the Apothecary who sold Romeo the poison), Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal (who died in December 2023) in What’s Up Doc?, Julia Roberts and...

M. Emmet Walsh, a legendary character actor known for roles in iconic films, passed away at 88 from cardiac arrest in Vermont hospital. Walsh's six-decade career featured standout performances in Coen Brothers' films, Blade Runner, Knives Out, and other beloved movies. A versatile actor, Walsh brought big energy to small parts, creating a long-lasting impact on the cinematic landscape.

M. Emmet Walsh died today, March 20th, 2024. The famous actor was 88 and suffered cardiac arrest, passing away at Kerbs Memorial Hospital in St. Albans, Vermont. It's the end of a six-decade-long career that has seen Walsh work with some of the most legendary directors of all time, and in some of the most important movies, too: Blade Runner, Blood Simple, Bound for Glory, Baretta — and those are just the ones starting with "B."

Walsh began his film career with two of the most important films of the countercultural 1960s, starring in Alice's Restaurant...

“Love Story” actor Ryan O’Neal died of “congestive heart failure,” according to his death certificate. The underlying cause was cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle. No other cause was listed.

The Blast reported the news Friday after obtaining the certificate issued by Los Angeles County.

O’Neal had been in ill health for some time. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012 and chronic leukemia in 2001. He died Dec. 8 at age 82.

His credits included an Oscar-nominated role in the 1970 film Love Story” and starred in two movies with Barbra Streisand (What’s Up Doc? and The Main Event).

He also starred in the comedy Paper Moon (1973) with his daughter Tatum O’Neal.

He also had a long run as a recurring character in the Fox crime drama Bones.

O’Neal is buried at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park near UCLA.

Car chases are iconographic staples of the action genre. Films like Bullitt, The French Connection, Terminator 2, and those in the Mad Max and Fast & Furious franchises have offered some of the most epic chase sequences in all of cinema, making fast cars and vehicular violence about as commonplace in action movies as guns and shootouts. Now and then, an occasional comedy will endorse the trope. What's Up Doc?, The Blues Brothers, and 21 Jump Street are just a small handful of notable films that offer such high speed laughs. The funniest of them all, however, actually dates back to cinema's earliest era, and at nearly a century old, its car chase remains unparalleled in terms of action-packed hilarity.

Exclusive: Hayley Atwell predicted that she’d be on strike now.

Late Wednesday night, we chatted about her captivating performance opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and of the globe-trotting promotional tour to tubthump the movie — is there a soul on this planet that isn’t aware of this film?! — that kicked off on the Spanish Steps in Rome four weeks ago, followed by a Cook’s tour of London, Abu Dhabi, Seoul, Sydney and New York.

Tokyo had been scheduled as the final stop, but the mission to Japan was junked once the actors strike was ratified Thursday.

“I’m in full support of it,’ Atwell declared of the SAG-AFTRA dispute.

”Making sure that people are properly compensated for their time and their talent and their skill; that’s really important.”

One major concern of the striking thespians is the emergence of AI,...

The Romanian film festival runs June 9-18.

Transilvania International Film Festival has announced the line-up for its 22nd edition which takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The official competition is made up of 12 features while the documentary strand, entitled What’s Up Doc?, will screen 10 titles. All of the films are from first and second-time directors.

Among the competition selection is Ion Bors’ Carbon which premiered in San Sebastian’s New Directors strand last year, having won the festival’s Wip Europa Industry and Wip Europa awards the previous year. The dark comedy, surrounding the Transnistrian conflict of the 1990s, is...