This is Beirut 04/09 17:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fashion Giorgio Armani Italy Culture Armani Privé
Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, king of a high-end lifestyle empire, has died at the age of 91 "surrounded by his loved ones", his company said Thursday. "With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder, and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani," it said in a statement. The ...
Marie-Christine Tayah 04/09 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venice Film Festival Fashion Cinema Italy Culture Art
In Venice, the magic of cinema meets the power of fashion. The 82nd Venice Film Festival reimagines its red carpet as a world stage where stars and designers join forces to celebrate glamour with a poetic twist. Over the decades, fashion has evolved far beyond personal expression, becoming a strategic tool and a symbolic language at the heart of ...
This is Beirut 04/09 13:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Film Festival Toronto Opening Canada Culture
Hollywood stars arrived in Toronto Thursday for a celebratory 50th edition of North America's biggest film festival, with new movies from Daniel Craig, Sydney Sweeney and Matthew McConaughey among a packed lineup. The Toronto International Film Festival dwarfs more famous rivals like Venice and Cannes for sheer scale, if not glitz and glamour, ...
This is Beirut 04/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film TV Saga Downton Abbey Britain Culture
The stars of Downton Abbey walked the red carpet in London Wednesday for one last time as the hugely successful English country house saga finally comes to an end. Many of the original cast, including Hugh Bonneville, a pregnant Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter and Phyllis Logan, turned out for the world premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale in ...
This is Beirut 03/09 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Film Jude Law The Wizard of the Kremlin Putin Russia Culture
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had not heard about The Wizard of the Kremlin, a film starring Jude Law as the Russian leader that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The film by French director Olivier Assayas is a look at Putin's career through the eyes of a fictional political advisor, Vadim Baranov, and is based on a ...
This is Beirut 03/09 21:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Film Festival Venice Italy Culture
With The Testament of Ann Lee, a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honor a figure "on the verge of being erased from memory". Lee, played by Amanda Seyfried in the film that premiered at Venice this week, was "one of the very first American ...
David Sahyoun 03/09 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Feminine Desire Mental Load Symptom
In contemporary discourse, “mental load” refers to the invisible burden carried largely by women. It is the ongoing effort of planning, monitoring, remembering and worrying on behalf of others. Many describe it as a weight that never leaves the mind. From a psychoanalytic perspective, this phenomenon goes beyond domestic imbalance. Mental ...
This is Beirut 03/09 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Festival Venice Albert Camus François Ozon Italy Culture
The premiere of The Stranger at this year's Venice Film Festival brings to the screen one of the world's most read novels, penned by French author Albert Camus, a star in his day and now. Winner of the Nobel prize three years before his tragic death in 1960 at the age of 46, Camus has found new admirers in younger generations who love to quote ...
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Nawaf Salam Paramount Movies Cinema Culture Art
Paramount, the Hollywood studio recently acquired by the software billionaire Ellison family, will make a movie based on the wildly popular Call of Duty video games, it announced Tuesday. Scion David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, assumed control of Paramount last month and is overseeing a major effort to revitalize the storied but ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 02/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Marilyn Monroe Chanel Perfume Legend
It all began in 1952, when Monroe, then at the height of her Hollywood fame, gave an interview to Life Magazine. Asked what she wore to sleep, the star replied softly with an ambiguous smile: “I wear nothing but a few drops of Chanel No. 5.” What sounded like an intimate confession quickly became one of the most famous quotes of the 20th ...
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Film Depardieu Trial France Culture
The youngest son of the legendary French actor Alain Delon is seeking to annul his final will, in a renewal of a bitter family dispute just over a year after the screen icon's death, the executor said. Alain-Fabien Delon is going to court in a bid to cancel the will, with a first hearing in March 2026, deeming it too favorable to Alain Delon's ...
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Cinema Venice Film Festival Italy Culture Art Movie
The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Kathryn Bigelow, is back at the Venice Film Festival Tuesday with a new White House thriller that Netflix hopes will find Oscar glory. The highly anticipated A House of Dynamite from the American director is one of 21 films competing for the top Golden Lion prize for best film on Saturday ...