This is Beirut, 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Art AI Culture Animation Miyazaki
Artificial intelligence might take over some of the work done by Japanese animation artists, but it will never match the brilliance of Hayao Miyazaki — the creative soul of Studio Ghibli — according to his son Goro, speaking to AFP. After the release of the latest ChatGPT version (GPT-4o), the internet was flooded with AI-generated images and ...
David Sahyoun, 02/04 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Lebanon Psychoanalysis Trauma Parents Teachers Culture
Lebanon has been entrenched in a protracted, multifaceted structural crisis, compounded by prolonged security instability, regional conflicts, political tensions and sporadic outbreaks of violence. These factors have fostered an environment of uncertainty and anxiety. The war that erupted in 2023 has layered additional trauma and disruption, ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 02/04 14:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Cinema Val Kilmer Culture Art Actor
American actor Val Kilmer has died at the age of 65 from complications of pneumonia, as confirmed by his daughter Mercedes Kilmer to The New York Times. The actor, whose career saw soaring highs and difficult lows, had been battling the long-term effects of throat cancer since 2014, which left him without his voice but never without his artistic ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 01/04 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Theater Paris France Culture Art
Joan of Arc died at the stake after being convicted of heresy. At just 13, she claimed to hear divine voices that gave her the mission to drive the English out of France. She went on to liberate the city of Orléans and paved the way for Charles VII to be recognized as the legitimate King of France. Nearly six centuries after her death, Joan’s ...
This is Beirut, 01/04 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cinema Movie Film Beatles Culture Art
Sam Mendes will release four movies about The Beatles in the same month, the director announced Monday, with Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney and Barry Keoghan portraying Ringo Starr in "the first bingeable theatrical experience." The "four-film cinematic event," hitting theaters in April 2028, will each focus on a different member of the ...
This is Beirut, 31/03 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
This was meant to be the year the movies bounced back. Yet, as the CinemaCon trade convention kicks off Monday in Las Vegas, theater owners are hoping and praying for signs that 2025 is back on track. The box office has endured a terrible start, reeling from high-profile flops like Disney’s live-action Snow White, superhero sequel Captain ...
This is Beirut, 31/03 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
MGM's new thriller A Working Man, with Jason Statham, emerged atop a flock of new films this weekend in North America, earning an estimated $15.2 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The action film, from Suicide Squad director David Ayer, features Statham as a military veteran who comes out of retirement to seek the ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 30/03 18:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Paris Photography Robert Bared Art Culture
There are moments that alter the course of a life—brief instants that crystallize an artistic calling. For Robert Bared, it was a summer storm beneath the canopy of the Luxembourg Gardens, some 20 years ago. A Proustian moment in the truest sense—not rooted in childhood, but in its power to set in motion an unrelenting artistic ...
This is Beirut, 30/03 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Festival Photography Culture Art
Irreverent, whimsical, or eccentric—this year’s La Gacilly Photo Festival, now in its 22nd edition, is shining a spotlight on the "offbeat eye" of British photographers. Starting June 1st, the picturesque village in Brittany’s Morbihan region will transform into an open-air gallery. Around 700 photos, some displayed in massive outdoor ...
This is Beirut, 30/03 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Concert France Algeria Berlin Music Culture
She is one of the artists who best embodies the deep bond—and tensions—between France and Algeria. Souad Massi says she feels "sad" about the current diplomatic crisis between the two countries, which, according to her, "should talk things through like a couple," as she told AFP in an interview. Performing at the Berlin Philharmonie on ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 29/03 17:30 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
Paris Rain Photography RobertBared Culture
Paris, the City of Light, is never more captivating than when draped in rain. The streetlamps transform into liquid stars, passersby become dancing silhouettes, and the asphalt becomes a mirror, reflecting and multiplying the world. This is the universe that Robert Bared, a Lebanese-born photographer who has called Paris home since 1975, has ...
This is Beirut, 29/03 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cinema Series TV Actress Art Culture
"Mad Men opened so many doors for me and is still a part of my life," says actress Christina Hendricks, a decade after the end of the award-winning series that redefined television while dissecting 1960s America. Now 49, the red-haired actress became a household name for her role as Joan, the head secretary of a New York ad agency, whom she ...