This is Beirut, 08/09 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Vienna Opera Music Opening Culture Art
No dress code, no stiff atmosphere, and no entry fees: Thousands flocked to a Viennese park Sunday as the Vienna State Opera opened its 2025-26 season with a star-studded open-air gala concert for the first time. The free, open-air concert was the state opera's latest effort to «open the house to all – especially new listeners», it said in a ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Toronto International Film Festival Cinema Awards Canada Culture Art
Russell Crowe's nerve-shredding portrayal of a notorious Nazi on trial and Angelina Jolie's deeply personal dive into the world of French fashion led a busy Sunday of world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. Crowe's depiction of the second-ranking Nazi, Hermann Goering, in Nuremberg, as he plays a cat-and-mouse game with a psychiatrist (Rami ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
MTV Video Music Awards Music Adriana Grande Culture Art Winner
Ariana Grande won the MTV Video Music Awards' top honor on Sunday, taking home Video of the Year for Brighter Days Ahead, which also claimed Best Pop Song at the ceremony near New York City. Visibly emotional while accepting the evening's most prestigious award, the 32-year-old singer-songwriter and actor delivered an extended thank you to her ...
This is Beirut, 07/09 10:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Giorgio Armani Fashion Farewell Heritage Culture Art
Thousands of mourners paid homage Saturday to Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, who died this week aged 91, as his coffin was put on public display in Milan. Italian fashion icon Donatella Versace was among those who filed past Armani's closed casket at the headquarters of his multi-billion-euro lifestyle company, which marked its 50th ...
This is Beirut, 07/09 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Venice Film Festival Italy Cinema Culture Art Jim Jarmusch
At the end of a politically charged edition, the 82nd Venice Film Festival awarded its top prize on Saturday to Jim Jarmusch’s quiet, independent film about family, while giving a strong runner-up nod to The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania. To the audience’s surprise, Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother took home the coveted ...
Marie-Christine Tayah, 05/09 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fashion Anna Wintour Chloe Malle Culture Art Vogue
The fashion world had been buzzing for months. From New York to Paris, insiders speculated endlessly about who would succeed Anna Wintour, the legendary figure who shaped Vogue for nearly four decades. On Tuesday, the mystery was finally solved: Chloe Malle, current editor of Vogue.com, has been named head of editorial content for the magazine’s ...
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, 03/09 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paramount U.S. 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 ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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 ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Venice Film Festival Italy Cinema Culture Art Venice
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said Monday he had turned his heavily muscled back on action movie roles to be able to express himself as an actor in his latest film The Smashing Machine, which premiered in Venice. The 53-year-old was the day's star attraction at the Venice Film Festival — his first appearance at a European festival — where he mixed ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cinema Christopher Nolan Film Culture Art Spider-Man
Next summer looks set to be the summer of Tom Holland — and the famously boyish and ebullient star can hardly contain his excitement. First up will be Christopher Nolan's epic adaptation of The Odyssey, out mid-July. Holland plays Telemachus, the son of the saga's hero Odysseus and a key character in the Ancient Greek saga. "The script is the ...
This is Beirut, 01/09 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cinema Bollywood AI Art Culture Movies
Bollywood, famed for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and vast production crews, now finds itself confronting a new kind of spectacle: artificial intelligence. From altering iconic endings to generating entire films, AI is shaking up India's multibillion-dollar film industry, raising alarm for some, excitement for others. The debate first ...