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Film Robert Redford Icon US Culture Cinema
US screen legend Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday, aged 89, was one of the most successful stars of his generation as well as an Oscar-winning director. Here are some of his most famous films: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Redford formed one of Hollywood's greatest double acts with Paul Newman in his breakthrough film, a hippy ...
This is Beirut, 15/09 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Culture Cinema Art Film Demon Slayer Japan
The latest entry in Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer anime film series took first place in the North American box office this weekend with a genre-record $70 million debut, industry estimates showed Sunday. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba -- Infinity Castle: Part 1, the first title in a new trilogy based on the popular manga series, opened to the top ...
This is Beirut, 12/09 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Emmy Awards TV Film Drama Culture Art
The Emmy Awards, television's equivalent of the Oscars, will take place this Sunday, and pundits say the race for the highly coveted best drama series prize is too close to call. Apple TV+'s sci-fi office thriller Severance and HBO medical procedural The Pitt go head-to-head in the night's most prestigious category, while Hollywood satire The ...
This is Beirut, 10/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Colin Farrell Cinema Film Culture Art Toronto International Film Festival
Colin Farrell plunges into an intoxicating fever dream among the high-stakes baccarat tables of Macau casinos with Ballad of a Small Player, a rare major Western film shot on location in Asia's gambling capital. The surreal, dark and twisty drama co-stars Tilda Swinton as an investigator in pursuit of Farrell's velvet-suited conman and gambling ...
This is Beirut, 05/09 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film Venice Festival Armani Fashion Tribute Italy Culture
For decades, the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival was one of Giorgio Armani's most high-profile catwalks, with the stars of cinema donning his elegant creations for the eyes of the world. With the death on Thursday, at age 91, of Italy's most famous fashion designer, the prestigious festival on the sandy Lido closes a long chapter, ...
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)
Film Festival Venice Italy US 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 ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
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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Film Depardieu Trial France Culture
A French investigating judge has ordered cinema icon Gerard Depardieu to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting actor Charlotte Arnould in 2018, sources close to the case and a lawyer said Tuesday. The decision came after a Paris court handed Depardieu an 18-month suspended sentence in a separate case in May after convicting him ...
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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 ...