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Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projectsLaurent Cantet, the award-winning film-maker whose creations tackled some of the most complex issues of modern French society, including meritocracy, the education system, diversity and class struggle, has died aged 63 after an illness.Cantet was best known outside France for his film Entre les Murs (The Class), which...

Actors Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams – who improvised most of horror film’s dialogue – claim they didn’t have proper union representation in 1999 and seek residualsThe stars of The Blair Witch Project have called for more compensation for their work in the original film, as well as “meaningful consultation” on any reboots and sequels, after it was announced that the horror...

Two men from Bishnoi gang, whose leader has threatened to kill Salman Khan, arrested over Mumbai shootingTwo members of a criminal gang have been arrested by Indian police for firing at the home of the Bollywood actor Salman Khan in retaliation for the star’s killing of two antelopes.The Bishnoi gang, accused of several murders and extortion rackets, hails from a wider desert-based religious sect...

Star Wars actor says he believes actors should be free to ‘do anything you want to do’, in a discussion about Laurence Olivier’s performance in OthelloBilly Dee Williams has said that actors should be able to perform in blackface, with the Star Wars actor revealing that he believes, “If you’re an actor, you should do anything you want to do”.Speaking to Bill Maher on...

The 88-year-old director says he is ‘on the fence’ about making another film due to the work needed to get distribution and financial backingWoody Allen has once again hinted at his retirement from film-making, saying that he is “on the fence” about making another film after the US release of his latest, Coup de Chance.In an interview with Air Mail, the 88-year-old director was...

Character actor, who appeared in more than 220 roles across seven decades, died in Vermont on TuesdayM Emmet Walsh, the character actor who appeared in more than 220 film and television roles including Blade Runner, Knives Out and the Coen brothers’ films Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, has died aged 88.Walsh’s manager, Sandy Joseph, confirmed to the industry publication Variety that he had died...

The adult film star – at center of hush-money payments in run-up to 2016 election – is featured in the new documentary StormyStormy Daniels, the adult movie star who received hush-money payments at the center of one of Donald Trump’s pending criminal cases, says she is “so tired” as she confronts the prospect of testifying against the former president, whose supporters have flooded her...

Actor’s lawyers call the charge ‘an abuse of the system’ and accuse prosecutors of ‘violating nearly every rule in the book’ ahead of July trialAlec Baldwin’s lawyers have asked a judge to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor, accusing prosecutors of “violating nearly every rule in the book” in acquiring the indictment.Among the claims, it is alleged the state prosecutors violated court...

The double Oscar winner’s film A Hero won the grand prix at Cannes in 2021 but was the subject of an alleged copyright infringement brought by a former studentIranian director Asghar Farhadi has been cleared of charges of plagiarism over his film A Hero brought by one of his students, the agency representing him said on Wednesday.The film, about a prisoner in the Iranian...

From Billie to Barbie and Pacino to the pins, here’s where to get up to speed with the winners, the losers, the talking points and the dud momentsJust want to know who won? Here’s our list of winners and all those nominated, or you can relive every minute of the ceremony in our live blog. Continue reading...

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster picked up seven awards while Poor Things star won over Lily Gladstone for best actressThe winners – full listHow the night unfoldedThe night’s real winners and losers Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer has triumphed at this year’s Oscars taking home seven awards including best picture, best actor and best director.The drama, telling the story of the “father of the atomic bomb”,...

Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect DaysJapan’s hi-tech toilets have long fascinated visitors who rave about their heated seats, bidet function, automatic flushing, and even background noises to mask the unwelcome sounds that can accompany the call of nature.Now, international interest in the country’s public conveniences is surging thanks to the German director Wim Wenders, whose...

The film-maker, who won the Palme d’Or for 1977’s Padre Padrone, was a towering presence for more than three decades, creating politically engaged works with his brother VittorioThe Italian film-maker Paolo Taviani, whose gritty biopic Padre Padrone won top prize at the Cannes film festival, has died aged 92, Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, said on Thursday.For more than three decades Taviani and his brother...

Firearms expert says he sees no evidence gun was broken, despite actor’s claim it went off without his pulling the triggerCourtroom testimony by an independent gun expert on Tuesday cast new doubt on Alec Baldwin’s account that his gun went off without his pulling the trigger in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer during a 2021 rehearsal on the set of the western movie...

Christopher Nolan’s historical epic picked up three major acting awards while The Bear and Succession shared the big TV winsChristopher Nolan’s hit biopic Oppenheimer has dominated this year’s Screen Actors Guild awards.The cast of the biographical epic won for best ensemble, ahead of Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon. Cillian Murphy picked up male actor in a leading role, which was also contested...

Jury president Lupita Nyong’o and colleagues were involved in a heated press conference opening a film festival with a history of political engagementThe most political of the big international film festivals is bracing for an even more “spicy” edition than usual, Berlinale jury president Lupita Nyong’o said, as geopolitical tensions bubbled to the surface during the opening press conference.Berlin traditionally prides itself on its...

Even Though it’s Night, which chronicles the conditions of Europe’s largest shantytown, Cañada Real, in running for a Goya A short film that chronicles the lives of the forgotten, deprived and marginalised children who live in Europe’s largest shantytown, just outside Madrid, is in the running for Spain’s equivalent of an Oscar at the Goya awards on Saturday.Aunque es de noche (Even Though it’s...

French actor alleges arthouse film-maker Benoît Jacquot groomed her when she was 14 and he was 39French prosecutors have opened a rape inquiry after the actor Judith Godrèche filed a complaint against the arthouse film director Benoît Jacquot, who she says groomed her when she was 14 and he was 39.A formal complaint was filed against Jacquot, 77, for the alleged rape of a...

Announcing her untitled book, set to be published in 2025, Emma Heming Willis recalls having ‘close to no resources or support’ after her husband’s diagnosisBruce Willis’ wife Emma Heming Willis is set to publish a book about her experience as a caregiver to her husband after he was disagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.The untitled book, which will be published in 2025 by Maria Shriver’s publishing...

Pair are rumored to be reuniting for 70s-set drama The Movie Critic after last working together in Once Upon a Time in HollywoodBrad Pitt is reportedly starring in Quentin Tarantino’s final film The Movie Critic, according to a Deadline report.The pair previously worked together in 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with the role bringing Pitt his first Oscar for best supporting actor....

The artist once known as Jenny from the block is spearheading an animated feature about a Latino construction worker voiced by Anthony RamosMove over Barbie: the latest Mattel property set for cultural domination has been unveiled as Bob the Builder, the chirpy construction worker who debuted 25 years ago on CBBC and is being belatedly brought to the big screen by booty-shaking multi-hyphenate Jennifer...

Films include a sci-fi about a man who rents out his dead wife’s body and a documentary about a hippo owned by Pablo EscobarColombian cocaine hippos, a Star Wars parody set in northern France and an unlikely father-daughter pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham all feature in an eclectic lineup at this year’s Berlin film festival, which was unveiled on Monday.The 74th edition...

The reclusive fitness instructor, who was a household name in the 80s, says he is not involved in new biopic starring comedian Pauly ShoreFormer fitness guru Richard Simmons, who has withdrawn from public life in recent years, has spoken out against a new biopic, saying in a rare statement that: “I have never given my permission for this movie.”The as yet unnamed film was...

June Givanni founded London archive documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 yearsA pioneering curator, writer and programmer of African film is to receive Bafta’s outstanding British contribution to cinema award.June Givanni is the founder of a London archive that has amassed more than 10,000 items – including films, ephemera, manuscripts, audio, photography and posters – documenting Pan-African cinema over 40 years. Continue reading...