Actor-director and Flushing native John Favreau will be awarded an honorary doctorate at Queens College’s 99th commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 1.
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Actor-director and Flushing native John Favreau will be awarded an honorary doctorate at Queens College’s 99th commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 1.
Queens College
Abu Aleeha has become a massive part of Pakistan’s movie scene with multiple releases in a year’s time. Abu Aleeha’s “Kukri” and “Taxali” are next in the line of upcoming films but the director is also set to work on “Mango Jutt” – a Punjabi comedy film.
In an exclusive conversation the writer-cum-director gave audiences an insight to his next project. “Two Punjabi films has been offered to
BELIZE CITY, BELIZE, May 29, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — FILMBELIZE is proud to announce an unprecedented agreement that will change the landscape of the media and entertainment sector in Belize. Today’s agreement with Main Man Films LLC (a global content creation company) and WMGW (an independent international music distribution company) will result in tremendous development and promotion while growing the film/music industry in Belize.
May 2023) Hong Kong Arts Centre is proud to present Women Direct. Korean Indies! Korean Women Independent Film Series Series. This popular moving image programme of ours will take place at the Louis Koo Cinema of the Hong Kong Arts Centre from 29 June and 13 August 2023 , and will showcase the works of Korean women indies. Ticket s are available today on popticket.hk
Co-presented by the Hong
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar won best actress at the Cannes Film Festival on May 27 for her role in “About Dry Grasses,” the latest film from festival favorite, Türkiye’s acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Dizdar said she played “someone who is fighting for her life and she has overcome a lot of difficulties.”
The character I portray in the film is someone who is fighting for her life and she’s overcome a
This week was ripe with newly-released theatrical exclusive films, with the biggest winner being Disney’s remake of The Little Mermaid. While the film received mixed reviews among critics, Disney remakes have (mostly) been critic-proof, and the movie made $95.5 million during the weekend. It will be on track to make over $120 million over the four-day Memorial Day weekend. If this happens, it will be in the top three highest-grossing Memorial Day releases of all time!
We’ll see how much it drops for the second weekend, but the movie could end up being the second 2023 release to
Ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy recently premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival and received a seven-minute standing ovation at the Grand Lumiere Theatre. The film premiered during the midnight screening at the Cannes 2023 and was amongst the only two films from India this year to be the official selections at the festival this year.
Kashyap’s recent interviews have attracted a lot of attention, but his latest conversation with Hindustan Times is currently the talk of the town. This is because he has now spoken about the controversial film, The Kerala Story, after previously opposing the call for
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When I received the invite to be on the Jury of the Cannes Film Festival’s 62nd Semaine de la Critique/Critics’ Week, I felt a delirious rush. The Semaine is an autonomous event within the overall Cannes Film Festival, along with the Quinzaine des Cineastes. Even lovelier: I didn’t know anyone there, not even its Artistic Director Ava Cahen, so either they had been following my work, or it was a third party recommendation, the nicest way possible. It
Westport, CT – The Westport Weston Family YMCA (WWFY) will present a free-of-charge screening of “Below Surface” at Westport Country Playhouse on Friday, June 9, at 7 p.m. The award-winning, 19-minute documentary short, filmed in and around the WWFY’s pool, reveals the healing power of community through an unlikely subject—a YMCA Aquafit class.A panel discussion will follow the film with Patty Kondub, WWFY veteran AquaFitness instructor; Mary Lake Polan, “Below Surface” executive producer; and Judith Bookbinder, “Below Surface” producer; moderated by Tracey Knight Narang, Tony Award-winning producer and a playwright.
Admission is free by
Bae Suzy is a lot of things. She’s a singer, who started out as a member of the girl group Miss A. She then launched an acting career, starring in projects like Anna, Vagabond, and Start-Up. Suzy recently enjoyed a pool day, and shared a new video on Instagram. In it, she swam underwater. Suzy captioned the video, “The salty pool air, the wind blowing in my face. A perfect day to be at the pool.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Bae Suzy stays in shape and the photos that prove
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The owner of the Palo Alto Square business park is heading for a legal showdown with the city over its plan to convert the movie theater that once housed CinéArts into an office building.
Attorneys for the property owner, Hudson Pacific Properties, notified the city earlier this month that they believe the owner has a “vested right” to convert the theater building, known as Building 6, of the business park into an office building.
As such, they are disputing a determination by Palo Alto’s planning staff that the proposed conversion represents an amendment to the “planned community” zoning that
However the rise of digital technology in the 21st Century, resulting in filmmaking becoming cheaper, has led to a revival of independent Indian cinema in recent years, with filmmakers such as Shonali Bose and Anurag Kashyap rising to prominence. As censorship has relaxed, the topics being tackled have broadened, with films looking at troubling political histories and social causes such as LGBTQ rights. These films have found audiences at festivals such as Berlin and Cannes. Kashyap’s latest film, the neo-noir Kennedy, purporting to be based on real-life police corruption in India, is playing in the Midnight Section of the Cannes Film Festival, a section that
