Carine Tardieu’s family drama The Ties That Bind Us, based on Alice Ferney’s novel L’Intimité, beat out Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague to take best film at the 51st César awards, France’s…
Read more French Family Drama ‘The Ties That Bind Us’ Beats Linklater’s ‘Nouvelle Vague’ at France’s Cesar Awards (Full Winners List)BAFTA-winning Glaswegian writer-director Lynne Ramsay will receive the Cinema City Honorary Award at the Glasgow Film Festival. She will get the honor on March 6 at a special…
Read more Lynne Ramsay to Receive Cinema City Honorary Award at Glasgow Film FestivalJohn Davidson, the Tourette’s campaigner at the center of the BAFTA Film Awards backlash, has released a statement after shouting a racial slur at presenters Michael B. Jordan…
Read more Tourette’s Campaigner John Davidson Says He Is “Deeply Mortified” If Anyone Considers “Involuntary Tics to Be Intentional” After BAFTA BacklashNetflix‘s KPop Demon Hunters singing voice stars took the stage at the BAFTA Film Awards in London on Sunday evening, getting a game crowd grooving. In their first-ever…
Read more ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Singing Voice Stars Get BAFTA Awards Grooving With “Golden”Gracie Abrams and Paul Mescal. Getty Images for BAFTA After three awards shows, all in Los Angeles, Hollywood’s A-list is heading across the pond. Yes, it’s time for…
Read more All the Most Exciting Fashion on the 2026 BAFTAs Red CarpetSad Girlz (Chicas Tristes), the feature debut of Mexican writer-director Fernanda Tovar, has won the Crystal Bear for best film in the Generation 14plus section of the Berlin…
Read more ‘Sad Girlz’ Wins Berlin Generation Crystal BearHours after the Supreme Court struck down many of President Donald Trump’s far-reaching tariffs in a 6-3 decision, the president said Friday he plans to sign an excecutive order…
Read more Trump says he’ll enact additional 10% tariff after Supreme Court decisionOscar-nominated Iranian director Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident) used a rare public appearance at the Berlin Film Festival to denounce what he described as an “unbelievable…
Read more Jafar Panahi and Independent Iranian Directors Decry State Violence“A double take on a world gone mad.” That’s how CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, described its 2026 edition as it unveiled the full program for its 23rd edition…
Read more Juliette Binoche Set for CPH:DOX as Copenhagen Doc Fest Unveils Full Program, “A Double Take on a World Gone Mad”The Berlinale has always worn its politics proudly. Conceived in 1950 by American film officer Oscar Martay as a cultural bulwark in a divided city, the festival was…
Read more Politics Take Center Stage at the Berlinale as Social Media Backlash LoomsRahaal unfolded across three pavilions (an exhibition space, a salon and a library) in the historic nature reserve of Zekreet, Qatar, just miles from Richard Serra’s monumental East–West/West–East.…
Read more In Qatar’s Zekreet Desert, Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani Welcomes AllMILAN — For a while now, Jordan Stolz’s talent and dominance as a speedskater, and his much-anticipated potential for Olympic success, prompted many to repeatedly mention his name…
Read more Jordan Stolz wins second speedskating gold of OlympicsWASHINGTON — The U.S. military on Saturday reported a series of strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria in retaliation for the December ambush that killed two…
Read more U.S. military reports series of strikes against Islamic State targets in SyriaAsk any Spaniard you know, and they’ll tell you the same thing: The country has its own version of the Oscars, and they’re called the Goya Awards. Consider…
Read more Basque Cinema Gets Its Goyas MomentUnder Francesco Bonami’s direction, By Art Matters has embraced a curatorial model that favors instinct, experimentation and intellectual risk. Photo: Qingshan Wu, courtesy of By Art Matters Late…
Read more Francesco Bonami’s Case Against Trend-Chasing in the Museum BusinessFor those gray, dreary Berlin February days, the Berlinale this year is offering a colorful fever dream of a cinematic antidote courtesy of Pakistan. After all, writer-director Sarmad…
Read more ‘Lali’ Is a Proudly Pakistani and Colorful Film at Berlin, But Dissects a Universal Institution, MarriageFor her latest drama Only Rebels Win, Lebanese-French writer-director Danielle Arbid (Simple Passion, Parisienne, A Lost Man) dusts off an old filmmaking technique, rear projection, in order to…
Read more ‘Only Rebels Win’ Review: Hiam Abbass Brings Her Trademark Elegance to a Familiar May-December RomanceInternational independent production company and financier Gold Rush Pictures (GRP) is ramping up its European presence with the opening of a new office in Germany, and has appointed…
Read more ‘Rosebush Pruning’ Producer Gold Rush Pictures Opens German Office, Taps Feo Aladag as Director (Exclusive)Installation view: “Nothing Still About Still Lifes” at the Deji Art Museum in Nanjing, China. Courtesy of the Deji Art Museum Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer…
Read more One Fine Show: “Nothing Still About Still Lifes” at the Deji Art MuseumWASHINGTON — A key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans has been taken into custody and will…
Read more Key participant in 2012 Benghazi attack is in custody, Bondi says