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It’s a ‘Mini-on’ miracle: No one can quite explain how it happened, but the yellow rascals are back on top. And that is not the only rise of an “old” movie.

The win was rare and certainly unexpected: Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed walked away with the top honor of the 79th Venice Film Festival. Only one documentary won Mostra's highest award before, Gianfranco Rosi’s Sacro Gra in 2013.

Helen Mirren won a Golden Globe in 2006 as Best Actress in a drama for The Queen directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Peter Morgan with Michael Sheen playing Prime Minister Tony Blair. When Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, the British actress wrote on her Instagram: "We mourn a woman, who, with or without the crown, was the epitome of nobility.

A new film, Hero (also known as Her Story), opened this weekend in China at No. 2 on Friday, ending at No.

The films, the stars, the crowds, the awards. The world’s oldest film festival proved in its 79th edition that the global film industry is back as the entire 11 days felt post-pandemic.

Walter Hill once said that he considers all of his films to be westerns, even modern-day thrillers such as Red Heat or Bullet to the Head. “If you look closely, you can see western touches, such as revolvers, Winchester rifles and cowboy hats,” he said.

In the 1970s, Italian film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), a police chief kills his kinky mistress while they are making love, then leaves clues of his guilt, daring his colleagues to charge him with the crime. Gian Maria Volontè, in his most famous role as the nameless chief of the homicide division of Rome’s police force, is a charismatic sociopath driven to crack down on the anarchists participating in the riots roiling Rome.

As the Venice Film Festival, now in its 90th year since its founding and its 79th installment, heads into its conclusion amidst films and many celebrities, theaters have been experiencing a rather unimpressive week. The first weekend of September, with cities once again bustling with students and workers, saw a slight drop in revenue compared to last week (-8 percent), although compared to 2021, a +7 percent holds steady.

The opening night film at TIFF, The Swimmers, is a soaring epic that dramatizes the true story of Yusra and Sarah Mardini, two sisters who left their home in war-torn Syria for a new life in Europe and a chance to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics.   At the red-carpet premiere in Toronto, audiences were enthusiastic to welcome, not just the cast – including twin sisters Manal and Nathalie Issa who played the Mardini sisters, and German actor Matthias Schweighöfer, who played their European Olympic swim coach, Sven Spannekrebs – but also to hear from their real-life counterparts, who spoke to press the following morning about the surreal experience of having a movie made about one’s own life.

The movie La dégustation is the new number 1 at the box office. Directed by Ivan Calbérac with Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, and Mounir Amamra, the movie is about a divorced man who runs a small winery on the verge of bankruptcy.