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Before there was Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film, Barbie – starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling – there was Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour, the cult classic documentary directed by journalist Susan Stern. To mark the 25th anniversary of that iconic film, an enhanced Director’s Cut will make its online debut on June 27.

While celebrated for over 150 years in some Black American communities, Juneteenth is a relatively new holiday for “mainstream” America. Juneteenth (the holiday's name is a combination of the words "June" and "nineteenth"), or Freedom Day, marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger and Union Army troops marched to Galveston, Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Black Americans in Texas—over two years after the Proclamation had been issued.

The Flash opened in China on Friday, day and date with North America, with about 300 advance screenings on Tuesday and Wednesday. It premiered in Beijing on June 11 with fans arriving dressed as the characters in the film – Batman, The Flash and Supergirl – which contributed to the festive atmosphere, according to China Daily.

In a film criticism jest many wonder whether Nanni Moretti's latest film, Il sol dell’avvenire (A Brighter Tomorrow), is the result of an AI-generated script made out of every single film the Italian writer/director/actor has made since the '70s. Or, maybe, it's a sort of an artistic testament through which Nanni Moretti, who will turn 70 on August 19th (he was born in Rome in 1953), intends to say farewell to cinema.

“I decided to embody their cruel name for me, flipping the insult on its head. Little by little, I became the dark horse, literally and figuratively.

Nouvelle semaine et nouveau numéro 1 au box-office français. Le public de l’hexagone s’est rué dans les salles pour découvrir Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

There are famous people, stars, icons.  But once in a lifetime, a person leaves behind a historical trail where the person herself and the legacy she built are one.

Two newly released documentaries, each rooted in home video footage from the early 2000s, illustrate the manner in which personally documented memories can be used in a foundational way to craft nonfiction films that plumb universally relatable themes. While their specific narratives diverge, Anonymous Sister and Sam Now each unpack incredibly engaging and affecting stories of family trauma — and the scars that can develop from secrets closely held, and conversations not had.

Before the word “gay” took roots in our daily life – and before we began to see movies featuring women, men and all variations of the word “gender” in all kinds of styles – the powerful engine of the industry of visual entertainment was often driven by filmmakers who, even at the dawn of Hollywood, were themselves gay. The word was mentioned rarely and only in private, but the entertainment machine was constantly affected by smart and daring gay filmmakers, creating hit pictures and beginning significant conversations between the story on the screen and the audience in the dark.

Zerocalcare is the pen name of Italian cartoonist Michel Rech. His second animated series This World Won't Make Me Evil started streaming on Netflix on June 9, 2023, in the United States and 190 countries around the world, following his successful first series Tear Along the Dotted Line, which debuted internationally on November 17, 2021, after its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on October 17.