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Paris, May 1968, mass protests, street battles and nationwide strikes, a new revolution is on its way, this time, not only a political but social and cultural one.  Intellectuals, students and manual workers took the streets engulfing the country by a social upheaval.

This is Benedict Cumberbatch’s moment: Dr. Strange is on the big screen with Avengers: Infinity War (over $ 1 billion at the box office) and soon he'll be seen in a mind-blowing acting tour de force with Patrick Melrose, a five-episode limited series on Showtime.

HFPA journalist Michele Manelis met Antonio Banderas at Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s offices in West Hollywood.   In this in-depth interview, Banderas looks back to the beginning of his career as a theatre actor and tells why he feels that theatre was like a woman he abandoned.

HFPA Grantee In 1997 a group of Latino activists and cinema lovers living in Los Angeles realized that there was a lack of exposure of Latin American film and film culture within the community. In response, they began screening vintage Mexican films in L.

Showcasing films outside the mainstream and connecting indie filmmakers is part of the mission of the IndieLisboa International Film Festival, which held its 15th edition this year in Lisbon, Portugal. Nuno Sena, one of the three festival directors, is very happy how it went: “The most remarkable achievement of this year's festival was the increase in audience numbers.

And we're off…. Hours before the opening ceremony and the screening of Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish language Todos lo saben, starring the high voltage husband-and-wife team of Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, the Competition Jury press conference signaled the 71st Cannes Film Festival is officially underway.

The 71st Cannes Film Festival begins under the pressure from assorted and interesting forces: the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, which put women’s rights front and center in the entertainment industry; the clash between French distributors and streaming platforms, especially Netflix; and the growing disenchantment from major studios and independents with the cost, the length, the timing and the peculiarities of the festival. At a last-minute, unscheduled press conference on the eve of the festival, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux handed out #MeToo flyers to participants, announced a hotline – a phone number an email address – to allow attendees to reach out and denounce instances of harassment.

In a country whose film industry has rapidly – and firmly – established itself as one of the most dynamic in the world, it's no wonder that the Jeonju International Film Festival, which runs May 3 -12, is quickly finding an international – not just Asian – recognition. The festival takes place in the old town of Jeonju, one and a half hour fast-train ride south of the capital of Seoul, a much smaller town filled with traditional houses, restaurants, walkways, street food and young people often wearing the traditional Hanbok costume strolling its streets and parks.

Last week’s box office report was all about the dominance of Avengers: Infinity War, and the many records it won on its first outing. This week is about.

Golden Globe winner (forTrue Blood ) Anna Paquin is a fearless actress. Since she received the first of her five Golden Globe nominations at age 10, for her amazing portrayal of Flora, the little girl in director Jane Campion's The Piano, she always chose the most complicated or tortured characters to play.