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In the 1981 book, “The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies,” film historian Vito Russo traces the history of queer representation in the movies. The book was adapted into a documentary of the same name in 1995 by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and was shown extensively on HBO.

At the beginning of the film, the situation looks perfect. An affectionate and good-looking couple lives in a beautifully styled home and shares a quick kiss.

The irony was not lost on Alice Englert – writer, director and star of the dark comedy Bad Behaviour – that her Sydney Film Festival premiere was taking place within the same program that featured a film retrospective devoted to her mother, Jane Campion. “It does feel kind of insane,” Englert told the Sydney Morning Herald of the festival’s family affair.

Emotions were running high on the red carpet at the premiere of Banel & Adama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy. It was completely understandable.

Bronwyn Cosgrave has the kind of credits every Instagram fashionista wants. The former Features Editor of British Vogue curated Designing 007 - with the Oscar-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming.

As announced by this headline-grabbing title, it would be an understatement to describe up-and-coming filmmaker Musa Alderson-Clarke as unhappy with former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who ran the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. In Alderson-Clarke’s protagonist Kaz (Shadrach Agozino), we meet a grieving man whose mother suffered from depression and who killed herself during the lockdown of the Covid pandemic, a tragedy that coincided with the time when Johnson himself was attending an office Christmas party.

Leah Meyerhoff takes us behind the curtain of Film Fatales, an art nonprofit that has been crucial for a more gender diverse equity presence in the entertainment business. For decades, the film industry has struggled with gender disparities and systemic biases that have limited opportunities for gender-marginalized creators.

In addition to its curated and prestigious world premieres, the Cannes Film Festival has a notoriously active marketplace, with producers and filmmakers from all over the world descending each year upon the Côte d’Azur to pitch their would-be projects and attempting to secure financing. In 1982, however, director Wim Wenders had a different aim.

Since our last story about Hollywood’s passion for art, there have been a lot of relevant updates. For instance, Sharon Stone recently had her very first solo gallery exhibition in Culver City, Los Angeles.

The documentary feature, Freedom is Beautiful, focuses on two remarkable Kurdish Iranian asylum seekers who are musicians, artists, poets and close friends. Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitibar were also freed within a month of each other, in 2020, after each having spent eight years locked up in brutal refugee camps on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and a Melbourne detention center run by the Australian Government.