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Director Alfred Hitchcock considered Shadow of a Doubt his finest film and confirmed it many times in interviews with François Truffaut, Mike Douglas and Dick Cavett. In Laurent Bouzereau’s 2000 documentary Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film, Hitchcock’s daughter, Patricia, says the reason is that “he loved bringing the menace into a small town, into a family that never had any bad things happen to them.

The Chinese box office has rebounded with a bang as moviegoers thronged cinemas during the Lunar New Year holiday week which started last Sunday with its plethora of new releases and the lifting of Covid restrictions. According to the business website China Briefing, quoting data from Dengta Database which tracks box office sales in real-time, the sales for January 21-27, including presales, reached 6.

Tom Cruise is famous enough for running in films that it’s sparked memes, YouTube supercuts, and a good-natured embrace from the actor himself on social media. Until one watches Still: A Michael J.

“In Short We Trust”: might seem provocative to some, but for Alessandro Loprieno, founder and CEO of the first worldwide distribution platform dedicated solely to shorts, there is nothing truer… and interest from the Sundance Film Festival, with its known attention to the short form, whether it be fiction or not, proves it.   WeShort, the company founded only two years ago in the Southern region of Puglia, Italy, is now an official partner of the Sundance Institute.

This Sundance Film Festival was my first time Sundancing (as the cooler regulars definitely DO NOT call it) and I had a few realizations and knee-jerk reactions to the experience. First and foremost, it’s cold — like really, really cold in Park City, and it never seemed to stop snowing.

First there was natural conception. Then medicine discovered artificial insemination.

Childhood innocence is a beautiful thing that should be sought to be reasonably protected. But too often, both within families and on a macro level, a mistake is made in thinking that the best way to achieve this is through sheer avoidance rather than engagement.

How does a yoga school morph into a political movement, and eventually a doomsday cult responsible for a terrorist nerve gas attack? That’s the darkly fascinating transformation put under the microscope by AUM: The Cult at the End of the World, a world premiere and U. S.

Elle Márjá Eira is an artist-composer-producer-director from Kautokeino, northern Norway, who is preparing to release her debut feature, Stolen, adapted from the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by author Ann-Helén Laestadius. Based on actual events, Stolen is a coming-of-age story told from the perspective of a young Sámi girl who struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd while grappling with xenophobic issues that face her culture.

For some, the first thing that comes to mind about film festivals and their award galas is the glamour of the red carpet, the festive atmosphere or the love for cinema that binds the majority of the festival goers. It is precisely this love for film that rewards people who look for something that goes beyond the glittering events.