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Avatar: The Way of Water remains number one in the box office in France. Directed by James Cameron with Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver.

Here are the 2023 Sundance Film Festival winners, as provided by the Sundance Institute:   GRAND JURY PRIZESThe U. S.

 Sally Field won a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a drama in 1980 for Norma Rae, directed by Martin Ritt, after having won Best Actress at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and before winning an Academy Award for that performance. She would win a second Golden Globe followed by an Oscar in 1985 for Places in the Heart by Robert Benton.

The Chapel, the new movie from Belgian director Dominique Deruddere, premiered this past Friday, January 27 as the opening film at the Ostend Film festival (FFO). The Chapel tells the story of a twenty-three-year-old virtuoso pianist, Jennifer Rogiers (Taeke Nicolaï).

Casual channel zapping lets you follow the labor pains of the music streamer Spotify (The Playlist), or lets you get into the conflicted mind of the “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski (Ted K), or lets you observe a boxer named Stuart Long changing his work clothes as he becomes a fighter for God (Father Stu), or lets you get a glimpse into the histrionic insularity of the British Royals (The Crown) and their offspring’s revelations (Harry & Meghan). Stories of real people’s lives and actual historical events are ubiquitous and it seems they are more numerous than ever.

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.