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Director David Schurmman had a very unusual upbringing: born in Brazil, he graduated college in New Zealand and, between one landmark and the other, spent most of his life on a boat, crossing the Earth’s oceans with his family. Little Secret, his first feature film after a career in TV and documentaries, showcases this very special point of view and beyond: it is, in essence, the story of his family.

Joan Blondell, two times Golden Globe nominee, will be celebrated in a five-week series of screenings, with 14 of her movies being shown at the Billy Wilder Theater of the Hammer Museum in Westwood, Los Angeles, starting om Friday, November 4.   The movies were restored by the University of California Los Angeles Film Archives, one of the leading film restoration institutions in the world, and a frequent recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's restoration grants.

As Afterimage's credits start to roll, the inevitable becomes a reality: this is the last time we will see Andrzej Wajda's name on a new film. His final cinematic outing could not be a more beautiful and courageous artistic statement, though, which makes it a little more bearable.

Golden Globe winner Pedro Almodóvar returns to explore the theme of women in Julieta, his 20th feature film. But this time the way in which the Spanish director faces his subject is quite a departure from his earlier work.

Meryl Streep is the recipient of the Cecil B. deMille Award of the 74th Golden Globes.

 “The scalding story of a moral trespass!”   That is certainly an intriguing tagline on a movie poster. And in April 1960, titillated audiences could check out for themselves what is was all about by buying a ticket to Private Property, the directorial debut of Leslie Stevens, a one time protégé of Orson Welles and playwright.

In The Ardennes Brothers Dave and Kenneth are reunited on Kenneth’s release, after four years in prison following a failed home invasion. While Kenneth is anxious to dive headfirst into the drug-centered existence that ensnared him in the first place, both Dave and Kenneth’s former girlfriend Sylvie have adopted clean lifestyles.

Actress Jacqueline Fernandez was the host of  the 18th Jio Mami – Mumbai Film Festival’s opening ceremony, held at the Royal Opera House, India's only surviving opera house, a newly restored auditorium with three tiers has 574 seats, full with Bollywood celebrities like Aamir Khan, Jaya Bachchan, Kalki Koechlin, Anurag Kashyap, Shyam Benegal and Huma Qureshi among others. Khan took the stage to present the International Excellence in Cinema Award to Chinese film director and screenwriter Jia Zhangke, Bachchan presented the award for Indian Excellence in Cinema to director and screenwriter Sai Paranjpye.

Gael García Bernal is one of the most talented Mexican movie actors, now branching out to American films and television. Last January he was awarded a Golden Globe for his starring role as a specially gifted musician and maestro in the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle.

Since its inception cinema has offered numerous movies depicting life in prison but always from the perspective of male directors and mostly about the plight of imprisoned men. 3000 Nights is the first prison film about female prisoners made by a female director, Palestinian Mai Masri, who chose to shed light on the predicament of tens of thousands of Palestinians languishing in Israeli jails through the eyes of a woman: a school teacher, Layal (played by Maisa Abd Ehladi).