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One of the great British directors, Ken Loach, now 87, known for such cinematic gems as I, Daniel Blake (2016), Sorry We Missed You (2019) and the 60s classic Kes, now presents what he suggests is his final film, The Old Oak. If true, the film wraps a career during which he has long focused on championing the working class and shining a light on social inequality.

As the founder of the International Fine Arts Consortium (IFAC) – an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts on a global scale – Lee Wells has been immersed in the world of creativity for decades. An artist in his own right, he recently did something that went beyond what’s ordinary: premiering his first AI movie, Marcel Duchamp and His Girlfriend Love to Eat Spaghetti out of the Toilet and Laugh, with no screening room needed.

As a waning moon rose over the medieval cathedral, Gianluca Farinelli took to the stage in front of the giant screen welcoming the several thousand strong audience to another free screening in Bologna’s main square. Farinelli is the director of Cineteca di Bologna and the driving force behind Cinema Ritrovato – the yearly celebration of classic cinema that has taken place in the Italian city every summer for the last 37 years.

To most film fans, Indian cinema is synonymous with Bollywood, the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) known for its commercial films with melodramatic plots, song-and-dance numbers, star-crossed lovers, mustache-twirling villains, and prostitutes with hearts-of-gold. But South Indian cinema has been thriving for decades even though it has been mostly ignored by Western audiences until the success of the blockbuster RRR cast a spotlight on Tollywood, the Telugu-language film industry based in Hyderabad.

Stories of motherhood and family are popular and wide-ranging. In honoring of Mother’s Day, below is an overview of some movies on the theme from the dramatic to the heartwarming to the utterly comedically outrageous.

David Lynch is regarded as one of the preeminent American cinematic auteurs of his generation. But since Twin Peaks — his surreal television assault on the mainstream zeitgeist, co-created with Mark Frost — debuted in 1990, the arc of his big screen filmography can take on different dimensions.

In the horror film, Bury the Bride, Chaz Bono plays Puppy, a man of few words who is hiding a terrifying secret when he crashes a bachelorette party with friends including the groom-to-be. The film, directed by Spider One, was also produced by Bono, whose credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm and American Horror Story.

Carmen, debutto alla regia del ballerino-coreografo francese Benjamin Millepied, si ispira alla classica opera lirica di George Bizet, ma con musica completamente nuova composta da Nicholas Britell.   Melissa Barrera interpreta la giovane donna la cui fuga dal Mexico viene coadiuvata da un ex-Marine interpretato da Paul Mescal.

It should come as no surprise that filmmakers have tried for years to capture the essence of soccer (football in Great Britain and elsewhere, in a diversity of languages): it's the world's most popular sport,  watched by billions of people. Imagine it on celluloid (or digital).

There is a significant moment in the life of director Steven Spielberg that does not appear in his last feature film, the semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans (2022. ) The director preferred to recount this memory in interviews and recollections about the origins of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), one of his most popular films and which is marking its 45th anniversary this year.