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Having made several good thrillers in the U. K, such as The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock was imported to Hollywood by David O.

Booed at its first screening at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival, Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura represents a famous and notorious event in the history of that forum – and also an interesting case in film criticism and history of world cinema. Critics and journalists, just like moviegoers, are entitled to their tastes, which may shift over time as a result of reevaluating a film from a new perspective or placing it in the broader context of the filmmaker's oeuvre.

On September 26 the 2020 edition of our Annual Foreign Language Film Series continued with four more directors of Films qualifying for Golden Globe consideration: Anthony Chen, (Wet Season – Singapore), Derek Tsang (Better Days – China), Eylem Kaftan, (Hive – Turkey)  and Niklaus Hilber, (Paradise War - Switzerland).  Watch the Q&A again here.

On October 24 the 2020 edition of our Annual Foreign Language Film Series continued with three more directors of Films qualifying for Golden Globe consideration: Ahmad Bahrami, (The Wasteland – Iran), Philippe Lacôte, (Night Of The Kings - Ivory Coast), and Rubaiyat Hossain, (Made In Bangladesh – Bangladesh).  Watch the Q&A again here.

One of the largest film industries in the world, the Indian film industry is in reality differentiated by regional languages. The city of Mumbai, the birthplace of “Bollywood” and Hindi language cinema is the most prominent in terms of box office size.

Visually awesome, emotionally distant, and remorselessly sober in its view of human evil, The Shining is Stanley Kubrick's first and only foray into the realm of horror. His previous film, Barry Lyndon (1975), was an innovative historical epic that was a box-office failure, despite its achievements (it won four technical Oscars and was nominated for two Golden Globes, Best Drama and Best Director).

In recent years, India has produced an annual average of over 1,500 films. The wrestling film Dangal directed by Nitesh Tiwari made nearly US$190 million in China’s box office in 2016.

With three of his four features winning awards at major film festivals, Nadav Lapid is not only one of Israel's most brilliant directors, but also its most provocative one.  A graduate of philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Lapid, who is 45, pursued a degree at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.

With three of his four features winning awards at major film festivals, Nadav Lapid is not only one of Israel's most brilliant directors, but also its most provocative one.  A graduate of philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Lapid, who is 45, pursued a degree at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem.

The Italian American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi, who's 56, is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working in cinema today. His latest feature, Notturno ('Nocturne'), shot over the course of three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon and offers a timely and urgent chronicle of ordinary people in war zones of the Middle East as they struggle to exist and hope for more peaceful lives.