Film

It’s been called ‘Kevin’s Gate’, referring to the disastrous Heaven’s Gate that sank United Artists. It’s also been called ‘Fishtar’ with reference to the famous flop Ishtar.

Reshma Pathan was born into a conservative Muslim family. She was the eldest of five children.

Many women rightly feared that, after the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States in 2016, aided by a Republican majority in the Senate, he would appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court, whose goal would be to curtail women’s freedom of choice. This is exactly what happened, on June 24, 2022, when the constitutional right to abortion, guaranteed by the Roe v.

A bracing cinematic reminder of the fact that the personal is the political, most especially in autocratic systems, arrives in the form of Queendom, which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2023 South by Southwest Festival on March 11 in the Documentary Feature Competition section. In focusing on the story of a 22-year-old Russian artist who wants to change people’s perceptions of beauty and queerness, and bring attention to the harassment of the LGBTQ+ community, this nonfiction effort offers up a striking snapshot of the foolhardy courageousness of youth.

Film, television and theater actor. An actor's actor.

Female Pioneer, author/ director Eva Kupper is a powerful documentary maker in Belgium, who has worked throughout her career with multiple European productions. Like many Belgian talents, Küpper graduated in 2009 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Gent with Whatʼs in a Name, a feature-length documentary that won several prestigious prizes, including the IDFA Award for Best Student Documentary in 2010.

In a radio interview, Willem Dafoe talked about being fired from his very first film. He was a ‘glorified extra’ on the set of the epic Heaven’s Gate in Montana and recalled, “One day we're sitting in a lighting setup, eight hours, full makeup, full costume, and we’re not even going to shoot.

For those unversed in the world of Jean Rollin, Orchestrator of Storms is an informative documentary about one of Eurocult cinema’s most unique voices.   Rollin, who died in 2010, was a French film director, actor, and novelist known for his work in the fantastique genre.

Hollywood began with musical films, many of which were Broadway musicals adapted for big screens. But from long before that, there has been opera, an art marrying the craft of extraordinary singing, orchestral scoring, emotional storytelling and opulent set and costume design that has been entertaining people for centuries.