You have to love Spike Lee for crashing Thierry Frémaux’s insiders party at the line-up press conference… via social media of course!
Read MoreLaetitia Ky in a still from Erige Sehiri’s ‘Promised Sky’
Laetitia Ky in a still from Erige Sehiri’s ‘Promised Sky’
You have to love Spike Lee for crashing Thierry Frémaux’s insiders party at the line-up press conference… via social media of course!
Read MoreFernanda Torres holds her Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Golden Globe, photo courtesy of @GG2025
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was an affair to be remembered.
Read MoreThe list of cinema personalities encountering the public at this year’s festival in Morocco also includes Sean Penn and David Cronenberg, in Marrakech to receive their honorary awards, as well as persecuted Iranian helmer Mohammad Rasoulof, Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako and US director-slash-artist extraordinaire Tim Burton.
Read MoreA still from ‘The Girl with the Needle’, courtesy of the Festival de Cannes
There is a trick to this festival. If you stand still long enough in Cannes — something a bit difficult to do on a weekend as crowds are bustling all around you — you’ll run into everyone who is anyone in the film universe.
Read MoreA still of Cillian Murphy in ‘Small Things Like These’ © Shane O’Connor
And it’s a good thing. A very, very good thing.
Read MoreLily Gladstone, photo by Virisa Yong, courtesy of the Golden Globes
Perfectly somber, in tone with the dire worldwide situation, but also celebrating diversity and awarding long overdue prizes to exceptional filmmakers, the Golden Globes are back, Baby! And they are better than ever, so don’t listen to those jealous critics.
Read MoreThe list of films and TV series nominated will be unveiled this Monday, December 11th by Cedric “The Entertainer'' and Wilmer Valderrama.
Read MoreAfter all was said and done, there were no losers at this year’s Marrakech International Film Festival, where audiences got a free taste of great cinema and Moroccan films made history.
Read MoreTilda Swinton photographed by Brigitte Lacombe
Qatar is the couture state of the Arab world. They watched and learned from the mistakes of all the other Gulf countries that were declared as states before them, and then Qatar set about to reinvent how we view culture, fashion, art and film. You can't watch an award ceremony these days without the presence for the Doha Film Institute in the credits of at least one of the films nominated, the Museum Authority of the peninsular state has assembled and created, and is set to unveil more beauty than my eyes can hold -- just a visit to the Islamic Art Museum will confirm my words -- and of course, the Emir's family owns some of the fashion world's most beloved brands.
Read MorePHOTO BY NEILSON BARNARD/GETTY IMAGES FOR DIFF
Bushra on the DIFF red carpet
We need more women film writers. Repeat after me. We need more women film writers and when they are published, those few random times, we need to support them.
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