This is Beirut, 04/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film TV Saga Downton Abbey Britain Culture
The stars of Downton Abbey walked the red carpet in London Wednesday for one last time as the hugely successful English country house saga finally comes to an end. Many of the original cast, including Hugh Bonneville, a pregnant Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter and Phyllis Logan, turned out for the world premiere of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale in ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Film Jude Law The Wizard of the Kremlin Putin Russia Culture
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he had not heard about The Wizard of the Kremlin, a film starring Jude Law as the Russian leader that premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The film by French director Olivier Assayas is a look at Putin's career through the eyes of a fictional political advisor, Vadim Baranov, and is based on a ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 21:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film Festival Venice Italy US Culture
With The Testament of Ann Lee, a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honor a figure "on the verge of being erased from memory". Lee, played by Amanda Seyfried in the film that premiered at Venice this week, was "one of the very first American ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Festival Venice Albert Camus François Ozon Italy Culture
The premiere of The Stranger at this year's Venice Film Festival brings to the screen one of the world's most read novels, penned by French author Albert Camus, a star in his day and now. Winner of the Nobel prize three years before his tragic death in 1960 at the age of 46, Camus has found new admirers in younger generations who love to quote ...
This is Beirut, 03/09 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Paramount U.S. Movies Cinema Culture Art
Paramount, the Hollywood studio recently acquired by the software billionaire Ellison family, will make a movie based on the wildly popular Call of Duty video games, it announced Tuesday. Scion David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, assumed control of Paramount last month and is overseeing a major effort to revitalize the storied but ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Film Depardieu Trial France Culture
The youngest son of the legendary French actor Alain Delon is seeking to annul his final will, in a renewal of a bitter family dispute just over a year after the screen icon's death, the executor said. Alain-Fabien Delon is going to court in a bid to cancel the will, with a first hearing in March 2026, deeming it too favorable to Alain Delon's ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 16:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cinema Venice Film Festival Italy Culture Art Movie
The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Kathryn Bigelow, is back at the Venice Film Festival Tuesday with a new White House thriller that Netflix hopes will find Oscar glory. The highly anticipated A House of Dynamite from the American director is one of 21 films competing for the top Golden Lion prize for best film on Saturday ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 15:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film Depardieu Trial France Culture
A French investigating judge has ordered cinema icon Gerard Depardieu to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting actor Charlotte Arnould in 2018, sources close to the case and a lawyer said Tuesday. The decision came after a Paris court handed Depardieu an 18-month suspended sentence in a separate case in May after convicting him ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Architecture Tunisia Libya Culture Heritage
Tunisia's brutalist landmarks the Hotel du Lac, a 1970s postcard icon said to have inspired a desert-roving vehicle in Star Wars, is being demolished, sparking calls from architects, historians and activists to save it. Built by Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani in central Tunis, the concrete-and-steel inverted pyramid opened in 1973 during a ...
This is Beirut, 02/09 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Venice Film Festival Italy Cinema Culture Art Venice
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said Monday he had turned his heavily muscled back on action movie roles to be able to express himself as an actor in his latest film The Smashing Machine, which premiered in Venice. The 53-year-old was the day's star attraction at the Venice Film Festival — his first appearance at a European festival — where he mixed ...
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Cinema Christopher Nolan Film Culture Art Spider-Man
Next summer looks set to be the summer of Tom Holland — and the famously boyish and ebullient star can hardly contain his excitement. First up will be Christopher Nolan's epic adaptation of The Odyssey, out mid-July. Holland plays Telemachus, the son of the saga's hero Odysseus and a key character in the Ancient Greek saga. "The script is the ...
This is Beirut, 01/09 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Cinema Bollywood AI Art Culture Movies
Bollywood, famed for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and vast production crews, now finds itself confronting a new kind of spectacle: artificial intelligence. From altering iconic endings to generating entire films, AI is shaking up India's multibillion-dollar film industry, raising alarm for some, excitement for others. The debate first ...