1 hour ago Martin Scorsese producing documentary featuring Pope Francis’s final on

The documentary will focus on the late pope’s interest in cinema, education, and community building

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6 h. ago Martin Scorsese announces film that will feature Pope Francis’s ‘final interview’

Aldeas – A New Story documentary to examine work of organisation pontiff founded to connect young people around the worldMartin Scorsese has made a documentary with the late Pope Francis that will feature conversations between the pontiff and Scorsese, including what the film-makers say was the pope’s final in-depth on-camera interview.Aldeas – A New Story will detail the work of Scholas Occurrentes, a non-profit, international organisation founded by the pope in 2013 to promote what it termed “Culture of Encounter” among youth. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Martin Scorsese to produce documentary with Pope Francis, 'Aldeas — A New Story'

Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in the global educational movement he founded before his death

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3 d. ago ‘The Met won’t be happy with it’: Jeff Pope on Suspect, his drama about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

The king of UK true-crime dramas tells Gabriel Tate about returning to a 20-year-old scandal, and what’s driven him to probe the psyche of everyone from Fred West to Jimmy Savile

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6 d. ago Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut and Lynne Ramsay’s latest among significant Cannes additions

Ramsay’s Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, helps take number of female directors in competition to a record-breaking sevenLynne Ramsay’s long-awaited new film, Die, My Love, has been announced as a late addition to this year’s Cannes competition lineup. The film, which is Ramsay’s first for eight years, stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson and concerns a woman in rural America who experiences psychosis after the birth of her baby.The inclusion of Ramsay’s movie takes the number of female director’s in the official selection to seven – a record for the festival. It also means that a British director is now in the running for this year’s Palme d’Or. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Pope Francis's final testament released as burial wishes detailed – read pontiff's will in full

Pope Francis's final testament has been released by the Vatican, in which he shares his wishes for his burial and expresses gratitude to those who have loved him

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9 d. ago Pope Francis's final testament released by Vatican reveals burial wishes

Pope Francis died following a stroke aged 88 on Easter Monday just a day after greeting crowds in Vatican City and now his final testament has released by the Vatican

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9 d. ago Pope Francis' final hours and how he defied doctors to the end as full death certificate revealed

After a lengthy health battle, Pope Francis died aged 88 on Monday morning from a cerebral stroke that led to a coma and irreversible heart failure - triggering a nine-day mourning period

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9 d. ago Whoopi Goldberg, Martin Scorsese and Eva Longoria lead heartfelt celebrity tributes to Pope Francis

Pope Francis was christened the ‘People’s Pope’ during his tenure

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9 d. ago Celebrities pay tribute to Pope Francis: ‘Thank you for being an ally’

Martin Scorsese, Russell Crowe, Whoopi Goldberg and Eva Longoria are among stars remembering late pope who died aged 88Pope Francis tributes – latest updatesNumerous celebrities, many among the nearly 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide, expressed condolences for the late Pope Francis, who died early on Monday – the morning after Easter Sunday – at the age of 88.Martin Scorsese, who has grappled with Catholic faith in several of his films, called Pope Francis, “in every way, a remarkable human being” in a statement to Variety. “He acknowledged his own failings. He radiated wisdom. He radiated goodness. He had an ironclad commitment to the good. He knew in his soul that ignorance was a terrible plague on humanity. So he never stopped learning. And he never stopped enlightening. And, he embraced, preached and practiced forgiveness. Universal and constant forgiveness.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Pope Francis's final day in photos: How pontiff spent yesterday celebrating Easter Sunday with the faithful, bringing smiles to the faces of thousands

An aide to the 88-year-old pontiff delivered his 'Urbi et Orbi' benediction from a balcony overlooking the square following mass to mark the holiday.

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1 week ago The Bodyguard announcement causes casting speculation to intensify

Taylor Swift director behind her record-breaking Eras Tour film has been announced to steer the new Warner Bros project

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1 week ago 'Star Wars' fans wave lightsabers as an upcoming film gets announced in Japan

The Force was with many Japanese, as well as visitors from abroad, at a “Star Wars” event where Lucasfilm announced that the next installation in the franchise will hit theaters in May 2027 starring Ryan Gosling

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2 w. ago Film that almost made Martin Scorsese 'stop making movies' airing on TV tonight

The 82-year-old is one of Hollywood's most respected filmmakers of all time

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2 w. ago Gary Wales announced as VIP guest at prestigious US film festival

Scotland’s own Gary Wales, an internationally recognised actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur, has been officially announced as a VIP guest at the Moonless International Film Festival in Sumter, South Carolina, USA this May.

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3 w. ago Adolescence team announce ‘harrowing’ new TV adaptation of acclaimed war film

‘Threads’ was the first film to ever depict what a nuclear winter would actually look like

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4 w. ago Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool? | Peter Bradshaw

So Sam Mendes has cast his Beatles tetralogy, but none are from Merseyside. Don’t worry, I’ve just invented the Beatles Cinematic Universe Sam Mendes has announced the cast for his colossal four-film Beatles extravaganza: Harris Dickinson as John, Paul Mescal as Paul, Barry Keoghan as Ringo and Joseph Quinn as George – and to tumultuous acclaim he brought his Fab Four on stage at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, a now well-established affair in the film world, incidentally, satirised in a forthcoming episode of Seth Rogen’s TV comedy The Studio.I’m sorry to say, however, that Sam has almost entirely ignored the casting suggestions that I made in February last year. For what this is worth, I went with Leo Woodall as Paul, Finn Wolfhard as George, Harry Melling as Ringo and Barry Keoghan as John (though Barry got Ringo in the end). But I like to think that Sam Mendes and his producer Pippa Harris were thinking on more or less the same lines as me. Interestingly, there are no American...

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