15 h. ago Stellan Skarsgård on Ingmar Bergman: ‘The only person I know who cried when Hitler died’

Actor spoke at Karlovy Vary film festival about his experience working with ‘manipulative’ director in the 80sStellan Skarsgård has weighed in on famed director Ingmar Bergman’s Nazi sympathies as a young adult.The actor was speaking at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic, where he was promoting Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value, inspired by the late Swedish director. Skarsgård expressed his personal dislike of Bergman, with whom he worked on a 1986 stage production of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Michael Pedersen and Gemma Cairney to host The List Festival Awards 2025

Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen and broadcaster and producer Gemma Cairney will host The List Festival Awards 2025, following a highly successful inaugural ceremony in 2024. The art and culture publication’s second annual Festival Awards will return to the stunning Johnnie Walker Princes Street’s Label Studio to shine a light on the rich array of art, book, film, fringe and international festivals taking place in the city every summer.

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60 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery To Open 69th BFI London Film Festival

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery To Open 69th BFI London Film Festival  empireonline.com

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67 h. ago Latest Daniel Craig Knives Out movie Wake Up Dead Man will open London film festival

Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis also star in third murder mystery featuring Craig as private eye The latest Knives Out film in the popular sleuthing series starring Daniel Craig as private eye Benoit Blanc will open the 2025 London film festival, it has been announced.Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is the third in the series written and directed by Rian Johnson. Like its predecessors, it is inspired by Agatha Christie murder mysteries but in 2023 Johnson said of the film: “The goal is to strike out in a completely new direction tonally and thematically”. While Craig is returning as Blanc, Johnson has assembled a new cast including Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin and Mila Kunis. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago BFI London Film Festival to open with premiere of third Knives Out film

Daniel Craig reprises his role as Benoit Blanc in Wake Up Dead Mean: A Knives Out Mystery.

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69 h. ago Rian Johnson’s Hotly Anticipated ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ to Open BFI London Film Festival

Rian Johnson’s Hotly Anticipated ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ to Open BFI London Film Festival  The Hollywood Reporter

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69 h. ago ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ To Open London Film Festival: “It’s A Thrill To Be Back!”

‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ To Open London Film Festival: “It’s A Thrill To Be Back!”  Deadline

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69 h. ago Daniel Craig’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ to Open BFI London Film Festival

Daniel Craig’s ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ to Open BFI London Film Festival  Variety

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69 h. ago International premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery to open the 69th BFI London Film Festival

International premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery to open the 69th BFI London Film Festival  BFI

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3 d. ago Edinburgh International Film Festival Red Carpets: 34 pictures of the stars at the festival

With excitement growing ahead of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, we’re taking a trip down memory lane.

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3 d. ago Michael Douglas ‘no real intentions’ of going back to acting

The 80-year old was speaking at the Karlovy Vary international film festival for the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

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4 d. ago Vera's Brenda Blethyn looks unrecognisable as she bids farewell to iconic role

The 79-year-old actress will debut her new film, Dragonfly, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in August, after it was met with glowing reviews at Tribeca

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5 d. ago Michael Douglas says he has ‘no real intentions’ of acting again: ‘I had to stop’

The 80-year-old, two-time Oscar winner said he had been ‘working pretty hard for almost 60 years’ – and is ‘quite happy’ watching his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones workTwo-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas has revealed he may be finished with acting, saying he has “no real intentions” to return to the industry.Speaking at the Karlovy Vary international film festival in the Czech Republic for the 50th anniversary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – which Douglas co-produced – the 80-year-old actor and producer told a press conference that unless “something special came up” for him, he would not act again. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Michael Douglas, 80, explains why he has 'no real intentions' of acting ever again

The silver screen legend, 80, said that he has officially retired from acting during a press conference at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

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9 d. ago Brenda Blethyn's 'gripping' new thriller confirms UK screening and its not far away

Vera star Brenda Blethyn stars alongside Andrea Riseborough and Jason Watkins in new film Dragonfly which will be first screened in the UK at Edinburgh International Film Festival

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9 d. ago Jack Lowden: Play by Slow Horses star from Edinburgh International Festival to be screened in UK cinemas

The play was originally created by National Theatre of Scotland

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1 week ago Identity of Harry Styles mystery woman he was kissing at Glastonbury revealed as Londoner

The former One Direction star set tongues wagging after being captured on film passionately kissing a brunette at the annual music festival

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1 week ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? | Rokhaya Diallo

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago London Indian Film Festival | Multiple venues | Things to do in London

London Indian Film Festival | Multiple venues | Things to do in London  Time Out

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