New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition
The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Grayโs Queens coming-of-age drama โArmageddon Timeโ and Laura Poitrasโ documentary โAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed,โ about artist Nan Goldinโs battle against the Sackler family.
Aronofsky, Iรฑarritu films set for Venice Film Festival
Darren Aronofskyโs โThe Whale,โ the Marilyn Monroe drama โBlonde,โ Alejandro Gonzรกlez Iรฑรกrrituโs โBardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truthsโ and Guadagninoโs โBones and All,โ with Timothรฉe Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.
Iran says acclaimed filmmaker to serve out 6-year sentence
Iranโs judiciary has ordered one of the countryโs leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced, as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure.
Iran arrests 3rd outspoken filmmaker in escalating crackdown
Iranian authorities have arrested an internationally renowned filmmaker, the third Iranian director to be locked up in less than a week as the government escalates a crackdown on the countryโs celebrated cinema industry.