Tag: movie theater
70 years of Oberhausen Short Film Festival: the first cigarette culture
Films form, and short films form faster. Hilmar Hoffmann must have seen it something like this when he founded the West German Short Film Festival in 1954, which later became…
What is the point of seeing “The Phantom Menace” again in the cinema, 25 years later?
We already know the ending, we even already know the rest of the ending, and the rest of the rest of the ending… In short Star Wars, Episode I: The…
Gérard Depardieu will be tried in October for sexual assault
He was taken into custody this Monday morning in the premises of the Parisian judicial police to answer two charges of sexual assault. This police custody ended at the end…
From Trappes to the Cannes Film Festival, Omar Sy is on all fronts
2024 continues with fanfare for Omar Sy who has just been chosen to be part of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival, chaired by Grata Gerwig. The 46-year-old actor…
Gérard Depardieu heard in a police station about sexual assaults on two women
The noose is tightening around Gérard Depardieu. According to information from BFMTV of which 20 minutes has received confirmation, the actor was questioned this Monday morning in a Paris police…
Omar Sy or Eva Green in the jury chaired by Greta Gerwig
Omar Sy will have his busy schedule from May 14 to 25. A fortnight before the race for the Palme d’Or, the 77th Cannes Film Festival announced on Monday the…
Attempted sexual assault, nude scenes, perverse castings… Juliette Binoche opens up about her film debut
Attempted sexual assault, nude scenes, perverse castings… In the columns of Release, French actress Juliette Binoche looks back on her professional journey in light of the MeToo revolution. She tells…
Quentin Dupieux sets the charts on fire
“It’s the story of a guy, he’s going to have his fill…” This is the ultra-simple pitch, yet full of tension and suspense, of the Full. It is this super…
Is the annulment of a conviction for rape possible in France?
Fallen on Thursday, the decision of the New York Court of Appeal to overturn the conviction, in 2020, for rape of Harvey Weinstein, aroused the anger not only of the…
Obituary for Michael Verhoeven: A life for the cinema – culture
He always remained a marginal figure in the young German film of the 1960s – and in a positive sense, this was obviously primarily his wife’s fault. At the time,…