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Yorgos Lanthimos fans based in Los Angeles eager to see his latest film for free are in luck: a cinema is offering complimentary tickets to a special screening on Monday to anyone who is either already bald or is willing to have their head shaved in the foyer first. The initiative is in homage to Emma Stone’s character in the …

The advent of the mobile phone camera has caused a revolution in film making over the last couple of decades, lowering the barrier to entry significantly, and as the cameras have improved, delivering near-professional-grade quality in some cases. Mobile phone manufacturers hire film makers to promote their new flagship models and the results are very impressive, but there is still …

The actor Daniel Day-Lewis railed against audiences being priced out of theatres, and what he perceived as a continued snobbery concerning cinema in the UK at an event at the London film festival. Speaking to the critic Mark Kermode for a lengthy conversation in front of an audience at the BFI Southbank, Day-Lewis said he felt “there’s still an elitism …

“Not everything is supposed to make you comfortable,” says Julia Roberts in Luca Guadagnino’s After The Hunt. Roberts plays a beloved college professor who finds her loyalties torn between her colleague (Andrew Garfield) and her star student (Ayo Edebiri) after the latter accuses the former of having “crossed the line.” After The Hunt‘s marketing played up its nervy provocations, willingness …

ROME (AP) — Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died in France, her agent said Wednesday. She was 87. Cardinale died in Nemours, France, surrounded by her children, her agent Laurent Savry told The Associated Press. Praise for Cardinale’s talent, beauty and impact on the …

Claudia Cardinale, alluring star of 1960s cinema, dies at 87  The Washington Post Claudia Cardinale, Actress Who Was ‘Italy’s Girlfriend,’ Is Dead at 87  The New York Times Claudia Cardinale, star of ‘8½’ and ‘The Leopard,’ dies at 87  CNN Claudia Cardinale Dies: ‘The Leopard’ & ‘Once Upon A Time In The West’ Actress Was 87  Deadline Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born star of Italian cinema …

Robert Redford, who died at the age of 89 on Tuesday, will rightly be remembered as one of Hollywood’s finest leading men, a true-blue movie star and assured actor who was, to quote my mother and surely many others, “very, very handsome”. His many iconic performances – in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Way …

Robert Redford, star of Hollywood classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, has died aged 89. In a statement, his publicist Cindi Berger said the actor died on Tuesday at his home “at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved”. “He will be …

‘One of the lions has passed. Rest in peace my lovely friend’ – Meryl Streep pays tribute Robert Redford poses on a balcony along Main Street decorated with his Sundance Film Festival banners in 2003 Photograph: Douglas C Pizac/AP Tributes are starting to appear on social media. Meryl Streep, who starred in Out Of Africa and Lions For Lambs opposite …

Smartphones are rapidly becoming the front line of professional filmmaking. Blackmagic Design’s new Camera ProDock accessory, built specifically for the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, is the clearest signal yet that the smartphone has entered cinema territory. Blackmagic Design’s new Camera ProDock accessory For years, filmmakers experimented with smartphones as backup cameras or for creative shots. That era is …