Watching “Nouvelle Vague,” we don’t have to squint a bit to pretend that this is Jean-Luc Godard. It seems, rather, as if Godard has sprung to life before us. And that uncanny quality extends to the whole movie, which plunks us down in Paris in
Celebrated for its documentary filmmaking, especially for the “Poetic New Wave” of the 1960s, the Baltics are pushing for larger visibility for today’s talented directors and producers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. “There is a momentum with our Oscar for the animated film “Flow” and
The final episodes of “Arcane: League of Legends” may have hit Netflix six months ago, but fan fervor for the Emmy-winning series isn’t anywhere close to dying down. In a sold-out May 10 conversation with Variety at Alhambra’s Gallery Nucleus (which currently houses a collection
Charlotte Gainsbourg participated in this year’s Kering Women in Motion Talks at Cannes, which the actor is attending as part of the star-studded cast of Wes Anderson’s new movie “The Phoenician Scheme.” Gainsbourg is also one of the leads in Amazon Prime Video’s recently-released original
Death draws a crowd. Warner Bros. and New Line’s “Final Destination Bloodlines” is fated for a franchise-best opening after scoring $21 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,523 locations. Meanwhile, the Weeknd’s pop-star psychological thriller “Hurry Up Tomorrow” is headed for a low opening
Bright White Light has boarded Elegance Bratton’s “By Any Means,” co-financing and executive producing the upcoming crime thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Nicole Beharie, Giancarlo Esposito, Josh Lucas, David Strathairn, Ethan Embry, LisaGay Hamilton and LaChanze. Bright White Light’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and
Searchlight Pictures has scooped worldwide rights to Alexander Payne’s next project “Somewhere Out There” which will star Renate Reinsve, the Cannes prizewinning Norwegian actor of Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World.” The Danish-language movie, which will mark Payne’s first European feature, is being
The Doha Film Institute has unveiled the shape of its upcoming Doha Film Festival, which looks poised to become a prominent event dedicated to auteur cinema from around the world in the Middle East and North Africa region. The fest transforms the DFI’s existing Ajyal