Émilie Dequenne, who won best actress at age 17 at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the Belgian film “Rosetta,” died on Sunday at the Gustave Roussy hospital in Villejuif, France. She was 43. Her death was confirmed…
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His Bollywood Spoofs Brought Joy to a Mill Town. Then Bollywood Came Calling.
Nasir Shaikh, the sleeves of his suede jacket rolled up, used his phone camera as a pocket mirror to touch up his hair. Then he stepped onto the red carpet (it was blue, actually) and stood beneath banners dedicated to…
Why These Oscars Mean So Much to Brazil
Oscars 2025: Follow live updates on the 97th Academy Awards. The streets of Rio de Janeiro have been littered with Fernanda Torres imitators. They drink beer, clutch plastic Oscars and deliver the impromptu acceptance speeches that they hope their idol,…
A Papal Primer That’s Fiction, but Also Rings True
After back-to-back wins for best picture at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and at Britain’s equivalent of the Oscars, the papal thriller “Conclave” has a chance at a hat-trick on Sunday at the Academy Awards. The shot at cinematic glory…
A New Age of Iranian Cinema Is on Display at the Oscars
A wife, wearing a nightgown and her hair uncovered, lies down next to her husband in bed. An older man and woman, drunk on red wine, dance wildly and discuss the complexities of sex and nudity at their age. A…
How Oscar-Nominated ‘I’m Still Here’ May Hold Brazil’s Military Accountable
“I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military dictatorship — concludes with a single sentence that delivers a gut punch of historical reality: The five soldiers charged in…
Why ‘Emilia Pérez,’ a Film About Mexico, Flopped in Mexico
“Emilia Pérez,” the movie about a transgender Mexican cartel leader who reconciles with her past, enters the Academy Awards on Sunday with 13 nominations, the most of any film this year. It is also the most nods ever for any…
Gene Hackman: 5 Memorable Performances to Stream
Although Gene Hackman, who died at age 95, was one of Hollywood’s most enduring and recognizable stars, it was nearly impossible to put the actor in a box. In a five-decade career, he portrayed cops, villains and men of the…
Souleymane Cissé, Celebrated Malian Filmmaker, Dies at 84
Souleymane Cissé, an award-winning writer and director who became the first Black African filmmaker to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died on Wednesday in Bamako, Mali. He was 84. His death was confirmed by François Margolin,…
These are some of the best Hindi movies available on Netflix in August 2021
What are the best Hindi movies on Netflix? The 17 titles below star Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Ayushmann Khurrana, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Naseeruddin Shah, Vidya Balan, Tabu, Radhika Apte, Bhumi Pednekar, Manisha Koirala, Kiara Advani, Kalki Koechlin,…