Features & Reviews
Cannes 2024: Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig gives The Sound of Music deja vu...May 24 2024
Sean Baker’s obsession with sex workers finds a voice with Cannes title Anora...May 22 2023
Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga at Cannes Film Festival sees standing ovation and walkouts…May 21 2023
Cannes Film Festival screens Shyam Benegal’s restored version of Manthan…May 20 2024
Cannes Film Festival Competition entry The Girl With The Needle may be dark and Dickensian but has a ray of hope…May 18 2024
Cannes Film Festival’s Wild Diamond is an apt take on the struggle of being Gen Z in a vain world...May 17 2024
As Cannes Film Festival opens with The Second Act, whispers of controversy can be heard...May 16 2024
Cannes Film Fest Un Certain Regard is gem that is treated as a poor Cinderella…May 13 2024
At Cannes Film Festival drama unfolds even outside the cinemas...May 8 2024
Iranian director Mohammad Rosoulof banned from attending Cannes Film Festival…May 3 2024
Why are Indian movies and jurors so few and far between at Cannes Film Festival...April 29 2024
Cannes Film Festival poster mirrors scene from Akira Kurosawa’s Rhapsody in August…April 20 2024
In a first, Cannes Film Festival to award Honorary Palme d’Or to a group — Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli…April 18 2024
Is Cannes Film Festival heavily tilted towards English language fare this time?…April 12 2024
Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light will be first Indian film to compete at Cannes Film Festival in 30 years...April 12 2024
Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project Megalopolis to vie for Palm d’Or at Cannes …April 10 2024
Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga will premiere at Cannes Film Festival...April 9 2024
Cannes Film Festival to begin rolling on May 14 with surreal French comedy The Second Act...April 4 2024
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Cannes 2023: Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City set in the 1950s talks about lockdown…May 26 2023
Cannes 2023: Jude Law wore smelly perfume to play King Henry VIII in Firebrand…May 24
Cannes favourite The Zone of Interest director says it is not a museum piece…May 21 2023
Cannes 2023: French director Catherine Corsini was too proud to use intimacy coach for Homecoming…May 19 2023
Michael Douglas says Basic Instinct seemed so scandalous in 1992 at Cannes...May 18 2023
Cannes Film Festival opens with Johnny Depp’s comeback movie Jeanne Du Barry,,,May 17 2023
British legend Ken Loach to take his last movie The Old Oak to Cannes...May 16 2023
Controversies galore at Cannes Film Festival 2023...May 12 2023
Reading Lolita in Tehran to be promoted at upcoming Cannes Film Festival...May 6 2023
Cannes Film Fest to honour Michael Douglas with honorary Palme d’Or...May 4 2023
Parisian fashion house Saint Laurent to present its first movie at Cannes 2023…April 15 2023
Cannes 2023 Selections...April 13 2023
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Blonde in Venice...August 9 2022
Pakistan makes Cannes Film Festival debut with Joyland…May 27 2022
Cannes Film Festival: India’s only entry Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes documents love for kites…May 26 2022
Cannes 2022: Triangle of Sadness is a frontal attack on the super rich…May 25 2022
At Cannes 2022, Iran’s Holy Smoke raises unholy smoke in theatre and outside…May 24 2022
Thamp actor Jalaja walks Cannes Film Festival 2022 red carpet…May 22 2022
Cannes Film Festival: India-Australia joint venture The Laugh of Lakshmi announced…May 21 2022
Nicole Kidman curiously missing from ex-husband Tom Cruise’s career highlight reel at Cannes Film Festival…May 19 2022
Cannes Film Festival kicks off with zombie movie Final Cut...May 18 2022
Cannes Fest chief reacts to India being Country of Honour...May 17 2022
Cannes to screen Ukrainian film…May 14 2022
Cannes changes opening movie title to Coupe from Z in support of Ukrainians…April 29 2022
Deepika Padukone is now on Cannes Film Festival jury..April 27 2022
Indian documentary to screen at Cannes Film Festival 2022...April 15 2022
Tom Hanks, Austin Butler-starrer Elvis to arrive at Cannes Film Festival...April 6 2022
Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick to premier at Cannes Film Festival…April 1 2022
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2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited presents new evidence…July 16 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Matt Damon plays a desperate father in Stillwater…July 14 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Sean Penn rips apart Donald Trump post screening of his Flag Day…July 12 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta plots a provocative story…July 9 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Jane by Charlotte is a daughter’s love letter to her mother…July 8 2021
Cannes 2021:Jury president Spike Lee hopes “blacks will stop being hunted down as animals“…July 7 2021
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Indian-work-in progress documentary running for the Market prize…July 6 2021
Leo Carax’s Annette starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard to open Cannes Film Festival 2021...July 5 2021
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2020
Tokyo International Film Festival offers a varied canvas…November 19 2020
Venice Film Festival opens with Italian film, leads with a plea to save cinemas…September 4 2020
Cannes Film Festival Postponed to June-July amid Coronavirus crisis…March 20 2020
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2019
At IFFI 2019, master British moviemaker Ken Loach raises concern about rising nationalism…November 21 2019
Venice Film Festival rolls with Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth…August 30 2019
After Roman Polanski, Venice Film Festival faces another controversy with Nate Parker’s American Skin…August 9 2019
India’s Sasidharan goes to Venice Film Festival with Shadow of Water...July 31 2019
Bombay Rose from India and Japan’s The Truth will herald Venice 2019…July 24 2019
Japan’s Kore-eda recreates Dickensian saga in Shoplifters...July 5 2019
Girish Karnad: The man who brought art, literature to the man on the street...June 10 2019
At Cannes, Quentin Tarantino loses his cool post screening of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…May 23 2019
Cannes 2019: Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life puzzles more and explains less...May 22 2019
Cannes 2019: Antonio Benderas starrer Pain and Glory is all about Pedro Almodovar…May 21 2019
Cannes 2019 zooms in on street battles and corporate cruelty in Les Miserables and Sorry We Missed You…May 20 2019
Cannes opener, The Dead Don’t Die, is nothing to die for…May 15 2019
Palm dÓr for French legend Alain Delon, Cannes courts controversy all over again…May 8 2019
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood makes it to Cannes Festival…May 4 2019
Cannes 2019: The complete list of movies includes usual suspects...April 19 2019
The Dead Don’t Die To Open Cannes Film Festival…April 11 2019
Will Japanese director Kore-eda’s The Truth open Cannes Film Festival on May 14?…March 29 2019
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2018
Ananth Mahadevan to make Satyajit Ray’s The Storyteller in Hindi…May 24 2018
Nandita Das describes why she always wanted to cast Nawazuddin Siddiqui in Manto…May 18 2018
Nandita Das’s Manto takes a hard look at societal injustices…May 14 2018
Bhosle is all about an undefined and unlikely relationship, says Manoj Bajpayee…May 12 2018
Nandita Das strikes luck at Cannes with Manto, Festival’s official lineup announced…April 12 2018
Cannes Fest to open with Asghar Farhadi’s Spanish work, Everybody Knows…April 5 2018
Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux’s radical changes draw flak…March 28 2018
Cannes Film Fest 2018: The guesses have begun to roll…March 1 2018
Cannes Film Festival plans radical changes for its 71st edition…February 9 2018
‘Rebel’Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani plays a rebel in the upcoming The Girls of the Sun…January 17 2018
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Rajinikanth’s 2.0 likely to be first major South Indian movie to open in Saudi Arabian market…December 22 2017
Irrfan’s Song of Scorpions one of Dubai Film Festival highlights...December 6 2017
An autumn of Indian cinema at Cairo Film Festival…November 24 2017
Japan’s love for Tamil cinema reflects at the Tokyo Film Festival..October 31 2017
Tokyo Film Fest celebrates 30th edition with Japanese opener…October 25 2017
John Abraham to act in a film helmed by Tiger Man Mike Pandey…October 4 2017
Egypt’s first edition of El Gouna Film Festival screens sparkling fare…September 29 2017
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival to screen Anurag Kashyap, Irrfan Khan works…September 21 2017
Ali Fazal’s provocative British drama, Victoria and Abdul, goes to Venice Film Festival…August 30 2017
The Song of Scorpions: Irrfan, Golshifteh Farahani bring alive a daunting tale…August 11 2017
Taramani: Why Tamil director Ram preferred A-certification over censor board cuts...August 10 2017
Once again, Venice Film Festival titles offer Oscars hope…August 3 2017
Ritesh Batra in a cocktail with Jane Fonda, Robert Redford at Venice…July 18 2017
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake seems so relevant after the Tory slide…June 12 2017
Cannes Competition Netflix title, Okja, runs into roadblock in South Korea…June 3 2017
Cannes less magical this summer, and what a pity!…May 31 2017
Post Cannes, Shruti Haasan does an Aishwarya Rai with Sangamithra…May 30 2017
Swedish comedy, The Square, wins Palm d’Or , Sofia Coppola best director...May 29 2017
Fatih Akin’s In The Fade is all about a mother’s terrible sorrow…May 27 2017
Naomi Kawase’s Radiance is radiantly brilliant...May 27 2017
Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled examines sexual desires in times of war…May 25 2017
Cannes screens a smashing biopic of a suave star, Cary Grant...May 24 2017
Now Godard reframed by The Artist director Michael Hazanavicius…May 22 2017
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless is the best at Cannes till date…May 21 2017
Sangamithra plays big at Cannes, Nandita Das and Aparna Das to promote their films…May 20 2017
Scenic Cannes turned into a fortress to thwart terror strikes…May 19 2017
Disappointing Cannes opener, Almodovar and Will Smith ungainly disagreement…May 18 2017
What to expect from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival…May 17 2017
At Cannes 2018, no Netflix if it disobeys French law…May 12 2017
Indian cinema to march into Cannes Market…May 9 2017
Will Roman Polanski with his new film have a good time at Cannes?...May 5 2017
From bikini to burkini: The time for topless, semi-clad women at Cannes is over…April 26 2017
Indian Government “may use Cannes Red Carpet to unveil strategy”…April 24 2017
No Indian film at Cannes, there is still hope...April 14 2017
Cannes Film Festival conveys passion and joy with Claudia Cardinale...March 31 2017
Kavan…March 31 2017
Mundasupatti sequel…March 28 2017
French helmer Francois Ozon is back with sex and seduction in Amant Double…March 24 2017
Nandita Das to promote Nawazuddin starrer Manto at Cannes Film Festival…March 22 2017
Alfonso Cuaron wraps up film on the bloody 1971 Mexico riots…March 16 2017
This Friday, 7 Tamil films vying for screen space!…March 15 2017
Madhavan is burning bright with seven films in his kitty...March 14 2017
Leena Manimekalai’s rebellious spirit pushes her into dangerous waters…March 11 2017
Lars Von Trier quips “art of killing and creating art” have similarity…March 9 2017
Akira Kurosawa’s forgotten script, Mask, will now be made into a film…March 8 2017
Maanagaram…March 7 2017
Flamboyant Pedro Almodovar will add colour to Cannes jury…March 6 2017
Kuttram 23…March 3 2017
I am happy cinema fraternity is opposing ‘hate’, says Asghar Farhadi...February 25 2017
Yaman…February 24 2017
What’s brewing at the queen of festivals, Cannes?…February 17 2017
Will Lars Von Trier in his new film bash Donald Trump?…February 16 2017
Ghazi...February 15 2017
Gurinder Chadha on to a movie about Indian woman spy during WWII…February 14 2017
Santhanam’s Server Sundaram may remind us of Nagesh’s pathbreaking work…February 14 2017
Berlin International Film Festival begins on anti-Trump note...February 10 2017
si3…February 9 2017
Now, Sasidharan gets ‘death threats’ for titling his movie Sexy Durga...February 8 2017
Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman may clinch the sympathy Oscar…February 7 2017
Sasidharan’s Sexy Durga wins a coveted award at Rotterdam Film Festival...February 6 2017
Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal…February 3 2017
Bogan…February 2 2017
A ‘rebel’ show of Asghar Farhadi film being planned in London on Oscars night…February 1 2017
Arvind Swamy, Jayam Ravi’s film Bogan arrives in theatres this week...January 31 2017
Like in India, this Bhutanese film is also facing governmental flak…January 31 2017
Lumieres Awards: Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux, star Marion Cotillard to be feted…January 24 2017
There’s Always Tomorrow at Dhaka Festival...January 21 2017
Dhaka Festival: Mammootty’s Pathemari talks about Malayalis’ travails in Dubai…January 18 2016
Shabana Azmi nominated for Asian Film Awards for Neerja biopic...January 16 2017
3000 Nights: This human drama of mother and child opens Dhaka Film Festival…January 13 2017
Bairavaa…January 12 2017
Mammootty’s Pathemari to compete at Dhaka Film Festival…January 11 2017
Pongal will see multiple Tamil film releases…January 10 2017
Tagore’s Postmaster revisited in a Bengali film at Chennai Festival…January 9 2017
Chennai Film Fest begins with Italian documentary on African refugees…January 6 2017
Want to see Madhavan as hunter?…January 4 2017
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Dhuravangal Pathinaaru...December 29 2016
Kasaravalli, Adoor lambast National Film Awards, Panorama selections…December 28 2016
Kaththi Sandai...December 23 2016
China’s Zhang Yimou and daughter, Mo, flying high...December 21 2016
Germany’s crowd-puller Toni Erdmann among shortlisted titles for Foreign Oscar..December 17 2016
Dubai Fest bids bye-bye in grand style with starry Rogue One…December 15 2016
At Dubai Film Festival, The Worthy and Inversion are great watch…December 14 2016
What made Befikre everybody’s favourite at Dubai International Film Festival…December 11 2016
There’s pressure to do a third Marigold film, says auteur John Madden…December 9 2016
Dubai Fest opens with Miss Sloane, honours Rekha...December 8 2016
Hollywood’s Miss Sloane to open Dubai International Film Festival today…December 7
Iconic Pulp Fiction star Samuel Jackson to be feted at Dubai Film Festival...December 3 2016
Ranveer, Vaani-starrer Befikre to premiere at Dubai Film Festival...December 2 2016
Saithan…December 1 2016
Ilami comes as cry for bull fight in Tamil Nadu gets louder…November 30 2016
At Film Bazaar, Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai stirs your soul...November 29 2016
NFDC Film Bazaar asks abhi bhi Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai...November 28 2016
At NFDC Film Bazaar, Sexy Durga is a powerful take on fear…November 25 2016
At NFDC Film Bazaar, The Forsaken tells us where society errs…November 24 2016
Film Bazaar, a decade and counting…November 23 2016
At Cairo Fest, films tell us about a dream gone sour in Egypt...November 19 2016
Bollywood melody peps up China Night At Cairo Film Fest…November 18 2016
Cairo Fest: Half Ticket retraces Kaaka Muttai’s tale of slum kids…November 17 2016
Cairo Fest begins with an Egyptian women’s lib film…November 16 2016
Cairo Fest: Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the city taken off the list…November 12 2016
Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada…November 11 2016
Dubai Film Fest: Cannes chief Fremaux to present restored Lumiere works...November 11 2016
Gautham Menon’s Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada rekindles MGR memory...November 9 2016
Cairo Fest to showcase eight Oscar contenders…November 8 2016
Three Indian movies to travel to Cairo Film Festival...November 7 2016
India’s Lipstick Waale Sapne wins award at Tokyo Film Fest…November 4 2016
At Tokyo Fest, Japan reflects on bonding with rest of Asia…November 3 2016
Two tales of two couples at Tokyo Film Festival…November 2 2016
Dubai Film Festival to honour Rekha…October 31 2016
At Tokyo Fest, real and unreal flit across…October 31 2016
At Tokyo Fest, Lipstick Under My Burkha dares to dream…October 27 2016
Tokyo Film Festival zooms in on today’s dilemmas…October 26 2016
Meryl Streep-starrer Florence Foster Jenkins opens Tokyo Film Fest…October 25 2016
At Mumbai Film Fest, Cecilia cries out about child trafficking…October 21 2016
Pak classic Jago Hua Savera is a true gem that wowed Cannes...October 20 2016
Tokyo Film Fest to focus on Indonesia…October 19 2016
Shekhar Kapur to head Macau Film Fest jury…October 18 2016
Ammani…October 13 2016
Dubai Film Festival unveils first titles from around the world...October 12 2016
Remo...October 8 2016
Rekka...October 7 2106
NFDC Co-Production Lab’s 18 titles a great mix...October 5 2016
India’s Lipstick Waale Sapne to premiere at Tokyo Film Fest…October 3 2016
Aandavan Kattalai…September 23 2016
Thodari...September 22 2016
Ilami: A Tamil film on jallikattu coming…September 21 2016
Two Japanese films to compete at Tokyo Film Fest...September 20 2016
Nayagi…September 17 2016
Sadhuram 2…September 16 2016
Chinese sings Tamil song…September 12 2016
Filipino film, The Woman Who Left, clinches Venice’s top Golden Lion…September 11 2016
Italian films at Venice tackle unwanted pregnancy and neurosis…September 9 2016
Venice: Jackie, the icon America loved, elegantly captured in Jackie…September 8 2016
Francois Ozon’s romance, Frantz, endears to all at Venice…September 7 2016
After The Young Pope, Sorrentino to helm a film on Silvio Berlusconi…September 6 2016
Hacksaw Ridge: Mel Gibson shows a soldier’s extraordinary heroism...September 5 2016
Jude Law’s The Young Pope at Venice is shocking…September 4 2016
At Venice, fashionista Tom Ford adapts Austin Wright’s novel with style…September 3 2016
Venice presents a moral dilemma in The Light Between Oceans…September 2 2016
Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling’s La La Land dazzles at Venice’s opening night…September 1 2016
Venice films sail into the Oscar night…August 31 2016
Meryl Streep-starrer Florence Foster Jenkins to open Tokyo Film Festival...August 26 2016
Meendum Oru Kadhal Kathai...August 26 2016
54321...August 26 2016
Iranian helmer Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s banned film goes to Venice…August 23 2016
Adoor’s Pinneyum beautifully documents the evils of consumerism…August 20 2016
Dharmadurai...August 19 2016
Dhanush’s railroad romance, Thodari, will chug in soon…August 19 2016
Manoj Bajpayee goes international with In The Shadows…August 17 2016
Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s 50 years in cinema being celebrated…August 16 2016
Wagah…August 12 2016
MGR’s Rickshawkaran, refreshed and restored, to hit screens soon…August 9 2016
Thirunaal…August 5 2016
Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum…August 5 2016
That inimitable Mohanlal will now play supermarket manager in Vismayam…August 3 2016
Busan Film Festival still not out of the storm…August 2 2016
India’s Chaitanya Tamhane on Venice Film Fest jury…August 1 2016
Venice Film Festival unveils titles…July 28 2016
Venice Critics’ Week to open with British drama, Prevenge…July 26 2016
If Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor can, why can’t Rajinikanth?…July 25 2016
Kabali fever: Never before has there been such hype and hoopla…July 21 2016
Taiwanese actor dropped from Chinese film on ‘independence issue‘…July 18 2016
Nice, a joyful memory shattered by terror and death...July 15 2016
First Macao Film Festival, under Marco Mueller, to roll on Dec 8…July 13 2016
Jude Law’s The Young Pope to premiere at Venice Film Fest…July 11 2016
An Off-Day Game…July 8 2016
Dhilluku Dhuddu...July 8 2016
Steven Soderbergh plotting a movie on Panama Papers scandal...July 7 2016
To err is human, but to err and get away with it every time is Salman Khan…July 6 2016
Dhilluku Dhuddu will see Santhanam as a lover-boy…July 5 2016
Appa...July 2 2016
Academy invitation to Sharmila Tagore, Frieda Pinto seems out of place...July 1 2016
Metro...June 24 2016
Amma Kanakku...June 24 2016
Venice Film Festival to open with Hollywood musical, La La Land…June 24 2016
Enakku Innoru Peru Irukku…June 17 2016
Madhavan to reprise Dulquer Salman’s role in the Tamil remake of Charlie…June 16 2016
The Narrow Path…June 14 2016
At Shanghai Film Fest, cinema shows a new Tibet…June 13 2016
Nil Battey Sannata’s Tamil edition, Amma Kanakku, to open on June 24…June 11 2016
Oru Naal Koothu…June 10 2016
Adoor completes shoot of his 12th feature, Pinneyum…June 10 2016
Iraivi director in trouble over a character from his film…June 8 2016
Cannes title, Toni Erdmann, to open Munich Festival...June 4 2016
Iraivi…June 3 2016
Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaaran …June 3 2016
Ken Loach doesn’t want UK Prime Minister to watch I, Daniel Blake…June 2 2016
Asghar Farhadi’s new film to be on winemakers in Spain...June 1 2016
Uriyadi… May 27 2016
Now that it is over, Cannes must be heaving a sigh of relief...May 25 2016
British veteran Ken Loach wins Cannes’ top Palm d’Or for I, Daniel Blake…May 23 2016
Romania’s Graduation is a strong contender at Cannes…May 21 2016
Cannes 2016: Jim Jarmusch’s Patterson is an extraordinarily simple work...May 19 2016
At Cannes, Pedro Almodovar talks about Panama Papers and Julieta…May 18 2106
Loving, a film about interracial marriage, sparkles at Cannes…May 17 2016
At Cannes, The Handmaiden is a ravishing lesbian crime thriller…May 16 2016
Cannes: Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake is a brutal look at bureaucracy…May 14 2016
At Cannes, George Clooney says Trump will not triumph…May 13 2016
Cannes Fest begins with an ugly rape joke against Woody Allen…May 12 2016
Woody Allen’s Cafe Society to push Cannes Fest into motion and magic...May 11 2016
Charlize Theron to capitivate Cannes all over again…May 7 2016
24...May 6 2016
Aamir Khan’s alien adventure PK set for a Japanese release...May 6 2016
Cannes 2016: American Honey ‘most me’ says auteur Andrea Arnold...May 5 2016
Raging Bull Robert De Niro to be at Cannes with Hands of Stone…May 4 2016
At Critics’ Week, Seema Biswas to be seen in a Singaporean film…May 3 2016
The Man Who Knew Infinity…April 29 2016
Manithan…April 29 2016
Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman added to Cannes Competition…April 27 2016
Vetrivel...April 22 2016
Serbian auteur Emir Kusturica denies Cannes rejected his film…April 22 2016
Nil Battey Sannata…April 2016
Serbian helmer Emir Kusturica criticises Cannes Film Fest...April 21 2016
Cannes is irresistible attraction, and India is not exempt…April 20 2016
Theri…April 15 2106
Cannes 2016: No Indian film makes it to the Film Festival...April 14 2016
Cannes Film Fest: Where talent is discovered and legends are born...April 13 2016
Jacobinte Swargarajayam…April 9 2016
Cannes hopefuls...April 8 2016
Manikandan’s Kaaka Muttai to have a Marathi remake...April 6 2016
Adoor Gopalakrishnan to begin shooting Pinneyum from May 11…April 5 2016
Uyire Uyire...April 1 2016
Woody Allen’s 1930s-set Cafe Society to open Cannes Film Fest…March 29 2016
A critic’s view of National Film Awards…March 29 2016
Thozha…March 25 2016
Cannes Film Fest poster freezes Godard’s Contempt…March 23 2016
Thozha in Tamil is that fascinating French film, The Intouchables...March 19 2016
Pugazh...March 18 2016
Japanese helmer Naomi Kawase to head Short Films Jury at Cannes...March 17 2016
Yenru Thaniyum: Exposing Tamil Nadu’s underbelly of honour killings…March 15 2016
Kadhalum Kadanthu Pogum…March 11 2016
Why Malayalam cinema is way ahead of Tamil, Hindi films…March 11 2016
Nalan remakes Korean romance in Tamil…March 8 2016
Irrfan Khan to play lead in Bangladesh’s No Bed of Roses…March 7 2016
Pichaikkaran…March 5 2016
Sadhna’s ‘jhumka’ in Mera Saya to be immortalised in Bareilly...March 4 2016
Two Tamil films on disaster being planned…March 2 2016
Remya Nambeesan, the Sethupathi girl who emotes through her heart…March 1 2016
Kanithan...February 27 2016
Aarathu Sinam...February 26 2016
Sexy Durga, a new film by Kerala director...February 23 2016
Sethupathi…February 19 2016
Miruthan..February 19 2016
Former Venice chief Marco Mueller to head Macau Film Fest...February 17 2016
Madhavan’s return to Tamil cinema is actioner Vikram Vedha…February 15 2106
Refugee crisis is the highlight of Berlinale this year…February 12 2016
Jil Jung Juck...February 12 2016
Anjala...February 11 2016
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi helming third man-woman story…February 9 2016
Cannes Film Festival supremo Thierry Fremaux isn’t quitting...February 8 2016
Visaaranai writer Chandrakumar’s book on rape inspires new film…February 8 2016
Bangalore Naatkal...February 5 2016
Visaaranai…February 4 2016
Two engaging Tamil films out this week…February 2 2016
Berlin Film Festival to open with Coens’ Hail Caesar!…February 1 2016
Jennifer Lawrence to play probably the coolest woman to ever live…January 20 2016
Thaarai Thappattai...January 16 2016
Rajini Murugan…January 15 2016
Kathakali...January 15 2106
Thomas Vinterberg to return to Berlin with The Commune…January 13 2016
Tamil screens to overflow on Pongal…January 12 2016
Freedom Moon: Poignant documentary on Japanese death-row inmate…January 11 2016
Amitabh, Taapasee to work in Antaheen director’s Bollywood debut…January 11 2016
How Tamil cinema will fare in the era of Netflix...January 8 2016
Satyajit Ray’s sketches missing from Kolkata film centre…January 6 2016
Happy End to be Austrian horror master Michael Haneke’s new film…January 4 2016
Chennai Film Fest to open with Berlin clincher, Victoria…January 2 2016
Maalai Nerathu Mayakkam…January 1 2016
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Gerard Depardieu to play Stalin in Fanny Ardant’s film…December 30 2015
Tamil song Tea Podu creates turmoil over ‘tea’…December 28 2015
Pasanga 2…December 25 2015
Irrfan Khan, Golshifteh start shooting for The Song of Scorpions…December 24 2015
At Dubai Fest, love stories that remaind you of Bollywood…December 18 2015
At Dubai Fest, stories of suffering women and their battles...December 16 2015
Go Home, a blend of the real and unreal…December 15 2015
Naseeruddin-Kalki starrer Waiting is a tragic, witty affair…December 13 2015
Dubai Film Fest campaigns for Arab cinema…December 11 2015
Naseeruddin Shah gets Lifetime Achievement Award at Dubai…December 10 2015
Dubai Film Fest to kick off with Lenny Abrahamson’s Room…December 9 2015
Compelling Arab lineup at Dubai Film Fest…December 8 2015
Finnish legend Aki Kaurismaki returns with immigrant tale, Refugee…December 7 2015
Thithi, For The Love Of A Man and Waiting in Dubai Fest Lineup…December 3 2015
Dubai Fest to honour French cinema great Catherine Deneuve…December 2 2015
Will Quentin Tarantino’s un-PC attitude cost him an Oscar?…November 30 2015
Prakash Babu’s Mysterious Men will be a trip in fantasy…November 25 2015
Memories And My Mother is a tale of an ageing Kolkata…November 24 2015
Prasanna Vithanage to make a ‘historical road film’…November 23 2015
An Off-Day Game: A gripping tale of corruption…November 22 2015
The Man Who Knew Infinity: More exotic than real…November 21 2015
Cairo Film Fest: Nair’s Umrika explores the yearning for the exotic…November 19 2015
At Cairo Film Fest, Paulina poses a perplexing question…November 18 2015
Our Everyday Life, a moving story of a war-torn family…November 17 2015
The Wednesday Child, a touching tale of mother’s quest for son ...November 16 2015
Cairo Film Fest, an effort to popularise arthouse fare…November 16 2015
Cairo Film Festival begins with Meryl Streep work…November 12 2015
Vedalam…November 11 2015
Thoongaavanam…November 10 2015
Prashant Nair’s Umrika goes to Cairo Film Festival…November 7 2015
Radhika Apte replaces Farah Khan on Cairo Film Fest jury…November 6 2015
Land of Mine undermines humanism in times of war…October 29 2015
Tokyo Film Fest: All Three of Us is powerfully heartwarming...October 28 2015
Two Indian movies, vastly different, play at Tokyo Film Fest…October 26 2015
A movie must keep me awake: Bryan Singer at Tokyo Film Fest…October 24 2015
Tokyo Film Festival opens with Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk…October 23 2105
Nandita Das, Kanu Behl, Prasanna Vithanage in NFDC Film Bazaar…October 2015
Tokyo Film Fest to celebrate Japanese master Kon Ichikawa…October 19 2015
Horror Night to showcase J-Horror classics at Tokyo Film Fest…October 17 2015
Rudhramadevi…October 16 2015
Priyadarshan to make a film on AIDS…October 12 2015
Mumbai Fest plans to educate the young in meaningful cinema…October 8 2015
War, refugee influx common threads at Tokyo Film Fest…October 7 2015
Aligarh praised at Busan, to open Mumbai Film Fest…October 5 2015
Now, a Tamil kidnap drama set in a digital world, Lens…October 3 2015
Spectre villain Christoph Waltz to direct a murder mystery…October 2 2015
Puli…October 1 2015
OK Kanmani, two other Indian movies headed for Tokyo…October 1 2015
Bollywood director Farah Khan on Cairo Film Fest jury…October 1 2015
Jackie Chan begins shoot for Indo-Chinese film, Kung Fu Yoga…September 29 2015
India’s Swara Bhaskar wins Best Actress Prize at Silk Road Film Fest…September 27 2015
Silk Road International Film Festival opens with Dil Dhadakne Do..September 23 2015
Tamil film Kadikara Manithargal takes up flat rental issues…September 19 2015
Maya…September 18 2015
Nandita Das on San Sebastian Film Fest jury…September 17 2015
Mary Poppins to get a remake…September 15 2015
Venezuealan film From Afar wins top award at Venice Film Fest…September 13 2015
Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City wins prize at Venice…September 12 2015
Vetrimaaran’s Visaaranai takes a brutal look at police atrocity …September 10 2015
Wednesday May 9, a fine Iranian film at Venice Fest…September 9 2015
The Clan, a sordid tale from Argentina of 1980s…September 7 2015
Black Mass is Johnny Depp’s career best…September 7 2015
Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City is a disturbing study of Mumbai…September 5 2015
Amos Gitai in Venice with a film on Rabin’s assassination…September 5 2015
Venice Fest opens with mountaineering adventure, Everest…September 3 2015
Venice Fest opens on September 2, shows signs of getting into shape…September 2 2015
Thani Oruvan…August 28 2015
Nandita Das all set to direct a film about Manto...August 26 2015
Venice Film Fest’s centennial tribute to Orson Welles…August 20 2015
M Night Shyamalan’s The Visit may stop his sour spin…August 19 2015
Kabali would bring back Rajinikanth the actor: Ranjith…August 18 2015
Venice Film Fest to honour American director Brian de Palma…August 17 2015
Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga…August 14 2015
Maiem: A Tamil film that freezes an ATM crime…August 13 2015
Director Sanjeev Gupta wins Gollapudi Srinivas Award for Q…August 12 2015
Giorgio Armani chips in to rsetore Fists in the Pocket...August 11 2015
Albert Pinto will not be a mechanic in the new film…August 11 2015
Akshay Kumar’s Brothers to be remade in Telugu and Tamil…August 8 2015
After Dr Watson, Jude Law dons the robe in The Young Pope…August 8 2015
Fatih Akin adapts German bestseller, Tschick, for a film…August 7 2015
Meghna Gulzar’s Talvar to be screened at Toronto Film Fest…August 3 2015
Kaaka Muttai Manikandan all set for his next, a crime thriller…August 1 2015
Orange Mittai...July 31 2015
Visaaranai, Vetrimaaran’s Tamil film in Venice Film Fest…July 30 2015
Pyaasa and Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City in Venice Fest sidebar…July 29 2015
After rooster fight, it will be pigeon race for director Vetrimaaran…July 28 2015
Ketan Mehta creates an incredible love story in Manjhi — The Mountain Man…July 22 2015
Venice Film Fest 2015 to open with Everest on September 2…July 20 2015
Girish Kasaravalli reflects on Adoor’s images in a new docu…July 20 2015
Renowned international editor to cut Baahubali for the world…July 19 2015
Maari…July 17 2015
Japan’s Takeshi Kitano essays a ‘pervert’ in his new film…July 15 2015
King of Light Music M S. Viswanathan dies…July 14 2015
Next up, films on La Dolce Vita and Fellini’s LA disappearance…July 13 2015
Bahubali...July 10 2015
Agatha Christie’s sleuths will chase, fight in BBC’s new series…July 9 2015
Angelina Jolie to make a biopic on Catherine the Great...July 8 2015
Nastassja Kinski on Venice Film Fest poster...July 7 2015
Nagarjuna, Karthi in Telugu/Tamil remake of The Intouchables…July 5 2015
Papanasam…July 3 2105
Papanasam: Waiting for ‘actor’ Kamal Haasan…July 1 2015
Kaaval...June 26 2015
Dark Horse director to document Ken Loach’s 50-year career...June 25 2015
Papanasam’s strength is its near perfect script, says Jeethu Joseph…June 23 2015
Achaaram...June 19 2015
Prakash Raj to play Boman Irani’s character in Jolly LLB remake…June 16 2015
Gravity director Alfonso Cuaron to chair Venice Film Fest jury…June 14 2015
Inimey Ippadithan…June 12 2015
Mumbai Film Festival finds new patrons in Reliance Jio, Star Network…June 12 2015
Now, Jolly LLB in Tamil with Udhayanidhi Stalin…June 11 2015
Season of biopics: Now, two more on Madam Bovary…June 9 2015
Santhanam’s second film as hero may be his real test…June 7 2015
Cannes Fest chief Thierry Fremaux lambasts instant reviews…June 6 2015
Furore-causing Moroccan film on prostitutes banned…June 5 2015
Kaaka Muttai…June 4 2105
Kaaka Muttai opening could not have been more aptly timed...June 3 2015
Rajinikanth hopes to recreate old magic with a young director, Ranjith…June 2 2015
Massu Engira Masilamani…May 29 2015
No censor certificate for Tamil film on Lankan TV journalist…May 26 2015
Icelandic movie Rams wins top A Certain Regard prize…May 25 2015
French director’s Tamil drama, Dheepan, wins Palm d’Or…May 25 2015
Dheepan, a riveting take on the life of former Tamil Tiger…May 22 2015
Marguerite and Julian’s a tale of incest without erotica…May 21 2015
India’s Masaan gets loud claps, but has little novelty…May 21 2015
The Festival offers variety at last…May 19 2015
Carol, Nahid and more: Is Cannes 2015 obsessed with marital rift?…May 18 2015
Two movies at the Festival, two kinds of turmoil...May 17 2015
Woody Allen’s dark Irrational Man plays under blue Cannes sky…May 16 2015
How on-screen sex and nudity has replaced real-life nudity at Cannes…May 15 2015
The opening night a mad mix of magic and realism…May 14 2015
Song and dance to herald Cannes Film Festival 2015…May 11 2015
Abu Dhabi Film Festival closes down…May 8 2015
Documentary on Antarctica to close Cannes Film Festival on May 24…May 5 2015
New titles added to Cannes Film Fest list…April 29 2015
Top Tiantan Award for Mexican film Beginning of Time at Beijing…April 24 2015
Cannes Film Fest lines up impressive jury...April 23 2015
At Beijing Film Fest, two movies talk of tragedy…April 21 2015
Fig Fruit and the Wasps: At Beijing Film Fest, an Indian work with a difference...April 19
Arnold Schwarzenegger takes centre stage at Beijing Film Fest opening…April 17 2015
Double delight: Two Indian films at Cannes this year...April 17 2015
In a first Cannes to open with a film by a woman director…April 14 2015
Actor Isabella Rossellini to chair A Certain Regard Jury at Cannes…April 11 2015
Taviani brothers’ Wondrous Boccaccio to open Beijing International Film Fest…April 9 2015
Anushka’s NH 10 at Beijing International Film Fest, Luc Besson to head jury…April 7 2015
The undying spirit of Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira…April 3 2015
Nannbenda...April 3 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road to premiere at Cannes Film Festival…April 2 2015
Komban…April 1 2015
Valiyavan…March 27 2015
Korean cinema set to take first steps in Chennai…March 27 2015
Awards galore, but no screens for Tamil films…March 25 2105
Meet Uthara, the 10-year-old National Award-winning singer…March 25 2105
Kamal Hassan’s Uttama Villain to open on April 10…March 24 2105
Ingrid Bergman is the Cannes poster girl...March 24 2105
Prashanth to play Akshay Kumar’s Ajju in Special 26 Tamil remake…March 23 2015
Thilakar…March 201 2015
Cannes buzz around Bombay Velvet getting louder…March 19 2105
Romanian helmer Cristian Mungiu set to shoot Family Photos...March 17 2105
Rajathandhiram…March 13 2015
Censor certificate refused to documentary on Sri Lankan civil war…March 12 2015
Indian documentary on Gudiyam Caves at Cannes Short Film Corner...March 11 2015
Sonakshi, Shatrughan in Murugadoss’ next Hindi venture…March 11 2015
Songs that MGR sang are Gautham Menon’s film titles…March 8 2015
China lifts ban on Jean-Jacques Annaud, the result is Wolf Totem...March 7 2015
Enakkul Oruvan...March 6 2015
Sorry Shakespeare, there is a lot in a name…March 1 2105
Kakki Sattai…February 28 2105
Will Busan Film Fest win its fight against censorship?…February 24 2015
Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum...February 21 2015
Japanese animator Miyazaki opposes Charlie Hebdo…February 19 2105
Mauritanian director to head Short Films Jury at Cannes...February 18 2105
Jaffar Panahi wants his countrymen to see Berlin topper, Taxi…February 17 2105
Did Jafar Panahi deserve Golden Bear for Taxi?…February 15 2105
Anegan…February 13 2015
Will Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet land in Cannes?…February 13 2015
Egypt plans rating in cinema with riders…February 11 2015
Remastered silver jubilee edition of Salaam Bombay to release soon…February 10 2015
Girish Kasaravalli documents Adoor’s imagery…February 8 2015
Anup Singh’s Irrfan-starrer Qissa to open on Feb 2…February 7 2015
James Bond may be shaken and stirred by Rome’s rot…February 7 2015
Yennai Arindhaal…February 6 2015
Gautham Menon’s Yennai Arindhaal the last of cop trilogy…February 4 2015
Will underdog American Sniper win another Oscar for Clint Eastwood?…February 4 2015
Download Leviathan, says director Andrei Zvyagintsev…February 3 2015
Isai…January 31 2015
Danny Boyle shooting biopic on Apple founder Steve Jobs…January 29 2015
Iranian director Jafar Panahi defies ban to make his third film, Taxi…January 27 2015
Night Will Fall on Nazi atrocities to be aired on HBO…January 26 2015
At 50, The Sound of Music still rings as sweet as ever…January 23 2015
Now, Russian cinema facing turmoil…January 20 2015
A farce called film certification…January 17 2015
The Imitation Game…January 15 2015
I…January 15 2015
Anita Ekberg: The voluptuous beauty of La Dolce Vita dies…January 12 2015
Sonam Kapoor to play Neerja, the Pan Am airhostess…January 11 2015
Richard Gere’s The Second Best Marigold Hotel to open soon…January 10 2015
Rape case returns to haunt Polanski…January 8 2015
Pedro Almodovar on to his next film, Silencio…January 6 2015
Will Vinterberg’s Far From The Madding Crowd come to India?…January 3 2015
Yennai Arindhaal’s release delayed, will now open on Jan 29…January 2 2015
A new game to promote Khamoshiyan...January 1 2015
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Kappal…December 27 2014
Kayal…December 26 2014
Byomkesh Bakshy poster unveiled on a symbolic night…December 21 2014
India’s Liar’s Dice out of the Oscars race and so are other great ones…December 21 2014
Pisaasu…December 20 2014
75 years later, racism has not Gone with the Wind…December 18 2014
Veteran Tamil director K. Balachander unwell, in hospital…December 16 2014
Sonakshi Sinha, how do you act in a film whose language is unfamiliar?…December 14 2014
Lingaa…December 12 2014
Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan to be an animation film…December 12 2014
Rajinikanth, where is that great actor?…December 9 2014
Shanti Tower: Veena Bakshi’s light-hearted take at rental problem in urban India…December 5 2014
Cannes Film Festival to ban selfies…December 3 2014
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain conveys America’s cultural arrogance, says Martin Sheen…December 2 2014
Why not let IFFI Director Shankar Mohan stay on?…December 1 2014
Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster to close IFFI…November 30 2014
Debating the magic realism of cinema…November 29 2014
Avinash Arun’s Killa is adventure in the time of rootlessness…November 28 2014
Why Indian Panorama should be free of any kind of parochialism…November 27 2014
Detective Byomkesh Bakshi to come alive on screen…November 25 2014
‘Shakespearewallah’ Vishal Bharadwaj now ready to tackle Bard’s comedies…November 24 2014
Ananth Mahadevan’s Rough Book brings Indian education into sharp focus…November 22 2014
NFDC Film Bazaar: The place where award winning films find producers…November 21 2014
Indian Panorama opens with Elizabeth Ekadashi…November 21 2014
Iranian master Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President to open Festival…November 20 2014
IFFI has the potential to be number 1 in Asia: Shankar Mohan…November 15 2014
Award for Rajnikanth, Bachchan chief guest at IFFI…November 12 2014
Rang Rasiya had no censor trouble: Ketan Mehta…November 11 2014
Oru Oorle Rendu Raja…November 8 2014
IFFI’s Film Bazaar expands base, to have new features…November 7 2014
Based on the life of Raja Ravi Varma, Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya gets a legal notice…November 4 2014
Kathithi director accused of stealing story…November 4 2014
The gems of Abu Dhabi…November 2 2014
India’s Labour of Love wins a prize at Abu Dhabi Film Fest…November 1 2014
Golfshifteh Farahani roped in to play Scorpion Singer in Anup Singh’s Mantra…October 30 2014
Abu Dhabi’s Sanad fund is now open to non-Arab filmmakers…October 29 2014
What makes Irrfan Khan melt into every character he portrays…October 28 2014
Priyanka Chopra to lead a song-and-dance show at Abu Dhabi Film Fest…October 27 2014
The growing popularity of Arab cinema…October 25 2014
Abu Dhabi Film Fest opens with a breezy Emirati work…October 24 2014
Irrfan Khan to head Abu Dhabi Film Fest jury…October 21 2014
Vijay’s Kaththi runs into trouble as theatre in Chennai is vandalised…October 21 2014
Malayalam and Marathi feature films dominate Indian Panorama, IFFI…October 19 2014
Why watching world cinema is an absolute must…October 18 2014
No Bollywood, screams 16th Mumbai Film Festival crowd…October 17 2014
Post Madras, Catherine Tresa to play journo in Kanithan…October 16 2014
Mira Nair’s movie at NFDC Film Bazaar…October 14 2014
Record submissions in Oscar Foreign Language category…October 13 2014
Mani Ratnam begins new film, a Tamil Malayalam bilingual…October 10 2014
Konkana among writers for NFDC script lab…October 8 2014
China submits The Nightingale for Foreign Language Oscars…October 5 2014
Vishal Bharadwaj completes his Shakespearean trilogy with Haider…October 2 2014
Bengali movie, Labour of Love, to show at Abu Dhabi Film Fest…September 30 2014
Madras…September 27 2014
Deepavali bonanza: Vijay, Vikram and Rajini gear up to woo audience…September 25 2014
Saint Laurent, Winter Sleep in Oscars race…September 24 2014
Parineeti Chopra’s sheen is wearing off…September 20 2014
Panaji will be IFFI’s permanent home, no doubts anymore…September 18 2014
Tamil director Mysskin helms a friendly ghost movie…September 16 2014
In a first ever, Abu Dhabi Fest to open with Emirati film From A To B…September 16 2014
New film on Tamil mathematical wizard, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a hush-hush…September 14 2014
What is Arnold Schwarzenegger doing in Shankar’s I?…September 12 2014
Iran’s Mohsen Makhbalbaf underlines a bloody dictatorship in The President…September 10 2014
Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court wins two prizes at Venice Film Festival…September 7 2014
Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut feature Court steers clear of courtroom drama…September 6 2014
Why Aditya Sengupta’s Asha Jaoar Majhe has no dialogues…September 5 2014
Fatih Akin on The Cut…September 4 2014
Palestinian director Suha Arraf decries Israeli discriminatory treatment…September 3 2014
Lars Von Trier speaks at Venice, readying an ensemble series for TV…September 2 2014
Venice Festival sails through controversial films…August 31 2014
Venice Film Fest takes off with Birdman wowing all…August 28 2014
Hollywood stars to shine on Venice…August 27 2014
Watch Lady Chatterley’s Lover on BBC…August 24 2014
Salma: The woman who rebelled through poetry…August 24 2014
Komalathammal was tailor-made for me, says ‘accidental’ actor Suhasini…August 21 2014
Mardaani to get ’adults only’ certificate, first ever for a Yash Raj film…August 19 2014
Tamil film Puli Paarvai set to run into a storm…August 17 2014
Anjaan…August 16 2014
Why Suriya starrer Anjaan is so critical for Samantha Ruth Prabhu…August 14 2014
Ghost of 1977 haunts Roman Polanski at Locarno Fest…August 13 2014
Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem condemn Israel, may face Hollywood Ire…August 12 2014
Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya fought censors for five years…August 10 2014
Hollywood classic Casablanca’s iconic piano up for sale…August 9 2014
Soha Ali, Vir Das to be seen in Jaane Kyun, film on 1984 riots…August 8 2014
Race for Oscars 2015: Winter Sleep to be Turkey’s official entry…August 7 2014
Controversial U.S. director’s new film to premier at Venice…August 7 2014
Puli Paarvai, a film on LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s son…August 5 2014
Jigarthanda…August 3 2014
Indian film Court in Venice official lineup...July 25 2014
Thirumanam Enum Nikkah...July 25 2014
Bengali film Labour of Love to play at Venice sidebar…July 23 2014
Ernakulam court asks Drishyam director not to go ahead with Tamil remake…July 22 2014
Venice Lifetime prizes for American film editor, director…July 20 2014
Vellai Illa Pattadhari…July 19 2014
Venice Film Fest to screen 21 restored classics…July 16 2014
Bullets over Jerusalem Film Festival…July 16 2014
Dev Patel to play Ramanujan in a new British film…July 16 2014
It Happened One Night sparkles again in new print…July 13 2014
Venice Film Fest to open with Inarritu’s Birdman…July 12 2014
Ramanujan…July 11 2014
Girish Kasaravalli documentary on Adoor Gopalakrishnan…July 9 2014
Venice Film Fest poster honours Truffaut’s The 400 Blows…July 6 2014
Arima Nambi…July 5 2014
Madras, Bhooloham to promote North Chennai…July 4 2014
Roman Polanski to shoot in Poland if given legal assurance…July 1 2014
Saivam...June 28 2014
With The Road Within, Dev Patel takes another stab at stardom…Jun 26 2014
In a first, composer to lead Venice Fest competition jury…June 24 2014
Vadacurry…June 21 2014
Tamil film to question capital punishment…June 20 2014
Chinese biopic to close Venice Film Festival…June 19 2014
Gauthami to star opposite Kamal Hassan in Drishyam remake…June 19 2014
Ladakh International Film Festival to pay tributes to Farooq Sheikh, Nanda…June 18 2014
Italian director to chair a Venice Film Fest jury…June 17 2014
Mundasupatti…June 14 2014
Grace of Monaco…June 12 2014
Top European filmmakers urge Vladimir Putin to free Ukrainian director…June 12 2014
Cinema in the times of censorship…June 9 2014
Ponniyin Selvan: A few glitches, but spectacular indeed…June 9 2014
Un Samayal Arayil…June 7 2014
Tamil literary novel by Kalki Krishnamurthy to be staged…June 4 2014
Venice Days to open with Kim Ki-Duk’s latest film…June 1 2014
Sri Lankan film, With You Without You, to open in India…May 31 2014
Cannes legend Gilles Jacob takes the bow…May 26 2014
Winter Sleep wins Palm d’Or at Cannes…May 25 2014
Jimmy’s Hall, where music and dance are villains…May 23 2014
Two Days and One Night is subtly dramatic…May 22 2014
Timbuktu a gripping critique of religious fundamentalism…May 20 2014
Cannes, where crime and cinema mingle…May 19 2014
Winter Sleep is magnificently mounted…May 18 2014
Mike Leigh captures a painter’s life in masterly strokes…May 17 2014
Grace of Monaco opens Cannes to unflattering reviews…May 15 2014
Cannes Film Festival heavy on Hollywood stars…May 14 2014
Ken Loach not to retire, to vie with Mike Leigh at Cannes…May 9 2014
Kochadaiiyaan delayed again: What ails Rajnikanth’s film?…May 8 2014
Bang Bang first Bollywood film to be shot in Abu Dhabi…May 7 2014
Grace of Monaco caught in controversy: Kelly’s children term biopic a ‘farce’…May 3 2014
Nee Enge En Anbe…May 2 2014
Sophia Loren to be a guest of honour at Cannes…May 1 2014
Cannes Fest jury is luminous…April 29 2014
Vaayai Moodi Pesavum…April 26 2013
The magical moments of P C Sorcar...April 23
Tenaliraman…April 19 2014
The films Cannes missed…April 18 2014
India’s Titli lands at Cannes Film Fest…April 17 2014
Mahanagar…April 17 2014
German helmer withdraws movie from Cannes race…April 16 2014
Cannes Fest poster celebrates Fellini and Mastroianni…April 15 2014
Demand for ban on release of Vadivelu’s Tenaliraman…April 13 2014
Naan Sigappu Manithan…April 12 2014
French film to open A Certain Regard at Cannes…April 11 2014
Nicole Kidman: From a killer to a princess…April 9 2014
12 Years A Slave may be the next James Bond baddie…April 7 2014
Dev Anand’s Navketan steps into Hollywood…April 6 2014
Maan Karate…April 5 2014
How Kochadaiiyaan almost came under Censor Board scanner…April 4 2014
Hollywood stars flock to China, give India a miss…April 4 2014
Rajnikanth’s Kohadaiiyaan may now open on May 1, not April 11…March 30 2014
Moon Moon Sen: From glamour world to politics…March 29 2014
Inam…March 29 2014
Cannes to name winners a day early this year…March 26 2014
Tamil comedian Santhanam to play hero, finally…March 23 2014
Thegidi… March 22 2014
Vivek Oberoi to voice the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2…March 21 2014
Roland Joffe to script TV series on Hunchback of Notre Dame…March 18 2014
Kamal Hassan to play double role as folk artist and movie star in Uttama Villain…March 16 2014
Now, a restored film on Congressman Kamaraj…March 16 2014
Jayalalithaa’s film releases again, hoodwinks model code of conduct…March 13 2014
Thanks to polls, exams, Tamil cinema staring at a dry period…March 12 2014
Will Kochadaiiyaan open during general elections?…March 10 2014
Starry touch to political campaigning…March 9 2014
First trailer: Grace of Monaco shows a fairy tale romance gone wrong…March 8 2014
Iranian director, screenwriter Abbas Kiarostami to head short film jury at Cannes…March 7 2014
Best Picture Award: The dilemma called Oscars…February 28 2014
Cinema riding high on sex…February 27 2014
Is Tamil cinema allergic to English songs?…February 26 2014
Film on Sri Lankan war banned in India…February 23 2014
Aaha Kalyanam: Wow factor is missing…February 22 2014
The Act of Killing: All about Indonesian genocide…February 21 2014
Train to play a key role in upcoming Tamil film…February 19 2014
Biopics fest: The life and times of Dickens, YSL, Grace Kelly…February 18 2014
Why Gunday has created panic in Bengal?…February 14 2014
Makhmalbaf to shoot first feature in five years…February 11 2014
Will Steve McQueen be the first black director to win an Oscar?…February 8 2014
Oxfam vs SodaStream: The predicament of Scarlett Johansson…February 5
Will moral issues mar Woody Allen’s Oscar chances?…February 4 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman: A twisted end…February 3 2014
The Broken Circle Breakdown…February 1 2014
Rummy…January 31 2014
Mumbai International Film Fest: 7 cities to screen Competition films…January 30 2014
The Missing Picture…January 28 2014
Grace of Monaco to open Cannes this year, co-produced by Yash Raj Films…January 25 2014
Malini 22 Palayamkkotai…January 23 2014
The Great Beauty…January 22 2014
Akkineni Nageswara Rao: A class III pass who became a legendary actor…January 22 2014
Aparna Sen’s The Jewellery Box is boldly provocative…January 19 2014
The Hunt…January 18 2014
Suchitra Sen: After the magic moments…January 17 2014
Cannes Film Festival to get a new chief…January 15 2014
After two years in Cannes, Miss Lovely to open this week…January 13 2014
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel sequel shoot begins in Jaipur…January 11 2014
Jilla…January 11 2014
Mohanlal’s aam aadmi is a surprise hit in Drishyam…January 9 2014
Oscar race: Philomena is a big bet…January 7 2014
Starry suicides: pressures of being a celeb…January 6 2014
Bollywood studios look at southern cinema…January 5 2014
Southern cinema: Rajnikanth-Kamal Hassan starrers key 2014 attractions…January 1 2014
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Sholay: The making of an unexpected hit and a classic…December 31 2013
12 Years A Slave causes racial uproar, lead cast boycotts screening…December 28 2013
World cinema: 10 best films of 2013 from across the globe…December 27 2013
Hits and Misses for Oscars Foreign Language category…December 22 2013
Endrendrum Punnagai…December 21 2013
India’s official entry The Good Road out of the Oscars race…December 21 2013
BO battle:Biriyani, Enrendrum Punnagai and Dhoom 3 to slug it out…December 20 2013
Rahul Bose plays a cad in The Last Poem…December 18 2013
Dubai Film Festival closes with American Hustle...December 15 2013
Irrfan Khan wins top prize at Dubai Film Fest…December 14 2013
Gunday trailer unveiled at Dubai Film Fest…December 14 2013
A film on the East India Company will be interesting: Jim Sheridan…December 13 2013
Saving Mr Banks: the story behind the making of Mary Poppins…December 12 2013
Kajarya: the woe of the girl child…December 11 2013
Two Hollywood period films captivate Dubai Fest…December 10 2013
Martin Sheen plays ‘Bhopal villain’ in gas tragedy film…December 9 2013
Shekhar Kapur, Sanjay Suri part of Dubai Fest juries…December 8 2013
Remembering Mandela: Dubai Fest opens on a note of sorrow and joy…December 7 2013
Dubai Film Fest to open with Palestinian work…December 6 2013
Dubai Film Festival to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema…December 4 2013
Jannal Orum…December 2 2013
East Timorese movie wins top prize at IFFI…November 30 2013
The book vs the movie battle…November 30 2013
The Coffin Maker proves why Naseeruddin Shah is India’s best…November 29 2013
Thanga Meenkal: education system through a child’s eye…November 28 2013
Baga Beach: a tale of child sex, hatred for migrants…November 27 2013
Revathi in bilingual film, Homestay Blues…November 24 2013
Cannes chief’s dream is to see Bollywood film in competition…November 23 2013
Violence is not sexy, says Susan Sarandon…November 22 2013
IFFI to stay in Goa…November 21 2013
Benegal, Nihalani part of NFDC Film Bazaar…November 21 2013
Susan Sarandon, Rekha to grace IFFI’s opening in Goa…November 20 2013
Ram-Leela…November 18 2013
Waheeda Rehman to get the first Cinema Centenary Award at IFFI…November 17 2013
Tamil film on Ramanujam to hit screens soon…November 17 2013
Czech film to open IFFI, 2 Indian works to compete for Golden Peacock Awards…November 14 2013
Mills & Boon serves it hot for the Indian reader…November 14 2013
No soft version for Lars Von Trier’s explicit Nymphomaniac…November 13 2013
Kamal Hassan, Rekha and Asha Bhosle to open IFFI…November 8 2013
Victor Banerjee, Prasanna Vithanage on IFFI jury…November 7 2013
Tamil film accused of plagiarism…November 6 2013
Agony and ecstasy at Abu Dhabi Film Festival…November 4 2013
A Bosnian makes Indian film in Patiala…October 31 2013
Iranian actress calls India her ‘mother‘…October 30 2013
Zinda Bhaag, meandering and muddled…October 29 2013
Two Punjabi movies to screen at Abu Dhabi Film Fest…October 26 2013
Amritraj, Whitaker at Abu Dhabi Fest opening…October 25 2013
Irrfan Khan, Aparna Sen to attend Abu Dhabi Film Festival…October 24 2013
Deepa Mehta has ‘adoption’ on her mind for next film…October 23 2013
Rituparno Ghosh’s last film at Mumbai Fest…October 21 2013
A legend named Costa Gavras…October 19 2013
Mumbai Film Festival opens with Lee Daniels’ The Butler…October 18 2013
Mumbai Film Fest plans robust academic activity…October 15 2013
Naiyaandi…October 12 2013
Ripple over foreign language Oscars…October 9 2013
WikiLeaks movie to close Mumbai Film Fest…October 8 2013
Pyaasa, Garam Hawa to be showcased at Abu Dhabi Fest…October 2 2013
Raja Rani…September 28 2013
Cannes winner goes to Mumbai Fest in a trail of storm…September 27 2013
Mumbai Film Fest to open with The Butler…September 25 2013
The Good Road is fair Oscars bet…September 25 2013
Slumdog Millionaire author to lead peace march in London…September 24 2013
The Lunchbox: Not quite the Oscars meal…September 20 2013
Sushant Singh Rajput replaces Hrithik Roshan in Shekhar Kapur’s Paani…September 17 2013
Kamal Hassan to be honoured at Mumbai Film Fest…September 12 2013
Late comedian Nagesh will come alive in Rajnikanth’s Kochadaiiyaan…September 10 2013
Venice Film Festival: Gloomy movies spoil the fun…September 7 2013
Ray’s Kapurush triumphs over Leconte’s A Promise at Venice…September 5 2013
Middle Eastern dramas at Venice Film Fest…September 4 2013
Siddharth: the sole new Indian film at Venice Film Fest…September 3 2013
The dark Venice…September 2 2013
Venice screens a bold film on unwed mothers…September 1 2013
Lindsay Lohan fails to show up at Venice Film Festival…August 31 2013
‘Obstinate’ women rule the Venetian screen…August 30 2013
Venice Film Fest begins today…August 28 2013
Madras Cafe too hot for some…August 21 2013
Satyajit Ray’s restored classics to be shown in US, not in India…August 20 2013
Thalaivaa to open tomorrow, Madras Cafe may face trouble…August 19 2013
Venice title Japanese animation film sparks storm…August 16 2013
Mira Nair to helm detective film in Kolkata…August 14 2013
Piracy adds to Thalaivaa’s troubles…August 12 2013
Thalaivaa does not open in Tamil Nadu…August 10 2013
Tamil filmmaker strikes a two-film deal with Fox Star Studios…August 7 2013
Pak to enter Oscars race after 50 years…August 5 2013
Oscar Academy’s newly elected President creates history…July 31 2013
Kush is India’s lone entry to Venice Film Festival 2013 lineup…July 26 2013
Indian movie at Venice Film Fest sidebar…July 25 2013
Satyajit Ray’s classics to be screened at Venice Film Festival…July 19 2013
Saudi woman director to head a Venice jury…July 11 2013
Venice honours Angelopoulos, Fellini…July 9 2013
Mumbai Film Festival to sport new look…June 28 2013
The pink crusade…June 14 2013
Documentaries charm and shock us…June 10 2013
Documentary fest begins with gripping Palestinian film…June 8 2013
World docu-short film festival begins today in Kerala…June 7 2013
Cannes jury: Bold in its decision…May 29 2013
A tale of two women…May 25 2013
Cannes can be rigid and unfair…May 24 2013
An emotional brush with parenthood at Cannes Film Festival…May 24 2013
What makes IFFI Director miss Cannes?…May 21 2013
The Past shines at the Cannes Film Festival…May 20 2013
Young, beautiful and dramatic at Cannes…May 18 2013
China shows a liberal side at Cannes…May 17 2013
Amitabh Bachchan opens Cannes Film Festival 2013…May 16 2013
The Great Gatsby to open Cannes today…May 15 2013
Mumbai movies hog Indian cinema centenary celebrations…May 8 2013
Charulata, Vertigo part of Cannes Classics…April 30 2013
Vidya Balan named to Cannes jury…April 24 2013
India’s Dabba to screen at Cannes’ Critics Week…April 23 2013
Three Chinese films against India’s two at Cannes…April 19 2013
Bombay Talkies to be screened at Cannes, Nandita Das on jury…April 18 2013
Thomas Vinterberg to head A Certain Regard Jury at Cannes…April 18 2013
Cannes Festival list out on Thursday, will India make it?…April 17 2013
Adult movies, kids walk in !…April 3 2013
Cannes “breaks” tradition with The Great Gatsby…March 13 2013
DiCaprio’s The Great Gatsby to open Cannes Fest…March 12 2013
Will India sparkle at Cannes…March 6 2013
The great Indian kiss…February 20 2013
Mani Ratnam’s Kadal in trouble…February 13 2013
Fribourg to come alive with Indian cinema…January 31 2013
The “Foreign” Oscar…January 23 2013
A bloody cinema…January 9 2013
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