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'American Fiction' wins top prize at Toronto film fest
AFP, Published on 18/09/2023
» TORONTO (CANADA) - "American Fiction" -- a satire about race, media and how white audiences consume Black culture -- sealed its place as an early Oscars frontrunner by winning the coveted top prize Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Grammys night: Tributes, digs and a Ukraine moment, but no slaps
AFP, Published on 04/04/2022
» LAS VEGAS: Las Vegas hosting the Grammys for the first time ever might have been an opportunity to the music world to scintillate -- but the 64th edition of the industry's most prestigious awards stayed relatively zipped up.
A yak at the Oscars: first nomination for Bhutanese film
AFP, Published on 01/03/2022
» THIMPHU (BHUTAN) - Filmed in one of the remotest corners in one of the world's most inaccessible countries, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom", is the first Bhutanese film ever nominated for an Academy Award.
British-French actor and 'Bond' villain Michael Lonsdale dies
AFP, Published on 21/09/2020
» PARIS: Michael Lonsdale, the British-French actor with a far-ranging film and theatre career but most widely recognised as the villain opposite James Bond in "Moonraker", died on Monday aged 89, his agent told AFP.
Dungeons and dragons: 3 temples put quirky spin on Buddhism
AFP, Published on 15/09/2020
» CHON BURI: A dragon encircles a tower, wretched souls face torture, superheroes scale a mosaic wall -- these may seem like scenes from a half-remembered dream, but are in fact famed Thai temples.
Bowie the eclectic celebrated in star tribute
AFP, Published on 02/04/2016
» NEW YORK - David Bowie had many faces -- the attention-grabbing glam rocker, the inward-looking experimentalist -- and for a tribute to his life, leading names in music celebrated him by embracing his eclectic spirit.